Posted on 11/14/2013 7:02:47 AM PST by sdnet
The old saw about “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, again” may seem appropriate to the democrats dilemma with Obamacare, but, it isn’t.
I would be laughing my bippy off — rolling on the floor, holding my sides in uproarious laughter, save for one thing: the Obamacare mess is so darned serious!
This scribe, along with a few thousand others, warned for years, years mind you, that all these problems WOULD occur if Obamacare became law.
We were laughed at, hooted down, made the punch line of off-color jokes, and generally derided for our temerity to even question the superior intellect of Obama and his coterie of brainy brats and computer models and their exclusive circle of leftist whiz kids all with the common purpose of saving us – the lowly peons of the proletariat – from ourselves.
Well, they failed… failed miserably. And we have God to thank for it.
As my family gathers round the Thanksgiving table in a few days, I intend to offer thanks to God for all the blessings of the past year — among them His interference in the machinations of the wicked political left as they have so forcefully attempted to curtail and deny Americans the rights granted us by God, Himself, through the entanglement of a law spawned in the deepest, darkest, bowels of Hell, itself, Obamacare.
And NO. I am not kidding. I feel THAT strongly about the dangers to myself, my family, and my country presented by Obamacare.
Have you wondered just WHY the government is having so much trouble setting up Obamacare and getting it running? There is a very good reason why they are failing so miserably.
See, the government of the United States was NEVER intended to do such a thing. It was not devised by the minds of the Founding Fathers to run the lives of its people.
When America was founded, the LAST THING Americans wanted was a strong central government. They fought a revolution to rid themselves of just such a government.
America was never intended as a nation of people who were wards of the government. That’s one reason our laws were centered onindividual freedoms.
The Founding Fathers — and all early Americans – simply understood that Americans were responsible for themselves. They knew there was no such thing as a “right” to healthcare. Had one raised the question one would have been laughed down as a complete idiot back then.
Yes, Americans have rights. They are the rights to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness. And that’s it!
The people who founded this country knew there was a demarcation line, a conceptual separation, if you will, between governing and meddling in the lives of their citizens. They also knew that government meddling would end in reduced freedoms for the citizens of the country. So, they deliberately stayed their hand to leave us the most free people on the globe.
At first that list of guaranteed rights for American may seem short. Ask yourself why ONLY those rights were codified in our laws. Then consider this: “Why only THESE? Observe that all legitimate rights have one thing in common: they are rights to action, not to rewards from other people. The American rights impose no obligations on other people, merely the negative obligation to leave you alone. The system guarantees you the chance to work for what you want—not to be given it without effort by somebody else.” (Emphasis mine) SOURCE: http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?id=13873
Am I saying that they (the early Americans) were smarter than modern Americans? Yes, in fact, I am. They were certainly better educated and far more intelligent than most of our intelligentsia today. And as smart politicians go, they were light years ahead of the Washington brain trusts in our government today.
America’s government was never supposed to do what the ACA (Affordable Care Act — aka– Obamacare) calls for it to do today.
Americans were intended to be FREE! The ACA slaps a ball and chain on EVERY American – effectively stripping Americans of the right to think for themselves, fend for themselves, and be responsible human beings and good citizens.
Not even completely out of the starting chute yet and already Obamacare is a massive failure. It will only get worse.
Now the political left is offering up every possible explanation as to why it isn’t working and offering all sorts of “fixes” for it.
Now they want to “reform” it. BEWARE! Reforming Obamacare will only make it worse.
Obamacare MUST be REPEALED, not reformed. If Americans wish to save their country, they must repeal Obamacare – and forget any sort of socialized medicine for America.
Look. Let me make it as plain as I know how: We can have either America or socialized medicine. WE CANNOT HAVE BOTH.
No mulligans! The game’s OVER!
Perfect time for GOP to offer and vote for bills that undermine that law under the guise of reform, like bills that remove mandates. (remove them for all policies outside of exchanges)
GOP in House already tried a direct repeal about 50 times yet Obamacare is still intact no changes to it at all. Obama didnt blink during the shutdown either as we were told he would, in fact it seemed to strengthen him.
Upton bill sounds like a good idea to significantly weaken Obamacare. (I havent heard a specific argument contrary to that)
Landrieu’s bill needs to be killed.
They are never gonna quit trying.
Bill Clinton is just trying to get the can kicked down the road far enough that Hillary can have a second chance to become the Mother of American Socialized Medicine.
It's not a matter of intelligence and education. It is a matter of worldliness and common sense.
A hundred years ago, two hundred years ago, any American, who had at best a high school education, knew what it meant when his father cautioned him "Don't buy a pig in a poke."
Now, we have a college in every town and everyone has a degree or is working on one. But our common sense has degenerated so far that when Nancy Pelosi says "You have to pass the bill to find out what's in it," it is greeted by a collective yawn.
Well, America bought that "pig" and now reality is letting the cat out of the bag.
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