President Obama just revealed at the New Hampshire “town hall” that he rejected Federal government supplied insurance for himself and his family when he was in the U.S. Senate, and instead of the government regulated stuff he took advantage of his wife’s private insurance supplied via her $317,000 per year political fixer/politician’s wife job with the University of Chicago Hospital.
What’s good enough for you, isn’t good enough for the elite in the political class. Don’t expect this to change. Obama is now proposing a two-tiered system, with a “public option” which is worse than the options provided for politicians and government workers — i.e. the existing options Obama didn’t think was good enough his own family.
Also this — John Stossel has details on Michelle Obama’s two dozen personal servants and helpers working on the Federal payroll.
UPDATE — Here are the President’s exact words:
for example, for a while, Michelle, my wife, worked at the University of Chicago Hospital. She really liked her coverage that she was getting through the University of Chicago Hospital, so I did not have to use the federal employee plan ..
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I think this is a dangerous snipe at Obama, because it doesn’t highlight the real issue. The majority of people understand that “some” private insurers will be better than government health care. This is why most support the “two-tier” health care proposal. What should be addressed is how a “two-tier” system will drive private insurers out of competition, raising prices for health care (both public and private) and ultimately disallowing people from choosing the health care of their choice (and instead forcing them onto the public system).
I thought the government plan was unlimited free health care for everyone paid for by space aliens who can turn base metals into gold with the philosopher’s stone.
This isn’t true?
Obama’s often stated end-goal is a “single payer” government run system. I get it.
Granted that fact, it is certainly worth emphasizing that any government run system will be two tiered system — one for the politically connected class and one for the rest of us. This is a predictable end result of our politically dominated system. They had a “single payer” system in the Soviet Union — and the system was all about giving differential care depending on how politically powerful or connected you were. More and more of the American economy is being capture by the same sort of logical dynamic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XTi-WdOu2s
^obama holds up the postal service as an example of how private companies can compete against a government enterprise, if the government program is not taxpayer-subsidized and self-sustaining. I agree for the most part.
However, why is HR 3200 estimated to have a price tag of $1 trillion over the next decade if it is not taxpayer-subsidized itself?
USPS has also been operating at a loss for the better part of a decade and has a monopoly on nonurgent letters.
Digg it,
http://digg.com/politics/Good_Enough_For_You_Not_Good_Enough_For_Me
Note well that Obama’s “socialism for you, but not for me” agenda has been a consistent theme in his life.
Obama sends his own kids to non-government schools, but shut down the charter school option for the non-elite in Washington, D.C.
and Obama went went to elite non-government schools all through his life — an elite private school in Hawaii, elite private schools for college, Occidental and Columbia, and an elite private school for law school, Harvard. But when he got the chance, but slammed shut the charter school option for the non-elite in Washington, D.C.
The house bill would rapidly eliminate private choice for the serfs–e.g. non federal taxpayers– Obama and Congress are the most massive kind of lying hypocrites.
damocles wrote:
“Obama and Congress are the most massive kind of lying hypocrites.”
I disagree. People expect politicians to lie. The “most massive kind of lying hypocrites”, in my mind, are the media who peddle Obama’s lies to the masses. Any one of them who has a shred of economic knowledge in his head knows that a two-tier system is just a Fabian way of getting us to a single-payer system. They know it, they approve of it, and they are actively propagandizing for it. It’s a dirty, underhanded trick by the very same people who are supposed to be those who watch the Watchmen.
Property Rights Are Human Rights!
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
No Human Rights In Socialism!
Socialism is a myth as you can see. It is nothing more than a two class system composed of the oppressed and the oppressor. The oppressor class regulates rather than being regulated by the market.
Socialism is a perversion of the economy, it is ego-driven interventionism, and it is immoral!
Clearly, some animals are created more equal than others.
Hehe…
this recalls a similar circumstance in my country not long ago. While in office, the erstwhile Health Minister (also infamous for her dogged endorsement of Garlic and African potato as an AIDS treatment …..), underwent a liver transplant. At a private hospital. Costs paid for out of the (state-run) parliamentarians’ medical aid fund.
There was much local press comment at the time but it was focussed on the reason for the transplant ( advanced cirrhosis, likely due to sustained excessive alcohol consumption), her spectacularly cantankerous behaviour, allegations of wine being consumed in large quantities while recovering, and her abusive attitude to the nursing staff.
Pity the media comment was so silent on the real story: her implicit but abundantly clear vote of no confidence in the very state hospitals under her authority!
clearly, for officials of the state, wherever they are, sauce for the goose is not sauce for the gander.
We should support an amendment to the Constitution that explicitly states that all laws passed by Congress and signed by the President that apply to the people as a whole must apply equally to members of Congress and the President, and that all laws must apply to the people as a whole. In other words, we need an amendment that explicitly establishes equality under the law.
Do you really think if members of Congress and the President had to be under this system that they would support it?
Troy Camplin: “…we need an amendment that explicitly establishes equality under the law.”
The 5th and the 14th amendments explicitly provide for the equal protection of the law as against the federal and state governments, respectively. Anyways, if our leaders actually read and upheld the Constitution, the whole national health care debate would be a non-issue. Point to the clause which enumerates and delegates to the federal government the power to regulate and restrict the health care choices of the individual. There isn’t one.
“Anyways, if our leaders actually read and upheld the Constitution,”
It is not up to the leaders to uphold the constitution, it is up to the people to uphold the constitution.
WE THE PEOPLE !!!
Not we the leader.
Your complaint shows exactly why the constitution is worth nothing and is dead.
Because you said it: “If only our leaders”
With that kind of attitude, no wonder we all live in your police state.
2nd Amendment: Please read at least the introduction of Rothbard’s “Anatomy of the State.” You have everything backwards. The government is not the people and the people are not the government.
(quote of politician in the article) “Right about now you’re probably saying, “Well, why not just spend another $100 billion and give consumers checks for everything?” Or, “Why not spend another trillion?” Well, I don’t want to go there. Just this one cash-for-clunker program — that’s all I want. Fund it again for a couple of billion dollars more.”
First, it’s your job to go there. If you don’t like it, don’t apply for the job (as a government servant, yes, VOLUNTARY SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE, that’s what you are). And then, this is “just this one program”, for now. In a little while, it’ll be just one other thing. Why should anything get an exception? Either it’s sound or not; if not, it should be rejected.
Dr. Strangelove wrote, “I thought the government plan was unlimited free health care for everyone paid for by space aliens who can turn base metals into gold with the philosopher’s stone.”
Even if they had such things, that gold wouldn’t be worth much shortly after it came flooding in…
I”m not surprised nobody finds equality under the law in the Constitution considering, no matter how many times I read the 14th Amendment, I can’t find a “right to privacy” in it (which doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have it, just that it’s not in the 14th). That’s why I want it to be explicit.
But 2nd Amendment is right. And we have to stop letting our politicians get away with turning us off when we mention the Constitution, too.
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