This following will come as no surprise to many. The more I see the Left hang on to a government option I can’t help but think their true agenda is not health care but dependency on government. Therefore this is not a democrat verses republican argument but socialism verses freedom. There are many great (free market) plans out there. Most are executable with the relaxation of government mandates and the ability to cross sell insurance beyond state lines, in other words true competition. I challenge the government to back away. Not favor the large insurance companies over small entrepreneurs and let a level playing field finally take place. The attention should be directed to how we as law abiding people wrestle these powers away from an entrenched federal government within the RULE OF LAW
The government forgot we like to be in charge of our own lives and destiny.
I know as Americans we can take responsibility for our own health careand should for the following reasons.
1. Not to burden following generations with cost and bureaucracy.
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2. To keep the federal government from obtaining more control over our lives and freedoms.

3. Lastly we are sovereign individuals with inalienable rights and what this government is trying to do is deceptive and wrong.

The details of this plan at this point are inconsequential. It is the basic philosophy surrounding this plan that is so repugnant and must be discarded.

Finally, the left has come out of the shadows and shown their colors. In their mind along with the present administration the time is ripe to force their principles on the population (for their own good). It is interesting that their standards don’t spread freedom yet expand authority and lack choice. So I would ask congress to commit occupational suicide. Craft laws that limit your and subsequent legislators power. Bring into existence legislation that performs in the transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%”>best interest of the Republic instead on the narrow interests. Enact laws that return power to the local level where it is best checked. You may no longer have a job but you will have made history. You will have given the country back to its rightful owners, the American people.

If I may put a few thoughts forward that people may find worthwhile in the quest to reduce the intrusiveness of large centralized government

1. States should look into adopting laws that can recall (with a super majority) members of congress that refuse to maintain the spirit of their constituencies principles. I do not believe this leads away from a republican form of government but checks power.

George Washingtonin 1791 if the federal government was allowed to overstep its bounds with regards to the States “to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to any definition.” Keep government limited and close to home. That will maintain freedom.
2. A complete halt to new government hiring and spending on new programs without equal budgetary offsets.

3. In all aspects congress must live by the very laws they create. You are public servants.

James Madison wrote. “The <house of representatives can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as the great mass of society. This (circumstance) has always been deemed one of the strongest bonds by which human policy can connect the rulers and the people together. It creates between them that communion of interest, and sympathy of sentiments, of which few governments have furnished examples; but without which every government degenerates into tyranny”.

4. A restriction of all relatives or married partners benefiting in any law being enacted by members. This keeps the axiom of “In the countries best interest “vigilant.

5. Free and open (public airway sponsored) televised debates. So a progression of ideas can be examined and deliberated among the citizenry.

6. Everybody that works in the United States pays a flat tax. All will have a stake in the size and intrusiveness of government while cutting out congressional shenanigans through special tax laws.

7. All legislation in front of congress should be transparent and visible (not accessible two hours before the vote). Prohibit the use of non vetted attachments.

“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice”Charles de Montesquieu

Remember as Americans we know how to roll up our sleeves, work as a country and accomplish the goals we choose. It is our history and our future. There is only one component we need as a people to accomplish this. It is simple common sense not the irrationality that spews from and the so called (Members of congress should take an honest hard look and ask two questions.1. Is your legislation helpful towards a free capitalist society?<2. Are you even equipped to handle such a task?
If people realize that this is the beginning and not the end we will start to bring common sense back to our country. Organize for 2010 and as the process starts, our belief that we as Americans can achieve anything will take hold. This is and will be our history as we have exhibited in the past.