Tuesday, 10 November 2009
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Told you it was a powergrab!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704795604574522680235765894.html
The typical argument for ObamaCare is that it will offer better medical care for everyone and cost less to do it, but occasionally a supporter lets the mask slip and reveals the real political motivation. So let's give credit to John Cassidy, part of the left-wing stable at the New Yorker, who wrote last week on its Web site that "it's important to be clear about what the reform amounts to."
Mr. Cassidy is more honest than the politicians whose dishonesty he supports. "The U.S. government is making a costly and open-ended commitment," he writes. "Let's not pretend that it isn't a big deal, or that it will be self-financing, or that it will work out exactly as planned. It won't. What is really unfolding, I suspect, is the scenario that many conservatives feared. The Obama Administration . . . is creating a new entitlement program, which, once established, will be virtually impossible to rescind."
Why are they doing it? Because, according to Mr. Cassidy, ObamaCare serves the twin goals of "making the United States a more equitable country" and furthering the Democrats' "political calculus." In other words, the purpose is to further redistribute income by putting health care further under government control, and in the process making the middle class more dependent on government. As the party of government, Democrats will benefit over the long run.
This explains why Nancy Pelosi is willing to risk the seats of so many Blue Dog Democrats by forcing such an unpopular bill through Congress on a narrow, partisan vote: You have to break a few eggs to make a permanent welfare state. As Mr. Cassidy concludes, "Putting on my amateur historian's cap, I might even claim that some subterfuge is historically necessary to get great reforms enacted."
No wonder many Americans are upset. They know they are being lied to about ObamaCare, and they know they are going to be stuck with the bill.
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And people wonder why we're against this monstrosity...
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Comments (10)
Her actions have been astounding since the day after the election. You would have thought SHE won the Presidency. This will be an interesting year coming up.
Many of us know the "End Game", and that's exactly why we're so fervently against this monstrosity...
Now, to get others educated on the losses attached thereto...
me thinks she is just pulling a powerplay and playing political football and perhaps spinning the roulette wheel. By offering up the stupek amendment it provided cover for some blue dogs or moderates to say they protected life and have the cover of the church.
I dont see that amendment surviving the senate. I also do not see the forced public option and prison sentence surviving the senate. They made the bill outrageous enough that the senate version and the one that comes out of committee will be milder. If Stupek provisions are not in the one that comes out of committee, 2010 election fear will kill the bill.
November 3rd showed the cover of Obama is not enough to provide cover. Nancy Pelosi is very unpopular and the house approval rating is once again in the toilet. This would be a good time for some out of the box thinking to be promoted in a "care bill" for those who fall through the safety net.
Amen and Amen....I saw an interesting quote on Facebook yesterday....
"What good fortune for government that people do not think" Adolph Hiter....
we had better start THINKING....or we are going to just keep digging this hole that we have found ourselves in, deeper and deeper!!!
Ruth Ann
@Irish_Russian - I'm trying. but it's like talking to brick walls.
@ProvokingThought - I think we should make Pelosi and Reid and Obama join the plan. Maybe then they'll get it through their heads what a monstrosity and an insult to our American rights this bill is.
@Redlegsix - Ooh, that reminds me. I ought to do a post on the healthcare plans of Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, and Castro. I think the similarities are striking and haunting and maybe it will get some people thinking finally.
@PreciousOnyx - you have to remember that the education system has made heroes of Castro and hailed his achievements in medical care. There are more socialists out of the closet now than ever before mainly due to the indoctrination systems. That is why getting control of the schools boards is a more serious issue than we realize. Anyone who does not think that public schools are indoctrination is just foolish or living in a cocoon.
@PreciousOnyx - I got into a rather heated discussion with a proponent of this health care bill.
I asked him one question "On what constitutional grounds do you justify using MY tax dollars to pay for YOUR health care?"
His response told me there was no way I could win an argument with his reasoning: "What does the constitution have to do with it?"
I really do hope this bill dies in the Senate...