I am noticing in many of my “debates” with supporters of the healthcare bill, when I ask how the bill will be paid for and whether it is unconstitutional, the response I most often get is, “well what about how the Repubicans ran up the debt when they were in power?” or “wasn’t the Patriot Act unConstitutional?”
So they correctly point out bad fiscal policies and civil liberty violations of the past, but what bedazzles me is that they use previous bad behavior to excuse current bad behavior. This perpetual cycle of bad decisions enabling other bad decisions is quite worrisome as the country continues on a downward spiral. The airline bailouts excused the auto bailouts which excused the insurance bailouts and on and on. To be sure, this is not a new phenomenon but the stakes right now are the highest I have ever seen for domestic policy. Perhaps things need to get worse before they get better but right now what I see is that our mistakes of the past have led to our current mistakes.
