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RE: Obamacare now under seige even by House Democrats
(07-18-2013 09:56 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  
(07-18-2013 06:53 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  We are in the early stages of what happened to Rome.
Quite possible, yes. That fate can still be avoided, but it will require a degree of national unity and cohesion that Americans haven't seen since 1945. Good luck with that.

And don't misunderstand -- even if the national unity does develop and America does avoid "what happened to Rome," that doesn't mean the future isn't going to involve a lot of suffering for the average American. The dismantling of the welfare/Great Society-type infrastructure is going to be extremely painful to millions of people. I take no pleasure from it. But it is going to happen, and probably a lot sooner and faster than what even "pessimistic" people currently expect. I really believe that the last 5-6 years -- and last year's elections, especially -- represented our last chance to make the necessary changes in a gradual, piecemeal fashion. I don't think that will be possible anymore. Obama, of course, is politically invested in preventing those changes from ever happening, so the country will not even address this until 2017 (if then). The longer we wait, the more the pressure will build, and the when the time comes, the changes will be even more disruptive and chaotic than they would've been if handled at an earlier stage.

(07-18-2013 07:00 PM)GoApps70 Wrote:  Sometimes something is so bad it cannot really be fixed.
Quite so.

(07-18-2013 09:09 PM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  Hillary must be concerned. This will completely implode as she goes through the primaries.
Could be. Karma does love to do things like that. But I tend to think they will somehow find a way to paper over it until '17 or so.

Quote:The media will blame the Republicans for Obamacare's failures.
With the notable and singular exception of Jimmy Carter, the media has blamed the Republicans for essentially everything it doesn't like about the country for more than 50 years. Nothing new there, and there is no reason to think it will change any time soon.

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