Sunday, December 06, 2009

Republicans defending socialism

I understand (I think) most of the series of political calculations that got them there, but this is just too rich anyway. The only way the Obama/Reid/Pelosi/Baucus approach to health care doesn't bust the budget dramatically is by including some $4-5 hundred billion in cutbacks in Medicare over the next 10 years (they won't make those cuts anyway, but that's a tale for another day). So the Republicans are now defending every penny spent on Medicare as if it were sacred. Medicare is as close as anything in our current system to a pure socialist approach to medicine. So that's what Republicans defend if they think it leads to blowing up plans for the next phase ogf government takeover. I sympathiz3, and it just might work. But the irony/hypocrisy deserves a mention.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The USA could save an awful, awful, awful lot of money if it gave up its empire overseas and spent ONLY enough on the military to defend America itself and nothing more. That would be a few billion tops I figure. You never know when an army of Canadians are going to attack North Dakota......