Sir Codin
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Whelp, it's happened. Let the moaning commence and most of it with good reason.
He merely said what I was thinking. Stragly enough people agree with Affordable Care Act when it isn't called Obamacare.
Well looks like I'm not going to Mars with the shutdown of Nasa.
I'm trying to put myself in the position of someone who wants to blame Obama. Is it because I just hate him and think everything he does it bad? Is it because I feel that the ACA is so horrible it's worth stopping the government? Is it because I feel that a government shutdown isn't a bad thing anyway so there's no loss? Is it because I believe that anything is open for debate? Do I cynically believe that it's a bad move but that the blame can be shifted elsewhere?
I just can't figure out what motivates people of this mindset.
They blame Obama because Obama is actually attempting to change how America treats its citizens and how the government is run. They blame Obama because he is trying to breach the gap between the two political parties for the better of American society.
These wealthy Republican Senators and Representatives are so disjointed from the general, majority population that they have no understanding of how this government shutdown will affect millions of families.
So many people have forgotten the Right of Revolution we have as Americans. Basically, if we want, we can storm up to the government, demand it change COMPLETELY, and thus it will be done. Period. This was decided during the creation of the Bill of Rights. Problem is, the last time we did it - the Veteran March on the Capital, our people got shot down by those in control of the government, all like, "Nuh-uh. Not going to happen. We're in control."
The Republicans only risked a shut down because they believed the entire nation - not just the fed employees - would suffer if ANY version of Obamacare remained. And they're right. All Obamacare has done is destroy the ability for other forms of welfare to work, caused everyone with Obamacare to pay MORE than they did with the services they used to have, and made political entities reconfigure how their economies worked at every level - causing no one to have a job, regardless of achievement or experience.
You are so, so wrong and you don't even know it...
I watched all of the debates between Obama and Romney. Every time I was getting ready for the debate, I knew exactly what Obama would say. It's the same thing he's said every time in response to everything that goes wrong, regardless of whatever that may be: "The Republicans are stopping us."
That's complete BS. The Democrats are the ones blaming the Republicans for everything. The Republicans have been working their butts off trying to take away Obama's plan because IT HAS ONLY FAILED. Obama just wants to have his name in the books for something, even if it means causing the nation to fail.
You cannot say that Obama is "bridging the gap" between the parties when he blames the other party for everything. You cannot say Obama is doing this "for the good of millions" when his plans have only done bad for millions. We are NOT better off than when the economy was first fully seen as taking a dive. We are WORSE. The Republicans know that Obama's plans will only make things go more and more sour and THAT is why they aren't yielding.
"This threat is with us and at the moment is more imminent. One of the traditional methods of imposing stateism and socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It is very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. Most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can't afford it. So with the American people on record as not wanting socialized medicine, Congressman Farrand introduced the Farrand bill. This was the idea that all people of Social Security age should be brought under a program of compulsory health insurance. Now, Congressman Farrand brought the program out on that idea just for that particular group of people. But Congressman Farrand was subscribing to this foot in the door philosophy, because he said if we can only break through and get our foot inside the door, we can expand the program after that. Now for what reason the other people have for backing a bill that says we insist on compulsory health insurance for senior citizens on the basis of age alone, regardless of whether they are worth millions of dollars, have an income, whether they're protected by their own insurance, whether they have savings. I think we can be excused for believing that as ex-Congressman Farrand said, this was simply an excuse to bring about what they had wanted all the time, socialized medicine.
You know what's not popular? Reforming Medicare such that beneficiaries "receive a check or voucher from the government each year for a fixed amount they can use to shop for their own private health insurance policy." According to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, 65 percent of Americans oppose the idea -- about the same number who dismissed it in 1995. And if they're told that the cost of private insurance for seniors is projected to outpace the cost of Medicare insurance for seniors -- which is exactly what CBO projects -- more than 80 percent of Americans oppose the plan.
But it's not just sweepingly ideological reforms that are unpopular. Cutting Medicare polls poorly even if you leave out the details. Almost 80 percent of Americans oppose Medicare cuts in the abstract, while 70 percent oppose Medicaid cuts. Slightly over half of the country wants the Defense Department left alone. The only deficit-reduction option that is popular? Raising taxes on the rich. That gets the go-ahead from 72 percent of us -- though, as any budget wonk will tell you, it can't solve anything beyond a small fraction of our fiscal problem.
In general, the poll shows overwhelming opposition to the main Republican approaches for reducing the deficit -- even when they're posed vaguely. Almost 60 percent of Americans, for instance, want a mix of tax increases and spending cuts in the final deal, while only 36 percent think spending cuts should be deployed on their lonesome. The silver lining for Republicans is that though their policies run far behind the Democratic alternatives, they run slightly ahead: 46 percent of Americans trust them on the debt, versus 42 percent who trust Obama.