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“There’s been plenty of fear-mongering, plenty of overheated rhetoric. You turn on the news and you’ll see the same folks are still shouting about there’s going to be an end of the world because this bill passed. I’m not exaggerating. Leaders of the Republican Party, they called the passage of this bill Armageddon! Armageddon, end of freedom as we know it! So after I signed the bill I looked around to see if there were any asteroids falling or some cracks opening up in the earth. Turned out it was a nice day. Birds were chirping, folks were strolling down the mall. People still have their doctors.”  – B.H. Obama

Funny.

“…In the end, what this day represents is another stone firmly laid in the foundation of the American Dream. Tonight, we answered the call of history as so many generations of Americans have before us. When faced with crisis, we did not shrink from our challenge — we overcame it. We did not avoid our responsibility — we embraced it. We did not fear our future — we shaped it.”

We broke every existing law we had to and got it done. So screw you America.

Right back atcha your Majesty. I just don’t know what to say about all this. I am completely flabbergasted. I hate what is happening to my country, but maybe it is just time to accept it. Maybe it is for the best that the government will take care of my family for me, think of all the cool stuff I could do with more free time, and just live off the federal government. Work every two years until I retire. Actually, it sounds good. I can see why people are attracted to it. I’ll have to give it more thought, and look at it from a different perspective. Maybe it was all just a fantasy that I might one day be rich. They are doing everything they can to prevent that anyway.

Maybe I just need to give up. But I still hate you for doing this to my country. So screw you too.

You know what I love most about living in a free country? Yep. It’s all the sweet, sweet, freedom we enjoy. For example, when we change health providers at work, (every 6 freaking months, mind you) I don’t have to fill out a 6 page document outlining all my history, give them personal information like my social security number and that of my entire family. I don’t have to do all that because I am declining insurance coverage through my work. I have never once opted in to get health insurance from my current place of business. And they never make me…. …What?  … I DO have to fill out 6 pages of personal information even though I have no interest in getting insurance through you? Huh? … Oh… well…. jeeze… here is my drivers license number, my social security number, date of birth, place of birth, my medical history for the last 10 stinking years, my kids social security numbers, along with all the information about me, but about them instead. My bank statements for the last 5 years, my addresses, every vacation we’ve ever taken as a family, documentation about every time I’ve ever given blood, etc, etc…. (okay, it isn’t quite THAT bad, but it feels like it.)

I WAS not supposed to have to give my social security number to anyone. Remember THOSE days? When it was used for SOCIAL SECURITY and they told you to NEVER give it out to ANYONE for ANY REASON. And then everyone and their dog started denying services if you refused to give it to them. Maybe, let’s say, 15 years ago, (I’m not sure how long ago honestly but the story is 100% true.) I went into my local Blockbuster Video store. When I filled out the membership paperwork, they had a place for my social security number. I politely told them what a social security number is for and simply said, “you can’t have it.”
They politely said, “we don’t use it for anything we just need it in the file, and oh yeah we are going to need to make a copy of your driver’s license too.”
I told them, “I can’t give you all that personal information, do you know what someone could do with all that if they break in here or if you have hired someone that may not be as honest as you certainly are?”
They said, “I guess you can’t rent here.” Nope, I can’t. I won’t go back to Blockbuster ever again. I don’t think they try to get that anymore, but I won’t go back. I hope they all go out of business.

I was in my double digit birthdays before I had to get a social security number, now my kids can’t leave the hospital without filling out that paperwork and getting the ball rolling. Cradle to grave they want you. I hate it. I don’t feel free. Not at all.

I suppose we live in a free country, technically. It just has a whole crapload of consequences if you don’t do exactly what the government says. Good grief, I’ll get a ticket for CHOOSING to NOT put on my seatbelt if I get pulled over. Are you kidding me? How stupid is it to NOT wear a seatbelt? Pretty stupid. But I should be able to do stupid things when it affects me and only me. Are they worried I’m going to fly out of my car windshield into a bus full of nuns and make it explode?

The government is not my mommy.  At least they didn’t used to be. I am not a hardened criminal if I choose to tempt the god of car crashes by leaving my seatbelt off when I go 3 miles to get gas.

I feel it every time I refinance my home. I feel it every time I fill out any paperwork for any reason. We are not free. Not when there are consequences to simple things like wearing my seatbelt.

So this has been a long way to say, I have to fill out a Employer Health Insurance Application even though I don’t want Employer Health Insurance. I have to apply for it so the government can go on record as saying, “we tried to protect you from yourself, but you are just too stupid to take us up on it.” Yep. Now do me a favor and leave me and my family alone. When I want you to keep the borders closed and safe you can’t manage to handle that, but you can sure as hell punish me for not wanting to take a handout from you.

Have you at least got a wooden dowel with leather wrapped around it that I could bite down on?

According to Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, who supports the health care bill, the president asked, “Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring down health care? All it will do is confuse and dispirit” Democratic voters “and it will encourage the extremists.”

via Lawmakers Detail Obama’s Pitch – Prescriptions Blog – NYTimes.com.

I will never give this ‘man’ the benefit of the doubt again. Your president has zero respect for your opinions if they differ even slightly from his. Do these morons (I include Obama in that) know what “teabag” means? I think they do and I think they know how disrespectful it is, and how insulting it is. The elite politicians in this country should all be run out of town, a la Beyond Thunderdome, big stupid costume head and all.  (Except given a donkey rather than a horse.)

This president is a liar, a scam artist, and frankly, a jerk. He brings down the title of American President and has just lost the last bit of my respect for him that was based on his position. He has no respect for his position which tells me I don’t need to hold it in high regard right now either.

If you are a liberal and support this man you are either, A. in on it for power or money, B. ignorant, or C.just plain stupid.

I can’t wait for 2012. Whatever comes. This clown is Trouble.