I've been listening to the righty spin on our righty radio station concerning Scott Brown over Ted Kennedy's democratic successor. It's a lot simpler than the Conservatives want to portray.

One, Massachusetts doesn't care about the Senate version of this health care bill. They have 80 percent health care already under their liberal Massachusetts state program. It wasn't their cause to approve a national issue.

Two, Scott Brown is clearly the better candidate. He didn't sit on his duff after the primary, didn't take a vacation, didn't ignore fundraising, the mantra of an election process. And he didn't stick his foot in his mouth over and over again, insulting the baseball fans of Massachusetts for example. And he's smart, quick and doesn't have the image of a professional politician.

Why is this election result a positive for the Democrats, and as well for the Republicans?

For what I've been hearing, the Dems' Senate bill was fit for the swine pen, and not much else. The health care lobby got ramped levels of discriminatory insurance for pre-existing conditions.

This is like the credit card industry getting a green light to go ahead with 35 percent loan-shark interest for the sucker indigent segment of the population that we used to throw in debtor prison for their lack of financial self discipline.

See, you and I pay about double what a procedure costs us at a hospital because we fund this segment of the population regardless, through gross overbilling. I'll show you my bills with my own competitive analysis to prove it. So we are all doing far better to get this significant percentage of the uninsured onto insurance.

When I hear righty talk slam Obama, jobs are the issue they want on the table. Why don't they get the point that to restart job creation, you fix the No. 1 biggest reason our corporations are leaving?

If you don't fix this runaway cost issue, you better plan on leaving the country for a nation state that will, because there will be no high-paying any type of work in this country without the industrial foundation.

To change the situation, we need the Republicans helping pass legislation. They after all brought us the $34 trillion swamp-the-boat largest growth of entitlements since L.B. Johnson with George Bush's Medicare drug bill that guarantees the pharmaceutical industry get away with murder in selling us drugs for an eternity at stupid over-the-top markups. And they sold us on a $1 trillion war on a pay-it-later financing plan that would have pushed this recession up to 2004 if we had actually funded this war as we fought it.

If we get the Republicans to embrace their lack of conservatism in these two swamp-the-nation issues and finally connect the dots between resparking job creation here with affordable health care costs, we've got a reason to have some hope for a better future.

Or, we could just continue with another 18 years of rock 'em sock 'em robots like we've been doing and see where that takes us.

STEVE KLEIN

Burlington