Make Mine Freedom

The Health Care Insurance Reform initiative is a boondoggle.

Professor Utopia, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reed, and your minions have been lying about it both in general and in specifics. They have let loose union thugs, ACORN fanatics, and the rest of your thought police community organizers to suppress the genuine feelings of ordinary Americans that are welling up against this insane proposal. You can neither understand it nor tolerate it. They lie about their opponents, tarring them with the most heinous and unsupportable innuendo possible. They encourage American citizens to inform on one another! Goebels did that! They tell the American people to shut up and just let you do what is best for us, despite ourselves. How dare they!

That is not what this country is founded on, Professor.

This country is, first and foremost, founded on our Constitution. And nowhere in it does it give the Federal Government the power to regulate health care. The four words “Promote The General Welfare” were never intended to be a carte blanche to enable the Federal Government to do whatever it wants, to whomever it wants, whenever it wants.

And the specifics of this plan? The $1.5 trillion price-tag is a lowball estimate, and everyone knows it. Does anyone really think nationalizing health care will come in on budget? If the government couldn’t do it for the Apollo moon landing, the Iraq War, and Medicaid, how could they possibly do it for health care? It’s insane.

And there are the outright lies. “No one will be forced to lose their insurance coverage,” he says. Unless, of course, you happen to switch jobs. There’s a clause buried in the 1,000+ pages(!) that states that health insurance companies cannot bring on new clients. I don’t have any hard numbers on turnover rates on health care plan participants, but I cannot help but think that, given the way our economy works, most folks will be at the same job ten years from now. And if the health care insurers can’t bring on any new clients, that means in a decade or two there won’t be any private health care providers. Which is exactly what Obama wants. He’s said so. In those words.

The whole health care reform package is a boondoggle; the people don’t want it, and the polls reflect that. It makes no sense either from the standpoint of improving or broadening care, or economics. The tactics the left is using to stifle and suppress free expression are reprehensible.

To the ACORN counter-intel folks out there, feel free to report this post to flag@whitehouse.gov. You guys are the real fascists here.