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Justin Bieber Economics In Washington

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img classalignright srchttpblog.limewire.comwpcontentuploads200911justinbieber.jpg alt width238 height238 First, let me make it clear that I mean no disrespect to Justin Bieber.The teen recording artist is a genuinely talented young man, and he strikes me as a decent guy.But after Rolling Stone magazines new interview with the international pop music star was released last week, I was struck with the reality that many of Justin Biebers comments about economic matters were not that different from many of the comments weve heard from Washington over the past couple of years. And while inane chatter is par for the course with kids, it shouldnt be tolerated from elected leaders.Let me explain.Its not that Im looking to rock stars, least of all sixteenyearold rock stars, to enlighten me about anything. It just happens that Justin Bieber permeates nearly every aspect of the social environment at my sons junior high school kids either love or hate Bieber music, and for better or worse his moppy hairstyle is commonplace with my son and his friends these days so when he makes the headlines I generally read them. And thats how I happened to stumble past Rollingstone.com, to read the exclusive Justin Bieber interview.When asked for his opinion about abortion, Bieber noted that its like killing a baby Planned Parenthood, did you hear that. And whether he was asked about it or not its not clear from the Rolling Stone text, he also managed to get in some comments about the American quest for free governmentrun healthcare. Thats when things got real interesting with Canadian Justin Bieber.You guys are evil, Bieber joked to the American magazine writers, Canadas the best country in the world.We go to the doctor and we dont need to worry about paying him, but here in the United States, your whole life, youre broke because of medical bills. He continued, My bodyguards baby was premature, and now he has to pay for it. In Canada, if your babys premature, he stays in the hospital as long as he needs to, and then you go home.What a wonderful little fantasy, wouldnt you say America is so evil that when one goes to see the Doctor, one has to fuss with something so trivial as paying him. How terrible it is that a highly trained professional like a Medical Doctor must be compensated for his or her work.Yet how beautiful it is that in Canada, the Doctor just provides services, the patient just receives those services as much as he or she needs and the Doctor apparently doesnt need to be paid. Or at least the patient doesnt have to worry about it, right Isnt that the way it goes in Canada Somehow, because of the magic of government, Doctors and nurses and everyone at the hospital in Canada just simply perform their jobs, patients just simply get what they need, and everybodys happy. And Canadians dont have to face that devastating threat of longterm medical bills.I expect such childlike silliness from, well, children. But far too many elected leaders in Washington have been emulating this kind of fantasybased thinking for far too long and if our nation is to survive, they need to be unelected altogether.Recall that in May of 2010, then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi noted that the Obamacare legislation would enable artists to simply quit their dayjobs, and not worry about providing for themselves. We see this as an entrepreneurial bill, Pelosi noted at the time, a bill that says to someone, if you want to be creative and be a musician or whatever, you can leave your work, focus on your talent, your skill, your passion, your aspirations because you will have health care.No need to think about who pays the Doctor, for Ms. Pelosi. Just focus on your passion and aspirations, and thanks in no small part to her, you will simply have healthcare. Sounds like Biebers Canada.And then there is our President. Ardent supporters will point out that Barack Obama invested over four years of his life selling nationalized healthcare, and its foolish to compare a few sentences on the subject uttered by Justin Bieber to the Presidents remarks. This is a fair point.Yet the Presidents assertions about healthcare reform were based on the assumption that a government system would produce a higher quality healthcare, and a greater quantity of that healthcare, for less money. That was economic fantasy, right from the start.The President also claimed that his reform would bend the healthcare cost curve down yet since becoming the law of the land, healthcare costs have been rising dramatically. And he claimed that without Obamacare, the government will go bankrupt weve got Obamacare, and were still headed towards insolvency.Justin Bieber should checkin with his accountant or at least his mom and learn how much of his earnings got confiscated by the Canadian government last year, and then consider how much free healthcare he purchased for other people. And us evil Americans need to grow up, as well, and choose more wisely in the 2012 election.