Assault On America!

Author-Pete Riehm; Executive Director, The Common Sense Campaign

Make no mistake! The government health care bill sneaking through Congress is an all out assault on America. The cornerstones of American freedom, personal responsibility and individual liberty, will be willingly sacrificed for unbounded power over the people to achieve perpetual electoral dominance.
The health care bills, like the Cap & Trade bill or stimulus packages, have nothing to do with their ostensible purposes and everything to do with money and power. Our government, the political parties, and most elected officials have abandoned the Constitution in favor of soft tyranny (aka government control of everything) to provide every need for the people at the eventual expense of all our God given rights.
Like Social Security, Welfare, Medicare, and myriad other government programs before, the people are being scammed in a manner Bernie Madoff could only fantasize. Americans are again being persuaded of a crisis that can only be averted by massive government intervention which incidentally fills government coffers with even more money, but they will again spend the money on whatever gets votes now and ask for more money later. One need only look at the bankrupt Social Security Trust Fund overflowing with IOU’s for evidence the federal glutton cannot control its appetite.
If health care is such a dire emergency, why do the taxes start immediately and the benefits are delayed to 2013 or 2014? Why is the bill secret? The answer is so brazen that Americans must gasp in wonder that this could ever happen in America. Our government seeks majority dependency! Look at every group now dependent on government subsidy; they vote only for those who promise benefits regardless of cost. These are not free people; they are unwittingly enslaved by the ruthless government hand that feeds them.
All in Washington fully realize the nation is careening toward bankruptcy even without a new healthcare mandate, so why not lock up another segment of voters with another empty promise. The Constitution is ignored and the money is well, inconsequential because they can always print more. The awful truth is that collapse and chaos are just fine with this administration because you can be assured they will never waste a crisis.
Despite overwhelming polls showing the majority of Americans are opposed to any of the proposed health care legislation, the party in power is undertaking a huge gamble. They are betting the average American has become so corrupt, selfish, and cowardly that they will greedily embrace another free benefit and reward their beltway masters with faithful and servile votes to maintain their power forever.
The federal government has been eroding American freedom for decades, but we are witnessing an endgame to force the country past the point of no return. The serpents in Washington are hoping that once we taste the apple of government health care the middle class will acquiesce to this new entitlement and feel naked without it. Add middle class dependency to those already conquered and this gamble could pay off with unassailable majorities for one party rule for decades.
American morality may be tarnished, but betting against the intrinsic goodness of Americans, their value of freedom, and willingness to fight for their God given rights will backfire into another shot sure to be heard around the world. Americans are finally awakening to the robbery in progress: American self-government is being forfeited for dependency on government agencies.
We the people will not let this happen. The Tea Party movements have slowed the federal onslaught on our rights. Despite invincible majorities, the Congress must bargain with or swindle everyone in Washington to even hope for a health care bill. Their assault on America may pass in some form. But Americans can take confidence that the assault on Congress in 2010 will be swift and terrible.
We the people will not let government of the people, by the people, for the people perish from the earth.