Today is a day that will live in infamy. President Franklin D. Roosevelt uttered those words after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Yet today President Barack Obama signed the socialized medicine bill into law. This infamous piece of legislation will create unbelievable damage to the country
in terms of higher taxes, more government, and less freedom. For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am ashamed to call myself an American. If there was ever an appropriate time to yell out 'G-D America', it's today.
But as we are on the verge of celebrating the centennial birthday of President Ronald Reagan, let's think about what he would do in this situation. Reagan would never have proposed this bill in the first place because he knew the constitutional limits of government unlike so many of our politicians today. He also would never have pushed the bill through Congress in such a haphaz-ard fashion. He wouldn't have ignored the millions of patriotic Americans in the rallies and the town hall meetings demanding less government. He never would've bribed members of the House with a worthless executive order promising that no public funds would be used for abortions. He never would've offered sweetheart deals like the Cornhusker Kickback, the Louisiana Purchase, or the tax exemptions on the Cadillac insurance plans for unions. I could
go on and on, but you get my drift.
It was so shameful watching the Democrats celebrating the destruction of freedom at the White House signing ceremony. They looked liked a bunch of rowdy football fans witnessing their team winning the Super Bowl. It looked more like a funeral with the festive atmosphere of a wedding.
It's so sad to see tyranny greeted with applause. Many Democrats are going to experience their political deaths in November, but they are marking the occasion seven months early. In a way, I'm glad that Americans could see this so they can finally wake up and see what unapologetic socialists these people really are.
Now if Reagan were President and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) sent him that notorious bill for him to sign, he would've done something extra special for his veto. Reagan would've burned the entire bill in a fireplace, collected the ashes in an urn, and sent the urn back to Pelosi with a note reading 'sorry, Madam Speaker. You're not the Nancy I know and love!' Now that is change we can all believe in.
G.J. LaRouche
23 March 2010
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Monday, March 22, 2010
Shame on the Democrats!
The Democrats have completely sold out on the American people. Last night, the House of Representatives voted for socialized medicine 219-212. All of the Republicans and 34 Democrats voted against the bill. The bill will be sent to the Senate for final approval before President Barack Obama signs it into law. This bill will pay for health care in part by slashing $500 billion from Medicare. Of course, Medicare is a social program with tens of trillions of dollars in unfunded liabilities. (Check out www.usdebtclock.org to see this yourself.) But there was a time when the Democrats falsely accused the Republicans of doing this for political gain. Let me give you a brief history lesson on this.
When the Republicans took over the Congress in 1995, my former Congressman, David Bonior, led the charge that the Republicans were cutting Medicare by $270 billion. Of course, this was a cruel accounting trick because the Republicans were only cutting the rate of growth in the pro-gram. They were not actually cutting the program. But that didn't stop the Democrats from spreading this lie to vulnerable seniors who depend on government in their old age. I caught Bonior doing this.
In the summer of 1995, I attended a town hall meeting that included Bonior and a few local politicians talking to seniors about this lie. There were about 50 people in the room. They were all seniors with gray hair except for me. I was 26 at the time. After Bonior and company got
finished with the presentation, they went to the audience to answer questions. Now let me remind you that these seniors were most likely brought in by Bonior's people, which explained
why the crowd was very homogeneous. He wasn't expecting anybody to be the fly in the oint-ment, so I was happy to oblige. I raised my hand and Bonior acknowledged me. I told him that the Republicans were in fact raising Medicare spending, just not at the rate that the Democrats wanted to. I asked him why he would accuse the Republicans of doing something they
never did. Bonior responded by saying that the Republicans weren't keeping up with the
expenditures of the program!
He never denied my charge, but he wanted to make it sound like he was still correct. After that, senoirs got a little more agitated at Bonior. This proves that I was a Tea Party protester 14 years before it became trendy. But two things still annoy me about this. The first is that the Republicans were never going to cut Medicare back in 1995. They just wanted to make sure that Medicare would last longer. The other thing is that the Democrats will actually slash $500 billion from the program to give coverage to 32 million more Americans. This will ration care and give the government total control over who receives what kind of medical care. This has been the intention of liberals all along.
But where has the media been on this all this time? I'm just an ordinary guy. I'm not a reporter.
I'm just a concerned citizen. Anybody from the press could've been at that meeting to ask Bonior the same question I asked him. And where is the media today while the Democrats do real cuts in this exect same program? This simply represents corruption on the part of the politicians and apathy on the part of the media. Now if David Bonior tried to do the same thing today, about 1,000 people would've swarmed that meeting to demand answers that the madia won't ask. Shame on the Democrats! They'll pay a huge price in November.
G.J. LaRouche
22 March 2010
P.S. I'm back writing articles on my blog.
When the Republicans took over the Congress in 1995, my former Congressman, David Bonior, led the charge that the Republicans were cutting Medicare by $270 billion. Of course, this was a cruel accounting trick because the Republicans were only cutting the rate of growth in the pro-gram. They were not actually cutting the program. But that didn't stop the Democrats from spreading this lie to vulnerable seniors who depend on government in their old age. I caught Bonior doing this.
In the summer of 1995, I attended a town hall meeting that included Bonior and a few local politicians talking to seniors about this lie. There were about 50 people in the room. They were all seniors with gray hair except for me. I was 26 at the time. After Bonior and company got
finished with the presentation, they went to the audience to answer questions. Now let me remind you that these seniors were most likely brought in by Bonior's people, which explained
why the crowd was very homogeneous. He wasn't expecting anybody to be the fly in the oint-ment, so I was happy to oblige. I raised my hand and Bonior acknowledged me. I told him that the Republicans were in fact raising Medicare spending, just not at the rate that the Democrats wanted to. I asked him why he would accuse the Republicans of doing something they
never did. Bonior responded by saying that the Republicans weren't keeping up with the
expenditures of the program!
He never denied my charge, but he wanted to make it sound like he was still correct. After that, senoirs got a little more agitated at Bonior. This proves that I was a Tea Party protester 14 years before it became trendy. But two things still annoy me about this. The first is that the Republicans were never going to cut Medicare back in 1995. They just wanted to make sure that Medicare would last longer. The other thing is that the Democrats will actually slash $500 billion from the program to give coverage to 32 million more Americans. This will ration care and give the government total control over who receives what kind of medical care. This has been the intention of liberals all along.
But where has the media been on this all this time? I'm just an ordinary guy. I'm not a reporter.
I'm just a concerned citizen. Anybody from the press could've been at that meeting to ask Bonior the same question I asked him. And where is the media today while the Democrats do real cuts in this exect same program? This simply represents corruption on the part of the politicians and apathy on the part of the media. Now if David Bonior tried to do the same thing today, about 1,000 people would've swarmed that meeting to demand answers that the madia won't ask. Shame on the Democrats! They'll pay a huge price in November.
G.J. LaRouche
22 March 2010
P.S. I'm back writing articles on my blog.
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