Socialized Medicine: Comrade Clinton's Re-Education Camp
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"I have never advocated socialized medicine..."
--Hillary Clinton
And we've always been at war with Eastasia...
Watch this video of Hillary Clinton parrying with a questioner (or read a summary here) and then answer this question:
What does Clinton have in common with Communists?
I can think of three answers:
1. An inordinate fondness of the color red.
2. A belief that government control is always better.
3. A certainty that dissent requires "re-education."
A few points:
1. Hillarycare would have been, and Medicare is, most definitely "socialized medicine." To the extent that Clinton insists otherwise, she lies.
The proof is simple: Can one quit Medicare? How does one opt out of Medicare taxes and Medicare coverage? One doesn't. And if it's compulsory, then it's socialist. Medicare is compulsory, command-and-control government infiltration into a entire sector of the economy. If that's not socialism, then nothing is. Oh, and it's going bankrupt. Real success story, Senator...
2. The notion that things are just hunky-dory in nations such as Canada, the U.K. and Australia, or that they are not in fact socialized medicine, is laughable. The debate is not between rationing and not rationing. It is between rationing by patients, physicians and insurers or by politicians and bureaucrats.
3. Absorb again the arrogance that Clinton displays at the end, with her snide, insulting "educate you" snort. If you disagree with her, even when armed with pesky facts, then obviously your thought processes, your worldview, is simply defective. (Or, alternatively, you've been conned by that infamous "right-wing conspiracy." They can't deceive you about Iraq, they can't deceive you about al Qaeda, they can't deceive you about Alberto Gonzales — but they have been deceiving you about Hillary Clinton "for fifteen years." Go figure.)
Consequently, for your own good, you need to be "educated." Others might call it "indoctrinated," but those who peddle it prefer "educated."
Consider: Who was the last politician to insist that anyone who disagreed with him was "mistaken" — or, worse, "emboldening the enemy"?
The only people who need to be "educated" are those who somehow think that Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton is the solution and not the problem.
(Via Kevin, M.D. More thoughts at Say Anything.)
--Hillary Clinton
And we've always been at war with Eastasia...
Watch this video of Hillary Clinton parrying with a questioner (or read a summary here) and then answer this question:
What does Clinton have in common with Communists?
I can think of three answers:
1. An inordinate fondness of the color red.
2. A belief that government control is always better.
3. A certainty that dissent requires "re-education."
A few points:
1. Hillarycare would have been, and Medicare is, most definitely "socialized medicine." To the extent that Clinton insists otherwise, she lies.
The proof is simple: Can one quit Medicare? How does one opt out of Medicare taxes and Medicare coverage? One doesn't. And if it's compulsory, then it's socialist. Medicare is compulsory, command-and-control government infiltration into a entire sector of the economy. If that's not socialism, then nothing is. Oh, and it's going bankrupt. Real success story, Senator...
2. The notion that things are just hunky-dory in nations such as Canada, the U.K. and Australia, or that they are not in fact socialized medicine, is laughable. The debate is not between rationing and not rationing. It is between rationing by patients, physicians and insurers or by politicians and bureaucrats.
3. Absorb again the arrogance that Clinton displays at the end, with her snide, insulting "educate you" snort. If you disagree with her, even when armed with pesky facts, then obviously your thought processes, your worldview, is simply defective. (Or, alternatively, you've been conned by that infamous "right-wing conspiracy." They can't deceive you about Iraq, they can't deceive you about al Qaeda, they can't deceive you about Alberto Gonzales — but they have been deceiving you about Hillary Clinton "for fifteen years." Go figure.)
Consequently, for your own good, you need to be "educated." Others might call it "indoctrinated," but those who peddle it prefer "educated."
Consider: Who was the last politician to insist that anyone who disagreed with him was "mistaken" — or, worse, "emboldening the enemy"?
The only people who need to be "educated" are those who somehow think that Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton is the solution and not the problem.
(Via Kevin, M.D. More thoughts at Say Anything.)
Posted by Kip on
11 August 2007
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