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This plan is blatant redistribution of wealth. As evidence of it, look at the various ways being considered to pay for this care. One of the latest is a tax on health policies costing $25,000 per year. This means that those who work hard and pay high premiums to get the best coverage would see their own health care costs to provide for others. “Soak the rich,” is a popular mantra of the left, but this promise must be viewed in light of history. Every government welfare program has started with taxes on the rich, but taxes always grow and the tax base always spreads.

Government provided healthcare, regardless of the method or the plan is an unconstitutional siezure and redistribution of wealth. Such programs subsidize bad decisions and punish productivity, while continuing to divide the nation along class lines.

It is the month of August, on the shores of the Black Sea. It is raining, and the little town looks totally deserted. It is tough times, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.

Suddenly, a rich tourist comes to town.

He enters the only hotel, lays a 100 Euro note on the reception counter, and goes to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one.

The hotel proprietor takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his debt to the butcher.

The Butcher takes the 100 Euro note, and runs to pay his debt to the pig grower.

The pig grower takes the 100 Euro note, and runs to pay his debt to the supplier of his feed and fuel.

The supplier of feed and fuel takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his debt to the town’s prostitute that in these hard times, gave her “services” on credit.

The hooker runs to the hotel, and pays off her debt with the 100 Euro note to the hotel proprietor to pay for the rooms that she rented when she brought her clients there.

The hotel proprietor then lays the 100 Euro note back on the counter so that the rich tourist will not suspect anything.

At that moment, the rich tourist comes down after inspecting the rooms, and takes his 100 Euro note, after saying that he did not like any of the rooms, and leaves town.

No one earned anything. However, the whole town is now without debt, and looks to the future with a lot of optimism..

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the United States Government is doing business today.

The Constitution limits the US government to certain powers and forbids all other actions. If the American people in framing and ratifying the Constitution did not choose to empower the federal government to choose which businesses fail and which ones are saved then this is an illegal act.

Many will wonder what alternatives were possible. If a company makes bad choices then let it fail. When the employees, through their unions, make business unprofitable for the company they deserve to experience the unemployment line. What the government subsidizes you get more of. So long as the government intervenes to remove the pain from bad decision you will get more such decisions.

Every American who loves the Constitution should pass by the General Motors lot and shop elsewhere.

The programs and philosophies of our nation’s current administration and legislature would be right at home on the campus of Berkley and in the hallowed halls of Sacramento. Discouragement of business, attempts to saddle the free market with draconian controls and welfare programs designed to encourage dependency are just a few symptoms of the California flu spreading to other states and to the US Capital. The nanny state, distrust of individuality and inane attempts to ’spread the wealth’ leave one unsurprised at the tongue-in-cheek People’s Democratic Republic of California, or the oft heard “Left Coast.”

For too long Californians have allowed their democratically elected leaders to play social engineer and to design a state that is incompatible with individual freedom, all in the name of progress and social ‘justice.’ Unfortunately, the infection of other states is compounded by California’s own ineptitude. As people flee for their economic life, little do they realize that they carry the seeds of destruction to lay waste to their new home state. As they miss social programs and benefits they once enjoyed in California they steer the democratic process to institute these, never realizing they are recreating the failed system they fled. I have lived in the Western US all of my life, except for a brief time stationed on the East Coast in the Army. I have observed this pattern of Californicating all through the west.

Fear of Obama’s plans for this country have inspired many states to rightly reassert their rights under the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the Constitution and these Constitutional questions are reviving talk of secession. I would propose a solution that would be far easier. Why not kick California out of the Union? Those who have created this monstrosity of a state would no longer be US citizens and unable to foul our political system. We are currently building a fence along the border with Mexico. Would it be too expensive to make a right turn and continue it to Oregon?

Of course only certain parts of California are the source of the radical political effluent. Most of the idiocy is along the coast from San Francisco south to San Diego. This is easy to handle by division. We could handle California like Virginia during the Civil War. The counties of Northwest Virginia chose to remain with the Union. They were severed off from the rest of the state and a new state of West Virginia was born. Let’s do this with California. The coastal left-leaning regions would be cut loose to form their socialist mecca (within a few years we could buy the land cheap from the survivors), while the rest of the state would be reconstituted as a replacement. Of course the name should reflect the historic act. Perhaps we call it Free California.