Guess Who's Coming to Your House?
March 8, 2010
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voluntary, they say, but once you "volunteer" to have the oh-so-helpful
folks from Social Services come in to help with your newborns, or with
a number of other specified issues, will you ever be able to get rid of
them?
The bill provides for federal funding and supervision for this vast expansion of government intrusion into family life. This is the Nanny State on steroids.
Is your family being "targeted" for such home visitations? Let's see if you fit into one of these very broad categories:
- Families where Mom is not yet 21. (No mention here whether she is married or not.)
- Families where someone is a tobacco user. (Does this include the White House? Watch out, Sasha and Malia!) Does Grandpa, whom you love and have taken in, enjoy his after-dinner pipe?
- Families where children have low student achievement, developmental delays, or disabilities.
As if that list were not wide-ranging enough, here's the net that can encompass tens of millions:
- Families with individuals who are serving or formerly served in the armed forces, including such families that have members of the armed forces who have had multiple deployments outside the United States. [Emphasis added.]
So,
while Johnny gets his gun, the government steps in to "help" his family
at home. Ronald Reagan used to say the most frightening words in the
English language were these: I'm from the government and I'm here to
help.
Who
will sit atop the federal pyramid that runs this vast new invasion of
family privacy? Why, it will be Sec. of Health and Human Services,
Kathleen Sebelius, of course. She was the most pro-abortion governor in
American history when President Obama tapped her for his Cabinet.
Do you spank your children? You should know that HHS bureaucrats think you are an abuser.
Do
you support the Second Amendment? How would you like HHS bureaucrats
asking your children if you maintain firearms in the home for family
protection?
Do
you home school your kids? Take care. Members of Congress who have
tried to abolish home schooling are big backers of this health care
bill. Do you wonder why?
There are abundant reasons to oppose this health care bill. Conservative leader Gary Bauer cites the colorful words of Oklahoma Democratic Congressman,
Dan Boren. Mr. Boren is one of the bluest of Blue Dogs. He says: "They
can break my arms. They can do whatever they want to. They'll never get
my vote -- ever. They'll have to walk across my dead body if they want
my vote on this issue." Boren spoke for many concerned Democrats when
he said: "...there is no chance I am voting for this bill because it
raises taxes on businesses, creates job-killing mandates, grows the
size of government, and cuts services to seniors."
All of this is true. But the White House is pulling out all the stops. One of their senior advisers told CNN's Gloria Borger what President Obama's people are telling wavering Democrats on Capitol Hill:
BORGER: Right. This isn't going to be subtle at all today. I think this is it. I was speaking with one senior White House adviser just before I came on the air, and he said, think of it this way. This is the last helicopter out of Saigon, OK?
Could
anything be more bizarre? A senior member of the administration is
comparing the President's signature measure in Congress to the forced
evacuation of the U.S. Embassy in South Vietnam in 1975.
Older
Americans remember the shame and heartbreak of seeing thousands of
America's allies desperately clinging to U.S. Army helicopters as the
North Vietnamese army closed in on South Vietnam's capital city.
We
don't want to re-fight the Vietnam War, but it should not go without
notice that the Democrats also controlled Capitol Hill back in 1975.
The Democrats, led by Sen. Ted Kennedy and Minnesota Congressman Don
Fraser, had cut off all the promised U.S. funding for the
South Vietnamese armed forces that were trying to stave off a brutal
Communist takeover of their country. And we're told we have to pass
ObamaCare as a tribute to Ted!
Is
this the kind of hope and change Mr. Obama's top advisers now want us
to embrace? Are his own people thinking of this last-minute push as a
debacle? Helicopters in Saigon. What a confused and confusing mess
this is!
One
thing is clear: For life and liberty, we must defeat ObamaCare. Call
your U.S. Senators and Representatives now (202.224.3121). Tell them to
vote NO on ObamaCare.
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