Your local DMV has just been surpassed by the employees at Los Angeles International Airport in terms of sheer incompetence.   It’s no secret that government employees in general lack the skills needed to hold down real jobs, but at LAX they take this to a whole new level.  

Having spent my morning at what can only be described as the worst run airport in the nation, I will now recount my tale of woe as I stood in security lines at the mercy of the products of the California public schools.   I actually wonder if there is any employee, anywhere within LAX, that did not vote for Barack Obama.   The only silver lining with LAX is that those employed would otherwise be living on welfare in the projects of Inglewood. Then again, it can be argued that working for the government is tantamount to being on welfare.

Being familiar with the airport, one that I vow time and time again to never fly through, I planned my day carefully and arrived ninety minutes early only to find an equally long wait in the security lines.   Mind you, this isn’t like a normal airport where you have one security line, but rather multiple lines where you check your bag, after you have already checked your bag.   Yes, you check your bag twice after you check in twice.  Hey, it’s California and keeping those union employees on the payroll is job number one. 

Since the first government employee was too busy with the bags he already had, I was sent clear across the terminal to another government employee who was busy rambling away in Espanol with his co-worker.   So much for those laws that require English only in the workplace, passed by a large majority of California voters.  

Using common sense, I gave him my bag and went to the closest escalator to ascend to the next security line.   Big mistake as the Obama voting TSA agent informed me that I would have to go to the other line, back at the other end of the terminal by the first baggage check in.   At least I think this is what she said, but subtitles would have helped as I have never taken Ebonics as a second language.

Vote Republican because we all can’t be on welfare!

It was such a joy to watch Obama and Biden, supposedly the leaders of the strongest nation on earth, enjoy a staged, cold beer photo op with Professor Gates and Sgt. Crowley.    So while Iran and North Korea are busy formulating plans to end the world as we know it, our fearless leader nurses a lukewarm beer with a police officer, who just one week ago, was being categorized as stupid? Maybe  I missed something here, but don’t we have more pressing issues facing our society?  Perhaps it is Obama that is acting stupidly.

My guess is that this is just a Clintonesque ploy by Team Obama to take attention away from his insidious government healthcare proposals that won’t do a damn thing for you or I other than robbing us of more money which will be used to give another freebie to those who are too lazy to work for a living. 

In the meantime, Der Fuhrer Pelosi was busy on the hill demonizing insurance companies, calling them “villains”. The first thing that we all need to remember is that a villain is a person, an insurance company is a corporate entity which is a legal structure that does not have any type of personality; good or bad.  Then again, Pelosi is simply out to stoke the class warfare fires in the name of power.  What we all need to realize is that just like liberals, there are good and bad in the insurance industry.   However, liberals seem to be missing the point that the single biggest thing that can be done to stem the rising cost of insurance is to cap frivolous litigation with meaningful tort reform. 

I wonder why it is that those who liberals view as simpletons, like you and I (again, people who work for a living and therefore don’t vote for liberals) can solve the healthcare problem in a simple blog, for a fraction of the cost being proposed by Pelosi, Reid, Kennedy and the rest of the seditious left?

In addition to tort reform, we need to ban all medical care for illegal aliens.   If you are here illegally and get sick or get hurt, tough. You are breaking the law and perhaps your agony will serve as a deterrent to the rest of the gate crashing criminals.   To you pansies on the left, this isn’t cold or mean spirited; it is common sense. If you want healthcare, then get in line, come here legally, get a job and pay for healthcare like the rest of us.  Perhaps this risk will serve as a future deterrent from you returning to our land without permission.

Are there things the insurance carriers could do? Certainly.   In exchange for tort reform which will benefit them immensely, they could work to ensure that all policies are portable, pre-existing conditions are covered and contracts are clearly and unambiguously worded so the general public knows what they are receiving.   The government needs to help these initiatives along but giving a 100% tax credit to all insurance policies and medical costs incurred by policyholders.  Hey, if we have billions of dollars to spend to buy back clunkers, there's plenty of cash to do this. If there's not, then get the cash by cutting out worthless entitlement and welfare programs.

In addition to medical reform, we need drug reform. The FDA needs to cut the red tape so that pharmaceutical companies can get drugs to market faster.   The government needs to repeal all laws regarding purchasing drugs from other countries, as this will increase competition and drive down prices.   Pharmaceuticals need to stop passing their advertising costs onto consumers. Look, if you want to advertise feel free, but don’t pass along the costs of your lobbying efforts for genital enhancing drugs to me.   Lastly, let generics be developed within 12 months of name brands.  

As for the lawyers out there, they need to step up to help out.   If you have a legitimate medical malpractice case, fine; use the power of the courts to sue.   However, if you pursue a frivolous suit then you will be held personally liable.   The reality is that the types of people who pursue frivolous lawsuits are generally of the same caliber of person who voted for Obama.   They don’t have jobs, they don’t have money and are simply opportunists looking for a quick buck. Attorney’s need to be held accountable for their catering to this type of clientele.   If they pursue frivolous cases then they will be responsible for paying back the insurance companies.   Certainly the folks on the Hill won’t like this because many of them are either lawyers or in the pockets of the Trial Lawyers Association.  

Simply put, what has been laid out here will do exponentially more than ANYTHING the power mongering liberals will be able to do in Washington. Then again, this is why liberals hate facts.

Christopher Van

www.goldenpansy.com