THE GENESEO REVIEW VIEWS FROM THE RIGHT PERSPECTIVE VOLUME 15 ISSUE 1 - SEPTEMBER 22, 2000 - FREE

Doctor Gore: The Perils of Federal Health Care THE GENESEO FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK REVIEW Word ‘em up, yo! The are back, kicking it old school and live! We comin” thru, live to you A Publication of wit’ some real issues, yo. We tawkin’ bout health care, gats the Geneseo and Bush, son! College Republicans Tawk to me, mofo! We want to hear what you think and what you want to see here. So write in early and often and tell Editor-In-Chief us what you want to see. Charlie Giudice So relax,enjoy and remember that when Bush becomes more than a shrub or a beer, it is time to stop drinking! Assistant Editor Karl W. Thaesler

Graphic Editor Eric Siudut TABLE OF CONTENTS Review Staff Dave Austin Darren Eustance HEALTH CARE AND FREE PRESCRIPTION Mary Gleason DRUGS Erik Goergen by Chris Swain...... 3 Joshua Katz Mike Morgan TYRANNY IN NEW YORK STATE Kon Pentchev by Joshua A. Katz...... 4 Chris Swain COLLEGE REPUBLICAN ELECTION

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The Geneseo Review. September 22, 2000. Page 2 HEALTH CARE AND FREE physician does not even have the right to do this! PRESCRIPTION DRUGS In addition to the incredibly costly, highly by Chris Swain regularized social medicine system, another possibilty is for our country to maintain the private The issue of health care and especially free system as it is, with increased spending in things prescription drugs has been made a major issue such as Medicaid and Medicare that cover the poor by the candidates in the 2000 election. Unlike and needy. Although these current services need most European countries and Canada who give a good deal of reform, they are much, much less free health care benets to all their people, the expensive than a change to socialized medicine, still relies on its private health which is strongly opposed by the American care industry, which includes private insurance Medical Association. If more money is spent companies and private physicians that legally can on the existing programs, and if these programs establish individual practices. While the American are reformed to meet the needs of the disabled, health system adequately covers millions of children, and the truly poor, then the problem of Americans, rich, middle class, and blue collar inadequate health care for the needy could be alike, there is still a substantial portion met in a cost effective way that doesn’t force ofthe population without basic coverage. The everyone into a government sponsored system question of how to address this problem that dictates where and when to go to the doctor. can be answered in a variety of ways. Finally, the issue of free prescription drugs, One answer to the lack of basic health care championed by Al Gore is very controversial. for a segment of the populace, is to advocate the In America, the drug industry is among the best Euro-Canadian style of medicine. In this heavily in the world, using the spirit of free enterprise bureaucratic and institutionalized system, the and competition to develop new drugs that save government provides free health care to all its thousands of lives each year. While its unfortunate citizens and residents regardless of income or that the price of these drugs is expensive, to ability to pay. Although health care is universal provide free drugs for all the elderly would mean in these systems, the high taxation, regulation, a massive take over by the federal government of and inefficiency of government taking over the independent drug industry, and a sharp increase one-seventh of the economy, makes it undesire- in tax rates. This possible entitlement is just the rst able for a large number of American citizens. step to a government dominated health care system. Having spent a portion of my summer in As far as free drugs for the elderly are Great Britain, I got to see rsthand the experience concerned, is it worth giving up one of our of socialized medicine, which is conducted in most vibrant industries to regulation (which is a manner much like desired to absolutely necessary to provide free drugs) in see implemented in the United States. In Britain, order to assist all the elderly, including those everyone is covered from cradle to grave, whether who can pay for their own? Is the increase in they decide to work for a living or not. The tax taxes and the addition of yet another government rate to pay for this is 50-60% of an individual’s entitlement worth the benet to a small segment of income, and the quality of medical care in local the population? Many Americans feel that it is not. government clinics laggs behind the US private Hampering a ourishing sector of the American practices in terms of choice, waiting lines,and economy, burdening citizens with higher taxes, efciency. While I was in Britain, a controversy and extending the power of government into a occured as to the right of doctors to be able to new area may be wonderful in the eyes of charge 5 pounds ($7.50) to a patient who fails to big-government Al Gore, but it is highly destruc- show for an appointment. With every aspect of their tive to the economy, innovation, and freedom practices controlled by the government, a British of the American people at the same time.

