Hillary-Care is back! Our former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, in her quest to become our next president, has introduced a new health care plan as part of her campaign. Here is an AP article:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070918/ap_on_el_pr/clinton_ap_interview_6

The article tells us that Hillary wants to make it mandatory for all Americans to purchase health insurance, but says there will be no punitive measures to force people into the system. Is it me, or is this an obvious contradiction? How can something be mandated by the government but have no legal consequences? She wants to make it so that "you have to show proof to your employer that you're insured as a part of the job interview — like when your kid goes to school and has to show proof of vaccination." Hmmm...business owners might love this idea, but can it possibly work? Many people have health benefits through their employers. Is this type of policy really going to result in more people having health coverage? Elsewhere, the article says that Hillary intends to build on the current employer-based system. But wait -- isn't this another glaring contradiction? If we'll need proof of health insurance to get a job in the first place, then why will we need an employer-based system?

Here is the scary part of the article:

Her health care plan would require every American to buy health insurance, offering tax credits and subsidies to help those who can't afford it. The mandatory aspect of her proposal, however, gets glossed over in the ad.

That's a huge thing to gloss over! In case you don't remember the health care plan that Hillary and her husband Bill tried to push through during the first two years of Bill's presidency, I'll remind you of some "mandates" which were hidden in that massive big-government plan, the published form of which ran over 1,300 pages:

1. Under the original version of Hillary-Care, all Americans would have been assigned to mandatory health alliances. Each person would have been required to only use the health alliance they were assigned to. If any American dared to choose their own doctor, the penalty would have been a mandatory 15-year prison sentence. The plan would have also created other outrageous new laws too numerous to mention.

2. Also, many new taxes were involved in the plan, including a whomping 12% national sales tax, as well as major tax increases on cigarettes and alcohol. (At the time, the latter ideas were called "sin taxes". Liberalism truly is a secular religion.).

Hillary is obviously trying to portray her new plan as being very different and less restrictive than her original disastrous plan was. Don't believe it. The Clintons (yes, both of them) will try to portray this new health care plan as all things to everyone in order to get it passed through Congress. Once they achieve that goal, Hillary's true socialist and totalitarian nature will rear its ugly head, and the American health care system (which, despite its problems, is the best health care system in the world) will be put under government control. As one commentator once put it, health care will be handled with all the efficiency of the postal service -- and with all the compassion of the I.R.S.

MTV continues its mission to pollute the minds of American youth. The cable channel formerly known as Music Television could become more effective than al Qaeda in bringing about the demise of Western Civilization. It will soon be airing a bisexual dating show called A Shot At Love With Tila Tequila. Who is Tila Tequila, you ask? She is a blond Vietnamese bisexual who has made a name for herself for being some kind of "queen" of MySpace...you know, that other thing that is helping to pollute the minds of our youth. Here is the TV Week article:

http://www.tvweek.com/news/2007/09/mtv_greenlights_tila_tequila_d.php

When I first read this article, I wondered if the apocalypse was near. But when I read the TrackBack comments below the article, I was relieved to see that there is much moral outrage over the show's concept, and that many people see it (and MTV) for the repulsive sleaze that it is.

I don't know if this represents a new low for the supposed music channel, which is now mainly a purveyor of trashy reality shows. It seems that MTV has been pandering to the lowest common denominator and pushing leftist values on our youth for many years now. People who are 25 and under have been exposed to a constant barrage of sexual imagery throughout their lives. So, how does MTV generate controversy in an anything-goes era? They make the sexual content more deviant.

If this trend continues, the future of America will be sad. If future generations continue to be dumbed down and taught that sexual perversion is the norm, our society will inevitably collapse. If too many youngsters continue to be exposed to a steady diet of such mindless filth, America will become a nation of Beavises and Buttheads, and it will be unable to sustain itself.

The conventional wisdom is that parents are responsible for supervising what their children watch, and this is basically true. However, parents cannot watch their children 24-7. The media is guilty of continually degrading the culture, possibly to the point of no return. Some will say that it is simply a matter of supply and demand, and that the media is simply giving people what they want. But the almighty dollar is really not the main reason that a show such as A Shot At Love With Tila Tequila finds its way on the air. It has more to do with the liberal media's contempt for traditional values, against which it has waged a war for decades.

So, if any parents are still unaware of what children are watching on MTV, or on the internet, or on just about any other pop cultural medium, this should serve as a wake-up call.

Here's my advice for the young: do not look up to the people that MTV parades before you in their reality shows, or in any music videos that may still occasionally pop up on the channel. MTV may make them look cool, or glamourous, but they are not. Most of them are losers. And if you follow their example, or if you even spend too much of your time watching them make fools of themselves, you will grow to be losers as well. MTV and other media outlets may help such people achieve fame and riches, but you will not find similar rewards if you emulate them. Instead, you will end up living lives of poverty and misery.