Posted on 07/24/2010 11:24:29 AM PDT by SmartInsight
The truth is that not even the Franklin Roosevelt Administration was as hostile to and ignorant about free enterprise as this Administration is. Almost every action Obama officials take underscores their belief in the stereotype that businesspeople are mostly amoral, corner-cutting, consumer-shafting, pollution-loving menaces. The economy itself needs to be tightly controlled and rigidly guided by Washington mandarins because free markets are inherently and destructively unstable.
Incrementalism and the velvet glove over an iron fist are Obama's preferred methods. Thus, it will take several years for surviving health care companies to become full-fledged vassals of the federal government, which will dictate what policies are offered and at what prices. The new financial "reform" bill is taking the same approach--its language is intentionally vague in order to give bureaucrats enormous discretionary powers.
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Soft core socialism is like “a little bit pregnant.”
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Where did you get these numbers? I don’t doubt them, but I want to be able to sight a source when I use them in an argument.
Other than Obama quitting, the only thing that will stop Obama is a SUPER-MAJORITY Republican Congress, but that’s going to be difficult to get.
Check out www.swifteconomics.com
Or--has a small internal amount of fecal matter.
Naaah! He and minions are full of it.
vaudine
We’ve got to kill the notion that Obamacare can’t be repealed. When anyone says to me I immediately challenge, “Why not?”
It’s not that it can’t be repealed, the lack of will is the only barrier. We cannot not allow them to kill the best healthcare system in the world!
REPEAL!
Chart Ping !
Rhetoric and smiles to the contrary, this Administration remains resolutely statist and, when it comes to free markets, clueless.
If you're resolutely statist, I don't think you're clueless about free markets. Rather, to accomplish his/her goals a statist knows very well that free markets must be destroyed.
We are only seeing the beginning of Obama’s vision of America. If Obama were to serve a second term with a Democrat majority in Congress, by 2016 the US would resemble the former Communist East Germany. Obama has contempt for the Constitution and Bill of Rights and given another term there would be no free speech, guns would be banned and many Americans would be in “re-education” camps.
I prefer the term “compassionate communism”.
Government healthcare will include health care rationing and denial of care, and fee for service will be outlawed. The practical effect of this will be that the government will have the power to forcibly prevent anyone from lifesaving care. If that isn’t unconstitutional, then our constitution has no meaning.
Philosphically, this is against the most fundamental of American values: the sacredness of human life and the right of the individual to the pursuit of happiness.
So the question should be, why would anyone who isn’t a left wing radical NOT want it repealed.
From another FR post
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Exactly! It makes me crazy when people try to tell me you can never turn it back. As if the greatest healthcare system in the world was just destroyed forever with one vote, without a fight. I say we fight and keep our healthcare the best, the system people fly in for from all over the world. It's worth fighting for.
Great. Thanks for the ammo.
Big Brother government is at it again when they say we are looking out for your safety. Here is an example when the F**K word government is crawling into your life.
NO SMOKING
STOP EATING MEAT
CUT BACK ON SUGAR AND SALT
THAT EVIL CELL PHONE MIGHT GIVE YOU CANCER
GUN CONTROL
GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE
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