Free Health Care!!! Free Lunch?

Time and again, we have been told, “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.”

Sad, but true. To all you welfare recips who sold your vote to the Democrats expecting free medical care, free gas, and free housing; it’s time for you to wake up. Not gonna happen.

To all the naïve voters, including many nurses that I know personally, here is an urgent message. Your employer, (hospital, physician’s office, teaching institution) just took a major broadside hit in the form of significantly increased costs of providing you with health care benefits; important benefits you have come to know and love. Worse, your employer will now be required by law to provide more health care for more patients for less revenue than before! What happens to your annual raise, your job security, your ability to take care of your own family?

To all the bitter Republicans who intend to teach the incumbent Republicans a lesson by not voting or by voting for the opposition, be careful what you wish for; it just might come true.

To everyone else, vote these incumbents OUT!!!! All of them.

Let’s review the previous health care system that was so ‘bad’. In what other country could an indigent homeless person, living under a bridge, be discovered unconscious, taken to any major hospital, be diagnosed as having had a major heart attack, be taken to the cath lab for stent placement, or if stents are inadequate, be taken to surgery that same hour for open heart surgery? Can you name just one? No? That’s because there are none! That’s right, there are none.

Obama and his henchmen have repeatedly told the gullible news media that many folks are without insurance. Yes, that’s true, but does that mean that they will not receive prompt, superb medical care that is better than any other country in the world can provide? No. This is the big lie most uninformed supporters of this law have swallowed hook, line, and sinker.

It’s those damned greedy insurance companies, Obama reads to us off his teleprompter.

Yeah?

Let me see if I understand this. Follow along with me now as I noodle this out for myself. You might learn something. For decades the ‘greedy’ insurance companies have silently paid higher hospital bills for their clients. Because hospitals charge the same fees for insured as well as the uninsured, the responsible patients who have insurance are the only ones who actually pay the billsin full! In essence, insurance companies have been subsidizing health care. Where now is the incentive for them to continue with this largess?

Here’s more untruths. The rich will now have to pay their fair share of taxes to support this new health care program. Really? Whoa, I got a headline for you, Louise. I feel this is just the old class envy technique revisited. Those damned rich folks have it made; they owe us! Share the wealth! Call this what it is; income re-distribution!

But this will not work. Remember in the Carter Administration when a luxury tax of 38% was levied on yachts? Oh, yeah! Soak those rich SOB’s. They will have to pay more for their toys.

Except…the boating industry took an unexpected major broadside hit because rich folks moved out of the country, like they are doing now, and bought their toys on the world market. American jobs were lost.

More than 50% of Americans are now on welfare or some sort of socially assisted programs. Where is the money coming from for this new health care scheme? I’m glad you asked.

Get ready for higher taxes. Consider these novel approaches…15-20 cents per gallon gasoline tax, a sales tax on real estate, a new tax on sugar drinks, a national sales tax, and most deadly of all, the dreaded value added tax. (VAT)

Here’s how the VAT tax works. A Texas cattleman takes his herd to the railhead for shipping. There the stock buyer pays a sales tax of, let’s say, a mere 2%.

The stock buyer transports the cattle to the slaughter house and sells the stock to the processor who then pays a 2% value added tax.

The slaughter house processes, bundles,and freezes the steaks, chops, roasts, and hamburger. He then sells the finished product to a wholesaler.

The wholesaler then pays a 2% value added sales tax and sells the finished product to a retailer, your friendly neighborhood Piggly Wiggly, Safeway, or Winn Dixie grocer, who now pays a 2% value added tax.

Where does this end? With YOU!! You want steaks for supper? Pony up with your fair share of the added value tax. But wait just a minute. Are you going to pay a mere additional 2% tax for your steaks? Nope, you are going to get taken for all the 2% hikes along the way. Let's look at the tally sheet. The stock buyer, the processor, the wholesaler, and finally the retailer have all paid their 2% VAT. That totals 8% additional costs before you buy your steaks for supper. You can bet the farm that each entity that has been taxed will pass this cost along.

Now it's time for you to pay "your fair share". You are going to get hit for the whole damn 8% plus "your fair share". This is the Ponzi scheme you are participating in; the same scheme that has ruined the encomoy in Great Britain and indeed the entire European monetary system. You really should review the damage VAT has done to countries like England. More than 50% of national tax revenue in Europe comes from the VAT tax. Look it up, it’s on the Internet.

What’s next? How about amnesty for 13,000,000 undocumented aliens presently living in the USA? Right; here’s another grateful voting block of new Americans for the Democrats. They'll need these votes to replace the ones they lost by voting this asinine health care law in over the objections of nearly 80% of registered voters!! Then again, it may not replace the lost votes.

Then what? Probably more left leaning Supreme Court Justices, some form of gun control, more entitlement programs, more borrowing money from China till we are no longer a super power. Like the Romans, we will become weak and irrelevant; rotted and decayed from within. How do you like it so far?

I saw a bumper sticker last week with a picture of George Bush smiling at us. The caption asked, "Miss me yet?" Speaking just for me, I can respond with a resounding, "Hell, yes!"

OBAMA

O-one

B-big

A-assed

M-mistake

A-America

If we survive, it will only be because of a second American revolution, rising up and voting these Marxists out of office. Otherwise, all I can say is, “Damn”.

What will you say?

PB