Late last week, there was this amazing (except, with our President, similar stories happen every day) story about how the DRUG INDUSTRY (the whole industry? So much for "free market" theory!!!) had made a "deal" with President Obama (the government) to "save" 80 billion dollars in drug costs over the next 10 years. Note that this is only 8 billion dollars a year. The hype was that this would help "pay" for comprehensive (Federal takeover) healthcare "reform" (in what fantasy universe?).
What business does the Fedral Government have making a "deal" with an entire industry (supposedly) in the first place? What does "save" mean anyway? You mean drug companies would otherwise have charged "more"? Who says? Them? And IF this is going to be a "real" savings, why apply that "savings" to "pay" for health care? That is a total sham. Medicare is GOING BROKE. Any "savings" we get is NEEDED to help Medicare. What does it have to do with "paying" for healthcare reform? NOTHING. The cost "overruns" for Medicare and Medicaid are vastly more than 8 billion dollars a year. That is all apart from the fact that these FUTURE "savings" never seem to materialize. They are ALWAYS eaten up in extra COSTS elsewhere--or by the same drug companies making up the "savings" by extra charges in areas outside the "deal". This idea of "savings" "paying" for a Federal takeover of health care is a SHAM--a deception.
What does this "deal" (and other "deals" announded by Obama) really mean? Does it mean that we really have entered upon an eral of economic fascism, where big business PARTNERS with Big Government to control every aspect of our lives? Does it mean that the "drug industry" is a CARTEL, where a few exectutives can speak for the entire industry? Does it mean that we allowed too many drug company mergers, scuh that too many drug comapnies are too big? Does it mean that conservatives have failed to appreciate the damage that big corporate, central planning empires (created almost entirely by big MERGERS which should never have been allowed)--with the same defect as Big Government--has created for conservatism and free market theory?
YES. The answer to all of the above questions is "yes".
This whole idea that a central planning, fascist "partnership" between Big Government and Big Businees is the way to CONTROL the economy "rationally" is a DISASTER--and unholy, fascist presciption for DOOM. You should get the same feeling listening to this stuff as you get watching an IBM commercial (openly campaigning for GOVERNMENT money to go to IMB to centrally plan the entire PLANET. Do "IBM'ers care that I consider them creepy--Dan's suggested word in a comment--fascists? Probably not.). That idea is that this is DOWNRIGHT CREEPY. A "parthership" between Big Business and Big Government to contorl everything is the very essence--the definition--of economic fascism (also described as "socialism with a capitalist veneer"). If the idea of "1984" style Big Brother being created by a partnership between Big Business and Big Government does not creep you out, you are beyond help.
Senator Dorgan (Democrat of, I think, North Dakota--one of the Dakotas, anyway) exposed the general SHAM of "paying for" health care reform last week. For example, one of the ways to "apy" for this "reform"--unless you consider that the states that have tried it have found the costs to be not only out of control, but understated--is the "cap and trade" TAX on American industry coming up for a vote in the House on Friday. That TAX would not only cause your electric bill to SKYROCKET (Obama's word, not mine), but Congress is not going to let people revolt over such an increase int heir energy bill. So if the TAX is enacted at all, it will be with the Federal Government REFUNDING the money to people (no net revenue). This is in addition to "cap and trade" DESTROYING the economy, and thereby causing less government revenue that way.
ALL "ideas" for "apying" for health care "reform" are going to be SHAMS. That is because President Obama, and leftist Democrats, do not CARE about "paying" for a government takeover of health care. They just want the takevoer. They WANT economic fascism: that parthnership of Big Bovernment and Big Business dominated by Big Government. That is their overall goal for the entire economy, and they are most of the way there. A Federal takeover of health care will pretty much put us pas the point of no return, if we are not there already. That is what leftist Democrats want, and they will worry about paying for it later.
P.S.: When I talk "econoic fascism", I am NOT talking "Hitler". Hitler's "National Socialism" was just an excuse for Hitler getting absolute power. Now you might consider today's economic fascism as similarly designed to give absolute power to President Obama, and the rest of the leftist Democrats. Central planning inevitably leads to a loss of freedom. But the point here is not some coparison of Hitler and Obama. That is not useful. The comparison is rather to that old theory that Hitler USEDl--that old, discredited theory of economic fascism that we are now putting so disastrously into effect. The delusion is the delusion of CENTRAL PLANNING, and the idea that a "partnership" of Big Business and Big Government can lead to a central planning paradise. Yes, Hitler also "perverted" a perfectly intellectually "respectable" theory of the 1920's into Hitler's own concept of the "master race". That 1920's concept was EUGENICS. See the late Michael Crichton's appendix to his eco-thriller, "State of Fear". "Eugenis" was the central planning idea that we should BREED human beings for desirable trraits, or at least encourage such selection of mates. The "eugenics" movement was actually one of the main factors behind the origin of Planned Parenthood (that evil organization). Nope. I am NOT saying modern Planned Parenthood believes in eugenics, or a "master race", but there are multiple RECORDINGS where Planned Parenthood personnel have "promised" prospective donors that their donations can be "targeted" solely for African-Americans and other minorities (for ABORTIONS for those people, in other words). The idea that Hitler was simply a madman ignores the intellectual antecendents that Hitler and Mussolini USED in their mad quest for power. It is no accident that Mussolini is remembered for the description: "At least he made the trains run on time." That is the idea of economic fascism: That you can "make the trains run on time" by an "efficient" "partnership" between Big Bovernment and Big Business". It is sad to see us heading down this road witht he headlong, irrational speed of a train totally out of control.
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