John McCain went out of his way to castigate his Republican colleagues for their criticism of Hillary Clinton. In fact, McCain's words cannot be construed in any other way than outright praise for Bill's wife.
There are many, many reasons as to why John McCain should not be the Republican nominee for President. We do not need to use his praise of Hillary to make that point.
But McCain's words concerning Hillary are an important indication of the mindset of the man.
Hillary's long history of advocating for government-sponsored programs for everything under the sun, including socialized medicine, are well-known. Further, in her book, 'It Takes a Village,' Hillary makes it clear that in her world-view the 'village' is actually the collectivist state that is charged with the ultimate power to raise children, rather than their parents.
One quote from the book makes this point clear: 'There is no such thing as other people's children.'
In addition, Hillary has made no attempt to hide her disdain for American free enterprise, claiming that government should confiscate profits in order to build up a centralized fund for research into alternative fuels.
What, exactly, constitutes too much profit for a corporation that must provide a satisfactory return on the investments by its stockholders?
Take the oil companies, for example. Is a profit of ten cents per gallon too much? What about eighteen cents? Would a profit of fifty cents per gallon be too much?
The big oil companies make a profit of just 13 cents per gallon of gasoline sold. Yet the federal government takes 18.4 cents per gallon in taxes. Add to that local and state taxes, and in California, for example, drivers pay 58.6 cents per gallon in federal and state taxes, and another 8.2% of the purchase price for local taxes in cities such as San Francisco.
When one considers the amount of taxes assessed on gasoline by local, state, and federal governments, the profits of the oil companies pale in comparison.
Yet Hillary and other Democrats are known for condemning the oil companies for their profits while at the same time calling for more taxes on gasoline.
It goes without saying that Hillary is also known for supporting gun control, flip flopping on the War in Iraq, castigating her Democratic opponent Barack Obama for suggesting he would open talks with America's enemies although Hillary herself proposed the exact same thing several months back.
In spite of all of this, John McCain comes to Hillary's defense when his Republican colleagues dare question her record and stance on the issues.
Given McCain's mounting woes within the Republican Party, are his words of support for Hillary an indication, a signal, that perhaps there is a major switch in the making--a deal offered by Hillary that if McCain switches to the Democratic Party she will offer him the role of her running mate in 2008?
We do know that McCain and Hillary are drinking buddies. On a joint trip overseas with a Senate delegation several years back, the two engaged in a dual to see who could drink the most alcohol.
The rumor was that she drank him under the table.
But the point is, the two are good friends, and apparently McCain views Hillary as an ideological ally.
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Saturday, August 25, 2007
Sunday, July 15, 2007
American Healthcare, Economics, and Politics
Washington, DC (TLS). Healthcare in the U.S. was bound to be a campaign issue with someone like Hillary Clinton running for President. People on the far-left have long targeted American healthcare as a golden apple just ripe for the picking in terms of their plan to gradually socialize the economic system of the country.
Healthcare is a perfect place to start, given that part of the system is already socialized, such as the government-run V.A. hospital system.
In addition, Hillary had already proposed sweeping changes to the system back in 1992 just after her husband was elected to the White House.
That proposal would have dismantled free enterprise in healthcare, placed physicians under the employment of the federal government, taken away the citizens' right to choose their own physicians, and ushered in medical care rationing based upon the decisions of someone in a massive bureaucracy hundreds of miles away.
The tax increases to pay for such a system would have been astronomical.
Yet Hillary is back, and this time she is running for President. And she has help in promoting socialized medicine with the Commie-loving movie-maker, Michael Moore, visiting his buddy Fidel Castro down in Cuba to show Americans how much better off we would be with a Communist healthcare system.
Our favorite intellectual, Dr. Walter Williams, economist extraordinaire, recently warned about socialized medicine. A small minority, less than 10% of Americans, do not have health insurance. This means upwards of 90% of citizens have health coverage.
With his characteristic wit and logic, Williams questions the rationality of dismantling an entire healthcare system that works for over 80% of the population in order to cover the small minority that does not have coverage.
Such a thing would be tantamount to dismantling the entire auto sales industry, streamlining and making uniform one single, small, utilitarian vehicle, made by the government, that would be offered to the masses for nearly nothing, so that people at the bottom 10% of the economic ladder would be able to afford clean, cheap transportation.
The only problem is that the other 90% or so would no longer be allowed to buy nicer vehicles. Everyone would have to drive the same thing so that the poorest among us would benefit.
