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September 22, 2009

Decreased Competition, State Control - Hallmarks of Obama's Real History On Health Care

Topics: Political News and commentaries

As Dan Riehl effectively points out, Barack Obama's history on health care is clearly decreased competition and state control. This is consistent with the statistist policies (that seek to grow the state at the expense of the individual and his liberty) he's pushed in the auto and financial industries - state control, decreased competition, and massive expansion of government and its control over our lives..

As a committed statist, Barack Obama's goals are clear, deceitfully promising equality, security and Utopia but delivering tyranny, and accomplishing a "spread the wealth" agenda. Victor Davis Hanson addressed this issue in his "Obama and 'Redistributive Change" (Forget the recession and the "uninsured." Obama has bigger fish to fry):

[...] The president believes that a select group of affluent, highly educated technocrats -- cosmopolitan, noble-minded, and properly progressive -- supported by a phalanx of whiz-kids fresh out of blue-chip universities with little or no experience in the marketplace, can direct our lives far better than we can ourselves. By "better" I do not mean in a fashion that, measured by disinterested criteria, makes us necessarily wealthier, happier, more productive, or freer.

Instead, "better" means "fairer," or more "equal." We may "make" different amounts of money, but we will end up with more or less similar net incomes. We may know friendly doctors, be aware of the latest procedures, and have the capital to buy blue-chip health insurance, but no matter. Now we will all alike queue up with our government-issued insurance cards to wait our turn at the ubiquitous corner clinic.

None of this equality-of-results thinking is new.

[...] The modern versions of much of the above already seem to be guiding the Obama administration -- evident each time we hear of another proposal to make it easier to renounce personal debt; federal action to curtail property or water rights; efforts to make voter registration and vote casting easier; radically higher taxes on the top 5 percent; takeover of private business; expansion of the federal government and an increase in government employees; or massive inflationary borrowing. The current class-warfare "them/us" rhetoric was predictable.

Usually such ideologies do not take hold in America, given its tradition of liberty, frontier self-reliance, and emphasis on personal freedom rather than mandated fraternity and egalitarianism. At times, however, the stars line up, when a national catastrophe, like war or depression, coincides with the appearance of an unusually gifted, highly polished, and eloquent populist. But the anointed one must be savvy enough to run first as a centrist in order later to govern as a statist.

[...] For one of the rare times in American history, statism could take hold, and the country could be pushed far to the left.

That goal is the touchstone that explains the seemingly inexplicable -- and explains also why, when Obama is losing independents, conservative Democrats, and moderate Republicans, his anxious base nevertheless keeps pushing him to become even more partisan, more left-wing, angrier, and more in a hurry to rush things through. They understand the unpopularity of the agenda and the brief shelf life of the president's charm. One term may be enough to establish lasting institutional change.

As Mark Levin has noted, we are witnessing the rise of the statist to new heights via the current administration, and it threatens our freedom, prosperity and moral order. While this may sound a bit alarmist, it is these very concerns that are driving millions of Americans - Republicans, Independents and Democrats - young and old - black and white - males and females - to the Tea Party Movement. It's time that Barack Obama (and our senators and representatives, as well) be made aware that Americans are waking up to his anti-capitalist, freedom-robbing, statist agenda, and want no part of it.

Posted by Abdul at September 22, 2009 9:11 AM

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