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To: kabar
“First of all, the bill has not passed the senate yet. We really do not know what will be in the final bill. You don’t have to repeal it, just not fund it. The House holds the purse strings. Much of the proposed plan does not go into effect until 2013.
If we can get more Reps in Congress, we can block the Obama agenda. We won’t have a veto proof majority, but we can throw a monkey wrench into the Dems’ plans.

There will be a health care bill regardless. The Dems need one to save face with their base. The only issue is what will be in it. The Senate will have a major say.

Elections are important. They have consequences as we are seeing now.”

Elections don’t work, because our country functions as a Direct Democracy when it is supposed to be a Constitutional Republic. Face it, government only grows. It doesn’t matter who we elect or don’t elect. The size of government, the levels of taxes go up. We are slaves.

55 posted on 11/08/2009 5:54:24 AM PST by FightThePower! (Fight the powers that be!)
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To: FightThePower!
Elections don’t work, because our country functions as a Direct Democracy when it is supposed to be a Constitutional Republic. Face it, government only grows. It doesn’t matter who we elect or don’t elect. The size of government, the levels of taxes go up. We are slaves.

We are only "slaves" if we act like ones. Our country does not function like a "Direct Democracy." If it did, our elected leaders would be more responsive to the electorate's will. They are brazenly doing what they want regardless of the people's will. We must hold them accountable at all levels of government. That is possibile in our Republic.

56 posted on 11/08/2009 6:04:26 AM PST by kabar
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