Posted by
TheChair on Saturday, June 06, 2009 10:57:09 AM
Our government is about to finish the socialization of medicine. If it does this, it will degrade the national character even further, not to mention what's left of our monetary system and the public fisc. (Our posterity already are debt slaves for what our generation has done.) I'm going to be blogging on this issue because of its importance. It is incumbent upon all citizens to discern and resist imminent threats to their liberty. As with opposition to natural marriage, this threat rises to that level. Below is a poem by
Tarzana Joe, a frequent weekly guest on Hugh Hewitt's radio show. (See
Hewitt's action plan against socialized medicine, here.) The verse's cadence is lighthearted, but its themes are very somber: a fascistic leader "with a plan," a plan that is fashioned "behind closed doors," a medical establishment scared into going along, corporations who once opposed socialized medicine now colluding with big government, a craven GOP content to trim rather than oppose, and the inevitable waiting lines and rationing that happen EVERYWHERE socialized medicine has been tried.
Poem for 5/15/09
I’ve seen the light
Now I can write
A bit of verse extolling
The many skills
And spending bills
Of he who topped the polling
So now this man
Has got a plan
And gives us his assurance
We can’t survive
Or stay alive
Without his health insurance
In threes and fours
Behind closed door
The bill has been assembled
Across the way
The A.M.A
And chiropractors trembled
While out at sea
The G.O.P.
Is huddled with advisers
I have a hunch
That this poor bunch
Is full of compromisers
They’ve tasted rout
And so I doubt
For all their public pledges
To some extent
They’ll be content
To trim around the edges
Those corporate thugs
Who make our drugs
Find their position weaker
But think they can
Affect the plan
By lobbying the Speaker
They disagree
With Nancy P
And hope their option’s saleable
If they agree
And guarantee
To keep Botox available
At set of sun
When all is done
I see a system fashioned
Where patients twist
On waiting lists
And Kayopectate’s rationed
Despite our wealth
The public health
Will not be any stronger
And I don’t see
How you and me
Can live lives that are longer
So here’s how our great leader
Has proved his fine credentials
He’s viewed the situation
And grasped the true essentials
And so proposed a system
Of vision, scope and purity
By screwing up our health care
He’ll save Social Security