Is President Obama Destroying Jobs to Advance Socialized Healthcare?
Jobs, the Economy, the President and Socialized Healthcare
By: Fat Lester
Editor's Note: This post was originally written as a comment left in resonse to this article appearing at silentmajority09.com. The author had written a post entitled "Is Obama gaming the unemployment numbers?" That is the question being referred to in this post. This author's answer to that question is the primary basis for this post. The article appearing at this site has been modified from the version appearing in the 'comments' section of the aforementioned blog post.
Let me begin by offering the highest of compliments the author on this work. I recently discovered this blog (Silent Majority '09) through Mixx, and I must acknowledge that I am extremely impressed -- both with the literary quality of the writing itself, as well as the the validity of the logic with which the arguments made are constructed.
As for Obama and the unemployment numbers, the answer to the question you pose is not necessarily a yes-or-no answer. In fact, I would characterize it as more of a 'yes, and no'. No, President Barack Obama is not 'gaming' the unemployment numbers as there are actual jobs --- thousands of them --- being destroyed every single day by this administration.
The President is 'gaming' the unemployment numbers in that this was his exact intention when he and Pelosi rammed through the legislation throughout his first six months in office that has helped kill off these jobs and further worsen an already weak economy. Why would he do that, you ask? In a single word: HEALTHCARE.
The fact is that there are now millions more unemployed now than there were during the very worst of the Bush years (either Bush, three terms combined versus six months). As a direct result, there are now millions of people more who are now without employer-provided health insurance. This is absolutely and unequivocally not a coincidence.
The fact is that Obama's healthcare plan is arguably the most audacious infringement of socialism into American society since the New Deal. FDR needed a depression and a World War to get the new deal through Congress. Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanual himself said, 'Never let a good crisis go to waste' shortly after the presidential election last November. That statement is very telling of this administrations plans for the American economy, and its willingness to harm the wellbeing of millions of individual Americans in order to accomplish its radical political agenda. Obama has taken an economic slowdown and turned it into a major recession bordering on a depression. The entire reason for this is to make more citizens dependent on the government for basic healthcare needs, as well as to put businesses in a position financially that his Soviet-style healthcare system will be appealing to business in that it will relieve companies of the financial burden of providing healthcare benefits to employees. Many companies will gladly take this as an alternative to staff reductions or other equally severe cost-cutting measures.
The result is that the taxpayer-funded costs of such things as primary care services, physical therapy, virtually all medications, diabetes supplies and durable medical equipment - just to name a few - will skyrocket to never-before-seen levels. These costs, of course, will not be met by the money provided by the nations taxpayers, and the result will be either the printing of new money, even more borrowing of money from foreign sources, or some combination of both. Either way, the currency is destroyed in the process, rendering even those who have money completely depended on the government. Remember, having money doesn't really help out one's cause very much when the money is worthless (such as 'Monopoly' money, for example).
Leftists thrive amid chaos and poverty. This is one part of the reason why societies built upon "social justice" have never provided even a lick of prosperity for "the people" whose interests these people claim to represent. Once prosperity is achieved, access to quality education is enhanced, and with it the ease with which the leftists can control populations is diminished. President Obama is well aware of this, and I see no reason not to expect him to continue destroying jobs and destroying the economy until the entire Marxist agenda has been implemented fully.
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