Originally Posted by
osan
Well hold on now. Let us stop and think on this for just a moment. Obama and a traitorous Congress saddled us with BammyCare over the course of eight years. Let us not forget that we are talking of what is essentially the largest market monopoly in the nation, speaking for the full 320++ millions of people. That's a very large ship that does not come about on a dime.
Before blowing a gasket, stop to think of what it would mean in real terms if Congress were to repeal BammyCare on Monday, cold turkey. Imagine people such as my wife who just underwent an 11-hour surgery, still in the hospital recovering. They are in a near-death state and in need of the closest monitoring and care. Were their means of paying for all that to go <poof> from one minute to another, chaos would ensue for millions, with plenty dying. Some hospitals would face terrible financial crises. In short, we'd be in a world of trouble.
Some people might say, "so what?". That's easy when you are in great health. Not so hot when you are in need of help.
Getting this huge vessel on another heading is going to take time, and the change from present course to ultimate will almost certainly have to come in stages.
Recall what I have been writing lately about incremental change. It has taken America 228 years to get to this sorry pass. Even under the best of plausible circumstances, it is going to take many years to make good headway from the precipice at which we now find ourselves.
The justification is the avoidance of crashing the "medical economy", which will certainly result in disasters for endless numbers of people. "Government", whether traitorous or merely inept, got us into this at the point of the sword. They are responsible for this fiasco and now have to take a staged approach away. I have NO idea whether all this talk issuing from Trump, Congress, etc. can be taken at face, or if its all just more bull$#@! designed to paint us into a different but equally lousy corner. I only know that cold-turkey would be a bad thing for huge numbers of people.
This is the bed we have allowed Themme to make for us. We must now lie in it until such time, hopefully, as we direct those we have hired to get us out of this mess.
Orthogonal point: this is a grand example of just how completely ill-architected our Constitution is and, far more significantly, how spectacularly we as a people have failed ourselves. We are more concerned with getting that new BMW in Teal Orchid Vomit and fretting over whether our girlfriends will master the craft of the blowjob, than we are with our freedoms. Theye have long ago assumed positions to which they had no right, and our forbears just sat idly by like ignorant, dull-witted miscreants and let them. It is high time we become a warrior culture. Otherwise, let us dispense with all this phony baloney pretense of being "free", lay down, and be openly that which we have become: low-rent whores willing to sell ourselves cheaply for the most meager of token offerings.
Nothing comes immediately to mind, but we cannot just shut it off. Theye have been very clever, having us locked in a self-reinforcing loop that could cause terrible harms in the event it is tampered with in the "wrong" ways.
Just look at the military. We are now talking of TRILLIONS of dollars PER YEAR. This doesn't even rise to absurdity. Now think of the ways in which US foreign policy has been altered and carried forth just since 2001's most infamous day. We have pissed off a huge portion of the world, have "secretly" (har har har) given birth to organizations such as this so-called "ISIS", and helped set the global stage in such fashion that we cannot, under these prevailing conditions, afford to step-down our military.
Theye created modern China - not the Chinese - for without America, China would still be pulling rickshaws and living a 3rd century BC lifestyle. Theye ensured the Soviets rose to their ultimate heights, and then modern Russia. Theye conceived and fed all these "terrorist" organizations.
What's the payoff? Power. Make conditions such that the frightened people hand over their consent to your demented and evil designs, smiling and thankful that someone is keeping them safe. For Christ's sake, you can't make this stuff up.
We are being played at every turn by very clever and ruthless people.
I see, so now I am a hypocrite? Show us. You made the assertion; now pony up.
Your statement also raises the question of what your continuing presence here makes you.
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