The Suspense Is Killing Me
The current administration has used an immense amount of political capital to get this health care reform farce to its current place and time. We have a president who, to please his whacked liberal and union base, has pledged to co-opt the entire health care and health care insurance industries. I keep hearing that amounts to 1/6 of the US economy. No wonder the president has squandered so much of his good name on creating a lasting memorial to himself. After all, isn’t FDR revered for his fathering the government as the do all, be all, end all for the dependant class? Obama wants to be the father of the Orwellian period of American history. Welcome to the prequel to 1984.
The person currently standing in his way is a lone independent, Joe Lieberman. This man, once a Democrat Senator, Vice-Presidential candidate, and supporter of the Iraq war, turned independent when his party threw him out with the bath water. He was forced to run as an alternative to the Democrat candidate and won. He told the Senate leadership that they would have to eliminate the public option and the Medicare change to get his support. They have done that but now have angered the balance of the Democrat senators. The health care bill forces all Americans to purchase health insurance. They wanted that to be from the government but without the public option in the bill, the profits will be going to private insurance companies thus providing them with business and the nasty, nasty thing called profit. No my precious, we must not allow a profit.
Now we wait, and wait, and uh, wait for the next contestant in the Senate lotto to see what can be offered up to buy their support for the bill. Hopefully someone asks for a pony and some cotton candy. It would seem only fitting as that is pretty much the way they are acting. They are all a bunch of children trying to get their way without regard to whether their way is best for the country. My biggest issue is that they want to put the IRS in charge of making sure everyone has purchased health insurance. That means you indicate on your tax return whether you have coverage. That is like putting the Gestapo in charge of the elementary education system. Can you see the SS assisting your kindergartner across the street or administering a spelling test? Seig Heil and all that. I know, don’t give them any ideas. Makes me want to not file for a refund and just let them keep what they have collected. Heaven help me if I ever owe them anything.
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Cobb
The person currently standing in his way is a lone independent, Joe Lieberman. This man, once a Democrat Senator, Vice-Presidential candidate, and supporter of the Iraq war, turned independent when his party threw him out with the bath water. He was forced to run as an alternative to the Democrat candidate and won. He told the Senate leadership that they would have to eliminate the public option and the Medicare change to get his support. They have done that but now have angered the balance of the Democrat senators. The health care bill forces all Americans to purchase health insurance. They wanted that to be from the government but without the public option in the bill, the profits will be going to private insurance companies thus providing them with business and the nasty, nasty thing called profit. No my precious, we must not allow a profit.
Now we wait, and wait, and uh, wait for the next contestant in the Senate lotto to see what can be offered up to buy their support for the bill. Hopefully someone asks for a pony and some cotton candy. It would seem only fitting as that is pretty much the way they are acting. They are all a bunch of children trying to get their way without regard to whether their way is best for the country. My biggest issue is that they want to put the IRS in charge of making sure everyone has purchased health insurance. That means you indicate on your tax return whether you have coverage. That is like putting the Gestapo in charge of the elementary education system. Can you see the SS assisting your kindergartner across the street or administering a spelling test? Seig Heil and all that. I know, don’t give them any ideas. Makes me want to not file for a refund and just let them keep what they have collected. Heaven help me if I ever owe them anything.
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Cobb
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