Not to get all political again...ok, I'm going to...but I saw this article on the Today Show website and it so eloquently said what I was trying to say in my whole healthcare rant. Here is the link:
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/36476991/ns/today-today_books/ and here is an excerpt (emphasis added because this is what I've been saying the WHOLE time!):
Casting your vote in the November 2010 elections may be the single most important thing you do all year. Because these elections will be the critical turning point for America’s future.
For the definition of what is America.
For the chance to take back America. In 2010, in this 234th year of our astonishingly successful American democracy — at the dawn of the second decade of the new millennium — America stands on the edge of an ideological precipice. A precipice we can’t back away from or ignore.
We stand overlooking a chasm that separates those who want our values, our culture, and our economic systems to endure from those who want to change everything — regardless of the consequences. On the one side is the familiar America that we know and love. On the other is a very different America: the dream of Barack Obama. His dream is a pipe dream. His dream is our nightmare. Make no mistake: Fulfilling Obama’s quixotic vision for our future would result in the systematic ruin of just about every segment of the America we know and love.
Don’t underestimate him. He’s made no secret of his determination to radically alter our economic structure, to socialize our health-care system, to transform our foreign policies, and to compromise our national sovereignty. Those are his plans. And he’s deadly serious about fulfilling them. But we can still stop him — if we act together in November. We still have the power to prevent him from ideologically devastating and economically paralyzing this great nation. Because that’s what he plans to do.
His strategic mantra is REDISTRIBUTE! He plans to redistribute wealth, to redistribute access to health care, and to raise taxes until it no longer makes sense for productive people to keep working. He intends to increase the Death Tax so that money that’s already been taxed once is taxed again — and then, yes, redistributed. But that’s not all. He envisions creating an expansive, and expensive, federal government that regulates, controls, and pays for an ever-increasing percentage of our daily lives. We repeat: His dream is truly our nightmare. He wants to minimize the sovereignty of the U.S. government over the United States of America itself, and, instead, maximize the authority of foreign nations over U.S. economic policy. He enthusiastically embraces a One World philosophy, instead of validating the importance of individual nations — including the nation whose laws and people he swore an oath to protect...
...That’s how legislation is passed today: by bribing the members with expensive goodies for their district. By threatening them with primaries. By forcing them to pass legislation during the middle of the night. Legislation they haven’t even read. Legislation they opposed, on principle, only weeks before. Legislation their constituents overwhelmingly oppose. But they don’t care. The Democrats in Congress have legislated with total disregard for public opinion. The public knows that stimulus spending would not help the economy, but the Democrats passed it anyway. The public wants less government, but the Democrats expanded it anyway. The public opposes Obama’s notion of health-care “reform,” knowing it will worsen the quality of care, but the Democrats passed it anyway. They just don’t care. It’s no surprise that the public approval rating for Congress dropped to 18 percent in a recent Gallup poll, and that eight out of every ten Americans have a negative view of Congress.
GO TO THE LINK - IT GETS BETTER
Please do your civic duty this November and make your voice heard once and for all!
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