We may get a clue to President Obama's tactics in pushing through the Health Care Reform Bill from his reverence for another President—Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 

FDR, as he is affectionately called, was our nation's 37th, 38th, 39th, and 40th President, if you count by terms of office.  He became President March 4, 1933 and served in office until his death in April, 1945.  He was known as the Big Deal President for all the socialistic programs he helped pass during the Great Depression, including Social Security.  Many analysts believe that the Depression would not have been nearly as severe or lasted as long, were it not for his takeover and repression of many areas of the economy.  In his books and speeches, Obama has often made reference to FDR and his own task of finishing the job FDR began.  How much farther left would Obama take us?  And what sort of methods will he be willing to take to get us left of FDR's America?  (1)

When Vice President Joe Biden thought he was off-mike and used an inappropriate comment to describe the Democrat's Health Care Reform Bill that had just passed, he described it as an (expletive) "Big Deal." 

Big Deal?  New Deal?  Old Deal resurrected?  I think it may appropriately be called Obama's Really Big New Deal.

Whatever way it is described, this Health Care Reform Bill is part of a gigantic takeover of America by the federal government.  If this bill is implemented as it stands, it will mean that 51% of the economy of the United States of America will be government-owned. 

We used to think some of our neighbors to the south had the banana republics, run by dictatorial thugs.  Now, our own government is quickly becoming such a government where the people are no longer in control.  States are losing power and sovereignty, which is why many states' Attorney's General are bringing lawsuits to protect their states and their people from the health care overhaul.  Banks have been taken over.  General Motors is now a government owned and operated company.  We can expect that any company that now disagrees with the President's takeover of health care will be harassed, audited, taxed, fined, and even taken over by government-appointed executives.  CEO's making too much money?  If they received any Stimulus or Bail Out money, they may find their books audited, their company executive officers called before Congressional hearings, and worse, the government quietly taking over their business.  Now, if they object to providing  insurance, they will fined whatever the bureaucracy decides.  Doctors could lose their licenses and presumably be put in jail for trying to own their own hospitals. 

If one carefully reads the Health Care Reform Bill (which is still being changed), one finds that the bill states it will be unlawful to change it and oppose any part of the bill.  Taking the scope even further, it will be illegal to dispute the decisions of the "Health Care Commissioner" or the "Comparative Effectiveness Research Commission" on your or your family's health care. (2)

If we think the IRS is intrusive, insensitive, overbearing, and unaccountable now, just wait.  They are mild compared to what is to come if this bill is not overturned.  It is evident that the new Health Care Reform Bill will place at least 16,500 more IRS agents in force to police American doctors, insurance companies, hospitals and clinics, as well as every business in America.  And that only touches the surface.  There will be a whole network of bureaucrats and supervisors to police us, our doctors and medical facilities, telling us what type of care we may receive.

I will keep drumming on this constitutional issue, because our country's freedom is at stake as never before.  We are in a precarious position.  It remains to be seen if our freedoms will survive and if America can retain its place as a super-power, and more importantly, a home of the brave and free if government controls our health decisions, takes our wealth in taxes and fees, and continues to spend money we do not have.  For the sake of our children and grandchildren, we must do all we can to turn back the tide, away from increasing socialism and back to personal responsibility and freedom in America.
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(1) The Volume Library, 1980, (Nashville, TN: Southwestern Company), 792.
(2) Document: "A Tale of Two Approaches," http://www.gop.gov