I am not surprised about Obama and his shift away from his staff comments about eliminating the “the public “ single-payer scheme. He did not double take or any take. It was a calculated move.

If this Obama care plan gets through, this is just going to embolden them more. I live in Vermont. They do what they say, if someone does not get in the way. Vermont is a lost case and this country is heading down the wrong path.

Socialism makes people lazy and the people who get “free stuff,” always want more. I have the perfect example. When I lived in France, I was taking the train into Paris for work; it stopped for two hours. Later, I found out that unemployed people where blocking tracks at a train station. They were not there to protest for work, they were there to get more money, as in a thirteenth month paycheck. This was common practice for companies to give their employee the benefit. 

My ex-wife had two friends who were on unemployment; one was on for 6 years and the other for 8. I asked them why and they both responded that they had everything that they needed and these types of people who protested were just asking for more government handouts. Typical is most Socialized European countries. Germany being the exception, they protest to get work. Of course, the downside, they want the government to something about it. 

We are on the same track.  The more you give the lazier people become. They have no incentive to do anything for themselves. They become a permanent voting base for the Far-left and they could careless about innovation. Keep people unmotivated in their model. Hand up, not hand out! If need be, help someone in the short-term, but left them know that it is not permanent. Otherwise, we will have permanent unproductive members of society without limits.

*** The foundations of the basis of Socialism by mass manipulation against the productive members of society. Simply, the less motivated get empowered to take away from the more productive, because the less productive think that they deserve as much a productive person. Of course , a big backlash, as demonstrated under Communism, why should I work harder, if I am going to get the same anyhow. Socialism is not to far away from this. Thus, it goes like this in France and you can see this from perpetually high unemployment and lack of incentive for innovation. Did you know that tax invasion is the number one sport in France? Soccer takes second. The French are over taxed, no surprise. The income tax is low, but they make it up with bogus taxes like “living tax” and 20.5 sales tax. This list goes on and on.