Great post Will. Today as i was driving i started thinking about my post and how i shouldn't have posted it till i knew more about the bill. I was infact doing what most people have done with this bill and that is speculate. But honestly that is all you can do seeing nobody is really breaking it all down for us. All we hear are the small parts and not the big picture.
Let me make my stance clear, I am all for health care. I feel healt care is a right and not a privilage. But i don't like being told that if i don't have health care then i have to pay a fine.. (or tax as the dems are calling it). It's like the seatbelt law, they force us to wear them cause they save lives..
like the state really cares if i live or die. All they want it the money that came with that law. The federal govt has no right to tell me that if i don't have something then i have to pay a fine. Might be why 13 states have already began to take the govt to court.
There could be jobs for everyone if they really wanted it to be. But as you stated, it helps weaken the unions as it is right now. But that is only one of many reasons. So for those of us with jobs and working hard to make a living, we now have to carry those who don't even try.
There are millions who wish they did have a job and are trying hard to get one. So as part of an unemployment benifit then offer healthcare till they do get a job. As long as people are trying then i have no problem with that. It's the ones who sit home and do nothing and get all the free stuff and are not even made to try.. Thats the ones that bother me.
And Will you are 100000% correct when you talk about how much we hand out to other nations and get nothing back. I was mad as can be when Katrina hit and not one other nation offered any type of aid.. But yet someone farts in a church in some 3rd world country and the US is expected to send billions.
I have more to say but i'll end here due to me being at work. I'll post more when i get home