The Propaganda Begins
Jammie Wearing Fool points out the obvious: There is a reason the economy is shedding jobs at an alarming rate.
So let’s summarize the plan:
1. Take over 17% of the economy by nationalizing health care services.
2. Be offensive and act fast.
3. Don’t provide any details, just get some sob stories out there in the media.
4. Raise taxes on “the wealthy” punish businesses, and deficit spend (thus also raising taxes via the back door). See, if you cut your payroll, you stand a good chance of limiting your exposure to Obama’s higher taxes.
And then some folks wonder why 533,000 jobs got cut in November.
Do go read the entire post.
As to JWF’s third point above, cue the New York Times:
Ms. Darling and Wendy Carter are among 275 people who worked at an Archway cookie factory here in north central Ohio. The company provided excellent health benefits. But the plant shut down abruptly this fall, leaving workers without coverage, like millions of people battered by the worst economic crisis since the Depression.
About 10.3 million Americans were unemployed in November, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The number of unemployed has increased by 2.8 million, or 36 percent, since January of this year, and by 4.3 million, or 71 percent, since January 2001.
I’m sorry these folks lost jobs. I’m even more sorry that their plight is being used as a vehicle to socialize medicine in this country. Socialized medicine has never worked anywhere it has been tried, it won’t work here, either. But it will take your freedoms away, chipping away at your rights with the promise of “free” health care. But it won’t be free – it will cost you more than you can imagine.
By Ira, December 6, 2008 @ 6:05 pm
“Socialized medicine has never worked anywhere it has been tried, it won’t work here, either.”
Kind of depends on what you mean by “nevered worked” — equal opportunity to wait weeks or months for treatment does meet some folks’ definition of “works” so long as there’s an “right now” exception for them.
By Dave Johnson, December 6, 2008 @ 11:44 pm
We’re the only country that does NOT have “socialized medicine.” Result: we pay more for health care AND fewer people get health care.