I remember when there was such a thing a a real Republican.
Posted on 07/29/2003 11:34:21 AM PDT by The Old Hoosier
Which will be the end result. So much for strategery. I thought in 2000 we'd get a principled conservative in GWB...looks like I should've done my homework.
Because of skyrocketing costs in all areas of healthcare (following the advent and exploitation of third-party pay), socialized healthcare is an inevitability.
The only question is when.
In the first post I mentioned that Rush Limbaugh was pretty long and loud today about the Democrats not standing for anything. This article makes the point that if Rush wants to know what a Democrat stands for, he should just ask Bush.
I remember when there was such a thing a a real Republican.
Quite true...I stand corrected.
Depends on how it's administered. Total healthcare costs could decrease if charges and prices are scheduled by the government. In that case, and in the absence of competition, quality can plummet, and numbers of doctors could decrease.
Obviously the burden of pay will shift to taxpayers. Most taxpayers already pay -- in the form of insurance, deductibles, etc., and in taxes for existing entitlements.
Regardless, it is coming. And one can easily argue the healthcare industries and professionals are largely responsible for bringing it on themselves.
" Stained glass out of glass coloured of Fabian Society, produced on the initiative of the writer George Bernard Shaw, eminent member of Fabian. One sees it with work with another character of first plan, Sidney Webb - founder member of Fabian Society (and founder in London of " London School of Economics " [ Marxist ] which since 1894 contributes to provide to the British Establishment its top executives) - while with the assistance of robust masses it works to reforge the world according to the legend which appears in top of the window: " remoult it nearer to the hearts desire ".
The followers of lower degree are represented knelt in bottom, in worship in front of a pile of books of socialist propaganda which one manages with difficulty to decipher some titles : " Fabian Tracs and Essays " (Opuscules fabiens et essais), " Industrial Democracy " (Dimocratie industrielle), " History of Trade Unions " (His- toire des Trade Unions, les syndicats anglais), English Social Government (Gouverne- ment social anglais), etc. The inscriptions on the ecu towards the center of the stained glass, a little on the left make a synthesis between the two scenes '.
Bold and underline formatting is mine.
~~ Ronald Reagan, in his autobiography, An American Life
"When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn't like it."Compromise" was a dirty word to them and they wouldn't face the fact that we couldn't get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don't get it all, some said, don't take anything.
"I'd learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: 'I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.'
"If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that's what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.
Memories may 'light the corner of your mind'.......but 'tis always a good thing to keep them HONEST memories, no? Reagan understood the political realities. President Bush does too, imo.
Only in a town where backbone is absent, fear is rampant, and betrayal of one's own principles is routine could this be considered a dilemma.
Truer words were never spoken. I only hope it holds off a little longer, so I can benefit from its prime years, before it goes bellyup (unlike SS, which I've been paying into but will never get anything out of).
Bush is heading in this direction <------ with a Republican controlled Congress.
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