"This HC bill doesn't match the exact definition of Socialism, so quit griping!!" (health care, Obama)

[Little-Acorn]

This talking point is so tired and shopworn, it's getting hard to read without falling asleep.

We keep hearing frantic denials from the government-uber-alles leftists, insisting that if it's not 100% perfect-by-the-book socialism, then it's "not socialism".

90% socialism "isn't socialism", they keep telling us, as if the difference made any difference at all.

Government used to banned from exercising huge authority over every aspect of Health Care, by force of law and the Constitution. (in fact, they still are, a ban Democrats seem to feel they can ignore.) If this plan passes, the govt will refrain from exercising that huge authority ONLY BY THEIR OWN WHIM, instead of by force of law. And how often have we seen Democrats' whims change in a blink?

But "Hey, the govt isn't controlling everything, so what's your problem???", chirps the fanatic leftist in glee, as though the socialized Health Care plan hasn't changed anything.

"We are within five days of fundamentally transforming the United States of America", announced Obama. Well, this is the fundamental transformation he is bringing us. We are no longer a government of laws, where the Fed is forbidden to take any authority not expressly given them by the Constitution. We are becoming a "government of men", where any official can take any power he likes, simply because he thinks it will somehow help someone, somewhere. And his (often faulty) judgement becomes the Law of the Land, whether the people like it or not.

As I pointed out in another thread, this country was founded on the then-novel idea that the people themselves, depsite their faults, would do a better job of running their own lives and their own governments, than dictators who didn't answer to them. But we now have people in our Fed govt who don't, in fact, answer to them. Even the threat to vote them out of office (a likely outcome of the brazen legislating against the will of the people we're seeing today), is not working... a symptom of dictatorship the govt is becoming.

It's the exact opposite of what the Framers intended. In fact, it's exactly what the Framers tried so hard to ban for all time... a ban that we now see breaking down.

So spare us your bleating of "If it's not complete, by-the-dictionary-definition Socialism, then it's not Socialism at all" nonsense. You'll be asking us next to THANK you for spreading the govt takeover thru many bills, instead of doing it all in one fell swoop.