THE HEALTH CARE INITIATIVE

Our President has condemned the mountain of misinformation about his health care reform program and rightly so. But it seems that he has a problem identifying the false information. Actually the first piece of misinformation is the name of the health care reform plan.

The dictionary defines reform as a change to improve. Well, the so called healthcare reform plan is a change but it certainly is not an improvement.

The plan is not about improving health care. It is about increasing government control over the individual, you.

Ayn Rand was born in Russia in 1905. She grew up during the Bolshevik Revolution and immigrated to the United States in 1926 at the age of 21. In 1936 she wrote the book “WE THE LIVING” based on her experiences in Russia during and after the Bolshevik Revolution.

How does the book “WE THE LIVING” relate to the health care reform program? “WE THE LIVING” shows how the Communists used health care to control the individual. The heroine of “WE THE LIVING” had a lover with an easily cured but potentially fatal disease. To obtain health care for her lover, the heroine had to have an affair with a Communist party official. “WE THE LIVING” shows how a government with control of your health care controls you.

When the colonists won our independence from England, the “PEERS” class of citizen ceased to exist in America. But some politicians still yearned for the power and prestige the British “PEERS” enjoyed. The descendants of those politicians, the “WANNABE PEERS”, have spent over 200 years trying to reclaim the position of “PEER” with all the power, prestige and control over the producer that the 17^th century British “PEERS” enjoyed. Early on, these “WANNABE PEERS” realized that their constituency would be the poverty stricken, those dependent on the government for survival and special interest groups that demanded special treatment by the government at your expense. Even though the “WANNABE PEERS” give lip service to prosperity and claim to champion the poor, all of their programs destroy wealth and/or increase government control of the individual. The Washington D.C. “WANNABE PEERS” may not lust after your body as the Communist Official did Ms. Rand’s heroine but they certainly lust after your political support. Once the “WANNABE PEERS” control your health care, the message will be “SUPPORT TYRANNY OR DIE”. Of course, they won’t use those words but the meaning will be clear!

Let's rename the health care reform plan the “health care control plan”. The name, health care reform plan, implies that the plan will improve health care. The plan has nothing with healthcare and everything to do with control of the individual and your wealth.

The health care control plan is simply the latest in a series of programs designed to increase the “WANNABE PEERS” control over the individual and the nation’s wealth.

The “HEALTH CARE REFORM PROGRAM”, excuse me I mean the “HEALTH CARE CONTROL PROGRAM”, is no different. It is a sure recipe to create poverty and the economic crisis that the “WANNABE PEERS” use to advance their agenda.

The destruction of individual liberty began in the late 19th Century with the creation of the INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION and the passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

The ICC almost destroyed the RAILROAD INDUSTRY. The cost to the economy of the neutering of the RAILROAD INDUSTRY for almost 100 years can’t be overstated. When the RAILROAD INDUSTRY was partially deregulated in 1980 the industry regained much of its competiveness. In less than 30 years, freight rates dropped by almost 50% and freight volume increased by a factor of 3. The industry profits took the RAILROAD INDUSTRY off the endangered species list. The history of the ICC demonstrates the fallacy of government control of the means of production. Few bureaucracies have been as devastating to the economy as the ICC but all have cost us dearly.

The ICC was the first of the “FOURTH BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT”, the bureaucracy.The ability of the bureaucracy to create rules without Congressional approval and levy fines provides the “WANNABE PEERS” with the mechanism to control political dissent of the “COMMONS” (producer). While the bureaucracy has had a devastating effect on the economy, the greatest impact on our freedom is the ability it has given the “WANNABE PEERS” to control political dissent from the successful business man.

The next act of tyranny by the “WANNABE PEERS” was the Sherman Antitrust Act, passed 2 years after the ICC was created. The Sherman Antitrust Act is a non-objective law that makes it impossible to build and operate a highly successful business without violating that law. In the early 20^th Century, Standard Oil was convicted of being a monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act. Standard Oil’s crime? Between 1865 and 1890 Standard Oil exploited the consumer and the economy by REDUCING the price of kerosene from $0.58/gallon to just over $0.07/gallon. Fortunately for the economy, the prosecution of Standard Oil did not occur until 1909, well after the technology developed by Standard Oil had created the modern petroleum industry. By then Standard Oil had lost much of its control of the petroleum industry. Had the Antitrust Act been used to destroy Standard Oil in 1880 we probably would live in a vastly different world today. Development of the automobile would have been economically impossible. Gasoline at $0.58/gallon (without Standard Oil’s technology) in 1900 gasoline would have cost $14.50/gallon in 2008 dollars. The United States and the world owe much of its prosperity to the technology developed by Standard Oil.

The Sherman Antitrust Act has been used to perpetuate the “status quo” and protect the “technologically challenged”, but politically powerful. It has resulted in massive economic damage.

As devastating as the Sherman Antitrust Act has been to the economy, the major threat to our freedom is the ability of the “WANNABE PEERS” to control the entrepreneur with threats of prosecution for violation of the law.

Both the Antitrust Act and the bureaucracy extended government control over the entrepreneur and have posed a severe limit on our prosperity and limited political dissent.

The next great big increase in the power of the “WANNABE PEERS” over the individual was the 16^th Amendment to the Constitution, the income tax. Although the progressive income tax is a drag on the economy and a direct attack on prosperity, it is not the actual tax that is the greatest threat to the Republic. The REAL threat is the ability of the “WANNABE PEERS” to use the IRS to control and prosecute political opponents. Documented facts show that both FDR and Nixon used the IRS extensively against political opponents. There is some evidence that most Presidents since FDR have used the IRS to attack both political and personal enemies. Evidence of this type of activity is difficult to obtain until the principles have passed on.

The IRS provides the “WANNABE PEERS” with a powerful tool to control any successful person. The threat of IRS action can, and has, silenced political dissent while forcing political support.

It is difficult to use the IRS against working class individuals with uncomplicated income. The “HEALTH CARE CONTROL PLAN” will provide control of ALL individuals including YOU.

The “WANNABE PEERS” have the bureaucracy, IRS and the Antitrust Laws to control the entrepreneur and successful business person (the producer). They have the IRS to control the prosperous individual with complicated income structure. If successful in enacting the Health Care Control initiative, they will have control of everyone, just as the Communist official controlled Ayn Rand’s heroine and that includes YOU!

Felton Willaimson, Jr.

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