Welcome to the NEW United States of America

Well, it finally happened. President Obama delivered on one of his campaign promises. No, not the one about health care, because this bill does not really deliver that. No, I am referring to his promise to "fundamentally transform this country". Over the next few months, and then accelerating as the changes pick up inevitable momentum, the transformation will become truly visible. Within a ten year period, no one who is of age today, will recognize this country, except perhaps those citizens that emigrated from the old Soviet Bloc, and are old enough to remember what that was like. Those people should have NO trouble identifying what the USA will have transformed into.
This is no idle "Fear Mongering" either. With the passage of this bill, without the required vote in the House of Representatives, merely a vote on an obscure rule change, the Legislature has literally given themselves access to virtually every aspect of our lives. This bill included legislation that covered student loans, health insurance, and God only knows what else. So, thanks to this little 2700 page monstrosity, the Government now has total access, without reason or warrant, to our bank records, tax information, health history, and credit history. For all of you conspiracy loving progressives out there, this bill is the realization of everything you were worried about when Bush passed the Patriot Act, only now they have no need of a warrant of any kind, this bill gives them that access, as a necessary part of properly caring for us.
Now, let's discuss what this benevolence bill is going to cost, shall we? I know that for the last couple of days, the Democrats have been pointing to a Congressional Budget Office(CBO) report that shows this bill will actually reduce the deficit. But that is not the whole story of that report. The CBO stated that, using the parameters as relayed to them by the Office of the President of the United States, and using accounting techniques that were used in both the Enron and Home Mortgage debacles, that yes, the Health Care bill's budgetary provisions would result in a reduction in the national debt, for the first two years. The numbers used were only the costs associated with the basic bill, excluding the costs of any amendments to the bill, under "Best Case" circumstances. The truth is, this piece of excrement is going to cost somewhere between $12 and $17 Trillion in actual costs, and it will drive this country into a financial chasm that will make the Great Depression look like a mere hiccup. Keep in mind too, that it was W.W.II that got us out of that one, not the damned New Deal, which actually made things worse.
Well, for all of you that voted that SOB into office, and gave Reid and Pelosi their seats of power, you got what you asked for, Hope and Change. Hope that they can keep all of their backers happy, and Changes in the Constitution as needed to further whatever agenda they decide, we are too dumb to understand is "Good for us". How do you like it, so far? Just wait till the "Real" price has to be paid, you'll fu*%ing love it, then, I bet?
All of this really goes to prove that we need to re-double our efforts to elect representatives and Senators that actually LIKE the United States, instead of the career politicians that we have had for the past hundred years. That is the change that this country really needs. More men and women with the visionary capabilities of Washington, Jefferson, Mason, Adams, and Franklin, instead of those that look to Marx, Mao, Castro, Chavez, and Gueverra. In the meantime, may God have mercy on us all.