The Repooplicans Love ObamaCare

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Don’t Be Fooled: Republicans Love Government Enforced Healthcare

 

 

by Kurt Nimmo

Prison Planet.com

Saturday, March 27, 2010

 

Forget all the self-serving diatribes by Republicans about Obamacare.

They are for government enforced health care. “Republicans were for

President Barack Obama’s requirement that Americans get health

insurance before they were against it,” the Associated Press reports

this morning.

Republicans trumpeted the health care “obligation” for decades.

 

Republicans trumpeted the “obligation” (at gunpoint) that Americans buy

health care insurance from large monopolistic corporations for decades,

long before Hill and Bill attempted to foist their version on the plebs.

 

Republican statists view health care at gunpoint as a “free-market

route to guarantee coverage for all Americans — the answer to liberal

ambitions for a government-run entitlement like Medicare.”

 

Of course Republicans don’t support Medicare. It does not fit the

narrow confines of their partisan political ideology. Medicare was

included as part of the Social Security Act of 1965, signed into law by

president Lyndon B. Johnson, a Democrat.

 

Republicans are miffed because Obama and the Democrats co-opted their

original concept, minus a mechanism they proposed for controlling

costs. Republicans are not opposed to totalitarian care, they are

simply opposed to the Democrat version.

 

If you believe Republicans are serious about controlling costs, look no

further than Bush’s $3 trillion budget proposal in 2008 (a record at

the time). When Bush took office, the national debt was $5.73 trillion.

When he left, it was $10.7 trillion.

 

Mitt Romney — who was billed as the man who would save us from Obama

and the “socialists” during the selection, er election — forced the

residents of Massachusetts to buy health insurance. Lord Romney said

government mandated health care is “a personal responsibility

principle.”

 

Government invariably demands “personal responsibility” on the part of

the plebs while it engages in corruption, starts wars under false

pretense and kills millions of people, and enslaves future generations

to bankster debt.

 

Romney’s health care at gunpoint was backed by Scott Brown, the

Republican that had Democrats and the usual suspects at MSNBC and CNN

chattering about a fascist rightwing takeover of Congress.

 

Brown replaced the late Democrat Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. It was said

his appointment would almost certainly lead to the collapse of

Obamacare. Brown says his opposition to the new shakedown for large

insurance corporations is over tax increases, Medicare cuts and federal

“over-reach” — because Democrats are doing the reaching — on a matter

that should be left up to states. It was a different story when his

buddy Mitt was forcing gunpoint healthcare down the throats of

Massachusettans.

 

In the case of states’ rights, Brown might want to look at the example

set by the former leader of his party, George W. Bush. The Bush

administration violated the Tenth Amendment by repeatedly meddling in

the states in regard to medical marijuana, the federalization of

education, and state control of the National Guard.

 

“The idea of an individual mandate as an alternative to single-payer

was a Republican idea,” health economist Mark Pauly of the University

of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School told the Associated Press. In 1991,

Pauly published a paper explaining how a “mandate” (government

coercion) could be combined with tax credits to force the commoners

into compliance. Pauly’s paper was embraced by the George H.W. Bush

administration.

 

Republicans like to tell you they are opposed to taxation. Instead,

they use taxes as a carrot and a stick to force government mandates

down your throat.

 

Nixon before Bush backed the idea of a mandate that employers provide

insurance. Even the Heritage Foundation back in the day supported this

government imposed “individual requirement.”

 

Later today in Nevada, the Republican Tea Party will gather and demand

the ouster of Democrat Sen. Harry Reid and the Democrats for passing

Obamacare. The event will be led by the darling of the establishment

Tea Party, former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin. On Friday, Tea Party

Sarah threw her support behind the establishment stalwart John McCain.

 

McCain’s latest authoritarian outrage is the “Enemy Belligerent

Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010″ that, if passed,

would turn the country into a military dictatorship. It was introduced

with the participation of the notorious warmonger Joe Lieberman.

Apparently the legislation is backed by Tea Party Sarah.

 

The Nevada event was organized by the Tea Party Express, an

organization in bed with Our Country Deserves Better PAC, which is

closely affiliated with the Republican-affiliated consulting firm Russo

Marsh & Associates. In other words, the event in Nevada will be

strictly an establishment Republican affair. The objective is not to

get rid of government enforced health care, but to get of rid of Reid

and put in a Republican. It is another example of the false right-left

paradigm in action.

 

In January, the Tea Party Express supported Scott Brown. As noted

above, Brown supported Romney’s version of Obamacare in Massachusetts.

 

Republicans will shamelessly exploit the compromised Tea Party and the

efforts of the states to repeal Obamacare in order to win seats in

Congress during the mid-term elections. If they manage to overturn the

Democrat majority in Congress, they will not work to repeal Obamacare.

They may nibble around the edges of the bill but will leave it largely

intact. Republicans have no problem with the government forcing you to

shell over your money to large insurance companies. Republicans are

enforcers for the global elite and transnational corporations.

 

Both Republicans and Democrats need to be trounced in November.

Obamacare needs to be challenged on Constitutional grounds. The

establishment controlled Supreme Court, however, cannot be counted on

to repeal the bill. It may take civil disobedience on the part of

millions of Americans before this bill ends up in the dust bin of

history where it belongs.