Promise Unchecked

Please review your purchase of a government. Your reminder must’ve gone to the spam folder. Very engaged citizens don’t check results. Well, it’s hard. Who wants to see if a promise was kept? Verifying is especially tricky for the biggest bluffers of all. Spot them by how they only get hired by voters.

Those who gleefully deduct a star because the Amazon delivery guy didn’t close the screen door the whole way won’t examine whether spending 14 figures got taxpayers more than zero value. It’s so much easier to presume a boast will become reality. The only cost is preposterous schemes inflicting tremendous harm instead of curing pain.

A lack of scrutiny allows peddlers of junk to continue to avoid seeking more honest careers. It’s bad enough when an Etsy craftsperson can’t shape earrings like your home state. New York was crumbled until it resembled New Jersey. But at least you can kvetch about a return.

Purchases that can’t be declined hurt wallets and self-worth infinitely more. Astute consumers buying their own well-being have noticed that universal health care led to crummy coverage. The money lost was never seen, so that counts as savings.

Follow the science, demand those wearing a mask helps as much as shutting down society. Smugness hopefully protects from the plague in a way today’s panicky restriction doesn’t. There’s as little correlation with governors banning interactions keeping the secluded parties safe as there is prosperity caused by every other bit of bossiness. We naturally want to think we’re protected by being stuck in pods. But there’s no safety in failing to check if the weatherstripping leaks.

Hospitals charge fortunes per minute precisely because users aren’t paying. Insurance’s best prices and quality come in the same way as obtaining every other good deal, namely by enjoying the option to take business elsewhere.

The importance of getting someone skilled to work on your insides is precisely why free markets are crucial for anyone interested in acquiring medical attention. Health care should be guaranteed unless you want health care. Take comfort in a promise, as you’re sure not getting it from treatment.

I wonder if these martinis are making it tougher to operate machinery. Shrewd detectives have noticed mandates are precisely what makes insurance costly in the first place. The mind-blowing circumstance where the solution is the cause seems too improbable for Hollywood’s greatest fiction generators. Truth is indeed stranger.

A lack of control only seems scary without noticing how transactions continue. For one, why aren’t we starving? There’s no food mandate and yet we can afford Twinkies along with potentially more nutritious provisions. The constant negotiation between hungry people and those willing to either sell the ingredients or prepare them as well keeps prices reasonable. Or maybe there’s a law banning hunger.

Enjoy reading this on an internet the government didn’t ruin, or even revel in loathing it. My precious feelings won’t be hurt too much. Nobody appreciates avoided disasters because it’s tough to sense the collision that never happened. A lack of net neutrality made the net neutral. The precise opposite happening is a federal specialty if anyone would like to bother noticing.

Washington demands to control what thrives precisely because it’s uncontrolled. Bureaucrats spewing limits would mean we’d have no options, but at least we’d be protected from their imaginations. Here in this horrifying frontier, users get to choose other companies. It turns out Twitter still isn’t charging you every time you share how your Peloton ride went. But you could still switch irksome apps if they did.

Would you please be trusting? Obeying is compulsory, after all. There’s no need to check up on the institution that is in charge of life. Something decent must happen if the government says the promise approaches on the horizon. It’s illegal to do otherwise. How could the wise and benevolent overseer of existence disregard its own proclamations, you Ayn Rand-lusting lunatic? You act as if politicians can’t control events and fate itself.

Accuse monsters who think people would be better off buying their own goods of gleefully murdering children. Once the human devils concede they’ve brought Hell to Earth, we’ll have bipartisan unity. Slanderers of liberty-based dissent sure are smug considering what government’s colossal miscalculations actually inflict on the real world. Those who think East Germany took over the West reside in a fantasy that ruins actual lives.

Yogi Berra knew you can learn a lot by seeing what happens. Anyone paying attention to results would be shocked upon noticing, say, gun control leads to criminals controlling guns. The tricky part where they disregard laws that disarm the virtuous is an oversight that certainly can’t apply to every other blasted bit of nonsense they believe.

Checking up on consequences is this whole hassle. But nothing’s more important than examining if a theory works out, especially when participation is mandatory. A politician may not perform as claimed. I hate to be cynical in a world that could use more trust. But the notion that someone may make an outlandish promise in order to convince voters to get onboard will stubbornly not leave my brain.

Some people who love pointing out what a phony Donald Trump remains sure do love believing the freaking government delivers on promises. I’m sure politicians will punish themselves for lying.