Trickle Up Poverty: Stopping Obama’s Attack on Our Borders, Economy, and Security

by Michael Savage

  What’s more, Pelosi scheduled the vote for a Sunday. Why?

  So that the real America that she scorns, the loyal patriots who hate this bill and don’t want the government shackling them with mandatory insurance, would be in church, praising God while Congress desecrated God by voting for ObamaCare on a Sunday. What’s more, Pelosi suddenly got that good time religion when she said on the Sunday morning of the vote, “Today is the feast of St. Joseph the worker, particularly significant to Italian-Americans. It’s a day when we remember and pray to St. Joseph to benefit the workers of America.”74

  Let’s set aside the fact that Saint Pelosi was factually wrong. The feast of Saint Joseph the Worker is May 1 while the date she referred to was really the Solemnity of Saint Joseph. So she flubbed her religious history. Fine. I’m not one to take issue with someone’s personal beliefs. But this smacks of religious pandering of the worst order. Imagine the outcry if a Republican Speaker of the House were to have said they were praying to a saint to help get a highly controversial, much-hated bill passed.

  Not a word from the government media complex taking her to task for integrating church and state.

  Beyond pandering to the Catholic voters, Madam Pelosi had to threaten and whip Congress into going along with Obama’s American-style socialism. She whipped the right so the Blue Dogs would go along. She whipped the left so the Kuciniches would go along. And now America is about to be whipped by Pelosi’s lash. Indeed, Pelosi had to take out her opponents one by one, dangling sweetheart deals to secure key votes with payoffs, paybacks, and plenty of pork.

  After the bill passed, House Minority Leader John Boehner said, “Look at how this bill was written. Can you say it was done openly? With transparency and accountability? Without back room deals that were struck behind closed doors? Hell no you can’t!”75 With regard to Pelosi’s Pork, it’s a well-known fact that, for example, Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson was promised millions in additional Medicaid cash for his state, a controversy known as the “Cornhusker Kickback.” Only after the terms of that deal saw the light of day and after the ensuing public outcry was that provision later extended to all fifty states.76

  For her part, Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu got $300 million in pork funding and became the sixtieth vote to bring the bill to the Senate floor. As a pundit on Good Morning America whom I’ve never heard of said, “The people of Louisiana sent her to Washington to get as much sausage as they could, you know, she could.” On the same show, George Stephanopoulos called the kickback a bargain for the Demoncats: “But I think Democrats are saying it’s a pretty cheap vote. $300 million. Without Senator Landrieu’s vote yesterday, this bill would have died, would have been very difficult to put it back together.”77

  I guess we have Senator Landrieu to thank for this nightmare.

  Pelosi wasn’t the only member of the administration strong-arming the rank and file into compliance. Rahm Emanuel accosted one uncooperative representative, Eric Massa, in the shower. Remember that one? Afterward, Massa described the White House Chief of Staff as “an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.” Regarding Emanuel’s confrontation, Massa said, “I am showering, naked as a jay bird, and here comes Rahm Emanuel, not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest, yelling at me.”78 Let’s set aside the question whether or not the guy was engaged in extra-marital relations. The fact of the matter is that, in the end, the administration destroyed Massa’s reputation with crypto-gay smears, forcing him to resign.

  That’s just what has been made public. Who knows how many threats Rahm Emanuel made that we’ll never hear about. Who knows how many backroom meetings were held by this pit bull, or the number of other naked encounters he made in the showers. In 1965, Malcolm X declared that civil rights must be achieved by “any means necessary.”79 In 2010, that’s clearly the Obama view.

  And then there’s Ohio’s Representative Dennis Kucinich, the Whore who sold out to Obama after getting a ride on Air Force One. This communist congressman from Cleveland betrayed his own far-left principles in order to appease Chairman Obama. At first, Kucinich wasn’t going to vote to pass ObamaCare—because he didn’t think it went far enough! After his joyride with the president, Kucinich the Whore acknowledged that the vote would be “quite close” and decided to vote “not on the bill as I would like to see it, but as it is.”80

  What was his original problem with Obama’s bill?

