But how and why did they start? Was it all a ploy - did their founders know that they would start these programs "small" and then watch them snowball to be what they have become today?
RUSH: This is near the end of the presser. He's frustrated and angry with the press corps and with the questions. He's answering this question from Weisman at the Wall Street Journal, and he is speaking not to the people of this country. He's speaking to the press "corpse." He's talking to the White House press people in that room, calling them "us," for example. Here we go.
OBAMA: This is a big, diverse country! Not everybody agrees with us! I know that shocks people. Now, the New York Times editorial page does not permeate across all of America. Neither does the Wall Street Journal editorial page. This is why FDR, when he started Social Security, it only affected widows and orphans. You did not qualify, and yet now it is something that really helps a lot of people. When Medicare was started, it was a small program. It grew. Under the criteria that you just set out, each of those were betrayals of some abstract ideal.
RUSH: He is livid at these guys, but he was talking like a heretic. "The New York Times editorial page doesn't permeate across all of America." You know, we run around and we complain about the mainstream media. We complain about the bias, the lack of objectivity and so forth -- and so do they, except he's upset. He's trying to remind these guys: Look, the Times is our Bible, but it doesn't permeate all across America, damn it. Not everybody agrees with us. I know that shocks you. "Now, the New York Times editorial page doesn't permeate..." This is really opening up. This is a clear view into his mind-set, and that of the full-fledged liberal mind-set. They're ticked off. They're winning and they're ticked off. "Hey, not everybody agrees with us." That makes him mad.
By the way, he committed another gaffe. "This is why FDR, when he started Social Security, it only affected widows and orphans." That's not right. He couldn't be more wrong. It was "Old Age Assistance." Social Security was called "Old Age Assistance." It was specifically about seasoned citizens. It wasn't about "widows and orphans," and this is not the first time he's got this wrong. He's gotten this wrong many, many times -- like 57 states. He campaigned in "all 57 states." He's looking at the press, "You guys didn't qualify for Social Security when it started." The hell they didn't. Everybody qualified when they reached a certain age. But it wasn't for widows and orphans?
"You guys didn't qualify. Medicare didn't start out for you." By design! The only way these things get passed into law is if they're said to cost very little just to help a small group of people, but look at what happens to all these programs? They finally expand and blow up to the point that nobody can pay for 'em. Nobody knows how many people are being treated redundantly, benefiting redundantly from all of this. This chip on his shoulder moment, that's it. When he's backed into a corner, the Bamster plays the race card. He's still answering the question from Jonathan Weisman of the Wall Street Journal: What do you stand for? What are you gonna go to the mat over? What are your core values?
OBAMA: This country was founded on compromise! I couldn't go through the front door at this country's founding and, eh, you know, if we were really thinking about ideal positions, we wouldn't have a union.
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