There is a place in public policy for providing a safety net and for regulating commerce. But what the left has always wanted can never be. It just doesn’t work. Demonizing corporations as heartless bureaucracies while advocating every aspect of life be controlled by government monopoly is illogical and irrational. Nevertheless, that seems to be what Democrats are planning to do in fundamentally transforming America into a socialist state.
Democrats and the left seem unable to recognize that their policies need to be moderated (at the very least). Because enacting their full-scale ideological driven socialist state as fast as they can, while they still hold onto power, and against the wishes of at least half the population, is going to seriously disrupt this country, causing untold pain and adversity.
Entitlement programs do not create wealth or prosperity. They dilute it. Government control of health care will increase unemployment, drive up costs, create scarcity, and decrease the wealth of Americans. The more of the economy the government takes over the less there will be to divide and redistribute. Governments who follow these policies cripple their economies to the extent that they implement them. Just look at Greece for where we are headed.
Government control of Health Care
I guess what Pelosi said was true, we would only get the truth from them about this bill after it was passed. Obama admits it now, the truth… this bill is merely a first step toward a socialist system that will follow in the footsteps of Fidel Castro’s dictatorship:
So, yes, this is a common-sense bill. It doesn’t do everything that everybody wants, but it moves us in the direction of universal health care coverage in this country and that’s why everybody here fought so hard for it. ~whitehouse.gov
The promises about the efficiency and benefits of government monopolies are based on socialist ideology. In other words, pure fantasy. The claims made about this legislation are obvious to everyone. (62% Want GOP to Keep Fighting on Health Bill.) This is not going to create jobs and reduce the deficit. Quite the opposite. Ask yourself when any government program ever costs less than projected. Never. Ever. It always costs more.
Caterpillar Inc. said Wednesday it will take a $100 million charge to earnings this quarter to reflect additional taxes stemming from newly enacted U.S. health-care legislation. ~online.wsj.com
Empty promises, naive pie-in-the-sky, or outright lies? Pelosi: Health Reform Will Create 400,000 Jobs “Almost Immediately”
A dire warning from Bay State medical-device companies that a new sales tax in the federal health-care law could force their plants – and thousands of jobs – out of the country has rattled Gov. Deval Patrick, a staunch backer of the law and pal President Obama.
“This bill is a jobs killer,” said Ernie Whiton, chief financial officer of Chelmsford’s Zoll Medical Corp., which employs about 650 people in Massachusetts. Many of those employees work in Zoll’s local manufacturing facility making heart defibrillators. ~bostonherald.com
At a time of economic downturn we are expanding government spending beyond what is sustainable. Entitlements like social security are already on the brink of insolvency, the budget deficit is now in the trillions, and Democrats and the left want to double down with more spending, more taxing, and more entitlements. The ideology of socialism has a firm hold on the Democrat party and they now have the power to take us from the slow half-measures of our venerable New Deal welfare state to a full-on re-distributive socialist state.
In an unusual speech on the Senate floor moments ago, Max Baucus declares that the “healthcare bill” to be “an income shift, it is a shift, a leveling to help lower income middle income Americans.” Baucus continued, “[t]oo often, much of late, the last couple three years the mal-distribution of income in America is gone up way too much, the wealthy are getting way, way too wealthy, and the middle income class is left behind. Wages have not kept up with increased income of the highest income in America. This legislation will have the effect of addressing that mal-distribution of income in America.” ~hughhewitt.com
62% Want GOP to Keep Fighting on Health Bill.
Takeover agenda
What’s next? Well, I forgot to mention the Student Loan takeover in the Health Care bill. Cutting out private lenders from selling government backed loans. Expect some job losses in the banking sector from this as well.
- Cap and Trade- regulating every use of energy by everyone everywhere
- Your retirement account - yes, your retirement account
- Fairness Doctrine - Using the concept of the Fairness Doctrine to silence critics