Its no accident that the Fabians use a sheep in wolf's clothing as their symbol.
The Fabian Shield.
This sounds outrageous but it is the logical end result of the Welfare State / Socialist thinking. Socialism can’t get around the fact that resources and services are not unlimited. Shortages develop and if you don’t have a market based on voluntary purchases, there has to be another way to allocate the resources. So in Socialism its political. Which groups are deserving of the services and goods? In practice, this means corruption—connections get you services, and the designation of certain groups as unworthy of getting services. The political masters start off picking on easy targets—criminals, smokers, terminal patients with little time left. Then they move to a broader group—the elderly who “aren’t productive” anymore. This was summed up best about 20 years ago by John Silber—when you’ve lived a long life, its “time to go” and you have a duty to society to die to avoid taking up resources. The elderly who vote for Welfare State Socialism have blinders on and can’t see the danger in what they are advocating.
Unfortunately this is what is being taught in medical schools these days. I sat and listened to a young Physician’s Assistant student, who was raised in a conservative Christian home and church, blabber on about how socialistic medicine for primary care is the answer to our medical healthcare problems. But, he said, we can’t provide health care for everyone, and that resources need to be used primarily for children and young people, rather than the elderly. The Baby Boomers are going to take up all the current resources, he said, and lamented that they feel “entitled.” When I pointed out that they ARE entitled because they are the ones who have funded the system as it stands now, he said with a condescending smile, “Well, the Baby Boomers are just going to have to be willing to give up what is entitled to them for the benefit of society as a whole.”
His words sent chills up and down my spine; still do, when I recall them. Not sure how such moral depravity has crept so solidly into his thinking after years of being raised in a conservative Christian environment. Just shows you how a few short years in academia can warp a person’s mind.