But the Republicrats will save us!

Last week, we detailed the Prussian brand of “state socialism” which is the true goal of Obamacare.

But the Republicans, swept back into power next January — only with not quite enough votes to override an Obama veto — are going to repeal all this! Right?

Let me see. … Did they make any serious effort to repeal the graduated income tax any time after 1913? Social Security any time after 1933? Medicare or Medicaid any time after 1965? Did they even shut down the counterproductive federal departments of Energy and Education, as Ronald Reagan promised to do in 1980?

Have the Republicans — or anyone — ever reduced federal spending below income, picking up the phone and telling the Treasury “Stop selling bonds; we’re now in surplus and we don’t need to borrow any more. In fact, let’s start calling in some of our old bonds and paying them off early”? When was that?

Their apologists will say, “They’ve never had the votes.” They never had the will.

Already Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn and Nevada GOP Senator-wannabe Sue Lowden are saying “There are some good things in the Democrats’ health care bill, things we can all agree on that we don’t need to repeal, like requiring insurers to cover pre-existing conditions.” (Yes, they’ve both said that, separately, almost word-for-word.)

This is like requiring fire insurance providers to sell policies on houses which are already on fire — without letting them increase their rates. The goal is to either bankrupt them immediately, or force them to raise their rates across the board till the public squeals for nationalization.

(Meantime, doctors will take more of their orders from the federals, while being paid less and less for their services, with fewer and fewer remaining “private” patients onto which to shift their costs. Think the best won’t retire or move to Mexico?)

The real solution is to divorce health insurance from employment, so you don’t have to change health insurers every time you change jobs, any more than you have to change car insurers every time you change jobs. Why do you suppose they didn’t just do that?

The Tea Party people are going to save us? Well-meaning amateurs, they’ve already been set up.

What are they most upset about? The Medicare reimbursement cuts which were plugged into this Obamacare package to make it “pencil out” as a deficit reducer. Let them squawk loud enough, and Congress will merely rescind the bulk of the “Medicare cuts” (for now.) The Tea Parties will congratulate themselves that they’ve “won,” and go home. Obama-Reid-Pelosi PrussianCare will still be in place … only now, with the fig leaf of “deficit reduction” removed, the whole system will go bankrupt even faster!

Go back and read Eric Blair (George Orwell, to you.) It’s amazing how fast we’ve moved into the welfare-warfare Snitch State. The radio is full of ads advising us to turn in our neighbors for a reward if their cars are smoking. Why do we need to do that, when we’ve already got mandatory smog checks? If they don’t work, why not repeal them?

Why isn’t everyone already insured in Massachusetts, where RomneyCare has been an advance working model, a “Beta test” of Obamacare, for years? When the uninsured, including illegal aliens, show up for treatment at the emergency rooms in Massachusetts, are they now treated and then sent to jail for defying the state mandate that they have to buy insurance? Why not?

Open your atlas to a map of Afghanistan. Sketch in the area held by U.S. troops and the areas held by “the enemy.” Any kid could have sketched such a map during the wars of 1863 or 1944. But you can’t, can you?

(The supposedly “retarded” Thomas Edison made his first seed money — the money he would pyramid till it funded all his great research and inventions — while only a child working in a railroad baggage car, printing on donated type a newspaper called the “Grand Trunk Herald,” in which he reported Civil War news. Between the child labor laws and the income tax, his success could never be duplicated now.)

What is our goal in remote Afghanistan? How do our military efforts there bring us closer to “capturing those responsible for the World trade Center attacks of Sept. 11, 2001”? If you can find any news reports on our ongoing military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan that make any geographic sense at all, you’ll find they don’t even bother to mention this supposed “war aim,” any more. So why on earth is it worth American lives to make sure the corrupt thugs in charge in Kabul and Baghdad have (supposedly) better armies?

Meantime, Obama and Hillary propose to sell Israel down the river in order to curry favor with the Arabs. As in “1984,” the folk who were the good guys last Friday suddenly show up as the bad guys in Monday’s headlines.

Next? Amnesty for 30 million illegal aliens who will vote Democratic while stealing jobs from American private-sector workers (we dutifully get our zoning approvals, pay taxes and business license fees. Accustomed to sidestepping a corrupt and incompetent Latin bureaucracy, they don’t), and then on to “carbon taxes,” which Mr. Obama himself says “will cause the cost of energy to necessarily skyrocket” — all justified by a “global warming” scam now so thoroughly and embarrassingly debunked that even Mr. Obama had to acknowledge that little problem in his State of the Union speech.

By that time, they’ll discover the “health care reform” that was supposed to “reduce the deficit” has instead put us a further couple of trillion dollars in debt, leaving these geniuses no choice but to enact a national “Value Added Tax” which will initially be advertised as “replacing the personal income tax” (yay!), though at the last minute they’ll decide we really need both … but just for a little while.

It’s no use challenging all this stuff in court — the courts are staffed with political appointees who are both lawyers and ex-politicians, which makes the whole undertaking akin to asking the Mongol Horde to intercede on your behalf with Genghis Khan. Did Irwin Schiff, who will now die in prison, ever get to cross-examine the IRS at length on the way they violate their own laws and regulations, during his “day in court”?

There’s a lot of brave talk about “resistance” — refusing to turn over our medical records to the government, and so on … from people who already dutifully report on their tax forms each year their children’s names and ages, and how many miles they drove last year, and how much they spent on medical bills …

Those who don’t knuckle under when they find themselves alone (as most do) will die, and their only epitaph will be “Insane loner, probably influenced by Militia Movement, Teabaggers, and Rush Limbaugh, goes up in flames.”

Mainstream newspapers have declined (as is their right) to even publish my commentary on the death of Andrew Stack, who in desperation flew his small plane into an IRS office in Austin, Texas, last month. (Find it at www.vinsuprynowicz.com.)

No one will even be provided the ink to lament your passing.

Our only hope now lies in what mathematicians call “Chaos Theory.” It turns out change is NOT always gradual.

In 1789, the French aristocrats reassured themselves that there had been plenty of peasant revolts, down through the centuries. Eventually the professional cavalry was set loose on the peasant mobs with their pathetic torches and their pitchforks, and the survivors went bleating home, whining for mercy.

Only in 1789, it didn’t turn out that way.

The French Revolution never reached these shores. With a pretty good compromise called “the U.S. Constitution,” a group of wealthy landowners managed to postpone the chaos here for almost 250 years.

But my own congresscritter, Democrat Dina Titus, no longer worries about the U.S. Constitution — the last fig leaf they had left to cover their naked tyranny — because “The Constitution has been interpreted lots of ways.”

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