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Facts behind backing health bill don't add up
Mar. 30, 2010 12:37 am
If this health care bill is so great, why is the bill exempt from judicial review seven times? I wonder if the promised executive order against abortion is exempt from judicial review? If Congress is so energized, why did the lawmakers exempt themselves from the provisions of the bill?
If the rationale for having socialized medicine is, “We all have to pay for other people anyway,” isn't that a false choice? Isn't that itself an admission of the real problem? What happened to the promises that illegal aliens will not be rewarded?
Can anyone honestly imagine any of our Founding Fathers approving of any of this? Would any of today's revisionist-history socialists care about our Founding Fathers anyway?
I wonder why tort and Medicare reform - the real crux of health care costs - was never addressed. Could it be too many lawyers? Is the congressional payola, backroom bribery and Chicago-style kneecapping politics the “change and hope” you wanted?
This intergenerational graft - compounded by the birth-dearth (a-la abortion) - is proven to be mathematically unsustainable down the road.
I sincerely hope my neighbors will remember the political party which wrought this anti-American destruction. Nancy Pelosi's willful malignment of our Constitution is nauseating. We will sustain our righteous outrage through November and begin to flush the Washington toilet of the Marxists and put some ethical adults in charge. Now that's change we can hope for.
Peter A. Drahozal
Eldridge
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