Obama finally got something done on healthcare.
And has made a bad situation much worse. Governmental intrusion into the free market, specifically in the housing market, was a huge contributor to the recent financial crash.
The Affordable Care Act has already INCREASED the cost of health care dramatically.
And too many people in the richest nation on earth have gone without adequate healthcare because they do not have employer health care coverage or do not qualify for Medicaid or Medicare.
Or because they refused to pay for it. As is their right, as free persons. Or worse, because government regulation prevented the insurance companies from selling lower cost health insurance plans.
But in truth, we are not that rich a nation. Our national debt is 16 trillion dollars, in large part because of how wasteful the Obama administration and the Democratic party have been in their stewardship of our national wealth.
This has always been a disgrace to me when other industrialized countries have been able to provide their citizens with universal healthcare and the richest on nation has failed miserably at doing so.
And those nations are on the verge of bankruptcy. Bankruptcy will reduce their ability to “provide” “universal healthcare” to near zero.
However, if you feel that you have been remiss in your charitable giving, especially to Catholic Hospitals, that is between you, your confessor, and God.
It is not the right of any Catholic to judge you. Just as it is not your right to judge any other person’s giving.
Obamacare is not perfect. I’d have preferred single payer or a public option. But is better than the status quo.
You prefer a system that violates your conscience, is much more expensive, and that has increased the speed at which this country is sliding into bankruptcy?
That is your choice, of course. But you could choose to give to hospitals, if that is your wish, after voting for the most Libertarian Candidate in existence. Voting for a Democratic administration reduces your freedom; your God given liberty.
I totally reject the Paul Ryan budget which was supported by nearly every Republican. I want Paul Ryan nowhere near the White House. Like Sister Simone of the Catholic faith and the other nuns on the bus, I will not sit back and do nothing to try to stop such severe cuts to programs affecting the poor.
Except that bankrupting the country will cut every program intended to help the poor to near zero.
More importantly, the Ryan budget is in fully conformance with Catholic Social Justice teaching, while Democratic programs violate the principle of Subsidiarity. But in practical terms, his budget, if passed, has a good chance of saving these programs, while the trajectory the Democrats have put us on will destroy them.
While the Republicans increase defense spending and refuse to even come to the table if it means asking the wealthiest among us to pay a little more in the form of a tax rate increase.
Because the “rich” already pay way, way more than their fair share. By Catholic Social Teaching, we should stand in solidarity with the poor, and of course, they should stand in solidarity with us. Class warfare of this type does not promote solidarity. It does the exact opposite.
Treating the rich as some kind of slave is not solidarity, it isn’t fair, and it certainly isn’t justice.
The Democratic strategy is to destroy solidarity by breaking us into a large number of small, squabbling groups, to pit us against each other, and to foment anger, if not outright hatred.
I also oppose the Medicare plan Ryan had in his budget.
Which means in effect you oppose saving that program from being cut by the Democrats by a much greater percentage.
Obama inherited the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
Created, in great part, by the Democratic parties meddling in the free market.
And then President Obama promptly made the problem worse, and has kept it from getting better.
Look up how many jobs per month we were losing before he took office.
Unemployment was a little bit more than 7% before he took office.
Under Obama’s stewardship, it rose to nearly 10, and has never been under 8% since.
We’ve been gaining jobs for many months under Obama. No one claims we are where we need to be but the economy is turning around compared to where it was and I’m willing to give it more time.
I’m not. President Obama has failed at nearly everything he promised to do, and what he has done has been disastrous.
I’m glad because of President Obama children of immigrants, young people who know our country as their home and who pledge alliegance to the same flag I do, today are not living in fear of deportation.
You support his President eve though you KNOW he has violated his oath of office, and the rule of law? The oath the President takes requires him to uphold the law. You know he has violated that oath, and still propose to vote for him?
And this is just one example of this behavior. DOMA, the HHS mandate, and others show that this is not just a misunderstanding, or a one time occurrence.
Beyond his party’s support for three intrinsic moral evils, this President has made great “progress” towards destroying this countries most important political safe guards, and the most fundamental rule of good government: a government of laws, not men.
No one should support this man for any political office. If judged objectively on his record, he is the worst President in US history.
We can’t possibly judge it’s affect yet on the cost of healthcare beyond 2014 in 2012.
are all that surprised. I know I’m not.