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The Chicago way: Bribe seniors with $250 to pass Obamacare.

When all else fails go with the tried and true.  So it is with President Obama who today called on Congress to pass a 13 billion dollar measure that would send 50 million senior citizens 250 dollars each.  Considering that seniors have been among the most vocal opponents of Obama's health care initiative, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that this money is meant as a nuanced Incentive !, for them to back off of their representatives long enough for Obamacare to become law.  I guess they're counting on seniors to, you know, vote in their economic interest !

But I have to wonder, with all of the accumulated wisdom of their time here on Earth, how many seniors will consider the one-time $250 payment to be fair recompense for all of the medical care they won't be getting in the future considering the rationing of services as well as the complete life ideology that is inherently baked into the goods...

That said, there is a quote often attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville; "The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."  But, that is actually a variant of Alexander Francis Tytler misattributed to de Tocqueville:

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy

[emphasis-ed.]

There are many folks in modern America that will testify to the lax fiscal policy of the last 20 years, and the unbounded fiscal policy of Obama. His redistributionist policies seem to reach for the scenario outlined in Tytler's maxim, ensuring that a majority will permanently vote for the party promising the most largesse-in other words the Democrats. Still others will characterize his ideology as a tact to achieving the greater result of replacing our representative democracy with one of the other options Tytler mentions; and regardless of the benevolence, in the final analysis a tyrant is always just that-a tyrant...

Rocketman