Yep. All the outcry is about poor people, who aren't going to benefit from Obamacare. The problem for them is price, and the bill does not address prices.
The real socialism here is welfare for corporations, as usual.
The welfare-state has always, in all its iterations, been backed by the upper class, because it has been perceived as beneficial to it in several ways:
1. Enabling the corporations to profit from the state through subsidies and contracts.
2. Enabling the corporations to protect themselves from small business by raising cost of entry.
3. Forcing the poor into the so-called "protestant work ethic" and "socialized lifestyle" - by reducing access to drugs, encouraging 'stable homes', etc. (that this hasn't work doesn't matter - we're talking about what the
goal was, not whether it was achieved). THere's a reason why a lot of progressive writing isn't about giving the poor money, it's about controlling their lifestyle pro-actively.
Today, of course, this is somewhat (but only in part) mediated by the influence of the very extreme left, who thinks social control is for losers and we should just chuck money at the poor. On the other hand, many so-called right-wingers like this role of the modern state.
4. For decades, left-wing propaganda has been that we have a supposed 'compromise' in our society where the 'rich' give up some of their wealth in exchange of social stability (wherein extremists would supposedly rise to power if we didn't have a welfare state, propelled of course by the rage of the poor). Many wealthy individuals believe this.
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