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A Turning Point In Dismantling Of America
Investors.com ^ | March 22, 22, 2010 | The great THOMAS SOWELL

Posted on 03/22/2010 4:10:57 PM PDT by Kaslin

With the passage of the legislation letting the federal government take control of the country's medical care system, a major turning point has been reached in the dismantling of America's values and institutions.

Even the massive transfer of crucial decisions from millions of doctors and patients to Washington bureaucrats and advisory panels — as momentous as that is — does not measure the full impact of this largely unread and certainly unscrutinized legislation.

If the current legislation does not entail the transmission of all our individual medical records to Washington, it will take only an administrative regulation or, at most, an executive order of the president to do that.

Our New Masters

With politicians now having access to our most confidential records and having the power of granting or withholding medical care needed to sustain ourselves or our loved ones, how many people will be bold enough to criticize our public servants, who will in fact have become our public masters?

Despite whatever "firewalls" or "lockboxes" there may be to shield our medical records from prying political eyes, nothing is as inevitable as leaks in Washington. Does anyone still remember the hundreds of confidential FBI files that were "accidentally" delivered to the White House during Bill Clinton's administration?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: cwiiping; sowell; thomassowell
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To: onyx

There won’t be a game if the Republicans don’t field their best. If we get a repeat with the like of those we had in 2008, then the Republicans will be no better than the Democrats.


21 posted on 03/22/2010 5:41:13 PM PDT by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: gogogodzilla

The House Republicans elected in ‘08 have been magnificent as a whole and it’s our obligation to send them worthy others to add to their number to make them the majority in January 2011.

GET OUT AND WORK FOR THE CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE IN YOUR DISTRICT!


22 posted on 03/22/2010 5:46:40 PM PDT by onyx (God save our Republic!)
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To: El Gato
Sowell is obviously a racist ideologue who just doesn't like African Americans.

LOL

Incidentally from recent pictures, Dr. Sowell looks like he may have lost a bit of weight and is in terrific condition.

23 posted on 03/22/2010 5:48:28 PM PDT by pyx (Rule#1.The LEFT lies.Rule#2.See Rule#1. IF THE LEFT CONTROLS THE LANGUAGE, IT CONTROLS THE ARGUMENT.)
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To: onyx

Which says a lot.

We wouldn’t have this Obamacare right now had our Republicans actually fielded their ‘A’ team. Why? Because we’d have more Republicans in office if they had.

The voters were in no mood to see the voting options be Obama’s communists or McCain’s socialists. They wanted a d#$n CHOICE at the voting booth. And only those districts that offered one ended up with a Republican in office.


24 posted on 03/22/2010 5:58:24 PM PDT by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: GraceG

Probably the same odds that they would crop a picture of a black supporter of gun rights protesting with an AR near where O was going to speak. (IOW, 100%)


25 posted on 03/22/2010 6:42:38 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: jazusamo

You’re right on the mark jaz. Dr. Sowell is dead on the money. The November elections are possibly the most important in this Nations history.

We have to keep up the momentum. We mustn’t allow anybody to drift off into la la land come November. We must have a huge turnout against the Leftists.

Thanks once again for the ping.


26 posted on 03/22/2010 7:05:25 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...Call 'em What you Will, They ALL have Fairies Living In Their Trees.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Into the mystic.....


27 posted on 03/22/2010 7:08:09 PM PDT by Mama Shawna
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To: Kaslin
Despite whatever "firewalls" or "lockboxes" there may be to shield our medical records from prying political eyes, nothing is as inevitable as leaks in Washington. Does anyone still remember the hundreds of confidential FBI files that were "accidentally" delivered to the White House during Bill Clinton's administration?

Maybe Dems feel when they have the power of life and death over us - AND the power to leak our personal medical information - that they won't have to worry about us objecting to this horror. Dems: thuggy little as-holes.

28 posted on 03/22/2010 7:11:47 PM PDT by GOPJ (http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php?area=dam&lang=eng)
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To: Kaslin
Sowell hits the nail on the head here! He's absolutely 100% correct.

