Socialized Health Care

WARNING! THIS POST IS POLITICALLY CHARGED! DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE EASILY OFFENDED BY FRANK POLITICAL DISCUSSION!



You want it? You got it! Socialized health care has come to America. We have a small group in power who have decided that they know better than the people of these United States and have ransomed our children's and grand-children's and great-grand-children's future in the name of "change". Back in the 1960's we had such a sweeping change mandated upon us in the form of LBJ's "Great Society" wherein we mandated state sponsored welfare and health care for senior citizens. (Medicare. Medicaid was tacked on later with little warning.) The cost has ballooned all out of proportion to the benefits or what we were told it would be "at the absolute most". By several thousand per cent. And it alone is responsible for a large percentage of our national debt. Sadly, the war against poverty has been resoundingly lost, with more poor in America today than we had 45 years ago.



This mania, this insanity, sadly has taken over in the halls of Congress. The idea that we can steal from those who have to give to those who don't at the point of a gun (which sadly is what taxation is) makes for good sound bites, but lacks reasoned thinking. What happened to our freedoms? What happened to the principles of this great nation, founded on individual rights? The Home of the Brave, The Land of the Free? Sadly, it's gone! In a nanosecond the freedoms of our people have been stripped away. Over 16,000 new IRS agents are to be hired to enforce our buying of health insurance or the paying of a several thousand dollar fine on our taxes. Our individual tax returns are no longer private, but are to be shared with the Health and Human Services Secretary to be used "As determined by the Secretary." Most of the real, day to day operations under this bill haven't even been spelled out for the people to know about. Instead, over and over again, the bill simply states; "As determined by the Secretary."



I don't know about you, but this terrifies me! These are the kind of regulations and laws that gave rise to the Third Reich. I'm no coward, but I fear for the future of our country. This is the greatest nation in the history of the world. The only one ever that has had the power to simply obliterate our enemies, and yet has not used that power. We are the home of more technological innovation than anyone, ever. And that innovation has been used by us to give freedom to the entire world. Religious freedom. Personal freedom. Social freedom. Economic freedom. That is what makes us great. But this new bill, which gives the bureaucrats power over 1/6th of our entire economy in one fell swoop, takes our freedoms from us. Instead of hitting the throttle, to give us more freedom, it hits the brakes on our freedoms, and our economy. Hard.



So, how do we make lemonade out of this? Frankly, I don't know. The people in large, amazingly large, numbers spoke out against this. And yet, they forced it upon us anyway. President Obama crowed, "This is what Change looks like." He had already spent more money, our tax dollars, than any other president in history. And now, we, the people, are on the hook for even more than can currently be imagined. His programs have committed us to spend more than ALL the other presidents, combined. Let's empty the vaults, folks. Let's print more money. Let's give our resources, our knowledge, our technology, to everyone else. And us, you poor American's, you are just robots. You just do what we tell you. Because we know better than you do.



This is wrong. This is wrong!



I don't care what party, if any you believe in. But please, please get involved. Help us elect good people to office and run those who would control us out of any and all positions of power or responsibility. They have got to be replaced with good people, who seek to do what the people ask and require. Our future, the future of our children and grandchildren, depends on it. And I for one don't want to see our country destroyed from within.




Please don't respond with flames. I didn't write this to incite any arguments on this site, and I apologize if I have offended anyone with this post. Sincerely.