  Kucinich opposed it because it didn’t “protect states that want to create a single-payer system” and was miffed because he saw it, wrongly, as a “step toward privatization.”81 As communistic as his position might be, I would have had a modicum of respect for him if he had stuck to his guns, been true to what he really believed, and voted against the bill. Instead, he fell in lockstep with his power-hungry comrades whose main concern is not principle but power.

  If he and Obama would have come out and said, “We want to take over the health care industry and turn America into a socialist nation,” then at least we could admire them for their honesty. At that point, Americans could have had an open and honest debate about whether democracy or communism was the better way to go. But these backstabbers know that America is a fundamentally center-right nation.

  They knew they’d lose if they were upfront about their goals.

  Instead, they minced words and danced around the edges, essentially saying, “ObamaCare isn’t socialist. We’re just nice guys trying to make sure everyone has access to health care.” But when you examine the fundamentals of this bill—the mandatory nature of the insurance, the extreme government regulation of the private sector, the layer after layer of bureaucracy—you find that it is, in fact, socialist pure and simple.

  In an attempt to sell his healthcare bill to the half-asleep American public, the president told an audience in Glenside, Pennsylvania:

  On one side of the spectrum, there were those at the beginning of this process who wanted to scrap our system of private insurance and replace it with a government-run health-care system like they have in some other countries. Look, it works. It works in places like Canada, but I didn’t think it was going to be practical and realistic to do it here.82

  You have to read between the lines to understand what Obama is really saying. Since I’m the best analyst in the business, let me unlock what he’s trying to hide. When this usurper says, “there were those … who wanted to scrap our system … and replace it with a government-run” program, Obama is one of “those” of whom he speaks. He wants a government-run system. He wants total control. That’s what dictators like this Socialist-in-Chief ultimately hope to accomplish.

  Furthermore, when Obama says, “I didn’t think it was going to be practical and realistic to do it here,” he left off the most important word in the sentence: “yet.” It’s all about taking baby steps to hoodwink the American public into accepting a single-payer, socialist-style, government system, which is precisely why he’s been vilifying private insurance sector. As one Canadian paper put it:

  U.S. President Barack Obama cast America’s private health insurance companies Monday as the premium-hiking villains in the nation’s health-care crisis and hailed Canada’s publicly funded Medicare as a system that “works”83 [emphasis added].

  If Obama thinks the Canadian healthcare system is so good, why did the Premier of Newfoundland, Danny Williams, travel to America for heart surgery? Williams was unapologetic about his decision to fly to Miami for treatment. He said, “This was my heart, my choice and my health. I did not sign away my right to get the best possible health care for myself when I entered politics.”84 Likewise, former prime minister of Canada, Jean Chretien, flew on Canadian government jets—at Canadian taxpayer expense—to the United States to go to the Mayo Clinic.85 So, if America offers the best treatment, why would we want to have socialized medicine as they have in Canada?

  Or, is it possible, that ObamaCare is
n’t just about socialized medicine? If you look closely, you’ll find it’s really about the redistribution of wealth.

  Yes, now that ObamaCare has passed, the sheeple, who were previously too busy grazing in the colorful fields of Sports-Land or were glued to their iPhones, are beginning to comprehend this nasty reality: the Democrats circled the wagons around our Socialist Medicine Man because many of them also believe in the redistribution of wealth—not in genuine healthcare reform. You better read that again. ObamaCare isn’t about health care, it’s about the government stealing from the “makers” and giving it to the “takers.”

