He’s counting on you turning off your brain
The Chicago Marxist reiterates his resolve to slap oil companies with a “windfall profits tax.”
Here’s the thing about Freedom-Hating totalitarians like Obama (you read me right; note the relish implicit in his phrase “I’ll make them pay . . . “): their proposals come across as stupid, of course, but they themselves are not stupid. They just count on voters being stupid enough to swallow this stuff about “using the tax money to help working families reduce their costs.” They know oil companies will pass the costs along to consumers as yet higher prices, which leaves consumers as strapped as they are now. And there won’t be one more drop of oil than there is now. But the Marxists will have power, and that’s all that matters to them.
He must be stopped.
June 10th, 2008 at 1:34 am
As bad as “they” are, where are you getting this Marxist stuff? While watching a recent PBS American Experience on Harry Truman I was reminded that a key plank in Theodore Roosevelt’s losing Presidential campaign of 1912 was national health insurance. President Harry Truman tried again after World War II, but he was thwarted by a potent combination of political forces, including the vehement opposition of the American Medical Assn., which was determined to defend doctors’ incomes against the threat of “socialized” medicine. So why don’t you use the word socialist? We don’t need another witch hunt.
June 10th, 2008 at 1:42 am
Perhaps it should be called the Social Democratic Party now. I had to agree with Rush today when he was talking about the old days when a candidate like Obama, whose preacher was taped screaming “God Damn America!” would be out de doe in a hurry. Imagine if Cardinal Spellman had said same while Jack was running. O just seems to shrug it off. Not a member no more. Tony Rezko? Nah, he was never part of that scene. Can’t say he must be stopped, but I pray the American people see through his veneer. Ever heard him hem/haw without his teleprompter?
June 10th, 2008 at 2:17 am
Very good point about Cardinal Spelman and Jack (the tax-cutter).
June 10th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Non-sequitors don’t serve your case. This post is about windfall profits tax on oil companies. But while we’re looking at what you bring up, your citings show that neither time (1912 nor the Truman era) did the national-insurance idea go anywhere. And that’s because it was socialistic.
The term Marxism is utterly appropriate, given that the FHer strategy, in the post-McGovern era, has been to set one demographic group against another, foment class envy, demonize profits and the free market, and set up government as the solution to manufactured crises. It’s all about who controls the means of production and the notion of some powerful class that keeps everybody else down.
We don’t need witch hunts. Witch hunts are designed to ferret out Marxist leanings in those who try to conceal them. These thugs are quite up-front about what they’re up to.
June 11th, 2008 at 2:46 am
Let’s see, what’s it gonna take then, for a vibrant economy, low unemployment, affordable free market health insurance, free reign? Kill the fraud peddlers then! We ain’t doin’ so hot here bloggie. After 8 years of Repubbie leadership. Mo freedom?
June 11th, 2008 at 2:49 am
As for the topic of this post, it is headed He’s Counting on Turning Off Your Brain and mentions Obama in the first sentence. I thought my post was pretty germaine, adding another instance of what you think are Marxist machinations. If you run me off, you get to argue with yourself all the time. Or, perhaps if I leave, they will come….?
June 11th, 2008 at 10:29 am
How about a quick look at Health Care in Canada, from Wiki, for starters. Are you gonna call them Marxist? In many ways it’s the model of a free society, freer than ours and definitely without the international baggage. They do get to learn from our mistakes, though, so why don’t we look into their successes.
Health care in Canada is funded and delivered through a publicly funded health care system, with most services provided by private entities.[1] While the Canadian government calls it a “public system,[2][3] it is not “socialized medicine”.
Health care spending in Canada is projected to reach $160 billion, or 10.6% of GDP, in 2007. This is slightly above the average for OECD countries. In Canada, the various levels of government pay for about 70% of Canadians’ health care costs, which is slightly below the OECD average. Under the terms of the Canada Health Act, the publicly-funded insurance plans are required to pay for medically necessary care, but only if it is delivered in hospitals or by physicians. There is considerable variation across the provinces/territories as to the extent to which such costs as outpatient prescription drugs, physical therapy, long-term care, home care, dental care and even ambulance services are covered.
Considerable attention has been focused on two issues: wait times and health human resources. There is also debate about the appropriate ‘public-private mix’ for both financing and delivering services.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
I should say considerable attention has been focused on wait times and human resources. A whole lot of surgery on Canadians happens here in the US of A.
June 12th, 2008 at 3:58 am
Try to schedule a visit to a new doctor tomorrow right here, dude. Your dentist tells you you have a funny looking growth in your mouth. Call around and find out how long it takes you to see the oncologist.