How Much Is Too Much?
How much manipulation by our politicians behind the scenes is too much?
We have to be very, very close to the point where this whole charade is going to explode in the faces of the ruling party that controls our world today.
As every day passes, we are left to ponder just how much the preceding day, with the added deals that we suspect are being made behind those closed doors, has already cost us. And, we have to be wondering just how bad the resulting health care reform bill is going to be as the result.
Example: The favored deals being cut with big labor and state and federal employees to permit them and their members to avoid the "Cadillac" tax will cost the rest of us, without those grander plans, more money.
Example: How many more states are going to get favored treatment for the Medicaid funding impact at the cost of states like ours, that are getting nothing?
How many other deals are being, or have already been, cooked up to get this package to the point that it can be passed by both houses of Congress so that President Obama has something about which to brag in his next major speech?
How much of this garbage will prove to have been too much? Will we vote a bunch of these folks out of office to help them, and the rest, understand that we are fed up? Or, will it continue to be "business as usual" for them...and for us (who pay all the bills)?
We have to be very, very close to the point where this whole charade is going to explode in the faces of the ruling party that controls our world today.
As every day passes, we are left to ponder just how much the preceding day, with the added deals that we suspect are being made behind those closed doors, has already cost us. And, we have to be wondering just how bad the resulting health care reform bill is going to be as the result.
Example: The favored deals being cut with big labor and state and federal employees to permit them and their members to avoid the "Cadillac" tax will cost the rest of us, without those grander plans, more money.
Example: How many more states are going to get favored treatment for the Medicaid funding impact at the cost of states like ours, that are getting nothing?
How many other deals are being, or have already been, cooked up to get this package to the point that it can be passed by both houses of Congress so that President Obama has something about which to brag in his next major speech?
How much of this garbage will prove to have been too much? Will we vote a bunch of these folks out of office to help them, and the rest, understand that we are fed up? Or, will it continue to be "business as usual" for them...and for us (who pay all the bills)?
Posted by The Curmudgeon at 1/14/2010 10:36 AM 
Categories: Politics,Health Care,Taxes,Economy,Quality of Life
Categories: Politics,Health Care,Taxes,Economy,Quality of Life
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