Letter to Rep. Paul Hodes (D-NH):
Regarding "Health Care Reform"
By Carl Bussjaeger, November 8, 2009

Last night, the morally bankrupt House pols, having tossed all concepts of American principles, passed socialized medicine (AKA "health care reform"). Due to the timing, no one has actually read the final version as passed, but what we do know is far past merely disturbing. This is a bill that, among other things, criminalizes self-reliance and institutes a citizen-serf database that puts the hated REAL ID database to shame (the proposed "electronic medical records" with HIPAA-guaranteed law enforcement access are a totalitarian's wet dream).

While letters from "constituents" don't really accomplish much, I like to remind the would-be masters in DC that we are watching and we do understand what they are doing; even if they don't.

This is what I just sent to my so-called "Representative" Paul Hodes (D-NH), with courtesy copies to my Senators:

Mr. Hodes,

I see your precious Pelosi's socialized medicine/tax hike/privacy violation "health care reform" bill passed in the House. That, despite the fact that poll after poll showed that the vast majority of Americans opposed it.

I have not used so much as a penny of public funds for my own health care since I was honorably discharged from the Air Force eighteen years ago. Only during approximately six and a half of those eighteen years did I have health insurance. Yet somehow I was able to take care of myself, or pay out of my own pocket for care (usually eyeglasses).

But that isn't good enough for a control freak like you. You passed a bill that will have me arrested, fined, and thrown in prison for the crime of daring to look after myself without your dubious (and unconstitutional) "help". Your vote criminalizes self-reliance; that is just about as un-American as it is possible to be.

Besides criminalizing self-responsibility, your vote also imposes new taxes, an expanded bureaucracy, adds a minimum of $1 trillion to the national debt, establishes a citizen tracking system through a new "electronic medical records" system (which through HIPAA will be open to law enforcement), and generally destroys any real concept of privacy.

You're disgusting.

Since you like taxes, treating humans like cattle, and Pelosi, I suggest that you move from New Hampshire, where some of us still take "Live free, or die" seriously, to California. I think you will be much happier in a state that wants to feed at the taxpayer's jugular. And we will be much happier in New Hampshire, too.

I will Courtesy Copy Senators Shaheen and Gregg on this letter in hopes that they can learn from your mistake.

Sincerely,

Carl Bussjaeger