I had faith that middle america would choke on the "trust me I'm from the government" screed. So after two years of all hat and no cattle, the push back is coming, but it is pretty difficult to unwind popular entitlements.
The court case challenging constitutionality (20 states participating) is going forward.
I was never opposed to "improving" health care, just not their grandiose scheme that didn't even make sense using their funny math (and they pretty much knew it). This clearly is the charlie foxtrot so many predicted. Their plan was for some of the gimme's to kick in by now, and the cost to show up in the out years, but this law has such sweeping implications, cost are already reacting.
Hopefully calmer heads can hammer something workable out of this mess, but it won't be easy.
Interesting to see that Barney Frank is actually having to campaign in his district for like the first time in several election cycles. Brown took Barney's district in the senate election and has some coat tails, compared to the current party in power.
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We've been in delta sierra before, we can grow out of this too, if we get our priorities in order, and government out of the damn way...
It's like they go out of their way to make things worse. The recent freeze on foreclosures, instead of helping anybody, is preventing housing from clearing to it's true valuation, and is scaring away buyers from closing on houses now.. What are they smoking? They aren't doing good for anybody except maybe helping some people go a few more months without paying the mortgage on a house they will never afford. Most of these pending foreclosures are already 18 months in arrears. Time to take the bitter medicine and move on.
Interesting times...
JR
PS: I'm reading Hayek's "Road to Serfdom" right now... Some smart folks had this stuff all figured out a long ass time ago.
PPS.. Don't forget to vote