Monday, March 22, 2010

HOW DARE YOU?!

An open letter to Congress

How dare you legislate against the will of the American people you were elected to represent and then have the unmitigated gall, Ms. Pelosi, to stand before us and pretend you did it for the good of the people?!

How dare you, Congressman Stupak, trade the lives of a half-million unborn children a year for a few airport improvements?! May the unborn children you have murdered curse you from their graves!

How dare you tell bald-faced lies to the American people, pretending that the outrageous bill you just passed will not become the law of the land?! You know full well that as soon as the president signs your bill, it will become law.

How dare you cavalierly disregard the Constitution of the United States of America which you swore an oath to uphold?!

How dare you make a mockery of the legislative process?! You have shown yourselves to be unfit to govern a free people.

How dare you take over the health care industry?! You’ve bankrupted Social Security. You’ve bankrupted Medicare. You’ve even bankrupted the Postal Service. And now you want to bankrupt the best health care system in the world!

How dare you dictate to me what kind of health insurance I must purchase?!

How dare you threaten me with fines and imprisonment if I choose to pay for my own healthcare instead of purchasing insurance?!

How dare you come into my house and tell me how to raise my children?!

How dare you legislate how often I should visit my doctor?!

How dare you order health insurance companies to violate confidentiality and provide my health insurance information to the IRS?!

How dare you turn the IRS into the Gestapo?! The IRS should be abolished altogether and a fair flat tax enacted. Instead, they will now hire an additional 16,500 agents whose sole purpose will be to enforce your unconstitutional legislation. Will you also provide them with nifty SS uniforms?

How dare you give the IRS access to my bank account?!

How dare you determine how much health care I should receive based on your estimate of my usefulness?!

How dare you lie to me and tell me you’ve committed this outrage in order to provide health care to 30 million uninsured people?! (Who came up with that figure, anyway?) If that were your goal, all that would have been needed would have been a little piece of legislation making those folks eligible for existing government health care programs like Medicaid. It did not require these illegal and unwarranted intrusions into my life.

How dare you “fundamentally transform America” without the consent of the American people?! My ancestors came to America to escape government oppression and tyranny. This nation was the world’s last best hope for freedom, but you are turning it into just another failed experiment in socialism.

How dare you?!!!

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