Courting a Disaster

Why would a nation decide to do herself great injury? The nations of Western Europe have followed the path of benevolent socialism and look at where it has led them- into the abyss of dislocation and chaos. The trap America is diving into with national health care has been adopted, tried, adapted, and perfected (to the detriment of freedom and prosperity) by the European states with the most brilliant minds of the Left leading the way, often under the banner of moral obligation. Under the aegis of the universal care, left-leaning governments across the continent mucked things up, ushering in the return of the right. The conservatives, adults who took over after idealists had expanded benefits beyond the ability of taxpayers to afford, could not simply scrap the programs, which were now a moral imperative, a necessity, and an entitlement, but came in on the promise that the new stewards could better manage the spiraling costs of the programs. Once initiated, the virus of national care could not be contained by any party and the Right could not simply kill the scheme as even the widely-supported Thatcher government with some success in re-privatizing some of Britain's socialist bungles, could not have withstood the general strikes (such as Greece now faces), had Maggie tried to take away folks' medicine. Once the blunder of national care is entered, it is impossible to reverse the fiasco. So Europe's Right attempts better management of that which can not be managed. But the street in every country rejects belt-tightening, the imposition of fiscal discipline, and the kind of austerity that would restore the balance of "spreadsheet sanity". Once a nation has slipped into the noose of universal health care, they seemingly must endure the costs forever. There is no way to avoid the skyrocketing price in Euros and in intrusiveness of bureaucrats into lives. Leftists create schemes that metastasize. America has a last chance now to avoid the snare that captured Europe. The majority of US citizens know that the government will spend money that as a nation we do not have on a plan that we neither want nor need. Why embark on a doomed voyage? Stave off disaster now instead of inviting further economic collapse and the un-American abridgement of our sacred liberty.