You know, when I think of these things, I really should just go ahead and post them right away…it’ll make me look more prescient and brilliant than simply linking:
This is something that’s been on my mind for quite a while, and Chris Wallace put great words to exactly what I’ve been thinking lately with regard to the Supreme Court’s ultimate decision on ObamaCare:
(sorry for the commercial, the discussion with Brit Hume starts at about 3:50)
The gist is that win or lose with SCOTUS, it’s a lose situation for Obama:
Either he loses his signature legislative victory because it’s unconstitutional, or the well-over 50% of Americans who hate it have no other recourse than to elect Republicans to both houses of Congress and the White House and Obama loses obviously in that case.
This, I think, lends itself to the point I was making earlier today that this is an opportunity for those of us who love Liberty and Independence to make crystal clear the choice we have before us this year: Do we continue down the path of governmental intrusion into and management of our lives, or do we assert ourselves and tell the dictators in Washington that, No thanks, we’ll take care of our own lives?
(Interestingly, Brit makes an excellent point that I’d not thought of: Basically, with our fiscal house in such disarray, ObamaCare cannot stand on its own failures anyway. That our debt and unfunded social liabilities are so massive that it doesn’t matter what happens with the Supreme Court or—it seems he’s suggesting—with repeal even through legislative remedies…that it will collapse simply because it cannot be afforded. Scary stuff, especially considering the likelihood that he’s wrong, and that the unaffordability of any mandate dating all the way back to the New Deal has never kept this country from burying itself in debt in order to continue to feed its appetite for mother’s milk from the teat of the government trough…if you’ll excuse my abusively mixed metaphors.)
-Nick (ColoradoPatriot, from HQ)
I’ve looked at the Commerce Clause and it’s attendant legislation, and I think that any reasonable interpretion of the Consitution would reject Obamacare. However, if the Supremes fall to a fit of Progressive Kool-Aid, I can say with some confidence that:
I won’t buy government-mandated health insurance.
I won’t pay the fine.
I will go to jail.
Bring it.
Blair, I am sure you won’t be alone and this is the problem when you try to force bad legislation down Americans throats. We will just refuse. Then what? They really think they will be able to FORCE thousands (millions) of people to comply against their will? Who will be stuck with the bill for the new prisons? Who will make up for the double whammy of their lost wages and the need to now pay their prison costs? And now there will be children who lose their means of support and will be added to the government teat. Yeah, this is a winning plan.
Blair, I wish that I had your choice, but I’m not going to be able to do anything. I’m retired Navy and now 65. My income is my Navy pension, my VA disability pay (which is DEDUCTED from my Navy pay as a Thank You from a “grateful” government, and SocSec. I’ve been informed that my gummint insurance will be automatically deducted from one of those accounts (probably SS) “to make it more convenient”…
Oh, as for whether unaffordable programs can be funded with ever more debt: “How did you go bankrupt?”
“Gradually, then suddenly.”
The reality is there will be no ever increasing amounts of debt once we hit, oh $20 trillion. There will be no one left to borrow from. The Europeans are borrowing from us, the Euro is a goner, sooner or later.
China is imploding, sooner or later, from its debt, and corruption and the 80,000 or so annual violent demonstrations against the gov’t (Xinhua news.) They won’t be buying treasury bonds within a few years anyway.
Then, well, then there’s no one else –and presto — bankruptcy, suddenly, and with the current nitwits of both parties in charge, it will be, of course, “unexpected.” Yah.
Blair, we’re retired military too (husband) and we’re concerned about them messing TRICARE up… I’m sure you’ve read about that!!
I tend to agree with the comments already stated here. Thanks for the good work you all do posting this.
Third possibility: The SCOTUS upholds ObamaCare, the SCOAMF is re-elected, and the country goes bankrupt and dissolves.
“it will collapse simply because it cannot be afforded”
That outcome might not bother him. I know progressives who have frankly said they don’t care if entitlement programs and government pensions cause a total financial collapse.
“Some men just want to watch the world burn.”