Any time the many harms of ObamaCare become apparent to some constituency that might cause a real political problem for Obama, he simply changes the law for a time he hopes will be long enough for the People he thinks stupid to forget the harm. At first, this was exemptions from the law aimed at labor unions and businesses whose owners supported Democrat candidates for offices. Then he delayed the larger business mandate that forced them to offer health insurance meeting Obama's gold-plated requirements at great expense. Then he ruled once again in favor of unions by protecting their health insurance plans, and only theirs, from taxes on the so-called Cadillac plans. Now, he has declared that individuals can keep their insurance plans that they like for a year, if their insurance company will allow them to do so.
The government does not have the constitutional power to regulate and control our health insurance and our medical care. But, the strict limits on government power in the Constitution have long been ignored. However, the only branch of government that has any law-making power at all is Congress, the legislative branch. It is certainly not the executive branch. The President of our Republic is supposed to be the Commander-in-Chief and the executor of the laws, not the lawmaker. The Constitution made this division of function because they knew that a President with the powers of a medieval king was a very dangerous man. They absolutely would not trust such powers to their President.
But Obama does not believe in the Constitution. He only believes in socialism and the Constitution is a barrier to socialism. His ObamaCare law is a great step toward a more complete socialism in America and it will accomplish a huge redistribution of wealth if it survives the many problems of its initial phases. Obama, the great socialist Leader, desperately wants ObamaCare to endure. To do so, he has to keep it out of the hands of a Congress no longer completely controlled by committed socialists as it was when the fraudulently name Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was shoved as a fiery coal down our throats. He is happy to violate the Constitution to protect the PPACA and because he wants badly to establish precedent for the Imperial Presidency. He wants to be that Great Socialist Dictator the progressive elitists have long wanted and worked for.
Congress, when still under complete control by the Democratic Socialist Party in 2011, endowed the Dept. of Health and Human Services with $1 billion to provide most of the funding to implement ObamaCare. This was done to make it harder for the incoming Congress with a House under Republican control to defund ObamaCare. At the end of the 2013 fiscal year that ended on 30 September 2013, HHS had already spent $811 million of this money and presented the website that will not work and about 20,000 pages of new regulations. The remaining funds of $189 million will not be anywhere near enough to complete the implementation of ObamaCare. Yet, Obama will not go to the Congress to get the necessary funds appropriated to finish this process. No, Dictator Obama will simply take money appropriated by Congress for other purposes and use it as he sees fit to ensure that his signature "achievement" plows on, ripping through the lives of most Americans.
Americans generally, and both Congress and the Federal Courts, must stand up to this dictator and stop him. ObamaCare is a national disaster of incredible proportion. An even greater catastrophe would be to enshrine the Great Socialist Dictator as our executive branch leader for all of America's foreshortened future. History tells us that will be worse than a furious civil war. In fact, such a war is often the only salvation for such a horrific circumstance.
That Obama is not acting in good faith (and never has while on the national stage), in accordance with the constitutional separation of powers, is much needed understanding, which all of the mainstream media wholly lack now. This should be the main point of every newscast, every media discussion. He should not be accepted seriously as the President of the United States; he should be told to resign by one and all, and he should be impeached forthwith.
ReplyDeleteI wish there were a great consensus on this very clear catastrophe in agreement with us, Harry. Too many people still think socialism is great and that Obama is cute, nice, and just perhaps not quite as competent as would be desired of the Great Socialist Leader.
ReplyDeleteThe truth is that socialism is highly corrupting of morality and productivity in any society and those who pursue its goals are various combinations of power-lusting slave masters and emotional fools. Obama may be a combination of these himself, but he is mostly a would be power-lusting slave master.