Infatuation with Crisis

The American Thinker ^ | August 24, 2009 | Bruce Walker

[Scanian]

The slow, ugly death of health care reform reflects the left's deep crush with crises. Government, of course, is a necessary evil. Even Marxists dream of a distant future in which the state will "whither away." Global Warming is a crisis, even though there is a profound disagreement among scientists about which direction the climate is changing and whether people can have any significant impact upon any change that is taking place.

Periodically we are informed that there is an infrastructure crisis -- roads, bridges, water lines, school buildings, etc. are wearing out because they are getting older. The largely mythical "Hunger in America" in the 1960s was a crisis which produced the Food Stamp Program, and now -- with a straight face! -- Leftists' planners warn us that obesity is the most serious health problem of the poor. Monumental levels of government "stimulus" spending was supposed to end the economic crisis (which could never -- of course -- be the consequent of monumental levels of government spending in the first place!) And now, of course, we face (whether we are deemed "smart" enough to see it or not) a health care crisis.

In a way, life is a serious of crises. We all will get sick and die. Families, religious congregations, communities have for ages quite naturally provided what comfort, help, and support they can. Hospitals, for example, were essentially creatures of religious orders not acting in response to a particular "crisis," but rather in accordance with religious injunctions to care for the sick.

Economies are intended to fluctuate -- there would be little reason for a stock market if economies were static -- and almost everything that the left deems a "crisis" is simply the natural process of change in any normal society. It is not change that Obama and his disciples believe in. It is free and rational change that terrifies them. They have a single, old, failed model for society: central planning by bureaucrats. Replicating the Fabian Socialists of Britain, the New Deal, and the other myriad examples over the last century, from National Socialism's highly planned system of economic development and health services, to old style, hopelessly obsolete labor unions, is the dream of Obama.

[Outlaw Woman]

The slow, ugly death of health care reform reflects the left’s deep crush with crises...”

I hope that statement is correct

[Candor7]

The only crisis that America truly has is that the nation has an unqualified pretend president. Until that is solved , we will have a continuing parade of Chicken Little cries of " Crisis, crisis, crisis."

Most of it is fabricated and created by the left in order to solve problems that should never have been created by them in the first place.

We need to be rid of this last gasp of socialism so we can pick up the pieces and rebuild America.

[Nateman]

I’ve come to the conclusion that “crisis” is the mating call of the left. When you hear that call they are trying to screw you.