Healthcare bill is the nail in the coffin of the USPosted By Dave Wagner |
Charles R Genovese, Jr MD said:
I'm afraid you guys don't see the big picture....And Rod- you don't have a clue. There is some debate over the origional source for this quote, but here it is....
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanant form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benifits from the public treasury with the result that the democracy collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years."
Medicare and Medicaid- bankrupt. When it was enacted the life expectancy was 67- now it is 85. Unions (the largest is government workers) have benifits for their members where they pay a small amount for their pensions and insurance and when they retire are owed a large fraction of their salary and health benifits for life. Because of healthcare improvements- they now are living to the mid 80's. Figure something like paying in $100,000 but getting back $500,000. This is what bankrupted GM. California New York, and several other states will soon follow. The feds may borrow (and print) more money to keep them solvent,which will impliment the inevitable bankruptcy of the US a little sooner. Shortly Moody's is going to downgrade the US bond rating to below AAA, and intrest on the debt will rise much faster. Our debt, by the way is not the commonly cited 12 TRILLION! No, that doesn't even include the Medicare debt, currently 30-40 Trillion, plus other stuff ( like pensions and healthcare for government workers). I don't know the real number but have seen it as high as 100 TRILLION. Interestingly ALL of Western civilization is in the same boat for the same reason. So print more money- hyperinflation-check out history of Argentina.
Have you heard from the Treasurer for the state of Massachusetts. He stated their state would be bankrupt except the federal government has been pouring money in to keep the program running- which is...surprise--hugely over budget. When that money stops the cuts will be incredible. This is exactly the program whe are now starting on a national level. Yesterday he predicted the federal government will be bankrupt in fours years after this program is implimented. Oh- and this bill will increase employment... there will be 16,000 new IRS agents to implement the collections! By the way- note that the student loan program is also in this bill. Why is that? Well we doctors typically have a huge education debt after college and med school. If the government runs the program the debt can be paid by working "cheap" FOR the government. Of course MOST professionals will be "owned" by the government. Have you ever read the paper by Ezekiel Emmanuel, Rahm Emmanuel's brother? "Principles for allocation of scarce medical resources" in Lancet? Has a great graph for how to calculate if you are worthy of society to allocate medical care to you. Find the graph. Babies have no investment by society, so have a low priority. Likewise your worth decreases dramatically after age 55. It's also called "Quality adjusted life years". He is special advisor to the director of the office of management and budget.
This president has surrounded himself with communists/ Marksists/ and progressives by their OWN admission in numerous speaches. Barak himself mentioned redistribution of wealth numerous times. The only difference between progressives and Marksists is Progressives believe in socialism by process rather than violent revolution. Could it be that bankrupting the country is part of this plan. Also, when the government runs 1/5 of the economy with healthcare, what would take care of everything else? Why controlling everything that uses energy! Nancy said the other day that healthcare was just the beginning! When the economy collapses, is that when the president declairs an emergency requiring government takeover of everything? Have you noticed Obama has his own logo rather than the presidential seal? It's a sun rising over waving stripes. Would you say I'm pessimistic?
The reference, I believe you are looking for, and much more, can be found in: Oswald Spengler's "The Decline of the West" (written in 1918)... read it....
That, and Atlas Shrugged, are the two most prescient, and applicable books, to today's situation.
It will START in the cities (the revolution)... but it WILL spread... plan accordingly
