From Prohibition to Obamacare

Canada Free Press ^ | 12/2/2013 | Alan Caruba

[rktman]

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” - C. S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia and many other works of literature.

It is one of the great mysteries that, for progressives, also called liberals, the past provides no lessons, no warnings that would prevent them from repeating their errors. Progressives are always focused on a magical future in which there will be no wars, no hunger, no poverty. Their belief in the redistribution of wealth—communism—is, in Winston Churchill’s words, “the equal sharing of misery.”

[rktman]

Thank you Alan. I suppose posting this is just preaching to the choir. Never hurts to remind ourselves of the garbage that's consuming this country.

[Bobalu]

I posted the text below on FR on Nov 27.... The parallels between Obamacare and prohibition also occured to me :-)

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As it was during the time of prohibition, so it will be again with Obamacare.

It will be top-quality health care that is prohibited.

People will go to the Caribbean to get it, just as they went to the Caribbean to get Rum.

People will go to Mexico to get it...or to Canada, or India, or Thailand.

Doctors will set up medical ships off shore, much like Mr McCoy did to sell imported liquor from his boats(The Real McCoy)

There will be hush hush secret clinics in all major cities. (Joe sent me)

First we had the madness of alcohol prohibition, that led to the madness of drug prohibition when the enforcers no longer had anything to enforce. Now we have the madness of Obamacare... pray it does not stick around as long as the drug war has.