Kill the Corrupt Obama Health Care - 2 of 2

Kill the Corrupt Obama Health Care – 2 of 2
“Justice is truth in action.” – www.cinopsbegone.com – Monday, April 12, 2010

“This (European style welfare state) is the true goal of those promoting government run health care. If we go down this path creating entitlement after entitlement and promising benefits that can never be delivered America will become like the European Union: a welfare state where most people pay few or no taxes while becoming dependent on government benefits, where tax reduction is impossible because more people have a stake in welfare than in producing wealth; where high unemployment is a way of life and the spirit of risk-taking is smothered in webs of regulation.

“America today is not as far from this tipping point as we might think. While exact and precise measures cannot be made, there are estimates that in 2004, 20 percent of the households in the U.S. were receiving about 75 percent of their income from the federal government, another 20 percent of households were receiving nearly 40%. All in all, about 60% of American households were receiving more government benefits and services, measured in dollars, than were paying back in taxes. It has also been estimated that President Obama’s first budget alone raises the level of “net dependency” to 70 percent.

“Looked at in this way, I see health care reform of the kind promoted by the Obama administration and congressional leaders as part of a crusade against the American idea.

“At the heart of the conflict over health care reform, as I said at the beginning, are two incompatible understandings of America: one is based on the principles of progressivism, and would place more and more aspects of our lives under the administration of unelected “experts” in federal bureaucracy; the other sees America as a society of free individuals under a Constitution that severely limits what the federal government can rightfully do.

“We have seen many times over the past 100 years that the American people tend to be resistant to the progressive view of how we should reform our government – and I believe we are seeing this again today. Americans retain the Founders’ view that a government that seeks to go beyond its high but limited constitutional role of securing equal rights and establishing free markets is not progressive at all in the literal sense of the world – rather it is reactionary. Such a government seeks to privilege some Americans at the expense of others – which is precisely what the American was fought to prevent.

George H. Kubeck, “The great battle in America today is between American and Left-wing Values.” Dennis Prager – Check out Prager University on the Blog. – “God and Liberty” versus “Secularism and Equality” All of the above paragraphs are from Paul Ryan, U.S. Congressman “Health Care in a Free Society” IMPRIMIS – A free publication of Hillsdale College - Feb. 2010 – Volume No. 2. - 800-437-2268