The suspense is over and it is inevitable that the monstrous medical care bill will become law. There is no way to sanitize this thing, period. It is the ultimate "Progressivist" legacy.
Paul Krugman, perhaps the most visible "Progressive" today, supports this bill because it vastly expands the scope of the state in our lives. Like most "Progressives," Krugman believes many things about a state controlled by people he supports. Among the "Progressive" beliefs are:
- "Experts" should decide what is best for everyone;
- The executive branch of government must employ "experts" who can make rules for everyone else;
- Governmental executives (i.e., President of the United States) should not be impeded by legislators, most of whom are not "experts," and who fail to have the interests of everyone in mind, unlike the "experts" of the executive branch;
- Therefore, the legislative branches of government should defer to the executive branch, provided the "right kind of people" are in the executive’s chair.
Few people actually know everything that exists in this long and convoluted bill. However, that is unimportant, for in the end, the executive branch and its bureaucracies, not Congress, will interpret what the bill contains.
Most people still have the civics book ideas in their heads regarding law and the three branches of government. Americans are taught from grammar school on that the federal government has three branches: Congress, the Executive Branch, and the Federal Courts. According to the civics lessons, Congress makes the laws, the Executive Branch carries out the laws, and the Federal Courts interpret the laws.
That "model" of government disappeared even before the Progressive Era gripped the country a century ago, but it gained in strength during the Great Depression. "Progressives" such as Theodore Roosevelt and Herbert Croly, believed that people had become so advanced through "science" that they no longer needed to be subjected to the messy and (to them) "chaotic" processes of private markets and legislative debate. The "experts" already knew what needed to be done, and anything done by legislatures and markets to delay the directives of the "experts" should be swept away. READ MORE ...
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