Obamacare...really?

With the continuing controversy about the "Affordable Care Act," (I used quotation marks on purpose) these seemed timely.  What an enormous, money-sucking hole it is.  I hope my almost 83-year-old mother doesn't have her insurance rates double to cover somebody who has never managed to keep a job.  The most amazing to me is the number of people who actually believed that an insurance program could magically cover everyone for everything--for nothing.  Wow, our gene pool is getting shallow.

Heaven help us.  Our government won't.

That is certainly how I feel about the government.  Something seems to happen when people get elected (or maybe before that--when they decide to run).  They forget that they are supposed to be working for the people they represent, and begin to think only of themselves.  I read that there are those in Congress suggesting that they be exempted from participation in the "Affordable Care Act" (I tried to be nice).  Wouldn't that be something?  Another rule that everyone else has to follow, but members of Congress do not.

It is depressing.

More taxes won't help.

President Obama's economic record is a train wreck.  He is planning to raise taxes on everyone, but especially those making more than $200,000 a year.  Even Nancy Pelosi and some of his serious supporters think that bar is too low--they wanted the cut-off to be a million a year.  The Morning Bell, a publication by the Heritage Foundation lays out what this may mean to those most affected:

Besides the horrendous affect these taxes would have by themselves, add the uncertainty of the Affordable Care Act,  and our economy is in for a hit like it hasn't seen in 70 years.  Why a President would propose such a thing, when there is so little reward, boggles the mind.  Even assuming most of these businesses/people just paid those extra taxes--which is unlikely since many will probably close up shop--the dent made in the deficit would be infinitesimal.  Lots of loss for so tiny a gain.

Unjust laws affect us all?

One of those causes that doesn't have a political "side." Groups which are normally on opposite sides of the table are working together. Their battle is a bit frightening to read about.

Morning Bell: Fighting Back Against Arbitrary Government Rule | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.