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A is A, and Socialism by any Other Name…

that Obamacare isn’t socialism ignores socialism’s essential nature. Technical definitions aside, socialism is a form of collectivism, the doctrine that holds that the standard of value is the group, to which the individual is subordinate and can be sacrificed on any group whim, as represented by the state. Communism, Nazism, welfare statism, fascism, democracy, and socialism are all manifestations of collectivism. The sacrifice of individual rights under a statist regime is the political essence of collectivism, and that is exactly the nature of Obama’s health care plan.

But to advocate socialism openly and honestly is and always has been a loser in America. After the tyranny, wars, and unprecedented mass murder wrought by the socialist regimes of Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China, and the many smaller variants of the 20th century, socialism is dead as an intellectual force. That is why the champions of socialized medicine run from the socialist label as from the plague.

As the great Aristotle said; A is A. And socialism is socialism. We are headed toward totalitarian socialism in America, and have been for the past century. Under Obama, the trend is accelerating. But he is an empty suit, simply cashing in on the trend…the collectivists preferred method of American socialization…the back door of fascism. Step by step, through programs such as the Veterans Administration, Medicare, a myriad of government controls and taxes, etc., total government control of medicine (and, in fact, the entire economy) is and has been advancing in America…long before Bush-Obama socialism appeared on the American scene.

The fascist method was explained by a former leader of a major Western nation some time ago:

“The party is all-embracing…” said Adolf Hitler upon taking power, “Each activity and each need of the individual will thereby be regulated by the party as the representative of the general good…This is Socialism- not such trifles as the private possession of the means of production. Of what importance is that if I range men firmly within a discipline they cannot escape. Let them own land or factories as much as they please. The decisive factor is that the State, through the party, is supreme over all, regardless of whether they are owners or workers…Our Socialism goes far deeper…[the people] have entered a new relation…What are ownership and income to that? Why need we trouble to socialize banks and factories? We socialize human beings.” (From Herman Rauschning’s The Voice of Destruction, as quoted in The Ominous Parallels, by Leonard Peikoff, page 231-232.)

We will maintain our illusion of privacy, while the state, through the medical bureaucracy, exercises total control over the medical and business decisions of patients, insurers, and providers alike. Doctors won’t be technical employees of the state (the communist brand of collectivism), at least not initially. But, fascism is socialism…and so is Obamacare…whether Mr. Schwalb, President Obama, or Bill O’Reilly want to call it that or not. Obamacare will “range men firmly within a [health care] discipline they cannot escape.” The medical bureaucracy will be “all-embracing”, and the people will be socialized…sooner (if the democrats have their way) or later (if the current GOP has its way).

The only antipode to collectivism/socialism is individualism/free market capitalism…the system based upon America’s founding principles of unalienable individual rights and textconstitution republican government…long absent from American health care.

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Dollar’s Days of Dominance Are Over

Seeking Alpha

by Jeff Neilson

While it may not constitute the final “nail in the coffin”, India commemorated the 4th of July by joining China and Russia in announcing they were seeking “alternatives” to the U.S. dollar (as “reserve currency”). With yet one more “prop” removed from the gangrenous greenback, this left only the submissive Japanese as the last major holder of U.S. dollars who strongly supports its continued status.

Bloomberg reported Saturday that the economic advisor to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has publicly and explicitly recommended that India reduce the U.S. dollar component of its currency reserves. “The major part of India reserves [totaling $264 billion] is in U.S. dollars – that is something that’s a problem for us,” said Suresh Tendulkar.

These remarks come only one day after China’s former Vice Premier, Zeng Peiyan stated, “There should be a system to maintain the stability of the major reserve currencies.” continue reading…

Everyone seems to want to point fingers at George Bush, and his friends for the current situation over energy. No one seems to want to remember back in the 1980′s, when our then political leaders, and noted scientists, industrialists, etc, were warning us that one day the world of supply and demand, would far outstrip, the available stockpile and also fields of oil on our planet.
That day has come, and even though there may be some shenanigans going on between commodity traders and such, in this so called free-market, the new global market, and new emerging industrial nations, are competing directly, with the U.S. for oil, on the new global economy.
It is a culmination of three economic factors driving the price of oil. A weak dollar, competition from the global economic community, and less of the product to divide amongst a growing world with an insatiable appetite for oil.
You may remember last year when a new car was produced for approximately $1500 per unit, in south east asia, which according to last reports, is being bought at a faster pace than can actually be produced.
Now everyone in China is buying a car, and also need gasoline to drive it, and are adding to the hydrocarbons proliferating in our atmosphere, which in turn is causing a much faster rate of polar warming.
The U.S. at one time consumed 60% of the worlds energy, now it is down to 40%, and yet we still cannot get enough of the black gold to run our machinery, even though as a more modern technocal industrial nation, our use of oil is less wasteful, the demand is still far greater than the supply.
All of the leaders of industry say now $4 a gallon for gas is here to stay, and if there is any kind of interruption in the flow of the supply, could really climb to $7 a gallon overnight.
As a nation for far to long we have been putting off the inevitable, which is less of the oil to go around for everyone, thereby driving the price up, to supply and demand, as our so-called free-market adapts to the situation.
No one has an answer to the high price, except for posturing and more posturing.
Of course eventually, someone with an idea will come up with a new method of energy production, or we will destro ourselves in a n attempt to control what we need for our own end.
There are far too many humans on this planet, using way too much of the available resources left. Either we come back to common sense and start controlling our populations, producing a much more efficient rapid transit system, and one other thing, start to consider the use of nuclear power to meet our energy needs.
The development of alternative sources of energy is just in its infancy, and will eventually take off given time and technological development, but not in the next 5 years and until then, this energy shortfall may well cause an economic depression the likes of which will make the so called dirty 30′s a picnic, comparred to what may come……