Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Civil disobedience in the Federal Government

Mark Levin believes that civil disobedience is coming, in this audio clip at the 2:50 mark he makes an interesting prediction:

I think at some point you're going to see civil resistance and I don't mean in a dangerous way. People are just going to say you know what I'm not following that rule, you know what I'm not filing that form, you know what I'm not getting that insurance, you know what I'm not paying that tax. I'm not encouraging it, I'm just analyzing this. I think at some point that may well happen.


Well guess what? It's already happening but it isn't your average Joe or Jane citizen who's ignoring the maze of incomprehensible regulations in Obamacare, it's the federal government, as this excerpt from NRO's health-care blog explains:

The law is so complex that even the federal government is not complying! Last week, we reported that the office that administers health benefits for federal workers is basically ignoring the law and plans to keep its program operating as is, even though the Congressional Research Service seriously questions the legality of doing so.


How did this happen? Examiner.com enlightens us:

[I]t appears they have royally mucked up their own health insurance - for all 535 members of Congress and untold congressional employees. In a hurry, they forgot to get it right and wrote it all wrong; now it's the law...

The law puts Congress in the same boat they built for the rest of America, without a clue what the new health care reform will mean to them. The beauty of their dilemma is pure poetic justice to some -they have written law requiring that they move into a system that doesn't yet exist.

How could that be? Simple, a scaled-down provision of Republic Senator Grassley's “Health Reform Accountability Act” - this one requiring all congress members and their employees, with the exception of Senate committee and leadership staffs, to get their health insurance through the same health insurance exchanges where the general public would get theirs was left in the bill, unopposed, and was signed into law by President Obama.

That's right -- in an rare show of solidarity with average folk -- congress appears to have discarded their Cadillac health care plan and put themselves under the same Cuban style health plan the rest of us poor saps will be forced to use.

For a few days the fear in the halls of Congress was palpable. However it appears that this exercise in humility was merely a symbolic measure designed to win the support of the majority of Americans who have a small problem with Obamacare being rammed down their throats. It didn't take long for the bureaucrats to find a solution, they simply decided to ignore the law they had just passed.

It seems that tea partiers and federal workers have something in common, neither group wants anything to do with Obamacare. I wonder what would happen if a majority of Americans followed the example of our friends in government and refused to comply with the onerous mandates and regulations in Obamacare? If they can ignore Obamacare why can't we?

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