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Originally Posted by FCWood
I agree with you the situation must not worsen for the dems to keep a majority. However, on the point of health care itself, it will not deteriorate any time soon. I say this because the bill has a time delay. More than likely it will not go into effect until 2014. It will then take several years for it to actually deteriorate to the point of the public becoming aware/outraged. So, IMHO, health care reform will not be the downfall of the dems in 2010. That's not to say other controversial bills won't cause it though, and like you stated if it does get worse by November then the public very well may remember the health care bill.
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I agree with you that healthcare itself may not deteriorate right away, because as you say there is a delay, however, the taxes will start immediately as will the administrative changes which will begin to hurt things in healthcare, and in the current economic environment the increased taxes will have a very negative impact that coupled with all the other taxes that are coming down the pike to pay for all of this ridiculous spending will crush our already fragile and ailing economy, also as soon as this bill goes into effect the healthcare deteriorate will begin IMO, as it adds many restrictions and rules but gives no ways to cut cost, so the costs have to go up.
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Originally Posted by FCWood
We seem to be of a similar mindset, and I think you've got several interesting points. The key as you stated is that things can't get worse otherwise we might just see a repub majority. But IMHO that won't happen with only the dems making enemies, but also requires the repubs to pull it together and offer something worth taking an interest in.
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I don't necessarily think the Dims think things will get worse, it appears to me that they believe they can spend unlimited amounts of money and things will just keep going as is, I personally don't agree, if they do not stop spending and if they continue to raise taxes our economy will deteriorate further and we may well fall into a depression, just my .02.