Posted on 09/13/2017 5:18:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
On Monday, two seemingly unrelated headlines made the news. The first: America's national debt had finally reached $20 trillion. The second: New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker had finally come out in favor of Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders' magical, mythical "Medicare-For-All" plan.
Of course, the two aren't unrelated at all. Once again, the Democratic Party is signing checks the country can't cash. Sanders' Medicare-For-All scheme would add some $13.8 trillion in spending over the first decade alone. Medicare already carries $58 trillion in unfunded liabilities, according to National Review. How unrealistic is Medicare-For-All? It's so unrealistic that the state of California has rejected a single-payer health care for being too expensive -- and California currently has a Democratic supermajority in the state assembly.
Yet Democrats continue to push further and further to the left, fearful of being outflanked. Booker isn't alone in his newfound embrace of socialized medicine. California's Sen. Kamala Harris has also endorsed Sanders' ridiculous plan. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren will be co-sponsoring Sanders' plan, as will Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon.
Why? Because Democrats are deeply frightened of being outflanked by socialists. There's no benefit to moving to the center when your base sees no purpose in fiscal responsibility. So instead, Democrats race one another to the Soviet Union.
Meanwhile, Republicans cower in fear. Afraid of making the case for freedom, they compete with Democrats to see who can administer the giant state more "efficiently," as though efficiency were the key problem with statism. Thus, Republicans ran headlong from the possibility of repealing Obamacare, afraid that the American people would backlash against them for "taking away" some form of entitlement.
This is a mistake by Republicans. Yes, whoever touches entitlements pays a price. But that's not true if the alternative is a slide into total governmental control. That's the case Republicans made from the day Obamacare was initiated: that it was the first step toward socialized medicine. Now Democrats are showing that the Republican critique was true. Republicans ought to provide a binary choice here: Either slide into nationalized health care with Democrats or help us tear away the bulwarks of tyranny in health care in favor of freedom.
In exposing their own radicalism, the Democrats have provided Republicans with an opportunity to seize the middle with conservatism. Republicans need not bend before the media's insistence that health care is a government responsibility -- they can easily and honestly point at the Democratic frontrunners and identify the agenda. The question is whether Republicans have the courage to do so or whether they've bought the false narrative that President Trump won because he campaigned as a centrist. Trump won promising full Obamacare repeal. Republicans can do the same now and have the credibility of an awful alternative behind them.
All it takes is courage. Democratic cowardice has led the Party down the primrose path to full-on socialism. Now, Republicans must either make a stand against it or be complicit in bringing about that regime.
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This is INSANE. The GOP (I argue the moderate wing on the democrat party) has utterly failed to deliver on getting rid of Obamacare. Obamacare has cost the liberal democrats EVERYTHING. They are out of power as you can be and the GOP opened the door for a clobbering. Yet, the democrats say, “don’t forget, however bad the GOP is, we are worse.’
Peter Hitchens wrote his column last Sunday saying the UK needed migrants to do work because the locals are too drugged up to work.
True in Canada and I see people washing out in workplaces (I have two) clearly looking like zombies in this country.
Business needs to cut expenses for the mess people get themselves into with addiction. Single-payer cuts health care expenses for business.
Bumrungrad hospital in Bangkok is considered to be one of the best 10 hospitals in the world.
It is very nice. I took a group of HS students to Thailand several years. One of the girls in the group developed appendictus and needed emergency appendectomy. We had no issue with the standard of service or the cost.
Beat me to it.
Beat me to it.
I didn’t hear any threats of veto either. All I hear is Pelosi first presidential term has started. Iit was bad enough that only the freedom Caucus was against insurance company bailouts.
Trump was ready to bail out insurers and the freedom Caucus held the line. This will not go well.
His overly friendly relationship to gun grabber Manchin is making me wonder if a 2A assault is coming next.
That said, appendectomy surgery is not quite the same as treating complex cancers.
“All I hear is Pelosi first presidential term has started.”
Oh no, I hadn’t heard that. Shivers!
“His overly friendly relationship to gun grabber Manchin is making me wonder if a 2A assault is coming next.”
I’d like to believe he’ll keep to his campaign promises. But it’s getting harder and harder. I hope we haven’t been duped.
Honestly tell me what kind of deal you think shumer and Pelosi will make? Do you believe it will put American kids first?
This is exactly how we got anchor babies. History is repeating.
Show me where I said anything good about the Democrats.
I never did.
So are you for or against deals with shumer and Pelosi? If you are lauding the deal, it would imply you agree with it. Do you agree with a deal that isn’t good? Sorry, but Its implied if you agree with shumer n Pelosi, it’s because it is good.
No one would laud a deal they think is bad, would they?
It depends if Trump is manipulating them or not. I have said this before but you seem to be thinking in only one dimension. Democrats bad, Republicans good.
Unfortunately, I think Democrats are bad, and most Republicans are also bad.
IF, and this is a big if given trumps statements lately, he is trying to manipulate Congress of both parties in order to get a wall built, then it would be a good thing. If he is actually going along with the liberals, then it would be a bad thing. We never know what is happening behind the scenes and if the mainstream media is reporting things in order to distance Trump from his base.
So far I would say it looks very bad. I’m just hoping that I don’t see all of the details going on. Otherwise I think it is time for a revolution.
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