This article presents a facile analysis that completely misses every salient point in order to proffer a US-centric notion of "how things should be." Apparently the author has zero conception of the horrific social costs imposed by the USA's disregard of its citizens and seems not to grasp the fact that the USA spends more than three times the OECD average on health care yet obtains outcomes in the bottom half of the rankings. This is merely one example of US dysfunction. The author would do well to set aside his infantile notions and instead spend sufficient time studying European alternatives to the US approach ("to the winner, all the spoils and screw everyone else"). Moreover, the author should also consider just why it is that all qualification-free systems of representative democracy all end up in the same trap, borrowing increasingly unsustainable amounts in order to bribe voters with the illusion of free ice-cream forever. All in all, this article is a tired recital of discredited right-wing nostrums that's not merely simple-minded but actively wrong in so many places.