Change you can believe in?

Granted, I've been offline for over a week, but I still have TV, radio and newspapers to keep in touch. Its not quite the same in these days of the information superhighway, but its all I had.

So, somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I heard that the new bill introduced by our current administration includes fines and/or jail time for citizens that don't have health coverage. I don't think that this will ever really happen in our lifetime, but I have heard rumors that Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama support this type of new legislation.

Whether this is true or not, the mere fact that people are talking about this disturbs me greatly. Could you imagine that you are so poor that you cannot afford private health care. Yes, we all know that there is Medicare and Medicaid, but the Joe Public is being squeezed here.

According to the pending plan, people that can buy health insurance must buy it or be fined or imprisoned for not doing so. This includes wealthy people that decide to be self insured and pay their own medical bills out of pocket. Could even the most reasonable person even imagine this type of scenario. Our prisons are already overcrowded with drug dealers, rapists, murderers and ingrates. Where are we going to put these people behind bars? Build more prisons with stimulus money? Put Aunt Bee in jail because she paid the Doc in cash? I don't like the path this trip is taking. This includes the abortion issue. I have always been a pro-choice person, but I think you should pay for your own abortion. My tax dollars should not go to kill your unborn child. If you want to kill your baby, that is your choice, but don't ask me to help fund it.

So here is my take on the House of Representatives: I think they are a bunch of clowns. When I lived in Georgia, we had this girl named Cynthia McKinney that made all of us look bad. She represented most of the clowns in Congress. Aren't there about 400 plus people in the HOR compared to 100 some Senate members? I rely on the Senate to make honest opinions, but if they don't, I will be here to protest in a civil protest kinda way.

So, lets put it like this. Most people my age are having kids that are going off to college or even graduating from college. How would you like it if they were headstrong and decided that they were young and vibrant and felt no need to buy health insurance? Their employer didn't provide it and they decided to roll the dice? Do you want our government to fine or imprison them? Where are they going to put them? Where are they going to put the rich people that pay their own health care bills? Oh, I can just see it now. " What are you in for?" Well, I murdered three people, what are you in for?" Well, I didn't buy health insurance!

I was born in the USA and I thank God for that. I will be damned if I will step aside and let my neighbor get fined or imprisoned for making his own choices in this country. I can choose cable over Direct TV or I can choose AT&T over Windstream. But if somebody forces me to choose one way only or go to jail, I will choose jail. Folks, this is America, the greatest country ever imagined. Nobody is going to put me in jail or fine me for making a Constitutional right to say NO to the ongoing debate in Congress.

As a prologue, I can't believe that most of you bleeding heart liberal left wingers want this either. It is most of your children that are going to be most affected by this type of legislation. Lets put your kids in jail. Even though they have no room for them and they have no budget for it, lets do it anyway. They can sleep on cots and eat grits until you either bail them out and let them sleep in your basement or change the current policy provided to our wonderful and all knowing Congress. Change you can believe in? I don't think so.