The cradle-to-grave, government-supported existence of “Julia”

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Today’s buzz surrounds the rollout of yet another composite character from the imagination of Barack Obama, this one named “Julia.”  Julia represents the arc of a life under the beneficent care of Barack Obama’s policies.  Interestingly, at every stage of Julia’s life, a government program exists to shield her from life’s woes.  And just as interestingly, Julia never gets the bill for all of this government hand-holding.

Let’s present a more realistic view of Julia’s life:

  • 3 years old – Julia gets a new-and-improved Head Start, which a new HHS study shows won’t do anything for her anyway.
  • 17 years old – Race to the Top improves Julia’s SAT scores.  Is there any evidence at all to support that argument?  Even so, she’s down the list from all of the home-schooled children and the charter- and private-school students who actually got an education rather than an NEA indoctrination.  However, thanks to the NEA indoctrination, Julia is now better prepared for a life on the government dole.
  • 18 years old – Julia’s family qualifies for a $10,000 tuition tax credit spread out over four years, while Obama’s student-loan subsidies drive tuition costs up even faster.
  • 22 years old – Julia undergoes surgery, which has to be funded by her parents’ employers despite Julia being an adult, and which will be most likely delayed as providers decline in number thanks to the economics of ObamaCare.
  • 23 years old — Thanks to the Lily Ledbetter Act, trial attorneys get rich by filing lawsuits against employers that otherwise wouldn’t have been brought, leaving fewer resources to hire Julia.  No college job for our intrepid Julia!
  • 25 years old – Julia finally gets her 4-year degree in seven years, thanks to the inability to handle the tuition bubble and the lack of work.  However, the good news is that the $200,000 in student loans will only hang over her head for 20 years, while taxpayers like Julia end up paying for the costs of default.
  • 27 years old – Julia wants to have sex for the first time in her life, apparently, and is looking for contraception.  Her employer would provide it for free thanks to the ObamaCare HHS mandate … if she could only find a job.
  • 31 years old – Julia gets pregnant, which tells you all you need to know about free contraception.  Oddly, Julia hasn’t gotten married first, probably because the economy is so poor by this time with the huge entitlement debt crisis breaking that no one can conceive of putting a home together.  Fortunately, ObamaCare makes pregnancy possible, because until Obama took office, no one ever got pregnant, since government support and approval for it didn’t exist.
  • 37 years old – Julia’s son Zachary, named after his sperm donor, starts school.  Head Start has long since disappeared, apparently, but Race to the Top still exists.  Must be a marathon.
  • 42 years old – Julia starts a business with an SBA loan, which also apparently never existed before Obama took office.  Her student loans are just three years away from defaulting onto the backs to taxpayers, so that’s good news.
  • 65 years old – My, how time flies!  (Do women do nothing of value between 42 and 65?) Julia enrolls in Medicare, which ceased to exist decades earlier, thanks to the fact that Obama and Tim Geithner didn’t have a plan to address the debt crisis — all they knew was they didn’t like anyone else’s plan.  You can get the cards at Spencer’s as a gag gift.
  • 67 years old – Julia retires, since the entitlement collapse wiped out her business and the rest of the American economy.  The timeline stops here, which suggests that the IPAB probably denied her care, as she was nothing but a drain on society by this time, and the few resources they have left had to be used to pay for face lifts for members of Congress.

There you have it — a timeline filled with government interventions in a fantasy lifetime, with absolutely no sense of the cost it would take to provide Government Nanny to Julia and the rest of the country.  At least they picked the right name for their fantasy woman trapped in an all-encompassing government; Julia was the name of the lead female character in George Orwell’s 1984, after all.

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At least the Julia in Orwell’s 1984 had a job.
She worked in the pornosec, the novel-writing department that turned out dirty books.
She wasn’t smart enough to write those books even though she admitted they only used the same 6 or 7 themes but just mixed them up a bit.
She only repaired the machines that wrote those novels.

Instead of beginning with “Under President Obama…”, each slide should begin with:

“His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal, Dr. Barack Hussein Obama…”

(formerly the self appointed title of Idi Amin Dada)

And what’s wrong with the security suggested by the other, liberal story—as opposed to the conservative aberration? Just because humans are animals, should we regress into living in a man-made jungle?

@Liberal1 (objectivity):

Well, I guess we now know why you are a liberal. You would trade your freedom for “security”. Too bad that you don’t realize that the “security” provided to you by others can also be removed by others.

As to us being animals, why no, humans are not animals. Animals do not experience emotion, have the capacity for critical thinking, or possess a soul. But I will agree that some of your fellow liberals are animals. They call themselves OWS protesters.

@retire05:
Good one, retiro5.
His comment also shows that he’s bought 100% into Obama’s favorite straw man fallacy: that his opponents out there want to go back to a dog-eat-dog world!
OOPS!Maybe Obama better rephrase that!
LOL!
As if.