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The 1996 Welfare Reform bill marked the first time any government
entitlement had ever been rolled back. Despite liberal howling and
foot-stomping, not subsidizing illegitimacy led, like night into day,
to less illegitimacy.
Well, that's over. The stimulus bill goes a long way toward
repealing the work requirement of the 1996 Republican Welfare Reform
bill and rewards states that increase their welfare caseloads by paying
unwed mothers to sit home doing nothing.
Second, bureaucrats at Health and Human Services will electronically collect every citizen's complete medical records
and determine appropriate medical care.
HHS bureaucrats will soon be empowered to overrule your doctor.
Doctors who don't comply with the government's treatment protocols will
be fined. That's right: Instead of your treatment being determined by
your doctor, it will be settled on by some narcoleptic half-wit in
Washington who couldn't get a job in the private sector.
And a brand-new set of bureaucrats in the newly created office of "National Coordinator of Health Information Technology" will be empowered to cut off treatments that merely prolong life. Sorry, Mom and Pop, Big Brother said it's time to go.
At every other workplace in the nation – even Wal-Mart! –
workers are being laid off. But no one at any of the bloated government
bureaucracies ever need fear receiving a pink slip.
All 64,750 employees at the department of Health and Human Services are
apparently absolutely crucial to the smooth functioning of the
department.
Robert Kennedy famously said: "There are those who look at things
the way they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream of things that never were and
ask, 'Why not?'"
The new liberal version is: There are those who look at
things and ask, "Why on earth should the government be paying for
that?" I dream of things that never were funded by the government and
ask, "Why not?" [etc]
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