The Creation of the Healthcare Law

In the beginning the President looked upon the Healthcare Bill which did not have form and the interpretations were void, and saw it was good.

And the President went before the House of Representatives and the Senate saying, “This powerful new bill will promote employment and reduce the deficit.”

And the Congress went before the Joint Committee saying, “It is a vessel of fertilizer, and none may stand before its strength.”

And some in Congress went before the people saying, “It’s a crock of excrement, and none may abide its odor.”

And the people went before the House of Representatives and the Senate saying, “The Healthcare Bill is a crock of crapola and it stinkith.”

And the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the President saw it was good and looked upon the Bill saying,

“Damn the people, Let it Be Written, Let Be Done.” 

Life Cycle of a Country

About the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior.

“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that
voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.”

“The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence

1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage”

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota believes the United States is now somewhere between the “complacency and apathy” phase of Professor Tyler’s definition of democracy, with some 40 percent of the nation’s population already having reached the “governmental dependency” phase.‘

Our second president had this to say about Democracy:

“Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.” John Adams, Letter, April 15, 1814

And yet we seem to just embrace this idea of mob rule. Our Founding Fathers were brilliant. They system the best that man could devise to govern. Yet we’ve trashed it, either deliberately or allowed it through apathy/ignorance. As Barack Obama promises that 95% of Americans will get a tax break, when 40% don’t have a tax liability, thereby redistributing wealth in the name of tax relief, is there any question that we’re nearing the end of the lifecycle of this nation, based on the position above.

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