Today I read in the paper a piece about Senator Kennedy and his "tireless" work for universal health care. The problem with this is the assumption that health care is a right. When Senator Kennedy states that the Citizens of the United States have a right to Health Care provided by the government he is assuming rights and powers not given in the constitution. I have read both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the US and cannot find anywhere any explicit declaration of Federal right to health care. The closest I have found is the unalienable rights as Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. All these rights revolve around the idea that the individual is responsible for his activities. He has the right to pursue happiness, not the absolute right to happiness. He has the right to his life and liberty, not to be infringed by the Government. In other words the government cannot dictate to the individual unless and except where specifically stated in the constitution.
The founding fathers believed strongly in individual and states rights. They wanted a government that intruded as little as possible in the daily lives of the citizens. We now have a group of individuals who do not believe this. They have reversed the roles and now believe the government is responsible for all citizens for everything, and the individual citizen has the right that the government will take care of them. Of course, some one will need to make the important decisions and that is the Liberal Progressive who has only the people at heart.
The problem with this belief is that it violates not only the spirit of the law, but the words of the law. We have a judicial system that places itself above congress. We have a congress that believes that the Federal Government has a maternal right to take care of the poor citizens. Of course the successful will need to be taxed to do this.
We have a situation where the current administration wants the 5% most richest to care for the 95% who are "owed" this care.
The bills before congress are placing the force of law to this idea. The Federal government will force the whole US onto the single payer system and not only reduce coverage for all, but specifically almost eliminate access to specialist for the elderly. President Obama has stated that no one is forcing anyone to change their coverage. This is true - but only true during the grace period. After the grace period is over, all will be forced to move to son of Medicare. And we will not like the coverage. We will then have a coverage system just like Canada and UK. And their long care coverage is not good.

This is just one area that the liberals have assumed powers that don't exist in the Government. Read the constitution and look where Education is a power given to the Federals. It isn't. The supreme court issued a ruling that provided the power. Not congress, the supreme court. More on this later.

We need to be careful, we need to be very careful. The left wing extremists are our in droves spreading misinformation and deflection. They are putting ads on TV that are making it appear that the benevolent government, who is just looking out for you, wants to step in and save you money, that it wants to put the big bad wolfs in sheep clothing corporations out of business. It turns out though that the big bad wolf in sheep clothing corporations are really left wing supporters and the bills in congress are really designed to keep them in business. This is really the fascist way. They love business as long as they get to control it. What they really don't like is small business which they really can't control. They attempt it by minimum wage. Michigan Democrats for example want to raise the minimum wage to $10.00 per hour. That would put small business's in Michigan out of business, the ones that survived the recession. What a plan. A State that has the highest unemployment in the nation wants to raise minimum wage to the point that it will force more unemployment. Small business owners employ the majority of people in the US. Further, it is in the minority groups that stand to be hurt the worse by unemployment when small business gets hurt. Unemployment over all is 9.5%. Unemployment in Michigan is 17%, unemployment among teenagers is 25%. Unemployment among Black youth is as high as 45%. It seems to be that we need to do everything in our power to encourage small business, that we need to get out of the way and let the economy truly recover and make this country strong. Instead we want to become a nanny state with costs out of control and poor service in everything. Obama's plan, rather then helping the country, will seek to destroy it. The economy will recover, indeed it already has started, not I think to anything the government has done. It is recovering in spite of the government. The recovery however will be slow, painful and weak. I fear inflation, high deficits, and the government sapping the GNP when we need the money in business hands to fund the recovery. Remember this next year during House and Senate elections. Vote out the left Wing extremists. Replace them with right wing Extremists who will look out for the individuals, and build a strong America again.
VOTE.

What is it about health care. Why are the Democrats so interested in forcing us onto the Canadian or European plans that do not work. We know the care is rationed in Canada. We know there are committees in England that make decisions as to who gets what care. Is this what we want. Why is Obama trying so hard to have government control everything? I believe it is because he and other liberal Democrats that only they and the national government. As Obama stated himself, he is seeking to redistribute wealth, not create it. I am not sure if they are all that interested in growing the economy. I think they are more interested in expanding Government control over the means of production and finance. So far they have been successful. They know, it seems that they only have a limited time to make all this happen before there is an election. This may be the reason they are forcing bills through with no time for anyone to read them.
Now is the time to stop this madness. Some Democrats are beginning to have second thoughts and they are listening to the voters who very much want things to change - like tax reductions, cutting the government budget rather then expanding spending. It is ludicrus to believe that by spending larges sums of money, the economy will recover. This way comes inflation, economic slow down. The liberals point to the New Deal as the means to pull us out of the depression (yes, I believe we are in a depression). Roosevelt didn't take us out of the depression, he exported it to Europe and The Far East by war. The war actually put people to work in business, not government programs. We should do the following:
1: Kill the spending now. Only about 10-20% of the stimulas bill has been spent.
2: Cut taxes now. This will put money in people's pockets.
3: Begin national debate on National VAT or flat tax. But eliminate Tax code as we know it.
4: Eliminate Corporate Taxes. Removal of taxes on corporations will result in lower prices and make our goods more affordable internationally. It will also provide an incentive to companies to start manufacturing hard goods here again.

Forget Green, lets work on rust again.