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Left’s goal: Spend others’ money
While I explain some liberal philosophy, you will hear a sound like rocks rattling around inside a tin can. That’s liberals nodding their heads in vigorous agreement.
Liberals view health insurance like a vending machine. If the system works correctly, all you need do is plunk in some silver-plated copper-slug LBJ quarters each month, press your health care need button and, bingo!, treasure, a thousand times more than you put in, floods out to pay for it, every time. (Rattle, rattle.)
See, liberals believe government’s primary purpose is to nurse you personally, cradle to grave (assuming you didn’t get aborted). Therefore, the only legitimate purpose of health insurance, indeed of any business, is to administer governmental wealth redistribution. Any person arrogant enough to start a business must hire, pay, benefit and operate per government dictate. Should the owner be foolish enough to make a decent profit, government must confiscate it to refill those different personal-care vending machines. (Rattle, rattle.)
Remember, freedom is actually evil. “Equality” – even to the number of breaths and eyelid blinks per minute – as subjectively defined and regulated by leftist elitists permanently in power is the only social virtue. (Rattle, rattle.)
Rod Foss
Spokane