Dead, but still Distorted

I picked up the Express free newspaper at L'Enfant Metro station as i do every day transitioning from VRE to Metrorail, and was greeted with the headline "Public Option may be dead". Express is an arm of the Washington Post, so bias is present. Having said that, WP has become less enamored with the 'chosen one,' but that is not my point.

DEATH: It is nice to hear that the public option is close to death, but no one should confuse today's headlines with a permanent demise the public option deserves. I was able to listen to Ronald Reagan's discussion of public health care over the weekend, and this issue has been one the fascist left has been pushing for nearly 100 years! It will continue to be pushed as long as there are statists (fascists, progressives, liberals - pick your poison).

I finally began to read "Ten Books That Screwed Up the World" by Benjamin Wiker this past weekend. It begins with a discussion of Machiavelli's "The Prince." Written in the 16th century, it has laid the groundwork for western cultural demise through its elimination of God an the consequences of His existence through the promotion of evil (not for evil's sake), but when necessary to achieve some good. The author's point in selecting this as the first book is two: 1) "...to embrace the notion that it is not only permissible but also laudable to do evil so that good might come, one must reject God, the soul and the afterlife." This rejection of Christianity removes all constraint on those in authority. But Machiavelli did not propose the elimination of God where appropriate to push ideas, as it is important for the populace to think the prince is 'god fearing' so that they never get close enough to see the actual person the prince is. We know that "Christianity ties our hands by moral rules - backed up by the imaginary stick and carrot of hell and heaven- so that we cannot do the necessary dirty work."

The elimination of Christianity for the market place of ideas has been the goal of statists (fascists, progressives, liberals) so that a greater good can be imposed. In line with Machiavelli's "The end justifies the means," the kenyan wraps his ideas up in religious terms, extolling the virtues of some greater good (universal health care) while hiding the simple truth that imposing universal health care will enslave the entire population of the United States. Enslaved though ever increasing tax burden. Like the plantation owners and company store owners of our past, federal gnomes will tell us what we can and cannot do.

DISTORTION: During my uniformed days, I was talking with some detailers at the Navy's Bureau of Personnel (BUPERS - they tell sailors where they will be stationed) about a problem i was having in getting sailor's to sign up for my area. I sought to have a special incentive ($$) put in place, as there was an increasing need for a special skill set and a decreasing population of skilled sailors. I was told that BUPERS was reluctant to do what i wanted because that distorts the manpower assignment process, causing second and third order problems that we could not see until much later. Similarly, during the early days of general public outrage over government imposed health care, It was interesting to hear that while 'cash for clunkers' was perceived as successful, the market place had distorted to where the population chose to spend money on a new car instead of making other purchases. Medicare and Medicaid have similarly distorted the health care marketplace. Doctors are forced to make up for low public payments by charging paying customers more. Higher costs of health care pushed more people into the publicly funded fold. Increased cost to the taxpayers has resulted increased taxes on those who are earning.

Legal giants who channel dead babies (i.e., the breck girl) have also distorted the health care (and others I'm sure) marketplace forcing to pay ever increasing malpractice insurance costs and perform ever increasing and unnecessary tests/procedures to forestall a lawsuit. Recently Governor Haley Barber of Mississippi had a commentary where they had pushed through tort reform in MS and achieved a tremendous reduction in health care costs.

NOW IS THE TIME TO PUT AN END TO UNCONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT CONTROL OVER OUR LIVES. The messiah wants a discussion, lets continue taking it to our elected representatives. If they will not listen, then the ballot box is our ability to show displeasure. Let's be cautious, we are seeing the real stripes of our elected representatives. Do not let their chameleonic abilities hide an arrogant nature which has revealed itself recently in attempts to impose a utopia through the enslavement of americans. Government should be small and responsive to the people. It is time to reinvigorate the Constitution and its role in governing what each of the branches of government can and cannot do.