YOU ARE ALL MORONS

Another email that's gone viral around the internet. I've edited it to fit within a blog post.

Dear members of the Legislature:

It is now official: You are all morons.

The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775. You have had 234 years to get it right. It is broke. Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 74 years to get it right. It is broke. Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 71 years to get it right. It is broke. The War on Poverty started in 1964. You have had 45 years to get it right. One trillion dollars of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor"; it hasn't worked. Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. You have had 44 years to get them right; they're broke. Freddie Mac was established in 1970 - you have had 39 years to get it right. It is broke.

Trillions of dollars in the massive political payoff called the TARP bill of 2009 show no sign of working.

And finally to set a new record: "Cash for Clunkers" was established in 2009 and went broke in 2009! It took good dependable cars (that were the best some people could afford), replaced them with high priced, and mostly Japanese models, so a good percentage of he profits from the sales went out of the country.

So with a perfect 100% failure rate and a record proving that the "services" you shove down our throats are failing faster and faster, you want Americans to believe you can be trusted with a government-run health care system? 15% of our economy? Are you crazy?

Truly, the inmates are running the asylum!

It's a fair point. Every one of the programs mentioned started with good intentions; every one - with the possible exception of the Postal Service - failed to live up to expectations. So if one agrees with the quotation often misattributed to Ben Franklin, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results," it follows that the inmates are indeed running the asylum.