Government, government, government. Men like Jesse Jackson maintain influence over the gullible with tales of a socialist utopia of government dependency. Why would anyone want to teach their children such nonsense?
As I wrote in “Why Courting the Black Vote Won’t Work”, many blacks from all socioeconomic classes consider government entanglement a good thing.
In “Kerry Can’t Afford To Go Negative”, Jackson paints a picture of a Bush Administration that’s barely recognizable. According to Jackson, President Bush should share his dream of taking money from taxpayers so that others can get free stuff.
He writes:
Bush’s campaign strategy is clear: With the worst jobs record since the Depression, record trade deficits and jobs going abroad, record budget deficits endangering Social Security and Medicare, more people without health care, wages not keeping up with prices, broken promises on education and the environment, and Americans left bearing the burden in a deteriorating Iraq and Afghanistan, the president figures that it is easier to scare Americans about John Kerry than to run on his record.
Government, government, government. How did Jackson get a newspaper column, anyway?
People like Jesse come up with all sorts of ideas on how they can use your money (has he ever had a real job?), such as socialized medicine — all the free health care you want, provided that those with jobs pay for it.
What people like Jesse don’t understand about socialized medicine is that, yes, although you get free treatment, the demand for that treatment goes up and the quality goes down.
Instead of running his mouth, Jesse (and other socialists) should actually use the brain God gave him and study the unintended consequences of the elimination of private medicine. But there’ll be peace in the Middle East before that happens.
As you read Jackson’s column, notice his disconnect with reality. He sounds more like a paranoid thug than a “Reverend” or a man who ran for president of the United States. How sad that this man has had such a privileged and charmed life on the backs of black Americans.
Thomas Sowell writes about universal health care in Hillary’s Back:
“Universal health care” is a lovely phrase with political resonance in some quarters. But what does it mean concretely?First of all, since people differ in what they want, nothing can be “universal” without being mandatory. In other words, we are talking about forcing people to belong to whatever program the politicians and bureaucrats come up with, regardless of what the people themselves might prefer.
As for health, it is the end result of many things — diet, exercise, genetics, lifestyle — most of which are beyond the scope of government. What the government can control — doctors, hospitals, medicines — are only part of the equation.
What the lovely phrase “universal health care” boils down to is politicians and bureaucrats forcing people to get their medical treatment and pharmaceutical drugs the way the politicians and bureaucrats decide.
Initially I was going to blog about Jackson’s “advice” to Kerry on how to fight President Bush, but I got caught up in the government dependency theme running through the article. It’s pitiful to raise children with this mind-set.
