I know what you mean, upchuck. But I say act like a pitcher and keep throwing strikes by painting the corners.
Just stay with it.
Jesus Christ: You can’t impeach Him and He ain’t going to resign.
Posted on 11/19/2013 1:34:13 PM PST by Kaslin
If there’s one thing Obamacare’s supporters and opponents can agree on, it’s that Obamacare is unprecedented. Never before did the federal government require every American to buy a commercial product. Never before did it attempt to use its spending powers to coerce states into implementing a federal program. And never before did it so fundamentally rewrite the rules of such a major economic industry – one that makes up about a seventh of the national economy.
With Obamacare, the federal government decided it would run, not just a business, but an entire industry of businesses. Imagine if the government decided it didn’t like how airline companies were running their business, so it started to require bureaucrats to choose flight routes and ticket prices. They would decide how much airlines could spend on everything from fuel to peanuts. They would use money from some fliers to pay for the travel of over fliers. And they would sell tickets on a government-run “exchange” that looks a lot like Orbitz or Expedia – except it takes days, weeks, or months to buy a ticket.
There were more than a few of us who believed the federal government was incapable of running one-seventh of the economy. This was the same government, after all, that couldn’t get water to thirsty Katrina victims and that couldn’t process the benefits claims of war heroes in under a year. President Obama had never run anything larger than a Senate office. Kathleen Sebelius had never seen any success that was not taxpayer funded. It didn’t take a Nobel Prize to realize they weren’t going to run a health care business as well as professional health care businessmen and businesswomen.
But what if failure was actually the plan all along? What if chaos was meant to be a part of the government-run business model? What if Obama and company decided the best strategy for paving the way to a single-payer system was to utterly destroy the existing system? That would explain the lack of testing of the website, the snowball of cancelled policies, and the lack of training of the navigators. It would also explain why it was so easy for Obamacare’s supporters to ignore those on the right, like Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Mike Lee, and almost every conservative pundit, who have been screaming about Obamacare’s recipe for disaster since day one.
President Obama told the AFI-CIO in 2003, “I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal healthcare plan.” However, when he signed Obamacare, he likely thought it would take ten to fifteen years before the chaos of the industry would be severe enough for the American people to be desperate enough to surrender to full government control in order to receive relief.
The only good thing about Obamacare’s disastrous rollout is that it is allowing Americans to see the law’s catastrophe effects – or at least some of them; there are others yet to come – before it’s too late. Because the true face of Obamacare is now plain to see, conservatives have a chance to explain to the American people that if they really want to keep their health insurance, they’d better not just take the word of the President. They’d better vote Republicans in 2014 and then put a Republican in the White House in 2016.
Now is time for Republicans to band together around the policy principles that unite us, not the political tactics that sometimes divide us. We need to play and replay the smug image of Nancy Pelosi marching across the steps of the Capitol with her gavel to celebrate this deceitful legislation. We need to continue to make video and audio montages of the President saying, "You can keep your health insurance," and replay them every chance we get. The Republican party now has smoking-gun evidence of the terrible effects of the President’s signature “achievement,” and if we can’t convince the jury of the American people to fire him and his party for bad policies, bad planning, and bad execution, then it’s our own fault.
I think the Obamacare fiasco shows the failures of liberalism in general. It shows that big government top down solutions to issues facing the country don’t work as planned. It shows that bureaucracy and lack of accountability and bad unintended consequences will result. It shows that government generally can’t run programs very well.
Liberals have other ideas for big government top down solutions in other areas, such as energy and education. As such plans are discussed, I hope that the experience of Obamacare will be discussed, to show what we can expect if we enact draconian programs to deal with other problems.
According to polls, only about 20% of Americans are died in the wool liberal/radical types. There is a sensible center of American politics, which unfortunately has voted for Obama in the past two elections. But that sensible center is seeing failures of liberalism with Obamacare, and they can be persuaded against supporting the liberals in the future. Just my opinion.
Now is also a good time to bring up the fact that less than five percent of his staff have actual private sector business experience. This is an administeation that thinks they can run the world based upon their term papers.
“This is an administeation that thinks they can run the world based upon their term papers”
or “meaningful” conversations in a coffee house or opium den!
or their dreams of “a better world”
We all have hopes of a better world, just some of us respect reality and the laws of physics as well. We are the ones better prepared to implement improvements, we are the ones who give out of our own pockets to help the needy through charitable contributions and do not resort to the force of law to dictate that OTHERS pay for . . . our compassion. It is NOT compassion to use the FORCE OF LAW to compel OTHER PEOPLE to pay for YOUR view of compassion. Hey you have a check book too (speaking to them of course) how about using it to contribute directly to the needy, instead of to pols like the 0 , to enact legislation that makes you feel better about yourselves (you know who I mean).
WHY demand a huge bureaucratic intermediary which siphons off millions and billions??
Frauds and hypocrites they are. Tax me less which ends up in fraud, waste, and abuse — and I have MORE to contribute to actual charities doing good.
I agree with everything you guys wrote. And the article, too, especially the last paragraph.
But the unanswered question is still: in an election, how do you compete with Santa Claus.
Good point Dilbert - thanks.
I have made a decision long time ago not to vote for any one that makes a lot of promises
“how do you compete with Santa Claus.”
I guess we have to find the way to convince people that while Santa is still good, the people who buy the gifts in the name of Santa, are truly the ones who give.
Better: the one they SEE as Santa is really the Grinch! ; )
Who would steal THEIR Christmas, too! The Grinch stole everyone’s Christmas!
It becomes much easier when Santa Claus delivers large piles of dog s*** for Christmas.
I know what you mean, upchuck. But I say act like a pitcher and keep throwing strikes by painting the corners.
Just stay with it.
Jesus Christ: You can’t impeach Him and He ain’t going to resign.
They still have three years to go... A Healthcare grab that is now in progress and is still 90% hidden in it’s full disastrous effects.
A stealth Race War in progress.
More onerous taxes on the way.
The destruction of the middle class is ramping up through more and more taxes and the loss of regular full-time jobs. The obvious answer to that is to go on welfare and become a part of the Obama Legions.
Businesses small and mid-sized are in trouble or are going to be in trouble. Businesses Large and International in scope will eventually be in trouble too. Why I think that should be obvious to everyone with a eye to family budgets and the new MANDATED healthcare premiums and ‘taxes’.
For the first time in our history the Federal Government now wants to know EVERY detail of your financial life and also have the ability to dip in at will and withdraw your money out for it’s own needs. Think of it! You will not be able to save up fro a car, a computer, a new TV or whatever else you desire because the government can at will take your money from your accounts and YOU CAN’T STOP THEM.
Businesses Small, Medium and Large are about to see a drop in consumer spending of depression era levels and it will devastate them even further sending the whole country into a economic implosion.
Sure you could go to a cash economy but then the “War on Drugs” laws kick in and your cash can and WILL be confiscated as possible unaccounted “DRUG PROFITS”. No proof needed, your property can be declared ‘guilty’ and be confiscated at whim.
The end result I have believed and still believe to this day is the desire for a “Civil War” here in the United States so that a Dictatorship of unprecedented capabilities can be installed. And then these Progressives/Liberals/Communists can finally say: Communism can work because we are the ones who made it possible.
And just think... it will only take the deaths of a hundred million American citizens to accomplish that multi-generational dream of theirs.
Alas Babylon... I do believe we have now passed onto the slippery slope and are about to fall head first into the pit below us.
In short, it shows that all liberals and big government are capable of is creating cluster-f*cks of huge proportions.
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