Obama Threatens to Install Slavery Lite

Wow, the thought that Obama might end up, even if only by default, sponsoring a new law requiring uninsured poor people to buy a pivate insurance product that is illegal in most of the world is a mind blower. In a depression no less.

The audacity of hope that po folk would buy it when so many could not even if they wanted to...

Barrack Obama needs to keep in mind at all times that the point of the Civil War was to end slavery, not to make slavery more extensive. Requiring people to buy a private product is a form of slavery. Merely considering forcing poor people to buy an overpriced, illegal private product strongly suggests that Obama does not comprehend what one of the primary points of the Civil War was.

But I would not be the least bit surprised if instead of single payer we get a twisted, perverted distortion of it: a criminalization of the refusal to buy grossly overpriced private, basic health insurance, a product which is illegal at any price in the countries where living is worthwhile.

But in the USA, private health insurance is one of the few truly solid and dependable profit making industries left in what has become a 3rd World style economy, and that alone gives that industry a massive amount of clout. If they say: "Make those who don't buy our product criminals," there are those in high places, even possibly including Obama, who will listen.

[The above is in response to this article.]