When Commodities Are FREE, People AREN’T....

If you believe in “free things,” like free/government provided medical care, free/government provided education, free food, clothing, shelter, etc. than YOU believe in chattel SLVERY!

Commodities are produced by human labor.

In the private sector, a medical practitioner or an educator can sell their commodities (specified knowledge and skills developed at cost to themselves) to the highest bidder, PROVIDING that they are able to consistently deliver good quality service for the fees/prices they charge, so long as those fees are in-line with what the market will bear, or, they can work for the “prevailing wage” paid to those professions.

Whether you like the private enterprise system or not, it is the ONLY economic system that encourages, even allows HUMAN FREEDOM.

When all goods and services are run by/controlled by the government, the worker/commodity provider is, by definition, NOT free. When a government goes rogue and seeks to stamp out human freedom and initiative by exerting control over the economy, that government becomes a de facto “slave owner.”

Government is the ONLY means by which a monopoly can exist. In an open or free market, a given enterprise can only garner 90% or more of the market by offering goods and services at prices and of a quality that the consumer prefers over all others. Once that enterprise stops doing that, it will lose market share and lose it quickly.

ONLY government can maintain a monopoly because only a government can exert the force needed to circumvent and suppress the market. The Post Office only exists because the government bars competition in letter carrying. It has already lost huge swaths of the package shipping industry to more competitive rivals. AT&T was able to maintain its monopoly status only through government coercion and control.

The failure of government sponsorship is on display in two areas today; Right now, the USA has TWO failing “public options” for health care – Medicare and Medicaid. Medicare recipients paid into that system all of their lives, Medicaid is for the chronically poor. Those Medicare recipients who divested themselves of their assets before shifting to Medicaid, have NOT paid into that system. They paid their FICA taxes for their Medicare benefits, when they moved to Medicaid they willingly merged themselves with the chronically poor. Regardless, BOTH of those public options are now virtually insolvent – they owe more than they can possibly take in.

Moreover, many doctors (and the numbers increase annually) refuse to take on any new Medicare or Medicaid patients.

With less than 4% of all physicians going into primary care the newly signed health care bill will allegedly add 31 million new patients to the system. Not only is there a “doctor shortage” right NOW in the field of Primary Care, many doctors have looked at the reimbursement rates and found they could no longer continue in Primary Care medicine at those rates and under the new conditions/restrictions.

We appear to be heading for a “health bubble” burst that could be even worse than the ongoing subprime mortgage/global credit crisis.

And speaking of bursts, the second existing failing government sponsorship is currently on display with the Housing GSE’s (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as the “third GSE, the Federal Home Loan Bank System), ALL of which are deeply in debt because of their foolishly embracing inane utopianist schemes to equalize Americans and create yet another “commodity (housing) as a human right.” This was the result of a rogue government’s adhering to a blatantly unconstitutional concept (“disparate impact”) rooted in an equally unconstitutional concept of EQUALIZING people. Liberty REQUIRES IEQUALITY and the greater the inequities and disparities in wealth, the MORE FREE a nation is.

And yet, today there is neither any doubt, nor debate about whether these inept government policies (ie. looking to make sure that traditional lending criteria don’t “discriminate” against low income and poorer Americans) were completely responsible for the subprime mortgage meltdown and the subsequent global credit crisis.

So now, that same inept rogue government wants to equalize health care between wealthier and poorer Americans? The result would be even more horrific than the subprime mortgage disaster!

The ONLY right way to cut America’s health care costs is to offer a universal bare-bones “public option” that would take the onus of providing health care off the backs of American business and its Municipalities and put it back on the taxpayer and further upon the individual – as individuals would be responsible for paying for the privately available gap insurance needed to avoid the strict rationing and tight restrictions of that bare-bones public option on their own. That way, those least able, as well as the most reckless and irresponsible among us would be rationed and the health care system would be far less abused.

Commodities can’t be free unless the people are not free.

When home ownership is given to the poor via 0% down, subprime mortgages, the productive, working Americans pay the ultimate price. It’s the same thing when high tech, high-cost health care is given to those unable/unwilling to pay the premiums for it, that guarantees the abuse and overuse of that healthcare system and the same kind of crushing “bubble burst” we just saw with the collapse of the housing market due to a number of ill-conceived, government-inspired policies designed to make home ownership available to “Americans it hadn’t been available before.”

We DON’T need any more hair-brained schemes designed by hair-brained political hacks set up to equalize people in violation of a Constitution that enshrines inequality (freedom is inequality) and “disparate impact” (individualism mandates disparate impact between BOTH individuals and groups), we NEED to accept the inequities that individualism, private property rights and economic Liberty inevitably result in, for those inequities are, in fact, the mainspring of human progress!