Posted by
Corthell on Thursday, December 24, 2009 10:32:41 AM
''I've got mine, I don't care...screw you...Oh Wait!, you pay the bills … let's talk about this''
Though somewhat cynical, this is my seasonal offering; no doubt you noticed that the above quote is pretty much the antithesis of the Christmas spirit.
The next time you ponder the reason why a president or a Congress would support health-care "reform" measures that threaten to transform the entire nation's fiscal situation into one resembling California's (via making it similarly effortless for illegal immigrants from around the globe to mooch medical care on a cyclopean scale), and neutralize fundamental constitutionally granted liberties, you need simply refer to the above quote.
I don't mean to single out the health-care legislation (which is in the final stages of consideration by the Senate at this very moment). The illegal immigrant mooching issue is but one among many malign devices in the health-care bill. That one just presents an extreme example of the profligate behavior that has transpired in Washington in the last year. The instances of creative mismanagement and perversion of elementary American principles we've witnessed at the hands of this Congress and this administration are dizzyingly numerous.
Regarding members of Congress' rationalizations for acting as I have described: Well, there are offices to keep, partisans to pacify, lobbyists to pay back and money to make. Obviously, with 61 percent of the American people opposing the current health-care legislation, they aren't looking to please us.
Those, however, are merely their rationalizations for behaving in that manner. The reason is that they've got theirs, and they don't care what the ramifications of their self-serving actions will be for anyone more distant from them than their immediate family – if even that.
The president's case is slightly different. Unlike most presidents we've had, Barack Obama is a dedicated ideologue. He believes developed nations are obligated to financially support the entire world. Should plebeians in the West be forced into an 18th century level of subsistence to bring the Third World into the Bronze Age, so be it. This is only fair. For Obama, the personal gain factor – while definitely a consideration – is almost secondary.
Those in Washington who mistake ruling for governance will not share in our degradation, of course. This retrogressive lifestyle will only apply to the aforementioned plebeians.
That would be us, by the way. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=119903