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Hello Democratic Voters!
By Don Feder
September 23, 2019

The expression "Hello sucker!" is attributed to Mary Louise Cecilia ("Texas") Guinan, who operated a popular Manhattan speakeasy during Prohibition. As they arrived, guests were greeted with a booming, "Hello sucker! Come on in and leave your wallet on the bar."

Guinan was a forerunner of today's Democratic Party.

Someone added up all of the new spending Democratic presidential candidates are proposing. The grand total is $210 trillion over 10 years – ten times the national debt.

This is how Democrats rope dopes. Want "free" health care? You got it. Your college debt cancelled? You can have that too. Universal Child Care? "Affordable" housing? A guaranteed income? All of this and more can be yours. Pie-a-la-mode in the sky, as soon as the party of "government money" is back in the White House. Just leave your wallet on the bar.

But, not to worry. The money to pay for this booty will be squeezed from Elizabeth Warren's mythical 1% – sheep who will naturally stand still to be shorn, instead of moving their money and themselves overseas – or a tax on corporations (they don't pay taxes now, do they?), which will make them more competitive in the world market.

It's not just your new role as the Democrats' reluctant sugar daddy, but all of the waste, corruption, incompetence, bureaucracy and control over your life that your money will buy.

Among other things, they'll ruin your health care – bring you rationing, long waits for basic services and fewer and fewer doctors and nurses to take care of an increasing number of patients. Estimated costs of these spending sprees are:

Green New Deal – $94 trillion over 10 years

Universal Basic Income (Andrew Yang's version) – $1,000 a month to every American over 18, for life -- $3 trillion a year. Twinkle Toes believes in cutting through the red tape and bribing voters directly.

Medicare for All (Sanders' version) $3.2 trillion a year

Cancelling student debt (one-time cost – $1.6 trillion) and free tuition at public colleges – $2.2 trillion over 10 years

Universal Child Care – (Warren's plan) $70 billion annually

There's also $31.5 billion to raise teachers' pay, rent subsidies ($94 billion a year), increased food stamp spending, $2 billion to expand National Service, $158 billion for federal guaranteed jobs, and reparations for slavery.

What do you get for this spend-a-palooza? Take Medicare for All. Under Canadian single-payer health care, the median waiting time to see a physician, be diagnosed by a specialist and receive treatment (say chemotherapy) is 7 1/2 months. I'm surprised our neighbor to the north doesn't provide Universal Mortuary Care as well.

Besides, what physician wouldn't want to spend 11 to 15 years of education and training to become a civil servant?

The version of the Green New Deal championed by the 29-year-old erstwhile bartender promises 100% renewal energy, eliminating so-called greenhouse gas (zero emissions from the transportation, manufacturing and agricultural sectors), upgrading all existing buildings and constructing new buildings to achieve "maximal energy efficiency."

Besides destroying whole sectors of the economy (oil, natural gas and coal production), it would give us the industrial output of Tierra del Fuego and make us a colony of Saudi Arabia.

Universal Child Care will squeeze out family and informal care arrangements. Providers will be dependent on government, forcing them to accept federal standards no matter how absurd – indoctrination of preschoolers.

Making tuition free (well, not really; someone has to pay for it) is essentially full-employment for leftist academics who will educate the next generation of pussy-hatters, ANTIFA and environmental activists. For Democrats, it's a win/win – buying votes and paying for indoctrination.

Now, here's the really scary part – public support for the statist boondoggles:

Medicare for All – favored by 53% in a July 2019 Kaiser Family Foundation poll
Green New Deal – 60% support in a July Marist poll.

Universal Child Care – 56% strongly or somewhat supported it in a February Politico poll.

Sanity won on Universal Basic Income (just 26% support in the latest NPR/Marist poll) and free tuition at public colleges (52% opposed in a May Quinnipiac poll), but 57% support the federal government forgiving up to $50,000 in student loans for individuals making less than $250,000 a year.

What happens when they run out of pockets to pick? The top 1%, which currently pays 39% of all taxes paid to government in this country, while earning around 20% of income, isn't a rock with an infinite blood supply. A tax on corporations? Double-digit unemployment here we come.

The suckers believe in something for nothing – that they can get all of this free stuff, and it won't cost them a blessed thing – not in taxes, inflation, spiraling unemployment and economic stagnation.

The Democrats are like Medieval alchemists – except instead of turning iron into gold, they'll turn your income into the substance that lines the streets of San Francisco.

Most Americans (the products of public education) are taught not to think. Remember, Hillary Clinton, the most corrupt, arrogant, elitist candidate to ever run for president, won the popular vote. The Electoral College saved us from the Reign of Hillary.

Winston Churchill said, "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

This utopianism is based on profound ignorance. In various surveys taken between 2015 and this year:

52% of Americans couldn't name a single Supreme Court justice (during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings).
Only 46% know that every state has two U.S. senators.
Only 37% could name their Congressman
Just 36% can name all three branches of government. (They're not the upper, lower and middle.)
And 60% didn't know which countries the United States fought in World War II.

No wonder Democrats love public education and are always agitating for increased funding. The public schools are amnesia factories whose product the left relies on to stay in power.

In November 2020, at millions of polling places across the land, it will be, "Hello suckers! Come on in and leave your wallet in the voting booth."

Don Feder is a former Boston Herald writer who is now a political/communications consultant. He also maintains a Facebook page.

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