The tiny Washington Examiner presumably paid conservative reporter and teevee panelist Byron York a lot of money to lure him away from his senior correspondent perch at National Review. Everyone wants this guy, for his talent. But even he, this Titan of Journalism, cannot wrap his head around why Barack Obama and the Democrats would try to reform the American health industry. Obviously rationales like “extending basic medical coverage to most people” or “regulating things that most countries started regulating 50 years ago” are typical liberal red herrings. The only motive that makes any sense, by default, must be the secret sadistic one, about backdoor Communism installation and stealing rich peoples’ money for fun.
Summing things up in the New York Times, the liberal economics columnist David Leonhardt called Obamacare “the federal government’s biggest attack on economic inequality since inequality began rising more than three decades ago.”
Now they tell us. For many opponents of the new legislation, the statements confirmed a nagging suspicion that for Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress, the health fight was about more than just insurance — that redistribution played a significant, if largely unspoken, part in the drive for national health care.
“I don’t think most people, when they think of the health care bill, instantly think it’s a vehicle to redistribute wealth,” says pollster Scott Rasmussen. “But we do know that people overwhelmingly believe it will lead to an increase in middle class taxes, and we do know that people are concerned that it will hurt their own quality of care, so I think their gut instincts point in that direction.”
Look at Byron York and the Republican pollster who pretends to be independent! Look at them agonize! This is their mindset. First came the desire to redistribute wealth. Just to redistribute it for fun. This was the foundation. But what shell of a non-issue can be used as a vehicle, to steal everyone’s money, for poor people? Hmm… perhaps this “health care reform” campaign talking point. Most people know that there is nothing wrong with the Finest Health Care System In The World, so they need to be convinced. Tell them lies like, “we want to make sure that people who actually need medical coverage can obtain it,” and whatever other fairy bullshit. Win their sensitive sides. Then… TAKE ALL THE MUNNIE!!!!!
Remember this scoop. Byron York is good at journalism.
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SHOCKING
Byron should look into getting one of those jobs at Politico.
I bet that Barry’s attempt to “help people” with “legislative support for much-needed policies” is just a cynical attempt to manipulate folks into voting for him again.
I have a fungal infection on my penis that stubbornly refuses to go away. It’s like the male equivalent of a yeast infection. It’s a raw, vividly red, irregular patch, and I would really like to see a dermatologist and get a prescription for it.
I can probably wait until 2014 if I have to, but if this whole HCR thing was only done to redistribute wealth, I guess I will just keep rubbing concealer on it and having sex with the lights off.
Thank God someone is finally speaking out for the rich man.
If “redistributing the wealth” is the biggest boogeyman the Repugs can come up with at the moment, they really *are* screwed. The average, broke-ass American Joe is probably all for a lil’ “redistribution of wealth” right about now…
Yeah cause the rich in US America have it so rough. Can’t drive Mercedes because people might get upset while driving their hoopties. They feel intimated that their wealth can’t be lorded over the poors and tinted illegal peoples of US America. Can’t manipulate gubbiment via lobbyists. It is sooooh tough to be rich.
It’s pretty clear that if you compel a minimum-wage worker shell out $900 a month for a family medical insurance plan you’re redistributing wealth. It’s also clear that the wealth is going upward to Hartford, not downward to Dothan, Alabama.
Obamacare is obviously a scam to make sick people well. And why are they sick in the first place? Two words: gay porn. So Obamacare is government subsidy for homosexual porn addicts. Where’s my damn column, politico?
Because Byron York supports the idea of run away wealth inequality.
Can we have something akin to the French Revolution for about two weeks? I think we can tidy things up a bit in this country with a fortnight of bloodletting.
I thought the only reason it was passed was so the USA could subsidize prescriptions for the blood of christian babies. Isn’t CBB (christian baby blood) is now a mandatory benefit under Obamacare? That’s why no bill should be over 2 pages, they sneak stuff in after the 10 page mark because they know god only loves the illiterate politicians.
Why does anyone still listen to Byron York? That hack hasn’t done anything worthwhile since Logan’s Run.
Best to take all the $$$ from people unfortunately named Byron.
Also, Mr. York probably thinks we should do away with police. If the cops catch the guy who mugged you, that’s redistributing wealth, too. Why is the government taking money away from a guy who worked hard and risked his life for it — in the interest of fairness? That’s the coddling liberal police state for you.
First, they came to redistribute wealth. And I said nothing.
“It is widely accepted that about 85 percent of all Americans have health care coverage, and the overwhelming majority are happy with it.”
