Did the Democrats just give us health care reform, or a bunch of ShamWow cloths
That’s how the Democrats are responding to the critics who note that they just jammed Health Care Reform down our throats, in open defiance of the majority opposition, in a manner that was neither democratic, nor republican.
Of course, they’re basing their claim on the fact that other entitlements have become the third rail of American politics. They’re betting that, once exposed to this entitlement, the poorest 51% of the population will fall head-over-heels in love with the idea that we can stick it to the Man and TAKE our health care insurance from him by force. That we’ll get giddy over our new-found ability to jettison personal responsibility in regards to our health.
Maybe so. I cannot argue that their reasoning isn’t sound. They are on the right side of history in regards to entitlement spending, that much is true.
But when ever I hear the words “You’ll learn to like it”, it conjures up all kinds of horrible mental images.
From a heinous Clayton Williams faux pas, to the late night infomercials on TV telling us “You’ve got to see our product to believe it!” or “Once you’ve tried Product X, you’ll never know how you lived without it!”, to my mother telling me that I’d learn to like brussel sprouts, the assurances of people trying to peddle me something sight-unseen have a nasty tendency of convincing me that I’m about to get something absolutely crappy. If I’d ever heard Billy Mays tell me “You’ll learn to like it!” on his infomercials, well, I’d have probably bought it… Never under estimate the power of the beard. (RIP)
But when the rest of these shuckesters tell me that they have the cure to all that ails me, I generally feel safe in laughing at their pronouncements.
Seriously, the Democrats failed to convince anyone with an iota of reason or intelligence of the overwhelming need of Health Care Reform, and they tried for a year. Heck, they’ve tried seven times before Obama to get this legislative equivalent of Charmin past the American People, and they failed each time, just as they failed this time, never convincing people that the entity which would pay $400 for a hammer could be trusted to run anything as vital and complicated as our health care system.
Their problem?
They should’ve gone to the master of selling shitty products for insane prices accompanied by all kinds of hidden costs: Vince Shlomi.
Vince Shlomi, Democrat candidate for President, 2012. He’s the only one who could sell Obama’s agenda to America.
And hey! It’s an even better analogy when you realize that the treatment the Democrats gave America and the Constitution was EXACTLY like how he beat up that hooker in his motel room …
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A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy.
@ Jeffrey Maryak
What asinine twaddle. How long has Great Britain, for instance, been a democracy? Effectively since at least the beginning of the 19th century, though of course not as extensive as it is now. It has expanded and improved and become more inclusive over the decades — which is the opposite of what you claim will occur. The same can be said of the United States and many other democracies.
Actually, @ Mike, too, because his original post is also asinine twaddle, but I’ve corrected his errors in another post so I won’t take it on here also.
@ Parsifal
You’ve corrected nothing.
We’re the ones doing all of the correcting around these parts.
For instance: The UK is a constitutional monarchy operating under a parliamentary system. I.E. not a democracy.
The US is also not a democracy. We were founded as a Constitutional Republic, and even though the 17th Amendment tried to kill that notion, the electoral college’s ability to vote differently than the state’s popular election results indicates that we’re still not fully democratic.
Besides, you can’t claim that the US is a democracy after Congress just gave the finger to the will of The People.
What a load of ignorant crap –making up distinctions and differences that do not exist in reality. You don’t know what you are talking about, apparently because you haven’t the first clue about government. You repeat the common mistake that democracies and republics are two different forms of government. You should have learned better in that grad school you worked three jobs and walked uphill both ways through snow both ways for ten miles in a foot of snow to got to. But you didn’t.
A republic is a form of government, as is a monarchy. Both can be democracies, and both the United States and Britain are democracies — solid democracies. So are other constitutional monarchies, such as those in Scandinavia and the Low Countries. A parliamentary system is ipso facto a democracy, if it is honestly operated, as Britain’s is. There are republics that are not democracies and there are monarchies that are not democracies. It’s quite simple, really.
“Congress just gave the finger to the will of The People.” Who says? You? Not a reliable judge. In any case, what are you talking about with “the finger”? Health care. The polls are not absolutely clear, but they lean rather substantially to the side that the American electorate approves of the health care bill.
“We’re the ones doing all of the correcting around these parts” What are you? The sheriff? Hope it’s not an elective position, because you’ll be out of a job. I will continue to try to correct you in your basic errors, to the extent possible, though I have better things to do. Everybody has.
@ Parsifal
The quote is unattributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler a Scottish-born British lawyer and writer. It is often misattributed to Ben Franklin. Either way, the point is that people are largely going to do what is in their own best interests. And when people do that, invariably, the individual freedoms that some value so highly run the risk of being…well…tread on.
“You repeat the common mistake that democracies and republics are two different forms of government.”
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Oh, that’s rich.
Even more entertaining is that you insult me after putting that retarded statement down in writing, for all the world to see!
LOL
I’ve got a clue for you, Sherlock. The whole world ain’t watching. NO one is watching, aside from a few obsessives like the regular participants slinging insults at each other.