  Take, for example, Demoncat Senator Max Baucus who described ObamaCare as “an income shift” designed to help the poor. Speaking to the press after the bill passed, stumbling like a drunken man after an extended bender, Baucus made the following incongruous statement:

  Too often, much of late, the last couple three years, the maldistribution of income in America is gone up way too much, the wealthy are getting way, way too wealthy and the middle income class is left behind. Wages have not kept up with increased income of the highest income in America. This legislation will have the effect of addressing that mal-distribution of income in America.86

  Baucus’s affinity for spreading the wealth was echoed by the former Democratic National Committee chairman, Howard Dean who, thank God, lost his bid for president. Because Dean is a classic Obamanic, he was likewise upbeat about the use of ObamaCare to redistribute the wealth:

  The question is, in a democracy, what is the right balance between those at the top … and those at the bottom? When it gets out of whack, as it did in the 1920s, and it has now, you need to do some redistribution. This is a form of redistribution.87

  Upon passage of ObamaCare with its redistribution of wealth provisions, David Leonhardt, one of the many hard-left columnists at the Old York Times, was as giddy as a junior high school girl getting her first kiss. He wrote, “The bill that President Obama signed on Tuesday is the federal government’s biggest attack on economic inequality since inequality began rising more than three decades ago.”88 Tell me, Mr. Leonhardt, where in the Constitution does it state that the role of the Congress is to redistribute the wealth? Where is it written that correcting economic inequities is the job of government?

  Joining the socialist faaaaaairness squad is Vice President Joe Biden who said, “The top 1% of earners get 22% of all income made in the U.S. Taxes have been lowered for the wealthy considerably over the years. It’s about time we get a little tax equity here.”89 I must point out that the “earners” he is speaking of don’t “get” wealth. Nobody hands it to them like candy at a parade. They work damn hard for it. I resent the notion that a hardworking American should be punished for being industrious. That’s number one.

  Second, while it’s true that the top 1 percent earn 22 percent of income, Biden conveniently left out the deeper issue. As Curtis Dubay of the Heritage Foundation points out, these top performers “also pay more than 40% of all income taxes”!90 Or, put another way, as the Tax Foundation points out, “the share of the tax burden borne by the top 1% now exceeds the share paid by the bottom 95% of taxpayers combined.”91

  Look, while I disagree with Joe Biden on many issues, it’s clear to me the man doesn’t pay homage to a poster of Lenin at bedtime. And yet, regarding the charge that ObamaCare is a scheme to redistribute the wealth, the vice president is more comfortable mincing words and splitting hairs than admitting the truth of the matter:

  It’s a simple proposition to us: Everyone is entitled to adequate medical health care. If you call that a “redistribution of income”—well, so be it. I don’t call it that. I call it just being fair—giving the middle class taxpayers an even break that the wealthy have been getting.92

  No, sir, everyone is not entitled to health care, or houses, or cars, or a college degree … not even a chicken in every pot. Nowhere in the Declaration of Independence are such things guaranteed. What it does say is that Americans are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Fairness isn’t on the list.

  This push by Obama for socialist medical care doesn’t come as a surprise to me. After all, as a student of history, I know that Job #1 for any radical Marxist-Leninist like Obama is to seize control of health care. He wants to revolutionize everything from within and the seminal battle is health care. Why? Because it gives him total power over the people from cradle to grave. The government now has access to all your health and medical records, including your psychiatric or psychological records.

  Doesn’t anyone understand this?

  Once you centralize medical control in the federal government, your medical records, including your psychiatric history—anything you shared with a therapist in privacy—will not be private but held in a government databank. It can be used against you by the government. It can be used against you by people who infiltrate the computer data.

  It can be used against you by the bureaucrats who hold the data.

  It can be used against you to manipulate and control you.

  It’s about power. It’s about stealing the money from the middle class.

  There are a few “winners” in the ObamaCare bill: the IRS, the unions, and the lazy, money-grubbing slackers who don’t work and don’t pay taxes and who live off the public dole. They are the biggest beneficiaries of this monstrosity. And, of course, the illegal aliens who will continue to get free coverage at their local hospital while you stand in line behind them.

