Posted on 07/03/2019 2:21:28 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Ronald Reagan famously warned that Medicare would lead us away from freedom and toward socialism. Barry Goldwater considered Jack Kennedy a socialist and called Lyndon Johnson one as well. America did not lapse into a collectivist dystopia with access to Medicare nor embark on the road to serfdom under the tenures of Kennedy and Johnson. Reagan’s fears and Goldwater’s fancies serve to remind us that “socialism” is in the eye of the beholder.
The specter of “socialism” has served as a convenient bugaboo for the right to invoke whenever its interests are threatened by progressive legislation or liberal advocacy, a pejorative to smear a broad swath of economic reforms that challenge the corporate status quo. With the resurgence of a democratic left, it has become common parlance in conservative circles to tar the entire spectrum of liberal opposition with the broad brush of “socialism.”
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BARF ALERT
The bill is coming due. President Trump's tenure has just delayed the inevitable--devaluing the dollar through government deficits until our standard of living is so low that most people will beg for more socialism/communism.
Ah Yes, the wonders of Credit Money and Central Banking have always destroyed Nations from within.
When Medicare was implemented, it was said that it would never cost more than $20 Billion Dollars a Year.
WOW, I just clicked on Link and the Front Page is the NAZI Brown Shirts Salute!!! just like the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers...
Given the lying proclivities of the looter left, my guess is the latter.
I don’t suppose the author told us how $20+ Trillion in debt - mostly due to welfare programs - is making the US great. And no, I’m not going to read the article. :-)
Progressive legislation, once put in place, goes one of two ways. Either it is put on a sound fiscal basis, and thus become an important step in improving life for all, or it grows into a huge boondoggle the triggers economic disaster and reverses that seriously impair the function of the Republic.
As far as simply “progressive” goes, well, cancer is progressive. And not in a good way.
Bullshit! Socialism almost destroyed America before it began.
This defense of socialism is like calling cancer a good thing because it has not managed to kill you yet.
Implementing Socialistic slavery using the ratchet effect.
Aren’t both Medicare and Social Security headed for insolvency?
By avoiding socialism, that’s how.
Well, defeating the race-obsessed National Socialists in Germany certainly set the USA up to be a great and largely benevolent superpower, such that the world has never seen.
So, in a way, socialism did make the USA great.
Perhaps the USA will become even greater when it defeats the current crop of race-obsessed socialists.
Socialism: Hey is that why Venezuela is so prosperous?
A letter to the editor of the WSJ had it right: if Sanders strips the wealth of the 1% to buy votes, and the next guy strips the wealth of the remaining 2% to do likewise, it wouldn’t take long to propagate the misery evenly to the whole country.
Yes. We have socialism in this country now. But we also praise and elevate those who create value, the Capitalist (for lack of a better word). Devaluing Private Property Rights has a price. We have an imbalance of those who “Capture Value” to generate wealth vs those who “Create Value”. There will be a price to pay.
As in ‘Animal Farm’, there are not enough Boxers to carry the load. (The solution, as I see it, is to work harder.)
what a crock of sh*t. Look at where we are with those little itty bitty encroachments of socialism. Medicare did not suddenly push us into the swirl economic turmoil but it did send medical cost soaring into the stratosphere. and look where are still heading. Medicare is almost bankrupt but the bureaucrats keep adding more entitled populations. There will be more, but IT IS BANKRUPT. Medicare for all! But it is BANKRUPT.
isn’t socialism wonderful. Just like slavery! No freedom(s), no money, no food, no clothes. But we eliminated the rich except for those that rule us. Just like the good ole days with the nobility and the peasants.
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