But it doesn't just whither away. It drags down the whole economy with it....so you'll have the disaster of O-Care AND a government shutdown...might even spur a full on Depression. And the GOP will own it 100% in political terms. Is that fair? Hells no, but its the narrative the Dems and media will stick to the Republicans/Conservatives and it will be tougher than guerilla glue to remove....could bring on a generation of liberal rule in DC. And yes, that would be an epic disaster from which we'd not recover...any conservative willing to bring that about by stifling the imperfect GOP plan...which is vastly superior to O-care....is either politically suicidal, or actually hoping to instigate some sort of apocalyptic revolutionary dissolution of the country. In either case, you'd have to be a true nutjob.
We don't have the votes...and for the record...nobody promised that every Republican would go along for full repeal....what was promised that leadership would fight for such a repeal, which it has. People like Susan Collins and others were never on board, so we've never had the votes for this impossibility which some of you seem eager to cling to...you've set up an unachievable golden idol and are now furious because its not granting you your wishes. Politics in a Republic are dirty and full of compromise...by design and necessity...you just don't get everything you want unless you have some kind of broad national consensus. We don't have that...so its compromise or complete failure and a long term Left wing takeover. If your principles dictate political suicide when you don't fully get your way...well...its no wonder the Left keeps winning.
If I had a robotic lawnmower grinding through my trees and chewing up the flowerbeds, I'd do what it takes to shut it down. Well, that's what the Congress has done to the economy. All that will be left is the 'big house', and maybe some slave quarters. When I was paying six figures a year in taxes, I knew that was at the whim of the Government, not because what I do has any direct connection to government, but because of the rules they make. One wrong policy and it was done. Last year, they got not one dime in taxes, not even social security.
Unfortunately, whatever those >bleep<ers on Capitol Hill do or don't they get paid, and will be reelected until they die or are voted out. The people who work with them are the same. Anyone else who has been fortunate enough to have a career not punctuated by times of poverty brought by government stupidity has indeed been blessed.
But the part of Government that is supposed to be user friendly, the part that is supposed to work for us, that promised and deceived even to the point of holding mock votes on legislation they had no intent of passing, the part that outright LIED to the People NEEDS TO BE SHUT DOWN. That nest of snakes won't even hold a vote because 2018 is coming and they want to lie to us again for another round.
Well, >bleep< them. I will sell all I own and donate it to primary challengers in the GOP races to see these LYING sons of b*tches the Hell out of Congress. Y'all can piss around with "
the perfect is the enemy of the good" nonsense all you want, but what you have is
crap. It is
not '
good', nowhere close, it's just a bunch of stinking liars on Capitol Hill living large off of the lifeblood of America, teeth in the vein, nose in the trough, and lining their pockets. They don't even have balls large enough to tell you they are going to screw you. You want to back that, you deserve what you get. Stock up on Preparation H--or maybe Ben Gay would be more in keeping with that breed of masochism.
It's bad enough knowing the Dems will screw us, but these sh*tbirds are supposed to be on our side. Right now, I don't see a hell of a lot of difference.
We're on our way to a Depression that makes the '30s look like a slow day at the ice cream stand in mid summer. We can't print enough money to cover the national debt, we don't have the paper, even if we brought back the $1000 and $5000 notes. And when it comes, the French Revolution will look like a scuffle in a schoolyard. If these jerks in DC don't get with the program, the one they voted for when it would not go past the president's desk, they will only bring it on quicker.
One sixth of the economy is in play. They can get their fingers out of that with a vote or they can keep screwing it up.
