Welcome To One Party Government!

WE are going to have government mandated, owned and controlled health care shoved down our throats just as we had the so-called stimulus package shoved down our throats. Why? Because the Republicans have joined Obama and his Democrats.

Remember when Obama said in regard to the so-called economic crisis that only the government could repair the damage? Did you notice that the Republicans quietly agreed? Did you notice in fact that it was the Bush administration which jumped on board first to give the automobile industry it first national gift of money?

Well pay attention to the so-called health crisis. Obama says that the problem is so severe that the only the government can straighten the system out. The Democrats say that a national health care system is the only solution. And now, in regard to health care, the Republicans say, "Congress must address these problems in order to provide affordable and accessible health care to all Americans."1

Why? When in the hell did every problem in our country whether real or imagined become the sort of problem that only the government is capable of repairing? If your answer is, "When Obama was elected" you would be incorrect.

If your answer is that George Bush’s White House in 2002 ". . . began an intensive effort to build, launch and manage a diverse portfolio of government-to-citizen, government-to-business and government-to-government websites" which were charged with the responsibility of providing "high-quality solutions" such as "benefit information delivery," among others. Those benefits were determined to include medical information and triage services for citizens, your answer would still be wrong.

During the Second World War, Franklin Roosevelt decided that in order for some aircraft manufacturers to continue receiving contracts to build airplanes for the U.S. Army Air Corps they would also have to pay all of the medical expenses of their employees. Many contractors, among them North American, protected it’s profits by agreeing to FDR’s demand. Did the exaltation of government’s role in life take over at that time? Again, wrong.

It started when the fascists took over our government. Although I can’t pin point the time, clearly Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were two of the national progressives who lead the country down the socialist path.

For a time, most notably during the Reagan years we all thought that we had a choice between big government and small government. But we were really only dreaming dreams of old then. The plot had already been laid. Mr. Reagan only gave us "comic relief" from the strides fascism was making. We now live in a time when the members of both parties in government and out say to us that government and only government can fix all of our problems.

So the Republicans now confess that they too believe the contract between a citizen and his doctor can and must be interfered with by the government. That only through the intervention of Obama’s minions with the assistance of the GOP can health care costs be brought into line with what the government determines those costs ought to be. So, we all will be subjected to government operated socialized medical care whether we like it or not.

Why? How is it that government should have a right not granted to it in the U.S. Constitution to interfere in decisions regarding the medical condition of our own bodies? You might note that the reasoning behind the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade was because a woman has the sole right to make decisions about her own body, even though that decision might pose serious harm to the body of another - her unborn child.

How is there not a conflict here? Well, no matter, unless you think that nationalized health care has something to do with quality of care, improvement of services, patient comfort and well being. It has nothing to do with those things anymore than gun control has to do with safety or law enforcement. Much as the government has declared that only it can solve the banking problems and that its management of the automobile industry will produce better cars, it has only to do with the control of people.

Gun control means control of law-abiding citizens. Control of the automobile manufacturing industry means control of management and the subjugation of investors in order to favor the interests of labor unions. Control of the banking business provides the vast financing required by the government to operate all of its programs without oversight by the people. And control of health care is the ultimate control of who gets health care and who doesn’t. That translates into who lives and who dies. The result is the life and death control of all the people with the entire weight and might of the federal government including its police and military forces to make sure their socialist plan runs as they choose.

This on going national discussion we are having is not about health care. It is not about health care costs. It is not about improving anyone’s lot in life except those sitting in the top ranks of government. For those of you out there who believe that Obama is going to make your car payment for you, buy the gasoline to run it, provide you with a job and a pay check to buy food, I sure hope you don’t get seriously ill. Because whether you know it or not, you will become a very big liability for Mr. Obama’s type of government. And you are likely to learn that big liabilities have a way of being terminated as early as possible under his system.

Anyone with access to a calculator knows that communism cannot succeed for long. And call it what you like, communism, socialism, fascism, progressivism or collectivism is what Obama and the Democrats have now forced upon us. They didn’t do it alone. They were helped with possibly more than one half of the American electorate. More than fifty percent of the votes cast in the 2008 national elections were by people who believed Obama’s lies about hope and the kind of change he was promising. And they didn’t stop there.

I have always said that our government still works and works well. I can’t say that anymore because it is now a broken and failed system. It used to be that if enough people contacted their representatives in government that the government would follow the will of the people and things would be okay. That is no longer true because everyone in government has now joined the same party. They all subscribe to the belief that government is not only the agency that should control our lives but is the only agency capable of running our lives.

You must remember that in the eyes of governmentalists you and I are too ignorant to manage our own affairs. So when I write my guy in government to say I am against the Economic Stimulus Bill, he writes back to thank me for my letter and to say he agrees with me and he will continue to work to get the amount of the stimulus held at a reasonable level. When I say vote against national health care, he explains how government MUST respond to the problem. He might as well have added "whether I like or not."

The Democrats have sixty votes in the Senate to stop any filibuster, to move any question, to win every vote. The Democrats in the House of Representatives are correctly assuming they are representing the will of their constituents since the voters never call in to say Stop It! The bottom line is that the majority of the people in the United States today has decided that communism is okay, that we can all stand in a big circle, each of us with one hand in our neighbor’s pocket and somehow or other we will all get rich.2

And while the big shots in Washington, D.C. are deciding how to carve up the big pie, we call each other names, hurl insults at each other and stupidly suggest that a new revolution has started and won’t-they-be-sorry-when-we-get-through-with-them sort of rhetoric.

When I started to write this a few days ago, my heart and my mind were filled with lofty thoughts of how I might bend the opinions of people and how they might rise up in a telephonic, electronic, FAXic and postal tsunami that would wash the liberalism and the progressivism out of the halls of Congress thereby saving our medical care system for us and for private industry. But I was not considering the capitulation of the GOP. We have no one in national government to represent us. The Socialist-Democrats, the fence-riding, so-called Independents and the Progressive-Republicans form the various caucuses of one giant party of governmentalists which is, as I write this, shoving socialized medicine down our throats.

What do you have to say about it?


1. Congressman Pete Olson, May 18, 2009
2. Thanks to the late Paul Harvey whose words I used here.