Today, the Treasury Department has announced that they will push off enforcing insurance mandates for the Affordable Care Act, aka "Obamacare", until after the election.
Now, one would hope after seeing how Obamacare has actually raised insurance premiums and rates in California, in contradiction to the claim that it would lower health care costs, perhaps this is the Dems realizing this was a bad idea from the start and they need to restructure it into a system that is actually reasonable. One that can bring about affordable care without us needing to front exorbitant bills or be forced to triage because there is no money left.
Of course, I doubt it. This is because they know if the ACA is implemented in its current state, many will see exactly why people are so fervently against it. And no, it is not because we don't want to "Give free care to undeserving poors". On a whole list of failed promises, this would no doubt spell trouble for the election, I mean, if Obamacare was viable, would they not enforce it already?
Not that I relish the prospects of the GOP winning both Houses should it come to pass, but if this whole farce doesn't convince people of how much the Dems will sink to to maintain their grip on power, I don't know what will.
They're both terrible, and how we haven't already casted them out into the desert where they belong is beyond me.
Because the only way to get rid of tyrannical rulers is to replace them with even more tyrannical rulers? It's a law of nature. Evolution will continue, and in 100 years, our politicians will be cybernetically-enhanced corruoption machines with powers far beyond the Boehners and Schumers of today.
ReplyDeleteYou know, i'm almost looking forward to the next time the GOP controls the White House/Congress. See, this current crop of right-wingers was basically slumbering and not paying attention until late 2008. (Bush I and Reagan were much more protected by tradition and the lack of modern media scrutiny that Bush II and Obama could only dream of.) But... just imagine if Romney had won, and both houses of Congress were in GOP control -- every right-leaning person would say "hey, we won! Victory! Now, to bask in the promised freedom that.... hey. Hey, wait a second. Nothings's happening. Wait, are you telling me that President Romney is NOT going to shut down the NSA?"
To me, Romney was just White Obama anyway. Hence why many libertarians and actual conservatives stayed out during the election.
ReplyDeleteYour prediction that eventually Skynet will descend to decimate humanity is accurate, though I'd say its more on the lines of 20 years.