you know i was actually going to come in here and appologize for loosing my temper yesterday, but considering how you have mistaken what i wrote i wont bother.
I was not saying that the ACA was a step toward socialism. I do believe that socialized medicine in the US is wrong and will not work, partially because i have already found out what my insurance costs for next year are going to be and its approximately 3 times as much as i'm paying now, and partially because having been in the military in a retirement town i know how the hospital gets backed up when no body has to worry about paying. This is just the VA so i worry what its going to be like when EVERYONE is doing it. I already wait 3 months for an appointment, how much worse is it going to get.
My comment about devolving into another soviet union was a matter of turning the house into a rubber stamp for the president and the senate. As Aaron Tippin said in his song, "You have to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything." quite frankly this probably isnt the best fight for the republicans to stand on, however, if not this then what. They have sent budget after budget after budget since the 2010 election got them control of the house and the "Purse strings" and each and everyone of them has been denied. Until now they have gone along with the democrats in the senate with continuing resolutions like they have since the Democrats took control in 2006, (note thats 2 years of Bush, and 5 years of Obama that there hasnt been an actual budget) Finally someone has grown a pair and is standing their ground, and if its still shutdown come the 17th more power to them, force Obama to pay those notes out of the actual treasury.
but i digress, lets assume for a moment that the house simply becomes a rubber stamp on the current administration, first this would only last until the next election when they get replaced by someone else who is probably even more hardline than the current crop of young bloods. Boehner would no longer be speaker, and many of the older, "Waiting my turn at the power" type RINOs would be gone as well since the house is a 2 year cycle and one of the current young bloods would be promoted. Now I'm a cynic when it comes to people in power, this is not the old days when people became representatives and senators because the people convinced them to (ala Jimmy Stewart "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"), no the people who seek office now are in it for what they can gain from it, be it prestige, control or money. The difference between the young bloods of the TEA Party republicans and the RINOs is that the young bloods are impatient and want to cut as many politcal throats as they must to get what they want NOW. They arent going to wait like the old men have for it to be their turn. because of that their going to do whatever it takes to politically castrate the liberal groups out there and take their places. they see three things as their leverage, The debt ceiling and budget, Employment and taxation, and Big government and socialized Healthcare
the bad thing is i dont see where they are necesarily wrong
I was not saying that the ACA was a step toward socialism. I do believe that socialized medicine in the US is wrong and will not work, partially because i have already found out what my insurance costs for next year are going to be and its approximately 3 times as much as i'm paying now, and partially because having been in the military in a retirement town i know how the hospital gets backed up when no body has to worry about paying. This is just the VA so i worry what its going to be like when EVERYONE is doing it. I already wait 3 months for an appointment, how much worse is it going to get.
My comment about devolving into another soviet union was a matter of turning the house into a rubber stamp for the president and the senate. As Aaron Tippin said in his song, "You have to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything." quite frankly this probably isnt the best fight for the republicans to stand on, however, if not this then what. They have sent budget after budget after budget since the 2010 election got them control of the house and the "Purse strings" and each and everyone of them has been denied. Until now they have gone along with the democrats in the senate with continuing resolutions like they have since the Democrats took control in 2006, (note thats 2 years of Bush, and 5 years of Obama that there hasnt been an actual budget) Finally someone has grown a pair and is standing their ground, and if its still shutdown come the 17th more power to them, force Obama to pay those notes out of the actual treasury.
but i digress, lets assume for a moment that the house simply becomes a rubber stamp on the current administration, first this would only last until the next election when they get replaced by someone else who is probably even more hardline than the current crop of young bloods. Boehner would no longer be speaker, and many of the older, "Waiting my turn at the power" type RINOs would be gone as well since the house is a 2 year cycle and one of the current young bloods would be promoted. Now I'm a cynic when it comes to people in power, this is not the old days when people became representatives and senators because the people convinced them to (ala Jimmy Stewart "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"), no the people who seek office now are in it for what they can gain from it, be it prestige, control or money. The difference between the young bloods of the TEA Party republicans and the RINOs is that the young bloods are impatient and want to cut as many politcal throats as they must to get what they want NOW. They arent going to wait like the old men have for it to be their turn. because of that their going to do whatever it takes to politically castrate the liberal groups out there and take their places. they see three things as their leverage, The debt ceiling and budget, Employment and taxation, and Big government and socialized Healthcare
the bad thing is i dont see where they are necesarily wrong