Are you following the Health Care debate in DC? I guess they are going to try and force their plan through today. If you have mailed in letters or signed petitions on this subject be advised that they are being diverted to a holding room for 14 days and will not be seen by your representative until after the vote. I personally called my Congressman but he did not answer his phone and his voice mail box was full and would not take my message. Below is an email that I sent to him today.
Dear Congressman,
If PelosiCare passes, I hope you will also pass the Bill that forces ALL elected Federal officials and their staff to cancel what they have for Health Insurance and take PelosiCare instead.
James Madison, in Federalist, number 57, has some words highly relevant to the Pelosi health care reform bill:
"If it be asked, what is to restrain the house of representatives from making legal discriminations in favour of themselves, and a particular class of society? I answer, the genius of the whole system; the nature of just and constitutional laws; and, above all, the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America; a spirit which nourishes freedom, and in return is nourished by it. If this spirit ever be so far debased, as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate any thing but liberty."
Given the fact that the currently pending health care reform bill does not obligate the members of Congress to have their medical well-being covered by it, it is as if Madison himself is rising from the grave and is pointing his finger at us accusingly and asking us whether we will meekly and timidly allow the liberty which he, the Founding Fathers and all our other ancestors worked so hard to secure to be taken from us quietly and seamlessly in a simple vote on the floor of the House of Representatives?
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