Big Government worked better in the industrial age; not so much in digital era

Earlier this week, I was thinking of writing a column about the lying and duplicity of Obamacare backers who argued that the difference between provisions providing subsidies in states with state-run health exchanges and providing no subsidies in states with federal exchanges resulted from inadvertence or a typographical error.

Typical among them was MIT health care expert Jonathan Gruber. The folks at the Competitive Enterprise Institute found video of him in 2012 arguing that all or most states would create their own exchanges because they wouldn’t get subsidies if they let the federal government run their exchanges. That was just a “speako” (the oral equivalent of a typo), Gruber replied.

I think Michael Barone does a decent job at explaining why more states haven't set up their own health-care exchanges. But he forgot one big reason: the states don't have the money to sustain the exchanges once the federal moneys dry up in a few short years. The left's definition of "judicial activism" i.e., if a federal court strikes down an act of Congress is complete and utter bull $hit. Real judicial activism is when the judges and justices of the federal courts--particularly the U.S. Supreme Court-- insert their own personal views on society and "read into" the U.S. Constitution rights and privileges that are nowhere to be found in the U.S. Constitution. Roe v. Wade, Plyler v. Doe, Lawrence v. Texas, Kelo v. New London, Hollingsworth v. Perry, and United States v. Windsor are just a few examples of the U.S. Supreme Court's judicial activism. However, you would be hard pressed to find a liberal who didn't enthusiastically endorse every one of these U.S. Supreme Court decisions. Justice Antonin Scalia is correct when he says that constitutional originalism is no where near as results-oriented approach is as living constitutionalism is. It absolutely sickens me that the left believes the U.S. Constitution is a "living-and- breathing" document but that they contend that unborn babies are not living and breathing creatures worthy of any legal protections. Liberals and leftists are diabolical./rwa

Looks like we will get to see how hard totalitarianism coupled with constant digital monitoring and the enforcement of the smallest of decrees works this time.

When even the smallest of towns have heavily armed SWAT teams ready to assault their own citizenry, we are a pretty far cry from any semblance of a free America we once enjoyed and squandered.
Trying to overcome that kind of pervasive force will be a pretty monumental undertaking that I am not sure I see any particular will to do.

Big government has never worked well, ever.

True enough, but you don't go all the way. Big "Anything" does not, nor never has, worked well.

Big "Anything" is, by nature, inherently inefficient, and likely corrupt to boot. These detriments are a function of its size, and can never be addressed in a timely or efficient manner by a small cadre of "elite" overseeing any vast enterprise.

It is just impossible...

the infowarrior

Diabolical is right, I still haven't gotten over the KELO decision.

There's a quick and easy way to get Kelo reversed:
As president, executive order the taking of the properties of the Justices under the Kelo justification (imagine some sort of tax-increase) and they'll reverse it faster than you've ever seen the USSC move.

159 = number of security gaps found at information security programs at 10 Medicare contractors in Fiscal Year 2012, according to an HHS Inspector General Report issued on July 30, 2014.

HHS Awards States $106 Million in Grants for Thinly Veiled Data Collection Initiative
http://www.cchfreedom.org/cchf.php/938#.U-Iwxyg71yE

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