Freedom to not choose

A recent CNN article stated that Democrats were forming a key group to eliminate the Republicans from key deliberations during the congressional health care deliberations. The reason for this is Democrats are concerned the GOP leaders may use Senate rules to slow the rush for final passage of the reform bill before the presidents first state of the Union address. This Group of key democrats is being headed up by House majority leader Nancy Pelosi. This whole “huddle” she is facilitating with other top democrats inside her US Capitol office is extremely intriguing. These private closed door sessions are in fact a direct opposite action to her statement that this congress would be the most “transparent and ethical” ever. The traditional process being replaced with informal, high-level talks, sources stated..." In other words, the Constitutional process being replaced with back-room wheeling and dealing Not only that but the fact that this seems as if loop holes around constitutional ethics, legislative rules and processes are being created. These meetings are to ensure that the bill is passed, a bill that over 60% of Americans are not in favor of. When has congress lost its touch with its constituents. Penning your name in history seems to be more important then the welfare of the people who put them in the lofty seats that they are placed in. Yet its almost outrageous to even think that me as a working American citizen who serves his country is forced to pay for healthcare i don’t even want nor would ever consider having. We should have the option to receive the healthcare we want. Government should never dictate what option is best for its citizens. We have always had the right to choose what was best for us as Americans. Its a freedom that is stated in the Bill of Rights, and a freedom that is fought for on a daily basis. This fact that it is mandatory has been compared by Key Democrats as the idea of mandatory cary insurance even though car insurance isn’t mandatory. This is almost embarrassing to the whole idea of being a free american and living in a free society with the freedom to choose as we please. We can choose to abort an unborn fetus and kill it because it is inconvenient but we are not allowed to choose to not pay for government health care. We can choose to join the armed forces and die for freedom but yet the freedom to pick your own healthcare may no longer exist. This idea no longer sounds like a democratic society to me, it is beginning to sound like something else, something much more scarier. and this is a reality that we will face in 2010. And that, sadly, is how the cookie crumbles....