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Posted by: thepinetree on 10/10/2013 12:25 PM
Updated by: thepinetree on 10/10/2013 12:43 PM
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Obama Care & The Government Shutdown. ~Letter To The Editor by Al Segalla
Copperopolis, CA...Dear Editor, "Obama Care" seems to be a hot button issue with lots and lots of provocative slogans. I may be wrong, but the following appears to be true regarding the slow down. It is not a shut down because 83% of the federal government is still functioning...
Failure to raise the debt limit is also not a shutdown, as it requires the federal government to spend no more than it's income. What a novel idea. The ethics of this was succinctly expressed by Congressman Obama as follows: '
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government can not pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that "the buck stops here." Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."
The Affordable Health Care law seems to have many problems and it is no longer popular with the electorate. It also is based on corruption of the process whereby factions supportive to the administration such as unions and some corporations are exempt.
Does the congress have a responsibility to try to repeal or defund a dysfunctional government program?
Did congress pass legislation to fund the government except for the problem program?
Is it the Senate and the President that are blocking funding passage?
Does the US Constitution (Tenth Amendment) allow the federal government to be in any kind of "insurance" business?
It seems, in a free society, people own their own bodies which are not the property of any government, group or person. If this is true, it would follow the the people must be free to choose what, if any, service they want including heath care. This is just the opposite of the principle of socialism as express by Carl Marx, "From each according to their ability, to each according to their need".
The American people have been very good at voluntarily helping each other. There are billions and billions of dollars expended for all sorts of charities including help for the less fortunate.
Perhaps now is the time for reason and good will. Yes?
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