I saw this posted on another site and thought it was really well written:
“Read it. You have less than 72 hours.
As the President says, when it passes he’ll know what’s in it.
COMMITTEE ON RULES - H.R. 4872 - Reconciliation Act of 2010
http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/...nciliation.pdf
Don’t worry. It is only 2300+ pages.
Really? That alone should kill it.
Add in the fact that the anointed ones exempt themselves. That alone should kill it.
Add in the 16000 new IRS agents required to implement it. That alone should kill it.
Add in the 200,000 new regulations and 194 new government agencies and 20,000 more bureaucrats required. That alone should kill it.
Add in the immorality and unconstitutionality of mandating by government decree a purchase. That alone should kill it.
Add in the financial chicanery of double counting $500B in Medicare cuts, assumed Medicare savings (which haven’t happened in 40 years), a $250B doctor fix not counted in the preliminary estimate (since it is in a separate bill), and billions more that have to do with the student loans now part of the package, etc. The “Won’t cost ONE DIME. PERIOD” lie that now will cost at least 1 Trillion and probably $2T, $3T or more. That alone should kill it.
Add in that costs won’t go down. Nor will the price curve be bent down. That alone should kill it.
Add in that people used to justify pro-choice stands by stating a woman should have full control over her own body, but now everybody (except the Amish and Federal Employees) will have the government in control of their health. (No trans fats. No riding without a helmet, etc.) That alone should kill it.
Add in that a third of the doctors will leave the medical business and 30 million more patients will be added in: A recipe for rationing and extreme waiting times. That alone should kill it.
Add in that socialize medicine has failed or is failing everywhere: Canada, Massachusetts, Medicare. Canadian government officials currently come to the US for timely care. In the future we may have to go to Mexico of Asia. That alone should kill it.
Add in that we’ll pay 10 years of taxes to pay for only 4 years of coverage. That alone should kill it.
Add in the $5B bailout each for unions in Michigan and Massachusetts and special deals for Florida, Nebraska, Oregon longshoremen, pork pork pork. Oink. That alone should kill it.
Add in that it has to be ‘deemed’ to be passed instead of voted on. (Can we deem that our taxes are paid even if we didn’t really file? The President says have courage. This is a cowardly way to legislate. Let’s ‘deem’ them out of office.) That alone should kill it.
Enough.”
Should be faxed to every representative. They can rationalize their use of the Slaughter Solution all they want. They won’t be forgiven for any of this.
What is the “doctor fix” that I’ve heard mentioned a few times?
......It is only 2300+ pages.....
Actually, only about 150 or maybe 180 pages are the reconciliation. I can’t remember the exact number. I have both 153 and 183 in my mind. The balance of say 2150 are the bill passed by the Senate and on record for some time now.
The 150 pages are changes to the other 2,000+ pages.
On Cavuto the speed reader read the entire package agin including the new 150 pages and had serious problems understanding because the changes referred back to multiple paragraphs in the original by paragraph and section designation only. It was impossible to sort back through the original too find the reference that in turn referred to something elsewhere in the original bill.