So yesterday, during a speech with a labor union, President Obama demanded that the Republicans and all other opponents of his health care “reform” bill propose something different. He wanted to know what we all have planned instead of what the Democrats are pushing.
What is ironic is that he stated we were accusing him and his supporters of wanting to “pull the plug on grandma” and everything else that is probably more accurate than he would like to admit. Rather than addressing those accusations, he simply demanded to know what we do instead.
For starters, how about a plan that does not involve pulling the plug on the elderly? Kind of like what we have right now, where people have the health care they can afford. Medicare does not include the gradual removal of coverage but it will once everyone else has the same form of coverage. Even the Veteran’s Affairs department has a death guide encouraging people to evaluate their circumstances and consider if allowing themselves to die is the best option.
I do not accept the premise of the President’s argument. It is the same premise that used again and again by the statists in an effort to try and put their opponents on the defensive and disarm them. When the banks were on the supposed verge of total collapse and financial Armageddon was supposedly on the horizon, the Statists insisted that they had to do something. Likewise with the third stimulus bill that Obama and the Democrats passed through almost immediately. Apparently, the government had to do something, right?
Even some of my co-workers have expressed their own discontent with the bill itself although I have heard them ask that something be do, because they have to do something about it.
This really goes against the age-old engineering rule that if it is not broken, do not try to “fix” it. By and large, Americans are satisfied with their health care coverage (upwards of 70% or more) and tinkering with it will only ruin it for a large portion of those people. If people are content with their plans, why must you insist on “fixing” it?
The best solution for Obama and his Democrat followers is to do nothing whatsoever. I know that is a tall order for many of the moral busybodies, but if you have the will and the patience to do so, you will retain your seats in Congress if you simply back off and give the American people a break from your shenanigans.
But if you pass this piece of legislation, and I fully expect you to do so, then you will see a massive backlash. I cannot say whether or not you will retain your seats, because you probably will in spite of it, but I will say that all of us crazy folk who cling to guns and religion may establish a better government in your place.
As for the Republicans, all you have to do is sit back and vote ‘no’ to the bill. Why does the likes of John McCain want to do something about all this and compromise with the Democrats? Have you not screwed us all over enough by denying conservative jurists on the bench, allowing banking bailouts, and losing the Presidential run? Do you really have to continue to compromise with the irrational? How has that worked out so far?