If You Read Nothing Else About Obamacare…
By Mitch Berg
…than this piece by Andy “AAA” Aplikowski…
…well, then you’re the same kind of mental-lightweight doofus that got us into this mess in the first place, voting for a “President” based entirely on curb appeal and superficial “zing”.
You need to read a lot, and get very, very informed, fast. And that information is not going to come from the media, or the gabbling hamster leftyblogs that are carrying water for Obamacare.
But, that said, Andy’s got it right:
Obama Care is a trojan horse for single payer. It is the first step towards it.Democrats in Washington are so panicked in passing something now before their radical unAmerican butts get thrown out of office…
If I’m sick of one thing, it’s bobbleheaded Obama suppoters chanting “but it’s not socialism! It’ll actually be cheaper! It’ll keep private insurance, if that’s what you want!”
Right. And then, as every American who deserves the right to vote knows…:
- It will require everyone to buy insurance, against the penalty of having the IRS crawling up your leg.
- It will require private insurance to cover not only pre-existing conditions, but every kind of care imaginable, from catastrhopic care to drug addiction treatment (to say nothing of abortion)…
- …which will cause a huge increase in demand for a static amount of services…
- …which is a recipe, as everyone who ever took Econ 101 knows, for inflation…
- …even if the services stay static. They will not. Which accelerates the inflation…
- …so that more and more Americans and businesses will not be able to afford private insurance, which will drive insurance companies out of business and drive people over to the federally-subsidize program for “the poor” (which, in the current bill, includes families of four earning up to $88,000)…
- …which will cause a “crisis” that the government will have to meet by providing the “public option”, assuming it’s even an option by that point…
- …which, given that private insurance (except for Congress and their union pals) can not survive against the cost pressure provided by the government, it won’t be for long.
That’s not a trojan horse. It’s a trojan field of horses bolting out of a starting gate.
Andy’s got one thing wrong, though:
…Do you see it yet, our Government now closer resembles the one we revolted from then it does the one established when we were first freed.
Well, no. Like every dim anal-retentive lefty commentator notes when tut-tutting about the historical and philosophical “accuracy” of the term “Tea Parties”, we do have an elected government.
It was elected by the same crowd of people who put Jesse Ventura and Al Franken and Keith Ellison in office; people who don’t give a rat’s ass about politics other than every four years, when they may or may not trudge to the polls to vote for whomever they perceive to be a proximate reaction to whatever they believe the media is telling them the “big problem facing America” is, if not just whomever had the best “curb appeal”.
And they are the same Americans who will eventually show Obama and/or his party the door, since while those people are superficial and ill-informed and unjustifiably trusting of a corrupt, in-the-bag media that long ago stopped doing the job of holding government accountable, they’re not stupid. One year they elected Jimmy Carter as a knee-jerk reaction against Nixon; four years later, they realized that the “cure” was not only worse than the problem, but that there were some real-life issues that needed real solutions.
And maybe we’re getting to that point. The problem is, corrosive socialists like Pelosi and Reid and Obama, like boll weevils or obesity or flood water, will do a lot of damage while they’re around; prevention is always the best medicine.
But we’re way past prevention.
