As our week of polarization about the new Obamacare law continues with half of our politicians gloating and the other half continuing to do the work that their constituents have charged them with, I think it is important for us to try to take in exactly what this change means for America.
Make no mistake about it, this is a fundamental change to the way that the country does business. Just as Social Security and Medicare changed how people earned their living and how they planned for their future (or in many cases, stopped planning for the future themselves and put their trust in the federal government completely), chipping away at a capitalist system that had been the status quo for almost 200 years...a capitalist system built on personal responsibility and above all, a driving entrepreneurial spirit based on hard work.
This week, The Magician signed into law a bill that socializes 1/6 of the American economy...our healthcare industry. There was no mistake...healthcare reform was needed and a close look needed to be taken to find a solution that worked for all of America to incentivize caregivers and future caregivers, to reduce costs to patients, stop ever-increasing healthcare bankruptcies, and find a way for the industry to survive.
I believe that what we should have seen was true debate and collaboration from both sides of the political spectrum that reached the conclusion of a healthcare reform bill that was acceptable to a large majority of Americans, not the narrow 51% to 49% majority that we ultimately ended up with. A bill that was both acceptable and reasonable to those that are going to benefit from it, and those who are going to be footing the cost. A bill that was reasonable and acceptable to those of us who believe that this nation should remain on track with the capitalist principles originally designed into our government by the Founding Fathers, but also acceptable to those who don't mind having 1/6 of our economy sucked up into an already failing federal government.
Instead, however, over the past year, my President and my Congress have basically told me to get on board with their plan or shut the hell up. Until Scott Brown won Teddy's seat in the Senate, my President and my Congress took a completely partisan path, telling Republican lawmakers to either get on board, or go to hell...either accept our piece of legislation, or have no voice whatsoever for your constituents in this matter.
When Scott Brown did win that seat, there was a dog and pony show roundtable in which The Magician gave Republican lawmakers a final chance to get on board with his bill. Of course, it was masked as a bipartisan sit-down in which The Magician and his party were going to now listen to the voice of the other half of the citizens of this country.
The problem was, when he sat down with them, they didn't change their mind. They stuck to their guns and to their convictions, which meant the only way to get his bill passed was to completely bypass bipartisanship and compromise (real compromise, mind you, not a piece by piece vote by vote compromise to just get the necessary votes).
The Magician ran a successful Presidential campaign on two things...novelty and promise. The novelty of his race and the promises that he made, regardless of how reckless and detrimental to our governmental and economic systems keeping those promises would be. Bushie was accused constantly of polarizing this nation with "his" wars, but obviously, this one-sided healthcare "debate" has done far more to polarize this country. The Magician's campaign promised giving the "disenfranchised" a voice, but his first year in office has now disenfranchised the idiotic 50% of America that actually foots the bill for 100% of the people that live in this country.
My President and my Congress have let me know what it is like to have absolutely no voice in the direction of my country and it's economy at a time when they are unilaterally unraveling the basic foundations of it.
Make no mistake, comrades, while the capitalists are upset about the passage of the healthcare bill, the basis of the unrest is ultimately due to the fact that your Magician and his Assistants have quite literally rammed down the throats of nearly half of the people of this country a piece of legislation that unravels 1/6 of the capitalist and democratic system that the Founding Fathers put in place from 1776 to 1789.
Don't think you are seeing things like the "Don't Tread On Me" flag and gatherings called a "Tea Party" because the capitalists think the Revolutionary War era is a neat novelty. It is because they are seeing the very basic foundations of this nation and its original core system of government and economic structure being pulled apart 1/6 at a time.
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