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The ultimate argument on ObamaCare: "They need it."

The unanswerable argument nowadays seems to be, "They need it." Whatever designs our rulers have on us, whatever monstrous travesty of a program they want to pass, the argument is always, "Look at these poor needy people." To wit:

Pass health care. For everyone. Let all who are sick and dying get the same care that [Kennedy] got in his last year. And if you are not satisfied with what you are hearing or seeing on the news.....then be Americans and say what you need to say to your elected officials, who say what they need to say on your behalf.  -- Jamie Lee Curtis

In other words, the only way poor people can get medical care, is if the federal government annexes, nationalizes, assumes total control over, the medical field.

I seem to remember when the cry "they need it" was raised about housing. Our rulers managed to pass Section VIII laws without taking over the entire building-trades industry. So why is annexing the medical field the only answer to providing medical care for poor people?

Answer: it isn't. The poor are just a cat's paw, a McGuffin, a pretext in whose name would-be dictators and governmental "czars" want to take over the medical field. Now is not the time for appeasement -- let a dictator invade one industry without resistance, and he'll go for the whole world.

All the snooty, smart-aleck, elitist do-gooder lefties in the country are bound and determined to screw up the whole doctor-patient relationship. (Hillary was the original would-be czarina of the medical field.) They want to assume total control over us, our doctors, our medical care, the insurance companies, and everything else, and turn us into serfs and chattels, receiving whatever care they care to dish out, like so many pathetic Oliver Twists.

Well as for me, "Please, sir, may I have no more of this sinister plot?"

 
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Obama's Minions try to "Cool the Mark"

The suddenly dainty downstream media are shocked to their silk drawers by the incivility of protesters against ObamaCare.  But who can blame the protesters?

Can we really afford another huge entitlement program, with basically everybody in the country eligible? A program which would have the basic effect of snatching all medical power, choice, and responsibility out of our hands and those of our doctors, leaving us with no role in our own physical well-being except to pay taxes? Which is designed, as a side effect, to crowd out all private insurance companies, thereby settling a score with those "capitalist exploiters"? And which will also reduce doctors to serfdom status, so they can no longer exploit the working class for their "ill-gained profits"?

That is the con job Obama is trying to put over. He has his minions busy "telling the tale" right now -- that is, giving out with a lying spiel to suck us, the marks, into the con. At the same time, he knows that sooner or later we're all going to tumble to the fact that we've been conned. So his acolytes are simultaneously trying to "cool the mark," that is, calm down the ruffled feelings of the defrauded victims, us.

To cool the mark, his cronies are holding meetings, where they endless repeat the chosen talking points. They mouth bland assurances, conjure up rosy scenarios, call forth visions of sugar-plums, and emit soothing, bald-faced lies. Butter wouldn't melt in the mouth of any of these latter-day Obama-moonies.

Is it any wonder that normal people get mad, when our "public servants" so shamelessly and cynically seek to impose their will on the people and grab yet more power for themselves? 


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Why we can't have Canada-style government medicine

News Item:
Canadians  visit  U.S.  to  get  health  care
Deal lets many go to Michigan hospitals
by Patricia Anstett, Detroit Free Press

Hospitals in border cities, including Detroit, are forging lucrative arrangements with Canadian health agencies to provide care not widely available across the border.
 
Agreements between Detroit hospitals and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care for heart, imaging tests, bariatric and other services provide access to some services not immediately available in the province, said ministry spokesman David Jensen.

So a "single-payer," government monopoly of medical care, requires some ancillary outside agent to actually do the medical work. Canada has the U.S. to do the things their medical bureaucracy can't or won't do. But we have no one! Who are we going to out-source our medical work to? Mexico?



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What they really want with ObamaCare

The Democrats claim to be worried about the unfortunates who have no medical insurance. They could extend Medicare coverage to people  who presumably can't get care, without wrecking the whole medical industry. But then the fat-cats who get superior care would be left alone, just as they were before. Democrats can't stand that -- they want to take the rich down a peg. They want to force everybody into the same slough of despond, so there's "equality of care." That's the kind of "People's Republic," medical nationalization they want.

And they really need a "public option," too. That is, they need a government "insurance" organization that can gradually overwhelm and absorb independent insurance companies. That's because the insurance industry is another target of the soft-core Marxists in Obama's government. Like Big Pharma, doctors who make "profits," and every other manifestation of private enterprise in the medical field, they want to stamp it out.

In short, they want a governmental monopoly of every aspect of medical care, because they have an idiotic animosity against private businesses and profits, just like the retarded dinosaur Marxists they are.



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Obama and his pals are really mad at the people


Bertholt Brecht witnessed the 1954 workers' revolt in East Germany.He wrote this poem, Die Lösung (The Solution):


After the uprising of the 17th of June
The Secretary of the Writers Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalin Allee
Stating that the people
Had thrown away the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?


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Michael Jackson's Mother Takes Possession Of Kids

The New York Post says,

MICHAEL JACKSON'S MOTHER GETS CUSTODY OF HIS CHILDREN


What that means is, "Michael Jackson's mother takes possession of several white kids who are not related to them by blood."  I thought buying and selling human beings was illegal?


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Why Obama and all the libs are "single-payer" freaks.

Obama has told every lie he can think of, to put over government nationalization of medical care. Now he's saying private insurance and private care won't disappear -- a lie. From NewsBuster:

In 2003, Obama stated at an AFL-CIO Civil, Human and Women's Rights Conference:

I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal healthcare plan...That's what I'd like to see.

Later in the video, viewers are treated to Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) saying on July 27 of this year:

I think that if we get a good public option, it could lead to single payer, and that's the best way to reach single payer.



Why are they so fixated on this? For the control freaks on the left, "single-payer" means central control; there's only one root source which government has to police, in order to police everybody's medical care. As John Milton said:

"Grant him this, and the Parliament hath no more freedom than if it sat in his noose, which when he pleases to draw together with one twitch of his negative, shall throttle a whole nation, [as per] the wish of Caligula, in one neck."
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