I want to have hope. I want to think the American people still have a voice. I want to think that the folks who gave up their time and money to march on Washington yesterday made a difference. But I am afraid. I am more afraid than I was on the morning of September 11. On that morning, I at least felt as though we as Americans would have a chance to retaliate. I don't feel like that today.
If this abomination of a bill passes into law today, Mr Obama will have succeeded in taking the first step to "fundamentally change" our country. The government will begin to control 1/6 of our economy and the IRS (yes the IRS!) will control healthcare. The government not your doctor will begin to make decisions regarding your healthcare. Supporters of the bill will say no that's not the case. But how could it not? Doctors (the real ones not the fake ones in the coats at the White House) are already making the difficult choice to stop accepting Medicare patients because of the regulations. If the government is forcing their hands already and the bill hasn't passed how could there not be more government control on the way?
Don't get me wrong. I know that there are flaws in our current healthcare system. But I certainly don't think government takeover is the answer. Taking small steps and fixing key problems is a better idea than an overall takeover but when have politicians ever actually done something to benefit the American people and not themselves and their thirst for power? I, like others, think that tort reform and the ability to buy insurance across state lines are good starts. Things like a complete audit of the approval process and then the actual management of current government programs like Medicaid and Medicare is a better start to reform the system. If the government can show the ability to fix the problems with their own program, well then maybe the American public will trust them to tackle the bigger issues. But of course any of those things would require common sense to implement and I believe that it is required that you leave your common sense with security when you enter the Capitol.
Instead of working with common sense, the future of America is under attack by power hungry politicians with an agenda. I hope with all of my being that a handful of Representatives in the House actually LISTEN to their constituents and vote no to the destruction of America. I hope that there is someone with a soul left in the Democratic party that has the courage that is required to stand up to the Obama machine. If you truly want to be remembered, then vote NO to this tragedy and be known as the Representative who saved the country.
It is Sunday. It is the first day of Spring and normally a day to revel in the anticipation of everything new. I simply pray that at the end of today that I am not mourning our destruction.
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Nothing profound to say that you haven't already said. I sit here with the same sense of dread that I had when it was announced that Obama was our new president. I am disgusted, and fearful of where we go from here.
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