The Gipper Warned Us 48 Years Ago! The audio will give you chills.

Eject Eject Eject » A VOICE FROM THE PAST: "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 will adopt every fragment of the socialist program.

One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. Most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can’t afford it.

Now, the American people, if you put it to them about socialized medicine and gave them a chance to choose, would unhesitatingly vote against it. We had an example of this. Under the Truman administration it was proposed that we have a compulsory health insurance program for all people in the United States, and, of course, the American people unhesitatingly rejected this."

-- Ronald Reagan, 1961

Uncannily prescient. What a joy to hear some much-needed common sense from this great man, plucked from 48 years ago. He goes on to talk about how supporters tried to ram the proposal through under the guise of crisis, and their unwarranted insistence that the probem be handled through a universal, mandatory, government program. Listen to Ronald Reagan himself delivering this message: Reagan audio