printTHE AMERICAN AFFORDABLE HEALTH CHOICES ACT OF 2009, the shamelessly euphemized title of Obama’s unaffordable, choice-limiting, health care takeover, makes no attempt to conceal its radical, energetic, race-based distributive impetus.
The following initiatives come under the PREVENTION AND WELLNESS (IV) and the WORKFORCE INVESTMENTS (V) sections of the Act’s Summary:
—A focus on community-based programs and new data collection efforts to better identify and address racial, ethnic, regional and other health disparities.
—Greater support for workforce diversity.
With state takeover of 20 percent of the economy, more massive, racially-based transfers of wealth and resources are in the offing.
Understandably the ACT is not easy to locate. The White House’s promises of transparency notwithstanding, I hunted high and low for the accursed thing, finally finding a link on the Heritage Foundation’s website to the Act.
As shamelessly does the ponce in power speak of taxing the “rich” so as to be able to pay for his profligacy. Was it those earning more than a million or half a million? Is this equality under the law? As Peter Schiff has pointed out, “While the government has the constitutional power to tax to ‘promote the general welfare,’ it does not have the right to tax one group for the sole and specific benefit of another. If the government wishes to finance national health insurance, the burden of paying for it should fall on every American. If that were the case, perhaps Congress would think twice before passing such a monstrosity.”
Not once will you hear the following question from the pols and their media support system:
Is it constitutional?
All you’ll hear is:
How many Americans want it?
A nation of laws? Who are we kidding. This is a tyranny of the mindless, wayward majority.
Update (July 26): I understand “Moon Man’s” justified passions, but, at times, the Fed issue becomes a blanket charge. Who exactly are those earning half a million to a million depreciated dollars? Small business owners. Those of you who work in the corporate world, outside Wall Street, know that few and far between are the high-ups who garner such wages. The rich, middle-class entrepreneur: that’s who Obama is looking to filch without flinching.
It’s a tyranny, but I think it’s an illusion that they are a majority. The majority are pliant sheeple, molded by the press.
They won’t wake up and discover their backbones until they day they can’t have their six pack and football game.
Until then, they will question little of what they hear on TV, and none of their basic premises. Their premises will remain unquestioned until the horrific consequences of having them put into action hit them personally, and even then, they won’t make the connection unless someone hits them upside the head with the obvious.
Constitutional or not, there’s no social stigma or shame in taking “benefits” stolen from another. Without that lubricant, the behemoth would crumble and grind to a halt.
Our National Anthem should be the theme from “The Jeffersons”:
Well we’re movin on up,
To the east side.
To a deluxe apartment in the sky.
Movin on up,
To the east side.
We finally got a piece of the pie.
To be honest it really isn’t “Majority Rule” it’s the “Majority in both congressional houses and the white house” that make the “mindless, wayward majority ” How many times have the polls came out stating that the citizens were against something in Congress, but Congress and the president enacted it anyway. The polls said we didn’t want the “Stimulus” or the car company bailout, or the insurance bailout. Calls and e-mail or letters to representatives telling them that you don’t want something rarely are listened to, and the sender, instead gets a nice form letter in reply, complementing him or her for their support. True that the majority of citizens want the health care mess corrected but not that we want Obama’s plan, but the majority of congress is not listening.
[True; and the majority stopped traitor Bush’s amnesty.]
Well, if it was not for the fact that many of the rich got that way via the government backed banking cartel, i would have sympathy for them. But frankly, I despise them for their lack of scruples with regard to how they got wealthy. They looted the poor and middle class via the government. Now they will be looted by government and they complain?
How about we all quit looting via the government? Eh?
Bankers first, then maybe we can grow out of this mess in an honest and stable manner.
There is not a specific power under Article 1 Section 8 to support the general welfare – just that revenues and laws should be done for the population as a whole as opposed to proprietors, aristocrats, or a particular group or faction as was done in colonial times.
