Nat Henthoff: I am finally scared of a White House administration

[lblanchard]

All the old heads of LJ will recall Nat Henthoff as a fearless voice speaking truth to power for more than five decades -- notably at the Village Voice. Henthoff has been around the barn a few times and knows that the evil in a bill is rarely in the text but in the latitude it gives the bureaucrats. And Henthoff -- who stood up to the likes of J. Edgar Hoover -- is now afraid of the Obamacare bill. Skip it if you like, but I think all the Old Lefties on my f-list ought to read it:

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/hentoff081909.php3

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[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Me too. Only I'd like my money back, that is to say the 15% of my salary that's been taken from me for Social Security and Medicare all of my working life of 40-plus years, plus interest. Of course, I can't have that because the kleptocracy raided the trust fund a long time ago.

EDIT: Thank you for not suggesting, as a Facebook contact did, that Nat Henthoff (who is of course pre-boomer in case you're not familiar with him) should don a tin-foil helmet for disagreeing with the Obama health care plan. He's been speaking truth to power since 1958 and doesn't deserve that kind of derision.

We can also thank our friends in power any time from, say, 1980 to now for kicking this particular can down the road for so long. Anyone with half a brain could see that the system would not support a huge age cohort through two decades of life and would have adjusted the retirement ages accordingly. It makes no sense for me to retire at 65 when my family history suggests I'll be able to work till 70 or 75 with no loss of faculties.