Congress has moved our entire country one step closer to the national nightmare of government-controlled health care

Do I hear $400,000,000.00?

By Jayme Evans
Monday, November 30, 2009

Now that the US Senate has voted to begin debate on their vision of a health scare bill, Congress has moved our entire country one step closer to the national nightmare of government-controlled health care that millions of people strenuously reject and simultaneously fear. If Nancy Pelosi’s bill placed one of the nation’s feet in the grave, then Harry Reid’s bill placed the other squarely in the path of the banana peel. All the while, Barack Obama has stood ready with the first shovel full of dirt. A couple more steps, and in we go.

Many people are left wondering how something as frightening as the Democrat Party’s idea of so-called health care reform could ever become law, considering the unwavering, vocal opposition to the astronomical financial burden this legislation would place on the backs of all Americans. The answer is quite simple, really. Health care reform, while rejected by the voters, has advanced through the legislative process through the use of a scurrilous practice that legislators and pundits call “horse tradingâ€