Capitalism Magazine - ObamaCare: Gone Today, Here Tomorrow

ObamaCare needs to be voided, but for the right reasons. It needs to be voided because people's minds and bodies belong to themselves, not to the state. There is no "health care system" which belongs to "us" -- meaning politicians and other power-hungry monsters in Washington DC. My health care does not belong to my neighbor, and his does not belong to me. Boundaries, people! We're each free and responsible for purchasing and securing our own medical care, and we all have an equal right to be free to do so on an open, unregulated market. Without such a free market, by the way, there will be no innovation or competence -- and therefore no medical care much worth having.

With "friends" like Judge Roger Vinson, advocates of capitalism and individual rights don't need enemies. It's a shame, because we already have so many of them. The biggest losers in all this are anybody who is, or who one day may be, a patient undergoing medical care.

Capitalism Magazine - ObamaCare: Gone Today, Here Tomorrow

We Stand FIRM: Ryan At The Summit

I've been making precisely this point for years:

The GOP needs to more explicitly challenge the moral argument for ObamaCare, rather than concentrating on secondary issues such as costs.

They need to make the argument that government-run "universal health care" is morally wrong and that free-market health care is morally right.

Americans are very moral people and they passionately want to "do the right thing". So if they accept the premise that it's supposedly right for the government to (somehow) make sure that everyone has guaranteed health care, but gosh this particular way just happens to be too expensive, then the statists will eventually win by proposing some plan that doesn't look too costly.

Whatever statist plan is eventually adopted will inevitably either cost more than originally promised or lead to rationing (or likely both). But sooner or later, Americans will buy into such a plan -- if they think that it is "the right thing to do".

But if Americans can be persuaded that government-guaranteed health is fundamentally wrong on moral grounds, then they'll reject all proposed variants regardless of the specific financial details.

With respect to moral and/or philosophical arguments, Republican sometimes say things that sound promising, such as Ryan's "We don't think the government should be in control of all of this. We want people to be in control."

But they never consistently defend the underlying principle of individual rights, the concept that individual rights are essential to human life in a social context, or the morality of a limited government which leaves honest men free to peacefully pursue their lives and their self-interest.

Hence, the Republicans leave themselves constantly vulnerable to statists claiming that there is a "moral imperative" to implement some new entitlement program, whether it be guaranteed health care, a jobs program, or a Medicare drug benefit. The most they can do is object to the costs of a particular program (or to some other specific implementation details) -- but not to the worthiness of the underlying goal.

In other words, the Republicans often argue that socialized medicine is impractical (or the closely related "it's too expensive"), but they rarely if ever argue that it's immoral.

We Stand FIRM: Ryan At The Summit

American Thinker: Judge Vinson Also Smacks Down Crony Capitalists

Judge Vinson's individual mandate ruling is seen -- properly -- as a defeat for ObamaCare and a win for individual freedom. And it is all of that, of course.

But there's more. Perhaps almost as pleasing as the affirmation of individual freedom and the dismissal of a government run-society is the smack-down Judge Vinson's ruling gave to the concept of "crony capitalism." And that may be just as important in the long run.

After all, no government-run society is even possible without corporatists and crony capitalists eager to jump into the sack with the statists who will design laws to force unwilling customers to those corporations. This is something the statists will do under threat of sending IRS and other bureaucrats to harass every unwilling business or individual. You do remember that it was sixteen thousand new IRS agents -- not sixteen thousand new doctors -- that ObamaCare has plans to employ, don't you?

Gee, you think maybe ObamaCare was about control and not health care?

American Thinker: Judge Vinson Also Smacks Down Crony Capitalists

Capitalism Magazine - The Great Debt Shift

While this socialization of private debt has created deep citizen resentment, it remains to be seen whether political pressure is enough to hold back the tide. In the US, the forces of fiscal restraint appear to have the upper hand at present; but, this late in the game, it is far from certain that the newly elected fiscal hawks will be able to avert civil unrest and debt default.

Capitalism Magazine - The Great Debt Shift

American Thinker: How to Get Rich from Liberal Delusions

The secret to instant wealth is to spot a mass delusion and bet against it. The Tulip Craze. Florida swamp land.

Getting the timing right is tricky, but we are blessed with an overload of mass delusions. You can pick your own favorite. Delusional bubbles have to pop at some point, because the people who are paying for them eventually figure out that they've been had.

American Thinker: How to Get Rich from Liberal Delusions

Capitalism Magazine - Liberals Don't Hate Money, They Hate Walmart (Capitalism)

The answer is plain and simple: Liberals and socialists hate success.

They tolerate it in people like George Soros and Warren Buffet, because these people use their money to actually advance the cause of socialism.

When someone who doesn't necessarily support socialism (such as Bill Gates, at least earlier in his career) tries to win over liberals by giving even millions to the poor and the downtrodden, it has no effect.

This is because it's not the poor and the downtrodden that liberals care about. It's power and control that they want. The poor and the downtrodden -- real or alleged depending on the particular case -- are a means to the end for liberals. Their end is power. It always has been, and it always will be.

Capitalism Magazine - Liberals Don't Hate Money, They Hate Walmart (Capitalism)

Capitalism Magazine - The Hypocrisy Underlying Obama's Speech

Desperate Americans, even some "conservatives," look to Obama during a time of crisis to distract us from the disastrous course we have been on for years, a course which Obama has accelerated at full throttle. They made Obama's speech a litmus test. They fooled themselves into thinking that if Obama didn't use the speech to blast Rush Limbaugh or other opponents, then he must be a good guy after all.
People this naive deserve what they get. What they're going to get in the coming months is more socialism, more taxation, more Big Government and more censorship of people who disagree than this nation has ever seen.
If Obama's opponents in Congress allow this unrelated tragedy to become an excuse for what liberals do best -- promoting raw emotionalism over reason and facts -- then they deserve to lose the ground they worked so hard to gain. Here’s hoping we get back to reality … and soon.

Capitalism Magazine - The Hypocrisy Underlying Obama's Speech