For the rich this would mean no more Porsche. Bye bye Mercedes. And as for Jaguars, Vipers, Hummers, and other expensive toys of the rich--begone!
In short, such a view of economics is not only shortsighted, it is a study in abject failure. Such a system has never worked over the long haul. When people are not allowed to possess the rewards of their success and hard work, all motivation to excell is squelched.
At Walter Reed Army Hospital, the scene of the scandal involving vermin-infested rooms and outdated facilities that had fallen into disrepair, the shocking news came that at that same government-run facility the 'elites' get the deluxe treatment with luxury suites and all of the amenities of home, while our war heroes are treated to the bland uniformity of a minimalized facility where no one truly wants to be.
Does this really surprise anyone in a socialistic system?
The old Communist Soviet Union was run the same way. The masses were treated to 'socialized uniformity'--that bland and bare-bones way of living in government run housing projects, where residents shared one bathroom per floor. Yet the government elites within the Communist Party were treated like royalty.
In any socialistic system there are elites just as there are in capitalism. And those elites are treated better than anyone else, just as the rich are treated better in a capitalistic system.
Thus, in Hillary's 'brave new world' the elites will still get all of the best while the rest of us peons get the bland uniformity of socialism...such as being placed on a 10-year waiting list for a hip replacement, which is common in countries with socialized medicine.
And you could be dead before they get around to your name on the list for heart-valve replacement.
Does anyone honestly believe that if such a system were implemented in the U.S. that Hillary Clinton, Barbra Streisand, Michael Moore, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, George Soros, John Edwards, or Dianne Feinstein would be treated exactly the same way in the healthcare system as the rest of us?
If you believe that, I have some swamp-land in....well, you know.
The simple fact is that free markets always favor the masses, and the masses fare much better in a free market system than they do in a socialized system. As Dr. Williams points out, the auto industry does not stay afloat by making cars just for the super-rich. If they did, they would go out of business. Rather, the mass production of well-made, safe, and relatively inexpensive autos to 'the common guy' is where the big money is.
The same is true in healthcare. When the open market is allowed to function at its fullest potential, without interference from government, the system stays afloat by marketing healthcare to the masses. This is where the money is.
And that money has enabled American technology to rise to the forefront of the medical industry. This means new and better treatments can be developed.
Instead of dismantling the best healthcare system in the world for the sake of the small minority, why not instead address the issue of how to get those who are outside the loop insured?
They are ways to do this without throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Healthcare is a perfect place to start, given that part of the system is already socialized, such as the government-run V.A. hospital system.
In addition, Hillary had already proposed sweeping changes to the system back in 1992 just after her husband was elected to the White House.
That proposal would have dismantled free enterprise in healthcare, placed physicians under the employment of the federal government, taken away the citizens' right to choose their own physicians, and ushered in medical care rationing based upon the decisions of someone in a massive bureaucracy hundreds of miles away.
The tax increases to pay for such a system would have been astronomical.
Yet Hillary is back, and this time she is running for President. And she has help in promoting socialized medicine with the Commie-loving movie-maker, Michael Moore, visiting his buddy Fidel Castro down in Cuba to show Americans how much better off we would be with a Communist healthcare system.
Our favorite intellectual, Dr. Walter Williams, economist extraordinaire, recently warned about socialized medicine. A small minority, less than 10% of Americans, do not have health insurance. This means upwards of 90% of citizens have health coverage.
With his characteristic wit and logic, Williams questions the rationality of dismantling an entire healthcare system that works for over 80% of the population in order to cover the small minority that does not have coverage.
Such a thing would be tantamount to dismantling the entire auto sales industry, streamlining and making uniform one single, small, utilitarian vehicle, made by the government, that would be offered to the masses for nearly nothing, so that people at the bottom 10% of the economic ladder would be able to afford clean, cheap transportation.
The only problem is that the other 90% or so would no longer be allowed to buy nicer vehicles. Everyone would have to drive the same thing so that the poorest among us would benefit.
For the rich this would mean no more Porsche. Bye bye Mercedes. And as for Jaguars, Vipers, Hummers, and other expensive toys of the rich--begone!
In short, such a view of economics is not only shortsighted, it is a study in abject failure. Such a system has never worked over the long haul. When people are not allowed to possess the rewards of their success and hard work, all motivation to excell is squelched.
At Walter Reed Army Hospital, the scene of the scandal involving vermin-infested rooms and outdated facilities that had fallen into disrepair, the shocking news came that at that same government-run facility the 'elites' get the deluxe treatment with luxury suites and all of the amenities of home, while our war heroes are treated to the bland uniformity of a minimalized facility where no one truly wants to be.