The Geneseo Review. September 22, 2000. Page 3 TYRANNY IN NEW YORK STATE our forefathers? Perhaps we can shed some light by Joshua A. Katz on that by considering the historical context in which they wrote. Having shed off a tyrannical New York State recently passed a tyrannical British government, they adopted a confederate law that clearly violates the Second and Fourteenth system, which worked during the war, but, when amendments. You might be thinking, “Yeah, there was no common enemy, failed to hold the what else is new?” I’ll tell you what’s unusual Union together. Therefore, they gathered in about this. It wasn’t passed into law by the Philadelphia to write a Constitution, and bring usual suspects: tyrannical liberal Democrats. into being a federal government. In a federal The Republican governor of the state signed it. government as our forefathers wanted it, the states It is standard practice, and expected, for would establish most crimes and punishments, liberal authoritarians to ignore the Constitution. other than those few crimes listed in the Constitu- However, freedom-loving, limited government tion. The state codes, however, would be subject conservative Republicans do not usually act in this to federal laws. The role of the federal government manner. The question, then, is what possessed Gov- is to ensure that the states do not restrict the liber- ernor Pataki to sign the latest gun-grabbing bill? ties of their citizens. Our founding fathers were very clear and However, despite all that, there was still explicit in the Constitution. The main body of the concern about establishing a large government. document spells out the powers of government, Jefferson knew that even the ideal government and it is implied that any powers not given to the would tend, over time, to slide towards tyranny. government are denied to it. To further clarify As a check on excessive governmental power, this, they wrote Amendment 10, which states, they strove to ensure the right of the citizens to “The powers not delegated to the United States arm themselves. An armed citizenry should be of by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the no concern to the government, unless, of course, States, are reserved to the States respectively, or the government has decided to take away some of to the people.” The main body of the Constitution the rights and freedoms of the people. When secured for the people the one freedom that implies that decision is made, the rst step must always all others, namely, the freedom from governmental be to remove guns from the hands of those who abuse. Then, in the Second amendment, the right are to lose their rights. In this way, the second to bear arms is even more clearly stated. The amendment gave “teeth” to the rest of the Bill of amendment gives nothing to the people, but rather Rights. Without it, the rest of the rights listed states a right that is present beforehand. This cannot be adequately ensured. It also serves is clear from the text, “A well regulated Militia, as a warning of coming tyranny. When the being necessary to the security of a free State, the government comes for your guns, in should right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall be clear what they plan to come for next. not be infringed.” It does not say that the people History bears this out. Hitler, Mao, and shall have a right, but rather that the right shall Stalin all started their regimes by disarming their not be infringed. Also, it refers to the people, citizens. We piously chant, “Never again will the not to a militia, and surely not to anything that is world stand by…” yet here we are, standing by, as controlled by the state. It states a fact, namely, Rosie O’Donnell (who has an armed bodyguard) that a well-regulated militia is necessary to the tries to help Governor Pataki take away our guns. security of a free state. It then goes on to state that Early on in the Third Reich, Hitler registered guns the right of the people shall not be infringed. The and said, “We are not trying to take your guns meaning is clear, and to pretend it says anything away. In the interest of security, we simply need else is nothing more than Orwellian newspeak. to know where guns are.” This is terrifyingly Now, why was this right so important to similar to statements made by the large talk show host, and our so-called Republican governor. The Geneseo Review. September 22, 2000. Page 4 TYRANNY IN NEW YORK STATE (continued from page 4) COLLEGE REPUBLICAN ELECTION ACTIVITIES Perhaps Pataki believes that to be politically accepted, he must adopt some liberal stances. Not by the Review Staff only is this false, as it completely alienates his base, it also is unconscionable. Maybe Pataki believes that we need to sometimes give up a On the national level, our club has actively small amount of liberty in exchange for security. supported his candidacy of George W. Bush. “He who gives up a small amount of liberty, in exchange for a large amount of security, “ At the statewide level, Long Island Congress- says Ben Franklin, “deserves neither security man Rick Lazio is in a very tough battle with nor liberty, and in the end will have neither.” Hillary Rodham Clinton. From now Additionally, what security and safety is to be until Election Day, we will be working gained by a gun grab? Criminals do not register on Lazio’s behalf, distributing campaign lit- their guns or obtain licenses; they buy illegal guns erature, setting up information booths in the anyway. Remember, they are criminals. Murder College Union, and mobilizing people to vote. is also illegal and that does not seem to stop them. Only locking them up, throwing away the Another candidate we have been working key, and, when applicable, promptly and swiftly very closely with is Joseph Errigo, who is running administering justice through the use of the death for the New York State Assembly in the 136th penalty. Therefore, new guns laws will only take District. This area includes Geneseo and other the guns out of the hands of honest, responsible parts of Livingston, Allegany, and Monroe coun- citizens. The honest people will be at the mercy ties. Some members of our club dared to march of criminals and tyrants, with only the police to in Rochester’s Labor Day Parade with Joe defend them. So what was Pataki’s motivation? despite the adverse weather conditions. Notwith- The only motivation there can ever be for a standing the rain and cold we all had a great gun-grabber: the restriction of citizens’ liberty. time and Joe treated us to lunch afterwards.

