Postby dolfan » September 10th, 2009, 9:45 am
To Paully --
You find the shout distasteful, disrespectful. Well, it is. It is distasteful. It is disrespectful. And, unfortunately, he has offered some apology. I say unfortunate because this whole affair about the health care bill is distasteful and disrespectful. The bill itself, the push for it, is distasteful and disrespectful.
Paully, I tell you the truth of my convictions, that this is a war on the American people, on American liberty. In my lifetime and yours, there is no legislative act, no executive action, that poses a greater threat to our liberty than this bill. It is, by itself, the single largest exercise of Federal power in the last 45 years. It dwarfs even the draft for the Vietnam war in terms of forcing people to act. People actually left the country over that. This makes that small potatoes, and I truly don't think you get it.
The Obama spending plan triples the Federal debt to more than $17Trillion in 5 years. The Vietnam War cost: The highest figures put it at about $584 billion over roughly a decade.
From 1789 through FY 2008, the total Federal debt, including that much of it that has been paid, totalled about $12 Trillion. By 2019, our debt will be almost $20 Trillion. There's simply no way to sustain this. It cannot happen without huge tax increases, and Paully, that means you get less of what you earn. You may like that, I don't know. And, that's your right and it isn't insane or anything. But, the point is, whether you like it or not it will happen. That means you don't have a choice, you have no liberty interest in the products of your own work. This goes to the very heart of your day to day life, Paully.
It also goes at it another way. Everything is going to skyrocket. You keep hearing them talk of recovery and the economy being pulled back from the brink. They cite small, insignificant shifts in unemployment rolls. They're not talking about the drop of the dollar, worldwide calls to abandon the dollar as the reserve currency; they're not telling you that oil prices (and other commodities we need) are sliding upward due to the fact that the Fed is printing dollars so fast that China is alarmed about it (that means inflation, serious inflation is on the way); they're not pointing to the rather significant uptick in gold prices as people with funds in more liquid, cash based assets are parking their wealth and running away from the American dollar. Prices are going to go up with it.
The second pop in the housing bubble has yet to hit, and when it does, it's going to smother the first one. The 5 year ARMs are about to renew and when they do, people are going to lose their homes in even greater numbers. It's already starting. August foreclosures are up 28% over last year. That's huge, Paully.
We simply are running out of choices. Choices equal liberty. When the government tells you to do something, it removes choices, limits your liberty. In this health plan, the government is going to force you to get insured or fine you tons of money. Small business owners will either have to insure employees or pay fines. If you change jobs, if your premium increases, or if aspects of coverage change, it is game over. You're forced into public coverage under the current bill. I can tell you that most of us would be in public coverage inside a year if not sooner. Every insurer makes changes to their plans on a daily basis. The public option as a competitor to private insurers is a lie. Joe Wilson was right when he screamed to Obama, "you lie."
For heaven's sake, someone MUST scream it, right there in the halls of power. It has to be screamed without relent. This is not America. What Obama is doing is not American. What he and the Democrats are doing are antithetical to everything this nation has ever been or aspired to be.
If I fault a man for being impolite to the president in this war, this
war for my liberty, then I'm the one who should be ashamed. That he's backed down from it is his own.
The fact is Joe Wilson was right and President Obama was flat out lying. HR 3200 provides what I linked Brian to earlier. It's right there in the bill. They can spin it around all they want.
This government is wrong. It isn't just "oops" wrong. It is "oh-my-God-this-is-going-to-ruin-this-country" wrong. If you want to insure the uninsured, do it! Please! Don't force other people to pay for it.
To the extent all payers bear the burden of non-payers now through pricing, it is the market. It also works.
This plan, the presidency, must be stopped some way, somehow. This Congress must be stopped in its tracks. I'm not at all concerned about Joe Wilson's little hiccup at the dinner table. These calls for propriety and respect and decorum are just more smoke and mirrors to veil the despotic intentions of the Federal Government.
Human government bears the same relation to hell as the church bears to heaven. (David Lipscomb, On Civil Government, 72).