Posted by
rycK on Friday, February 01, 2008 9:41:38 AM
The New York Times Gives Us the Political Solution to Socialized Medicine: Watch Your Taxes Soar.
We never tire of reading about more and more ways to ‘solve’ some of our social problems using emotion, oblique reasoning and propaganda. Today the Walter Duranty Papers’ Krugman, the most celebrated non-economist economist on their staff, offers us the solution to the political path to socialized medicine. Strangely, he seems to omit any mention of cost of this program or any histories of the manifold failures of such programs in other countries such as the USSR, Cuba, England, Canada and such. One would expect that an economist would play with the numbers to support his conclusion, but not here. The art in the propaganda process is to offer only the juicy parts of the stew and hold back the sediment, insect parts and rancid fat for those who come to the table late. This is like the shell game where the pea is stuck between fingers and all three choices are hopeless.
We read this in non-economic terms today:” But Mr. Edwards, far more than is usual in modern politics, ran a campaign based on ideas. And even as his personal quest for the White House faltered, his ideas triumphed: both candidates left standing are, to a large extent, running on the platform Mr. Edwards built.” [emphasis is mine here and in all quotes below]
We are thrilled and enlightened to learn that socialized medicine is a new idea.
The triumph here resides only in the minds of those who cannot cope with our society and find solace in drugs, crime, sloth, criminality and begging. Since the lower half of our citizens on the economic ladder pays only 4% of the federal taxes, the prospect of a freebie that will service some more drug rehab facilities, provide social counseling and free abortions, it is Christmas. Remember Hillary’s Christmas commercial as she shows the tags on her presents. We now spend more on AIDS research than on any other infectious disease and the bathhouses remain wide open for the leftist-inspired anonymous sex antics and drugs. Those who appease the drug-crazed and HIV positive groups, not to mention the clap celebrities and other STD enthusiasts can now get a free crutch to help them along from fix to fix and encounter to encounter. You can even get free drugs to help you along until the next episode. The ‘poor’ can thank the lefties for The Great Society, busing, War on Poverty, HUD, welfare and affirmative action programs for destroying their futures along with, of course, the liberal fondness for drugs and notion that violent crimes are actually the fault of the rich. We can raise taxes and solve all of this.
The manifold failures of such social practices and their social and economic costs are, properly in a good propaganda piece, omitted from this celebration by the Times. California, going broke, wants such a wonderful thing as socialized medicine, even if it breaks the bank. Their Assembly recently voted for an unfunded mandate for socialized medicine for all Californians. Such is filled with splendor and concern, and, now you can get marijuana from a vending machine. This compares well with the ‘glory hole’ theory of recreational sex in San Francisco.
The clever reasoning behind Edwards ‘ideas’ is now revealed in pomp and circumstance:
“Before the Edwards plan was unveiled, advocates of universal health care had difficulty getting traction, in part because they were divided over how to get there. Some advocated a single-payer system — a k a Medicare for all — but this was dismissed as politically infeasible. Some advocated reform based on private insurers, but single-payer advocates, aware of the vast inefficiency of the private insurance system, recoiled at the prospect.”
“But the Edwards plan squared the circle, giving people the choice of staying with private insurers, while also giving everyone the option of buying into government-offered, Medicare-type plans — a form of public-private competition that Mr. Edwards made clear might lead to a single-payer system over time. And he also broke the taboo against calling for tax increases to pay for reform.”
Oooooooops. The T word did creep into this essay. Mixing mysticism, feathers, drums and howls at the moon into this propaganda piece, we must assume that the door is now open for wild tax increases that will, assuredly as we read above: “…lead to a single-payer system over time.”
Well, there you have it! Edwards was like St. George as he has now rebuffed the Evil Anti-Tax Dragon who is protecting the pile of gold accumulated by the capitalists, aka Tax Cut Zombies, and their greedy minions.
This propaganda piece is a typical example of ‘squaring the circle,’ a famous mathematical puzzle that has fascinated many marginal thinkers for centuries and belongs more properly in a Coney Island Freak Show. This notion ranks with Cold Fusion and Global Warming as cheap parlor tricks that dazzle the mentally disnimble and offer entertainment if not hope. There must be some mysterious solution to raiding the tax base and this krugmaniacal essay has revealed it to us with aplomb and lots of bubbles.
“Suddenly, universal health care became a possible dream for the next administration.”
This sentence is written in the future past perfect tense. Such flights from reason are common in the leftist rhetorical bag of tricks. Fairy Tales are made of this. Krugman means, of course, his hope for a future leftist Democrat administration giving us the obvious conclusion that this freebie will push the Far Left into the Oval Office and get their grubby claws on the tax revenues. Everybody wins!!
The Eternal Quest for Taxes never stops at the Walter Duranty Papers. There is no evidence that Krugman has ever supported a tax cut for anybody except those who do not pay taxes. Any funny story, lie or preposterous notion is fine IF it can put a bit of tarnish on the Ronald Reagan Tax Cuts that created such phenomenal grown in the US. We can tax ourselves into prosperity!! TAX TAX TAX.
“If Democrats manage to get the focus on their substantive differences with the Republicans, however, polls on the issues suggest that they’ll have a big advantage. And they’ll have Mr. Edwards to thank.” Isn’t he the guy who drove over some bridge and saw 200 homeless veterans sleeping underneath?
This is given in the conditional future subjunctive tense with legal overtones. An examination of the ‘problem’ by concerned voters will enlighten them, push their enthusiasm for socialized medicine to new heights and foster a cry and howl for higher taxes to the very brink of Nirvana and save our society.
Such is the constant vision of those who supported Communism for that last 90 years.
rycK
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The Edwards Effect By PAUL KRUGMAN Op-Ed Columnist Published: February 1, 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/01/opinion/01krugman.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin