Although I know no one reads this blog (yet) I still feel like I owe it to my conscience to post my thoughts on the recent health care debate and even more recent health care bill.
First: How did an issue so personal become so widely run by government? When did we as an American people decided that our personal health was subject to government intervention? I for one know I never agreed that the government had a place in providing for my health.
Second: Where in the Constitution is reconciliation allowable or mentioned? When in history has reconciliation been allowed? What gives government the right to side step rules in order to push legislation forward?
Third: How did this happen?
The third question is the one I'm most interested in. My newest idea for a book---tracking the progress of governmental social interaction from the beginning of American society to the present day. I think it will be fascinating to link the social transitions to the political transitions.
Also, I find it interesting that 78% of Americans did not want the health care bill passed by the House on Sunday. That's a much more significant majority than 219-212 (which is 50.8% if you were interested). How is it possible that such a radical change to our governement, and by extension our society, can be decided by a majority of .8%? That doesn't seem to demonstrate the way our government works. It looks like this time representation didn't mean a thing.
-lil' miss liberty-
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I love the points you brought up. Oviously I don't understand some of those words but I got the gist. haha... anyway.. I do read this... just for some reason haven't clicked the foloow button. :) oh and I laughed so hard at your last post. P.S. we NEED to do some crafting since your craft blog hasn't been updated since January ;)
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