What's getting in the way of your prosperous future?

For those who watched BYU beat OU on Saturday night, you would know that former Heisman winner, Sam Bradford, hurt his shoulder in the game.  This is unfortunate, because apparently (hard to tell from the game) he is supposed to be a pretty good quarterback.  He also chose to play college football for one more year instead of skipping school to play in the NFL and start making millions.  The ESPN announcers mentioned that he took out an insurance policy against an injury such as this.  I don’t know the details of the policy, but I would imagine that he forks out a ton of money, and if he gets hurt, then the insurance company would pay out what he lost in potential earnings as an NFL quarterback – or something like that.

As I now have the knowledge that this type of insurance exists, I have to admit that I am a little disappointed that Obama only wants to provide health insurance to every American.  He is really cutting the American people short.  We deserve nothing less then to be insured/ensured that we will have prosperity.  This is primarily why I am disappointed in the speech that Obama gave to the kids at school.  He told them that they are personally responsible for doing well in school.  He said that success would take hard work.  Nothing is more cute than a liberal pretending to believe in personal responsibility.

I want the actuaries who crafted Bradford’s insurance policy to create prosperity insurance for all Americans, and I demand that Congress write a 1,000 page Universal Prosperity Insurance Act that would free us from the economic consequences of bad decisions and missed opportunity while sheltering us from risk.  Obama says I might be a good writer, but I’ll never know until I try.  I say, “Why even try?”  It is entirely possible that I could be a good writer.  Or at the very least, I could be the next J.K. Rowling or Stephanie Meyer, which means there are potential billions in earnings on the table that I could make if I were to pursue this talent.  The federal government should create an insurance policy that is subsidized by other taxpayers to pay me if I never reach this potential.  How much would they pay me, you might ask.  I would have to say ” a lot.”

Barack Obama said the words “a lot” a lot in his speech, which, like a lot of his speeches, has a lot of abstract, if not meaningless, words and ideas.  For a man who shows no evidence of understanding the magnitude of the number “1,000,000,000,000,” what are we supposed to think when he says in the speech that he has given a lot of speeches, when he has only given a mere 112 speeches since becoming president.  It is hard to know what “a lot” means to this president, and I have to say that I expected a lot more from his speech to the kids than conservative platitudes about personal responsibility.  He’ll promote personal responsibility to the kids, but the policies he is creating for the adults suggest that he doesn’t believe all the crap he told the kids.  He’ll straight talk with the kids, after all most of them can’t vote, but with adult Americans he’ll promise a lot of things that we can’t afford.  

While universal prosperity insurance might cost a lot, “a lot” is the one quantity that Barack Obama seems to believe that we can afford.