Reply #119: In absolutely complete agreement...... [View All]

[ogam5]

I couldn't agree more with what you said, Captain; as a progressive-minded reformist, I registered Independent for the last time a month ago after reliably voting Democrat for almost 30 years.....I am for TRUE health reform that would, above all else, staunchly protect our freedom to make choices without interference from ANYONE, whether it be D.C. (and ESPECIALLY the FDA, which I want reduced to a mere advisory, rather than regulatory, role concerning supplements) brain-dead medical know-it-alls with insufferable God complexes and so forth. For almost 13 years I have used alternative medicine with inarguably good results since it first saved my life in 1997, and if the McCain-Dorgan bill passes, it will be another declaration of war on me and I WILL take steps to defend my right, because I don't believe there is anyone who will ever protect me otherwise from such self-serving tyranny - McCain-Dorgan is more proof that NEITHER of these parties can legitimately claim to love freedom above all else or lay claim to the moral high ground.....

This federal health insurance mandate is, without question, the most thoroughly despotic act in American history and I have NEVER been more ashamed of my country than I am tonight, but so many of these overeducated zealots really know not what is they've done - they're utterly incapable of recognizing their raging hypocrisy while taking every opportunity to portray themselves as pro-choice where abortion is concerned, but safeguard MY right to choose? And deny the pharmaceutical industry and insurance companies their cut of whatever wages I can eke out in this anemic economy? Hell no, apparently. If Dennis Kucinich had any real backbone, he would've told Obama what he could do with this obscenity but, of course, he caved and subsequently parroted the unbearably pat party line I've heard from SO many MA state officials: "It's not perfect, but it's better than doing nothing".

I fought the mandate up here for almost 3 years and one huge reason the infernal thing passed (without ANY prior public advice, clearly violating the state constitution in that way alone) is the multitude of sleeping beauties that just didn't have the intellectual curiosity to investigate further - to say nothing of the gutless wonders who just rolled over or even carried water for the Connector, Martha Coakley chief among them.....I will be GodDAMNED before I ever comply with their unilateral edict - they can just TRY to put me in prison and I'll invoke the Defense of Religion clause. But one thing is clear: we are now officially in Hell and the so-called 'land of the free' is a fast-fading memory.