Rogue Government
Mar 17th, 2010 by David Anderson
Nancy Pelosi and company are leading the lambs to the slaughter. They are defying the will of the people. They are in a dream world in which they think that people just misunderstand health care reform. They claim that people are for the bill when it is broken down into some parts and polled.
That is fantasy. They are correct that some parts have solid support among the people. I agree with a couple parts. It should be against the law for insurance companies to raise the rates on existing customers who happen to get sick. It is a good idea to give people and small business some tax credits to help them. Many people like the idea of banning the denial of insurance companies turning down people with preexisting conditions. I do not agree. The law already mandates that insurance companies do that without a waiting period if your policy is a rollover from another insurance company or with a waiting period if it is a new policy. To do more is not insurance, it is charity.
The reason it is a fantasy is that the bill is not limited to those items. The rest of the story is toldby the other numbers. The individual mandate needed to make the preexisting condition mandate work. The people oppose it. When you talk about the half of trillion dollars of cuts to medicare that is not even polled, but the strong opposition of people 65 and over is called a clue. People do not like the tax on medical devices. They do not like the fact that it is a trillion dollars in new spending. Killing Medisave accounts wouldn’t poll well either if you asked. They do not like increasing regulations on the insurance companies unless it is deals with the problem of the uninsured better. 72% of the public opposes abortion funding in health care reform. The people do not want taxes hiked in this economy. The majority believes the bill will hurt the economy.Considering the economy is the number 1 issue in America, only someone wanting to commit political sucide would push a bill perceived by a strong majority to hurt it.
This is even before you consider the deals. The reason the deals play so wildly is not just the substance of them, but that Democrats considered the bill so flawed that they had to be bought off. The medicaid mandates are a fiscal time bomb to the states. The medicare advantage cut is eliminating a program that really works (unless you live in Florida). The tax on “Cadillac health benefits” puts a strain on the credibility of the President’s statement that you can keep your own health care. The fact is that some parts of the bill can’t be that good because the President campaigned against them.
Remember the campaign against individual mandates and a tax on benefits during the primary. That is what made Hillary Clinton’s plan so bad. Now it is Obama care and the people do not like it because the label changed.
The people say start over. Why not? If the President’s (wo)men would have started with the bipartisan Wyden Bennett bill then worked with Coburn and Ryan on right and Waxman and Dodd on the left, they would have had a bill that had 70% support. Instead they have one with barely 40% support and a situation where almost 70% of the people would rather junk it and start over. The American people are opposed to single payer and they do not want a government take over of health care real or perceived (this bill would be a real take over because the important decisions would all shift to government panels).
It is just inane to claim in light of these facts that the people really want the bill but Foxnews and talk radio has them fooled. If we just pass it, then people will see the sky didn’t fall and reward us for leadership. Yet, that is the logic of the ruling regime. This is why the Republicans are now more trusted on almost every issue and lead the generic ballot of likely voters. In Rasmussen it is up to 10 points. The only recent poll (with a dubious track record) with a clear Democrat lead was not even of registered voters. If people are not even registered it is unlikely they will do so and vote in an off year election.
The truth is that only 23% of voters want higher taxes and a more activist government. The problem is that 60% of our leaders want it. This combination has led to a rogue government which is disconnected from the will of the people. This situation is untenable. Our government was set up with safety values to prevent a meltdown. I think it is time we use them. This election I am voting yellow dog Republican (any Republican on the ballot even if he is a yellow dog) in order send a message, but I am not stopping there. I am calling, emailing, blogging, faxing, and even made a trip to D. C. to let my voice be heard.
I have no objections to improving our health care system for all Americans. I have serious objections to making it worse.
Obama, Pelosi and Reid aren’t Democrats, rather, like most leftists, they are vile statists who don’t believe in democracy.
What did the Republicans do to resolve health care problems when they were in control? They are only more trusted now because they don’t have the power to screw the American people. When they do have the power they’ll screw us again. What happened to the Contract With America? DC is a cesspool that will cover anyone going there with those elements normally found in a cesspool. Declaring blind allegiance to any Party is why no value is placed on the American voter by political Parties. They take their constituencies for granted.
Hey, the Stalinists in the PRK claim to be Democrats while they limit the ballot to themselves and kill opponents. Talk is cheap. (No, for the metaphorically challenged, I am not calling Democrats stalinists. )
People like Pelosi and Obama are Stalinists. You don’t think they’d collectivize the economy if they could? You don’t think they’d put people like Coulter, Beck and Limbaugh in a camp if they could? These people are completely and utterly anti-American, people who have no regard for (or knowledge of) the Constitution, whatsoever. Luckily for them, a large segment of the U.S. population have become malleable, weak, pathetic cattle, who willingly have a ring slipped-through their noses, so they can be led-around and told what to do and when to do it.
I’ll say it again- a cultural schism this wide can never be resolved politically. Listen…can’t you hear the elequent orations of John C. Calhoun…?
Screw the Socialist-Democrat maggots.
David, I wouldn’t call most Democrats Stalinists either, that of course is ridiculous, as most don’t even have the sufficient knowledge to realize what it is they advocate and/or support (read: clueless Union robots). However, I would gladly call many involved with this adminstration Socialists, if not outright Communists who hate America and all that she stands for. After all, why must we “fundamentally” change it?
Rick, you took the words right out of my mouth…LOL!
