Thread: A spoonful of sugar can kill you

Hussein & Company represent the final phase of a philosophy that began with American Socialists in the late 19th century. Henry Lamb looks at where it is going:

Never, in the history of the nation, has a president or Congress even considered giving the government the power to force private citizens to purchase a specified product. President Obama, and his Democratic majority in both houses of Congress, transformed the function of the national government. If government is endowed with the power to force private citizens to purchase a specified health insurance product, this same power can to force private citizens to purchase a Chevrolet, solar-generated electricity, or any other product the government thinks the people should use.

rather than where it has been.

One only has to go back to 2009 and examine the horror stories Democrats were telling to make socialized medicine palatable. Forcing Americans to buy healthcare insurance was sold as a nation’s compassion for the poor and needy. Heaven forbid that anyone called it coerced charity which is what is.

Socialized medicine was never supposed to be the end of Socialism’s century-long power grab:

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said that the individual health insurance mandates included in every health reform bill, which require Americans to have insurance, were “like paying taxes.” He added that Congress has “broad authority” to force Americans to purchase other things as well, so long as it was trying to promote “the general welfare.”

http://cnsnews.com/node/55851

The government began forcing the public to purchase things a long time ago. Force was generally applied under the guise of public health; environmental crapola, vaccinations, and so on. Socialized medicine went beyond pubic health and into public charity.

The XVI Amendment, not the General Welfare Clause, was the first step on the road that ended with the government ordering Americans to buy products. In short: Socialists and assorted parasites use the XVI Amendment to fund the General Welfare Clause. Take away funding and the General Welfare Clause will revert to its original place in a limited government as the Founders intended. I find it hard to believe that the Founding Fathers meant a welfare state when they included the General Welfare Clause in the Constitution.

Once the XVI Amendment was implemented, if not ratified, Socialists began transforming the meaning of the General Welfare Clause; hence, general welfare evolved into coerced charity.

Coerced charity is the most poisonous of medicines prescribed by Socialists/Communists. Tax dollar charity is the medicine Democrats insist will cure society’s ills regardless of all of the evidence to the contrary. Were it possible to put coerced charity into capsule form the manufacturer would be taken out and hanged straightaway.

NOTE: FREE healthcare for the poor and needy is the spoonful of compassionate sugar that is supposed to help the public swallow the poisonous medicine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=djQdI1t9_Ag

One could also say that the election in November must act as a stomach pump. Unfortunately, there is no hard evidence showing that those in office, or those seeking office for the first time, are committed to pumping the poison out the country’s political system. Example: How many people seeking election have stated that repealing the ENTIRE Affordable Care Act is their first and only priority. And that’s without knowing how many can be trusted to keep their word?

I believe that most of the wannabes in this year's elections are counting on Hillarycare II being partially overturned by the Supreme Court. That is certainly true of Democrats. The fact is: Overturning parts of the Affordable Care Act lets them all off the hook. So once they are nominated there is no guarantee they will repeal the rest of Hillarycare II.

Finally, the time is coming when a deep, overpowering, hatred of Democrat do-gooders will override every issue in the minds of a majority of Americans. Fighting their issues one by one is a never-ending battle. Beat back one assault on limited government, and ten more pop-up the next day. Attacking the priests for what they are appears to be the only way they can be stopped. Argue the nuts and bolts of an issue until the cows come home and you’ll get nowhere. Attack Socialist priests for their sick ideology and you will be hard put locating five percent of Americans who agree with Steny Hoyer.

Henry Lamb’s great piece is in part two.

PART TWO:

The defining moment in the future of the USA
Henry Lamb Sunday, January 1, 2012

January 1, 2012 is the first day of the last year of the first term of the most “transformative” President in the history of the United States. Before he became president, Barack Hussein Obama told America that “…we are five days away from fundamentally transforming America.” During the first three years of his presidency, he has pushed his philosophy of governance further and further away from the philosophy of governance developed by the Framers and enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. The defining moment in the future of the United States will come on November 6, 2012, when each citizen casts – or fails to cast – a vote for the next president, and for the legislators who will guide the nation.

Before his first election, Obama promised “hope and change.” We have seen whatever “hope” his supporters voted for turn into fundamental changes in the size, cost, scope and function of the national government. Never, in the history of the nation, has a president or Congress even considered giving the government the power to force private citizens to purchase a specified product. President Obama, and his Democratic majority in both houses of Congress, transformed the function of the national government. If government is endowed with the power to force private citizens to purchase a specified health insurance product, this same power can to force private citizens to purchase a Chevrolet, solar-generated electricity, or any other product the government thinks the people should use.

This fundamental transformation of the function of government abolished the possibility, and even the dream, of America, “the land of the free and the home of the brave.”

On December 6th, 2011, President Obama traveled to Kansas to deliver a speech that fully outlines the direction and the extent of the transformation he fully intends to pursue. His masterful presentation carefully distorts the truth in order to deceive his audience into believing that his goal is the same as the goal declared by Teddy Roosevelt who said: “Our country means nothing unless it means the triumph of a real democracy…of an economic system under which each man shall be guaranteed the opportunity to show the best that there is in him.”

Obama said: “…the free market is the greatest force for economic progress in human history. It’s led to a prosperity and a standard of living unmatched by the rest of the world.”

In a free market competition sets prices, pushes innovation, and encourages quality because people are free to purchase whatever product and service they wish from whomever they wish. If some businesses prices are too high, their products out of date or inferior, people are free to refuse to purchase products, and a free market will force these businesses to improve – or close.

The free market is “…an economic system under which each man shall be guaranteed the opportunity to show the best that there is in him.”

A free market guarantees every man an equal opportunity, not an equal outcome.

President Obama told his audience: “I’m here in Kansas to reaffirm my deep conviction that we’re greater together than we are on our own. I believe that this country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot, when everyone does their fair share, when everyone plays by the same rules.” This is not the description of a free market; the economic system President Obama describes is a “government-managed” market.

The economic system President Obama envisions requires someone – the government or its administrator – to define what a “fair shot” is for everyone; to define what constitutes their “fair share;” and to set the “same rules” under which everyone must play.

American prosperity has grown in the face of a constant struggle between too much, and too little regulation. This struggle must forever be the work of a freely elected legislature; never left to the executive or the bureaucrats appointed by the executive branch.

President Obama says that his opponents – Republicans – suffer from a “collective amnesia, and…want to return to the same practices that got us into this mess.” He never misses a chance to say that lower taxes and less regulation are the policies that got the nation into the economic mess he inherited.

Not so – and he knows it. He just doesn’t want Americans to remember that the fundamental cause for the current economic mess must be laid at the feet of his Democratic predecessors who essentially forced banks to give (sub-prime) mortgages to people who could not afford to repay them. What’s worse, they forced Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac to guarantee these loans so the banks could repackages the bad mortgages as federally guaranteed securities which were easy to insure and easier to sell.

Sooner or later, these bad loans had to fail. The bubble burst during the last months of Bush administration which became an easy target for blame by the Democrats and its rising new star, Barack Hussein Obama.

Freedom cannot exist in Obama’s vision of a managed market and a managed society. Every citizen must decide whether this nation will yield to Obama’s vision, or return to the Framer’s vision of a government that exists for the purpose of protecting every citizen’s right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness – as defined by every individual – not by the national government.

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/43604