Skip's Addendum: The Realities of DemocratCare…. or ‘They Don’t Call us “The Right!” For Nothing.’ Part VI - Granite Grok

Skip’s Addendum: The Realities of DemocratCare…. or ‘They Don’t Call us “The Right!” For Nothing.’ Part VI

Steve brought us the plight of 3 month pregnant Jennifer Harris to us.  Seemingly, she had the TANSTAAFL moment when she got the bill from her brand new OppressiveCare policy (emphasis mine):

Now [Jennifer] Harris, a self-employed lawyer, must shop for replacement insurance. The cheapest plan she has found will cost her $238 a month. She and her husband don’t qualify for federal premium subsidies because they earn too much money, about $80,000 a year combined.

“It doesn’t seem right to make the middle class pay so much more in order to give health insurance to everybody else,” said Harris, who is three months pregnant. “This increase is simply not affordable.”

Jennifer Harris at least has the ability to pay the 262% increase in premiums that the Democrat’s forward looking vision for health care has delivered unto us. Well, I assume she does. She lives in California. $80K/year doesn’t buy as much in the PRC as other parts of the country.

She has come smack right up to that ill-named notion of “Free Money” up close and personal – nothing concerning money is “free”.  Too bad that doesn’t happen more often – that the decisions and votes made by greedy Politicians aren’t brought home more often so that “producers and earners” can watch their hard earned money waft out their doors and windows.  That sense of “someone else will pay” is going to hurt a whole lot more people people just because Obama and Progressives DO wish to hurt others by redistributing their hard earned Private Property.  Folks like Jennifer Harris (and Bernadette Loesch of Laconia) are going to quickly learn that Progressives (like Willy Sutton before them) are now reaching to where the real money is – the middle class (Sutton merely picked on banks; at least he was honest about his thieving ways). 

It was OK when other people’s money was being taken – but when it is THEIR’S, it’s wrong!  They never get the connection that it’s wrong ALL the time.  And they have fallen for the even bigger theft – that we in Civil Society are unable to do good things well enough to make a difference and only Government can, so feel HAPPY that we are forcing you to outsource your responsibility to others (but they mention the voluntary is being subsumed by the involuntary – a tinge of that old fashioned Totalitarianism).

I’m far from being the only one; John Hinderaker of Powerline shares my dim outlook of what passes for public morality – “you owe me“:

Notice that Ms. Harris isn’t opposed to subsidies in general; she was just hoping to be on the receiving end. Harris thinks it is wrong to “make the middle class pay so much more,” but if tax and rate increases were limited to the “rich”–in general, a “rich” person is someone who makes more money than you do–she apparently would be all for it. And Harris isn’t alone:

Pam Kehaly, president of Anthem Blue Cross in California, said she received a recent letter from a young woman complaining about a 50% rate hike related to the healthcare law.

“She said, ‘I was all for Obamacare until I found out I was paying for it,’” Kehaly said.

Lenin wrote that the only question in politics is “Who-whom.” Filling in the ellipsis, the question is, Who is screwing whom? Sadly, many Americans–based on recent election results, perhaps a majority–are now Leninists. In their eyes, government is merely a means to steal someone else’s money. They rebel only if it turns out that they are on the wrong end of the screwing. This is, to put it very mildly, not what the Founders had in mind.

And then you wonder why I have a very dim view (to intense dislike) of elected Republicans that fall into this trap.  Here in NH, there is a strong move by Democrats to force the State to accept, in any way or fashion, Obamacare’s expanded Medicaid scam Free Money for Three Years!  And of course, goes the promise, the Feds will NEVER welch on their promise, will they?  And yet, there are Republicans that have little backbone to stand up to the political pressure.  NH State Senator Nancy Stiles was the lone Republican on the Commission that voted for it – I wonder if she truly knows how many doctors are no longer taking new Medicaid patients?  How moral is that – just make poor people think they will get help and no one will take them?

How can this huge influx of money for services sustain the notion of Limited Government, a supposed hallmark of Republicanism.  How can this be an expression of demanding “lower taxes” (another hallmark of Republicanism) by hiding behind the faux facade of “well, other people are paying for us”?  Intellectual dishonesty as well as being complicit with the Federal government’s almost complete abandonment of the US Constitution.  And when the eventual news comes that the Feds  are not going to do what they said, how will Stiles justify making NH taxpayers pick up this MASSIVE tab?  Certainly she is amongst the Establishment wing of the Party that scold us grassroots that we should drop our social issues and concentrate solely on the fiscal ones.

Yeah, and where do you think the massive FISCAL outlays of the Feds and NH go to – yeah, SOCIAL issues!  And this would be the biggest one of all here in NH!  Once again, we see the Establishment say one thing and then turn right around and do another?  What are we to think when we see Republicans giving up on the Free Market and follow the Democrats (like little children in tow) in their philosophy that ONLY the sainted Government can do good things?

WHERE IS THE FIGHT FOR THOSE PRINCIPLES WE SAY ARE DEAR?

Or is it a case of ‘well, she won’t have to pay it” – but my kids will pay the price, big time.  Remember, we don’t have to fight for you either – at least we still have that choice.

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