When objections were raised to Hillary’s health care proposal in 1994, she responded: “I can’t be responsible for every undercapitalized small business in American.”
Of course, nobody was asking the government to take responsibility for these businesses–only to not wantonly destroy them.
The language is interesting–*I” can’t take responsibility. Hillary was not the personification of the government, she was not even in a decision-making position, she was merely in a staff role. Use of this language by a person in this position denotes to me a pretty high degree of narcissism, in addition to the cavalier willingness to casually destroy other people’s lives demonstrated by the statement.
Note also the “undercapitalized” part. In a Hillary administration, you’d better be either a well-capitalized corporation, or a large and well-organized interest group, or you are likely to get crushed.
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“I can’t be responsible for every undercapitalized small business in American.”
I remember that comment well.
She wants to create a Colbertian or, strictly speaking, fascist-corporatist state. The government will permit private enterprise, but only large enterprises that will seek and obtain monopoly rents from the state in exchange for direction by the state. There may be shoe shine stands and even corner coffee shops. But there will be little in between mom and pop scale enterprise and huge businesses. The former are too small to matter, and the larger can and will be coopted by the state. The middle-sized companies, entrepreneurial companies, start-ups, cannot be allowed to exist because they are the seedbeds of creative destruction. Innovation and change and disruption of a politically organized “marketplace” must be choked to death in its cradle.
That is Hillary’s vision. It is a little like France, a little like Canada, a little like fascist Italy.
Want to live in it?
You are going to get your chance.
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“I’m just trying to be optimistic in the very likely event that I will be living there.”
I am thinking more of trying to thwart her at every step using every means, legal, political and through the media of holding her at bay.
Optimism could be truly lethal in this case. Hillary is a hardcore statist, with a willingness to do and to so and to some extent even to be anything in order to possess power, with a Nixonian hatred of “them”, the people who disagree with her policy views, who are therefore evil. The goal is the destruction of the private life and decision-making and the reduction of everyone in society to being a client of the state, dependent on the state for work, for medicine, for the necessities of life, so that the political process is the only available mechanism for getting anything or resolving any dispute or taking any initiative. That was the goal of Hillarycare, which had nothing to do with medicine for poor people. It was about making the entire middle class dependent forever on the state. This was pretty much articulated by Bill Clinton, who said the Democrats had to stop making government programs be for the poor, since the middle class would only support a larger role for government when they were reliant on government. Bill, however, was a benign creature compared to his wife.
Too bad the GOP has been destroyed by the Iraq war and their own greed and stupidity. There walls are down. Hillary is going to come in with a veto-proof majority.
Barring a miracle, we are well and truly f*cked for at least two years. The 2010 midterm could decide our fate, whether we will be a country based on freedom and private initiative, or whether we finally lose what we have had for all these years.
I am a pro-life, religious right, conservative-not-libertarian. But I am hoping Rudy Giuliani can get momentum, since only he can even possibly stop Hillary.
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