If the commies aren't stopped, they are bound to turn the US into a third-world dictatorship in short order. They care not about what the public wants.

29 posted on 03/22/2010 7:15:08 PM PDT by meyer (It's time...)
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To: Kaslin; Eaker; AK2KX; Ancesthntr; An Old Man; ApesForEvolution; aragorn; archy; ArmedSkeptic; ...
"With politicians now having access to our most confidential records and having the power of granting or withholding medical care needed to sustain ourselves or our loved ones, how many people will be bold enough to criticize our public servants, who will in fact have become our public masters?"

It's called, "Slavery."

Welcome to the USSA, comrades. Don't complain, comrades, or your name might drop from the list for operations or medicine or a college loan.

CW2 Ping


30 posted on 03/22/2010 7:18:12 PM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Travis McGee

Your post is exactly why they must be stopped. They will use all government control to stop any dissent.


31 posted on 03/22/2010 7:27:30 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: CodeToad

They even control ALL student loans now.

Who gets to go? Friends of The Party.

Of course, teenagers will have to do 100s of hours of “mandatory volunteeris” known as “community service.”

Mainly for “social justice” orgs like ACORN that can begin the pre-brainwash even before college.

Welcome to the USSA, comrade.


32 posted on 03/22/2010 7:31:10 PM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: CodeToad

“What will it matter if Obama’s current approval rating is below 50% among the current voting public, if he can ram through new legislation to create millions of new voters by granting citizenship to illegal immigrants? That can be enough to make him a two-term president, who can appoint enough Supreme Court justices to rubber-stamp further extensions of his power.

“When all these newly minted citizens are rounded up on election night by ethnic organization activists and labor union supporters of the administration, there might be enough votes to salvage the Democratic Party’s control of Congress as well.

“The last opportunity that current American citizens may have to determine who will control Congress may well be the election in November of this year. Off-year elections don’t usually bring out as many voters as presidential election years. But the 2010 election may be the last chance to halt the dismantling of America. It can be the point of no return.”


33 posted on 03/22/2010 7:40:19 PM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Travis McGee

They have no idea the s***storm they have created. Japan woke the sleeping giant once.


34 posted on 03/22/2010 7:41:22 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: CodeToad

Our next Great War might not take place “Over There.”

Civil wars are uniquely disastrous and tragic. Spain in the 1930s, Balkans 1990s, Lebanon etc.

Very ugly. Very very.

But not as ugly as unopposed socialist slavery.


35 posted on 03/22/2010 7:43:31 PM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Kaslin; Travis McGee
Wow. Sowell nails it again.

Petty government blackmail.

Travis nails a great example of why government shouldn't have anything to do with how kids go to college:

They even control ALL student loans now. Who gets to go? Friends of The Party. Of course, teenagers will have to do 100s of hours of “mandatory volunteeris” known as “community service.” Mainly for “social justice” orgs like ACORN that can begin the pre-brainwash even before college.

What is the government even DOING being involved at all in student loans? Can't we please have a Republican party principle that defends against the very concept?

It's called "limited government," and a lot of Americans yearn for it.

36 posted on 03/22/2010 7:58:48 PM PDT by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent.)
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To: Travis McGee
Who's complaining?

My two close buddies and I went out to the ranch and put a bunch of .357 sig, 5.56, .308, .38, and .357 into all kinds targets. Those damn Zombies don't kill themselves you know. We felt a little better afterwards. Remember the boy scout motto I always say.

37 posted on 03/22/2010 7:59:01 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: Travis McGee

“Very ugly. Very very.

But not as ugly as unopposed socialist slavery.

And therein lies the only argument for war.


38 posted on 03/22/2010 8:07:53 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
might as well throw some 'master of puppets' into the mix to fire ya back up in the AM...

breath easy and Blessings tonight...

39 posted on 03/22/2010 8:16:46 PM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: Travis McGee
your name might drop from the list for operations or medicine

sadly, we all know that even in cheap movie plots if ya back somebody in a corner and run em out of options, well, bad things are the only recourse...

40 posted on 03/22/2010 8:20:52 PM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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