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.
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.
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.