Some time after Labor Day, many Americans will start to focus on the November elections, and they’ll be surprised to learn that while they were at the mall, government-run health care moved from being a vague idea to an essentially “done deal.†In just eighteen weeks Americans will, with every vote, submit to the idea of the government  that master of mismanagement  having a formidable control over their health care. Logic dictates that the common realities of age and illness  which come to us all  will steadily endow the government with ever-increasing authority over life choices and inevitable intrusions into decisions that should be private.
Once the thing is put into motion, there will be no pulling back. American presidents may peacefully surrender their power, but bureaucrats never do.
It may be too late to wonder  at this eleventh hour  if the free markets, local communities, and our elected officials have really done all they could to develop creative insurance alternatives to the super-sized government “solution†that will quickly affect our economy and slowly erode our freedoms. Will we look back and ask, perhaps naively, why citizens lacking work-connected health insurance could not have simply bought into the same or similar plans that covered state employees? If low-income families found the premiums too dear, might they not then have been able to use a tax-credit or deduction to offset that cost?
Can’t wait for my O! medical card. I hope there’s a hologram of O! on it with O! wielding a cigarette appended to a FDR cigarette holder.
Ok, little Republican senators, boys and girls. It’s time for a story. No, not you, Lindsey sweetheart… you just work on your fingerpainting.
If you are talking about Obama, he never said about government run health care-universal coverage, that’s what he is talking about.
Check it out, now I am fighting communist apologists in two threads now, I would never seriously thought that would be any in USA….
http://fray.slate.com/discuss/forums/8/1474198/ShowThread.aspx#1474198
http://fray.slate.com/discuss/forums/3/1469604/ShowThread.aspx#1469604
Add a new word to the American lexicon: Queue. Pronounced q. Everyone is now entitled to the same (declining) care. Now everyone line up.
“…now I am fighting communist apologists in two threads now, I would never seriously thought that would be any in USA….”
We call ’em Democrats.
From sashal’s second link:
by intersurfa
07/08/2008, 1:51 PM
i dont know what you meant by that. Germany, half of it, escaped Communism, but got Nazism instead.
And you thought our trolls were fucking stupid.
Dude, you see communists behind every fucking thing you disagree with.