His presidency may be “broken” but one accomplishment, his Affordable Care Act, has accomplished what he said from the beginning he wanted to do, transform America. He has firmly put America in the fast lane of the freeway to socialism where before we were on the lower speed limit two lane. I doubt we will be able to shake obamacare. Too many new hires. Republicans, save 2 or 3 will not countenance putting all those government employees out of work, no matter what they say about repeal. It will all come down to tweaking around the edges for the apparent benefit of this small constituence or that pressure group, just like with NHS in Britian. The economy must stay depressed because this law will be, already is beginning to be, a fatal drag on capital formation. It will have the government sucking 50% or more of GNP soon enough and we will not have the twenty year luxury of indulging in socialist fantasies with little apparent cost that Europe enjoyed because the US has financed Europe’a defense since WWII. To be sure our defense costs will decline because our economy will no longer be able to support them but they will still be far larger than Europe has experienced since 1945.
Spot on. People who think the “Affordable Care Act” is going away, will get repealed or cut back, are living in a fantasy world.
It isn’t going to happen.
From day one and even before, the government has been hiring people, making org charts, opening offices, buying computers, software and office furnishings and so on.
In other words, when they got the word, they began putting it in place as fast as they could, because they knew once the tentacles were in place, it couldn’t be removed.
Shame on every single one of those politicians who supported and voted for it.
Shame.
Shame.