Make Mine Freedom - Chilling 1948 Cartoon Reveals Current Crisis
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Crisis? Gosh, geewillikers - I’m think I’m beginning to sound like a politician!
But think about what is going on today. Our government is poised to take over a major chunk of our economy - the health care sector. Just last week, they unveilled just some of the coming fees, taxes and other revenue enhancements they plan to invoke to pay for it. Come on now - you didn’t think they revealed everything do you?
If you look beyond the “blue skies” they are promising, you should be able to see our “elected” representatives plan to gut what now stands as the greatest health care system the world has ever known and fill the carcass with Marxist platitudes. Too strong? I don’t think so at all.
Our government is set to control who gets what health care services, what medicines, what procedures, how much doctors and other health professionals will get paid for those services, what services will NOT be paid for, and more.
They will decide what new medicines and techniques to pursue and what should languish on the back burner - if it stays on the stove at all. And the overriding factor for all of this?
Cost.
One the one side you will see ever increasing budgets for every single department, agency, or other government run entity. Is this not the nature of government programs? To grow bigger and better? And what do we gain from these belt-busting budgets? Beaurocracy by the bucketful.
On the other hand you can expect less and less real medical care as procedures, medicines and even examinations become labeled “unnecessary” and “too expensive”.
Soon the only way to get somewhat decent health care will be to win a congressional seat. Why only “somewhat” decent? Remember, innovation and creativity are not exactly staples in government run anything. The goal of any beaurocracy is to expand their budget and that translates “don’t rock the boat”.
While this post is sure to attract dissenters - those blinded by empty promises - ask yourself this:
Is anything I said out of line with the nature of government beaurocracy?
I haven’t made any wild predictions. I simply started with the current proposal and compared with with any of the hundreds or thousands of government agencies in existence. This nature of beaurocracy isn’t limited to our own system of government either. Indeed, this nature transcends government systems. It is universal in nature.
While you consider this, take a look at this cartoon, produced by the Exstention Department of Harding College… in 1948. (Wait a minute wasn’t that the year Oswald got the title of 1984 from?)
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The cartoon had a rather happy ending. Unless we take a stand now and reject this looming national heath care fiasco, I cannot see anything but a broken and limping nation that was once great.
And that’s my take for today.
Andy Havens
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