What are you doing, America?

          My heart grieves for America. I cannot bear to think about the direction we are headed. “Repeal your own healthcare!”,  “free healthcare for all” -these are only some signs I’ve seen since the decision made on our future of healthcare. FYI: You don't have the right to healthcare. But, this is about more than healthcare.  This is about the mentality of our nation. When did Americans develop an entitlement mentality? How is this the norm? I’m sorry, I don’t care how great YOU think YOU are, YOU are NOT entitled to anything, especially at anyone else’s expense. Nothing is really free. Someone has to pay for it. The pride of individualism caused us to be the nation we are today. Where is this going? Why do Americans now hate being individually independent? Who cares about class boundaries and gaps? This is America. YOU have the power to do with YOUR life and make anything out of it YOU wish. Equal opportunity does not always produce equal results. If you want equal results for everyone, join the Communist Party. Everyone will be equal. Equally poor, that is. Is that what we want? Why are we allowing the government to vastly expand itself under the disguise that they are helping us? They are not helping us. They are hurting us. They are endangering us. They are subtly taking away our liberties one by one. I understand that many of you aren’t into politics. Trust me, I’ve heard it all.“It’s boring.” “It’s just a bunch of lousy politicians fighting all the time.” “What do I care, it doesn’t affect me.” Wrong. It does affect you and when it does, it will be too late to stop.

            Obamacare does affect you. The Federal Government was trying to pass it under something called the Commerce Clause, which (I’m paraphrasing) gives Congress the power to regulate commerce across State lines. As suspected, this was ruled unconstitutional because Congress does not have the authority to force an individual to buy something. This law slid through by way of the Sixteenth Amendment. For ease, I will just write it out.

“The Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. “

            Yes, the individual mandate is a tax. (As if we are not taxed enough…) Funny, the Obama Administration swore it wasn’t such a thing.  In fact, it’s a progressive tax! Isn’t that wonderful?! The Supreme Court decision set a precedent that expanded Congress’s taxing power. If the Federal Government can tax an individual on healthcare, what more can they tax the individual for? Anything they want.

            There is much manipulation behind Obamacare. It’s a “feel good” law. If you are against it, Liberals wine and accuse you of having no compassion. They spit out the numbers of Americans not insured when in reality they are completely false. The numbers are manipulated. People, illegal aliens are included in the uninsured statistics! People who CHOOSE (keyword CHOOSE) to be uninsured are included in the seemingly random uninsured number.           

            Sixty percent of Americans find this individual mandate unconstitutional. (Not to mention it will dramatically spike the national debt and account for an additional 500 billion dollars in taxes for, you guesses it, you.) Obama and all his cronies and liberal counterparts do not care.  They want power, and this gives it to them. With this policy, healthcare will become so expensive that few will be able to even afford it. Because of this, Americans will be forced to be on government healthcare. Once on government healthcare, you will not be able to make health decisions for yourself. Big Brother will make all your decisions. Welcome to European style government. Ask Europeans and Canadians how they like their “social justice”. (Fun fact; It’s shown that polls state that Canadians and Europeans are happy with their healthcare. The catch is, those polled are healthy people. Yes, people who haven’t had any health problems. Funny how they leave that minor detail out. You cannot trust polls like that, because it has a statistical motivation behind it. Statistics are very easy to manipulate.) The Government will decide if it’s cost effective to keep granny living. The Government will decide if you really need that hip replacement. The Government will decide if your disabled child is too much of a burden on society.

            Although it is difficult, I have learned that there is hope in every situation if one looks hard enough. Remember 2010 guys? Remember the Tea Partiers and pumped up Conservatives everywhere? Remember the sweeping wins in the midterm election? That was over the passage of Obamacare. That was over Americans getting sick and tired over political figures and big government doing a Mexican (pun intended) hat dance over its Constitutional boundaries. As said before me, this verdict has awoken a sleeping giant. I pray I am not the only one who is outraged. We need to band together. We need to elect people who will oust Obamacare and implement common sense solutions to healthcare. (Buying across state lines, grouping, etc.) We need to take over the Senate. We need to maintain the House. We need to get rid of Obama. We can repeal this. We can do it. Everything starts with the grassroots.  You have much more power than you might think. You can make a difference. You should make decisions about yourself and for your future. Don’t let the government do it.

"Those willing to give up liberty for security deserve neither and will lose both.” –Benjamin Franklin