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Healthcare: A Failed Experiment

Written by PeacockWatch on November 1, 2009.

The healthcare debate is another glaring example of a mainstream news media with an agenda that is congruent with that of the administration.  Most of what has passed as news reporting during this debate has been the usual bleeding heart stories of people dying or going bankrupt without access to healthcare, the typical misleading statistics (47 million people without insurance).  Not contented with just distorting the facts of the debate, the media then took it upon themselves to launch attacks on those citizens who had the nerve to show up at town hall meetings to express their feelings about government run healthcare.

Yet, the most obvious reporting that has been totally ignored is the status of government run healthcare in other countries.  In all instances, these countries report long waits and rationing of services, a shortage of providers, and spiraling costs. (France is looking to reform their model and is actually looking at elements of the current free market practices in the U.S.)

If our mainstream news media is hesitant to go abroad to bring this story of failure to the public, they need only to look a bit to the north of where most of them sit, to the state of Massachusetts.  This state’s healthcare model, which was sponsored by Mitt Romney, is very similar to the plans coming out of congress.  Although only being in existence a few short years, it is already being deemed a failure.  By most reports the program “in practice has been a colossal failure, expanding state bureaucracy and government control over the health care market and provider-patient dealings, while simultaneously driving up health insurance premia, increasing health care costs, and creating a chronic shortage of providers – all at an annual price tag of over twice the originally-estimated $600 million.”  This is the fate of all government run healthcare, and one cannot point to a country on the face of this earth that has achieved varying results.

As we contemplate turning over 17% of our GNP, as well as our lives and future well-being over to the political class, the Massachusetts experiment would seem to be a worthwhile news story.  It is not.

On the other hand, maybe the mainstream media reporting of the Massachusetts experiment would not change a thing.  Even without fair reporting on this issue, there has been an historic firestorm of protest, and by a growing majority the American people do not favor government run healthcare.  Yet, in spite of this outcry, the Obama administration and its congress are intent on jamming this failed concept down our throats, and, at a time when this country can ill afford it.

Why would our government put in place a program that has failed everywhere it has been implemented, and that they know will certainly fail here?  The answer is that this debate is not about healthcare, it is about establishing government control over people’s lives and liberty.

Although this will surely be political suicide for the Democratic Party, Peacock’s prediction is that they will put the gun to their head as government run healthcare has been the holy grail of liberalism for well over 70 years, and they know this is their last chance to achieve it.  If they cannot strong-arm or buy 60 votes, they will ram it through in the middle of the night with 51 votes.

All of this without any real public debate.

In short, the Democrats believe this legislation is the hallmark of a social democracy, and you just cannot be one without it.

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Another Day, Another Marxist

Written by PeacockWatch on October 14, 2009.

This from Glen Beck….

Another day, another Marxist

 

FCC Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd is Obama’s media guru and the guy who says the Fairness Doctrine doesn’t go far enough. He’s actually advocated forcing people to step down from their media posts so they can be replaced with minorities. Seton Motley of the Media Research Center joined Glenn to talk more on Lloyd, but also about a new group whose influence is growing in Washington: Free Press. Sounds peachy, but two of the founders of this group are Marxists and want to ‘overthrow the capitalist system’ itself. Charming, no? Seton and Glenn talk about just how much influence Free Press has with the Obama administration.

This from Peacock:

When Peacock was in his early twenties, he was part of a neighborhood group that met on a monthly basis to study communism.  No, this was not an underground communist cell; it focused on the evils of communism and how to recognize their plans.  (This was part of a larger national organization…I think it may have been the John Birch Society).  Peacock read the Communist Manifesto, Mao’s Little Red Book, and articles by the anti-communist thinkers of the times.

The Grand Plan that Peacock studied was identical to what is now unfolding right before our very eyes.

The Marxists knew good and well that they could not conquer us militarily.  They told us this directly.  They also told us that they would corrupt us from the inside until we “would fall like ripe fruit into their basket”.  They would corrupt us by using the greed inherent in the capitalistic system.

