The next poor sap that comes at me about the “evils of welfare” and poor people needing to just “pull themselves up by their bootstraps” or the terrible scourge of “socialized medicine” when i mention the need for universal, single-payer, healthcare is getting punched right in the mouth.

These fools have been profiting for years off their poor decisions, and now when it catches up to them and the whole thing collapses, we get to pay for it. Where’s the $1 trillion for improving education, or making sure senior citizens and the disabled don’t fall through the cracks? The idea that we can’t afford to provide health care to every American while we toss these huge amounts at companies that have been profiting by screwing so many people and making stupid decisions is in a word, disgusting.

Where’s our bailout? These people have been getting filthy, stinking rich on being irresponsible and our solution is to toss more taxpayer money their way. And not a word in the latest super-bailout of punishment for these people.

Once again, the taxpayer gets put over a barrel in the interest of making sure the already rich can stay rich.

Yes, I understand that when the top collapses it affects everyone, but when is this country going to stop mortgaging our future on the backs of our kids for a little short-term relief? And when will the collapse of the middle and the bottom under the weight of the failures at top be a consideration to anyone other than those folks trying to make ends meet?

On the plus side I think it is safe to say we shouldn’t have to hear much anymore about the benefits of a free and unregulated market. What a crock.