Re: Ok Trekkers, Don't Forget To Sign Up For Mandatory Obamacare Oct 1
It wasn't a hissy fit, it was a plea to attempt to keep this nation from going socialist.
It's the first step toward the single payer option.
The cost will have the politicians (government) storming in to "help" fix a system they themselves created. Government run Healthcare. That is socialist.
Firefighting is socialist, but it's kinda nice when they just show up at a fire, isn't it? Schools are socialist, but looking at how retarded we are even WITH teachers trying to help us, probably better than everyone being homeschooled by mouthbreathers on THAT downward trajectory.
You are just making the case to get government out of all this stuff.
The government has forced a model that relies on businesses to "provide" heathcare.
I think that's wrong.
Get individual business out of the picture of providing heath insurance.
Does you business provide your auto or homeowners insurance?
The free market WILL make it affordable to all. But it's never been allowed to.
My argument is that government should have been "involved" in the first place.
I'm going to assume that you meant
"My argument is that government should NOT have been "involved" in the first place" above, but even then, your argument doesn't make any sense, and just comes off like a series of Frankensteinian platitudes about how "socialism and government BAAAAAAAADDDD!!!" without any kind of coherent or workable idea of what to do on your own. AKA: the standard Republican plan.
You say get government out of healthcare. Then you say to also get employer sponsored insurance out of healthcare as well despite that being how most Americans are already covered. So now, instead of covering the smaller number of Americans who are not already covered by either Medicare/Medicaid or an employer sponsored health insurance program, which was the goal all along (making sure
everyone was covered), you've advocated for the majority of Americans losing their existing forms of insurance and having to start all over with new non-government and non-employer provided insurance... because "free market!!!," I guess.
So, you're not actually about freedom of choice after all, since you're also eliminating employer sponsored healthcare. And you're not actually about keeping the government out of people's healthcare, since you're advocating for forcing people to get their own private insurance that's not associated with their employer in any way; and who would enforce such a measure, exactly?
Thirdly, I wouldn't stand and ramble pointlessly for 21 hours protesting a policy that hasn't even been implemented yet while reading a book about how it's silly to reject something before you try it, and completely misunderstanding a message meant for five year olds. That's not a mistake, that's an irony nuke.
I
love "irony nuke." The rambling didn't bother me; I expect some in a long filibuster. But the lack of reading comprehension was mind-boggling!
But that's what I meant about it's pointlessness (at least from a legislative standpoint). It wasn't even an actual filibuster meant to block a vote, since he didn't even have the support of his own party for that, it was just a very long non-topical rambling speech on the Senate floor which had a scheduled ending to conduct the vote, which he actually voted in favor of anyway (the vote was 100 to 0) despite protesting it.
Now, it did symbolically position Cruz as the leader of the "if we lose this game we're going to angrily throw the board and all the pieces into the air and go home" tantrum throwing no-compromise extreme wing of the Republican Party that's wasted the government's time by trying to repeal Obamacare 41 times and has now forced us into a shutdown, so bully for him there. But that's about all it did.
Well played.
