The Ralph Nader Lie of the Day

NewsReal Blog ^ | August 15, 2009 | David Swindle

[HorowitzianConservative]

Over at at “progressive” news site CommonDreams.Org, the lead story today was a call-to-arms by anti-capitalist activist Ralph Nader in which the perennial third-party presidential candidate tried to motivate “single-payer” health care advocates by lying to them:

The guess here is that Obama will sign anything which squirms through a cowardly Congress that cannot give to the American people in 2009 the health care system Congress stopped President Harry Truman from establishing in 1950.

It is up to the people of our country to “make him do it” whether this year or next. A mere one million immediate calls to members of Congress by one million assertive citizens will start sobering up these legislators who think they can get away with another sale of our public trust.

The Congressional switchboard is 202-224-3121. The full Medicare, single payer bill (backed by nearly ninety legislators) is H.R. 676. The go-to citizen group for your sustained engagement is singlepayeraction.org. The rest is up to you, the majority, who want to put the people first.

The majority? Methinks not. If “the majority” of people wanted a single-payer health care system we’d have had one in this country a long time ago.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

If the majority of people wanted what Nader is selling, he’d have been elected president.

[truthguy]

At his core Nader is and always was an unreconstructed Marxist. Many years ago I heard him at a college lecture. This is a perfect venue for him. There are always a ton of very naive and foolish people in a college audience. 90% of the lecture was about how bad it was for corporations to make excessive profits. At no time did he talk about who owns corporations like shareholders (pension funds, individuals, college endowments, and the like).

And he NEVER defined what was excessive. No specific numbers were given.

The guy was and is a fraud. He's also a pawn for the trial Lawyers.

But he did do one good thing in his life. He may have kept Al Gore from being president. That may not have been his intention though.