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Posted on 01/11/2006 7:43:29 AM PST by planekT
It is often overlooked that George Orwell’s Animal Farm predicted not only the horrors of communism but also the end of the Cold War. At the end of the fable, the farmer, who symbolizes the capitalist West, returns to the farm and plays cards with the pigs, who symbolize communism. The shivering creatures outside, symbolizing ordinary people, “looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
We normally think of the end of the Cold War as having marked the unambiguous victory of capitalism over communism. But has Orwell’s prediction proved right, and has there instead been a convergence of the two?
(Excerpt) Read more at amconmag.com ...
It sure seems like we're on our way. Govt paid pre-school child care for all is on the docket in Cali, for one example.
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And coming soon... Socialized medicine for all, absolutely "free".
Arghhhh...
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here in indiana they just unvieled thier new plan for education full day kindergarten and buying a book a month for each child in the state from birth to five years old
Indiana Senate Democrats Unveil Education Strategy(buy children a book a month for five years)
Just give it a decade until the baby boomers are retiring by the millions, and there is no money to pay for them.
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You know what makes it even BETTER? The average lifespan is creeping up, and the average medical treatment cost (even after figuring in inflation) is exploding. So it isn't just more people on medical welfare - it is more people on ever more expensive medical welfare, for ever longer periods of time.
It isn't a doomsday scenario, but things aren't going to be pretty.
What is happening right now is that what insurance companies will pay for a procedure, and what procedures it will pay for, are being standardized. This standard is being dictated by Medicare policy.
Standardizing costs and procedures is the first step towards socialized medicine.
Step one: Sue the pants off all doctors for any reason under the sun to the point where it is economically unfeasible for them to continue private practice.
Step Two: Force them to specialize in approved procedures at drastically reduced rates so they can make up the difference in volume while sacrificing service levels and the quality of patient care.
Step Three: Use your buying power to strip all the profitability from the profession so that the best and the brightest from the available talent pool will choose other professions.
Step Four: Create a needlessly beauracratic juggernaut to oversee and administer the program.
Step Five: Promise free health care to the masses in exchange for voter turn out.
Step Six: Take no share of the blame as the system implodes on itself as it has in any other country with a tax rate under 50% and a population of more than 4 million people.
Step Seven: Introduce legislation to increase the minimum wage for good measure.
Most of those steps are either already in place or are a work in progress. It's scary.
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There's an idea!
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