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Our friend, John Liming, wonders how God might deal with two conflicting prayers of a political nature.
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Mitt Romney has twisted himself into a pretzel on numerous occasions defending his criticism of the Affordable Care Act in light of his own Massachusetts health care law which was the model for the ACA. His main argument against the individual mandate has been to claim that while it was the right thing to do for his state, it was the wrong approach at the national level. Why? Just because, that’s why. Romney won’t tell. He wants you to just take his word for it.
Now one of his surrogates, Marco Rubio, has put his own ridiculous twist in defending the Romney individual mandate.
But what a big difference. He supported it on the state level. Which means if you didn’t like it in Massachusetts, you could move to another state.
Could Republican politicians be any more out of touch with regular folk? Who exactly is Rubio referring to when he talks about people quitting their jobs, packing their bags, leaving family and friends behind and moving out of state over an issue like individual mandates?
It boggles the mind to think of how well Republicans have bamboozled their followers into setting aside all reason and common sense and get them to vote for sleazebag politicians of the Rubio/Romney type – politicians who work against the very interests of middle class America.
Well if I didn’t have to worry about access to affordable health care then maybe I’d be free to move around and change employers and be this uber entrepreneur that is so central to the Republican/libertarian fantasy that they keep selling to us proles. It’s pretty tough to enjoy all this free market capitalism when the next sickness could ruin me economically or if my employer outsources my latest job yet again, I’ll be on the street as I approach old age free and full of liberty to be all that I can be. I dunno what world these guys live in but it bears no relationship to the crap most Americans have to deal with everyday. What we need is a little certainty. the kind that can only come from knowing that your job and your health care are safe regardless of momentary changes to political or economic climate. We need to know that our kids will have decent schools to go to and not that they’ll be sapped of funding because rich retirees don’t want to pay for someone elses kids education even when someone was there to help pay for theirs. What we need is for most of these selfish jerks preaching personal responsibility with their flush bank accounts to go buy an island and stay on it.
Well if I didn’t have to worry about access to affordable health care then maybe I’d be free to move around and change employers and be this uber entrepreneur that is so central to the Republican/libertarian fantasy that they keep selling to us proles. It’s pretty tough to enjoy all this free market capitalism when the next sickness could ruin me economically or if my employer outsources my latest job yet again, I’ll be on the street as I approach old age free and full of liberty to be all that I can be. I dunno what world these guys live in but it bears no relationship to the crap most Americans have to deal with everyday. What we need is a little certainty. the kind that can only come from knowing that your job and your health care are safe regardless of momentary changes to political or economic climate. We need to know that our kids will have decent schools to go to and not that they’ll be sapped of funding because rich retirees don’t want to pay for someone elses kids education even when someone was there to help pay for theirs. What we need is for most of these selfish jerks preaching personal responsibility with their flush bank accounts to go buy an island and stay on it.
The following Bruce Bartlett line on the individual mandate pretty much says it all.
Cogent use of the quote Mario!