Second, I cannot believe a member of our government is actually supporting redistribution of wealth, leveling the playing field, etc. That's Socialism folks!
And another thing! Where do these arrogant, pompous control freeks get off confiscating the earnings of one group of people and giving it to someone else!
Baucus was born Dec. 11, 1941, in Helena, Mont., the fifth-generation heir to a Montana ranching fortune. His great-grandfather, Henry Sieben, started the 125,000-acre Sieben ranch, featured in the film A River Runs Through It, and Sieben is in the Cowboy Hall of Fame.
Here's what the Republicans need to do. Since the Democrats just love putting their little provisions in the health care bill to carve out their buddies they need to payoff, lets have the Republicans file bill. Here's what it will say. All ranches in the state of Montana that are greater than 124,999 and less than 125,001 acres and are in the Cowboy Hall of Fame and are owned by anyone who's last name ends in Baucus shall be equally divided among the people of the county in which said ranch is geographically located! Then let's see Max Baucus squirm when his wealth is distributed!
And here's what Howard Dean said today on CNBC, I'll post the video later.
“Governor Dean, you want a more robust Public Option?”
“I think the bill still has some fairly significant flaws but you know we can work with this. This is what Mitt Romney did essentially in Massachusetts, but it’s going to take a long time but it’s going to lead to reforms ultimately. I wouldn’t call this bill reform but I do think it can lead to reform…it’s going to take a lot more work”
“Governor Dean, Philosophically… do you think your party knows…we’ve chosen a different type of society, more akin to Europe?”
“…when it gets [social inequality] out of whack…you need to do some redistribution. This is a form of redistribution.”
This CNBC Squawk Box interview occurred on March 25th; two days after President Obama signed into law the most significant major legislation since Medicare, in 1965. Go to 5:32 of the video for Howard Dean talking about redistribution.
Link To The Video
As Governor Dean stated, “This is a form of redistribution,” and “I wouldn’t call this bill [health care] reform but I do think it can lead to reform.” If this major legislation doesn’t – yet – provide the kind of health care change sold to the American public, what “change” actually was sold?
The U.S. Senate’s health-care legislation recently passed by the House does not “reform” America’s health-care system. Rather, it provides for transformative “change.” Change to America’s social contract; change to America’s civil society; and predominately, change to America’s individual freedoms and its relationship with its government.
18th century philosopher Edmund Burke writes of this difference between “change” and “reform”:
“There is…a marked distinction between change and [reform]. [Change] alters the substance of the objects themselves, and gets rid of all their essential good as well as of all accidental evil annexed to them…. Reform is not change in the substance or in the primary modification of the object, but a direct application of a remedy to the grievance complained of. So far as that is removed, all is sure. It stops there; and if it fails, the substance which underwent the operation, at the very worst, is but where it was.”
This health-care legislation “changes” the substance of the object; that object being America’s relationship between its citizenry and its government; a relationship emanated from our Founder’s Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights. This, I believe, is what Governor Dean was speaking to; like the proverbial adage of boiling the frog in the pot of water by – ever so slowly – increasing its temperature, he knows goals are attained by – ever so slowly – redefining relationships.
It is here – the substantive change between the relationship of an individual’s rights with that of government’s control over both these rights and property – that our nation’s battle lines are drawn. vtdigger.org
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