Socialized Medicine: the Gateway to Socialism

...let’s also look from the other side, at the freedom the doctor loses. A doctor would be reluctant to say this. Well, like you, I am only a patient, so I can say it in his behalf. The doctor begins to lose freedoms; it’s like telling a lie, and one leads to another. First you decide that the doctor can have so many patients. They are equally divided among the various doctors by the government. But then the doctors aren’t equally divided geographically, so a doctor decides he wants to practice in one town and the government has to say to him you can’t live in that town, they already have enough doctors. You have to go someplace else. And from here it is only a short step to dictating where he will go.

This is a freedom that I wonder whether any of us have the right to take from any human being. All of us can see what happens once you establish the precedent that the government can determine a man’s working place and his working methods, determine his employment. From here it is a short step to all the rest of socialism, to determining his pay and pretty soon your children won’t decide when they’re in school where they will go or what they will do for a living. They will wait for the government to tell them where they will go to work and what they will do

What can we do about this? Well, you and I can do a great deal. We can write to our congressmen and our senators. We can say right now that we want no further encroachment on these individual liberties and freedoms. And at the moment, the key issue is, we do not want socialized medicine.

If you don’t, this program I promise you will pass just as surely as the sun will come up tomorrow and behind it will come other federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have known it in this country. Until, one day, as Normal Thomas said we will awake to find that we have socialism. And if you don’t do this and if I don’t do it, one of these days we are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children, what it once was like in America when men were free.

Ronald the Prophet.

Welcome to Obamunism

Since Chairman Barack took office...

• Nationalized the worlds largest insurance company
• Nationalized the countries 2 largest mortgage providers 
• Took a controlling stake in the banking industry
• Forced CEO's of the Banking and Auto industry to resign
• Took a 70%+ ownership in GM
• Forced Chrysler into bankruptcy and forced a sale to Italian Fiat
• Proposed and passed the largest budget in the nations history 

...and what do we have to show for it?

The latest increase raises federal obligations to a record $546,668 per household in 2008, according to the USA TODAY analysis. That's quadruple what the average U.S. household owes for all mortgages, car loans, credit cards and other debt combined.

"We have a huge implicit mortgage on every household in America — except, unlike a real mortgage, it's not backed up by a house," says David Walker, former U.S. comptroller general, the government's top auditor.

So whats next? My predictions:

• Tax payer funded health care for all - its already been drafted and making it way through Congress. Its going to make private health care impossible to afford and push the entire nation into socialized health care. 
• Student loan debt forgiveness - all the 'crushing' debt that thousands of liberal arts majors took on to pay for their private university educations and advanced degrees that left them with low paying jobs is going to get a bailout from Joe Taxpayer
• 401k 'reform' - first the maximum contribution will be capped and then reduced. Then existing 401k's will be taxed and absorbed into a federally manage pension plan (that 'reform' has already been drafted in congress btw)
• Cap and trade - instant tax on everyones energy needs. Money is dumped into renewable pipe dreams. That bill is also making its way through congress
• VAT tax - yep, just like the EU. National Sales Tax, but instead of being used to offset or reform the income tax it will be used in conjunction with the exiting income tax. Mark my words, Obama will call this tax code 'reform'.
• Fairness Doctrine - except it won't be called the fairness doctrine. The first target will be AM Radio, followed by cable and then the internet
• Income Tax increases for families making more than $200k - Another major campaign promise will be broken
• Repeal of the 2nd Amendment - except it won't repealed, loops holes will be opened up which will nullify the 2nd Amendment. That will be the most dangerous and scary thing yet. Talk about slippery slope. Sotomayor has already legislated this.  

Welcome to Obamunism. 

Great way to fix the economy...

Here is a bright a idea...

Let's force companies to pay workers for a week of not working!! Is this France??

Paid vacation for all!

How on earth will paying people not to work allow ANY company to be more efficient or productive. This is the opposite of productivity! This is the opposite of efficiency. Worst economic crisis since the Great Depression... Ask not what you can do for your country, but ask how much free sh!t can the federal government give you for doing less. 

“Honestly, as much as I appreciate this job and as much as I enjoy it, the best days of my life are and always have been the days I’m on vacation.”

Well duh! Why on earth should your job be forced to pay you to be on vacation?

Good thing Sunshine Dodge is going to have plenty of time for vacation, they are going to be so happy! Thanks Washington!

The on going saga of Venezuela Socalism

 

Venezuela behind on payments to contractors...

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 Venezuela's state oil company is behind on billions in payments to private oil contractors from Oklahoma toBelarus, some of which have now stopped work, even as President Hugo Chavez funnels more oil revenue to social programs.

Petroleos de Venezuela SA, or PDVSA, says unpaid invoices jumped 39 percent in the first nine months of last year — reaching $7.86 billion in September. And that was when world oil was selling for $100 a barrel.

With prices plummeting by more than half, PDVSA is trying to renegotiate some contracts. But analysts say hardball tactics to reduce charges from crucial service providers could backfire by lowering Venezuela's oil output. And foreign debt markets are reflecting jitters about Venezuela's finances.

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Anyone think the US could learn from this? 

Can we stop nationalizing sh!t please?

Let private industry fail and let it be rebuilt. Bailing it out doesn't help.

Comrade Obama

FOXNEWS HOST LAUNCHES 'COMRADE UPDATE' FOR 'COMMUNIST LEADER' OBAMA...

Gotta love Glenn. 

If you have never listened to his radio show you are missing some pretty funny shit. Glenn is the perfect balance of conservatism and libertarianism and common sense... and he is super sarcastic.

Frenchmen and Al Qaeda Agree: Welcome to The End of American Dominance

Sarkozy has made clear that he is determined to keep the initiative on what the French regard as a long-overdue discussion of American-style capitalism and its excesses.

After the meeting concluded on Saturday, he was not shy about proclaiming that the era of American hegemony in world finance was over. "America is the No. 1 power in the world," he declared. "Is it the only power? No, it isn't. We are in a new world."

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Sarkozy was the first to propose the summit meeting to Bush. American officials said that it was Bush's idea to expand the guest list to the G-20, which includes China, Brazil, India and other emerging countries, rather than limit it to the usual gathering of seven industrialized countries, plus, at times, Russia.

The two leaders also had differing interpretations of what happened at the meeting. Sarkozy portrayed it as a landmark gathering, saying, "Europe for the first time expressed its clear determination."

"Never ever," he added, had the Americans been willing to negotiate on the kinds of radical regulatory changes that were on the table in Washington.

By contrast, Bush noted that the leaders had reaffirmed the importance of free markets, free trade and the primacy of national regulation.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/19/business/global.php

We have seen in our own lifetimes how well massive debt and failed economics worked for the Soviet Union.

With every federal bailout and the increasing nationalization of our economy, we are reaffirming the beliefs of anti-American, anti-free market socialists.

As our leaders continue taking us down this road, the emerging countries will continue to purchase our debt and industries. Our political power will wither with our economic power.

I will leave you with a summary of my thesis: Hippies smell. French people smell. And all the chicks got hairy armpits.