Theres a level headed guy on a site Ive been discussing politics on lately that has been questioning my resistance to Obamacare. He makes good points and seems honest in his desire to discuss and not just spit hate like the majority of posters do. Chris: No matter how much research youve done on Obamacare you cant predict the future. If you read the context of the bill, its unquestionable that the bill is designed to benefit the average person. If you can point to a provision and explain how its meant to hurt the average person, Id be very interested on the details. So, considering that the bill is designed to benefit the average person, who is the real bad guy in this situation? The ones trying to implement the bill, or the ones spending hundreds of millions of dollars on lobbying against it? Make no mistake: health insurance companies have spent BILLIONS since the 80s on fighting against health care reform because they care about: PROFITS. Roughly 1/4 (but arguably more like 1/3) of our economy relies on us getting sick, and you can bet the guys whose paychecks rely on us being sick dont want us to get healthy. Anthony: I know exactly where you are coming from now, Chris. You still trust the government and believe in the best intentions of this plan. When I was in the Navy I did too... hell, I even helped the government achieve its imperialist goals... and I did it with pride and a smile on my face. Then something remarkable happened. I started watching the news and some things didnt make sense. Half of the people were saying the economy was getting better, the other half were saying the economy is being destroyed... but the deficit budget (Clinton era) showed a small increase in revenue, not a deficit. I realized that someone is lying. That was step one. The realization that one or both sides is lying. After that I started subscribing to youtube channels and myspace pages (then facebook) and I was overwhelmed with the amount of information I was presented with. I became a very stubborn democrat, maybe even a liberal. I tried to talk to my peers in the service but they didnt want to delve into it with me. I tried talking to family but they disagreed with most of what I said or shrugged it off with yes, they are corrupt. Decide which one is less destructive to the country. I couldnt believe when Clinton got re-elected because he had just lied to the American people, bold faced, about the Lewinsky thing, and to distract America he bombed Libya. wtf? I couldnt understand how he just got away with that so I started to doubt the democrats. It wasnt enough doubt to convince me that republicans are any better, since they are all a bunch of rich white guys in glass towers, throwing rocks down at the street sweepers. Then I started reading the federalist papers, they are like the dead sea scrolls for bible thumpers. The definitive collection of how and why the founding fathers made our system the way it is. Some of them read like Shakespeare and are hard to understand at first. Then I started getting into the idea that our founding fathers even knew that politicians are corrupt... but werent they politicians? Then I realized that these people were sick and tired of the lies and corruption, just like I had become. By the time I left the service I was knee deep in history and political studies, avoiding the mainstream media liars and propagandists. Neither party cares all that much about the truth. I listened to some talk radio shows, but the neoconservatives were no less hateful and obtuse than the liberal news media. Once I learned to recognize the obvious slants and bias I started to see the big picture for what it is. We have a nation that was built on the principle that because politicians always become corrupt over time, the central government or federal government should be as limited as possible to defend us against their idiocy and power mongering. THAT is the little light bulb that will set you free. If you learn to see each of these events in the political arena as just another objective for one party or the other its easier to see who the bad guys are. The ones that keep growing the government while advocating more and more infringements on our rights (gun rights, privacy rights, police state, nanny state), THEY are the bad guys no matter what party they belong to. I cant predict the future, but history has a way of revealing it. It wont be our generation that feels the biggest burden from this legislation. Well be retired and on medicare/social security by the time the private industry gets bankrupted or driven out of business. The feds will simply seize the insurance markets after convincing everyone that it must be done. Thats how government operates. Its disgusting and sad, but it is the thesis-antithesis-synthesis dialectic. Create a problem (regulate private insurance), blame the companies (for failing to thrive under regulation), nationalize the whole mess (create more power and influence to fix the problem).
Posted on: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 01:59:26 +0000
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