Just remember ObamaCare when the anti-capitalists tell you the next time how government running things will make everything so much better. Major failures in the rollout of the ObamaCare website are just the tip of the iceberg as insurance companies receive inaccurate and incomplete information on the newly insured and major concerns exist regarding hackers gaining personal information from the website.
Using the Obama tactic of acting like the past never existed and therefore their past bad actions don't exist, the left is offering up the time-worn Marxist concept of class warfare and the abolition of capitalism as the answer to everyone's frustrations.
From Rolling Stone magazine doing a “cover” of the Communist Manifesto to the call from the White House that we need to level out income inequality, the blame is once again put on the things that made America prosperous, namely private property and free enterprise capitalism.
In President Obama's revisionist history, America became an economic success story because government programs were established to help the poor and needy. And of course giving the taxes collected from economy-growing businesses to the unemployed and the needy is made out to be the great American engine of economic growth. Carrying that out to its logical conclusion, we should all quit our jobs and go on unemployment and food stamps to grow the economy.
Congressman Nancy Pelosi, carrying water for the President, has numerous times praised government handouts for their falsely supposed economy-growing properties. I don't know if Congressman Nancy Pelosi really comprehends what she is saying, or if she just memorizes talking points given to her by Marxist staff members.
When ObamaCare was first passed, she gave a surreal picture of America as she described her vision of a “utopian” society with government-controlled health insurance. Speaking to Rachel Maddow, she said: “Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer, a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance. Or that people could start a business and be entrepreneurial and take risks, but not be job-locked because a child has asthma or diabetes or someone in the family is bipolar.”
How similar this is to the musings of Karl Marx in 1845 of what life would be like after the “working class” takes over and eliminates capitalism: “...in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic.”
And how do we reach this utopia, according to Pelosi? Simple: “we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what’s in it.”
Of course, neither Marx’s society run by a communist dictatorship nor government-run health insurance get us any closer to their free-wheeling utopias. Instead, they both impose more control over our lives by a centralized government bureaucracy.
The only fix to ObamaCare can be a complete repeal of the non-Affordable Care Act, since its purpose never was to improve the health care industry, but to make us hopelessly bound to an increasingly oppressive central government.
Rolf Yungclas is a recently retired newspaper editor from southwest Kansas who has been speaking out on the issues of the day in newspapers and online for over 15 years
