Posted on 09/09/2009 11:08:42 AM PDT by opentalk
When President Obama addresses Congress and the nation tonight, he should pledge to do three things. First, he should announce that he will discard the 1,018-page health bill drafted in the House of Representatives and replace it with a 20-page bill in plain English. Twenty pages should be sufficient. The framers of the US Constitution established an entire federal government in 18 pages.
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According to the US Census, 47 million people say they
are uninsured. But 14 million are already eligible for government programs such as Medicaid or SCHIP (for children) and simply haven't signed up. Another 10 million have household incomes over $75,000.
The largest influx of immigrants in any seven years in American history occurred in the present decade. In this same decade, the lion's share of the increase in uninsured took place in the five border states.
In tough times, its fair to look out for our own first, which means helping about 12 million Americans.
Covering them is affordable, especially because many are young, and others are uninsured temporarily, less than a year.
Thirdly, the president should announce that he will divert the unused stimulus funds to this purpose.
There's enough in the pot -- over $500 billion to cover these 12 million for the next decade.
Help can be delivered immediately via electronically loaded debit cards or certificates for a certain dollar value accepted by insurance plans.
We are in this mess because over the past few decades “conservatives” come up with these brilliant compromises that er way to the left of FDR. Just say NO.
We are in this mess because Republicans just play defense. Which is a strategy for losing in the long term.
Why is it such a good idea for the taxpayers to pay for health care for everybody or anybody? As bad as this would be it would only get worse. There is no government program that does not grow and become more hellish and destructive as time goes by. Whether it be the income tax that was only to apply to less than one percent, social security or medicare.
All this would do is say that the leftists are fundamentally right. They win and we lose.
Enough is enough.
Rush just made a good point about this. This abomination of a bill has been in the works for years by the likes of henry waxman and the other far lefties in congress. They have been just waiting for their chance and they think this is it. I’ve got an idea, next year, lets give these vampires the gift they all deserve, a garlic flavored stake through the heart.
As Glenn Beck states: no more passage of ANYTHING until we have some answers.
hundreds of pages condensed to one line: all your base are belong to us.
She said exactly what I’ve been saying. No law should be a thousand pages long, or even a hundred. If our solons can’t keep their laws under twenty pages and in plain English any normally educated person can understand, they should rip them up and try again until they get it right.
This has been a pet peeve of mine for a long time.
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