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The greatest moral crisis of our age is that government, using our own money, has crafted a seduction of Christian moral values in how it has changed the social contract implied in the Constitution.

Previously, we had a government of limited and enumerated powers, with the rights retained by the people.

The New Deal is simple: you get to live at the expense of others if you will allow others to live at your expense. We are encouraged to allow this because we are lead to believe that we each get the better half of the bargain.

This of course is made possible by the violation of three of the Ten Commandments: lies, coveting and theft (under the color of law, but still theft).

The left loves to scold everyone about the issue of “sustainability”. Yet, the policy changes they seem to want most cannot be economically sustainable. That is the case with public health care.

Socialism cannot function in a sustainable mode, ever. That is because it distorts the price and costs over everything. Central planners cannot know the true consequences of their actions and are constantly surprised at the changes in demand for a service when they fix the price. Even the current law under proposal seeks to control costs by reducing the amount that government reimburses both hospitals and doctors.

The statists’ response to seeing an increasing number of doctors who refuse to accept new Medicare patients? To make even more draconian the legal penalties for doing so.

Socialized health care is a path to economic and social hell paved with not-so-good intentions.