So let's say that this is true
So let's say that this is true, and we accept on face value that, as reported by CNN here, budget reconciliation has been used 22 times in the past by all administrations since President Carter.
Show me (seriously, show me, because I can't find it) where this budgetary process has been used to push through a uni-partisan measure the has the possibility of deeply impacting roughly 1/6 of the national economy.
The amazing thing about this fiasco is that I and most of my Attila the Hun, heartless bastard, child hating horde-mates agree we need some sort of reform. As a (former) small business owner who paid 100% of employee/family healthcare premiums, I am acutely aware of year over year increases. I'm sure there's lots of legalese in the 2500 or so page document that addresses just this issue. Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't. I'm kind of ok with that gamble ... sort of ... well, at least I can tolerate it to try something. There's probably a few other pearls in there that might actually do something, although I wish there were a bit more competition being introduced and some other stuff.
What I'm not ok with is that roughly 80K old folks on the other side of my state get different rules than my parents who live on this side. I'm not ok with the fact that few hundred thousand more in some mid-western state are getting a different set of rules than me. I don't think that the population of Louisiana should get some $US 300MM worth of something different than me either. WTF are you people thinking? That we're sitting here not paying attention or something?
You're spending my money on issues that have nothing to do with reform. Please stop.
