print“Congress recognizes no limits on its power. It doesn’t care about the Constitution, it doesn’t care about your inalienable rights. If this health care bill becomes law, America, life as you have known it, freedom as you have exercised it and privacy as you have enjoyed it will cease to be.”
“Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a 2,000 page bill to give the federal government the power to micromanage the health care of every single American. The bill will no doubt pass. It will raise your taxes, steal your freedom, invade your privacy, and ration your health care. Even the Republicans have introduced their version of Obamacare Lite. It, too, if passed, will compel employers to provide coverage, bribe the states to change their court rules, and tell insurance companies whom to insure.”
“We do not have two political parties in this country, America. We have one party; called the Big Government Party. The Republican wing likes deficits, war, and assaults on civil liberties. The Democratic wing likes wealth transfer, taxes, and assaults on commercial liberties. Both parties like power; and neither is interested in your freedoms. Think about it. Government is the negation of freedom. Freedom is your power and ability to follow your own free will and your own conscience. The government wants you to follow the will of some faceless bureaucrat.”
“When I recently asked Congressman James Clyburn, the third ranking Democrat in the House, to tell me ‘Where in the Constitution the federal government is authorized to regulate everyone’s healthcare’—he replied that most of what Congress does is not authorized by the Constitution, but they do it anyway. There you have it. Congress recognizes no limits on its power. It doesn’t care about the Constitution, it doesn’t care about your inalienable rights, it doesn’t care about the liberties protected by the Bill of Rights, it doesn’t even read the laws it writes.”
“America, this is not an academic issue. If this health care bill becomes law, life as you have known it, freedom as you have exercised it, privacy as you have enjoyed it, will cease to be.”
“When Congress takes away our freedoms, they will be gone forever. What will you do to prevent this from happening?”
FOXNews.com– November 06, 2009
Let your representative know how you expect him or her to vote. Contacts can be obtained here.
It’s heartening to hear Napolitano echo John Adam’s “A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”
In addition to the likes of Congressman James Clyburn and blatant disregard of the Constitution there is Senator Roland Burris (D-IL) and blatant stupidity. The dimmest bulb, perhaps, to ever sit in the Senate believes the Constitution authorizes the federal government “to provide for the health, welfare and the defense of the country.”
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/56629
It is the consequence of time, I suppose, that all things balance out in the end. To this end, as counterbalance to the Founding Fathers we have Demolitionists And Liquidators.
I sent a note to my thoroughly forgettable representative, Anna Eshoo, informing her that she had no right to dictate what doctor I could see, what procedures were available to me, or what my provider could charge for his services.
The woman has already declared that she thinks a single-payer plan is just peachy. No doubt, somewhere in that 1990 page monstrosity it exempts Ms. Eshoo from consequences of the disaster that awaits us. How convenient for her.
My “representative” is an elitist snob and a raging hypocrite. Boy, how I love democracy!
Judge, I said if this passes, there will be a civil war. My wife said no. I think she thought I was going to start it.
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can “throw the rascals out” at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy.
– Carrol Quigley
I’m not sure if this was Dr. Quigley’s opinion or merely his observation, but he hit the nail on the head.
I often wonder if we wouldn’t be better off with a parliamentary system with several parties, each with only one or two specific issues as their platform. After the people elect these parties, presumably in proportion to their popularity, they would have to fight amongst themselves to form a ruling coalition. I know what I’m describing is basically Euro-democracy but our current system doesn’t seem any better. Just a thought!