It has come to the attention of one of our senators that tucked away in the latest version of the health care bill is an amendment that makes it so no future congresses can make any changes to the bill. It doesn't matter how many votes they have.
Consider for a moment that this gives this bill more power and scope than the constitution itself. The constitution can be changed by a vote of 66%. This is already a very high hurdle to jump to make a change but it is still possible. The amendment in this bill if accepted makes it impossible to ever change even by future congresses.
As unconstitutional as this is our non-representing representatives don't seem to have any problem with it. They continually say and expect us to believe that the republicans are just standing in the way of the bill and have nothing positive to offer. At the same time they have completely shut the republicans out of any part of the process save voting on what they are presented with. They have had no part in writing the bill or even amending it. The democrats are doing as they please with the bill.
They have been offering bribes to one another with OUR money to buy the votes they need. There is little or no question as to the legality of doing this. It differs not at all from a bribe of an official. They have written a bill that has now grown to over 2400 pages and is still growing. It is more than any one person could really read and comprehend. They are throwing around 100's of billions of our tax dollars for things that have nothing to do with the bill. They would have us believe it is a crisis that must be dealt with right now. They want to start taking our money for it immediately but giving us no benefit from those tax dollars for 4 years. The reason for this is obvious. It means even 4 years from now there can be no criticism of the bill and its effectiveness because it will have just begun. They will have been saving money to pay for it for 4 years and thus will be able to say, "see its deficit neutral" but only because they saved all that money.
Our non-representing representatives have decided the federal government has the right to tell us that we WILL by a product and if we don't we'll pay a fine or go to jail. Consider for just a moment if people don't have health care because they can't afford it, but you're forcing THEM to buy, with the money they DON'T have or suffer a severe fine, how is that going to guarantee they are covered? Why is the media not even Fox News bringing this up?
Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, and Lynn Woolsey (the representatives we've been STUCK with for decades) are behind this bill 100% as well as many others. We need to get rid of these people but it seems we are unable to bring ourselves to vote for any other person for fear the unknown might be worse. Do you really think anyone could do anything more to harm our economy, take our freedom and set us on the path to communism?!
Paranoid? Maybe, but consider that if we have leaders who are willing to do these things which are so far outside the American way and the constitution, what laws will they pass next. Will find decide that they need to hold off on voting for new representatives in 2010 because of some "crisis" or "emergency"? Maybe they'll tell us that they have to do it or the country will fall apart if they don't. So far that has been their line for everything they've done. The media dutifully report it as they state it and they proceed doing things the people don't want them to do.
They are taking "separation of church and state" to new highs as well yet no one asks why it has to be kept out of "public" office. Who is the PUBLIC? Who is the government? Public office and government, unlike every other nation is WE THE PEOPLE! We are the public, that so if you accept their premise we are not allowed to freely exercise our religion in "public" places (those places that belong to us)
We ARE the government, They only represent US! They are nothing special! They do not hold and special abilities or qualifications that make them better to do what they do. In fact in many cases due to their utter lack of experience in the real world I would suggest that they are less qualified than we are! Anyone who is in tune with what his community wants and needs would qualify for a position in government.
The founding fathers weren't looking to make the government complicated and intrusive and controlling and manipulating every area of society. They wanted them to have as little power as possible. The power is to reside with the people! We don't need 2400 pages of laws to tell us how and when to go to the doctor nor to decide that a doctor charges too much and we simply won't go to them. Our current group of non-representing representatives (Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Lynn Woolsey, Nancy Pelosi, Reid and their ilk) clearly do not understand this and for that reason alone they need to be kicked out of office.
These people have shown nothing but contempt for the constitution. They see it as an impediment to their power, which indeed it was intended to do! If we are not careful we may well find that we wake up some morning to discover they passed yet another 6000 page bill in the middle of the night that takes away or at least sidesteps the first amendment, and then one that does away with the second amendment (though I suspect the 2nd amendment would be the first to go)
If you happen upon this site and find yourself saying, "yea that's right" please pass the link on. We need to get organized. We need to send a message to Washington that they can't just take our money and our freedoms. I've said it in other articles but will say it again we need to organize a tax withholding exempt movement. For one solid month or even two everyone goes exempt on their W-2 and the government's money turns into a trickle.
