Comments on: Updated: Healthcare Conscription (PASSED)

By: Steve Berg

Steve Berg — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:27:10 +0000

With the increasing balkanization of these United States, the only things holding the shards together are physical force and attachments to the federal teat. In my view, this recent “health care” travesty is not an attempt to nationalize medicine, but is rather a desperate attempt to cement the mess together for a while longer. If secession is proposed, there will be objections that the public will lose their socialist security payments, medicare coverage, and the like. With the current U.S. budget deficits pushing the boundaries of the funding capabilities of the global financial system, default is probably on the horizon, but forcing dependence on the feds for medical care, may forestall the dissolution a bit longer, though it also will speed up the financial default at the same time. I remains to be seen if an overstretched military will be capable of supplying the necessary force to maintain cohesion, too.

By: james huggins

james huggins — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:03:12 +0000

Everybody’s up in arms over this travesty. The blatant hypocrisy and corruption of the system are on display. The bad thing is all we have to fight this system is the Republican party. I learned when I voted for George Wallace and then figured out that I nearly helped elect Hubert Humphrey that third parties are no good. No tea party or libertarian or anything else will accomplish anything but keep the democrats in perpetual power. Right now the democrat power structure is probably weeping with joy at the thought of a third party for “patriotic” Americans. All we can do is hope we can get the Republican party to act like the men they’re supposed to be. In times past in this very blog I have mentioned, more than once, that we’re headed for a new “dark age”. I think we are there now.

By: Roy Bleckert

Roy Bleckert — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:39:48 +0000

When the rules don’t fit, change the rules.

By: Van Wijk

Van Wijk — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:49:07 +0000

People don't feel, on any meaningful level, that when something is unconstitutional it is illegal.

By: Bob Harrison

Bob Harrison — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:19:38 +0000

Presumably not everyone can afford medical insurance which is why many chose not to buy it. The solution (if you can call it that) will be “means testing.” In other words, a government bureaucrat will invade your privacy, go over your income and expenditures and make an arbitrary decision as to whether or not you can afford to buy insurance.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:00:21 +0000

I enjoyed reading Ostrowski’s alternative pledge of allegiance. Also great is Napolitano on the “living” (e.g. dead) Constitution and its abuse by the Republicrat/Demoplican Warfare-Welfare power hungry statists.

I also enjoyed Leonard Piekoff on the enslavement of doctors. However, although the Doctor’s AMA “asks for it” when they insist on medical licensing and other monopolistic laws. For example, Fred Reed gets amoxicillin for his wife’s earache in Mexico for$ 6. While here in the USA, the Fairfax Hospital ran up $ 800 for 2 hrs and paperwork to give me a $10 prescription plus additional administrative and insurance costs for Blue Cross insurance company and the Federal Employee’s “FSAFEDS” tax deductible savings… – for what is $ 6 in Mexico:

http://www.fredoneverything.net/Damocles.shtml

Like making sausage, this “Health Care Reform” put all the lobbyists up front getting their share of the imaginary financial pie – Big Pharma, Big Insurance, AMA, AARP, and all the other multiletter whorehouses are getting their cut up front. Any real savings, innovation, or cost cutting in health-care (like evil “Canadian drugs”) will be strictly prohibited.

This will all end tragically when the Federal Government DEFAULTS – here one day, gone the next. After that – who knows?

By: Robert Taylor

Robert Taylor — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:27:43 +0000

For those who think a supposed G.O.P. comeback in 2010 will save this nation from continuing collectivism, that two-headed beast called the two-party system will never yield nor pull in its claws from the neo-cons, the mystics with the abortion litmus test nor the mis-labeled "progressives". Only a third party composed of tea-baggers, libertarians and Objectivists can do that. But, it will take individuals within such a party that can both comprehend and articulate man's natural rights in unambiguous terms to others.

By: David Smith

David Smith — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:02:55 +0000

AHHHHHHH! Strangely, I see the letters N-U-L-L-I-F-C-A-T-I-O-N and S-E-C-E-S-S-I-O-N in my waking mind. I hope and pray state legislatures who have passed sovereignty bills can see the same thing!

By: Mike Bassett

Mike Bassett — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:56:47 +0000

er…do the terms Nazism, Communism, or Socialism ring a bell?? They’re really all the same ya’ know.