The article also includes details on other job killing legislation including:

• ObamaCare
• Energy taxes (aka “Cap and Trade”)
• $3.8 Trillion dollar budget

The last thing we need is more spending and more taxes.  Our economy will collapse from these dangerous policies.  What happened to “Pay-Go”?

And let’s not forget the socialist takeover of private industry including:

• Banks (TARP)
• Insurance (AIG)
• Automotive (GM)
• Health Care (ObamaCare)
• Housing (Fannie & Freddie)
• Education (student loan take over in Health Care bill)

All of these job/economy killing policies were also voted for by Patrick Murphy.  Let’s stay motivated and vote them both out!

• The banks (TARP)
• The automotive industry (GM)
• The housing industry (Freddie and Fannie)
• Health-care (with the added benefit of giving enforcement to the IRS)
• Education financing (part of the health-care bill gives the government full control over student loans – except for one bank as a bribe to it’s member of Congress)

And all of this with no cuts to any other programs.  This is all financially unsustainable and detrimental to job creation (wasn’t that supposed to be the number one priority.  Next on the list, illegal immigration amnesty reform.  It’s going to take a LOT of work to undo this mess.  I CAN’T WAIT UNTIL NOVEMBER 2010.

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Although reconciliation may be Constitutional, it’s just plain wrong to stretch “rules” made by the House and Sentate so far.  Clearly, our founders had more ethical behavior in mind.   “Scheme and Deem”  is,in my opinion,  un-Constitutional.  Article 1, Section 7 of the Constitution says:

Every Bill which have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it becomes a Law, be presented to the President of the United States…

Our representatives are clearly out of control.  Please stay vigilant in holding them accountable for their actions!

I don’t claim to be a constitutional legal expert, but the following words make it clear to me that the favorable treatment obtained by Senator Nelson of Nebraska, and many others, are indeed unconstitutional:

Article 1, Section 9 – “No Preference thall be given by any Regulation of Commerce of Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another;…”

Artitle 4, Section 2 – “The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to the Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States”

Just because this has been “the way it is”, doesn’t mean it is the “way it has to be”.  We need to stay engaged and remove these “non-representatives” from Washington.  As Thomas Jefferson said:

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

The majority do not want this type of health care reform or this type of politician. Let’s be both the “majority” and the “majority who participate”.  Together, we can change this!

• Will the government decide to bailout one of their competitors or perhaps even take them over because they are “too big to fail”?  Will they need to compete with the government? 
• Will Cap & Trade pass and drastically increase their energy costs?
• Will health care reforms raise their cost of labor by as much as eight percent?
• Will out of control spending continue causing inflation and/or higher taxes?
• Will the Bush tax cuts expire?  What will the new tax brackets be? 
• What will happen to employer paid taxes including: corporate taxes, Social Security, Medicare, excise taxes, etc.?

I believe that:

• Taxes should not be increased and no new taxes should be created.
• Spending should be frozen at pre-bailout levels until our budget is balanced.
• Any additional spending, for programs such as health care reform, needs to be offset by spending reductions elsewhere.
• Increasing government spending and taxes will cause additional job loss (both blue collar and white collar).

We need to set a clear direction so our businesses know that we are serious about creating an environment that rewards entrepreneurship, creates good paying jobs, and eliminates the “fear of the unknown”.

What will the true economic impact of this additional spending and control? Our economy is already hurting and this bill will add up to 10.5 percent to payroll costs (8% penalty for businesses and 2.5% penalty for individuals). I have watched many friends,  family members, and colleagues lose their jobs to outsourcing and insourcing (bringing foreign workers into the US). There are many financial incentives for businesses to do this. Adding an additional 10.5% to payroll costs will only increase these incentives. 

Our economy can not afford to lose any more jobs!

Coincidentally, I saw a tweet for an article titled “Democrats want to revoke insurance’s antitrust exemption in healthcare reform bill”.   Apparantly, health care insurers and Major League Baseball are the only two industries that are exempt from Antitrust laws. 

Regardless of your position on health care, I think we can all get behind increasing competition and making our Antitrust laws apply to everyone!  It’s only common-sense.

Did you know that the original Medicare bill had language stating that a doctors decision could not be overruled and that reimbursement could not be limited?  Obviously, that has changed.  Keep this in mind when you’re told that the ”public option” will allow you to keep your own doctor and will not deny care. 

Our government does have a responsibility to “promote the general welfare” of all Americans’.  This is why they can, and should, reform the health care system.  However, they have a bad track record of running anything and should not be handed more control over our health care and our lives.  We already have two “public options”, Medicaid and Medicare, that need to be cleaned up!