Sowell: A New Year and Old Problems (Obamacare)

Creators Syndicate ^ | December 31, 2013 | Thomas Sowell

[jazusamo]

Whenever we stand on the threshold of a new year, we are tempted to forget the hazards of prophecy, and try to see what may lie on the other side of this arbitrary division of time.

Sometimes we are content to try to change ourselves with New Year's resolutions to do better in some respect. Changing ourselves is a much more reasonable undertaking than trying to change other people. It may or may not succeed, but it seldom creates the disasters that trying to change others can produce.

When we look beyond ourselves to the world around us, peering into the future can be a very sobering, if not depressing, experience.

ObamaCare looms large and menacing on our horizon. This is not just because of computer problems, or even because some people who think that they have enrolled may discover at their next visit to a doctor that they do not have any insurance coverage.

What ObamaCare has done, thanks to Chief Justice Roberts' Supreme Court decision, is reduce us all from free citizens to cowed subjects, whom the federal government can order around in our own personal lives, in defiance of the 10th Amendment and all the other protections of our freedom in the Constitution of the United States.

ObamaCare is more than a medical problem, though there are predictable medical problems — and even catastrophes — that will unfold in the course of 2014 and beyond. Our betters have now been empowered to run our lives, with whatever combination of arrogance and incompetence they may have, or however much they lie.

[jazusamo]

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[AU72]

Republicans have to decide whether their top priority is internal strife among the different wings of the party — another circular firing squad — or whether either wing puts the country first.

Either wing? All the vitriol is coming 1 wing.

[rawhide]

What ObamaCare has done, thanks to Chief Justice Roberts' Supreme Court decision, is reduce us all from free citizens to cowed subjects, whom the federal government can order around in our own personal lives, in defiance of the 10th Amendment and all the other protections of our freedom in the Constitution of the United States.

obammacare goes beyond healthcare.

[oldbrowser]

We are truly at a crossroads for the future of this country.

And the truth is that all of our leaders have been found lacking.

[tet68]

God bless Mr. Sowell and may he have a Happy New Year!

[Dick Bachert]

Dr. Sowell, PLEASE consider a run for a high public office. The abysmal lack of common sense and logic like yours in public life is a large part of why we’ve gone off the rails!

[jazusamo]

God bless Mr. Sowell and may he have a Happy New Year!

Amen to that!

[Don Corleone]

In our two-party system, everything depends on whether the Republicans step up to the plate and act like responsible adults who understand that ObamaCare represents a historic crossroads that will determine what kind of people we are going to be, for this generation and generations yet unborn — citizens or subjects.

GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC!!!

[sheikdetailfeather]

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good
of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live
under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may
at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good
will torment us without end for they do so with the approval
of their own conscience.” C.S. LEWIS

[Marathoner]

Dr. Sowell, PLEASE consider a run for a high public office. The abysmal lack of common sense and logic like yours in public life is a large part of why we’ve gone off the rails!

AMEN! Would to GOD that he would've been the first AA President. How much brighter future would we have?

[TheOldLady]

Thank you for the post and ping.

[GOPJ]

What ObamaCare has done, thanks to Chief Justice Roberts' Supreme Court decision, is reduce us all from free citizens to cowed subjects, whom the federal government can order around in our own personal lives, in defiance of the 10th Amendment and all the other protections of our freedom in the Constitution of the United States.

Sowell understands economic incentives better than anyone... he knows where Obamacare's gonna take us and that it's not a good place.