The health care debate thus far has been nothing short of scary. What Congress has displayed in the last four weeks indicates that this country has degenerated from one of laws to one without. When the lawmakers are no better than the criminals themselves, what can you expect? We were promised transparency – we have gotten something completely devoid of anything even resembling that definition. It’s no longer embarrassing, but rather quite outrageous. Bob Basso, who plays Thomas Paine in the popular YouTube videos has said it perfectly – they are non-representing representatives.
We are talking about one of the most significant pieces of legislation right now in the senate and one that is arguably one of the most controversial at the same time. In no way have Americans even remotely come out in droves to support this and in good reason. The bill is dangerous, infringes dramatically on people’s rights, and is completely unsustainable. Regardless you still here the monotone talking points about how in some twisted way this creates jobs or cuts the budget by some miniscule amount or saves the people money when in no way does it come close to doing any of those things.
What have we gotten from them so far?
Debate on the senate floor has been one-sided at best. There has been no real willingness to compromise based on any inputs from the republicans and much of what the democrats have done has been through exclusive closed-door kind of conversations. In clear violation of any kind of transparency they promised us, but they continue to maintain that the faster this bill gets passed the better. Harry Reid has used measures on the house floor to cut down the amount of debate time by training presiding senators to denying additional minutes to speak, holding sessions into the twilight hours of the morning. Monday morning was a perfect example of this when the senate held a cloture vote at 1 am, which subsequently passed and have significant more leverage it furthering the progress of the bill. They are moving towards a culmination of a Christmas Eve vote, which is absolutely ridiculous and unprecedented.
What does this all boil down to?
Barack Obama is going to have to give his state of the union speech later this winter and he needs some phony accomplishment to be able to credit to himself coming out of his disastrous first year in office. It would make the script perfect for him, I can picture it now. He’ll be talking about how the democrats have been trying to successfully reform health care for decades and he finally accomplished it himself. After all he needs to find some way to take attention of the failed stimulus among all other things that have gone awry. Job creation has been nothing short of a joke and consumer confidence still is awful. Not to mention the fact that for a fourth quarter in the middle of the holiday season, the returns have been abysmal for him. Quite a nice way to welcome in your new year and wish you a Merry Christmas knowing that you will have an enormous new tax burden that your hard earned dollars will be going to subsidize.
Unfortunately it doesn’t stop with health care as our lovely government has been working very hard to force you to subsidize billions of dollars over seas in the name of phony climate change. We all know that money will solve the mysterious global warming problem – and I say mysterious because I can’t quite detect what they are referring to as warming. New York has already gotten half its average seasonal snowfall and this week marks the first official week of winter. This government certainly does not have the interest of the people in mind and if you can’t tell that by now, I have to ask you where you have been. Just because they say they are looking out for you don’t mean they are. All you have to do is go back to those false claims that the majority of Americans of out in full force supporting what the purport to be health care reform. Clearly the polls have been indecisive at best. We do know that an estimated 40% of the health profession, specifically general practitioners would consider quitting if the new health care bill became law – this would be so incredibly devastating to our medical field you can’t even begin to imagine what the ramifications of that could be.
The only solution to this problem is we the people. This government was founded by those who wanted to make this country free and was meant to be accountable to the people. In 2010 we must hold our representatives accountable. It’s time to vote for people who will not hide behind closed doors and hold emergency Christmas Eve sessions. If the Americans in Congress had any backbone they would walk out on the health negotiations all together to show what this really has been all along – an assault on the Congress of the United States. These people are almost as bad as our enemy overseas. Their near-sighted partisanship is wearing away at the very infrastructure of this great nation – one that has been years in the making; yet, still is the greatest Country in the World.
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