Analysis by Kyle A. Lohmeier
As a 40-year-old lifelong resident and citizen of these United States, much of my adolescence and adulthood have coincided with the rising political dynasty of the Clinton family of Arkansas. While I studied broadcasting in college, I was routinely treated then, as I am now, to the jarring timbres of a woman who doesn’t seem to understand what microphones and PA systems do. I got to watch government shut downs, and then what happens when Bill Clinton doesn’t have enough to do, then the subsequent impeachment and hearings and it depends what “is” means and all the rest. I was made a de facto felon after the fact by possessing a rifle with too many features on it from 1994 to 2004. In short, I’m already quite familiar with the Clintons; which is why I have no use for the Hildabeast or her husband.
Yet, humans can be full of surprises. Just when you think you have a as good a fix on what a public figure is all about as one can have, they do something totally out of character. Such was the case on Monday when Bill Clinton found himself in Michigan, stumping for his wife. I don’t know if he availed himself of some very good Michigan medicinal while on the campaign trail or indeed what brought it about, but the former president found himself beset by a bout of intellectual honesty.
“So you’ve got this crazy system where all of a sudden 25 million more people have health care and then the people who are out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half. It’s the craziest thing in the world,” Clinton said Monday, recounting nearly word-for-word my own personal two-year experience with Obamacare policies, and that of millions more of the country’s most productive people.
Of course, once the smoke cleared, someone took the president aside and reminded him of the script. So, the next day, speaking now in Ohio, where while being technically legal it is impossible to find any medicinal marijuana, Clinton stayed closer to the approved language, while seemingly leaving open an avenue for his wife to further screw up the country by evolving Obummercare into a full-blown single-payer fiasco.
“Look, the Affordable Health Care Act did a world of good, and the 50-something efforts to repeal it that the Republicans have staged were a terrible mistake. We, for the first time in our history, at least are providing insurance to more than 90% of our people,” said Clinton, according to CNN; but then he went on:
“But there is a group of people — mostly small business owners and employees — who make just a little too much money to qualify for Medicaid expansion or for the tax incentives who can’t get affordable health insurance premiums in a lot of places. And the reason is they’re not in big pools. So, they have no bargaining power.”
And here the façade of intellectual honesty comes crumbling down as he pretends there is no connection between the two halves of that statement. Indeed, 90 percent of Americans, 25 million more than before, are now covered by health insurance; the problem is that the “we” doing the covering isn’t the Democratic party or some vague, indistinct concept of “America,” it’s literally the people out there “busting it” as Clinton mentioned, and getting the shaft by Obamacare, who are providing that coverage to the poorest Americans. Why did my premiums and those of millions of the hardest-working Americans double while the usefulness of said coverage plummeted? As is always the case with these idiotic socialist schemes, the “to” side of the equation always exceeds the “from” side. Those Americans out there “busting it” are literally paying the way for 25 million Americans, many of whom don’t bother to work at all; or know exactly how much work they can do and still qualify for cash assistance, section eight housing and food stamps.
The problem with Obummercare is the same as it is for all “entitlement programs:” it exists. And, as long as they exist, the state will figure out a way to fund them. That funding always comes from theft or, “taxation” as statists call it. The operation of the system will always punish the productive and benefit the lazy; thereby standing any sort of notion of justice on its head. This is, of course, the only system a government can create because governments are based on violence; and when violence and coercion underpin all your activities, boondoggles like Obummercare and welfare are the only possible outcome.
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