Yes, Mass Extortion "Works" (for Some People)

Friday, 16 October 2009 12:55

Yes, Mass Extortion "Works" (for Some People)
Larken Rose

As usual, the mainstream discussion of health care "reform" focuses only on "acceptable" topics, which carefully avoid exposing the underlying violent nature of the state. For example, almost all of the debate over Obama's commie-care focuses on whether it "works," without defining just what it means for the system to "work."

If someone breaks into your neighbor's house, steals a bunch of his stuff, and gives YOU his wide-screen TV and $1,000 in cash, does that "work" for you? Well, as long as you either don't know about, or are willing to IGNORE, the inherent immorality of what happened, yes, it "works" just fine--for YOU, anyway. You got stuff you didn't have to pay for. What could be better? (How about being a moral human being?)

"The most good for the most people" is a very common, and heinously evil, measure of whether some master plan "works" or not. For example, for lots of people in Canada and the UK, socialized medicine does "work," because they're getting a lot more health care than they actually paid for. They receive the benefit, while someone ELSE (usually someone labeled "the rich") is forced to pay the bill. Could it be that most of the Canadians who say, "Yeah, the system works great," are saying it because they're getting more than they paid for? If you ask me, that's pretty darn likely. Is that the proper measure of how good a plan is: how many people get free goodies?

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