The Senate voted to disgrace themselves on Saturday evening by passing the destruction of the United States bill to discussion in the Senate. The bill should have been killed off at that point. Then, a bill that could truly solve the problems in healthcare could be constructed. This bill just trashes the good parts of American healthcare and adds lots of bad parts to replace those good parts. I cannot say one good thing about the bill in the Senate except that it was printed on paper.

The buying of votes was particularly disgraceful. Mary Landrieu (D) of Louisiana should resign in disgrace for even considering the bribe offered by Harry Reid (D-NV) and the Democrat Senate Leadership. The Democrat Senate Leadership should resign in disgrace for offering a bribe to Mary Landrieu (D) of Louisiana. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) was offered $100 million in Medicare funds to Louisiana for her vote. The actual wording on the bribe is that any state that was designated a national emergency within the past 7 years will receive funding under this provision. The only state that qualifies under that provision is: Louisiana. In other words, the bill will strip $500 million from Medicare and turn around to give $100 million to Louisiana. I do know that the $500 million comes from Medicare in general and the $100 million is for the state program with a similar name. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) estimates that the true benefit for Louisiana will be $300 million, not the $100 million estimated by the CBO. So, she is an even bigger crook than we originally thought.

Other Democrat Senators, who had been enjoying their time on the fence, were now expressing anger at people for trying to persuade them to vote a particular way. What is it with fence sitters? They sit on the fence so everyone will give them attention. Then, when everyone gives them the attention they want they cry that they did not want “that” kind of attention. I think they want everyone to believe that they did it for principles, not for the greed and graft that they were angling for in reality.

I will grant you that this vote only authorizes that the bill under discussion be discussed. The problem with that idea is that once bills get discussed in the Senate, they almost always get passed in some form or another. That is the problem. We do not need this bill in any possible form that resembles what is currently on the table. All you can hope for now is that some Democrats see the light of day. The odds on that happening are somewhere between slim and none. An Obamacare bill passing out of the Senate before the end of the year is almost certain. That means higher taxes, higher health insurance premiums, fewer choices in healthcare, poorer healthcare overall and an end to the America that existed for over 230 years. An America will still exist, but its heart will not be that of America it will be that of Europe or Moscow. An America without the heart of America is not America. At least, it is not the America that I want to pass on to my children and grandchildren.

You may argue, successfully, that other countries have been successful while having socialized medicine. I will grant that those countries appear strong, but their core is weak. If you push those countries, they will crack and fall because there is no inner strength that we have here in the US. We have that inner strength because of individualism. Socialized medicine destroys the concept of individualism in a very short period of time. Within one generation, the concept of individualism as an American ideal will be gone. Then, we are no different than any other country in the world. With the concept of individualism, we are the best country in the world. We are not perfect and have never claimed to be. We are the best and have claimed that for a very long time. To use the argument that we are not perfect, so we cannot be the best is silly. Anyone can be the best and not be perfect. If you want examples, just look at the National Football League. Only one time in its history has a team made it through an entire season with the playoffs and remained undefeated. For a country to be perfect would be impossible as it is made up of imperfect human beings. All a country can be is the best one in the world. One country has to be the best, right now it is us.

I want my grandchildren to be able to defend the “best” country in the world, not the second or third best. With socialized medicine, we will be one of the larger pack of countries in the middle, not at the top. That is why socialized medicine has to be defeated at the earliest level possible. We missed a chance on Saturday because of corruption. We will have another chance later, but corruption will be just as bad, if not worse, then.