Haha, “widely accepted”. If York were a professional, this statement would be followed by like 8 footnotes pointing to credible sources. Instead, York is just a dipshit throwin’ a wee lie out there.
[re=547698]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Even then, I could listen to his voice all day.
Trouble, trouble, trouble…
The nattering nabob of negativism from Palm Beach continued whining, incessantly and said about 1:12 EDST, on his show… “Today Obama “aped” FDR and said… “recovery is just around the corner!”
He just can’t let go of the racism; what a bigot!
Next week’s column: How you can help stop the rampant wealth redistribution in Haiti.
[re=547688]Troubledog[/re]: You should go to the urologist, Dr. Cassell in Orlando. He’ll be needing patients soon. But if you support Obama, you had better keep it to yourself — that is, if you want to leave his office with your fungal pee-pee still attached.
[re=547696]Cape Clod[/re]: I’m game. ‘Bout time some of these tax-fattened hyenas got a mighty close shave from the National Razor. You bring the pikes, for displaying of heads, and I’ll hitch up my tumbril.
Egalite, indeed…
By “wealth” he means “dignity and basic human rights.”
[re=547698]SayItWithWookies[/re]: I lol’d. Well played.
[re=547707]Gramps[/re]: Rush is from the Bootheel* of Missouri — plantation slave country before the War of Northern Aggression. He just can’t help it. Try to have some sympathy, please!
*Bootheel = shithole
Apparently Byron York gives sub-par blow jobs.
And after the wealth redistribution, the sapping of our precious bodily fluids.
[re=547698]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Now you made me think of Jenny Agutter, circa 1976.
Thank You.
[re=547725]Cape Clod[/re]: You’re supposed to bring enough for everybody, so we can share. Here:
http://www.perfectpeople.net/photo-picture-image-media/Jenny-Agutter-555×800-63kb-media-4123-media-121371-1189108503.jpg
Manure is like money: it doesn’t do any good unless you spread it around. Wait, I mean Byron York
Like Victoria Jackson, he could maybe be used as a daily parody of himself right here at Wokette?
[re=547725]Cape Clod[/re]: [re=547733]V572625694[/re]: Damn, you guys are way better at this than I am. Now I’m having flashbacks.
Leave it to a wingnut to come up with the formula
‘Fighting Inequality’ = BAD FOR THE WORKIN’ PEEPLES!!!
Keep fuckin’ that homeless, destitute, health-care-needing, ‘Socialist’ chicken Byron!
[re=547721]V572625694[/re]: What gets my grits is…there isn’t a Republican politician out there with the cajones to describe his despicable hate mongering and race baiting for what it is…!
Hopey is just a “nice guy”, …. Its twoo, its twoo
Byron York is *excellent* at journalism. Look how he takes that quote from Rasmussen out of context and makes it sound like the beliefs he’s talking about are actually *well founded*! Excellent usage of the echo chamber, York.
[re=547697]Death Impaneled[/re]: No bill shall be brought with more pages than commandments…
[re=547733]V572625694[/re]: If only there had been an internet before I gave up 2 hours of my life for roughly what you just linked…
THIS is why I said “Please don’t!” when the Examiner called say they would be deliver their “newspaper” to me for free.
So, according to this line of analysis, George Bush’s tax cuts for the rich were to improve health care.
But even he, this Titan of Journalism
You spelled “Titanic” wrong.
“Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.” Lord Byron speaking of Logan’s Byron.
[re=547715]SlouchingTowardsWasilla[/re]: Why, we all have the *right* to get good health care. That doesn’t mean everyone can afford it, but no one can turn you down if you have the cash! Historical / social inequality? Propaganda designed to tip the playing field in favor of freeloaders, I tell you.
Dirty marxist economist Amartya Sen has it right when he talks about “capabilities” instead of “rights”
Oh great, a rehashed talking point. What else is new? Obviously nothing. Is Bryron York a plumber too?
A more accurate statement would be “re-RE-distribute the wealth, back to the people from whom it was stolen in the first place, beginning 30 years ago.”
unrelated:
http://i.imgur.com/BZ9gn.jpg
Who are “The Middle Class”?
Are these the people that get to work two shifts at McDonald’s?
I hate those bastards.
So when can I expect my big redistribution checks to arrive in the mail?
[re=547696]Cape Clod[/re]: I doubt it would take a whole fortnight. Or the employment of Joseph-Ignace Guillotin’s most excellent contrivance. Hang a few from lampposts, put shock collars on a few others and the rest would fall right into line.
