1961: Ronald Reagan om socialiserad vård

Detta är iofs kopplat till amerikansk politik och kanske inte det viktigaste att nu blogga om, men intressant och bra.

Från ett radioprogram i Operation Coffee Cup Campaign där Reagan talar kring ett förslag om socialiserad sjukvårdsförsäkring.

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Ett slags tema är den fria människan vs. staten. Ett transkript här.

Talets inledande ord:

"Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people would adopt every fragment of the socialist program."

Efter att statens beslut om läkares antal patienter samt var de ska arbeta nämnts följer dessa stycken:

"All of us can see what happens once you establish the precedent that the government can determine a man’s working place and his working methods, determine his employment. From here it is a short step to all the rest of socialism, to determining his pay and pretty soon your son won’t decide when he’s in school where he will go or what he will do for a living. He will wait for the government to tell him where he will go to work and what he will do.

In this country of ours took place the greatest revolution that has ever taken place in worlds history, the only true revolution. Every other revolution simply exchanged one set of rulers for another.

But here for the first time in all the thousands of years of man’s relation to man, a little group of men, the founding fathers, for the first time established the idea that you and I had within ourselves the God-given right and ability to determine our own destiny. This freedom was built into our government with safeguards."

(HT: SBVOR)