{"id":9101,"date":"2009-07-02T07:34:47","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T14:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=9101"},"modified":"2009-07-02T14:09:21","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T21:09:21","slug":"rotarian-socialism-in-action-taking-lessons-from-the-nar-and-the-namb-wal-mart-is-using-compulsory-health-insurance-as-a-weapon-to-destroy-its-smaller-competitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/9101\/rotarian-socialism-in-action-taking-lessons-from-the-nar-and-the-namb-wal-mart-is-using-compulsory-health-insurance-as-a-weapon-to-destroy-its-smaller-competitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotarian Socialism in action: Taking lessons from the NAR and the NAMB, Wal-Mart is using compulsory health insurance as a weapon to destroy its smaller competitors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is July the Second, the date of the actual drafting of the Declaration of Independence. By now the United States is just another National Socialist oligarchy, a savage jungle of predatory pressure groups, each one looking to plunder the national treasury at the expense of all the others, each one hiding behind an elaborate camouflage of high-blown rhetoric.<\/p>\n

Whatever the putative purpose of some piece of legislation, the actual purpose is to advantage some pressure groups to the disadvantage of others. The putative purpose and the high-blown rhetoric are for the children — for the dumb-ass voters, that is — while the legislators and the lobbyists know that its all a matter of getting in enough snout-time at the public trough.<\/p>\n

Freedom means freedom from government<\/em> — nothing else. We trade our freedom away a drop at a time, like a never ending blood transfusion, never pausing to think that the pigs at the trough might not stop at just a little blood, might not stop at the replacement rate, might not stop until every drop of blood, every dollar of excess production and every last liberty of the American people are completely exsanguinated.<\/p>\n

The American patriots bellowed, “No taxation without representation!” We have since learned that this actually means, “We yearn to be fools and jackals in our own behalf!” And the cackle we deliver up to black humor is a premonitory death rattle. For it is obvious that the man being taxed is not represented, and the man with his snout in the taxpayer’s trough is represented in ways you know nothing about.<\/p>\n

Consider this atrocity of Wal-Mart’s, a company once deserving of great respect, brought to us by Cato @ Liberty:<\/a><\/p>\n

A couple of years ago, I shared a cab to the airport with a Wal-Mart lobbyist, who told me that Wal-Mart supports an “employer mandate.”  An employer mandate is a legal requirement that employers provide a government-defined package of health benefits to their workers.  Only Hawaii and Massachusetts have enacted such a law.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.  Wal-Mart is a capitalist success story.  At the time of our conversation, Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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