Great riff on ObamaCare from the guys at Hillbuzz. As someone who, decades ago in my first job, sold New Jersey state lottery tickets to people who would have been infinitely better off in the long run taking the same amount of money and dollar cost averaging into a decent mutual fund, I can definitely relate, if only second-hand to this analogy:
Today, as we think about what Leftists shoved through Congress yesterday, and how giddy the Red Queen Nancy Pelosi seemed carrying that giant gavel across the Capitol grounds on her way to pound the Constitution to pulp, we’re reminded of growing up in Cleveland and watching so many people obsess over winning the lottery.
Some of us here had parents who talked about nothing else, it seemed, other than winning the lottery…or the church raffle…or the March Madness pool…or the Super Bowl tontine…whatever. Every week, there was something to gamble away money they didn’t have on, with the insane hope that all of their problems would be solved IF ONLY THEY WON.
Read the whole thing,then check out this New York Times piece on how playing the victim can create an apparently paradoxical morally superior mindset.
Of course, victimology runs rampant in the same colleges and universities that Times trolls for its next readers. The Hillbuzz piece was found via Kathy Shaidle. Just keep scrolling, as Kathy also has all sorts of posts on Ann Coulter’s visit to University of Ottawa, and the reactionary leftwing sturm und drang kabuki that ensued.
And speaking of ObamaCare and its enablers, Orrin Judd links to a Roll Call article which notes 2012 could be as equally tough a year for Democrats in the Senate, as 2010 seems to be shaping up for the leftwing members of Congress.
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