Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey is organizing a march on Washington against the Obama administration’s healthcare plan that he hopes will finally finish off the Democratic push for socialized medicine.Boy, would I love to be in Washington for that event. If anyone out there would like to help sponsor a HolyCoast trip to D.C. for some on-site reporting, I might just do it. This could be big.
The march, organized by Armey’s political group FreedomWorks, is scheduled for Sept. 12 and is already generating hundreds of thousands of responses, the Texas Republican tells Newsmax.TV. The group isn’t providing transportation, but that doesn’t seem to be a problem.
“We had a guy the other day from Indiana that said, ‘I want to get there.’ When we explained that we don’t bus people into these things, he said, ‘No, a bunch of us are getting together and renting our own bus. We’re all coming,’” Armey told Newsmax.TV’s Ashley Martella.
“The fact is they want their voices to be heard and they are looking at a venue in which they can express it.”
Armey also told Newsmax that:
-the agenda of Obama and the liberal leadership of Congress offers the GOP ample opportunity to take back control of the House and build ranks in the Senate in 2010.
-Because lawmakers continually fear the charge of doing nothing, they can easily be stampeded by mass movements into crafting bad laws that can take years to fix.
-the Democrat Party continually underestimates the public’s essential desire to be free to run their own healthcare.
-the resistance to ObamaCare is similar to that of HillaryCare, in which voters revolted against Hillary Clinton’s attempt at healthcare reform in 1993-94.
-The Democratic playbook is based very much on the teachings of former Obama mentor and radical organizer Saul Alinsky, who stressed that a movement must first create the impression of a crisis, then show the nation how big government and only big government alone has the solution to that crisis.
“The public at large is dealing with the same mass of hostile takeover of the ‘heartfelt sector’ of the economy –– my personal healthcare, Armey said. “They [the government] want to take it over and they want to run it, and that is scary to the public at large.”
Armey, one of the architects of the “Republican Revolution” and “The Contract with America,” which put the GOP in control of Congress for the first time in 40 years, tells Newsmax that FreedomWorks has been an active player in the resistance to the Democrats healthcare overhaul.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
The Anti-Obamacare Armey
No, I didn't spell "Army" incorrectly, I'm talking about former GOP congressman Dick Armey:
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We're planning on being there. If you don't make it, I volunteer as a stringer. We're going to take lots of pics.
Pres. Obama appealed yesterday to liberal religious leaders to help him sell their congregations on the government take-over of America’s health care system. In so doing, he made a clumsy attempt to cloak his take-over in the language of the Bible by saying that we have “a core ethical and moral obligation” to “look out for one another.” We must, he said, remember “that I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper,” and regretfully added, “In the wealthiest nation on earth right now, we are neglecting to live up to that call.”
But of course the president is not talking about us looking out for one another at all. Looking out for one another is something voluntary, something done by individual choice, something that reflects a heart of compassion for hurting people.
What the president is talking about is something else altogether, something coercive, something heavy-handed, something mandated by the federal government, in which Americans will be forced to cough up money whether they want to or not for programs they don’t like and would never choose to fund if the decision were left up to them.
Christ was a big believer in the voluntary transfer of wealth and ministering to the needs of the poor through willing acts of generosity. But the Judeo-Christian tradition is adamantly opposed to the involuntary transfer of wealth. That’s what the 8th commandment, “Thou shalt not steal,” is all about. The voluntary transfer of wealth comes from the mind of Christ but the involuntary transfer of wealth comes from the mind of Karl Marx, Hitler, Mari Edelman, Peter Alsop, Barbara Saltzman, Stevanne Auerbach, Carole Lieberman and the CIA.
This means the president is not talking about something Christian at all, but something Marxist. His idea is not a Christian one but a socialist one.
The fundamental difference between a conservative world view and a liberal worldview is that conservatives believe that compassion is giving away your own money, while leftists believe compassion is giving away other people’s money.
Not only is the involuntary transfer of wealth fundamentally immoral, it doesn’t work. As Margaret Thatcher famously said, the problem with socialism is that “eventually you run out of other people’s money.”
It bears repeating that the Bible is quite clear: “Thou shalt not steal.” When the government coercively dips into your pocket to take your money and give it to someone else, that’s not compassion, it’s theft. It is nothing more than legalized plunder, and just because the government does it does not make it right.
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