Holocaust not the ONLY evil act committed by the Nazis
Posted By Dutch on August 14, 2009
Bush is Hitler! Bush is a Fascist! Obama is a Nazi! Brittany Spears is a Nazi!
Invoking Hitler, fascist, and Nazi in Blog entries, signs, and placards trivializes the Holocaust. No rational argument is made, merely ad hominem attacks. This is unfortunate. While the Holocaust remains the single greatest evil perpetrated in modern times, Nazi Germany would be judged as unconscionably evil, even if there had been no holocaust.
To limit criticism of Nazi Germany exclusively to the Holocaust conversely trivializes all of the other evils committed. Murdering the infirm, the mentally retarded, and the aged occurred well before Hitler invoked his “Final Solution.” Hitler pursued Aryan “purity” in the form of vegetarianism, Teutonic pantheism, smoking bans, eugenic breeding and sterilization. The subjugation of Liberty in the name of Socialism’s vision of a better world infested all of Europe, including Mussolini’s Italy, and Stalin’s USSR. Supporters of each of these movements existed within the US, as well, from the late 1800’s through the 1930’s.
Failure to recognize the encroachment on Liberty as an evil portends history repeating itself. “Never again!” should apply to ALL of the evils perpetrated by the Nazi’s, communists, and socialists, not only the Holocaust.
Rationing of Healthcare by impersonal, government boards or panels is no less an evil than having it done by Insurance company bean counters. At least within a free market, there is hope of changing plans, changing jobs, or finding another Insurance company. Once the Government takes over, it will undercut and drive out of the market virtually ALL of the private insurance providers. What recourse will we have then?
Greater Choice equals lower cost. Lower cost equals greater coverage. Government regulation ALWAYS increases costs and reduces coverage. Government subsidies squeeze out private companies, again driving up costs in the private sector. Those on the fringe, not covered by government care, lose private coverage due to the increased cost caused by the government subsidy. Thus, each new expansion in government coverage creates a new, fringe group that becomes the basis for justifying further expansion of the government program. (Kind of like the creeping expansion of the Sahara desert.)
This continues until the number of people on the fringe, without coverage reaches a crisis point. Thus, the safety net put in place to protect a few, swells until it breaks. (Ultimately, the government program creates more victims than existed when it started.) Some claim that 47 million Americans remain uninsured. Regardless of the accuracy of this number, Government policies that tax, regulate, and selectively subsidize healthcare have created this gap. The only solution is to remove excessive government taxation, regulation, AND subsidization.
Private charities provide better balance of safety net and costs than do government plans. Not until we restore liberty and pare back government to its proper, Constitutional role will we solve the problems of over-priced, Health care coverage and a host of other social ills exacerbated by government interference.
Successfully persuading our fellow citizens of this truth requires simple direct comparisons with those examples that illustrate what works and what does not. References to Nazi Germany, in this context, elevate our discussion, not detract from it.
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