While I have always argued for a smaller federal government, this is a remarkably horrible way to implement it. The men who have done this are insulated from the consequences of their actions. Many of them were elected by a reactionary base that is probably very happy that the economy will be negatively impacted by this. Remember, these are the same people who rallied carrying signs that read: ‘Government Stay Out Of My Medicare’ for goodness sake.
No. I won’t. Few of us will. Here’s a teachable moment, for comparison. You lost. The laws were passed by duly elected representatives. Obama ran on his agenda, and won. There are no provisions in our system for “do-overs”. You don’t get a Mulligan.
You lost. There is your teachable moment. And it is, to borrow a phrase, legal and Constitutional. You can do what the lefties do, we know lots about losing. Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and get back in the game. But you don’t get to demand overtime when the score wasn’t tied. Because, as noted above, you lost.
This has always puzzled me, this metaphysical essence that is “government”. The more government there is, the worse it is. So it doesn’t really make any difference what* kind *of government? Is this the word of God, then?
Suppose you had a very successful endeavor, making some product efficiently and productively. And then, the next day, you become a government entity, suddenly, the Presidents name is on your paychecks. Would you instantly become less efficient and productive, because now you’re the government?
Who discovered this rock-solid principle? Where is it Written? For me, so long as the government is of the people, by the people, and for the people, it doesn’t matter how “big” it is. So long as we tell the government what to do, rather than the wrong way around, its cool.
But now you want us to believe that a minority wing of one branch of the government should make the rules. So, why bother to have elections, if you won’t allow anything to be different when you lose? What’s the point? You win the elections, you win, you lose the elections, you win.
The reason you’re angry, so seethingly angry, is that you believe things that are not true.
Your ideology demands that government can do nothing right, but that simply isn’t the case. It does a lot right. And healthcare for every American is a reasonable goal.
The evidence is clear, other nations do it, and they do it for much less than we do. We have a backwards system and keeping it will cause it to collapse. Where on Earth does the “Free Market Healthcare” you advocate work?
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No, actually I hadn’t noticed. What I DID notice was a hostage-taking operation of insane proportions which basically amounts to 230-odd (very odd) giant-size infants kicking and screaming because they didn’t get their way.
Actually, they DID try to repeal it. Forty-three times. It’s just that they a) couldn’t QUITE get enough of their own in the Senate to shepherd the repeal through that chamber and b) even if they had, they don’t have a veto-proof majority in the House, and a repeal WOULD be vetoed. The problem is that the Republicans don’t appear to recognize how our democratic republic works and decided to stage a coup instead.