Posted on 06/28/2012 9:42:26 AM PDT by Signalman
Thursday, June 28, 2012
A week after President Obama’s health care law was passed, 54% of voters nationwide wanted to see the law repealed. Now, as the Supreme Court is set to issue a ruling on the law’s constitutionality, the numbers are unchanged: 54% want to see the law repealed.
In polls conducted weekly or biweekly for over two years since the law's passage in March 2010, the numbers have barely moved. In fact, for more than a year before the law was passed, a similar majority opposed its passage.
The dynamics have remained the same throughout as well. Most Democrats oppose repeal, while most Republicans and unaffiliated voters support it. Older voters, those who use the health care system more than anyone else, favor repeal more than younger voters. The number who Strongly Favor repeal has remained over 40%, while the number Strongly Opposing has remained in the 20-something percent range.
Most voters have consistently expressed the view that the law will hurt the quality of care, drive up costs and increase the federal deficit. They also don’t like the government ordering people to buy health insurance and don’t think the Constitution permits that anyway.
This strong and consistent opposition led Scott Rasmussen to conclude in a recent syndicated newspaper column that the “health care law is doomed regardless of what the court decides.”
I am reading through the decision now. Here is a remarkable quote from the decision (page 6)
“Those decisions are entrusted to our Nation’s elected leaders, who can be thrown out of office if the people disagree with them. It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.”
Full decision found here:
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/11-393c3a2.pdf
54%. Not enough. Almost an exact reflection of the payers vs. the takers. Too many of the 54% are on the edge of being willing takers without understanding what it means and that it can’t last. They also don’t understand that the nation will be destroyed as a result of that path.
No enterprise, public or private, business or nation, can survive for long with 50% of the assets, be they financial, resource or human, not being productive. It won’t work. Never has and never will work. The tipping point has been reached and passed. It is over. I don’t believe that even if Romney was elected and had a resolve and the means to turn things around that he could without first destroying the nation one way or another.
The portion who are takers have no choice to revolt if threatened and the providers have not will to revolt until it will be far too late.
Done, stick a fork in it. Without a miracle provided by God can the Republic be saved.
I think you are dreaming. We will be annihilated. It may be a fight be we will be annihilated.
Most people just don’t get it.
I wish I was wrong but the trend supports me and the trend is accelerating on an ever steepening slope downward.
Jobs? We don’t need no stinking jobs anymore.
He's quite correct, of course. We are now about to reap what's been sown for the last 60 years. The whirlwind will be swift and terrible.
Remember Nov. 2010
I just don’t see enough outrage. Also, I don’t see enough of the 46% who think this all just hunky dory becoming outraged at all.
Too close and too little too late I fear.
I pray you get the opportunity to say I told you so. It will take a miracle for that to happen.
“The whirlwind will be swift and terrible.”
Yup. Time to man up.
Are you for or against Obamacare? You sound like your giving up when the majority of the country is against the Obamacare law.
“He’s quite correct, of course. We are now about to reap what’s been sown for the last 60 years. The whirlwind will be swift and terrible.”
Then we don’t have a constitution. If a majority wants to screw the minority then it has nothing to fear.
Exactly.
We can doom it by getting to the polls to defeat Obama, and vote for members of Congress who have committed to REPEAL Obamacare.
We HAVE to increase the Repub. majority in the House, and get a Repub. majority in the Senate, so that Dingy Harry Reid can't manipulate the process to keep Senators from voting on the issue.
THAT is a gross mis-understanding. You obviously didn’t extend your superficial interest to the context of the comment.
I can’t think of one single good thing done by or about this administration ever. In fact, I can’t think of very much in the last 50 years the government has done that has been good.
Look at us. We aren’t living peaceful lives. We live in turmoil created by a government that has infected virtually every phase of our lives. Much of these actions have been taken at the prompting of special interests and now they are by radicals within. The invasion runs the gamut from how you dispose of batteries and what tires you can put on the front of your car and what looks like all the way to what you eat and how much you weigh.
NO, I do not favor any of this. I wonder how it will be possible to oppose this tyranny and when.
The people reversed their "choice" in 2010 by taking the House and giving it to the Republicans. Obamacare could not pass in the House again. So, the people DID use the political process to reverse this as best they could, and I think Roberts should have considered that.
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