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America’s Founding Fathers fiercely held to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—values which Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) claimed align seamlessly with Obamacare.
Pelosi explained why the law is “very sound policy” during a press conference Friday:
To go to back to our founders once again, they sacrificed it all for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This law, the affordable care act, is about a healthier life, the liberty to pursue your happiness. That is solid policy, and the mandate is central to that.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
beezzer
reply to post by neo96
I thought Obamacare was a tax.
I also thought that the little dust-up we had with the King was over taxation.
Looks like Grandma Pelosi has been nipping the cooking sherry again!
The Obama Administration’s latest argument for Obamacare is that some people don’t want to work, and Obamacare makes not working easier for those people.
This new spin comes conveniently in the wake of a Congressional Budget Office report demonstrating Obamacare will push about 2 million workers out of the labor market by 2017.
The liberals of the Obama Administration spun the new data as only they can. Politico Pro reports (sub. req’d):
Instead, the Obama administration says, the health care law will allow people to choose to work less.
Under Obamacare, “individuals will be empowered to make choices about their own lives and livelihoods, like retiring on time rather than working into their elderly years or choosing to spend more time with their families,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said in a statement.
“At the beginning of this year, we noted that as part of this new day in health care, Americans would no longer be trapped in a job just to provide coverage for their families, and would have the opportunity to pursue their dreams,” Carney said in the statement. For good measure, he added that “the Republican plan to repeal the ACA would strip those hardworking Americans of that opportunity.” (emphasis added)
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says the CBO report vindicates ObamaCare, because “this was one of the goals. To give people life, a healthy life, liberty to pursue their happiness. And that liberty is to not be job-locked, but to follow their passion.”
Pelosi is particularly invested in this view. She’s been mocked for years now for her repeated claims that ObamaCare is an entrepreneurial bill because it would let Americans quit their jobs to, among other things, “write poetry.”
I know I’m not alone in thinking that it was totally worth seizing a seventh of the US economy, polarizing Washington, throwing millions of ’ lives into turmoil and forcing millions of others to pay more in premiums and deductibles, while spending $1.2 trillion just so we could liberate the Job-Locked Poets! (Whoever seizes that as the name of your new band: You’re welcome.)
The founding fathers would support being forced to buy a corporate products, and if they didn't they get fined by government for not doing so.
buster2010
reply to post by neo96
The founding fathers would support being forced to buy a corporate products, and if they didn't they get fined by government for not doing so.
If you knew more about the founding fathers you would know they had no problem with forcing people to buy corporate products and tax people for corporate services.
The second militia act of 1792 forced all male citizens to buy weapons and ammo. Both of which are corporate products.
And passed a law in 1795 that charged a fee to ships that docked in America to help pay for medical services for injured sailors.
Jefferson also said in a letter to Madison that the wealthy should be taxed for every cent the government could get out of them to pay for social services to the poor.
Sounds like they would have had no problem with the ACA.
I also thought that the little dust-up we had with the King was over taxation.
beezzer
reply to post by neo96
I thought Obamacare was a tax.
I also thought that the little dust-up we had with the King was over taxation.
Looks like Grandma Pelosi has been nipping the cooking sherry again!
neo96
reply to post by buster2010
Fine lets talk about history like California, Pelosi's state didn't exist at the writing of the Declaration, or the Constitution,.
And women didn't have the right to vote, and women congressman were unheard off.