Scene from a California airport.
"BLITZER: And do you support the public option -- a government- run health insurance company to compete with the private insurance companies?
SCHWARZENEGGER: I would stay away from that as far as I can, because government cannot run anything. And we have seen it here in California, that government is running the health insurance and the health care of our prisoners. And a federal judge had to step in and take over the health care of our prisons in California because it was disastrous.
So if they cannot even run 170,000 inmates that are locked up and can't go nowhere else, if they can't even run that, how can they ever going to run a health care or an insurance program of any sort for millions and millions of people in the United States?
I would just stay as far away as I can from that. Government is not successful in anything that they do. So therefore, don't do it."
-- as overheard on the CNN's Situation Room while waiting in the Oakland Airport terminal.
SCHWARZENEGGER: I would stay away from that as far as I can, because government cannot run anything. And we have seen it here in California, that government is running the health insurance and the health care of our prisoners. And a federal judge had to step in and take over the health care of our prisons in California because it was disastrous.
So if they cannot even run 170,000 inmates that are locked up and can't go nowhere else, if they can't even run that, how can they ever going to run a health care or an insurance program of any sort for millions and millions of people in the United States?
I would just stay as far away as I can from that. Government is not successful in anything that they do. So therefore, don't do it."
-- as overheard on the CNN's Situation Room while waiting in the Oakland Airport terminal.
posted by d l wright at 10/03/2009 10:01:00 PM
3 Comments:
I kind of wish Schwarzenegger could run for President because that would be an awesome campaign slogan:
"Government is not successful in anything that they do."
So that's how "party talking points" sounds with an Austrian accent.
No one is ever successful in anything.
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