Health-care reform is treason

We are still in the before picture stage of our debate. But this article brings several excellent points. First, taxes and governmental intrusion into our private lives, and secondly, treason. ---lee

Kate Thompson The Quad-City Times Posted: Wednesday, December 9, 2009 11:15 pm

The proposed health-care reform will bankrupt this country. Given the national debt, there is no way we can afford this kind of assault on fiscal responsibility.

Additionally, reading the Constitution as mandating supporting the general welfare is ludicrous; the general welfare referred to is the ongoing business of the federal government and how tax monies are to be used. This reform bill to overhaul our health-care system flies in the face of our Constitution.

At no time in our history have the American people been forced to purchase anything by our government. That is not one of the enumerated powers of government as listed in the Constitution.

There are many ways this health-care reform is wrong. We can’t afford it now while we are in double-digit unemployment; we can’t afford it in the future, while we are borrowing over $500 million per day for interest on the national debt and our kids should not be saddled with the debt from choices made against their parents’ wills by those who should represent them, yet refuse to consider constituents’ wills.

Voting in favor of health-care reform should be considered a treasonous act. More than likely, it will be considered a signal to constituents that the yea-sayers are ready to leave public office which is just as it should be.

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