“the current bill may be benign, every government program, without exception, rapidly grows out of control.”
Exactly. It’s the frog boiling technique (incrementalism) so popular with the left.
Does anyone remember when ‘no smoking sections’ were added to flights? Then no smoking on flights within X miles, then no smoking on any flights, or restaurants or office building ...till they got what they wanted in the first place. Unlike conservatives who want their agenda implemented NOW, setting up its failure, libs are patient and willing to take one piece of pie at a time.
Be assured, the ultimate goal here is to eliminate the high cost of keeping the ‘non-productive,’ i.e., the elderly and disabled, to a minimum, which means expediting their demise.
Obviously, a generation that was raised to believe that “choice” is ok, and partial birth abortion is ok, does not have respect for life unless it fits within preconceived parameters of productivity.
Has anyone asked if the same advice and choices will be foisted on HIV/AIDS patients? Or drug addicts? Or high school dropout gang members? How about single mothers of several children by different fathers? None of them are particularly productive, either.
The so-called "Euthanasia" program was National Socialist Germany's first program of mass murder, predating the genocide of European Jewry, which we call the Holocaust, by approximately two years. The effort represented one of many radical eugenic measures which aimed to restore the racial "integrity" of the German nation. It endeavored to eliminate what eugenicists and their supporters considered "life unworthy of life": those individuals who--they believed--because of severe psychiatric, neurological, or physical disabilities represented at once a genetic and a financial burden upon German society and the state.In the spring and summer months of 1939, a number of planners--led by Philipp Bouhler, the director of Hitler's private chancellery, and Karl Brandt, Hitler's attending physician--began to organize a secret killing operation targeting disabled children. On August 18, 1939, the Reich Ministry of the Interior circulated a decree compelling all physicians, nurses, and midwives to report newborn infants and children under the age of three who showed signs of severe mental or physical disability. Beginning in October 1939, public health authorities began to encourage parents of children with disabilities to admit their young children to one of a number of specially designated pediatric clinics throughout Germany and Austria. The clinics were in reality children's killing wards where specially recruited medical staff murdered their young charges by lethal overdoses of medication or by starvation.
At first, medical professionals and clinic administrators incorporated only infants and toddlers in the operation, but as the scope of the measure widened, they included juveniles up to 17 years of age. Conservative estimates suggest that at least 5,000 physically and mentally disabled German children perished as a result of the child "euthanasia" program during the war years.
Source: US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Also see Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica.
Observe the "creep" of this program in two short years.
If Obama gets his way, we are stepping out onto the slippery slope leading to the destruction of the United States.