very bad day for the US. buy it might accelerate the collapse of the federal government. which may be one good thing to come of it.
total disgrace.
i wonder if this is the US our founders envisioned... where if you don't BUY a service from a corporation. you will be fined or jailed. totally anti-liberty.
i wonder if the founders envisioned mega-corporations that worship profit above all else, pushing them to offer as little service as possible for the highest price feasible, and are also regulated/overseen in government by their former employees/clients. (do some reading on monsanto corp)
i wonder if the founders imagined that the justice system they set up would so outrageously favor the entity that can pile the most cash onto the scales, regardless of right or wrong.
i wonder if the founders ever could have imagined the economy being so fragile that the people who didn't have health insurance, or didn't have appropriate healthcare to cover their exorbitant medical expenses, could indirectly drag the housing and mortgage industry- and with it our economy- into the depths of hell when they couldn't pay their bills anymore.
i wonder if the founders ever imagined that our economy would be based more heavily on finance (moving money around to make more money) than production.
i'm sorry, but you're a fool if you think this bill is the end of the united states. i find it humorous that the people who claim to love the country so much are the ones writing it off as being so ridiculously fragile.