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15. septembra 2009, 18:13:02

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Subjekt: Flogging a dead horse

Zmenené užívateľom Übergeek 바둑이 (15. septembra 2009, 18:18:03)

I see all of us flogging a dead horse, and that is healthcare reform. Republicans are determined to make it fail, not because healthcare reform is bad, but because they are afraid that if the Democrats succeed people might see the Democrats as a better political party.

One thing is certain. Republicans will complain and moan about rising taxes and wasteful spending leading to higher taxes. However, they will rarely accept that it was their policies that led to this situation. Consider for example some of the new legislation passed by Obama recently. In particular the Weapon Systems Acquisition Reform Act.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Reform-for-Our-Troops/

I have seen no praise for this from any Republicans. The reason is that the Bush administration mismanaged the defense budget and ran into cost overruns amount to $295 billion.

Republicans ask "Where is the money going to come from? Higher taxes?" The answer would not from higher taxes, but from eliminating corruption fromt he defense budget.

This has many Republicans furious and lashing out at Obama. Of course, they are incapalel of publicly acknowledging that the real motivation behind killing healthcare reform is revenge for exposing the true cause of all the deficit problems that the Obama administration inherited from the Bush administration. At least John McCain has had the decency to adress the issue and seems to be the only Republican willing to do anything about it.

Republicans might complain about higher taxes and the budget, but blame should go to those who deserve it. They will succeed in killing healthcare reform, because their allies in the insurance industry fear that the government will take away the profits they make. The ones who will lose are those millions of Americans who are poor and have no coverage and have to make due with whatever scraps the upper middle class leaves for them.

In the meantime, Republicans can sleep soundly knowing that they pissed $295 billion down the drain and that defense contractors took taxpayers to the cleaners.