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A SAD DAY IN AMERICA

Today is the first day that Medicare recipients can enroll in the latest wealth transfer from the young to the old: Medicare prescription drug coverage. This is the largest expansion of government in decades...and it was all at the behest of a Republican president. Over the coming decades, the Medicare prescription drug benefit will cost trillions of dollars...the Gimme Generation will clean up and our children will be paying for it the rest of their lives.

And what was the point? George W. Bush, the biggest spender in the history of the republic, pushed the prescription drug plan because it seemed to be the perfect vote-buying scheme. Give greater government benefits to the most reliable voters in history and they'll love you forever. All that got him was to 37% in the polls.

The sad fact of socialism is that no government spending is ever enough, which is the problem with the welfare state. As proof of this, look no further than the media coverage of the the new plan. Already, the media is bashing the prescription drug plan....there's too many choices! What people really want is one choice...the government covers everything and the rest of us pay for it all.

A sad day in America, but unfortunately, not surprising. Thanks to government schools churning out a new army of leftists daily, it won't be long before the takeover is complete.