Posted on 08/17/2009 1:46:10 PM PDT by Salena Zito
Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold reminded President Barack Obama via a statement this afternoon that the public option in health care reform is "real change."
From the Feingold statement: "Opposing the public plan is an endorsement of the status quo in this country that has left tens of millions of Americans uninsured or underinsured and put massive burdens on employers. I have heard too many horror stories from my constituents about how the so-called competitive marketplace has denied them coverage from the outset, offered a benefit plan that covers everything but what they need or failed them some other way. A strong public option would
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REAL “real change” would be tort reform.
Can anyone who reads Jefferson, Adams, Washington, Madison, or any other Founders actually believe their Constitution allows the principles of the Declaration to be violated in such a way by those elected to positions of power in government?
Any citizen whose passion is liberty should not be tricked into accepting such "compromises" of their liberty. There is a time and place when liberty is so threatened that, on behalf of our posterity, we should stand and declare to our elected officials in both Parties:
"This is a matter of principle. It is not negotiable. Stop taking away our Creator-endowed rights to be free to succeed or fail. Stop your arrogance in believing you were elected by us to take what we work hard to earn and 'redistribute' it in the name of 'compassionate conservatism' (R) or 'economic justice' (D). Sometimes you even try to fool us by redistributing it back to ourselves, as in 'cash for clunkers.' It is neither compassion nor justice! It is tyranny! Don't compromise away the future of your great-grandchildren!"
Now Barney Frank is saying that people have a right to a home. But he didn’t mean to own it. So, when does “Public Option” housing become the next crisis, followed by the inevitable demise of Private Property? And attacks on evil Home Owners. Oh sure, you can keep your old house. They’ll just tax you to death so you’ll take the “Public Option”. Get a load of what’s in Cap and Trade with regards to your home meeting environmental standards before you can sell it.
Think Dr. Zhivago.
The leftists must screw up everything. It’s their destiny. It’s their calling. They were made for it.
Why is a public option even necessary?
There are all sorts of things that would be real change that would be bad, rather than good, some of them so bad that even the barking moonbats who favor government run health-care would agree that they are bad.
Reintroducing chattel slavery would be real change (and so long as it was only applied to folks convicted of crime wouldn't even be unconstitutional); laws requiring the forced sterilization of people who score below some cut-off on an IQ test would be real change; repealing the Clean Air act would be real change. But somehow, none of these are on the table, and socialized medicine is, even though a reasonable argument can be made that its effects are at least as harmful to society and the individuals affected as any of the changes in my deliberately outrageous list.
This whole healthcare reform is a farce. If you want to cover the five million U.S. citizens with a 5000 dollar a year insurance policy it would cost taxpayers 25 billion year. That is much cheaper than the proposed government takeover cost.
I hope that in 2010 the voters will remind all socialists in DC that electing patriotic Americans would be "real change". The difference between my "change" and the socialist "change" is that mine is positive.
I sure wish we could get rid of Feingold and Kohl. Sadly, we have too many libtards and voter fraud in this state. Chicago North. barf
What IS the “public option”, in this case? What do the words really mean?
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NEWSFLASH! GOVERNOR RICK PERRY IS SCHEDULED TO BE ON PLAINS RADIO TONIGHT MONDAY, AUGUST 17, DURING THE PROGRAM FROM 7-8 PM CST TO DISCUSS OBAMA DEATHCARE AND INVOKING THE 10TH AMENDMENT OVER IT.
HE WILL CALL IN DURING THE PROGRAM.
PLAINS RADIO:
http://www.plainsradio.com/radio.html
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And that is the ONE thing Obama is not going to do.
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