Posted by
drpete on Monday, July 20, 2009 5:57:49 PM
Enjoy this brief video of FDR signing social security into
law
right here
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a speech to congress
January 1935 said, “The amount necessary
at this time for the initiation of unemployment compensation, old-age security,
children's aid, and the promotion of public health, as outlined in the report
of the Committee on Economic Security, is approximately one hundred million dollars.”
In 2005 the annual tab was $500 billion and
more than 1/5 of the federal budget. In
the early 1940s it was much less than 1/5 of 1%.
In 1965 LBJ promised Americans that Medicare would cost $500
million per year from the general funds.
In 2009 Medicare has a $74 trillion debt. Has it been 148,000 years since 1965? The cost of Medicare in 2008 was some $200
billion and growth is geometric.
There are a couple of possible life-lessons here. First, when liberal-fascist statists speak,
they lie. Second, when
liberal-fascist-statists speak, you should be afraid, very afraid.
President Barack Obama tells us that the $1.6 trillion+
(according to the CBO) “healthcare savings bill” will be paid for, not only by
surtaxes on “the rich”, but by huge cost savings from prevention. What he refers to is the system’s saving
because people quit smoking, reduce obesity, exercise more, and live
“healthier”. Please remember the
life-lesson. When companies develop “wellness”
programs and incentives for their employees, those companies reduce their
costs. Where do the costs go? They go to Social Security and Medicare . . .
down the road.
Here’s another life-lesson.
Humans aren’t immortal as humans.
Everyone dies. Those who don’t
smoke, aren’t overweight, exercise regularly, eat sensibly, drink alcohol in
moderation, and etc. live healthier lives, certainly long enough to retire from
their employers, and without overly taxing the medical-care “system” . . .
yet. So, let’s say that they don’t get
heart disease or lung cancer or whatever until they’re eighty. At that point, they’ve been on the Social
Security and Medicare tab for a decade and a half already. Had they gone toes-up at sixty, assuming
ambient temperature, they and their employer would have picked up the total
tab.
Typically, we spend 2/3 of a lifetime’s medical-care tab in
our final year that we personally blow CO2 into the atmosphere,
contributing, I’m told, to either “global warming” or “climate change”. President Obama’s latest “emergency” proposes
to save boatloads of money by picking up the tab for all that. A review of the life-lessons yields the
following warning: If you’re into, say,
your second decade or more of AARP eligibility, President Obama’s alleged
savings are gonna both change and shorten your life.
When medical care becomes single-payer – as in Canada, and
it will by design -- unlike a young doctor or a new clinic or a hospital, the
government won’t be beating the bushes for new patients. The government’s sole motivation will be
reducing costs, and most of that will come from rationing care. If there are 20 thirty-somethings and 20
certified members of the chronologically-gifted set wanting hip replacements,
and the government’s budget includes, say, 15 of them, the odds of a CG getting
one of them is lower than a liberal in congress giving an honest, frank (Sorry)
and responsive answer to a Fox News interviewer. My fellow codgers should be afraid, very
afraid.
The late Margaret Sanger, along with Woodrow Wilson,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and their mutual admirer, Adolph Hitler were strong
advocates of birth control. Not uniform,
but targeted. They all recognized that
the wrong kind of people had the highest birthrates. They advocated sterilization and abortion,
and with Hitler mass-murder. Eugenics
was their common theme, and it was later trumpeted by Supreme Court Associate
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. That
abortion rates among blacks is much higher than among whites, for Justice
Ginsburg, is validation of
Roe v. Wade.
The current “healthcare reform” push is consistent and
continuation. Down the road a Sarah
Palin baby with down-syndrome will not be delivered by a doctor . . . by
law. And no American in America will
survive to be 100
de facto by
de jure.
Neither will be judged cost-efficient.