by Michael Skinner

Created on: August 23, 2009   Last Updated: August 31, 2009

It has been said that democracy is two wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for lunch. Some have observed that true democracy would be mob rule. What makes the United States different is that the rights of the minority are protected and on occasion even defended by the state.

A shouting match generally adds more heat than light to any argument. The relative merits of the case for Socialized Medicine have to be decided outside of the context of a town hall. No one at the town hall represents real constituents. Generally those who speak the loudest at a town hall are partisans for one side or the other.

One thing that can be said for certain about the health care debates is that those who are trying to institute universal health care are Marxists trying to implement socialism. If anything else where going on the progressive would have taken the deal when George Bush agreed to provide health insurance for the 50 million or so uninsured people in the United States. The reason the left did not take this deal is health care is merely a tool to institute socialism.

One useful thing the town halls maybe doing is telling the Marxists who rule the United States that their leftist tactics aren't working yet. The lies willingly spread by their pet poodles in the media have not fooled everyone yet. One can only hope that the Marxist response will be more lies and not the violent purges their Marxist brothers pulled off in other nations.

One of the things about the town halls that is annoying is the continuing refrain from those who agree with the health care protesters that the discussion should remain civil and that death panels are not real.

While one can not support the lack of civility displayed by the protesters in the tall hall meetings, the Marxists do an ample job of upbraiding them and trying to teach them manners. True patriots should not waste any time in doing so.

Government run health care is destined to be a heavily used, and therefore a growingly scarce commodity. Since the market place will not be there to control supply and demand the government will control them. The only means the government has of controlling supply and demand is rationing. Rationing means the elderly will get less care and will be asked to lay down and die so that the health care dollars can be spent on the young. This state of affairs is inevitable. I call the institutions that will ration this care and decide who gets it and who doesn't and which dispatches compassionate angels of death to persuade the elderly to die, a death panel.

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