Right_in_Virginia wrote:
"Now the Senate gets its say ... I'm happy the bill is on the move!"
As am I.
Remember back only a few weeks ago -- folks can remember back that far, I suppose?
Remember how the first iteration of obamacare repeal failed, and how folks in here wailed, that that was the end? That Congress would do no more?
Where are they now?
Why of course they're STILL HERE, and STILL WAILING.
Pay no mind to them (I don't).
They won't change, they'll never come around (until the democrat/communists win again, perhaps then they'll be smiling).
What passed the House today is -a start-, and now the effort begins to get it through the senate. Hopefully, without too much changed.
If this can get passed by Congress, and signed by Mr. Trump, then it becomes time to "chip away further" at the obamacare edifice.
The left has understood for decades that they can't get all they want at once. So they move incrementally, bit by bit, a little at a time towards building their colossus. This is why they win. Two steps forward, one back, but they keep pushing, always pushing.
We can't tear down that colossus at once. Like them we must gird our loins (to use a repetitive term from Joseph Smith's writings) and keep struggling as well.
It's often said here that once enacted, an entitlement is here to stay. Today the Congress took the first steps to dismantling an "enacted entitlement". That they got even this far is somewhat astonishing. Rather than condemn them for not "repealing the whole thing", we should be encouraging them onward.
A hat tip to the forum members who have supported such notions with many more postings, better than any I could write.
And to the Trump haters here, who scowl at anything the guy tries to do, well... I fart in your general direction!
