Sixteen days into the government shutdown, we know;
- Obamacare makes health insurance dramatically more expensive for individuals buying insurance from the government health insurance exchanges.
- The Government insurance market website doesn’t function properly.
- Relatively few, 60 thousand of 30 million forecast, people have signed up for health insurance through the government.
- Obamacare requires the IRS to fine people who don’t have health insurance after January 1st, 2014, and the fines go up steeply in the future.
- The Constitution prohibits the federal government from fining a citizen for not buying a product, so the Supreme Court decided that Obamacare was really a tax.
- The Obamacare law did not originate in the House of Representatives, and the Constitution requires that all taxation laws originate in the House of Representatives.
- Obama, Reid, and Pelosi, take no responsibility for any of this Obamacare Democrat work product, and continue to chant the mantra that everything will be fine once conservative Republicans in the House restore the Democrats blank checkbook so they can continue unlimited spending to benefit their Democrat voting constituencies.
- The media have been steadfast throughout in producing narratives and phony opinion polls critical of Republicans and sympathetic to Democrats.
- On the other hand, some stalwart conservatives in the Senate and the House just won’t let this tragedy continue without a fight. What Cruz began with his Obamacare filibuster inspired conservatives in the House to put their feet down and stop the gravy train.
The Constitution vests the power of the purse with the House of Representatives. Obama, Reid, Pelosi, and their followers in government, demonstrated no restraint over the past few weeks to apply every pejorative and threat imaginable against the evil Republicans. All Republicans did was put the brakes on the binge spending that Democrat leaders have taken for granted since Obama was elected.
Republicans are right. None of this federal spending makes for a better country. It doesn’t create jobs or make people more employable. It just feeds cycles of dependency that weaken our economy.
Republicans are right that Obamacare starts a new predatory age for American government, turning it into a money grabbing thug that will directly fine people if they don’t spend their money in a government “market” at a level the government dictates.
No matter how loud the Democrats scream, no matter what names they call Republicans, conservative Republicans need to keep standing strong against this Democrat fascism.
Bipartisanship won’t cure it. Capitulation and appeasement won’t placate it. Turning the gravy train back on is no answer. This fight is against thugs wielding the power of government to inflict harm on a substantial body of the American people. These hyperbolic, epithet dealing, power gulping, Democrat thugs, must be stopped.
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