McDonald's, Sebelius, and The Queen of Hearts
Secretary Sebelius is having her tantrum again, ready to take off the heads of the Wall Street Journal and McDonalds because they don't accept her pronouncements of how reality is, why, because she says it is so! She is Government, and when Government says a Thing is So, it Must Be.
Either the law of unintended consequences simply does not apply in her universe of economics by fiat -- or the Journal is right and she is breathtakingly disingenuous, and these unintended consequences are very much intended.
Either way, those who touted the benign virtues of ObamaCare are proven wrong, and those who warned that these would be precisely the consequences are sadly right.
The sad part is that these moralists are ready to make the lives of real individual persons a living hell just to satisfy the unrealizable perfection their theoretical ideals demand. Indeed, it is hard to describe that as anything other than deeply immoral.
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Aug '10
Re: McDonald's, Sebelius, and The Queen of Hearts
This woman is a thug in a skirt. She is another life-long politician who has never produced a thing in her life. I'm getting so tired of these idiots meddling in our lives.
May '10
Re: McDonald's, Sebelius, and The Queen of Hearts
Oh, spare me the "unintended consequences." These fanatics know exactly what they are doing. We've been presuming their innocence for too long.
Edited on Oct 3, 2010 at 6:58pmMay '10
Re: McDonald's, Sebelius, and The Queen of Hearts
If only she'd stick to composing symphonies (hey, I'm a low-rent Jay Nordlinger). Especially enjoyed how she said "our analysis says this shouldn't be happening" (paraphrasing, despite the quotes). Worse than a climatologist. The model we came up with (in order to sneak it past the CBO) isn't in accord with reality, so reality is wrong.
Mesquito is right, however. The whole point of this exercise was to drive private insurers from the market, thus paving the way for the big takeover. They've said so amongst themselves. And those darned cell cameras always pick it up.
Jun '10
Re: McDonald's, Sebelius, and The Queen of Hearts
mesquito: Oh, spare me the "unintended consequences." These fanatics know exactly what they are doing. We've been presuming their innocence for too long. · Oct 3 at 6:54pm
Edited on Oct 03 at 06:58 pm
Consider an environment where education deliberately subverts the mental discipline necessary to judge and discriminate. It's a topsy-turvy world where the virtues are all condemned as vices, and truth is relative. Appeal to the moral vanity of your captive audience. Warp youthful idealism into a desire for "social justice" however ill-defined. Top it off with a degree from an elite institution. You have created the perfect useful idiot.
What the academics failed to understand is that their revolutionary protegees would lack the capacity to deal with reality as is. Instead of hard-nosed revolutionaries, they created a generation of whining narcissists incapable of introspection. The cynical pragmatists are even now abandoning this ship of fools.
Sebelius is a dupe. Do not ascribe to malice what is more easily explained by ideological stupidity. The academy that produces fools remains this nation's greatest enemy. We have a target for the next round in the ideological wars.
Sep '10
Re: McDonald's, Sebelius, and The Queen of Hearts
~Paules
Instead of hard-nosed revolutionaries, they created a generation of whining narcissists incapable of introspection. The cynical pragmatists are even now abandoning this ship of fools.
Careful there Paules, some folks around here don't approve of anything as effete and wishy-washy as "introspection":
http://ricochet.com/conversations/Constructive-Criticism-for-the-Tea-Party/(comment)/30261#comment-30261
May '10
Re: McDonald's, Sebelius, and The Queen of Hearts
You want the law of unintended consequences? My insurance company went bankrupt. I am now in between coverage and have a son with tonsillitis (for which I will pay out of my pocket.)