WE ALL GET COAL IN OUR CHRISTMAS STOCKINGS!

Early this morning the Senate put 10 lumps of coal in the stocking of every American by passing their health care "reform" bill. Here's what the lumps represented -

1. Higher insurance premiums

2. Buying insurance is mandatory, or you get penalized

3. We get a one-size-fits-all health plan

4. We get a 40% tax on our health plans from our employers

5. Government controls our doctors' decisions

6. Medicare payments to hospitals for senior care will be cut even more

7. Bare-bones hospital care for everyone

8. Future cuts to Medicare with automatic spending reduction requirements

9. Giveaways and subsidies to illegal immigrants

10. Loss of confidentiality with your medical providers

If this program eventually is made into law, we can all count on coal in our stockings for many years to come! Merry Christmas!

Christmas lemons or Christmas lemonade?

As soon as the Thanksgiving mess is cleaned up, I turn on the Christmas music! I love the Christmas season! To me, it is a time of giving, a time of caring for others, a time of gathering with loved ones, a time of getting closer to our God, a time of magic! I love to see the anticipation and the magic in the eyes of the children. The wonderful story of the birth of Jesus in a humble stable is retold and seeds of hope are again planted in the hearts of many people.

In this tough economy, many of us are more limited as to what we can buy, or what we can do for Christmas. Maybe we can take these lemons and make lemonade! Perhaps we could make our Christmas giving more personal by giving more of ourselves. We can write a special note to someone telling them what we appreciate about them. We can volunteer to help with a project or perform a service for someone. We can take the children to the park for a picnic instead of buying them a gift that will be broken by the end of the day. There are so many things we can do that cost little or no money and that will mean more to the person receiving them than a gift purchased at Macy's! We can use this opportunity to get closer to the true spirit of Christmas.

I hope that the Christmas season will bring each of you peace and joy!

HEALTH CARE LEGISLATION FIASCO

How bad can the health care legislation get? Let me count the ways!

This legislation is the biggest grab of government control in our nation's history! Why is Congress trying to pass this legislation inspite of the fact that it won't solve the health care problems; inspite of the fact that Americans literally can't afford it; and in spite of the fact that the majority of the American people don't want it? Who in their right mind would pass legislation with more taxes and higher costs, in a time of economic crisis? This legislation will be a "job killer"! They claim it's about health care, but it's about CONTROL over our money and our lives! This health care legislation is the foundation of a governmental structure that will eventually enable the federal government to increase it's control and power over us as individuals and over the individual states.

The bill that passed the House and the bill currently in the Senate do not really address the problems that the Democrats claimed existed in health care. Premium costs will rise, medical care will be controlled and rationed, and millions of people will still not have medical insurance! It will cost us trillions of dollars. Yet, the Dems still claim that this legislation will be deficit neutral and is fully paid for. What they are really saying is that they have included so many taxes and fees and increased costs in the legislation that, along with the cuts they will make in Medicare, the deficit will not be affected. The reports of the Congressional Budget Office do not support their claims. Anyone that has a brain knows that EVERYTHING the federal government has done has cost MORE than they claimed it would! Why should we think that this legislation will be any different?

This legislation is pushing our country down the road to socialism, which is what Obama and his radical left wing friends really want! They want all of US to be "middle class" and they want to be the ELITES who control us. They will have all the power and they can live like kings at our expense! This legislation is so important to them that they are willing to abandon any ethics they may have had and they are making deals with our tax dollars to win the votes they need! This Congress is becoming the opposite of what they are supposed to be as elected representatives of the people. They are promoting their own agenda, not ours!

This health care legislation is UNCONSTITUTIONAL. The federal government does not have the constitutional right to force people to purchase anything in order to be a citizen in good standing. This is only one of several legal challenges to the constitutionality of this legislation. President Obama and the Democratic Congress have no regard for the constitutional limits placed upon them. Their goal is to make the Constitution a passive and ineffective document, with no real power to control them.

This health care legislation is possibly the most DANGEROUS legislation that has ever been considered in our nation's history. The repercussions of passing this health care bill will be disastrous to our republic and to our freedoms. PLEASE CONTACT YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES AND TELL THEM YOU DON'T WANT THIS LEGISLATION.