What is the duty of our elected officials? At a bare minimum
it is to read every bit of legislation presented to them before voting, to do
what is best for their constituents, and to be honest, not purposefully lying
to them or misspeaking due to lack of reading, research or neglect. This sounds
like common since but it defiantly isn't political since for their words will
say one thing and their actions seam to be the exact opposite. The two problems
we have as Americans are our elected officials are dereliction of their duties
and their disingenuous actions. If you are a politician or anyone else you
should say what you stand for and stand for what you say.
The Affordable Care Act was passed on party lines with the
Democrats for it and the Republicans against it many due to they were not
allowed to read it before voting. We all remember the infamous words of Navy
Pelosi, "We have to
pass the health care bill so that you can find out what is in it"
which shows the dereliction of duties I am talking about. Everyone of the
Congress members who voted on the bill without requiring it be read needs to be
fired, I don't care if you replace them with another Democrat or Republican but
the get paid $172,000 in their positions and should find the time to read these
bills before they go out campaigning. In the US House
you had 34 Democrats with all the Republicans voting against it with 219
Democrats voting for it. In the US Senate, all Democratic and independent
Senators voted for Affordable Care Act with only one Republican Sen. Jim
Bunning from Kentucky
giving them 60
votes. What this means is we had 219 Representatives in the US House and 60
Senators in the US Senate derelict their duties because they never read the Affordable
Care Act before passing it.
Now we read "Senate
Democrats Haunted By 2010 Vote That Paved The Way For Policy Cancellations
Under Obamacare" and they should be; we now know that all these US
Senators and Representatives who repeatedly said "You and keep your
healthcare plan, doctor, and your premiums will be reduced" lied and new
this was not true. We now know the employer mandate was delayed to help maintain
the majority in the US Senate which would have been easily lost if the
hammering employee took place before the elections. Senator John McCain (R)
stabbed his own party in the back when they were trying to do the right thing
and now has done a 180; its only because his job is on the line not because he
wants to do what is right.
Just as soon as it goes into effect many employers will drop
the common people like you and me to 29 hour work weeks to avoid the burdened of
massive rise in cost we are seeing now not to mention the current estimate of
between 90 and 105 million people will not get to keep their policies and
doctors. Rasmussen
poll reveals 55% of Americans think Obamacare is bad for the country and
wants to repeal it while only 35% think it is good. This is a train wreck, if you really want to
help the people get rid of Obamacare and start to make things better by opening
the state boarders for insurance, competition always brings down the price of
everything and health insurance won't be any different. Get the federal
government out of everything dealing with health care, making useless
requirements which only run up the cost of health care does nothing for "We
the People."
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