Topic: Congress
The Freedom of choice and the enemy among us! How much government is too much government?by Roland
(libertarian)
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
What in the world are we doing by continuing to allow our representatives in government to further dominate our lives. They are taking us down the road toward more government control day by day with the blessings of the administration, the very thing we have been fighting against as a free people. The lazy minority in our society has found someone to help them steal from the hard working Americans who have built this County. When a Majority of the house of representatives manages to pass a bill with 1990 pages of more government intrusion into every Americans life along with gleeful cheering of their accomplishment was sickening! We are suppose to believe in the face of hundreds of failed government programs, past and present, that this one is the most beneficial to all Americans ever proposed? How can anyone say with a straight face, "they believe National Health Care ran by appointed administrators, will successfully carryout the regulations of this gigantic trillion dollar plan" and with no impact on our current deficit? It is ridiculous, and full of obvious miscalculations and deception.
The Representatives who voted for this sham are not even close to being in touch with reality. They seem to be immune from reality, and despite the Congressional Budget Office warnings of miscalculations, they ignored any form of caution and followed each other right over the cliff. What possible end can come of this, but to burden the American public with yet more Federal intervention, fowl play, corruption, inefficiency, and debt? To begin with Health Care in America was not even a priority with American working families. Unemployment, housing market, and financial institutions were all the target for improvement at the beginning of 2009. Health Care was a figment of the Administrations imagination. The biggest problem in health care that needs attention was and is, tort reform, reducing the cost of care and premiums, and making Medicare and Medicaid more efficient! Far from a trillion dollar, government dominated, Health Care Plan. If Congress would just use their valuable time to do the right thing for Americans by (1) investigating inefficiency in Medicaid and Medicare, (2) working with small businesses toward employment incentives, (3) tightening mortgage and lending laws rather than weakening them, and (4) tort reform in medical cases at least, this giant headache they are responsible for just might begin to ease! The President himself has clearly stated, "All Americans will have health care with this plan and those without who have the ability to purchase a plan and do not, will be fined". So much again for the freedom of choice. You may choose not to participate, but not without it costing you. Government is NOT the answer to solving America's problems, it's America's people who solve them!
This little representative we each send to Congress was sent to look after our interests, not theirs. Somehow we lose them to special interests, and they quickly learn how to manipulate priorities to look like our benefits while they pay them back. I know this is not new, but it is so transparent these days, it just adds to the many frustrations. All I see when looking on both sides of the isle in the house is a bunch of self-serving individuals! If you don't believe this, it was reported that one California congressman gave his vote to National Health Care in trade for a school project in his district. How many others, of the 220 votes in favor of the bill were bought? If a woman does this we call it prostitution. It could be easily said that the one trillion dollar health care bill was passed by a 5 vote margin via, "quid pro quo". Saving us from ourselves once again.
Now comes the Senate, and of the few Senators interviewed over the past few weeks, the bill will be,"dead on arrival" and Majority leader, Harry Reid, bless his sole, last week said the bill will be heard by the Senate before Thanksgiving. And the sure footed, straight forward Senator today said, "we will not be hurried by time constraints" they say so many contradictions and get away with them, it becomes a way of life . Only Fox news picks this stuff up, you never hear it on Network, in fact it's now commonly accepted that network news is nothing more than spokesmen for Obama. So we are now left with a complete watered down version of national health care, only because It simply won't die a natural death and only to save face for those who work so hard to get it passed in full. Once passed in a diluted form and unworkable the blame can easily be placed as a right wing failure. All the time and money wasted on this could have been put to much better use if fixing the economy was top priority by this administration in the first place. To make matters worse we are saddled with thousands of clunkers stored in fields, a trillion dollar stimulus bill for shovel ready jobs, passed 6 months ago, promising immediate results, and a damn "Cap and Trade" fiasco to satisfy the green Gore group, to save us further from ourselves. The question is always hounding me, why is all this necessary now? "It is the Economy stupid", a phrase so often used has been unsaid by mainstream media. This uneasy feeling that, CHANGE, meant allowing much more government in our lives, is the framework of the Obama administration which was not translated by working Americans from what we heard in his campaign. In fact reducing freedom of choice is in every single plan past and present proposed by this administration. We are faced with control of most every aspect of our life by the Government if this Administration pursues the CHANGE we see. More waste, more inefficiency and less choices, can lead us only to accept the fact that there is more than one enemy among us, besides the Muslim extremist, if your wish is to remain," A FREE AMERICAN CITIZEN".
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Roland, The real question is, "Do the American people have the will to resist?" It appears that the nation is becoming increasingly divided between those who believe in the Consititutional limits on government, who seek freedom, and who simply want government to stay out of their lives and those who look to government to solve their problems, provide their needs, redistribute wealth (to them), and use force to impose their beliefs of everyone.
It appears that both major political parties and the vast majority of politicians are on one side and the libertarians are on the other. Depending on how you phrase the question, most Americans will opt for freedom rather than the tyranny of the current political forces, but have no idea what a libertarian is. The second question then becomes, "When and how those of us who seek freedom will respond?"
Before the Civil War, the two sides were geographically separated. Now, the two sides are largely intermixed so secession may not be as easy as in 1860/61. Armed resistance is out of the question. And with the current political structure, the ballot box doesn't appear to be viable either. While Republicans are probably better than the Democrats, the Bush/Cheney/Hastert/Boehner/Stevens/McConnell cabal proved that the Republicans are just as detrimental to freedom and small government as the Democrats.
Not to be a pessimist, but Tea Parties make us feel good, but accomplish little--the politicians go back to Washington and back into the clutches of the special interests. For the most part, the voters are ignorant of the issues and vote for the parties that their parents (or union bosses) tell them. The party bosses pick the candidates that will toe the party line (e.g.NY-23). Te George Soros's donate more in five minutes than thousands of volunteers can collect.
Maybe an armed confrontation is the only choice. For me, if Texas seceeds this week, I'd move there next week.
To Jeff, thank you, I am afraid my simple brain does not accept the fact that their are those who live in America that actually believe government is the answer for all social issues. Then to count them as a majority leaves me speechless. From my prospective we are far from a perfect union but what we got is far and above any other in the world.
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