Judge Henry Hudson, in Richmond Federal Court ruled the Obamacare law is unconstitutional due to the mandates to buy insurance. BWB has hoped such a ruling would come, for he has long believed insurance to be a personal choice.
Obviously, the Obama administration disagrees with this assessment. "Without an individual responsibility provision, controlling costs and ending discrimination against people with preexisting conditions doesn't work," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Attorney General Eric Holder wrote in a Washington Post op-ed.
Without and individual responsibility provision? Do you refer to the provision which mandates the government force the American people to either get insurance of their own or get the public option by offering huge tax penalties as a responsibility provision?
Controlling costs and ending discrimination is fine, I think we would all agree to such things. Hell, I’m not even that against the Obamacare law, specifically. Perhaps my biggest problem with the law isn’t the words written in the two thousand pages of legal jargon created to confuse and dissuade anyone who even had an inkling to find out what the hell the government is actually up to, it is the fact that the majority of Americans didn’t want it, yet the Congress passed it anyway.
Supporters for the bill said things like, “It is the right thing to do” and “they’ll thank us later” and every other justification one can come up with to assuage their guilt when they are actually up to something they don’t want anyone to look into. Never once did they mind the will of the people they were elected to represent, not control. Doesn’t it stand to reason, in a democratic republic, the will of the people should out? It didn’t, not this time, that reason is enough for me to be opposed to the bill.
Perhaps Mr. Obama, Congress, and every other politician, civil leader, and news outlet could actually listen and mete out the will of those they are supposed to serve, instead of deciding which medicine to give us. They are not our mothers, our nannies, or our parents, they aren’t even our leaders; they are our REPRESENTATIVES. If you want a nanny state, move to France…or California.
Riots in Greece, Spain, France, England; Russia growing stronger every day; China buying our debt; America isn’t only playing a violin as Rome prepares to burn, but they are blissfully marching towards the middle of the chaos, almost imploring more of the world’s problems which have largely escaped us recently to return.
We are a lucky people to live in the United States of America; and everyone on Earth knows it. We don’t have to worry about diseases, plagues, civil wars, and ethnic cleansings like much of the African continent does. We don’t have the high governmental turnover rate of Latin and South America, where military strongmen have reigned in every nation at some point. We don’t have the oppressive, controlling regime of China or Iran or Afghanistan, like our brothers in Asia. We don’t have the threat and fear of being a terrorist statistic on the news like they do in the Middle East, in every country, every day. We don’t have the fascist nanny states of the European Union crumbling upon everyone, inciting riots and animus throughout the continent.
We don’t have any of that…yet…
I am not suggesting a Supreme Court decision reinstating the Obamacare law will lead to all of those things. I am not insinuating keeping the law overturned (which is likely, for the Supreme Court is 5-4 conservative, even with the President’s affirmative action hires sitting) would prevent such things from occurring in this nation. Instead, I want us all to be thankful for what America is, what America provides, and reconsider “fundamentally changing” everything, because a charming man with a booming voice and a great, “genuine” smile who can certainly deliver a speech says it is in our best interest.
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