I know your morbid taste. You love to watch those train wrecks. Read this, weep, and have fun deconstructing it:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1545634/posts#14To: indcons
Middle class people will actually be HURT by this program the same way they're hurt by ANY help that's given those in the lower classes. It doesn't matter what it is. It's may be fuel, pills, health care, food. Anything you can imagine.
How? The more help you give those on the bottom, the more they compete for goods and services with those in the middle. Prices rise as the middle competes with the bottom for limited supplies.
The net result is higher prices and a middle-class that loses some of it's fuel, or medicine, etc. to others that have been given government help.
Really, all these programs do is for some in the middle class to trade places with those given help.
This is especially true for things where the supply isn't very elastic, like fuel for heating, or access to doctors.
For example, suppose there are 100 doctors serving 1000 patients. And there are another 1000 patient that need doctors. Prices sort out who gets a doctor and who doesn't. The top 1000 earners get the 100 doctors. The bottom 1000 don't.
Now along comes the government trying to help the bottom 1000 afford care. They give this bottom 1000 enough money to buy doctors. Okay. So where do the 100 doctors come from to serve this 1000 that now have money for care? There is no magic doctor fairy. Those doctors come the middle class that once could afford them. Competition between the two groups for doctors means prices get driven up until the those in the middle get out-competed with those that get government help.
If the Republicans shared these ideas with the middle class, they'd be able to get all sorts of cuts in social spending. That spending is mostly pointless anyway since it only drives up prices and makes things more expensive and untilmatly squeezes the middle class from the bottom.
14 posted on 12/22/2005 2:59:55 PM PST by mc6809e