How is it that republicans are somehow on the side of "we the people" when it comes to the individual insurance mandate? I suggest to you that they are really NOT! Now that they are not in the majority in the full congress, they have chosen an issue that they think will win the complete majority for them. Remember how they used the Tea Party to make people into thinking their issue was small government? But instead they came out with an entirely different agenda. It seems the only reason they have picked up the anti-mandate mantle is because they already know that the SCOTUS will rule in favor of the mandate. That way they will SEEM to be fighting against a cause which they are in favor of. I say this because the republican party is the party of big business. And yet they have convinced us that they are on our side. THEY ARE NOT REALLY AGAINST THE INDIVIDUAL MANDATE, they have just deceived us into thinking they are. Why would the corporate party try to make us believe they are against corporate interests on this issue? Because they think they have won already?! When the Court rules in favor of the individual mandate, big business and the repubs will have won again and we will believe they have fought on our behalf.
On the other hand, why is the Obama Administration pushing the insurance mandate on us? Why aren't they advocating single payor (universal healthcare) or at the very least, the public option? Could it be that the administration is not as pro-citizen as we think? Even though I believe that Mr. Obama is the better choice this time as opposed to ANY republican, in the future I will not vote for anyone just because they have a (d) behind their name on the ballot. My own senator in Louisiana, Ms. Landrieu has been a big disappoint to me. And Mrs. Clinton has transformed from a dove to become a war hawk. I believe for that reason she will never become president. I, for one will never vote for her for that office. Like Mr. Obama, she has become just another politician, both changing their positions to help their political careers. The President has done a few positive things, but he has failed us on the (vast) majority of promises he made. The bank bailouts have been disastrous! And now we are about to have the insurance companies dictate healthcare to us. It doesn't matter who says that the individual mandate will be good for us, including President Obama, I beg to differ! All you have is look at what happened with the prescription drug bill, how the pharmaceutical companies are the ones who control prescription drug prices. They have increased nearly one thousand percent in some cases.
So, though the democrats claim to be for the working class, sometimes I wonder. It seems that no matter what laws are passed in congress on our behalf, they are watered down to the point of ineffectiveness or are riddled with so many loopholes that it hardly did any good to pass them anyway. It is definitely time for some new blood in the democratic party. Even though Mr. Dennis Kucinich lost his seat, I support him still and Mrs. Elizabeth Warren, Senator Bernie Sanders and the entire progressive caucus. And if the party will not become more progressive, maybe it is time to pick our candidates by the things they advocate, rather than party. .
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