Posted by
David Zublick on Sunday, November 08, 2009 10:58:40 AM
Nancy
Pelosi and the Democrats have taken over health care.
Despite
the tea parties, the town halls, the rallies and the protests, the
House of Representatives passed the health care bill 220-215. The bill
now heads to the Senate. The legislation on which Barack Obama has
hinged his presidency is close to coming to fruition.
Unless we act.
Republicans,
almost to a man, fought the good fight in attempting to stop this
massive $2 trillion monstrosity from seeing the light of day. Rep.
Candice Miller, R-Mich. said, "We are going to have a complete
government takeover of our health care system faster than you can say,
`this is making me sick.'" But in the end, the liberals rammed it
through along party lines as they had planned to do all along. This is
the arrogance of the left. A jubilant
Pelosi even had the audacity to compare the legislation to the passage of Social Security in 1935 and Medicare 30 years later.
So are we doomed to
Obamacare?
Is this the end of the battle to prevent socialized medicine from
taking over our health care system? Will we be like Europe or Canada,
where people wait endlessly for life saving treatments? Will death
panels determine ho lives and who dies?
That depends on the degree to which we allow apathy to take over.
It
is so easy to become complacent and to decide that what the Democrats
have done was inevitable. But this is no time for apathy.
Now is
the time for us as Americans to rise up. The question is, do we have
the backbone to do it? And if we do, is there a blueprint for getting
it done?
The answer is unequivocally yes. And there are two
excellent resources for stopping the oncoming juggernaut of massive
government expansion.
The first is a new book by Don
Crist.
What Can I do? After The Tea Party offers outstanding ideas on how to take American angst toward bloated government to the next level.
Crist
provides a blueprint for organizing relatives, friends and neighbors in
a cohesive effort to stop those in Washington who wish to take away our
liberties and erode our form of government to the point where what the
Founding Fathers intended becomes unrecognizable.
The second resource for putting the brakes on government control of our lives is a relatively new organization called
Pinecone Conservatives(
www.pineconeconservatives.org).
This group has as its mission statement "motivating all voters that
share our desire for a return to fiscal responsibility and conservative
thoughts to our local, state and national communities". When joining
their forum, you receive a free practical guide to conservative
community organizing. This guide offers insightful ideas on how to
coordinate efforts to stop government from completely taking over our
lives.
These two excellent resources provide a method for taking
the anger that many conservatives feel toward what the Obama
administration has done and designing a proactive plan to stop it
utilizing the greatest asset available: people.
We do have a choice. We can be apathetic. Or we can take our nation back.
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