Healthcare-NOW: Our Counter-Demonstration

The socialist group Healthcare-NOW has planned a nationwide protest on May 30, 2009. You should check with your local sources to see if they are coming to your area to pretend to care about the poor.

These communists, whose only real objective is to place even more power - the power of life and death - in the hands of a government who gives our hard-earned tax revenue to Wall Street, bails out the United Auto Workers but lets the non-union automotive industry employees get bent, habitually and ritualistically rape the Constitution they swore to uphold...shall I go on?

Anyway, they are going to be protesting this week, and I would encourage all the readers of my blog to activate and counter-protest. DON'T SAY ANYTHING. This is not about giving the communist media another opportunity to take you out of context and make you a laughing stock a la teaparties. This is about exercising our God-given right to assemble and peacefully protest this bunch of academic eggheads who want to make us into a larger, dumber France. They are in bed with the unions, so don't be surprised to be confronted by professional layabouts, ne'er-do-wells, and loafing protesters-by-trade.

If you are in health care, wear your uniform (white coat, scrubs, whatever) and a pair of handcuffs. Anything you want to say should be put on a placard. I repeat - DO NOT ENGAGE. Our argument will be made even more powerful when these loudmouthed hatred-mongers try and attack you for doing exactly what they are doing. It makes their hypocrisy even more palpable.

A little info on the idiots...they are largely made up of academics and government insiders most of whom (surprise) never had a real job. Check out their website (www.healthcarenow.org), and that of their brothers and sisters in arms, the thoroughly communist-infiltrated Physicians for a National Healthcare Program (www.pnhp.org).

Hopefully, we can make at least a little impact and let people out there know that there are still a few of us who believe in personal Liberty and responsibility.

They are all counting on us, whether they know it or not.

The Market is a Failure? Oh, really?

One of the most consistent Leftist complaints about the current U.S. health care system is that the "free market" has failed to produce acceptable results.

I have two responses to this argument:

1. When, in recent memory, has the market actually been allowed to work? At least since the beginning of President Johnson's Medicare program in the mid 1960s, the government has been interfering in the market. Nowadays, the only Medicare I know as a physician is the Medicare that consistently says "no" to paying for routine and necessary tests like EKGs, and continually threatens to lower its reimbursements to physicians to a level that makes it impossible for us to see their patients. Additionally, their entry into the so-called "free market" served to set the tone for the private insurers to lower their reimbursements as well. The government has created a scenario in which they have their cake and eat it too - they compete unfairly in a "market" by changing the rules to suit themselves, then blaming the industry they are destroying for the lousy coverage the rest of us get. I might point out that they are only able to compete at all by draining the productive members of society of their income to support an ever-increasing number of unproductive ones.

2. I would also point out that "all the other industrialized countries" (you know...the ones the Left incessantly talks about having socialized health care in order to shame us for not being openly and unapologetically socialist) have ALL had to begin to allow filthy, stinking capitalism and "the market" to help them out of their mess.

The U.K., the grandfather of all Western socialist health care programs, in response to decades of criticism about year-long waiting lists for necessary procedures, unfairness in the delivery of care, and a tax burden that seems never to be enough to do what the socialists promised, has recently had to start subcontracting health care delivery to private (FOR PROFIT) entities.

Canada, the supposed health care paradise immortalized by Michael Moore, has had to rescind its long-standing policy of criminalizing doctors who provide alternatives to the long waiting lists and poor care by taking cash for services rendered. Where is the great alternative provided by socialism here?

France has also had to begin allowing the private sector to begin supplementing the effort to provide health care. Why? Because their socialized program is failing to provide what it promised.

Sweden, the country with the highest taxation for health care, has also struggled continuously with long waiting lists and patients who have begged for a free market alternative, has also begun to admit defeat and let the dirty capitalist pigs take over. Again.

The list goes on and on. Socialism is a failure. It has always been a failure. It fails because you can't shackle the productive to buy the votes of the unproductive forever, expecting the productive to remain productive despite your best efforts to destroy them. Eventually, they get the idea. Why work for nothing? Slavery doesn't pay.

"Sure 'nuff I got props from the kids on the Hill,

Plus my mom and my pops.

I came to get down.

I came to get down.

So get out your seats and jump around.

Jump around.

Jump up, jump up and get down."

Super Duper

(Please note the symbol chosen by www.chron.com - I find it humorous that of all the symbols available in the whole wide world, they chose the most communist one ever on their very own...you just can't make this stuff up...)

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/casey/6436282.html

Note that his decision to leave his office after falling for a homosexual illegal alien makes this mayor "honest", and could only be wrong in the eyes of the narrow-minded bigots out there (nice straw man, Rick).

Note also that it is the horrible and totally unfabulous draconian marriage laws that are keeping these love-birds apart. Imagine all those horrible religious fanatics wanting to keep something as beautiful as marriage all to themselves. Next thing you know, they'll be wanting to corner the market on baptism, communion, and the other holy sacraments, too. Selfish jerks. Acting like marriage is some sort of religious invention or something.

Way to go, San Angelo. You must be so proud. You've apparently been awarded the Open-Mindedness Award by the American Socialists. Congrats.

Kalifornia, Dreaming.

The test tube of American Socialism is broke. The state with the highest taxes, largest welfare state, most highly-paid teachers, cops, and firemen...

They are now having to confront the painfully obvious failure of their ideology. The hard fact is that somebody eventually has to pay for all that spending. And when you punish the people who provide the jobs, tax revenue, and industriousness, you get...well...California. When there are no more rich people, there is no more money for social programs, etc. The people who are left now are all needy - there's nobody pulling everybody else's weight.

