OK. Put away the PS3 controller and turn off the porn.

Test time.

Would you rather:

A. - Pay extra taxes for a pubicly administered health plan that would insure all Americans have access to care?

- or -

B. - Be required by law to buy private insurance that will insure you have access to care?

Obviously, for both choices, you're going to be out some money. But A will feed the socialist monster our government has become under Dear Leader Obama, while B will insure (heh-heh) that private enterprise does not vanish from the face of the earth. (That such a forced-payment scheme would be a f*ckin' goldmine to already-plush insurance companies is none of your silly little beeswax.)

If you make over $100,000 a year, likely you already have insurance, so B wouldn't be bug-smack on the windshield of your S-Class. However: A could spell... trouble... since a larger slice of your income would be parsed out to help the undeserving poor, writhing aimlessly in their guttersnipe misery.

Why should you be penalized for someone else's poor life choices?

For you classless rabble making less than a hundred large, the choice also is obvious. Of course, you'd probably prefer to pay some higher tax for a so-called "public option" - assuming your paltry income would qualify in this proposed supplemental-tax bracket. Over the past 75 years, you've put misguided trust in the unwise Social Security and Medicare plans - federal programs that opened the door to the dread, Eurotrash-style nanny state.

Let's be frank: Many of you find this option attractive simply because it would keep your "hard-earned dollars" out of the hands of insurance companies, which you see as endlessly greedy and inhuman.

Well, how's this for frankness: The ultimate law is the law of the jungle. Survival of the fittest. Occasionally, the herd must be winnowed, and the weak allowed to... fade. In a capitalist system, we break down this food chain in economic terms. There is no arguable reason, when we think about it logically, that anyone unable to afford to live should do so.

Capitalism, in its pristine state, commodifies everything. All components of our lives, big and miniscule, must be purchased, must be paid for. Your chewing gum. The clothes on your back. The privilege of flushing away whatever you flush away down your toilet. When you think about it, even "God" is owned. He's "our's" - the big, judgmental property in the sky. Correct?

Private insurers, by storming alone, proudly, the red barricades, are really battling for your right to live a life worth living.

A strong society requires sacrifice. And strong people never have to sacrifice themselves.

Someone else can be paid to do that...