D-DAY FOR AMERICA

SPECIAL POST

All eyes and ears are on Washington as both the Senate and the House committees working on the proposed new Health Care Plan have advanced their proposals to their respective floors for debate and full House or Senate vote. The next few days will decide what final versions will go to a joint committee to be hammered out, passed and sent on for the inevitable Presidential signature. Then, according to what Americans have been told, a great new change in health care will be ushered in, flowers will bloom in December and angels will trumpet and sing praises of the Great Accomplishment.

In the next ten years, the national debt will go up by $10 trillion. Unemployment will rise into the teens. Inflation will soar. These things we know and will be forced to accept.

If that is a bitter pill to swallow, here’s a bigger one. As Americans have attended Town Hall Meetings and marched on Washington, as the Internet as been abuzz with opinion against this cram-down, and as opinion polls have clearly shown that Americans do not want this legislation to pass in its current form, Washington has called us every name in the book; Washington has been totally dismissive of our collective voices; Washington has turned its collective back on America; and Washington has had no compunction about doing these things to their neighbors, their families, their constituents.

In so doing, they have attempted to switch the blame for our disastrous economic condition first to George Bush, and then to us.

Obviously, they have contempt for us.

They were the ones in charge when money was spent and misspent. They were the ones who allowed bad housing loans to be made. They were the ones who allowed Republican and Democrat administrations to spend and spend our futures away. They participated in it; they were complicit in it.

We should not accept the blame for what they have done. We should not take this lying down.

We need to raise holy hell right now, today…. We need to let every single one of them know, in clear and most certain terms: “Congress and the President, what decisions you make now on this health care plan and on other spending bills pending will determine your continued employment.”

Fax. Email. Phone. Show up in person.

D-Day is here.