Does this really surprise anyone in a socialistic system?
The old Communist Soviet Union was run the same way. The masses were treated to 'socialized uniformity'--that bland and bare-bones way of living in government run housing projects, where residents shared one bathroom per floor. Yet the government elites within the Communist Party were treated like royalty.
In any socialistic system there are elites just as there are in capitalism. And those elites are treated better than anyone else, just as the rich are treated better in a capitalistic system.
Thus, in Hillary's 'brave new world' the elites will still get all of the best while the rest of us peons get the bland uniformity of socialism...such as being placed on a 10-year waiting list for a hip replacement, which is common in countries with socialized medicine.
And you could be dead before they get around to your name on the list for heart-valve replacement.
Does anyone honestly believe that if such a system were implemented in the U.S. that Hillary Clinton, Barbra Streisand, Michael Moore, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, George Soros, John Edwards, or Dianne Feinstein would be treated exactly the same way in the healthcare system as the rest of us?
If you believe that, I have some swamp-land in....well, you know.
The simple fact is that free markets always favor the masses, and the masses fare much better in a free market system than they do in a socialized system. As Dr. Williams points out, the auto industry does not stay afloat by making cars just for the super-rich. If they did, they would go out of business. Rather, the mass production of well-made, safe, and relatively inexpensive autos to 'the common guy' is where the big money is.
The same is true in healthcare. When the open market is allowed to function at its fullest potential, without interference from government, the system stays afloat by marketing healthcare to the masses. This is where the money is.
And that money has enabled American technology to rise to the forefront of the medical industry. This means new and better treatments can be developed.
Instead of dismantling the best healthcare system in the world for the sake of the small minority, why not instead address the issue of how to get those who are outside the loop insured?
They are ways to do this without throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Don't Miss 'Climate of Fear' on Global Warming
Washington, DC (TLS). Tonight at 7 PM and again at 9 PM, Eastern Time, Headline News Network will air a special presentation on global warming entitled, 'Climate of Fear.'
The report will feature Glenn Beck and will focus on the vast fear-mongering that has accompanied the dire warnings and predictions of those who subscribe to the 'man-is-to-blame-for-global-warming' theory.
In addition, Beck will expose the hidden political agenda of those who are intent, no matter what the hard science says, to convince us that human beings caused global warming.
Needless to say, the Left does not want you to see this program!
That is all the more reason to watch. It is time that those who are actually concerned about truth and hard science put to rest once and for all the massive hoax perpetrated by those with a vested interest in causing the collapse of capitalism, free enterprise, and free human choice.
Glenn Beck's special report tonight should be an important step in that direction.
The report will feature Glenn Beck and will focus on the vast fear-mongering that has accompanied the dire warnings and predictions of those who subscribe to the 'man-is-to-blame-for-global-warming' theory.
In addition, Beck will expose the hidden political agenda of those who are intent, no matter what the hard science says, to convince us that human beings caused global warming.
Needless to say, the Left does not want you to see this program!
That is all the more reason to watch. It is time that those who are actually concerned about truth and hard science put to rest once and for all the massive hoax perpetrated by those with a vested interest in causing the collapse of capitalism, free enterprise, and free human choice.
Glenn Beck's special report tonight should be an important step in that direction.
Saturday, February 17, 2007
George Soros Exposed: Hillary's Power Behind the Throne
Washington, DC (TLS). The Liberty Sphere has previously reported on the ominous maneuvering of billionaire and Democrat operative George Soros and his 'shadow party' that works behind the scenes to manipulate a victory for Hillary Clinton in 2008.
As we reported, Soros is the biggest single-source contributor to the Democrat Party and the 527s that fund them, having spent over 100 million dollars of his own money. He has been a close confidante of Hillary Clinton for years and has a vested interest in getting her elected President. If he succeeds in accomplishing his goal, he can then use her to unleash a massive, ominous attack on the core values of American society and its Constitution--a document that Soros has never failed to trash. By destroying the foundation that undergirds American liberty, he and his gang of thugs, including Hillary, can rebuild America from the ground up into a massive European-styled Socialist nation.
Thus, the freedom of the individual will forever be subservient to the 'common good.' The 'common good' is always the excuse given by Commies and Socialists to rob citizens of their individual rights.
Back in 2004, the Wall Street Journal ran a detailed expose of George Soros. The Liberty Sphere has uncovered that article from the archives. You can read the entire report by clicking on the link below. This is a MUST-read!
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110004764
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