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The Geneseo Review. September 22, 2000. Page 5 BUSH IS NO DUKAKIS candidate since George McGovern. If Bush can by Eric Siudut hammer home Gore’s leftism to the electorate, he will win in a landslide; even after eight years of Since Gore’s surge in the polls following Clinton, Americans are not ready to surrender the Democratic convention, the punditry have as many of their liberties to the Feds as Gore declared George W. Bush dead in the water, like would like them to. Gore is not a New Michael Dukakis in 1988, who saw a substantial Democrat, but an old Socialist. And George summer lead evaporate in the fall, losing in a W. Bush is no Michael Dukakis. landslide to the elder Bush. There’s only one problem with this thesis: George W. Bush is no Dukakis. Bush has all the tools at his disposal to win, and win big, in November. All the polls that show Gore striding ahead WHERE MY PEEPS were conducted by notoriously left-wing publica- tions, such as Newsweek and . AT? More reliable polls, such as John Zogby’s, put Gore’s lead at around 7%, barely outside the Word up! The College margin of error. The latest Battleground 2000 poll, conducted by Republican Ed Goeas and Republicans always welcome Democrat Celinda Lake, shows Bush still in new members. Just stop on by the lead. Newsweek and the New York Times regularly stump for left-wing causes, so it’s to see what the dilly yo. We not surprising that they would create a poll meet every Tuesday at 6:30 in showing their hero strongly in the lead. Nevertheless, there are serious structural the College Union, room 329. problems in the Bush campaign that must be addressed. Bush continues to associate, or even equate, Gore with his boss. Unfortunately, most of the electorate is apathetic at best, approving at worst, of the Clinton administration. If Gore wants to step out of Clinton’s shadow and be his own man, that’s great for Bush: Gore is a liberal true believer, whereas Clinton is a savvy politician, a pragmatist. Clinton supports free Are you an aspiring trade in all cases; Gore has dreamed up a policy creative writer? Hone of “fair trade” under which “fair” is dened and dictated by the unions. Clinton passed welfare your literary skills with reform, albeit reluctantly; he vetoed it twice. the Geneseo Writers Gore would revive the shambling behemoth of the nanny state with his federalization of education, Group! Send e-mail to health care, and child care. Bush must point out Chris DiLeo at that Gore, far from being the political equivalent of his boss, is much, much worse. Gore is in [email protected] or no way a New Democrat; he is a liberal of the call at x6158. tired, old 1960’s variety. Gore’s spending plan outlines 1.6 trillion in new programs. He has proven himself the most liberal presidential The Geneseo Review. September 22, 2000. Page 6