I wouldn’t mind a little bloodshed right about now, or at least some tarring and feathering.

You probably just gave them a 50% boost to their audience from just the few hundred of us that might see it in this comment section.

Actually the photos of the “entitled now” do represent a lot more ugly than the southern gentlemen and southern belles of the “entitled then.”

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The Harvard Crimson today came out wholly in favor of Obama’s healthcare ‘reform’ legislation.

Following is my comment to their editorial:

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You write: “This legislation is a tremendous achievement for the Democrats in Congress and signifies a victory of the highest caliber for Obama’s young presidency.”

I, and a majority of the American people, believe you are in error. Even the citizens of your own state of Massachusetts, judging by the election of Scott Brown to the US Senate, believe you are wrong.

What is it about you that makes you think that with minimal (at best) experience supporting a household, meeting a payroll, keeping to a budget, you know better than the majority of citizens in your state and your nation?

The Cutler article which your editorial references does maintain that health reform “will bend the cost curve.” It makes some assumptions about the amounts which will be spent per participant, about efficiencies which may be realized in administration, and in other factors. If one accepts the Cutler assumptions, it is possible that health care may be delivered more reasonably under the new legislation.

Sometimes, however, even Masters of the Universe at Harvard don’t make accurate assumptions. How else to explain how one of the smartest men in America, former Harvard president Larry Summers, him of one of the most accomplished families of economists this nation has ever produced, could have put forward the interest rates swaps which cost the university so dearly.

Here is the Bloomberg headline and link:
Harvard Swaps Are So Toxic Even Summers Won’t Explain (Update3)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087…

So, now the nation is saddled with a piece of legislation which was jammed down the throats of a citizenry which didn’t want it

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If Democrats felt heartened after yesterday’s Gallup poll showing a plurality of support for their new ObamaCare plan, Bloomberg’s survey should bring them back to Earth. The survey asked over a thousand adults their opinions of the ObamaCare bill during and after its passage, and like almost every poll taken in the last several months, a majority of respondents opposed it.
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In a process with bipartisan opposition but only Democrat support.

It was a process filled with kickbacks (Louisiana Purchase, etc), backroom deals, and outright arrogance. Even now after passage, the Administration is trying once again to sell Americans on the idea.

Perhaps worst of all regarding HCR is the effect it may have on our economy and our society. Federal expenditures this year are at least $1.3 trillion greater than federal receipts. The Administration itself acknowledges a $900 million and more cost to this program, yet it has the temerity to predict that health care reform will reduce the nation’s deficit.

Try telling that to the citizens of Massachusetts :

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Massachusetts passed a state law in 2006 intended to create near-universal health care coverage for its residents, in the most aggressive experiment in health care policy at the state level. The law required that almost every resident have insurance, and to meet that goal, the state subsidized coverage for those earning up to three times the federal poverty level, or $66,150 for a family of four.
Three years later, Massachusetts had the country’s lowest percentage of the uninsured – 2.6 percent, compared with a national average of 15 percent. Its plan was cited as a potential model for federal health care reform.
But there have been difficulties as well. Lawmakers had deferred any serious effort to control the state’s runaway health costs. New taxes and feeds imposed in 2008 helped stabilize the plans’ finances, but government and industry officials agreed that the plan would not be sustainable without significant steps to slow spending.
http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/news/national/…
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In sum, you congratulate one party of lawmakers on legislation foisted onto an unwilling public, based on unknowable assumptions. You describe opposition to the program as a ‘muddling political circus,’ and an Administration which forces unwanted legislation on an unwilling public as having ‘showed tenacity.’

You favor replacing an entire industry (health insurance) with government bureaucrats, apparently believing that for the first time in history central planning will trump market based solutions.

You completely ignore the warnings from some that costs of the program are understated by well over $1 trillion. You don’t bother addressing the economic consequences if that turns out to be true.

On scholarships and parentships, un-tethered to responsibility, you conclude that you know better.

You don’t.

The link is here: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/3/26/democrats-healthcare-political-more/

I don’t think the left thinks that they are committing political suicide any more than slaveholders thought they had an unsustainable and politically unpopular entitlement.

Those who I am defining as the the entitled ones of today are not private citizens living on their private plantations. Today they are publicly elected federal government officials who are occupying federal government buildings. This is a huge difference, IMO, and it gives me more hope of the repeal occurring with ballots instead of bullets this time around.

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need to be elected to Congress to displace the critical mass of finger-to-the-wind Republicans.

Even a few primary victories (e.g. Bennett) and a large influx of Conservatives in November can make a big difference.

True Conservatives need to fight to push the Republican party to be the party of fiscal prudence. No, Republicans did not embody that during the Bush administration. But the Dems just whipped out the credit card to the tune of $2.5 trillion over the next 10 years. The last one stuck with the hot potato.

A critical mass of true conservatives can force the bandwagon squishes to join them as the Republican party morphs, partially by active displacement, partially by circumstances, to the Party of our Children’s Future.

2010: The Democrats have taken away and will take away your freedom/