If the government confined itself to Article 1 Section 8 powers and avoided stationing troops all over the planet, the level of government spending would be so small as to make the debate (on WHOM too tax) moot. Naturally, with a 4 TERABUCK federal government (and the states make it around 40% of GDP), one has to either borrow, print, and tax at astronomical rates. Consequently, the “rich” have to pay the bloated taxes because, as Willie Sutton once said, that’s where the money is.
Ah, the joys of democracy (read: mob rule)! Convince 51% of the rubes that they can get something for nothing, and our elites can ram just about anything down our throats. The health care monstrosity is only the latest example.
Not content with ruining our own country with one democratic outrage after another, we are being forced to fund overseas democracy-building projects too. Why are we borrowing trillions to institute democracy in the Middle East at gunpoint, when it should be obvious to all that this system of government is destroying our own country at breakneck speed?
I’ve had more than enough democracy to last a lifetime. It’s past time to call this experiment the abysmal failure that it is and return to the limited government constitutional republic that we once had. It would mean a vastly smaller government and an end to the American empire, but that’s the price of living in a free society.
“The rich, middle-class entrepreneur: that’s who Obama is looking to filch without flinching.” Ilana
Yes, dear. It is the deserving rich who are the target.
Hey Obama,
Let’s forget progressive income taxes, let’s have progressive WEALTH (property) taxes. Game? Consider it a retroactive, cumulative income tax if you wish. Any wealth accumulated before 1913 to be exempt.
“but, at times, the Fed issue becomes a blanket charge. ” Ilana
Well, the banksters have designed their system to distribute the corruption widely. Fractional reserve banking benefits the banks, of course, (8000+ of those?) plus all borrowers including entrepreneurs at the expense of all dollar holders including the POOR. The system is cleverly designed so that most of us are either victims, victimizers, or both.
For those who take (or should take) the Torah seriously, the Lord takes a dim view of theft and oppression of the poor.
A little bit of religious insight from prophet Isaiah in this weeks Bible (Haftorah) portion for the lamentation right before the Jewish mourning day of Tisha B’ Av (destruction of the Temple, exile from Spain…):
Isaiah Chapter 1 verse 23:
“Your rulers are rebels, companions of thieves;
they all love bribes and chase after gifts.”
Or as the French say, plus ca change, c’est le meme chose (the more things change, the more they remain the same!).
You think YOU’ve got it bad? South African is adopting an almost identical policy and we’re also expecting to support around 40 million “poor” (read black), we are only 5 million economically active individuals. Therefore ours is bigger than yours for once. [Thanks for this important reminded; I make the exact point in my new book.]
But I’d like to redirect your attention to something more worrying: It seems that your government will be able to keep very close tabs on everyone who will be contributing to Obamacare. They will know to the dollar how much you earn, what you spend it on, who you owe how much to, probably even what you had for breakfast.
Whoa: Let’s get back to the subject. First off, it don’t matter how the upper middle class got their money. Maybe they robbed banks instead of managing them, or sold motorcycles, who cares, I’m not their judge. What is important is that one tax bracket is going to be tapped to pay for the so called national interest and that is not fair. I don’t buy the Robin Hood theory of taxation.
“I don’t buy the Robin Hood theory of taxation.” Robert
Neither do I. What I hate even more is stealing and oppressing the poor via a government backed cartel of bankers. The whole nation, with only a few exceptions, has made looting and controlling others by government proxy their passion. The government is quite happy to have such a central role in every aspect of our lives.
Robert & M.B. Moon – There is a reason that the so-called rich have to pay the taxes – namely that government is spending 6 – 7 trillion bucks and there are 300 million Americans so that comes out to $20,000 per American. Which is why the Republicans are completely full of it. Democrats at least, while wrong, have a slight edge in the honesty department.
Anyway, the money for my colonoscopy, the F-22’s, Warren Buffett’s Social Security, ADM’s ethanol subsidies, Mahmoud Abbas’ Swiss Bank Account, slum housing in Chicago, and yogurt confiscating TSA goons, etc. all has to come from someone and the waitresses and grocery baggers don’t have enough to pay for our Leviathan state.
EITHER SLAY THE BEAST (cut government) or fork over the taxes!
[With the unfunded liabilities, each American owes $184,000.]