Posted on 11/08/2009 2:04:56 PM PST by opentalk
While normal everyday oblivious Americans were preparing their beds to sleep Saturday night their elected officials quietly passed H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act. Indeed, the passage of this act deals one of the final death blows to the Constitution and with it our liberties.
As I ponder upon this momentously horrid occurrence it is as if I have just woken up from a nightmare and been thrown directly into the plot of George Orwell’s 1984, with no hope of escape. As this thought grabs hold I am lead to ponder more and more about America and I ask myself a few questions.
Since when did the Constitution provide for a health care guarantee? Since when did the Constitution grant the Congress the power to force Americans into a health care dystopia? What good is a Constitution if we choose to ignore it? What good is a Constitution if the Congress simply chooses to create a new one in their own graven socialist image?
Truly, these questions are meaningless now. The Constitution is hanging by the tiniest of threads. Who will save it? Who will come to its rescue?
It is the everyday middle class American that will suffer the consequences of this travesty. Indeed, while the economy is reeling and unemployment pushes depression-era levels the arrogant Congress has decided to pass the biggest expansion of government in the history of the United States. It will create a new tax that will primarily be felt by the middle class, the ones most likely affected by the current depression. This is because as Americans are forced to purchase health insurance, the wealthy will have no problem paying for escalating costs. Nor will the poor feel the burden as they will receive government health insurance subsidies. Yet, the forgotten man will be the middle class working American who now already struggling against the burden of economic ruin will be forced to pay fines or even face possible jail time for not complying with our government’s take over of his/her health care. As this tax sinks in, the middle class will be forced downward into the ranks of the working poor and therefore into the ranks of government rationed medical care. Inevitably, government healthcare will swallow the whole of the medical insurance world and there will be no escape.
This dystopian vision will consist of patients waiting in long lines and when they are finally permitted to see their doctor there will be much fruitless begging and pleading for the treatment that they desperately need. But no mercy will be given because the doctor will have become nothing more than a desk-clerk, simply following the government treatment protocols.
“What, you have shoulder pain?” Your doctor asks. “Well, the treatment protocol for this condition provided by our majestic government says you have to wait two years to get a MRI or to see an Orthopedist. I am sorry. Here are a few pain pills. There is nothing more that I can do. Have a nice day.”
Such will be the conservation heard in doctor’s offices throughout America. Don’t believe me? I have personally lived in the socialist countries that we are now trying to emulate. This is the reality in these countries and the people there simply accept it and learn not to complain. We, in America, will also come to learn and accept over time what our benevolent government has chosen to grant us.
And what about our parents? It will not be long before the health care budget spirals out of control and our benevolent government is forced to make cuts. Who will they cut off first? Why, our parents of course. The government will say that the elderly simply cost too much. They will say that the elderly are no longer productive members of society and have only a few years to live anyway so let’s just stop providing life-saving surgeries or needed food and water for these no longer useful people. Don’t believe me? Just look to these same socialist countries where the elderly are frequently pushed into hospice death programs when they have no terminal illness and denied needed surgeries because they are too old.
I could go on and on. Such is the fury and simultaneously the sorrow I feel for our country. Now is the time for our voices to be heard. Now is the time to make a stand before it is too late.
Adam Murdock, M.D. is the founder of The Freemen
Defund the Mother F______!!! You have the power! Use it!!!!
This is not over by a long shot. Way too soon to be waving the white flag.
What do you suggest? The Senate will pass the bill even if they have to change the rules to do it. The RATS pay off those Senators and the weak rotten corrupt will accept it.
“Now is the time for our voices to be heard. Now is the time to make a stand before it is too late”.
...this calls for at least one more “Tea Party” in DC! Rush, Beck, Levin et al will promote this, or should, tomorrow am. With “Grassfir”, “Freerepublic” and countless others it can be done! Fox needs to air Bachman, DeMint, Cantor etc to back it! This CAN happen!
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
If it passes, take a page out of the dimocrats' playbook and tie it up in court. The eco-Nazis have been very sucessful at doing this -- and so can we.
I have been on same game plan yet call it “Starve the Beast”.......
I volunteer to be the textbook case against this tyranny as long as I can have a competent lawyer defend my rights.
It is FAR from over.
There will be MULTPLE MAJOR lawsuits against this.
We can probably stop the senate from voting on it this year. Pressure must be intense.
Harry can’t be allowed to change (ie violate) the rules. We will cry foul, it will be part of any lawsuit going up to the SCourt.
The individual mandate will fall at the SCourt. Based on their logic it cannot stand.
If all else fails we go forward on the Jeffersonian option.
Liberty Counsel, Alliance Defense Fund, American Center for Law and Justice, Mountain States Legal Foundation, - there are others too but these are the ones doing major work and winning almost all the time, today. Up against the ACLU winning most of the time.
“They will say that the elderly are no longer productive members of society”
This is a “twofer.” It is no secret that the older a person gets, the more conservative they become. Our elderly come from a different era that has not been brainwashed since the cradle with socialism. The sooner this generation dies off, the sooner the government can take full control.
On the other hand, the socialistic system only receives its wealth from the hard work of its citizens. Much of that wealth is funneled out of the system through graft and corruption. Such an economic system is one of failure because it does nothing to generate new wealth and individual effort. Such an economic system will devalue its own currency to cover the costs of big government (and corruption). It will oppress its citizenry to reduce those costs which will kill individual initiative. All these forces (and more) will kill the government that these legislative leaches put all of their energies trying to grow. They will work at their own demise, like rats feeding on the seed corn that grows a nation's future.
I call these denizens DemonRATS for good reason.
I sense a nice class action this is against the Constitution lawsuit coming on.
This is only the 1st touch down in a LOOOOnnng game.
It still has to pass the Senate, then the two bills have to be reconciled then pass both Houses again then pass the Courts.
Then the Democrats have to stay in control of Congress in 2010, and the White House in 2012, to avoid having the GOP repeal this.
This is a long way from done unless we surrender just because we lost the 1st battle.
I agree, what happened in August is the press started examining and exposing the bill. (Sean Hannity was great) Nancy Pelosi kept this version under wraps for that reason. My concern is it will be fast tracked again to avoid any scrutiny from the public before year end. I think if it goes into next year there is a better chance to defeat it.
They won't be the only ones, either. The disabled will be next because they'll be called a "burden on society." This is straight from Naziville.
I suspect the courts, right up to the SCOTUS, will rule that none of us peasants have “standing.”
Not over by a long shot is right.
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