You’ve heard it before. “Be careful what you ask for…” While poor grammar, it holds true for a lot of us as we review what happened on March 21st. I, for one, view the whole process as insulting when scheduled for a Sunday. Haven’t government officials done enough to remove God from American life? They’ve banished Him from our schools. The schools are well disciplined and orderly, aren’t they? We don’t have school violence, do we? They mandate that His Commandments be taken down from public view. Maybe they think that we obey so well that we need not be reminded of them in text. Think? Watch them, folks. Their next push may be to take “In God We Trust” off our money.
Pity the nation that turns its face away from God.
Back to this past weekend…. Con men should be flocking to Washington in droves — as if they haven’t taken up residence long ago. If there are 219 men and women who sign off on something they haven’t read, then they are prime marks for scams. Anybody interested in buying arable land in Death Valley, California?
Speaking of California….. In an area devastated when water was held back from farms, the only quarter turn on the spigot came to a Congressman who changed his vote from nay to yea. As the Church Lady used to say, “Isn’t that special?”
It amazes me that the press jumped on Anthem Health Care with a vengeance for raising premiums and didn’t bother to tell Americans that the move came when 30 million Californians were switched to Medi-Cal (California’s answer to Medicare). When providers couldn’t keep up with the costs, they were forced to raise premiums to bridge the difference.
A few years ago, I wrote a column titled “Ghost Riders in the Pie”. I went into detail on the anathema of putting legislative riders on bills of substance
— the practice of adding measures that has nothing to do with the pending legislation in an effort to slip them by the people.
Witness the addition of removing college loans from the public arena and putting them under government purview. Oh, goody! My peers grieve for their children and grandchildren’s and prospect of working hard and not earning what they should. No Congressman or Senator can name a people who have prospered under national health care. The not-so-slow slide into Socialism in which we find ourselves mired is not pretty. Mud never is.
I wish I could find some redeeming element of this legislation, but when a republic fails to heed the will of its people and acts as a dictatorship, the result isn’t pretty.
That this was passed on a Sunday is an insult. There was no reverence for the Sabbath among those who scheduled this vote. It is a slap in the face of every God-fearing American. Fear is afoot now, but it is not fear of God. It is fear of an overreaching government. Think about it.