If Obamacare Were To Go Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid And Public Health Would Go Too

[TheMastersNemesis]

And there would be no care for 60% of the country.

[gordianot]

1. This is more than just the Affordable Care Act. Given GOP tactics it is a Constitutional crisis.

[kestrel91316]

2. That's what they want. They want more than that to go.

They want the United States of America to go.

What they want, in the end, is the Christian States of America. Their model is the Republic of Gilead.

[pnwmom]

3. Yes. Every time the debt limit had to be raised,

they'd be waiting with new demands.

[silvershadow]

4. The thing is, no matter what the debt limit will always have to be raised- even if

we totally stopped spending on any new programs etc. What they do is they grab this as an easy thing to hang their hat on and then they rail against spending. It's convenient for them, but it's not based in reality. They count on the public at large not to catch on to this, and they generally are safe in doing so, as the public never calls them on it. If we never spent another dime, and paid off our entire debt, we will still have to raise the debt limit periodically. It's just the way it is.