Grandiose dreamers that they are, they had the "audacity to hope" that we, the other 49 states who have not been quite as irresponsible as they, will just use TARP funds from our paychecks to bail them out. Not so fast. The bail out has been rejected by Californians themselves, and now by Americans at large. I guess "the big one" has finally happened in my lifetime.

I mean, really. Asking the other States to bail out their irresponsibility in the middle of an economic crisis so they can continue to provide the most wide-ranging welfare in the Western world? Gall doesn't even begin to cover it.

There is a valuable lesson in this for all of us. The Libdiots want us to turn our entire nation into one big, happy Kalifornia. One problem: Kalifornia failed. They had more rich people (and therefore a better chance of making it work) than anybody else, and even they couldn't make it happen. Now, why on Earth would we want to be like them???

I say wall the cancer off and let it die a natural death before it infects the rest of us.

Open Letter to My New Pals at Healthcare-NOW

Dear Socialist Rabble-Rousers:

I am a doctor. I didn't get here by accident. I worked hard. I missed out on all of your marijuana-fueled good times because I was serving in the Marines, then going to college and studying. Why? Because I was trying to better myself, and make a good living. Yes, I said it. Make a living.

Now you have claimed me as a servant to your invented "right" to health care. You believe that the way to lower costs for yourself is to "negotiate" (dictate) what my time is worth by fiat. You deny me the right to ply my trade - a skill I have devoted my life to.

I challenge you to defend this notion of yours about what constitutes a "right". It appears that a "right" is simply something you want and have the numbers to take by force. This makes you no better than an angry, pitchfork-wielding mob of thieves. Want to really make a difference? Want to lower the costs of health care for those who are most affected by its high price? Try educating young women about the poverty that results from teenage pregnancy, instead of encouraging it through funding it with my money. Or how about working to stop expensive smoking habits among many of the very same people who complain that they can't afford their medicines?

You see, if you were truly a friend of the less-fortunate in our society, you would work for a better life for them, instead of simply paying for their irresponsibility with stolen money. You fancy yourselves as modern-day Robin Hoods. You forget that the original Robin Hood returned money to its rightful owners after it had been stolen by a more powerful person. You see, you should be fighting for me and all the other hard-working, self-improving, productive people who stand to (a) lose the good health care we've fought to provide for ourselves and our families, and (b) be taxed into poverty ourselves in order to fund your ever-increasing list of invented "rights".

Finally, I will be interested to see what you say to the hapless victims of your mistake when they all discover that your plan can only be viable for a short time, and that only when drastic cuts are made in services. This has been the case with every single socialized ("single-payer") health care plan in the world. When people are dying at your hands, rather than at the hands of private insurance companies, will you accept the blame you are now so ready to dole out? It'll be interesting to see how you will explain it. Of course, you'll be on to your next mission to save the world with others' money by then. You'll be much too busy to notice, no doubt.

See you on the internet, pals.

Still Waiting to be Impressed

I've heard it literally dozens of times, from friends of the President and foes alike:

"What do you think of President Obama?"

"Well, he is clearly a highly intelligent man..."

Really? Forgive me if I'm not impressed. Intelligence, it seems to me, would be the ability to respond appropriately to problems, or at least to figure out ways to deliver on one's promises. So far, I've seen neither from this "highly intelligent" man. It suggests that he is either not at all intelligent, or that he is intentionally underperforming in order to achieve some other objective of which we are not aware.

Just a few examples of what I mean...:

1. The country is plunged into economic chaos, resulting in a weakening of the dollar. His response? To increase spending to the point that it is unsustainable by our own efforts - borrowing one half of our budget from the Chinese Communists and printing more money to cover the other half. The result? A critical weakening of the U.S. Dollar, causing inflation, raises in interest rates, and massive unemployment.

His other response? To raise taxes on the productive - the only people who can produce, spend and hire our way out of this mess. Not exactly the actions of a man who bases his entire governmental power on the foundation of his intelligence. In this case, he is doing the exact opposite of what is intelligent.

2. The U.S. Auto Industry is poised on the brink of bankruptcy. His response? To pay six-figure severance packages to laid-off union employees (the cause of the problem in the first place), to give a controlling interest in the auto makers to the unions (foxes guarding the hen house), to raise emission standards to make U.S. cars even more expensive and less competitive in a global market, and to nationalize the means of production at two of the largest auto makers (a move right out of Marx's Das Kapital). Intelligent? I defy you to show me how it is.

3. The limited socialized health care we have in this country, exemplified by the VA medical system, Medicare, and Medicaid, are insolvent, infamously inefficient, and provide care that is envied by no one. His response? To build on this horrible failure by expanding government's role in health care. To shamelessly quote many of my predecessors: "Think health care is expensive now? Just wait until it's 'free'". The socialization of the last liberated health care system in the world, at a time when those who already have socialized medicine are seeking desperately for a way out of the mess they've made, is the hallmark of stupidity, hubris, and the worst sort of pandering to a demented, blindly ideological, and naive political base. But it's not the sign of any sort of intelligence.

4. Government spending is so far out of control, it boggles the mind. Obama ran on a promise to review spending "line by line" to remove wasteful expenditures. His response? After announcing a $4 trillion budget for the next fiscal year, he makes the big announcement that he's been able to cut a measly $21 billion/year through methods that are as inscrutible as the man himself. I won't bore you with the math, but this amounts to about one half of one percent of the budget. In other words, if you had a budget of $100, you would save less than one penny. Intelligent? How exactly?

I await the singing angels announcing the return of intelligence and sanity to Washington. Instead, I only hear the gentle trickling of my will to continue contributing to this failed system, as it goes down the drain, and to quote Ross Perot, the "giant sucking sound" from this liberal dream team as they drive the final stake into the heart of our country's productive class.