…the law may “remove members of Congress and Congressional staff” from their current coverage, in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, before any alternatives are available.

This is further evidence of how far things have gotten out of control and how we need to vote in all new representatives.

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• 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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Mike Huckabee setup this site with contact information for Congress and which members to concentrate on.  Some won’t accept web messages from outside their district.   You can call or get creative to get your message through.

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!

Add tax increases to the list of broken promises including:

• Going through the budget line by line and page by page.  This was a broken campaign promise.  It was made again in the State of the Union address.  Expect it to be broken again, repeated again, broken again…
• Open and transparent government.  All bills online for public review before being voted on.  CSPAN coverage of health care debates.  ETC. ETC. ETC…
• Closing Guantanamo
• Bi-partisanship
• No lobbyists and special interest groups.  They are different lobbyists and special interest groups than the prior administration, but they are still there
• Unemployment will not go above 8% if we implement his stimulus bill
• Health Care reform.  The promise was that premiums would go down and there would be no impact to the deficit.  Nothing proposed thus far would reduce premiums, ”bend the growth curve”, or be deficit neutral (unless you add in the proposed job killing taxes “fees”)

President Obama has set us on a path to overbearing government control.  Bigger government = bigger waste.   All these broken promises are just means to that end and will, inevitably, lead to higher/oppressive taxation.

Our only hope is to stop this madness with our continued involvement and well-informed votes in 2010 and 2012.

Here is the text of the pledge:

CANDIDATE PLEDGE

“I hereby pledge to the people of my district/state upon my election to the U.S. House of Representatives/U.S. Senate, to sponsor and support legislation to repeal any federal health care takeover passed in 2010, and replace it with real reforms that lower health care costs without growing government.”

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!

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!