Some highlights from our record of federal programs

• The U.S. Post Service was established in 1775. The federal government has had had 234 years to get it right and it is broke.
• Social Security was established in 1935. The federal government has had 74 years to get it right and it is broke.
• Fannie Mae was established in 1938. The federal government has had 71 years to get it right and it is broke.
• The War on Poverty started in 1964 under Lyndon B. Johnson. The federal government has had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is garnered annually and transferred to "the poor" and the feds only want more.
• Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. The federal government has had 44 years to get it right and they are broke.
• Freddie Mac was established in 1970. The federal government has had 39 years to get it right and it is broke.
• The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year and we import more oil than ever before. The federal government has had 32 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.

The federal government has implemented some high-minded ideas over the years, but it has FAILED in every "public service" it has presumed to provide while overspending our tax dollars at unconscionable levels. The present administration is asking Americans to believe it can be trusted with a government-run health care system. With its track record of dismal failures, not to mention the current administration's levels of spending and executive over-reaching within its first year, it's a wonder anyone can be so sanguine as to trust the government. The quarrel that the majority of American people have with their government is not over good health care, or the needed reform of the bloated health insurance systems. They have little trouble in principle with supporting that. Furthermore, they want health coverage not just for themselves but for everyone. Americans have been historically a generous people. The problem they have is not with reforming the health care system, but trusting their government bureaucracy to run it.

[Hat tip to J.S.]