As I was driving home today, I heard the latest attempt at getting the masses on Obama and the other statist’s side concerning this health care reform bill. It was a commercial featuring various religious people pushing the idea that it would be immoral or against God’s wishes for us to prevent this bill from becoming law.
Here’s the commercial:
Now Obama is using religious terms to rail on those against this plan, claiming they are “bearing false witness.”
This is a blatant attempt to appeal to the emotion of the viewer. It could also be an appeal to authority (the highest authority) by bringing God into the discussion. But what it comes down to is taking care of your brother, figuratively speaking of course. If it were intended to be your real brother, then Barack would have brought his brother out of the ghetto in Kenya and taken him to Five Guys instead of Biden.
In one passage, the woman says, “We keep praying, but our premiums keep rising.” Another says, “Our church has tried to help, but it’s just not enough.”
In other words, God has let us down, so our only solution is big government.
Understand one thing: the foundation of this program is built on immorality. For this program to work, the government has to seize the property of the people who created it, repackage it and redistribute it, after it takes a cut. If you refuse to pay, you go to jail. If you refuse to go to jail, someone with a gun shows up at your house, points it at you and forces you to go to jail.
This isn’t charity. It’s theft.
John Jay said, “No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.” George Washington said, “Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” Socialism combines the two: taking your property, without your consent, with force.
Almost a year ago, after being called a “capitalist asshole,” I wrote:
A capitalist creates a product, or offers a service, for a price. If the price is too high for the public, no one buys it and no one is forced to. The price, when correct, allows the capitalist to pay for the material used in the product, plus a little profit.
Profit. In the mind of a socialist, this is a foul word. Indeed, profit is a word used today to demonize people and organizations. It is the capitalist’s desire for personal gain that leads the socialist to believe they are morally superior, because the socialist’s actions are done for the “common good.” But socialists, as we have already discussed, have nothing to give unless they have already looted it from another. Capitalists give freely from their profits, not what they steal from another at the point of a gun.
Socialists and statists feel they are doing good deeds by taking from the masses and redistributing it, but they are tearing down the foundations of wealth creation. When someone feels they will have little to gain by their success, they will either flee or stop trying. When others can get something without any effort, why would they put forth an effort?
Eventually no one is doing anything more than the minimum.
For real reform, there needs to be drastic change no one is willing to discuss because it would be political suicide. But the attempt by the left to rebrand this as a religious and moral issue is disingenuous. This isn’t about God, and it isn’t about faith. It’s about growing government to a dangerous size. It’s about creating a bureaucracy that will lower the standard of care across the board to raise it for a few.
God has a place in this debate. It is this: trust in Him and He will take care of you.
It’s that simple.
He won’t make it more complicated. That’s the government’s job, which is why we are having this problem in the first place.
