Posted on 12/28/2010 8:34:01 PM PST by Innovative
The unreasonable standard is being applied to both private sector health insurers and companies that provide Internet service. But expect the White House to impose the standard on a lot more industries as the Obama blob continues to absorb every aspect of the economy.
What it means is that we are abandoning the rule of law for the rule by bureaucrats. Unelected officials have been given the power to fundamentally remake industries based on their political and value judgments.
Here, folks, we see the usual pattern of liberal, big-government demagogues. They proclaim that they - as the protectors of the people - will ensure the public gets many more benefits for much lower costs. When it becomes evident they can’t deliver on their promises, the demagogues turn to price controls, along with more threats and regulations, as the only way to "stem the greed." As a result, companies that had been participating in the market begin to drop out, reducing competition and choice. The whole market becomes even more dysfunctional, and the government feels justified in stepping in for a full-scale takeover.
Ditto the government's new effort, through the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), with respect to the Internet.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.forbes.com ...
Definitely worth reading.
Should have been entitled “Fascism by Federal Fiat”
And no one has noticed that Atlas has shrugged... Yet.
“As a result, companies that had been participating in the market begin to drop out, reducing competition and choice. The whole market becomes even more dysfunctional, and the government feels justified in stepping in for a full-scale takeover. “
This has been the MO of the left for some time now- the Marxist Hegelian Dialectic- in which government creates a problem, then steps in with more government to fix the government created problem.
Step by step, using this process, government will eventually own everything and control everything.
Like reducing Medicare-Medicaid reimbursements, which leads to the providers adding that cost on to non-medicare patients, which causes an increase in health care costs, so they implement ObamaCare to fix the crisis they created.
Unless it is stopped, of course.
Related — another effort by Obama to kill the US economy:
White House Plans to Push Global Warming Policy, GOP Vows Fight
“After failing to get climate-change legislation through Congress, the Obama administration plans on pushing through its environmental policies through other means, and Republicans are ready to put up a fight.
On Jan. 2, new carbon emissions limits will be put forward as the Environmental Protection Agency prepares regulations that would force companies to get permits to release greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.”
Hey Repubs. Repeal EVERYTHING Obama, including him. Don’t wait for January 2013....start now!!
Had the election in Nov gone the other way, we could have bent over and kissed our areses goodbye.
It would seem all of nobama’s beaurucratic fiat will still require the universal lubricant, money, to make his things happen. With the new House, his operating money supply will be in the same boat as offshore drilling, no mass.
Would sure seem that with the dems failing to have any budget, other than temprary Continuing Resolutions, this leaves the door even wider open for jerking the purse strings away. Wonder what the heck were they thinking, that the last place they’d lose was the House?
This is how revolutions are created. Obastard’s handlers certainly know this, so they must be confident they will win. Given the number of people who still whoreship Obastard, they may ne correct.
To DHS lurkers: I won’t start or do squat. You’re likely to, though. How’s it feel being an SS equivalent?
TALK....TALK....TALK.....getting tired of just the TALK....
Bttt.
TALK....TALK....TALK.....getting tired of just the TALK....
I couldn’t agree more. Unfortunately, I’m afraid many people in high places have been “compromised” by physical threats upon themselves and their families.
Yikes! When the “crazy talk” coming from Forbes sounds like the “crazy talk” coming from me, you know it has gotten serious.
The 112th Congress shall grant unto this Republic a shiny new VAT tax.
They will also be forced to use the control over the health care industry to extract revenue.
I hate to be the one to break the bad news, but a thing can only be what it it is.
Obama and his pals are nothing but thugs trying to take over this country much like Hitler or any other communist dictator. They should be tried and hung for treason.
The Kenyan’s new version of National Socialism. Even that is secondary to a Khalifa..
I say BULL! Sometimes it really does improve one’s place in life to look on the bright side now and then.
Like I said, WHAT IF...
It is a science my Father taught me.
It is exercised through observation of reality and the pragmatic ways that these realities must be dealt with.
Take heart in the fact that I am usually wrong, about everything... The fact remains that the 111th congress sold a trillion or so worth of bonds that we are going to repay over the next decade, one way or another.
No one has a clue what the cubic mile of currency the fed has been churning out for the last year will mean once spread about the globe.. No one cares yet. I hate abstract economics.
“Yikes! When the “crazy talk” coming from Forbes sounds like the “crazy talk” coming from me, you know it has gotten serious.”
Excellent observation!
How nice, some one finally noticed what has been going on for decades!
Guess that it’s actually an “Issue” now that the mainstream are finding their own Ox’s the ones being gored.
The Fed. Gov. has gotten away with carving out groups to marginalize and screw-over for decades, and very few from any point in the political spectrum gave a damn.
Now that the net is catching everyone, nearly everyone suddenly cares.
“He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”
— Thomas Paine
“The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.” — HL Mencken
I’ve witnessed countless examples of “Conservatives” on this very site being only too willing to discard their fellows any time they could not be bothered to understand the basic issue. (such as why ownership of Machine Guns IS in fact as much a right as the ownership of a single shot arm).
When you allow the opposition to draw dividing lines you empower them, our current predicament is the result of ceding that authority, one moving margin at a time.
SCOTUS already erased the prohibition against congress delegating the authority to create law.
Without that judicial wink & nudge, the alphabet agencies could not function as they do.
Now we have an unrestrained totalitarian in the white house, these results should not be a surprise.
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