George Rebane
– The collateral damage from Obamacare.
– Where is Obama’s plan for healthcare?
– Michelle demonstrates low carbon, organic shopping.
When you see Obamacare costs going up in lockstep with your taxes, you start looking at your neighbors a little differently. The fat guy is no longer just a fat guy waddling down the sidewalk. You know he’s going to have big time medical problems that he could avoid without all those extra pounds, and you know that you will be paying for the extra burden he will put on our socialized healthcare system. And you think ‘There oughta be a law against people getting fat like that, ‘cause it costs all of us extra.’ Well as usual, California has got you covered in that kind of thinking, and is actively looking at ways it can prohibit the consumption of sugared soft drinks in the Golden State. Few people are aware of the collateral damage to our freedoms that all shared cost social programs do. (At this point some liberal readers immediately conclude again that Rebane is against all government programs, and smugly point out the interstate highways system and local fire department.) Ol’ pappy taught most of us Golden Rule #2, ‘Them that’s got the gold, makes the rules.’ And if part of that gold for Obamacare comes from us, we’ll have a tendency to start making more rules for our neighbors and back politicians who will help us do it. And many people think that this is good.
Speaking of Obamacare, few people have noticed that there is no healthcare bill from the White House. As Obama goes around the country talking about “my healthcare bill” and “my plan”, it’s the Democrats in Congress who are now wondering what in hell is he talking about. Actually, this tactic has served the First Fibber well as he makes his rounds pumping socialized medicine. But with five 
(yes, five) healthcare bills still running around loose in Congress, Dems like Max Baucus (gang of six fame) are now starting to wish that the President would either defecate or relinquish the receptacle. It seems that even the dufus division in Washington has noticed that there is a big difference between grand objectives from the podium and a plan to achieve them. But down in the hinterlands where we live, this little distinction goes completely unnoticed – ‘My plan is to make sure every community has sustainable solar power.’ – and the sheeple marvel at such wisdom while shouting down anyone who points out that the emperor has no clothes.
Michelle’s little rustic outing is all over the media today. This morning a reader emailed me the link to Washington Post’s (gasp!) story ‘Hi-Ho, the Derry-O’ of the fiasco. Shutting down a good part of downtown Washington so that her First Nibs could get some “certified organic Tuscan kale” is quite a glimpse into our collective future. It’s definitely worth a read. Oh, and in that bucolic down-home scene, do you notice the two organic shoppers in black?
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