The Senate approved its version of a health care reform bill last night. Now Congress will reconcile the House and Senate versions of health care legislation meaning they will combine the best, or worst depending on your perspective, of both bills.
I don’t think the true costs of this bill can be measured in accounting terms. Democrats have reached new lows in handing out favors for support and there should be no doubt that Republicans will one day take their turn at distributing billions (with a ‘b’) of dollars in earmarks. God help our children because it is them we are sticking with the bill.
The leadership on this issue has been appalling at best. Senator Reid and Representative Pelosi bribed, threatened and manipulated their way through the process, while President ‘Reach across the aisle’ (I watched him claim he would do this – but what do campaign promises matter??) has divided this nation as it has been divided at few other times in history. Sure, some people will say that he did invite Republicans on board but that invite was truly in the spirit of ‘my way or the highway.’
The examples and the precedents set by Reid, Pelosi, and Obama, and most of the Democratic Party have to be looked on as costs to this nation. We have new levels of bribery for support, dramatically expanded federal powers, a new love for running around the Constitution in the name of ‘good.’ You can’t put these costs on a balance sheet and meet GAAP standards but they are costs nonetheless.
I continue to hammer the point that one day everything that the Democrats are doing will come back to haunt them. One day the full power of the U.S. President as it has been expanded over this past year and continues to be expanded will be in the hands of Republicans. One day the decisions about health care will be with Republicans as will the precedents of the politics we’ve seen play out here. The Republicans will abuse their powers still further before passing the baton back to Democrats…..
God bless our children. They will need those blessings.
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May be necessary to find a way to change the GAAP standards to accommodate the future costs of current inflated promises and very limited future liabilities; perhaps some kind of technique (scheme), to take in money(taxes) from unsuspecting rubes er voters and promise to pay them back in say 5 years or more with low current interest and rationed future benefits. But only if they demand nothing in the interim and take my word that all is and will be well. Hey, it’s workin’so far…Thanks, rubes, er voters….
I’m afraid in the ObombaMafia, accounting principles went out the window with the moral principles. This bunch is lawless, godless, shameless and only gets away with this political/monetary slight of hand thru maddeningly complicit/painfully dense mainstream media, that may report chicanery, but not as chicanery, never has a sense of outrage EVER about anything fed to them.
The MS media dolts always have the same “go to” talking heads ready to go at a moments notice.. David Gurgen and Paul Krugman come to mind. Even when they are proven wrong, as is often the case, they are still held up as experts on the given crisis subject.
Until we get the MSMedia to report honestly and accurately about all events, no matter who is brought down… the political/financial/scientific/academic waters will always be muddy, murky, and esoteric…..Much to the delight of Barak CorleoneObama, Harry “Pit Yorkie” Reid, Little Dick Durban and the silent, behind the scenes puppetmaster AlGoreleone…
I believe this Westbrook guy is sending SPAM….SPAM….SPAM
Thanks for heads up. I think he’s blocked now.