“The Worst Bill Ever -Epic new spending and taxes, pricier insurance, rationed care, dishonest accounting: The Pelosi health bill has it all.”
You should know when the Wall Street Journal calls a bill the “Worst Bill Ever” – it’s bad, really bad. Well, it doesn’t take the Journal to make most people I know that the Health Insurance bill being ramrodded through is rotten to the core.
But in case you don’t know – the nearly 2000-page Pelosi Bill will:
- Cost $1.3 trillion, or $500 million per page, financed through massive debt and tax hikes.
- Raise taxes 13 different ways, including forcing Americans to buy a product (health insurance).
- Increase insurance premiums and decrease access to health care.
- Cost Texas at least 15,000 jobs by forcing doctor-owned hospitals to close
- Provide for taxpayer-funded abortions.
And Pelosi’s Democrats are only giving Congress a few days to read the bill before voting on it. Congressmen would have to read 28 pages an hour, every hour, to get through the entire text in the 3 days before the vote.
And guess what else – Congress will be permitted but not required to participate in the mandates that the bill would force on the rest of us.
The Democrats are betraying the promises of open government and transparency that they campaigned on.
Three Texas Democrats,Reps. Chet Edwards, Ciro Rodriguez and Solomon Ortiz, still have not made up their minds on this bill – will they vote with the extremists in their party who are trying to take over one-sixth of the American economy, or will they vote with the people of Texas who have been rising up since August to fight these terrible bills?
Let Washington KNOW now – we will not permit this stupidity! Your VOTE counts! Call, email, write your elected officials and let them know we say NO to Pelosi’s bill. Flood their offices with resounding NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!
November 3, 2009 at 8:50 am |
Ortiz has promised to vote against any bill that contains abortion funding, however he voted against an amendment that would remove it from HR 3200. Will he be allowed by Nancy Pelosi to vote as his constituents wish like he did with Cap & Trade, or will he wilt like the jelly-spined wuss he really is? Time will tell.