When I hear President Barack Hussein Obama declare an end to debate on health insurance reform it simply reinforces the chilling fact that the most unqualified president in American history does not understand, or accept, the essence of our great democracy. The fine tuning of a government by and for the people requires perpetual debate.
Remove debate and what do you get? Cuba. Iran. North Korea.
It is incumbent upon every citizen who fears the creeping tentacles of government to elevate the intensity and volume of the anti-ObamaCare debate. Obama desires that we shut up and allow the machinations of parliamentary procedure to hijack the U.S. economy and diminish the quality of the world’s premier medical system.
We will not be muzzled because we heed the words of Thomas Jefferson: “All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”
Conservative Soldiers, the battleground is before us. The battle lines are drawn. The shadow of tyranny is lurking. I urge you to visit citizen action web sites such as Grassfire.com. Inundate U.S. Congressional offices with phone calls and faxes demanding staunch rejection of ObamaCare and the unethical processes radical liberals are relying on to ram it into law. Two links found on the Grassfire home page (ObamaCare: FAX CONGRESS and CONTACT CONGRESS) provide the tools you need to contact members of the House and Senate.
What to fax? Here is a collection of some of the most coherent arguments for defeating ObamaCare. Cut-and-paste as needed. The debate is not over, President Obama. The debate has just begun.
“(The Democrats’ insurance reform bill) takes $52 billion in higher Social Security tax revenues and counts them as offsets. But that’s really reserved for Social Security. So either we’re double-counting them or we don’t intend on paying those Social Security benefits. It takes $72 billion and claims money from the CLASS Act. That’s the long-term care insurance program. It takes the money from premiums that are designed for that benefit and instead counts them as offsets. The Senate Budget Committee chairman [Kent Conrad] said that this is a Ponzi scheme that would make Bernie Madoff proud.” (Rep. Paul Ryan, R-WI, left)
“Mr. Obama claimed that ‘my proposal would bring down the cost of health care for millions—families, businesses and the federal government.’ He said it is ‘fully paid for’ and ‘brings down our deficit by up to $1 trillion over the next two decades.’ Never before has a vast new entitlement been sold on the basis of fiscal responsibility, and one reason ObamaCare is so unpopular is that Americans understand the contradiction between untold new government subsidies and claims of spending restraint. They know a Big Con when they hear one.” (The Wall Street Journal)
“One of the ways of reducing the costs of medical insurance would be to pass federal legislation putting an end to state regulation of insurance companies. That would instantly eliminate thousands of state mandates, which force insurance to cover everything from wigs to marriage counseling, depending on which special interests are influential in which states. It would also promote nationwide competition among insurance companies– and competition keeps prices down better than politicians will.” (Columnist Thomas Sowell)
“What Obama did to doctors (by using them as props in lab coats during his March 3 pledge) was absolutely humiliating, which is absolutely consistent with how he has treated them from the start.” (Rush Limbaugh)
“For all the talk in Washington about Democrats in the Senate using reconciliation to pass a final version of ObamaCare, one key fact has been overlooked: no reconciliation bill exists. Not in the House. Not in the Senate. Nowhere. It simply has not yet been written, and there are plenty of reasons to believe it never will.” (The Heritage Foundation)
“The president has also touted the new plan as “smaller” and “leaner.” Smaller and leaner than what? This version may actually cost more than the last one — breaking the $1 trillion mark even under the White House’s rosy assumptions. At its heart, ObamaCare hasn’t changed. It still represents a top-down, centralized, command-and-control approach to reform.” (Michael Tanner, CATO Institute)