Polipundit take on obamacare and my own comments

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This is a good summation of the consequences of the passage of Obamacare in a dismal economic climate from POLIPUNDIT blogsite.

I here re-publish the most important points from Polipundit:

"The economy is nowhere close to recovering and, in some places, may be getting worse. Millions of people have been unemployed for a very long time and untold millions more live in fear of it. Spending, deficits and debt have grown beyond the hypothetical world of economists and into a realm that the average person understands. Against this, the Democrats are now steaming towards the greatest expansion in government ever and, more importantly, into the part of our lives that commands our deepest fears, our health and mortality. That they have done so in an openly corrupt manner, with side deals, special exemptions, special interest favors and patronage (a judgeship, really?), betrays a contempt for the legislative and political process that is almost unfathomable. Worse, they raise the specter that the government is an interest, separate, distinct and opposed to the people.....

"The Democrats cannot do this. Sure, they may get the votes to pass the Senate bill tonight, but ultimately they will be defeated. A representative democracy cannot long endure a political class that is so out of touch with the populace. In some respects, what happens tonight is almost beside the point. The politics are set. Some Democrats are deluding themselves that they can put this behind them and somehow survive in November. They are most assuredly wrong.....…"

US has reached a watershed with passage of this bill, which will allowed the gov't direct access and intrusion over our lives in the most private sphere, one's own health. One shudders at the aspect of the gov't directly imposing a mandate for each and every citizen to get health insurance, or pay an IRS-enforced penalty. This is okay for the 20-25% of the electorate who already are direct recipients of gov't assistance and/or are among the 31 million uninsured and are counting on gov't/taxpayers subsidizing their health care premiums. The middle class and wealthy will be subsidizing Obambacare for the 100 million lower/impoverished classes. What this will do for the US out-of-control deficit and for the already BK medicare system is a whole subject in itself.