11-10-2009
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Opinion Piece
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Subject: We Own You. Get Used to It!
On today's OpEd page, a Wall Street Journal editorial
highlights the true goal of ObamaCare, as articulated by one of its
supporters, John Cassidy of the New Your Times.
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Confessions of an ObamaCare Backer
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 let's 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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So there you have it. It's OK for the politicians to lie to us,
because they own us and operate from a position where they can freely
make critical decisions about our lives without regard to our own
personal thoughts, beliefs and desires. Truth is reserved for those
possessing the right to self-determination, so let there be no illusion
that the concepts of the right to one's life, liberty and property
have anything at all to do with what is now occurring in this country.
We are effectively all slaves of the state and subject to whatever whim
it manages to concoct and ram through as legislation. The limitations
on allowable government action that are delineated in the US
Constitution are being totally ignored by all three branches of our
government. We are rapidly becoming a totalitarian state.
Sign the John Galt
Pledge and then contact each of your Senators and Representative
and let them know, in forceful terms, that you are not
asking, but demanding that they adhere to the
intent of the US Constitution and expect them to protect and defend
your constitutional rights. It is time to let everyone in Washington
know that you are mad and have reached the limits of your
patience.
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