It
is my highest hope that this ongoing series of Blogs does not make it
further than day one, but just in case this whole train wreck
continues to crash right in front of our eyes, I will endeavor to
edify and entertain all of you as much as I possibly can. It is
times like this that I truly envy my readers who live in more
civilized countries where idiots like our elected officials aren't in
charge of everyone's fate. Yes I realize that you have your own
brand of idiots, but I can't believe that they are nearly as bad as
ours.
“If Con is the opposite of Pro, then the
opposite of Progress must be Congress.”
The above quote is attributed to one of the
greatest philosophers/pitch men of all time, the late great Paul
Harvey. It seems somehow appropriate right now. Damnocrats firmly
entrenched refusing to budge, Reboobicans so dysfunctional that they
cannot even agree within their own party. The President standing in
the WH yelling, “We will not be moved!” Seriously folks, this is
bad theater and it is dragging the whole country down.
The
sticking point is, of course, Obama's signature legislation not so
affectionately known as ObamaCare. The Reboobicans have been
fighting against it and railing about it for the better part of two
terms. (I have my own hypothesis about this which has nothing to do
with “destroying our way of live” or “forcing the country into
Socialism. See previous blog for that
(http://sometimeass.blogspot.com/2013/09/hey-kids-what-time-is-it.html).
I'm
not saying it is true, but it is my story and I am sticking to it.
However, one would think some sort of compromise would be possible.
The Reboobicans are pointing out that they have already caved two or
three times so they are the reasonable ones whereas the Damnocrats
are refusing to give an inch.
This little bit of maneuvering is what I like
to call the “Illusion of Compromise” which means people sound
like they are being reasonable, but they aren't really. Let's look
at the Reboobicans “compromises” so far. First they were
demanding that Obamacare be completely defunded. Much like the many,
many other times they tried this tact, it failed miserably. Then
they “compromised” and voted that the whole thing be delayed a
year. This one is in quotes because the Reboobicans knew that with
all of the money and time spent to get the country ready (snigger)
for the changeover, delaying for a year would mean that all of those
Millions would be lost and new funding would have to be asked for
next year. Again, not a compromise since it amounted to Defunding
from a sideways sort of direction.
Now, the
latest “compromise” is that the part of the Act that makes people
who have no insurance buy insurance, either from the exchanges or
from other sources, be delayed for a year. Again, this sounds
reasonable. After all, the ACA still goes through, the exchanges
still operate so everything is hunky dorry right? The only problem
with this one is the whole platform for making Obamacare affordable
and profitable (snigger) is that a whole bunch of people will be
suddenly buying insurance and putting money into the system. The
Personal Initiative is the main funding source for the expanding of
Medicare and other services. So once again, the Reboobicans know if
this aspect is taken away, it will cause the ACA to fail. So once
again, there really isn't a compromise. Hence the whole thing is an
Illusion of Compromise.
Now as I close out this little rant, I want to
address certain people who claim that I am a Democrat and I support
the ACA. First, I am neither Democrat or Republican, Damnocrat or
Reboobican. I consider myself an Independent Conservative with some
Liberal Leanings. I personally feel that every single elected
official in DC from the President down needs to be chucked out of
office and people with more common sense put in place. Under our
current broken two party system, the odds of this happening are
somewhere between slim and snowball in Hell, but we can keep trying
and hope for a meteorite strike on Capitol Hill.
I neither support or disapprove of the ACA at
this point because I do not have enough information to know whether
it is good or bad. (Well besides the fact the IRS will be running
parts of it.) No one does, because today is the first day it is
active. I have seen people who are normally intelligent spouting all
of the propaganda drivel coming from both sides, but that is all it
is. Despite what the talking heads and “paid for by political
party X” talking heads and experts say, we don't know what is going
to happen yet. Numbers are numbers and so far all we have is bad
math and statistics. Only time will tell if this helps or harms.
Admittedly, given their track record, since it was conceived by
Pollytickans, the odds are pretty good that it will be more harm than
help, but hope springs eternal.
In closing, I'd like to address one pet peeve
of mine. Every time I hear someone say, “Obamacare has forced
businesses to cut back on the hours they give employees” I wince.
For the record, Obamacare started TODAY! The aspects of the Act that
require Employees to offer insurance to all of their full time
employees if they have 50 or more started TODAY!. Employers who have
been cutting hours over the past year or so are either having a knee
jerk reaction out of fear from the reams of propaganda or they are
just being Dicks. Pappa Johns is a great example. The owner whines
about how he is going to cut his employees hours because he doesn't
to raise the price of his products by 5 cents. What a bunch of
bullshift. Notice he has had no problem raising prices in the past
purely for profit. See, boys and girls, that is a Dick.
Well, I
have ranted long enough for today. If this train wreck keeps going I
will be back tomorrow with another pearl of wisdom to annoy you with.
End of Rant
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