Freedom of BLEEP

Nancy Pelosi announced today that she will bring a sweeping health care reform bill to the House floor by the end of July. And if Americans want to continue to enjoy the highest quality health care in the world, they need to speak up and tell the government to stay out of it! While a great number of Americans complain about the cost of health insurance today, they will soon be complaining about the lack of access and declining quality of health care if the Democrats are able to push their legislation through.

In the absence of checks and balances, Democrats will misbehave.

Obama said “Our health care system is broken. We are not going to rest until we’ve delivered the kind of health care reform that’s going to bring down costs for families, improve quality, affordability, accessibility for all Americans.” He is clearly out of his mind if he honestly believes that a universal, government-controlled health care system is the solution. The heavy hand of the government may artificially bring costs down, but it will destroy the quality, limit accessibility, and control the treatment options of all Americans. And Obama will rob us blind to cover the cost, asking Americans to sacrifice their paychecks for a “greater good.” Considering the United States is one of the unhealthiest countries in the world, it’s going to take a lot of sacrifices to get those who’ve made chronically unhealthy lifestyles choices nursed back to health. When someone else is picking up their doctor’s bill, where’s the incentive to make the right choices?

One can look to any country with socialized medicine and find a host of serious problems, but let’s examine our majority parties’ favorites: Canada and England! In Canada, terminally ill patients are waitlisted for weeks to get into a specialist, and even longer afterward to get treatment. Contributing to this massive problem is the mass exodus of doctors from the country. To deal with this flight, Canada is replacing doctors with nurses, who obviously haven’t been through the rigors of medical school. Talk about some quality health care!

In England, the picture is even bleaker. Even former Prime Minister Tony Blair voiced his concern that the government just cannot provide adequate health care to all citizens, especially with the poor lifestyle choices of many citizens. He put it correctly when saying “individual actions impose collective costs.” This is precisely the problem of socialized medicine, and socialism in general. Even more problematic is the rationing of treatments, where patients with less favorable prognoses are kept on waiting lists until they die from their ailments.

Simple economic principles show that when prices of goods are artificially pushed down, the demand skyrockets, and shortages result. Remember what happened when Oprah gave away coupons for free chicken last week?? Now imagine every person in America had free coupons for medical care.

Moreover, medical innovation declines because companies can’t recoup their research and development costs. This is when the government steps in, further increases taxes, and creates their own research agency to develop limited “cost effective” treatments that may not benefit all patients. With never-ending lines and poor/limited options, these liberal policies beg the question: what good is free health insurance when there’s no health care? Government intervention is a slippery slope, and our country is sliding into a gigantic disaster.

Obama’s agenda is clearly to thrust the government further into every facet of our lives, so that we become more and more dependent upon it. It’s amazing that Democrats don’t feel insulted, since the party they advocate is convinced that Americans are mentally-challenged lemmings who can’t take care of themselves. After this last election, I’m beginning to believe that a majority of them are.

FEAR. It’s the only apparatus that democrats have left to get their “stimulus” bill passed, especially as the general public becomes more aware of their idiotic plan. According to the latest poll, only 37% of the nation supports the stimulus package in its current form.

Now democrats have resorted to the drastic measures of making up statistics. Nancy Pelosi said “every month we do not have an economic recover package 500 MILLION Americans lose their jobs.” 500 million? As in 200 million more than the entire U.S. population? Could she have meant 500 thousand? That figure would still be inaccurate. It’s just smoke in mirrors, a scare tactic to make people support her.

President Obama is using the same tactics, saying if the bill isn’t passed now we will enter into a depression which “we may not be able to reverse.” But remember, this is coming from the same guy who said the national deficit doesn’t matter.

Apparently the Democratic Caucus agrees that the deficit doesn’t matter. They are spending $100,000 of taxpayer money on a trip to the country club this weekend…

Democrats in office have already made it clear that they care more about their careers than they care about democracy itself.

In the first part of their new rules package, the Democrats have abolished term limits for committee chairmanship - limits that Republicans established in 1995. In addition, the rules essentially prevent Republicans from having any voice whatsoever. It will be close to impossible to send Democrat sponsored bills back to committee for revision. And as Pelosi said herself, the House will no longer entertain bills sponsored by Republicans. Is this the bi-partisanship on which all the Democrats based their campaigns?

But it’s time to stop complaining about the their childish behavior and start doing something about it.

I encourage you to join the Intelligent Thinkers Movement. This organization will send you an email whenever important bills are up for vote in your area.

When you get the emails, write your representative to let them know how you feel and be sure to tell them that you don’t have a short memory. You can look up your representative from the link on the right, labeled “Write Your Representative.” It’s very easy, and your voice will make a difference.

In her conquest to nationalize every corporation in America, Nazi Pelosi is now pushing a massive bailout for General Motors.

Here’s a news flash: GM stock has been dropping for more than 10 years!

This company is not a victim of an economic crisis; GM is a failing enterprise that has proven it can’t compete with the market. Okay, so they had a huge loss this quarter. It’s not the first time. What about the $21 billion loss in first quarter 1992? What about the $10 billion loss in 2005? What about the $4.8 billion loss in forth quarter 2006? What about the $39 billion loss in the third quarter last year? Did the government consider buying them out then?

Let’s consider why GM consistently performs poorly in the market. A huge contributing factor is the outrageous healthcare and benefits package they offer to employees, which hikes up the price of their vehicles. GM is a company that spends more than $17 million on erectile-dysfunction drugs such as Viagra and Cialis every year. This is just a small part of their $5.8 billion dollar a year luxury healthcare plan. There are plenty of other reasons why GM is nose diving, but I’ll let you look into that on your own. This company doesn’t need a bailout… They need to get their act together!

But why is the government even considering this bailout when labor unions contracts have not been revised? There is no reason that American tax dollars should pay for Viagra. It’s pretty obvious that the union organizers just want to screw us.

“GM has many hard workers.”