OK, so Senator Max Baucus has given the world his bill to transform American health care. It omits one of the most toxic proposals, the so-called “public option,” that Obama and other left-wing politicians favor, but it is still a horrible, economy- and freedom-devouring proposal.
For one thing, it will cost $856 billion — that is, that’s what the Senator is admitting to: who knows what it will really cost. One thing we do know: insurance premiums will skyrocket, since the bill would forbid insurance companies from denying coverage for preexisting conditions. It will also require all citizens and legal residents to obtain health insurance whether they want it or not: just think of the bureaucracy the government will need to enforce that!
There a lot more one could say about this silly and malevolent bill, but Jay Rockefeller, Democrat from West Virginia, let the proverbial cat out of the bag when he observed that, were this bill to be enacted, it would mean that
virtually every single coal miner is going to have a big, big tax put on them because the tax will be put on the company and the company will immediately pass it down and lower benefits because they are self insured, most of them, because they are larger. They will pass it down, lower benefits, and probably this will mean higher premiums for coal miners who are getting very good health care benefits for a very good reason. That is, like steelworkers and others, they are doing about the most dangerous job that can be done in America.
A big, big tax. It’s “not really a smart idea,” Rockefeller said, “In fact, it’s a very dangerous idea, and I’m not even sure the coal miners in West Virginia are aware that this is what is waiting if this bill passes.”
That of course is exactly what Sen. Baucus is counting on. It’s what Obama is counting on, too. “Tax cuts for everyone making less than $250,000 a year!” Remember that campaign promise? It was, seen from one angle, hilarious when Obama first said it. But that was before his $7, make that $9, oops, I mean make that $12 trillion deficit. That was before he got the ball rolling on paying for socialized medicine without — presto chango — adding a “dime” to the deficit. Even former Obamacons like David Brooks found that too much to stomach. (The House bill, Brooks mordantly observed, “would add $220 billion (that’s 2.2 trillion dimes) to the deficit over the first 10 years and another $1 trillion [10 trillion dimes] to the deficit over the next 10 years.” Buddy, can you spare ten trillion dimes?
It’s been clear since before Obama took office that he and his fellow Democrats believe the American public are made up of two groups: themselves and the rest of us, who are, they think, chumps. Are we?
After watching Countdown tonight, at least Senator Baucus can say, “If we’ve lost Olbermann, we’ve lost the Left.”
Creeping Socialism
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The item below speaks for itself:
“”WASHINGTON – The House is poised to vote to push private lenders out of the federal college loan business and massively expand the government’s own lending program.”"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090917/ap_on_go_co/us_college_aid
Is there an area of life that the government doesn’t want to control?
re #2 SodaJerk
it’s Creeping Communism
Senator Baucus, thanks for the expert tweaking, but the freedom and prosperity at stake did not come from tweaks, they originated from declaration of simple and clear principles.
In the interest of full disclosure, I have to admit that one of my pre-existing conditions is optimism. Regardless of the intellectual handicap which is sometimes attributed to this chronic condition, I can distinctly see the possibility of stalling these monster bills, not by luck or divine intervention or providence, but for a simple reason: The administration and its consorts are attempting to hide the sheer volume of hermetic and devious verbiage in these ominous bills by kindergarden sloganeering.
Wrong tractor for that kind of farming: If you seek the consent of an electorate mostly satisfied with their health care, you would have to make a rational argument for the practical benefit of every proposed change, one tweak at a time, not one more gigantic takeover of yet one more essential industry.
You have to hope that Americans are stupid to push this kind of nonsense. You have to willfully disregard the sincerity and the authenticity of the protesters to imagine that you can convince the country that you have its best interests in mind. Once trust is broken, its awful hard to repair, and it sure takes more than tweaking, or reframing, or whatever clever rethorical trick you still think will make a difference.
The health care “reform” proposal is only one more waggon in the train wreck we know is coming. We are not going to fall for it.
I say next time we elect a really ugly Black president who knows what he’s doing. Redd Foxx looks, Martin’s conscience, G. W. Carver’s brains. Otherwise, can’t we all just secede? (DC not invited.)
I think I’ll continue to lurk; this is just too good.
A lot of rats are eyeing the bow, cause now the sinking ship is on fire