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Tuesday August 12, 2009

Obamacare Or Logan's Run? Or Are We Stupid (Part 2)

Obamacare isn't about insuring the uninsured. It's about controlling all health care plans, even the ones that provide excellent coverage.

By Alicia Colon

We're not that stupid. Gullible is a more apt term, if we believe everything that President Obama is saying about the health reform bill. According to Betsy McCaughey - the former lieutenant governor of New York State and the prime debunker of Hillarycare - the president is lying when he says that those who like their present health care plan can keep it.

Ms. McCaughey says that you only have to get to Page 15 of the 1,018 page bill to understand that you will be forced to give up that plan that allows you to go to whatever doctor you select, whenever you like, or to see a specialist or get a diagnostic test.

The House and Senate want to establish a bureaucracy that will oversee a government insurance health plan. If you get your current coverage from an employer, they will switch you over to the government plan because it's cheaper for them to do so. Obamacare isn't about insuring the uninsured. It's about controlling all health care plans, even the ones that provide excellent coverage.

Ms. McCaughey was giving the lowdown on the bill on a radio talk show and it wasn't Air America. It was the Mark Levin Show on ABC radio and shows like his and Rush Limbaugh's are being threatened by liberals in Congress who want to restrict these broadcasts. Talk radio, conservative blogs, and Fox News are considered by the Obama administration to be the voice of the opposition and it's using tactics reminiscent of banana republics to quell the influence of these entities.

Americans are finally learning the truth about Obamacare through these sources of information and the administration has instituted an unheard of strategy once employed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. In essence, it's the old "Turn in your neighbors and report to the commissar," if you discover that they're disseminating unapproved information about Obamacare. The White House urges the public to e-mail reports to flag@whitehouse.gov.

Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) has accused the administration of using this e-mail address to compile an enemies list. Ms. McCaughey must definitely be on that list along with everybody questioning the deceit used to sell this abominable piece of legislation. So what can the average American do to stop this express train to socialism?

While it's admirable that the Tea Party coalition is managing to show up at town hall meetings in large numbers to challenge its representatives and senators, some gatherings have erupted in violence that is being portrayed by the leftist media as evidence that the majority in these crowds are extremists or wackos.

White House aides are coaching Democrats headed home on how to avoid these angry constituents by holding phone conferences rather than live town hall meetings. I guess they're running scared of the elderly protesters with walkers and canes that might start swinging away.

The speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, vilified the protesters by saying they were carrying signs with "swastikas and symbols like that to a town meeting on health care." Actually, what the hand-painted signs meant to suggest was that the Obama health plan resembled the Nazi programs of euthanasia and eugenics. The protesters have also been described by critics as being "well dressed," as if to imply that they were wealthy Republicans as opposed to being your average protester. This would be laughable if it weren't so frightening.

Here are my suggestions for battling this creeping takeover of our democratic society by diehard Marxists who think they know what's best for us. They don't. Most politicians are not capitalists. The majority are lawyers who've never tried a case in court. They've never run a business and most loathe the military that keeps this country safe.

  1. Keep calm but show up at all the town hall meetings. Be aware that the meeting will likely be filmed either by a professional or by a bystander. Be respectful of the moderator and try not to scream obscenities even if they are well deserved.
  2. Make sure of your facts and quote directly from the H.R. 3200 bill that you have questions about
  3. Send letters directly to your Senator or Congressman at: U.S. Senate or House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. 20510 (Senate) or 20515 (House)
  4. You can find out who your representatives by putting in your zip code at votesmart.org
  5. Write letters to the editors of your local paper but don't bother writing to the mainstream papers like the New York Times or the Washington Post, as they are unlikely to be published.

Most importantly, get involved in your local political scene. This November, Mayor Bloomberg is running for a third term, thanks to a City Council that voted to allow this travesty against the wishes of New Yorkers. Is this the kind of Council we deserve? Many Council members run unopposed because no one has the guts to run against the club house pols with huge campaign chests.

One brave businessman who's trying to recapture the 5th District on the Upper East Side is Steven Kaufman. His Web site is kaufmancouncilman2009.org. The Upper West Side 6th District is being challenged by a Republican, Joshua Goldberg, the brother of the conservative journalist, Jonah Goldberg, who wrote the excellent bestseller "Liberal Fascism." He can be reached at ElectGoldberg@aol.com. If you agree with their positions, help them get elected.

The important thing to remember is that the Founding Fathers gave us the opportunity to survive bad administrations by voting the miscreants out of the House every two years.

I believe that one of the reasons Sarah Palin resigned as Alaska's governor was to use her star power to support good candidates around the country. Next year, Nancy Pelosi, Diane Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Henry Waxman, Harry Reid, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, and John Murtha are all up for re-election. They are vulnerable.

One of the reasons that I launched a new Web site, ChangeNYin2010.com, was because I realized that next year Governor Patterson, Senators Schumer and Gillibrand, Charles Rangel, Carolyn Maloney, the speaker of the State Assembly, Sheldon Silver, and most of the City Council are up for re-election.

Ousting these entrenched politicians from their comfortable offices may be difficult but not impossible, if voters remember one thing that I've posted in our mission statement:

"When the people fear their government there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson. Alicia Colon resides in New York and is a columnist for nysun.com. Her Web site is aliciacolon.com.

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