First, I will LOSE my health insurance. I have affordable catastrophic, which will be outlawed. And taxes within Obamacare affect certain stocks I own, which are declining in value now.
Second, I will not pay the penalty ascribed by the mandate, so I will become a "criminal" for my civil disobedience. They probably won't but they COULD come after me, my bank account, my house, etc.
Third. My house is for sale. I was anticipating a Romney housing rally that would enable the sale and allow me to buy a new place I have had my eye on. That is gone. The housing market will sour again.
Fourth, having lost my job (and group health) under Obama, I now work two part-time jobs. Are they secure? Not really, not now. And with no other jobs out there, the loss of one would mean I could not pay my mortgage. Hello bank. Goodbye equity.
Fifth, I have stocks . . . conservative ones mostly, but in a general market collapse, that would not matter. And I was really excited about Romney's proposal for the middle class to ELIMINATE taxes on dividends and capital gains. As I approach retirement (10 years), that was looking like a tremendous boon to me. Oh well.
Sixth, I commute, and my job necessitates a lot of driving. Gas prices will climb. I live in the deep South . . . the thought of my electric bill next summer (air conditioning) is frightening. (Seventh) I am too dispirited to do anything about it. I am tired of being tired (Romney's phrase), and now I just live under a giant, oppressive cloud. No, the sun will not come out tomorrow.
Well there is still beer.