Progressives have just voted to go one more step in making most US Citizens to be wards of the State
3 votes could have killed it - 2 Democrats and 1 Republican: 220 - 215
Thomas Jefferson: Freedom and Liberty
When has Obama, or Pelosi, or Reid ever said those words with the same MEANING, the same definition, and the same passion? Never.
Obama: "security and stability"
The cry during the Revolutionary War was never "Give me security and stability or give me death!" - how have our standards have fallen.
We shall have neither - as ole Ben said we would not. Democrats are about to create the biggest entitlement program ever - even as all the others are about to run out of money. But it isn't about the money. Progressives believe that they have freed us all from the tyranny of illness under the guise of providing yet another benefit, another gift from your friendly government, courtesy of your Congressmen.
Look at this chart:
How will this monstrosity EVER yield Freedom or Liberty? This is nothing but an octopus with suckers aplenty.
If anyone believes that this will "bend the cost curve down", they are nuts. If anyone believes that adding 30 million more patients to the system will not reduce the quality of care, they are misguided. If anyone believes that these self-same "honored members of Congress" actually read the bill, those people are actually lying.
What the Democrats have done is to set the stage for enacting thousands of rules of regulations that will be set by unelected bureaucrats. They have committed legislative malfeasance by passing this bill by, again, not reading it to understand it, and again by deciding to pass off their responsibilities in governance to others.
They think that they have passed "healthcare for all! Yippee!".
Nope.
What they have done was to create the problem (in association with their State level chuckleheads - here in NH I can blame Jeanne Shaheen for the law that basically shut down insurance competition here), and now believe that they can fix it. At this point, if it proceeds, Congress has now breached the line - our freedoms are now not derived from God as the Founders posited. Neither will they stem from the words in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, nor Bill of Rights.
This is Heaven for Progressives, as Government as currently provisioned, will determine what our freedoms will be forever more - it will be a Hell for individual Freedom and Liberty. We have just stepped from absolute rights to ones that will be highly politized - they will be defined by whom ever is in power at that time. There will be no guarantees of what they will be from one moment to another. Once the "gimme people", the people who believe that healthcare is their right, especially when someone else is paying for it, get a taste of this, they will never vote for someone who would harken back to a time of Freedom and Liberty.
Obama is smiling broadly - and so are all of his Marxists professors. Congratulations, America - we are now at the brink of becoming a Socialist Republic. Or just plain Socialists.
Can 2010 come fast enough? Given that the Supreme Court failed us for McCain-Feingold, I despair that they would throw this out. And if they do not, we can be thrown in jail for just breathing and not buying their defined level of insurance and at their price.
Freedom's light grows ever dimmer. Will we, as Reagan once stated, now have to explain to our grandchildren what real freedom was?
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Update: Others are starting to write:
Our friend Ken from Blue Collar Muse
