"Pay as you go" -- it's the new code phrase for raising taxes even more to pay for the inefficient and in many cases unsound, failure-prone government programs pushed relentlessly by progressives.Great-sounding slogans. Great-sounding promises, claims and speeches. But now it's OK to say one thing while cleverly concealing and delivering something different -- something most Americans in survey after survey clearly say they do not want.
No longer is it about what history has proved works best or what average Americans want. It's all about ceding substantially more power for centralized one-party control over your life, liberty and freedom.
For example, three of four Americans say they're happy with the health care they already have, and two of three doctors oppose government's plan to take over, dictate, mandate and run our health care system. Many of these doctors say they plan to quit or retire early if the plan is approved.
Doctors and nurses are already in short supply. If fewer doctors are to handle 20 million more people, do you believe and trust politicians who promise you'll get better quality care at lower cost?
Moreover, do you want all your family's medical records in government computer files? Who will have access to them? How could they be used in the future?
When you're 70 and need an important, potentially lifesaving operation, do you want some faraway government bureaucrat -- instead of you and your doctor -- deciding if you can have it?
And if they let you have it, how will you feel about being placed on a waiting list of three or six months or longer due to a shortage of surgeons or simply government quotas, rationing or priorities?
It doesn't end there. If progressives succeed in forcing citizens against their will to accept their brand of national socialized medicine, they will try to coax all American businesses and households into embracing a cap-and-trade approach to controlling pollutants as our nation's next most urgent need.
Leading scientists who preached and promoted global warming from the world's top center on warming -- the Climatic Research Unit at England's University of East Anglia -- have been exposed as frauds due to their falsifying and changing past temperatures to hide facts showing the globe wasn't warming. Now we are seeing record-busting snow and low temperatures in the U.S. north and south.
New Democrat progressives must think people are too ignorant or ill-informed to recognize when they're being conned or lied to. People want jobs, not jawboning.