The 111th congress and the shredding of the constitution……..

For those who haven’t figured it out, the name of this blog is in reference to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence. We adopted the name “the 57th signature” as a way to express our support for the declaration and the constitution. The enormity of what they created cannot be understated. They changed the world! They fought the tyranny of the state with ideas of individual human rights. They were revolutionaries.

The Constitution is without a doubt, one of the most profound and brilliant documents ever produced by man. It created a free people with individual rights, where every man is created equal. They announced to the world that there are no kings among men. That each man is entitled only to that which he came into this world with, or produced by the sweat of his brow. They gave us the freedom to act on our own judgment, free of coercion, free of dependence. They taught us that the value of the greater good is found in the individual, not in groups. These ideas inspired our nation, and catapulted us to excellence. The United States of America was united in it’s advocacy of the individual, and rejected the premise that some are innately fit to govern without the consent of the People. The Founders were brilliant men that saw the full potential of humanity, and found a way to put that potential to work. They gave us freedom.

On March 21, 2010, the 111th Congress of the United States passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. (“Paging Dagney taggart.”) They might as well have called it the “Horray for Everything Bill”. This congress spit in the face of America by socializing 1/3 of our economy without even a super majority vote. They have taken over a sector of our lives that gives them control over nearly every activity we particiapte in.

They have forced the American people into servitude. President Barrack Obama and the 111th Congress, have violated the constitution and their oath of office. Every single representative who voted for this bill should be impeached. They were sworn to uphold the constitution. They failed miserably. As far as I’m concerned, they are enemy’s of the state.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi claimed it “a great act of patriotism which honored the vows of our Founders for us to be a land of opportunity.”

This statement is a slap in the face of the founders and the American people. Pelosi, Obama, and Reid have put the federal government in charge of medical decisions and patient care. They have empowered government to deny medical care, penalize doctors, raise taxes, enforce penalties, jail citizens, expand deficits, and establish intrusive bureaucracies.

At the end of the day, here’s what you can expect from this legislation:

1.) New taxes – The bill doesn’t cover anyone for four years, but the taxes will begin immediately to pay for the initial cost of the legislation

2.) Bankrupt insurance companies – Private insurers only operate on a 3% profit margin. They have no control over the cost of care. Medical care still costs whatever it did yesterday, its just being paid for with taxes and loans by the government instead of you. Because the insurance companies need to make a profit to exist, the government will subsidize them right out of business. We will be single payer before long

3.) Increased demand for medical care – when you add 40 million people to the insured market, and don’t make them pay for it, they are going to use as much of it as they can. It would be the same if you gave out free ice cream – people would eat it. This means we are going to use FAR more medical resources then we have been in the past. Lowering the supply and increasing the cost. This will eventually lead to rationing and the government will decide who gets what care – if any at all.

4.) Medicare catastrophe - It is already bankrupt and they are balancing the healthcare sheets by making cuts to it. This is all well and good, except that the people on Medicare aren’t going to disappear. They will either stop Medicare all together and put everyone on the governments healthcare, or they will re-invest in it and expand it. Which would be the worst thing they could do for a system projecting trillions in deficit spending

5.) Fewer and less competent healthcare professionals – There is a reason Medicare failed. Medicare does not reimburse practitioners the full cost of coverage. Every time they treat someone with Medicare they lose money. With the government running the show 50% of doctors have said they will leave the field. 50% doctors and 40 million new patients means longer waits, more poor treatment, and shitty service

6.) Denial of care – When the government realizes the shit storm they created, they will have no choice but to deny expensive treatments to those trying to extend life. Those who could have gotten hospice care or heart surgery will be denied because of the expense. The threat of Death Panels will come about. That is a guarantee stated plainly in every version of the bill.

7.) Bankruptcy – Obama tried to get the American people to believe that without this reform healthcare costs would skyrocket and America would go broke. The problem is, his solution did nothing to address the cost of care. It is an insurance bill. It will only provide cheaper insurance. The costs of healthcare will become worse from this because more people need coverage, but less money is going to pay for more supply. You don’t need to be an economist to figure where that math will lead.

8.) Behavioral control - they pay for your healthcare. If you want healthcare you will do as your told. No mare fatty foods, alcohol, or tobacco; instead you have mandatory excersize. This is absolutely going to happen

9.) Socialism, Communism, or Fascism are the end result. If this bill is enacted into law we will fall into one of these 3 movements. It is guaranteed.

So enjoy the last remnants of freedom in this country, because four years from now it will be a whole new world……..