State Nursing Homes---Bet You Can't Wait

Welcome to the Front Porch! Tonight---let's contemplate Obamatopia!!

The State's Nursing Home

If you have had the melancholy experience of visiting a loved one in a nursing home, I bet it never occurs to you that, "My, my, this is really living."

In a free society nursing homes take care of declining folks who are no longer capable of taking care of themselves. Nursing homes are a solution to one of life's unhappier situations. Notably, most of the residents, if still of reasonably sound mind, would rather be out--- where they were free and independent. The decision to put someone in a nursing home is done with a heavy heart. It's nowhere near a cause for celebration, except for the truly wickedly non-compassionate.

In a nursing home, everyone awakens at the same time. Has the same things to eat at the same time. Their medical decisions are made for them. The inmates, er, patients, have the same 'entertainment' available. All of this selected by other people, who are in fact way better qualified, capable, and are, hopefully empathetic. Hopefully the people in charge are not neglectful, abusive. Hopefully they really are focused on making the end times as comfortable as possible. The good news: since, in a free market, there is competition for this kind of care, the nursing homes most successful at fulfilling their mission, from their customers' point of view. are also the ones that thrive and prosper.

Now, since we don't live in a wholly 'free market', but rather a market in a stranglehold of the State, nursing home care is more expensive and less efficacious than we'd like. But then, so is everything.

You're probably wondering when I'm gonna get to the point. Hang on. We all agree (I dang well hope):

---Nursing home living stinks on ice compared to being free.
---No one sound of body and mind would want to live in one.
---Statists, e.g. Obamunists,, would like to put us all in one big State nursing home---where they make the choices about what we eat, our lifestyles, our careers, our healthcare, what happens to our earnings and property. Cradle to grave 'security' in their loving and enlightened hands. Mmmm, mmmm, mmmm

Sounds yummy, no?

What...you got a problem wid 'dis? You must be one o' 'dem racists. Obviously too much information rattling around between your ears.

They have a cure for that---'re-education' camps, and the good ol' fashioned next to last resort featured in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". And, if you can't be'rehabilitated', there's always the final option, used over and over again throughout history when the Dark side is threatened.

What, did you think this was about bed pans?