http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/25/will-america-break-up/ President Obama is splintering America. The passage of Obamacare was a historic victory for liberal governance. Yet, its true cost may be that it triggers the eventual breakup of the country. Mr. Obama has achieved what his liberal predecessors - Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Bill Clinton - could only dream of: nationalized health care. Obamacare signifies the government take-over of one-sixth of the U.S. economy. It has dealt a mortal blow to traditional America. We are now a European-style socialist welfare state. The inevitable permanent tax hikes, massive public bureaucracy and liberal ruling elites will stifle competition and initiative. Republicans vow to repeal Obamacare. Their past record, however, leaves many conservatives rightly skeptical. Since FDR's New Deal, Big-Government liberalism has been on the march - Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Education. The Republican Party has been unable to roll back the tide of statism. In fact, under Richard Nixon and both George Bushes, Great Society Republicans have been complicit in erecting a nanny state. Socialism is the road to economic ruin and fiscal bankruptcy. It subverts democracy, threatening the very future of our constitutional republic. Socialist states degenerate into some form of autocracy or technocratic neo-feudalism, whereby the productive class is taxed and exploited to sustain a growing dependent class. Factions are pitted against each other; groups vie for handouts at the expense of their fellow citizens. The bonds of economic union and national solidarity slowly dissolve. "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not," warned Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson was right: Redistributionist welfare policies are undermining our democracy. The resentments in America are growing. Tea Partiers believe that their government no longer represents their interests or values. The heartland is becoming dangerously alienated from the political class, whom it feels has betrayed them. Obamacare may be the last straw. It strips away fundamental economic liberties, empowering the federal government to de facto nationalize everyone's body by controlling our health. Americans are compelled - upon pain of penalty and eventual imprisonment - to purchase insurance. Moreover, the law codifies the federal funding of abortion. Taxpayer dollars will be used to subsidize the murder of innocent life. Hence, Mr. Obama has violated the social compact: He has abrogated the conscience of pro-lifers, making them tacitly complicit in the slaughter of the unborn. Obamacare is a radical assault upon fundamental religious freedoms. The Obama revolution threatens to tear America apart. This has happened before. Slavery eventually triggered the Civil War between the industrial North and the agrarian South. Abortion is the slavery of our time - the denying of basic human rights to an entire category of people. The bitter debate over Obamacare has exposed the country's profound divisions. We are no longer one nation or one people. Rather, there are now two Americas: one conservative, the other liberal. Increasingly, we no longer just disagree but we despise each other. Our disagreements encompass everything - politics, morality, culture and history. We no longer share a unifying essence or common values. One half of America believes abortion is an abomination; the other half considers any attempt to repeal it as oppressive and sexist. One half opposes homosexual unions because it elevates immoral and unnatural behavior to the sacred status of marriage; the other half supports it as an extension of civil rights. One half reviles Mr. Obama's socialist agenda, viewing it as the destruction of capitalism and our constitutional government; the other half embraces it as the culmination of social justice and economic equality. One half reveres America's heroes - Christopher Columbus, George Washington, James Madison, Davy Crockett - and its glorious history; the other half is ashamed of its past, seeing it as characterized by racism, imperialism and chauvinism. Ultimately, a country is not simply its geographical borders with the people inside of it. It is something more - and deeper. A nation must share a common heritage, language, culture, faith and myths. Once upon a time, Americans celebrated the same heroes, sang the same patriotic songs, read the same history and literature, and gloried in its exceptional nature: a city upon a hill, with liberty and freedom for all. It was understood that, for all of our different ethnic and religious backgrounds, America is a product of English and Christian civilization. Those days are long gone. Instead, we are going the way our Founding Fathers warned us against: increasing balkanization and sectionalism. A constitutional republic - unlike an empire - is only as strong as its national cohesion. It is based not on imperial coercion but civic consent. Mr. Obama is recklessly pulling at the strings of unity, further polarizing us. In confronting Obamacare, state sovereignty, states' rights and state nullification of federal laws are being asserted. This is what happened in the 1830s and 1840s. They are the signs of growing political anarchy and social frustration - people can only be pushed so far. Mr. Obama's drive for a socialist super-state threatens America's very existence. As Jefferson warned about slavery, it is time we start ringing the "fire bell in the night." "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold," wrote William Butler Yeats. "Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world." Conservatives will not be passive in this onslaught on all our core values. Mr. Obama's true legacy may be that he divides us deeper than ever before - unless he abandons his revolutionary project.
I dunno! I thought the Dems said heathcare was a moral issue. Why then did their votes have to be bought? Seems like there's plenty of shit to shovel. Pot, I'd like you to meet kettle.
Sure he would like healthcare for all. He would just be against forcing people to pay for it against their will. He would also be against going into debt to pay for it. He would also be against doctors overcharging and also be against the fiat money system which steals your wealth through inflation. Oh by the way...children have no problem getting cheap healthcare. There are many healthy kids programs where you pay less than $20 per month for insurance for kids (usually you have to make less than $100k to qualify.) I pay $8 for a good private hospital (Kaiser permanente) for a $50k income and that rate is guarenteed for 2 years. So if you cant come up with 8 bucks for your kid...maybe you should have your kid taken away from you.
not only are you not very bright about science you are not very smart about what the bible says either. jesus insisted that the rich give up their wealth to enter heaven. Now a man came up to Jesus and asked, "Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?" "Why do you ask me about what is good?" Jesus replied. "There is only One who is good. If you want eternal life, obey the commandments." "Which ones?" the man inquired. Jesus replied, " `Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother,' and `love your neighbor as yourself.'" "All these I have kept," the young man said. "What do I still lack?" Jesus answered, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me." "
Personally, I love all this socialism. I say spend, spend, SPEND! Each day the government passes while spending us into oblivion is one day closer to the collapse. At this point, the ONLY thing that is going to bring about real "change" is the complete and total collapse of this country on every fiscal level imaginable. At that point, once everything is burnt to the ground and all the politicians are hanging from barns, libraries and other governmental buildings, then we can start over as the founding fathers have. You know it will, too. And when it does, a REAL dictator will rise to power. And stop all this "our kids will be saddled with all this debt" crap. PLEASE! Do any of you honestly think this debt will be here when our kids are our ages? Haha! We won't make it half that long. Our kids, hopefully, will be the generation that rebuilds after we take it down. Those will be the days when liberals/socialists will be shot on sight, and the mere suggestion of marxist or socialist type ideas will bring a rope and/or firearms. So spend away, Congress! Print money, dear Fed! Socialize everything, Obama! You're just accelerating the need for real change. I'll be fine. I've got farmland, resources, and best of all, weaponry.
Given that you (and many others here, incl myself) are likely to be hanging up there with them politicians, I struggle to understand why you're so gleefully looking forward to these things... Don't think your weapons and farmland are gonna help, either, Ivan...
Why would I be hanging up there with them? My weapons and farm land will work just fine, mate. Anyone who decides to try to find me better do so from half a mile out, or I'll send my pal Sig to meet them. Bring on the collapse, I say. It's the only way out, now.