Simple-Minded Pinkos Are In For A Health Scare

Economy, Healthcare, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Socialism

The pinkos at Politico.com are simple souls. “[A]lready, despite the unceasing GOP campaign to sink the law, Obamacare has exceeded expectations in some significant ways,” gush two female reporters, who then proceed to celebrate the fact that the central planner has instructed insurers on how to “effectively” allocate resources. Planned economies have such a stellar history, now don’t they?!

More than 3.1 million young adults gained coverage because they could stay on their parents’ insurance; 17 million children with pre-existing conditions can no longer be denied coverage; and insurers have been forced to issue more than $500 million in rebate checks to consumers because they failed to spend at least 80 percent of premiums on medical care.

READ on, if you can tolerate the imbecility.

Pinkos generally see only one part of a complex picture. Thus, if the central-planner has legislated against service providers and in favor of consumers—why, it’s all good.

Deeply stupid liberals believe that an act of force—a law—is all it takes to make medical manna fall from the heavens.

People with insurance are already paying enormous co-pays and deductibles to cover the costs of the freeloaders … There is no free lunch.

UPDATE II: Common-Core Curriculum: ‘Fascism With A Smile’ (‘Soft Despotism’)

Democrats, Education, Regulation, The State

The centralization of education has allowed public “intellectuals” and “experts” to mold and manacle young minds. Start a conversation with almost anyone on the street. Provided he speaks English, you’ll hear within a whisker the same opinions repeated on capitalism (plain evil or a necessary evil), the environment (near destruction) and racism (rife). This uniformity of opinion is almost scarier than its uninformed nature.

(From “NEEDED: A LEAVE THE CHILDREN BEHIND ACT!”)

At EPJ, the best libertarian site on the WWW, John Whitehead, author of “A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State,” warns about the latest federal ploy to “transform and nationalize school curriculum from kindergarten through 12th grade”:

… there are several methods for controlling a population. You can intimidate the citizenry into obedience through force, relying on military strength and weaponry such as SWAT team raids, militarized police, and a vast array of lethal and nonlethal weapons. You can manipulate them into marching in lockstep with your dictates through the use of propaganda and carefully timed fear tactics about threats to their safety, whether through the phantom menace of terrorist attacks or shooting sprees by solitary gunmen. Or you can indoctrinate them into compliance from an early age through the schools, discouraging them from thinking for themselves while rewarding them for regurgitating whatever the government, through its so-called educational standards, dictates they should be taught.

Those who founded America believed that an educated citizenry knowledgeable about their rights was the surest means of preserving freedom. If so, then the inverse should also hold true: that the surest way for a government to maintain its power and keep the citizenry in line is by rendering them ignorant of their rights and unable to think for themselves.

When viewed in light of the government’s ongoing attempts to amass power at great cost to Americans—in terms of free speech rights, privacy, due process, etc.—the debate over Common Core State Standards, which would transform and nationalize school curriculum from kindergarten through 12th grade, becomes that much more critical.

Essentially, these standards, which were developed through a partnership between big government and corporations, in the absence of any real input from parents or educators with practical, hands-on classroom experience, and are being rolled out in 45 states and the District of Columbia, will create a generation of test-takers capable of little else, molded and shaped by the federal government and its corporate allies into what it considers to be ideal citizens. …

This is an essential read for parents. It also helps explain, for those of us who notice, why most youth are so mindlessly monolithic in thinking. READ IT in its entirety. While you’re at it my latest column is now on EPJ.

UPDATE I: Parent Arrested For Questioning Pedagogues.

John Whitehead:

…46-year-old Robert Small, found himself “pulled out of the meeting, arrested and charged with second-degree assault of a police officer” simply for daring to voice his discontent with the standards during a Q&A session with the superintendent.

Even calling this event a forum is disingenuous, given that attendees were not allowed to stand and ask questions. Instead, attendees were instructed to write their questions on a piece of paper, which the superintendent would then read and members of a panel would answer. In other words, there would be no time or room for debate, just a one-sided discussion. And this is what life in our so-called republic of the United States has been reduced to, a one-sided monologue by government officials who neither care about what “we the people” have to say, nor are they inclined to hear us out, just so long as we pay their taxes and abide by their laws.

“Don’t stand for this. You are sitting here like cattle,” shouted Robert Small to his fellow attendees as he was being dragged out of the “forum” on the Common Core standards. “Is this America?” No, Mr. Small, this is no longer America.

UPDATE II (9/24): SERVANTS OF THE POLITICAL CLASS. Former polster Pat Caddell is able to get to the crux of the arrest and attempted prosecution of a parent for questioning the pedagogues.

“What we saw here is bigger than just this. The people are the slaves to the office-holders: superintendents who won’t take questions, the EPA that goes to Alaska on to conduct a … raid, SWAT converging with guns on a gold-mining operation in a little town; the things that government does now to oppress people; the laws that we have, the NSA, the fear people have of the state spying on them and imposing on them–this is a kind of soft despotism, whereby if you get out of line, we’ll get you. We work for them. Public servants are the masters; we are the servants of the political class.”

Like A Shark, Government Never Stops Moving

Debt, Economy, Government

The State never stops. Like a shark that must keep moving to keep breathing, the governmental predator never really stops.

“Here’s the truth about a government ‘shutdown,'” writes ANDREW TAYLOR of the Associated Press:

Social Security checks will still go out. Troops will remain at their posts. Doctors and hospitals will get their Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements. In fact, virtually every essential government agency, like the FBI, the Border Patrol and the Coast Guard, will remain open. Furloughed federal workers probably would get paid, eventually. Transportation Security Administration officers would continue to man airport checkpoints. … shutdowns … happened every year when Jimmy Carter was president, averaging 11 days each. During President Reagan’s two terms, there were six shutdowns, typically just one or two days apiece. Deals got cut. Everybody moved on.

Sad but true.