Delano Roosevelt, yesterday, March 21, 2010, is the day that America took
one giant step toward becoming a dictatorship, or a socialist country. Some
219 members of Congress, all Democrats, forgot about their oath of office,
which reads in part to uphold the United States Constitution. They forgot
who their true bosses are, the constituents who elected them. Instead, they
thumbed their noses at a majority of the American people and voted to pass
legislation which will lead to Government control of our nation's health
care system. Any member of Congress who voted for this boondoggle ought to
be ashamed of themselves, and if they are not, those who elected them need
to vote them out of office come November and elect people who remember who
they work for.
I'm proud to say that my representative in Congress remembers that he works
for me, not party leaders. He remembered that it is his duty to uphold the
United States constitution.
First and foremost, this legislation requires that each American must have
health insurance or face a fine. This bill is about creating jobs, jobs for
about 17,000 new Internal Revenue Service agents who will be spying on each
of us every month to be sure that we have health insurance acceptable to the
dictators in Washington. I believe this is a huge stretch of the Federal
Government's power to tax which is codified in the constitution and I
believe court challenges will rule this legislation unconstitutional.
This bill says to insurance companies, you will cover everyone, regardless
of pre-existing conditions. First of all, if that is such a good thing,
which it is, then why does it have to wait until the year 2014 to kick in
for adults? But beyond that, insurance companies can't deny coverage for
anyone, even if people have made poor lifestyle choices such as smoking,
drinking too much, eating in unhealthy ways and becoming overweight, having
unprotected sex, or whatever. These 219 idiots in Congress don't know beans
about the insurance business. Insurance is a risk-based business. The
higher the risk, the more insurance should cost you or the more likely it
should be that you are denied coverage. This is like saying, hey insurance
company, you have to provide flood insurance for the homes on the riverbank,
even though you know there is a high risk that some of these homes will
flood every year.
There is a cruel joke in this bill which, conveniently, was not talked
about. That is that the bill depends on the Medicaid system to provide
coverage to everyone. Guess what? Medicaid is a state and Federal cost
sharing partnership, and, many states are wallowing in red ink and can't
afford this unfunded mandate. So what is going to happen is people will be
told they now have coverage, but when they go to access that coverage, they
will be told they really don't have it.
Something AARP doesn't get is that this bill makes huge cuts of about 500
billion dollars in Medicare benefits. When Seniors figure this out,
Congress, look out because Seniors vote.
While I don'[t think it's a good choice, this bill takes away the freedom of
people not to have health insurance. How is the person who has lost a job
supposed to buy insurance? What about the younger worker who wants to make
a choice not to have insurance because he or she wants to save that money
for the purchase of a new car or toward a down payment on a house? That
freedom of choice has been taken away.
And what's with Mr. sell out himself, Bart Stupak? Isn't he smart enough to
realize that what the President does by Executive Order, he can undo by
Executive Order as well? This bill will lead to the repeal of the Hyde
amendment, a disgraceful slap at the legacy of one of our nation's great
statesman, former Congressperson Henry Hyde.
To the 219 who think they work for the leadership and the hell with the
American people, I hope many of you take a good look around and enjoy these
last few months in Congress, because I think that many of you will be
looking for work come January of next year. The arrogant house leadership
has grossly underestimated the American people on this, and I predict there
will be a Republican take-over of Congress this November which will make
1994 look like child's play. When that happens, maybe we can repeal this
monster, send it back where it came from and enact sensible reforms in
health care that don't balloon the Federal deficit out of control and
destroy the freedoms which many have fought and died to protect. May God
bless America, and may he bring our leaders to their senses and remind them
that they work for us, they better listen to us, and if they don't, we'll
fire them.
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