Posted on 11/09/2009 7:32:44 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Throughout the primary campaign last year, Obama consistently said one of the genuine, important policy differences between him and Hillary Clinton was that he did not support an individual mandate to buy health insurance. I know people who voted for him in the primary on this one issue. One example of many:
Senator Clinton. . . believes that we have to force people who don't have health insurance to buy it. Otherwise, there will be a lot of people who don't get it.
I don't see those folks. And I think that it is important for us to recognize that if, in fact, you are going to mandate the purchase of insurance and it's not affordable, then there's going to have to be some enforcement mechanism that the government uses. And they may charge people who already don't have health care fines, or have to take it out of their paychecks. And that, I don't think, is helping those without health insurance. That is a genuine difference.
And yet now, of course, as Jesse notes, his administration is pushing to criminalize the act of not buying insurance, punishable with years in prison. This is the essence of social welfare and indeed all government power: The threat that those who don't comply will be locked in a cage, and if they resist sufficiently, they will ultimately be shot. Ah, compassion. This is a great example of how "economic liberties" and "personal liberties" are one in the same, and of one more important campaign promise broken by Obama.
His shout out to “Chief Joe Medicine Crow” the Medal of Honor winner......WASN'T!!!!
He was a “medal of freedom” winner...that was awarded it in August by none other then Obama himself...
Can u imagine if Bush had made that mistake???????????
The Acupuncture Administration
Inserting little pricks in every fiber of your being.
Now 58% are having an adverse reaction.
“The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.”
- Machiavelli
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