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Socialism Fails . . . in Hawaii

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We may have dismal years ahead of us. Democrats ruling Congress while Barack Obama, Mr. Redistributionist, will preside over an attempt to move in lurch step to massive new amounts of spending and taxes.

I write these words before the election, so maybe by the time you hear them, the electorate will have proved me wrong. But, hey: Under a McCain administration the federales would still not likely shy away from big government insanity.

There is, however, hope. When wishful thinking slams head-on into practical reality, sometimes we take stock. Sometimes we even say things like, “Know what? This is dumb and destructive. Let’s stop.”

We saw this in the 1980s and ’90s with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet empire, and the turn toward freer markets in many former Soviet or other tyrannies (and near-tyrannies) around in the world.

And we’ve just seen an example here in the states, in Hawaii. There the state is ending its universal health care plan for children. Why? Because it was getting too expensive.

A government doctor in Hawaii named Kenny Fink reports, “People who were already able to afford health care began to stop paying for it so they could get it for free.” He adds that that this was not the purpose.

Of course not. Socialism is never supposed to kill economic incentives and self-responsibility. It just always does.

This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.

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Socialism Fails in Hawaii…

We may have dismal years ahead of us. Democrats ruling Congress while Barack Obama, Mr. Redistributionist, will preside over an attempt to move in lurch step to massive new amounts of spending and taxes.
There is, however, hope. When wishful……

Just wrote in Dr. Ron Paul’s name on my absentee Ballot. Had to do it, or my conscience would never let me rest! Tana Lampton, Agua Dulce, California

I lived in Hawaii for 8 years. People I worked with and I would always joke that the motto for Hawaii should be “If it’s free, it’s for me”.

Guess things haven’t changed.

Tana: When you vote your party -even if you’re not enamored with the candidate on the ballot, you facilitate your party’s platform and support their values, beliefs, and goals. YOU GET THINGS DONE! How peaceful will your conscience be to know you have helped Obama get elected??

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