[re=547770]memzilla[/re]: Indeed, and see also http://www.nber.org/papers/w12404 (suck it, conservatards)
Just so we’re clear, this is the kind of “wealth redistribution” we’re talking about, from the Leonhardt article: “A big chunk of the money to pay for the bill comes from lifting payroll taxes on households making more than $250,000. The benefits, flow mostly to households making less than four times the poverty level”
My plutocrat friends and I have NO MOTIVATION to work anymore! Socialism has spoiled us! Time to hand in the resignation for the cushy management job I inherited so I can live the easy life, at borderline poverty levels.
[re=547688]Troubledog[/re]: If you haven’t already tried them, generous daily applications of athlete’s foot cream (any generic will do) or tea tree oil (if you’re a goddamn hippie that doesn’t like ‘chemicals’).
Your problem sounds like the same one
Ia distant relative of mine has.Imy relative does this treatment for about a week, and the problem goes away for 6 months or so.Eeeeeeeeeevils of SOCIALIZED MEDICINE!!11!1! Also.
[re=547777]BlueStateLibtard[/re]: Did you return your Census form? If yes, your check is in the mail. Unless you checked the box that said “Direct Deposit” and attached a deposit slip.
Ack! All this talk about money; it’s depressing and frankly a bit unseemly.
I wish they never built all those banks out there. Then money never would have been invented in the first place.
[re=547785]Joshua Norton[/re]: Anyone who really does think socialized medicine is a scheme to rob the rich and pimp-out the poor is welcome to come visit me in Canada for a tour of the area near Montreal’s gay village, the Francotrash parts of Ottawa, and Toronto’s heroin-tastic suburbs, not to mention any given First Nations reserve. Of course, the poor probably don’t die in the street from easily treatable diseases as often, so hey, socialism!
[re=547733]V572625694[/re]: [re=547725]Cape Clod[/re]: I prefer the Jenny Agutter billabong scene in “Walkabout” but I’m not gonna google image-search that since it’s probably technically considered child pr)n these days.
Awesomely weird movie, BTW.
Alternate hedline: Byron York Made a Poop!
[re=547801]Mad Brahms[/re]: “Of course, the poor probably don’t die in the street from easily treatable diseases as often”
Liberal Fascist!
[re=547783]Autoo[/re]: Tea Tree Oil!!! Do you have any idea how bad this stuff smells? His significant other isn’t gonna go near him for the six months he is cleared up!
I hope Hopey’s new Wealth Care Reform will help Autoo afford his tea tree oil.
[re=547771]el_chupacabra[/re]: Very nice indeed.
[re=547819]snoidoid[/re]: It’s pretty strong smelling, but some people *like* the odor. (Hippies)
If you keep your pants on all day and change undies regularly, it doesn’t have to be oppressive. The treatment involves daily showering, too.
[re=547808]Autoo[/re]: I have seen it and it is awesomely weird. Nicholas Roeg I think, and I believe she was 16 at the time.
Apparently, Byrons pants are a little tight around the bunghole. Or is it the bunghole is a little tight in the pants?
Byron’s toolness is exceeded only by his stupidation.
I think I got a brain lesion reading some of the comments over there. Am I covered yet?
[re=547791]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: “All this talk about money; it’s depressing and frankly a bit unseemly.” Sounds like you’re channeling Peggy Noonington there; a few Vodka shots will cure you. By the way, whatever happened to her?!?
The Examiner: wingnut welfare for the closeted.
[re=547688]Troubledog[/re]: Try the cream chics use for yeast infections. Clotrimazole, I think, is the active ingredient. It works on fungals, too.
When was all this wealth distributed in the first place? And by who? And why wasn’t I notified?
Lowering taxes for the rich is not redistributing wealth.
Taxing high income earners is class warfare.
Universal access to healthcare is socialism.
Living with a fungal infection on your penis is liberty.
[re=547791]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: I hate money. But I still wish I had some.
I love you guys.
Wanna know who’s the Anti-Christ?
Just a peek at page 397 of Das Kapital.
It says “Private insurance monopolies are pretty much the same thing as public ownership of the means of production.”
[re=548241]JoeTheMechanic[/re]: Wow! Now I just need to run out to my local Barnes & Noble and get me a copy of that-there “Das Kapital!” Then I’ll be ready for the… whatever it is… I have always stopped way before page 397 — before your post — when Marx complained about the “class” of “German University Economics Department” heads in his introduction, who were thwarting his work. At the time, Germany had three universities, Heidelberg, Göttingen and Tübingen. I thought three was much less than the population of a class. But, then, Larry Temkin, a professor in the philosophy department at Rutgers, explained to me that three old German dudes could, in fact, constitute a “class.” So, let’s give old Karl a turn at the cricket bat, eh, wot?
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