The seasons of the year change, but politicians of the socialist mind set never change or go away. Such is the “I wanna be your President” John Edwards, who has a plan for everything designed to solve our ills; one of which is the non-existent health care problem that liberal Democrats continue to preach. He also wants to end poverty and restore the United States to leadership in the world. Sadly, the dependent on government crowd and the brain dead dupes will believe him. 

In 1965, Lyndon Johnson began the war on poverty. After nearly 52 years, all the government has done is create a population which more and more looks to government to solve their problems; squandered billions upon billions of tax dollars; and claim that not enough money has been expended to solve the problems which the government has created.

Edwards says he will make sure everyone has affordable, accessible health care and to pay for it, he will tax the wealthy, those horrible creatures who earn above 200,000 dollars each year. He says the Bush tax cuts must go to pay cost (of his ill advised utopian schemes). (Click the URL for tax percentages paid by the upper income groups. (http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/2/5/112446.shtml?s=ic)

Those who hear him tout his ideas should realize he is socialist, big government man who likes to shove government rule into the liberty we enjoy. He says that business must provide health care for their employees and if they don’t, they will have to pay into a government run program. How is that any different than the tyranny that dictators apply to the citizens of their nation? Mr. Edwards needs to remember that there wasn’t a health insurance or health care cost problem until LBJ imposed Medicare and its subsequent expansion.  

Instead of imposing more government and more taxes, why doesn’t Edwards try reducing taxes on all businesses, if not a total elimination of business taxes and reduce taxes on individuals? A change in the tax system would help facilitate the return of health care to a free market unhampered by government interference. When taxes on businesses are eliminated, the insurance companies which write health care coverage would be forced to lower premium costs due to competition. Over a period of time, cost at all levels of the health care system would fall simply due to freeing up business to operate unhampered by government. Along with all of that, encourage people to buy insurance if they so choose instead of forcing them to do so.

Edwards and his liberal friend won’t entertain such ideas because that would return the responsibility for the individual to each individual and would eliminate the need for government poobahs like Edwards. That doesn’t fit the agenda of the liberal elitist minds who believe that mere the “Little People” are incapable of taking care of their own business without government help.

What has been proposed above isn’t radical or new. In fact, the system worked well before LBJ decided to eradicate poverty by taking from the haves and giving to the have nots, the pure doctrine of Marx and Lenin called Communism. That we don’t need, and Edwards must be called to account for his socialist/communist economy busting ideas.

Those who swallow his line don’t understand the role of government, and must understand that it is as wrong for the government to take unjustly as it is for a thief to steal property of another. Theft of economic property is exactly what Edwards proposes to feed his insatiable appetite for big government.

In Sorting It Out, John Edwards is nothing but another arrogant socialist who needs to be sent packing.

© 02-05-2007 DEC