The Slippery Slope

Some might wonder how conservatives can claim to want health care reform but be against Obama's proposals. The answer is simple, and reveals the fundamental difference between conservatives and liberals. While liberals need to accomplish everything through a consolidation of power to the few in the federal government, conservatives strive to restore power to the many in private enterprise. How do we do that? By eliminating the crushing impediments of taxation and bureaucracy which slow down the health care system and drive up costs exponentially. Think of it like this: taxes and fees are not merely added to regulatory oversight costs, they are multiplied several times over. I said it in my first post on this subject: Government is the cause of the problem and cannot also be the solution.

We've heard the "Public option" ad nauseum, but the moniker is a lie. What Democrats propose is a government option, and has nothing to do with the interests of the public as a whole.

This morning again on NPR the guest said this is all about the 50 million uninsured, and it's just common decency to give them the same coverage everyone else has. I hate that obnoxious entitlement mentality. There are dozens of other factors that must be considered besides "common decency", which is not a factor that benefits society at all. The same guy held up Social Security and Medicare as great triumphs of progress, ignoring the reality that those two programs are doing more damage to the long-term financial solvency of this country than any thing else, and if you add yet another massive entitlement program on top of that you really do hasten the end of this once great democracy. This is not a joke. The United States really could collapse under these financial burdens.

Finally, realize that Social Security was a political gimmick concocted to raise money for the government. When it was enacted the average person did not live long enough to collect - that was by design. The "fund" has actually never been funded, and now we're $50 Trillion in the hole. Try asking the government for a lump sum payout of all the money you've paid in when you retire. Good luck. Somehow Democrats have managed to make it sound like the money to pay for all these things is just sitting around waiting to be applied for some purpose, not that it comes from taxpayers who have no say right now in whether they want to donate even more of their paycheck for someone they've never met to go the clinic to stop a nose bleed.

Liberals have said for decades that there is no slippery slope. Is there anyone who still believes that? I guess so, but here's hoping that number is getting smaller, even while public education is conditioning our kids to believe otherwise.