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July 2009

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The Montana Shrugged Group

Reply to Max’s Reform Doom written by a member of the TEA Party Group, Corvallis, MT

             Max Baucus is the point man for Obama’s Government run Health Care Reform plan.  The Obama administration knows that if Ted Kennedy (who has been pushing Socialize Medicine for many years) was the point man, most folks would simply reject the plan.

             It’s the old Washington two step, if an unpopular Senator wants a program; they simply trot out another Senator whose seat is considered safe to spearhead the drive.

             Most people are aware that Max has received millions of dollars from health care related companies.  Isn’t it then reasonable to assume he shouldn’t be allowed to write the legislation?

             The Plan will add 46 million uninsured to the health care system, plus probably 12-20 million illegal’s that the rest of us will have to pay most of their health care cost.

             When he says people who can’t pay will be subsidized, he means that hard working folks will have to pay for the 46 million who don’t have insurance.  He also says something about easing our pocketbooks, don’t you believe it, even a first grader know you can’t add 46 million to the system and not expect the cost not to go sky high or the health care quality will decline dramatically.  The current prescription Drug plan is a perfect example of Government expertise.  The cost is three times the Government estimate. We now owe over 12 trillion dollars with 58 trillion in unfunded liabilities.  We have a 2009 first six months deficit of one trillion dollars.  Even Obama says we are broke.  Our future taxes will be oppressive, and Obama will be taxing everything from soft drinks to Grandma’s corset.

             Max voted for the 700 billion dollar Tarp program which didn’t have any oversight and then voted for the 787 billion dollar pork stimulus bill without even reading the final version, which by the way isn’t working and has an Administration estimate of at least a ten percent fraud rate.  This represents a loss of 78.7 billion dollars.

             What we need most is for our politicians to stop borrowing money our grandkids cannot pay back it seems too many of us that Washington is out of control and the only way to rectify the situation is to replace all incumbents.

             People from Canada and the U.K. tell me that their nationalize health care is a nightmare.  Many Canadians come to the States for medical procedures.

             I would hope that people are aware that our system, while in need of reform, still makes more medical improvements than the rest of the world combined.        

             The Administration now controls car, insurance, finance companies and banks plus the military and schools.  They now want to control health care.  We do not want/or need a socialist government run Teddy Kennedy Health Care Plan.  It would be another financial disaster.

             We don’t need more regulations, just people that will do their job.  Our politicians never seem to get it-they are the problem.

             The need for this Administration to micromanage every facet of our lives is starting to choke freedom loving people.  Thomas Jefferson warned about any move toward socialism.  Jefferson said that when Government takes from one group to give to another group – freedom will soon disappear.