Getting It Together, American Style

OBAMACARE IS A TRAINWRECK. Surely by now we can all agree on that. And because of that, every republican and every conservative in America is calling for the elimination or complete overhaul of Obamacare. How surprising. Conservatives proudly exercising their usual automatic, knee jerk opposition to progress, quick judgment, righteous condemnation, and making much ado, spectacle, and political capital in the mainstream conservative media. But just a couple of quick points. One, whether something is a train wreck is not the same thing as whether it should be eliminated. The question is: is it a good idea, do we need it, and will it work? Secondly, everything that Americans have ever done has been a train wreck initially, then has straightened itself out, as we figured it out. Consider the founding of our beautiful country itself: out of the starting gate, fell flat on our collective ass. A complete trainwreck, with an innefective powerless central government. Had to start all over, and replace the "Articles of Confederation" with a stronger document. The Civil War started very badly for the eventual winners, and life in general started very badly for the civil war's most successful general; U.S. Grant, who shiftlessly tried and failed at many careers before finally finding his talent in the military. The United States got off to a slow start, to say the least, in World War Two, then got it together, and came on strong. Medicare and Medicaid were bureaucratic nightmares at first, just like Obamacre is now, but they both got straightened out, and proved to be among America's finest socialistic successes. Other great American socialistic successes include the highway and road system, the sewer systems across freedom's fragrant land, and the highly tauted American public schools. The United States of America is a country which can get behind, the catch up, fast. Obamacare has been law for over three years, and its imlementation has just begun. The system before Obamacare was indusputably unsatisfactory, and needed change. Let's give the change a chance, and if it doesn't work, try something else. Chances are any system we create will work in the long run, if we make it work. Did Edison and Ford give up, when things went bad at first? What IS the "American spirit" anyway? We can always eliminate Obamacare or change it, but let's wait until we have a chance to find out if it works.