The Daily Plunge

This is what happens when the state finally goes bankrupt.

There’s a fundamental difference between conservatives and liberals. It was on full display this past week as the pillars of the liberal establishment rallied behind ObamaCare. Liberals who opposed the Senate bill for not being bigger decided something was better than nothing. The mainstream press (Washington Post, New York Times, etc.) endorsed the bill. It’s odd that anyone can be in favor of a bill that’s so bad. I won’t go into the details because I’ve written about it extensively over the past six months. Besides, I find myself looking at cardboard boxes wondering if I should start saving materials for when we’re living under a bridge if I think about it too much.

ObamaCare is bad from beginning to end. It’s the greatest gift ever given to the insurance companies in the short term, but signals the end of their business in the long term. Meanwhile, the President and his deranged followers act like everything is rosy. Liberals have fallen in love with the “idea” of heath care. I wrote about this a few days ago. Health care isn’t a logical issue to these robots; it’s a purely emotional issue.

The most common argument for universal health care is that Europe and Canada have it. This is a shallow and uninformed argument. When did the United States start looking at Europe for ideas? This is the continent we have bailed out of two horrendous world wars and who we defended during the Cold War. The only reason these States have been able to afford their massive entitlements is because the American taxpayer has paid for Europe’s defense. Furthermore, these European states are going bankrupt (see Greece, etc., etc.). They’ve reduced their defense budgets to shambles and they still can’t afford the entitlements, the pensions, the health care, and all the stuff the leftist crazies in our government would have us do.

If the left is committed to the idea of health care it will cripple the United States and the world will be a more dangerous place. The cancer of entitlements means the only place to carve out a temporary future is to cut defense. As the U.S. military weakens the world will become more unstable. Eventually, the economies of Europe and the rest of the West will cave under the weight of entitlements. It might be this generation, it might be the next, but unless there’s a change the inevitable outcome of the ignorance of the left is economic Armageddon.