Oldandtired
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- #81
The "nuclear" Option, Reconciliation, a simple majority vote....whatever you want to call it how can people justify bastardizing our political system like this. Health Care reform is HUGE, its 1/6th of our economy! Its too big for these shenanigans.
I'll start this with my outrage at the tactic and I want people who support it to go ahead and defend it. I want a debate on this.
This is not a debate on a need for healthcare or the actual bill itself, it is a debate on using Reconciliation.
A short recommended read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconciliation_(United_States_Congress)
A very short required read: The Vision Statement for Governance.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,[1] promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Are you mad? Are you trying to IMPLY that "promote the general welfare" has ANYTHING to do with ensuring US citizens have access to healthcare? Are you a Socialist or something?
Currently, there is not a single US citizen that does not have a guaranteed access to healthcare.