Republican Scamsters

Republican Scamsters
Posted by Lew Rockwell on March 22, 2010 12:46 PM
Don’t you love all the Boehner-McConnell-Gingrich threats to repeal Obamacare? It is the conscious duty of the Republican statists to make their voters accept Democratic statism, and vice versa. Mitt Romney’s medical scheme in Massachusetts is as bad as Obamacare, but almost no Republican cares about it. After all, Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II all massively expanded government subsidization and control of medical care. Republicans just want the jobs, the subsidies, and the payoffs. Socialized medicine: it’s as Republican as apple pie.



March 22, 2010
Thanks, Comrade Barack
Posted by Lew Rockwell on March 22, 2010 12:37 PM
This morning on state radio, where they were all celebrating the expansion of state medicine as “historic,” they played one particular Obama comment several times: “We have answered the call of history!” (Hang up, Barack, hang up!) It made me remember Murray Rothbard talking about the Marxist fixation on History as a sort of god. History is inevitably moving towards Communism, and it is the duty of all progressive forces to help. To oppose History is the worst thing you can do. This is why the Progressives of the early 20th century and now use that term. Progress towards the total state, however achieved, is in sync with History.

NPR also said that one difference between the failed Clinton plan and now was that Ramn Emmanuel brought “industry groups into the tent, and kept them there.” True, of course. Chicago machine pol Rahm made sure that the pharmaceutical industry and others got the big bucks from the taxpayers, on top of the big bucks they already get. But why no details? How come NPR and the rest of the MSM aren’t telling us about who gets what? Because that would reveal Obamacare as a fascist big-government, big-industry combine against the taxpayers and the middle-class. Fascism is a variant of Marxism, of course.