At 1:00 this morning a resolution was made concerning the healthcare reform bill in the Senate. Senators were bought off to the tune of hundreds of millions and even billions of dollars for their states in exchange for their cooperation to move this bill forward. As suspected this bill was never about the health of the people, it is and has been about money and power. An overwhelming majority of Americans are against this bill and our representation is not listening. Our nation faces its biggest compromise for liberty ever, and it is our elected officials that are doing it. They should all be ashamed of themselves and be very aware that memories do last until election time.
One man who is listening is our President. Not to our distaste for the healthcare reform, but to the cries concerning too much spending. He said, “In the long run we can’t continue to spend as if deficits don’t have consequences, as if waste doesn’t matter, as if the hard earned tax dollars of the American people can be treated like monopoly money, that’s what we’ve seen time and time again, Washington has become more concerned about the next election than the next generation.” He is absolutely right, but unfortunately too late. He just got back from a climate summit where he pledged to send hundreds of millions of dollars to developing countries in the name of global warming. He wants cap and trade legislation to pass so he can tax your energy usage and force you to use less while spending hundreds of billions on wind farms with materials made in China. His spending has been unprecedented and soon it will be too late to blame Bush. He will have to own up to his ballooned budged and his spending habits. If he really is serious about saving money and not worrying about re-election, then I would love to help him initiate a spending freeze on all government programs except for the military. If he would be on board for this then I would back his motives 100%. It is the year of actions contrary to what he is proposing that causes me to have little faith in his words. In the years to come we will see if he is more interested in cutting spending or just raising taxes.