Posted by
PDX Dave on Monday, March 15, 2010 11:44:51 PM
If you want to peer into the future of America, just look to the train wreck that is the British socialist system.
In England, the government assumes financial responsibility everyone from cradle to grave, and the system is in a constant state of "emergency" fix. Year after year after year, they "patch" the system to keep it going. until they have reached the logical end: The system is nothing BUT patches. Saving the SYSTEM is now the goal, not saving the person.
Now, the government is denying care to an ever larger mass of citizens as it faces the necessity of rationing. Having gone full circle, the Brits now have large portions of the population who are not covered. It was precisely this state which was so unacceptable in the past, that they put socialist schemes in place. Only now, the people who are paying for the system are the ones denied care, and those who contribute nothing get all of the care.
The weak shall survive by draining the lifeblood of the fit. And when the fit become weakened by the constant load on its shoulders? Another patch! Shift the burden to an ever-smaller portion of people, until the burden crushes the economy. Until only a fool would dare get a job for fear of being penalized and tasked to carry everyone else.