Stan Geiger

Socialism is Capitalism

The word "socialism" gets a lot of attention these days. Let's take a look at that.

I watched the morning pundit shows. All the talk was about health care. Do you really think any Washington politician, from Obama on down, gives a fat monkey's ass about poor folks that can't afford health insurance? Do you really?

Politicians are about paying debts owed to big-money types. That's what health care reform is all about. It's about money.

Is anybody deprived of health care in this country? I mean if I went down to an emergency room, would I not get care?

So far as I know, there is a state law that says I get care. I would hope it goes beyond that. I would hope a doctor, sworn to treat the ill, wouldn't toss me into the street because I couldn't pay.

Doctors want to get paid. Hospitals want to get paid. Any health-related company wants to get paid.

Health insurers want to get paid. Those companies want healthy people mandated to buy insurance. They want those thousands a year in premiums paid by people that have no problems. In effect, they want a tax on the healthy populace to pay for the unhealthy populace.

And speaking of an unhealthy populace, what about the food supply? Last I heard it reported, 31 million food cards are handed to households in this country every month. How many people are being fed in those households every month? A hundred million, maybe? A third of the population, in the most prosperous nation on the planet, is eating gubment food.

Much of that food, by the way, is poison. So we talk about health care as the gubment subsidizes the poisoning of the population. Super.

Who likes the plan? Well, I imagine the biggest grocer in the nation---Walmart---likes the plan. It gets billions a month in sales paid for by the U.S. taxpayer.

How about Mr. Ed?

Educators jack up the cost of a degree through the roof. The gubments answer? Well, we need another gubment program to "help people."

Where does the money go? It goes into colleges and universities, and, therefore, into the pockets of professors, administrators and coaches.

Follow the money, folks. Follow the money and you will find socialism is capitalism. It just boils down to where the money goes.

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