“The Obama economic fix isn’t working.”
Right. That’s why we’re not in the freefall the Republicans got us into and left us in / we threw their asses out over, which we were in until this plan kicked in. Coincidence? The economy is a somewhat complex machine (like a corporation, it’s not a person). At the very least, it didn’t make things worse. It didn’t create jobs? You want corrupt (Republican) no-show “created jobs,” or somewhat ethical, legal government contracts that are focused, as they usually are, on accomplishing tasks, not creating jobs per se. They clearly SAVED JOBS. Did the President overstate or oversimplify? Yeah, he does that; I wish he wouldn’t. But same difference.
“Healthcare reform is about a government takeover.”
That’s why all anybody in Washington, Democrat or Repug, is talking about is money, money, money, no takeover. *I* want a takeover, just like civilized nations have, like the UK and NOT Canada. But on this I’m to the Left of the centrist Demos who mathematically should be in charge at this time by virtue of (unstolen) election.
How would I do a takeover? Wellll… Since corporations are creatures of the State [Hey, “Statist”! Real conservatives would strike out on their own without the legal figleaf of incorporation, like their pioneer ancestors on the Frontier! Oh, that’s right, they stole that too….] created for some Public Good, I assert there’s no such thing really as “corporate property,” they’re just holding it in stewardship for the Chartering Sovereign, ie, the State in most cases in the U.S. When the Public Good for which they were Chartered has been accomplished, or set on basically autopilot … OR they’ve turned the law on its head for their own enrichment and the project needs to be terminated or taken in hand … the State yanks their Charter, dissolves them or gives them to better stewards, or takes it over itself. I figure between the bloodsucking, opportunistic, profiteering health insurance companies and HMOs … overcharging providers … mercenary, “ask your doctor” Big Pharma … vicious or spineless politicians … and even under-reimbursed good Medicare/Medicaid providers … “politically” active / bribing Corporations all (or most) … (Have I forgotten anybody?) … I think I’m on good grounds here, don’t you? Anyway, it’s cheaper than having to buy back our own Corporations from the people we Chartered only to have them leech from us “for the Public Good.” As a greater Mind than I said once, “They already have their reward.”
Otherwise, I can’t find out how the Brits actually engineered it after WW2 — eminent domain, purchase, dissolution? But what’s wrong with socialized medicine, alongside
- socialized police and fire protection,
- socialized water and sewer,
- socialized trash and garbage collection,
- socialized primary and secondary education,
- socialized electricity,
- socialized roads and highways and bridges,
- socialized national defense!,
- socialized money (Oh, actually that’s privatized: See what a great job they’re doing with it?),
- socialized Corporate Welfare/Wealthfare,
- socialized farm subsidies,
- socialized homesteading (Stolen: see above),
- socialized airports,
- socialized trade promotion,
- socialized ports,
- socialized Corporate industrial waste cleanup,
- socialized diplomacy (sometimes),
- socialized union-busting,
- socialized religion and charity subsidies,
- socialized technology subsidies (to get us caught-up with Europe and Japan!),
- socialized tax loophole subsidies (Oh yes, there’s wealth redistribution … upward, not downward!),
- socialized road signs,
- substantially-socialized higher education (State universities, ROTC, CIA, etc.),
- socialized parks and recreation centers,
- socialized stadiums (and subsidized pro sports teams / Wealthfare),
- socialized imperialism and war,
- socialized Protestant evangelism (of American Indians and Alaska Natives, well into the 1900s) and catechesis (of public school children, also well into the 1900s),
- etc etc etc.
So what’s so offensive about health care?
American Red Tory 