Posted on 12/23/2009 3:31:56 PM PST by mtrott
Dear Rep. Berman,
Can you tell me if the State of Texas is making any plans to protect Texas citizens from what I believe to be an unconstitutional bill being rammed through Congress? As elected officials who have sworn to uphold the US Constitution, I believe you need to protect us from basically being placed into a position of servitude to the federal government.
I am referring to the "individual mandate" contained in the bill. Absolutely nothing in our constitution authorizes government to force individual citizens to purchase health insurance or buy a product. To do so is tantamount to asserting OWNERSHIP of the individual. If this is allowed to prevail, then they will be able to compel any behavior they want, all based on the notion that all behaviors affect health and health care costs.
Will they tell us what food we can eat, what beverages we can drink, what hobbies we can engage in?
As you know, our founding documents make it clear that our individual liberty flows from our Creator and natural law, existed before the founding of the country, and was not created by the Constitution, but rather, was codified in it. Individual liberty trumps "social good".
Thanks so much for any information on Texas' plans you can give me.
I also pointed out to him that most people are of the opinion that states will not buck the feds on this, due to fear of loss of federal funds. His retort was that Texas was not going to buckle under and that we have a state surplus.
I just hope conversations like this are happening all over the country.
Well done!!!
I dare say the real estate values in Texas will rise with all the people moving there from other “Obama” states like mine (Illinois).
Good job, I thought someone would be able to file an injunction on this bill. Relay our thanks, and hope he gets others to join him in this.
I wish we had a decent governor here in AZ. Jan Brewer is a republican but I think she’s senile. A disgraceful person, she should have resigned.
Unless they do this in Arizona I’m moving to Texas!
I love this state...
God Bless Texas.
In the People's Republic of Connecticut (65% for 'The 0ne' in '08).... Not bloody likely.
Thank Rep. Berman and Governor Perry.
Here’s a letter I wrote to my worthless garbage of a Senator, Michael F. Bennet. His response was we’re going to do this anyway so shut up. Here’s the letter:
I come to you with a matter of unequivocal importance, as it relates to the current health care reform bill currently under deliberation in the United States Senate. It is my understanding that you support the public option for health care reform, or as it states on your website, “Reform must result in every American having access to affordable health coverage and reasonable prescription drug costs.”
As a constituent, I urge you with a sincere and fervent passion to oppose this bill. The matter at hand is of very great importance to the preservation of the precious liberties we have come to accept as synonymous with Americanism. The legislation at hand would devastate not only our way of life, but that of generations yet to be born, who may never know the taste of the liberty we once had and lost forever in the name of political expediency.
Having suffered under the inability of the federal government to properly fund Social Security and Medicare, simple logic tells me that this entitlement program will surely meet an identical fate. Not only is it unconstitutional, but it adds undue weight to already overburdened taxpayers, health care rationing, and the theft of the liberty of every man, woman, and child of this generation and generations to come.
Is it not your duty as an elected representative to ensure blessings of liberty for every American and their posterity? Was this country founded so that government could grow so large as to be yanked from the hands of the people? I hereby humbly submit for your consideration, kind sir, that such was not envisioned by our founders nor that for which many of these honorable men shed their blood in battle or died in poverty.
The crisis that looms before us with this bill is so dire that it would sentence to death elderly loved ones as sure as it would if they were placed in front of a firing squad for immediate execution. Surely, sir, you would not consider that a promotion of the general welfare?
Senator, I do not recall Patrick Henry uttering the words, “Give me national health care or give me death.” Rather, he concerned himself with the weighty matter of his very liberty, and that of millions of Americans in generations hence. This bill will destroy those ideals so faithfully conferred through the ages, from generation to generation.
I find the notion of health commissions, national ID health cards and access to bank accounts a grave threat to my very livelihood! As a well-traveled citizen through the Veterans Administration, I can assure you that you do not want to unleash this beast unto the American people.
As Thomas Jefferson said, “To compel a man to furnish funds for the propogation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” Ergo, supporting this bill is pure tyranny—the very thing against which our Founding Fathers thought it not unwise to oppose even at the terrific expense of their own blood, their very lives.
Are you so willing to shackle the American people in chains of government bondage? Surely you are unaware of the bill in its entirety. Therefore, I suggest you acquaint yourself, sir, with pages 22, 29, 30, 42, 50 and 58. Better yet, it would be all the more wise to read the bill in its entirety before casting a vote to strangle a free nation
For a party that considers itself a party of deliberation, many seem unduly given to haste in this matter. Why? Please sir: Read the aforementioned sections. Take a moment to pause, to ruminate upon the matter, before casting a ballot that will diminish the quality of health care to more Americans than you can possibly imagine.
Prudence is paramount. The consequences of rash action sans prudence could lead to an undesirable outcome. In 1776, John Adams best summed it up, saying, “Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.”
I am confident, sir, that after reading the bill in its entirety that you will come to your senses and cast a “nay” vote against this monstrosity. If, however, the motives behind your present support are of a dark and malevolent nature, then please rest assured I will do everything within my power to remove you from office.
I will gladly spend countless hours campaigning against you in the coming elections in 2010. I will write piece after piece to remind people of how you were responsible for taking their liberty from them. I will put signs in the windows of businesses sympathetic to the cause of liberty, pointing out how you could’ve chose to vote against national healthcare, but instead chose to ration their elderly loved one’s health care.
It is important for you to also know that I live a life of utter boredom, constantly needing to fill the endless days with a mission. If you choose to continue in your furthered support, my mission will be to retire you to private life for the safety, prosperity and happiness of this great Nation.
For I am an American, fighting in the forces which guard my country and protect our way of life. I am prepared to give all that I have, and do everything in my power in defense of their liberty.
Give Americans liberty, not government run healthcare, or witness the end of your political career.
Sincerely,
Chris Davis
As I was reading this, I was thinking I might have to move to Texas.
And yes, I live in Illinois.
We The People should file a national class action suit against this coming Holocaust. Yes, Holocaust! What else can you call it when the government chooses who lives and who dies via death panels and denial of medical care. Sounds like Hitler to me. Instead, this Holocaust was designed by the US Congress.
Good job! Made my day.
“I dare say the real estate values in Texas will rise with all the people moving there from other “Obama” states like mine (Illinois).”
The mad rush has already begun, you better get here before the good plots of land are taken.
Quit talking and get the moving truck. My neighbors land is up for sale and it has a great party barn already on there.
Oh, and as an aside, all FRiends will be welcomed with open arms. To all you lefties, PETA supporters, hippies, greenies, et al, it gets too hot here, and everything is covered in thorns. ;)
Yeahah! Where is this land and how big is the barn?
Amen.
Bring your own arms and ammo. Running kinda short here.
I have 3 words for Texas: Drill, Baby, Drill.
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