The evils of socialized health care

We keep hearing about how horrible "socialized medicine" is, even when the health care plans being discussed are far from socialized medicine. However, we get warned about how bad things are in countries like England and Canada.



As this chart from National Geographic show us, They spend much less money on health care than we do. And they have a higher life expectancy than we do. That sucks. I'd hate to live longer while spending less per person on health care.

-Bob

Glenn Beck = Mormon = Socialist

Last week, Glenn Beck ranted about "Socialist" artwork at Rockefeller Center. So, naturally, I took him to task for it. Using his same logic, I called the religion he and I share Socialist and Paganist.

The Daily Utah Progressive goes a step further, pointing out that when Glenn Beck disses Socialists, he disses his own people:

Yes, Glenn Beck is an LDS convert. But I don’t really want to focus on that. After all, that would be like tearing down half my family. I want to focus on some good things about the Mormon culture, that as a convert, are now apart of Glenn Beck’s supposed religious ideals. If he converted for the right reasons in the first place. Mr. Beck, how well do you know your LDS history? I don’t believe you know anything about them. Did you know that Deseret was a state of clustered socialist communities that worked and lived for their church. They, to this day support all of their kind who are in dire need. The LDS church has a fine history of charity and well fare system. They worked to support ALL of their members. That is by definition, Socialist; working for the good of the WHOLE. ZCMI, a famous department store in SLC for a long, long time. Until a couple years back it was sold two times and is now called macy’s. ZCMI stands for Zion’s Cooperative Mercantile Institution. It was Americas 1st department store. Its true, look it up, ZCMI used to be known as “the people’s store”. Im not going to give you all a history lesson you can look it up here : Utah History Encyclopedia

Mr. Beck, I suggest you take it easy on the “socialist” rhetoric. Little did you know, you were actually tearing you’re own people down. You see, if you really are LDS, then you have “socialist” blood. Take time to look at your people’s history sir

Glenn Beck's Crazy Artwork Conspiracy Proves Mormonism is Comunist Paganism

(Note: I do not believe Mormonism is Communist nor Paganist. However, Glenn Beck (a fellow Mormon) does give us a pretty good argument)

In the following video clip (from Huffington Post) Glenn Beck takes a look at some artwork around Rockefeller Cneter.



In the first piece of artwork, there is art of a hammer and sickle and some wheat.

DXang those communist farmers.

But wait, there's an LDS scripture that comes to mind:

1 Now behold, a marvelous work is about to come forth among the children of men.
2 Therefore, O ye that embark in the service of God, see that ye serve him with all your heart, might, mind and strength, that ye may stand blameless before God at the last day.
3 Therefore, if ye have desires to serve God ye are called to the work;
4 For behold the field is white already to harvest; and lo, he that thrusteth in his sickle with his might, the same layeth up in store that he perisheth not, but bringeth salvation to his soul;

And an even better one, from the Book of Mormon:

Behold, the field was ripe, and blessed are ye, for ye did thrust in the sickle, and did reap with your might, yea, all the day long did ye labor; and behold the number of your sheaves! And they shall be gathered into the garners, that they are not wasted.

Dang Communists!

Oh, and then the second piece of artwork Brother Beck looks at has a strong leader leading Industry (in the form of a horse) to a bright future for the youth.

In Mormonism, we had a strong leader (Brigham Young) who lead an industrious people to a bright future where they focused on their youth.

The third piece of art proves that beating your swords into plowshares as stated in Isaiah (and second Nephi) is Communist also.

But where are the people beating their swords into plowshares? Why in XZion, established in the tops of the mountains......

But in the 4th piece of art, we learn that police beating people and armies wearing gas masks are communist also. JM Bell will be glad to know who got him in Denver last year.

And, well, if we are going to look at symbolic artwork converting the thousands that walk by it every day, let's look at all the people converted to paganism walking past that Salt Lake Temple, shall we?

-Bob

P.S. and don't get me started on the Law of Consecration....