They also promised to infiltrate our institutions of learning as well as the media.  They further promised to attack our religious freedoms and belief in God.  Like tiny drops of water dripping on a rock, after forty years we are now seeing the results of their labor, and they now appear to be gearing up to line up all of the pieces and irrevocably diminish this country and bring it into a socialistic sphere.

Peacock believes that the trigger, the economic meltdown, was manufactured.  The “agents of change” used organization such as A.C.O.R.N to extort lending institutions into making bad loans and the Community Re-investment Act, along with Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac, nationalized the process.  The greed of Wall Street was the cincher as they were able to package all of these toxic loans and send them around the world.  All of this made it possible for a family with an income of $50,000 per year to obtain a variable interest only loan of $400,000, with no money down.

They built this up to the perfect storm in 2008, and they got their guy in.  There is a meek debate as to wither he is a socialist.  The debate should be about if he (or, more precisely, the people behind him) is a Marxist.

Things are not bad enough right now to make the gains they desire, so they will do everything in their power to make them gradually worse, while creating the illusion of a “recovery”.  The reality is that any recovery will be in the 2-3% range while Communist China will be growing at an 8-10% rate.

We have no manufacturing base to compete with as it comprises only 12% of our GNP.  Remember the Harvard professors who preached for the past thirty years that we needed to outsource manufacturing as it was “the old economy”?  And now, the “New Economy” will be Green!

Now, emboldened by President Obama’s election, things are coming more out in the open.  Michael Moore’s new movie is a direct attack on capitalism.  A new book, “Commonwealth” by a radical professor and a murderous radical has just been released by Harvard University Press.  It is a full call for arms.  “Down with capitalists, nations, bosses, families, etc.”  The last paragraph of the WSJ book review reads:

“Commonwealth” is a dark, evil book, and it is troubling that it appears under the prestigious imprimatur of Harvard University Press.  Countless millions were slaughtered by adherents of Karl Marx in the 20th century.  God help us if the scourge returns in the 21st.”

So, the perfect storm has come and it continues to grow thanks to liberal media like MSNBC that, instead of acting like the proper objective fifth estate, have become a catalyst to enhance the initial combination of ingredients and are a force that is promoting the mutation of Marxist actions by the Democrats into Fascism by the White House. If, in short, Marxism can be defined as a system that works to assure there is fairness between labor expended by the worker vs. what the worker receives in goods (compensation) and Fascism can be defined as significant government control over business and labor then MSNBC in its editorials by Keith Olbermann is promoting a move toward Fascism. Olbermann blatantly reports that the best health care option under debate is what is called the public option. He extols the virtue of Free Clinics. Both of these explicitly mean that money flows from business and labor and the people to the government. Then this wealth is redistributed as the government sees fit. This transfers power with the money from the governed to the governing in direct opposition to Jeffersonian democracy and in full support of Fascist philosophy. In the real world, power, authority and control always follow money. Chris Matthews openly opines that the Democratic Party believes in positive government more than the republicans do.

The truth is that the liberal media, with MSNBC as the flag bearer, and both political parties have forgotten the American citizen. They have ignored the repeated lessons of history that human nature does not respond positively to Marxism or Fascism or Communism or Socialism.

Government, in collusion with the liberal media, and in too cozy a relationship with Wall Street and major corporate interests have collaborated unwittingly, or is it wittingly, to fulfill the prediction of the Communists. As the perfect storm was building the agents of the progressive movement in collaboration with pressure from liberal media added the catalytic seeds necessary to create the mega storm of destruction. That mega storm is the dramatic transfer of wealth from the population to the federal government where it is redistributed as the rulers see fit. It is indeed, as Obama put it, “a redistribution of wealth”. The government, with the help of the media, is acting as the broker of that redistribution and taking its massive cut along the way. This cut continues to make the government stronger and in greater control over the population. In sort the transition that Obama promised is not just the Marxist transition he promised to the oppressed through a redistribution of wealth. It is a further transition to Fascism which puts the government in charge of everything.

Our country and our very way of life are under attack from all quarters.  Very few are aware, and very few care.  No one thinks it could happen, but it is happening not in the dark of night, but in broad daylight!   (Is Dancing With the Stars on tonight?)

Thanks, MSNBC.

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