I was thinking that it doesn’t pay to be a member of Congress that follows the party line, whichever party you belong to. It is far more valuable to be someone that is always undecided. If the party can always count on your vote because you vote to the extreme left or right, there is not a lot of reason to pay you for your vote.
The current healthcare reform vote is an excellent example of this. The Democrats are so desperate for votes, they have made millions of dollars worth of concessions to those representatives that were “concerned” or “undecided.” Those words are code for “you have to pay for my vote,” or “what are you going to give me to help you rape the American people?”
Do you really believe that there are Senators and Representatives that are uncertain of their position on healthcare reform? It’s as if they have never considered the question and they want us to believe that they are still developing an opinion on this issue. That is ridiculous. I feel the same way when a Supreme Court nominee says they don’t have an opinion on abortion. Are we really supposed to believe they have never pondered this before?
Why do we put up with this form of horse trading to run a Country? Our tax money, taken from us under threat of criminal prosecution, is given out by elected officials to other elected officials to secure votes to take more tax money from us that will be used to buy more votes, etc. etc.
We have to end this cycle of violence against the American people. There are very good reasons to have an efficient and productive government. I believe that the government has gotten too vast for our own good. Government, particularly the Federal government, needs to be placed on a diet. This continued grab for areas of the economy to be socialized has been shown through history to be a failed model. I’m sure our socialist president loves this expansion, but this is not sustainable. When more people find out they can vote themselves more benefits to the detriment of the Country’s health, we will collapse under our own debt.
I saw a great bumper sticker this week. It read: Socialism is a great idea until you run out of other people’s money. We are fast approaching that barrier with Obama driving this socialist bus. I can’t wait till 2012!
