Cadillac Plans, Warnings, & Fear Mongering

January 21, 2010 by Noisy Dove

I was just thinking about how the unions took the deal they just got with their ‘Cadillac’ healthcare plans?

Personally, and specifically Citibank – I don’t care if they ram it up their ass sideways with the trunk open. But rationally and fundamentally, it’s just another example of the philosophical approach the Left takes to problem solving:

– The élites decide we all are entitled to, or have a right to “this” – home’s, clean water, healthcare, high pay, and so on. Instead of promoting the growth and advancement of “this” – which can often require some pesky effort and understanding – they take the simply approach. They look at how much “this” costs, make up a number of people not currently enjoying “this”, multiply the two, then decide which group of wealthy people to tax for that amount and pass the legislation with a rushing screaming mob under the banners of for-the-little-guy compassion and demonizing their opposition as being “for the status-quo”. –

In this case they want all the banks to pay back all the money tax payers have lost bailing them out. All the banks can’t pay. So the one’s that have paid – the ones with money – Obama wants to force to pay the whole bill. And that might be fair. I don’t know or really care except for the fact that this approach to home ownership was the cause of the bank problems to begin with. And don’t bring up poorly regulated derivative funds. Yeah, they were brand new devices that needed regulation. But what else needed regulation was Fannie and Freddie – which the evil Bush brigade tried to pass legislation for but Franks – and even Obama himself – fought against it successfully. They called the Conservative’s warnings of an impending crash due to Fannie and Freddie fear mongers.