WHY WE ARE TO BLAME

The rage that coursed through the bloodstreams of Americans when they discovered that Nebraska would never have to pay another Medicaid bill, in return for which we “other Americans” would be paying Nebraska’s Medicaid bills and getting a hike in our taxes and health care premiums as a result of Ben Nelson’s vote for the Senate Health Care Plan, points out how little we do know about “how the system works.” The excuse offered by Reid and others for this unethical maneuver was “that’s how the system works,” or “that’s how we do things in Washington.“ How’s that for getting in your face? 

Well, let me say this about that: Just because that’s the way you do things does not make it morally, ethically, or even legally right. Using that saying as the reason for doing things the way you do them is a copout. YOU, Senator and Congressman, are in charge of “the system,” the way things are done. And, now that the door has opened on “how the system works,” it has shed light on the fact that the way you do things in Washington is fundamentally unethical and unfair. 

For example, you are playing smoke and mirrors with the American public and the costs of the Health Care Plan. You saddle the states with the Medicaid costs, and you make back room deals to send the states more money in state aid later in response to their resulting budget crisis, when you don’t have to explain to anyone that your Medicaid decisions added to their budget crisis. Then you smile demurely at us and tell us that you have managed to cut the costs of your Health Care Plan. Now, go away, little boy. 

We Americans are to blame for allowing you to be reelected over and over again. And, don’t bother to stand there pointing your fingers to the other party, either; you all do it and have been doing it to we, the people, for decades. You have been double-dealing and dirty-dealing us for far too long. 

Make no mistake about it: We, the people, are not going to sit docilely on our couches and allow you to do these things to us any longer. When we tell you loud and clear that we don’t want this or that, we are not handing you a license to go and disguise it as something else and put it back into the hopper, either. Quit playing with your smoke and mirrors and start playing straight, and if you can’t play it straight, go get a job on a used car lot where you can lie and stretch the truth all you want. 

Now, you are going to get your backs up Mr. Reid, Mrs. Pelosi, Mr. Nelson, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Lieberman and the rest of the gang….and you are going to duck the issue by lashing out and accusing me of being angry, politically incorrect, a right-wing extremist, misinformed and irrelevant. 

You want me to be polite? Okay, I’ll be polite:  Get out now, while the getting is good. Don’t let the doors hit you in your asses on the way out. This time, you have no one to blame, but yourselves, because we are not going to take it any longer.