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Government Needs To Change Its Own Health Habits

Guest post by: Michael Hume

Article Overview: Obamacare is, at bottom, a wild spending spree. It's a government land-grab. It's a transfer of a sixth of the U.S. economy from the job-creating private sector to the wealth-destroying public sector. In a metaphoric sense, Obamacare (having been rammed down the patient's throat with dubious legislative procedures) is like a cancer on our economy. It's a glut of carcinogenic taxes and spending, the likes of which have made our government fat, slow, and stupid....

Government Needs To Change Its Own Health Habits

Until It Does, Stay Disciplined With Yours Today the new U.S. House of Representatives begins debate on a measure to repeal last year's "Obamacare" overhaul of the nation's medical system. Obamacare has become generally unpopular among average citizens, possibly because most Americans realize the law had nothing to do with health, with care, or with reform. Instead, it's recognized as the typical sort of socialist-leaning overreach by liberal Democrats, who had total control of the U.S. government for two years and used Obamacare as the flagship of their push of the nation toward collective statism.

But many average citizens don't care about the politics - they care about the outcomes. Obamacare would gut the U.S. economy, for starters; it's utterly ridiculous to think this recession-laden nation could support any new entitlement programs, let alone such an expensive and sweeping measure. We can't even sustain the massive entitlements we already have. And while some voters don't appreciate how far such entitlements take us from the government envisioned by our founders, they still understand how Obamacare would reduce medical quality, drain talented brains away from medical and pharmaceutical research, and create dangerous doctor shortages while dumbing-down the practices of the docs who remain.

At a press conference yesterday, White House spokesperson Robert Gibbs smirked and declared that the move to repeal Obamacare wasn't a "serious legislative effort."

Oh, but Mr. Gibbs, we are serious. We know the liberal Democrats still have a majority in the Senate... but it's a thin majority, and some of those political creatures may end up valuing re-election more than the false nobility of going down with the sinking Obamacare ship. We know the president is likely to veto any repeal, and that his opponents don't enjoy the sort of majorities needed to override him... but he'd have to defend that veto, and that would cost him valuable political capital. We who favor repeal of Obamacare understand that the voters sent a message in November, and that if Obamacare can't be repealed, voters want it de-funded. And there is no rule against sending multiple repeal bills to the Senate and the president, forcing liberals to defend again and again why they insist on sticking with this economy-killing legislation.

Obamacare is, at bottom, a wild spending spree. It's a government land-grab. It's a transfer of a sixth of the U.S. economy from the job-creating private sector to the wealth-destroying public sector. In a metaphoric sense, Obamacare (having been rammed down the patient's throat with dubious legislative procedures) is like a cancer on our economy. It's a glut of carcinogenic taxes and spending, the likes of which have made our government fat, slow, and stupid.

We are very serious about this effort. Diet and exercise are immediately in order - and so is the scalpel being applied by conservatives in Congress as we speak.

It's going to take some time to remove this cancer from our society... and the disease may come back. It may be impossible to keep us free from such socialist ailments as government medicine forever, since the left dominates the institutions (academe, media, Hollywood) by which propaganda can be pumped into the populace like an IV solution. If we don't cut spending and taxes seriously, the eradication of the Obamacare cancer won't keep the patient from expiring.

Don't take a chance. Keep yourself as healthy and vital as possible, focusing on what I call The NEWSS: the five key daily health habits of Nutrition, Exercise, Water, Sleep, and Supplements. Try as long as possible to keep from being dependent on government health care.

And while you're at it, look at your own financial health, too. Cut your debt - take a second job if you have to (or, better, start a home-based internet business). And change the way you invest your money - take personal responsibility to get a real education about the global conspiracy against wealth, and find ways to protect your own wealth against it.

We have the greatest doctors in the world, right here in America. Let's hope the legislative doctors - the conservative members of Congress - are successful in the operating room and in their long-term treatment of our sick economy. The health of our nation (and of the broader global economy) depends on it.

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