Dems’ version of health reform will destroy America as we know it

This immoral equation inverts responsibility.

3. This bill saves groups that don’t deserve to be saved. The number one expense for unions is their health care costs. The best unions are only 70 percent funded for their pension liabilities. The biggest share of the costs? Health care.

Why should people paid too much for jobs, with cushy retirements, and fabulous benefits that out performs the private sector, get bailed out, now, with health care reform? Why should other Americans pay for health care benefits for people whose benefits should be cut?

The bottom line is that the economy is in recession, people are losing jobs, and unions refuse to cut benefits to their members while private sector workers are enduring pay and benefit cuts. Union bosses won’t cut anything for their workers and simultaneously expect non-union members to bail them out.

Health care reform tears at fundamental threads holding our society together. Should it pass, it will reshape the American psyche from a risk-taking, freedom-loving open-mindedness to a self-protective, risk-averting, and provincial desire to protect the tiny piece of pie the citizen is granted.

Health care reform is immoral. It changes the equation from creating a legacy and gift to the next generation, to stealing from them. The debt load is such that our children are enslaved because of their parents greed and lack of restraint.

Health care reform redistributes wealth. The government bequeaths a win on irresponsible unions and businesses hoping to avoid commitments they made. The government decides. Instead of individuals and groups being forced to make the tough decisions, the government rescues them–sends them a lifeline that’s at the other end of a rope that is a noose around the necks of the very same American people.

So yes, this bill is worth fighting against. The outcome of this vote means everything to the future of America. For once, this is not hyperbole or excessive grandstanding. It’s the terrifying truth.

Melissa Clouthier blogs at MelissaClouthier.com and RightWingNews.com. She also writes at various places around the web. Melissa has her own twice-weekly podcast Right Doctor which plays on RadioForConservatives.com and can be found on her new start-up LibertyPundits.com where she also has a podcast, Malcolm & Melissa, with the LA Time’s blogger Andrew Malcolm and a weekly round-up podcast. Melissa has commentated for the BBC and various radio programs.