| You see, I am like 99% of Americans. I know what I read on the blogs, and I know what I'm told on TV, though, unlike many of those Americans, I know that what to believe and what not is an exercise in mass correlation.
We are being told that it's a done deal, that we need to pass "Health Care Reform" no matter how flawed it is.
Among other things, we are being told that they can and will fix it later. We are being told that something is better than nothing. I will believe this as soon as you tell me that ungulates have the capability to levitate, but let's say I believe this.
You see, among the more fatuous, and hard to understand, selling points for a bill that funnels billions of taxpayer moneys to insurance companies that commit fraud, is that there will be tough new regulations on what they can do.
They won't be able to charge egregious money anymore for junk insurance, we are told. They won't be able to deny people coverage for pre-existing conditions, they won't be able to drop people when they get sick.
Sounds good.
So, really, my only question is,
"Yeah? And who is going to make them?"
But on the other hand we have millions of Americans being told, you must buy insurance or else. And of course, if we can't afford it (according to the flawed ideas of the government about who's poor and who's merely "not well off"), well, then we'll get subsidies! Paid for by whom? By the rich? Don't make me laugh. These subsidies are going to be paid for by people very little less poor than the people to whom the subsidies are going.
Now I want to ask a "past performance is a virtual guarantee of future results" type of question:
When it comes to whether the government will enforce these putative and "tough" regulations of the murder by spreadsheet people, will anyone go to jail? If they get fined for not complying with these tough new regulations, will anyone even notice? Will any enforcement be done that the insurance companies, using their paid lackeys in Congress, will not stop if it gets in any way onerous?
On the other hand, when people start getting fined for not buying insurance, do you really think the IRS is not going to penalize the average everyday little American who can't afford it?
Pass the bill, Obama and Pelosi and the Democrats in Congress say, and it'll be great. Well, I wonder. Where accountability in this country is distorted and the worst white collar criminal miscreants are rewarded for their crimes, while most everyday Americans cannot escape the most vicious and punitive accountability no matter how mildly they fuck up, are they really so confident that it won't backfire? How could they be.
This is where Teabaggers come from. A government that is all about making the rich richer, and protecting them from all accountability, while pushing accountability downhill on all who peruse the concept.
Democrats have a basic misunderstanding with the nature of the American electorate at this time. Voters do not make what Democrats think of as "rational" decisions based on bad or worse. They make decisions based on questions that used to be put very succinctly in elections of yore.
Questions like "Are you better off today than you were four years ago?"
If you pass a Health Insurance Bailout Bill with punitive mandatory orders for ordinary Americans to pay money to people they despise, even with the best intentions .. that enforcement action on the other side won't be there. Because it isn't, and we have seen it. It's not there with Goldman Sachs, it's not there with AIG, it's not there with Wall Street in General.
Congress could even have the best possible intentions in passing a piece of shit bill, thinking it would be better than nothing .. but when these people get off scot free while the average American suffers, due to lack of executive accountability, it won't matter if they did it with the best intentions.
If that happens, and we know it will, for good or ill, whether wisely or not, the American people will kick your asses to the curb. Hard.
And how many forms am I going to have to fill out, and how many years am I going to wait, to get my subsidy if I just can't afford it? |
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