  Given the fines and penalties for the rest of us, I predict the number of people on Medicaid will explode. Think about it. Why should you bother to work if everything is handed to you on a silver platter. You’ll actually be better off working “off the clock” and then claiming to be impoverished, rather than holding down a job and paying your share of the newly imposed taxes.

  Doctor, My Eye

  The other day after working long hours on this book, I bicycled down to the mall for some fresh air. In the distance, I happened to notice that the farmers’ market was set up and open for business. Yes, even in San Fransicko the local farmers come and sell their fruits, vegetables, eggs, meats, and cheeses directly to the public right from the back of their trucks and car trunks. Some sell flowers or homemade baked goods. Many offer free samples in hopes of attracting customers. All of them are just trying to make a living selling their wares.

  There’s something very primal, very earthy about the whole affair. Everywhere you look there are crates and boxes piled high with fresh produce, mason jars of canned goods, and people milling about. In short, my kind of environment. I love to mingle with the merchants, talking about whatever, while buying a little of this and that to take home for supper. You can tell by their simple mannerisms and warm smiles that they’re regular people, unlike the lunatics running the city. So, I pedal my bike over thinking I’ll savor a few enjoyable moments in the open-air market. That’s when it all fell apart for me.

  As I walked through the place, I couldn’t help but notice the disgusting drifters and liberals eating for free from the poorest of the poor. Everywhere I turned, I’d see the pig liberals going from stand to stand sampling free food with tiny little forks like insects at a picnic. They’d smile at the farmers pretending they would buy something, all the while shoveling another freebee into their tubby faces.

  I’ve seen this before and it bothered me then.

  This particular afternoon, I tried not to engage, but at one point I just couldn’t remain silent. Twenty feet off to my left I spotted a large woman in her seventies, wearing a cotton moo-moo dress. She had a craw on her that could devour a school bus. She was knocking down as many free samples as she could, moving from booth to booth like a cow grazing in the field.

  I’m watching her as she moved closer and closer until she almost collided with me in front of a meatball booth. She starts packing away the meatballs like a squirrel shoving nuts in its cheeks, stocking up for win
ter. One after another, she’s chowing down as if she’s at a bar mitzvah. It was disgusting. That’s when I had to speak up. I said to the owner, but loud enough so others around me could hear, “Do you sell anything or do you only have these people eating for nothing?”

  The cow in the moo-moo kept stuffing her face.

  The owner said, “Oh, you’ve got to give samples in order for them to buy.”

  I said, “Yes, but do any of them actually buy, or do they just eat for free?”

  At that point, the woman stopped eating like a hippopotamus with food hanging out of its mouth. She stopped long enough to give me a dirty look and then said, “Ah, he must be from New York”

  I said, “Wherever I’m from, at least I pay for my food, unlike you.” She was already shoveling in another meatball. Stunned at my directness, or stunned by the truth, she opened up her trap to say something smart. That’s when half a meatball fell out of her mouth and onto her huge, Coney Island bosom. Here’s the connection to what’s wrong with health care in America.

  If you want to know why America’s health care is out of control, I’ll tell you. And this will get a little touchy. I’m sure the seniors will get mad at me. But the fact is that we’re in the mess with the healthcare industry because you have too much health care. You’ve never had it so good. You have far too much access to doctors. You have far too much access to high-tech procedures. You have far too much access to premium prescriptions. And, in many instances, it’s been relatively “free” to binge on the care your plan affords.

  Like the slob in the farmers’ market, you graze from one doctor to another for every little ailment. You’ve been taught to call the doctor if you have a headache, stomach-ache, eye-ache, earache, foot ache, nose-ache, throat-ache, ankle-ache, toe-ache, behind-ache, or private-ache. Whatever bothers you, you call a doctor, see a specialist, and run up the bill. Whoever had doctors like this for nothing?