Enemies of the 1st Amendment ~ By Erik Rush

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By Erik Rush Posted: November 05, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2009

He just needs to drag them [the American people] to it. Like I just said, they're stupid. Get health care done. Comedian Bill Maher, Aug. 25, 2009, on "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien"

I recently read a posting on a social networking site that made me laugh, despite the fact that it had some truly sad features. It was posted by someone I knew years ago, and she was "discussing" aspects of health-care reform and those who oppose the measures currently being proposed by President Obama and Congress. To her, the entire "health care crisis" is the fault of corporate insurance providers. Well, she was a bubblehead in high school, so I suppose I shouldn't have been entirely surprised. It was, as I said, both amusing and distressing to hear this woman – a white, middle-class gal – going on like Natasha Fatale from "Rocky and Bullwinkle" about "fat capitalists" with their "fat fingers on the scale," cheating "the workers." Apparently, even the corner grocer, just a guy with a small business, is somehow an evil, avaricious thief. I would add that the health-care situation in the U.S. doesn't even concern her; in her haste to become euro-trash, she actually moved to a castrated, socialistic European nation years ago. The above estimation – one held by an unsettling number of Americans – reflects two even more unsettling truths: One is that such people possess no sense of economic literacy whatsoever; they are simply not aware of the dynamics of the system in which they live and how it sustains them. Two, they have bought into the belief that those who produce should somehow be in a position of thralldom to those who consume, whether it is a corner grocer or a conglomerate. [CLICK HERE TO READ MORE]