Man, I do not like the public option. For all their faults, conservatives tell you what they want and then they try and get it. Liberals know that their ultimate goals, though, would be abhorrent to anyone who loves liberty so they try to hide what they want. They want a government takeover of health care and the removal of individual liberty on that issue, but that’s a hard sell. So they get the public option, which they sell as greater liberty (“more choice!”), but the idea is it will eventually push out everything else and lead to a government takeover. That’s its only purpose, and a line in the sand has to be drawn by every Republican.
Or maybe Joe Lieberman.
The government always pretty much just grows and never shrinks. It’s always too politically hard to get rid of welfare and handouts after people have grown used to them, so you have to kill them in their infancy… like drowning puppies.
It’s kinda disheartening knowing this is a battle we will eventually lose. Not today, not tomorrow, and maybe not for hundreds of years if we’re smart, but eventually the government will get so large and liberty so narrow that the country will collapse. It will be a miserable time with the only thing to look forward to being the fact that we can now punch all the hippies we want with no one to stop us. It’s like that Thomas Jefferson quote that about the revolution, blood, and the tree of liberty that crazy people are always bringing up. Take it as a warning, though, as a revolution is just likely to make something even screwier. It was kinda amazing what the Founding Fathers put together with this country, and it’s our duty to make it limp along for as long as we can.
So it’s up to you, Joe Lieberman.
When Doctors are outlawed, only outlaws will have doctors. Lame, byt true.
Who is Frank J? (From the novel Sarah K Shrugged)
I fear you are dead on accurate Frank. Depressingly so.
Government Handouts must be aborted while they’re still in the womb.
Otherwise, The Born Alive Handout Protection Act prevents them from being left for dead in a dark, dank, Cloakroom
mmm…
drowning puppies…
George Washington chopped down the Cherry tree, O-bah-muhh is chopping down the Tree of Liberty.
Your looking at this as a glass half empty. Think how nice it will be when none of us have to work (unless we are in guvment jobs). The State! will give you the proper amount of money that they have determined you need, and since all they have to do is print more we will always have enough!! Your housing will be subsidised. We won’t have a care or responsibility in the world. It will be a carfree utopian existence much like the Eloi under Morloch rule. Win win. Plus all the hippy punching.
We need to start preparing for the colonization of Mars.
Our federal government is just ‘out of order.’ Most federal laws need repealing.
“…it’s our duty to make it limp along for as long as we can.”
If the pain get’s to be too much, O-bah-muhhCare has set up End of Life Counseling for it.
Bread and Circuses. Probalby the only thing Karl Marx and Ben Franklin ever agreed on is that democracy cannot survive once people reallize they can vote themselves money from the public treasury.
Joe Lieberman must be doing something right…if you judge his recent action by the amount of hatred he has garnered over at Slate Magazine. He has almost replaced Dick Cheney as the number one person on their hate list
We were born here. We were raised here. And we’ll die here; without bending a knee.
I’ll be using the public option next Tuesday. If McDonnell is elected Governor I should feel better by Wednesday.
“It’s kinda disheartening knowing this is a battle we will eventually lose.”
Somehow, I can’t imagine the Founding Fathers saying that we’re fighting for Liberty, Freedom and Independence “but we will eventually lose”. And, we shouldn’t either.
“Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government.”
– G.K. Chesterton, Eugenics and other Evils.
On the positive side, I have six cases of home-made beer in the back room, so I’m good.
We are uniquely blessed but frank is right it can’t last. Soon or eventually our liberty collapses under the weight of the dole and the regulation and the tax.
“It’s always too politically hard to get rid of welfare and handouts after people have grown used to them, so you have to kill them in their infancy… like drowning puppies.”
Uh, I hope you meant killing the handouts in infancy, not the people who grow used to them.
Here’s a better quote:
“We cannot be certain of being right about the future; but we can be almost certain of being wrong about the future if we are wrong about the past.
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Owls and bats may wander where they will in darkness, and for them as for the sceptics the universe may have no centre; kites and vultures may linger as they like over carrion, and for them as for the plutocrats existance may have no origin and no end; but it was far back in the land of legends, where instincts find their true images, that the cry went forth that freedom is an eagle, whose glory is gazing at the sun.”
– G.K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America. Last chapter.
Keep the faith!
Much as we might wish it otherwise, the war against entropy cannot be won by mortal man.
Once in a great while we can roll it back a little. Like we did with welfare reform.
What I always have trouble with is arguing the point that the government is not supposed to be compassionate. People can’t seem to make the turn when you explain how the government gets the money it hands out.
I have been trying to explain to my liberal family members and friends what would happen under a government-run health system. They think the methods of tending medical care will not change, except that it will be free. They don’t seem to care about the tax burden it would create. And they refuse to believe that there will be waiting lists for surgeries and no triage for emergencies. How do we convince John & Jane Q. Public that the public option would be very, very bad?
Government handouts are a trap set to enslave the little people. I feel entrapped by the uemployment benefits I receive and the realization that jobs are scarce. Unemployment, like public healthcare, is a trap that will keep people dependent upon the government. I would rather have a job and the current medical system than be caught in the never-ending loop of government assistance.
Kudos to Joe Lieberman. Would that there would be more like him.