Anbrupro, would you rather be screwed out of neglect, or screwed by the telephone pole of statism?
When the Democrats screw us, we get upset. When the Republicans screw us, we blindly accept it, light up a cigarette, and thank them for the sex. My point is that no political Party deserves blind allegiance. We are as delusional on this site towards Republicans as they are over at DL for the Democrats. We’re just lighting up after different partners.
Of course “no political party deserves blind allegiance”, that goes without saying. However, in comparison to the lukewarm McCain supporters, how blind were the Obamabot lemmings in 2008; believing that an unexperienced, ill-prepared, socialist community organizer, with zero relevant accomplishments, could “hope” to make a “change” for the better? Its utterly stupifying how blind his backers (voters, government types and the media alike) were! Now, we are screwed…pass the petroleum jelly.
Que Pasa, you ask an interesting question:
“how blind were the Obamabot lemmings in 2008; believing that an unexperienced, ill-prepared, socialist community organizer, with zero relevant accomplishments, could “hope” to make a “change” for the better?”
I voted for Obama. Think he is terrific. You might think me an Obamabot lemming fool, but actually I have been voting for 50 years and take it very seriously. As I have mentioned several times, 2008 was the first year I voted for a Democrat. I’m a parent, a grandparent, a lifelong self employed businessman, a life long political activist with most of my effort devoted to Cold War politics fighting Communism.
So don’t underestimate or belittle those of us who feel like we won our little revolution in 2008. We are not leftist or socialist I would not support candidates who are. Nancy Pelosi is not leftist or socialist.
The most leftist socialist act of government I have witnessed in all my many years was the Federal Troubled Assets Recovery Program. The government literally buying equity in private banks, brokerages, insurance companies, and auto makers. A virtual nationalization of private firms on a huge scale. That was done by the Republican President Bush. I think you have been conditioned by radio and TV to assume the a young black democrat President must be some sort of Black Panther socialist. It’s not that way.
President Obama has reclaimed a significant portion of the TARP money as a result the government nows hold less equity in private firms. The President’s goal is to recover every dime and totally withdraw all government involvement with these private firms. De-nationalize, de-socialize. We are 14 months in.
Oh, please do you think that Frank and Tim are Republican mouth pieces? Why do people in the party bug me about how they don’t understand xyz? They hold everyone to account. Didn’t I just yesterday in another comment express disapproval of how the GOP let the lobbyist write the financial bills?
Even Delaware Liberal should get some credit for holding Democrats feet to the fire whether you agree with DL or not.
What I am talking about is essential. We need to end the Democrat party’s rule in D. C. if you want any thing left of the country as we know it. The best way to do it is to stop complaining about Republicans and educate them.
David, as long as Republicans don’t do the same things they did last time. You know what I mean. Cut taxes, deregulate, then borrow for war and everything else they spent on. There was plenty “left of the country” before they got their hands on it. As I recall a balanced budget for one thing. That was only ten short years ago. Better make sure you know who’s wrecking things before you go on the warpath. Republicans nationalized the banks and GM then nationalized airport security into the great big HomeLand Security agency. Talk about expanding government.
23% want a more activist government. Republicans did not nationalize the banks nor GM. They provided emergency capital infusions which saved the system from collapse. Money which was designed to be paid back. That has been done before and that is why I did not have a big problem with it. It was the current regime which decided to use the crisis to take it all over.
I never favored nationalizing airport security.
Home Land security did not create new government programs except for the airport security. It just put them in one department instead of being spread out across the government to allow for greater accountability and better coordination. I know that you are opposed to government accountability.
Ah yes David, when Republicans do it it’s “emergency capital infusions”, when Democrats do it it’s communism. What words do you use to describe launching a trillion dollar war and adding a huge drug benefit to Medicare without any mechanism to pay? “Temporary cost shifting infusions”? Republicans wrecked things, you know it, I know it.
We are digging out from their hellhole of debt. You got any ideas put them on the table. It’s not good enough to say the new Management is making things worse. What’s the plan? Lower taxes and cut red tape? Bush declared a state of economic emergency two months before he left Washington.
My wording for the Medicare drug benefit was and is irresponsible. It wasn’t paid for.
Let’s look at the present not the past. Mr. Obama added 400 billion for the mortgage crisis–which should have come out of the second half of TARP, 787 billion for the stimulus which could have been done for roughly half that amount and been two to three times more effective, he spent tens of billions expanding S-chip to people who don’t need it, and he put in almost a trillion for a new health care entitlement (then when they only spend 850 billion of it make a big deal about cutting the deficit an 100 billion when it would have been almost a trillion less if they did nothing.) They doubled the national endowment of the arts, increase foreign aid, increased NASA while cutting its program outreach, added new programs for green jobs (which may be good but it is new spending nonetheless), and had decided to take over most of the auto industry.
Look, I support a smart stimulus. I supported TARP because I hate depressions more than I hate government spending. The government helped create the problem and had an obligation not to let it all fall apart. TARP worked. I believe in the multiplier. I also believe that monetary policy and tax cuts should be the primary tool for economic recovery not government spending, but I have no issue with temporary government spending in an economic emergency. I have a problem with it being used to increase and create new programs in the long run. That is what we have done. We have jumped domestic spending then we make a big deal about a small freeze which locks higher levels in.
Bush and the Republicans did very little about entitlement reform to their shame. The Democrats know only how to expand them. Something has to give. That is why I support the Tea Party movement. What about you?