Her Majesty Queen Pelosi and gov'tcare...

Yes, and if the system continues as is with rapidly escalating costs year after year there won't be any waits at all as the American people are priced out of the insurance and health care markets or wages are slashed in order for employers to pay for the insurance programs they already have in place. That's why implementing limited government reforms such as the Cato Institute is proposing(www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa650.pdf) is so vital to the future of the American people.

 

This quote from C.S. Lewis seems appropriate in this current political climate:

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would 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."

 

Can a republic be accurately called a tyranny?

 

Can what we have today be "accurately" called a REPUBLIC????

Similar to the old quote from Abe:
"If you call a dog's tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have? Four!!! Just because you call his tail a leg don't make it a leg."

Ergo we do not have a representative gov't in the strictest sense. Yes we elect, but they most assuredly do not represent, so while technically we are a republic, in reality it is a lot in name only!!!!!

So to answer your question, YES! Not to the extent (yet!!!!) of Cuba, China, Venezuela, etc., but we are fast approaching that definition if the left (whether Ds, Rs, or Is) continues to chop away at our rights & freedoms via gov't control.

 

If they do not represent the majority of voters, then how do they keep being elected by these same voters the 2nd time and so forth? They may not be representing the views of you, me, and the majority of posters on this board, but don't they represent adequately the views of those who keep re-electing them?

 

No, they probably don't because what they promise and what they deliver are often not the same, therefore, they "represent" the people just long enough to be voted in then carry through with something other than promised. This happens on both sides of the aisle.

"Read my lips, no new taxes".

True, this time around the nation was promised "change" by the current administration and "change" we are getting (although in some ways it's still "business as usual"). Too bad most did not ask "what kind of change"?


HankD

 

Easy for Pelosi to be a flaming liberal socialist, as her district believes in her policies and will probably continue to re-elect her.. Just look at Sen. Kennedy and his long history leading the liberal movement. What I don't understand is her willingness to sacrifice all her "moderate" comrades in Congress, in the next couple elections. To many of these liberals, this is the best, and probably last chance to grab their life long brass ring..

 

Yes, for being elected but if they don't represent then how do they get re-elected?

 

Then purchase private insurance.

 

The problem is that the healthscare bill leaves the details up to some as yet unnamed bureaucrat.

That bureaucrat will dictate what benefits must be included in health insurance plans in order to be acceptable to the gubermint.

No doubt an abortion benefit will be manadated for any plan to be acceptable under their plan.

 

I seriously doubt that private insurance will forced to do that. Too many voters would refuse to re-elect office holders who did so for them to take the chance.

Frankly, I doubt that any major changes to health care insurance will even pass this Congress.

 

They understand.

But they're ideologues and they just don't care. Just like their hero, the zero.