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.
Her Majesty Queen Pelosi and gov'tcare...
Discussion in 'News & Current Events' started by rbell, Oct 29, 2009.
Page 2 of 2
-
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?
-
just-want-peace Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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. -
-
"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 -
In order to be "fair," we have districts that are so chopped-up as to be ridiculous. There are several districts that are chock full of nothing but looters and moochers. How else are they going to vote?
Producers (the folks that the looters steal from and give to the moochers) are horribly under-represented in this country. And with The Great Community Organizer in charge, the 2010 Census won't change that (it will probably make it worse).
Until that is dealt with, true change on a massive scale cannot happen. -
Sources now say that this bill will impose heavy fines AND prison time to those who don't buy health insurance!
http://republicans.waysandmeans.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=153583
OK, I'm saying it: Nancy Pelosi should be tried for treason.
Go ahead, witch. Put my butt in jail. I won't buy your baby-killing policy. -
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..
-
-
-
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. -
Frankly, I doubt that any major changes to health care insurance will even pass this Congress. -
THe problem is this: government, which will be given a free pass on the "competition" idea, will bankrupt private policies.
Which will force me to either go uninsured, or buy the government plan.
Hence my problem with the whole deal. -
Squire Robertsson AdministratorAdministrator
Regretfully, the "conscience" clause is being slowly eroded away to nothingness. So, it's not a far stretch to posit abortion services being mandated as part of an acceptable insurance plan. and as this thread is on its fourth page I'm closing it.
-
But they're ideologues and they just don't care. Just like their hero, the zero.
Page 2 of 2