Democrats: It’s Easier To Victimize People With Government Health Care When They’re Scared
At least, that’s what I’m getting from this in the New York Times:
WASHINGTON — The bad economy is good for President Obama and Democrats as they try to reinvent the health care system with scant Republican support.
That is the conclusion of many Congressional Democrats, who say that economic insecurity and high unemployment stoke public support for their proposals to guarantee insurance for millions of Americans.
Representative Jim McDermott, Democrat of Washington, said this was one of the biggest differences between the health care wars of 1993-94 and the battle today. When Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton fought for universal coverage, Mr. McDermott said, the economy was on an upswing, in the early stages of a 10-year economic expansion, which proved to be the longest in American history.
Today, by contrast, the economy is weak. Americans have struggled through the worst recession in decades. The unemployment rate is at a 26-year high.
So to get that straight, government health care couldn’t pass in 1994 because Americans weren’t scared enough to be convinced that they’re victims and need to be made dependent on the government. But today, with a nasty recession in evidence to take advantage of (can’t let a good crisis go to waste!), it’s much easier convincing Americans that they’re victims and need to be rescued.
With a big, heaping helping of government dependence naturally.
This is how liberals operate. First they scare you. Then they convince you that your helpless. Then they ride to the rescue with some massive new government program for you to pay for, and all you have to do is say yes.
And every time they succeed we’re all a little less independent, and they’re a little more in control of our lives.
