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Written by Patti Lynn
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Friday, 16 October 2009 20:44 |
 I guess many of you were glued to the tube yesterday wondering and worrying about whether that little kid in Colorado was inside that renegade helium filled flying saucer balloon. Fox milked it for all it was worth. Shepard and the other commentators should have known full well that no child could have survived breathing helium. Yet, they yammered on and on about the possibility of the kid being alive inside. Of course, Falcon, the little boy, wasn't in the balloon. He was hiding in a box in the attic....alive and well. Thankfully.
It seems something is amiss about this family So, who knows the truth about the whole bizarre incident. Maybe it was all a hoax.
It occurred to me that there are some interesting parallels between this balloon boy story and the Health Care Reform plans. For starters, both the reform plan and the balloon were/are floating hither and yon, willy nilly. Nobody knows what is in the thing or where it will eventually wind up. And no one knows what may be found once it comes down to earth. Will it be full of nothing but gas or will some innocent die as the result of tragic incompetence? Like the now famous balloon, the Health Care Reform is an amateur experimental construction. It is convoluted, unpredictable and undependable. And at this point only one thing is clear. The proponents of this Health Care Reform are groundless 'loons full of hot air, and as irresponsible as little Falcon's parents seem to be.
Had the little boy been inside that helium filled balloon, it would have been a tragedy. So I say, bring this Health Care Reform balloon down, release all the gas and lets see what's in it.
Just like the Balloon Boy story, I hope the current Health Care Reform plan turns out to be nothing more than a suspenseful flight of a gas filled flying saucer balloon and not a catastrophe.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 17 October 2009 21:02 |
