… sound to you as if we peasants are now being accused of bitterly clinging to our health insurance?
Does to me.
Meanwhile Ms Potemkin Sebelius has apparently just made “an important announcement” about ObamaCare that amounts to “the new five-year plan orders the insurance industry to add even more benefits you don’t need to the insurance you can’t get.”
And the Nazgul claim there’s an actual, constitutional law buried somewhere deep inside this mess?
And supporters go on supporting Obamacare even after getting clobbered, because surely once Dear Leader is made aware of the problem, he’ll rush to take care of his people!
What did we expect?
There were two times in the last 6 years when I felt dread to the point of being immobilized.
The first occurred when I heard Obama during the primaries say something to the effect that the Constitution spells out what the government cannot do, but it doesn’t spell out what the government can do.
The next was Pelosi’s quote about passing the bill so we can find out what’s in it. I know that the legislative branch cannot read if there is a D in back of the name or Rino pasted across the forehead.
Just heard on TV where there’s now a push to have a federal minimum wage law. Must be one of those things that government can do.
Well, I have lived a good life.
From that first article:
[The transition to a better health insurance system was never going to be easy. Health insurance is confusing. People in this new era have to take on more responsibility.]
So, it’s “responsibility” when you stop doing for yourself, and let government take care of you? Interesting concept. But I think her conception of responsibility is, to take more effort to chase after government benefits, to make sure you get them all. Yeah, now that’s responsibility!
Sometimes I think the Ministry of Propaganda is speaking a foreign language. I’ve long had this quote from Hayek’s “Road to Serfdom” stashed in my quotes file:
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“The most effective way of making people accept the validity of the values they are to serve is to persuade them that they are really the same as those which they… have always held… The people are made to transfer their allegiance from the old gods to the new under the pretense that the new gods really are what their sound instinct had always told them but what before they had only dimly seen. And the most effective way to this end is to use the old words but change their meaning.
Few traits of totalitarian regimes are at the same time so confusing to the superficial observer and yet so characteristic of the whole intellectual climate as the complete perversion of language, the change of meaning of the words by which the ideals of the new regimes are expressed….
If one has not one’s self experienced this process, it is difficult to appreciate the magnitude of this change of the meaning of words, the confusion it causes, and the barriers to any rational discussion which it creates… And the confusion becomes worse because this change of meaning of words describing political ideals is not a single event but a continuous process, a technique employed consciously or unconsciously to direct the people. Gradually, as this process continues, the whole language becomes despoiled, and words become empty shells deprived of any definite meaning, as capable of denoting one thing as its opposite and used solely for the emotional associations which still adhere to them.”
I think my big moment came when the first huge stimulus act was passed shortly after the 2008 elections put Obama and the Democrats in charge. I went and drank some Mad Dog 20/20 as a toast to the country I’d lost.
I know there is always the question of when will be the day that “the balloon goes up?”
I think ti will be the day Obama says:
“If you like your guns, you can keep your guns(period) If you like your ammo, you can keep your ammo too.”
I don’t like my president, why do I have to keep it?
Does this apology…make my nose look long?
Dan — Good one, good one …