Government Shut-down? Another Not So Bright Idea

What’s with the Republican Party?  No, I stand corrected.  Although they are greatly to blame, it isn’t the Republican Party alone, the Democrats are equally responsible.  These constant threats to shut-down our government in an effort to strong arm issues into effect, is not governing.  It is a waste of time, when America has no time to waste. The issue on the table is the repeal of the “Affordable Healthcare Act.”

Rep Matt Salmon, R-AZ   AP/Carolyn Kaster

Representative Matt Salmon, (R) AZ, is an instrumental force in the effort to shut-down the government rather than enact “Obamacare.”   On this week’s “Face the Nation” Representative Salmon said, that this “is the will of the people.”

 

Does Representative Salmon believe America was pleased to lose its global financial rating as it did last year? Does this man truly believe the American people want to see the government go belly up, yet again?  Perhaps this Representative does not realize if we continue healthcare in America as we have, that this is contrary to the will of the people?  The vast majority of the average Americans cannot afford to continue to pay high premiums, high co-pays and astronomical out of pocket expenses.  

The will of the people is for something different, something affordable and something in favor of the people as opposed to favoring the insurance, pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. This law, which finally is set to take effect with the beginning of the fiscal year, is in response to the will of the people.

Yes, there are components of “the Affordable Healthcare Act” that can stand revamping, but this is not what Representative Salmon is suggesting.  He wants to repeal the act in its entirety and continue as we have been, on a course the average citizen is firmly and greatly against.

In April 2013, Representative Salmon also called for limiting politicians to a maximum of six years in the House and 12 in the Senate.  Yes, that’s right, another not so bright idea from the representative.  Maybe we should start with his seat in congress and quickly send his behind back to Arizona.

Perhaps it is time the American people take back our government.  We need to insure our government is acting in favor of the American people.  Special interest groups, corporate sponsors and organizational entities with agendas contrary to the well-being of the people, need not have any influence in the decisions made in our halls of government.  

I’m not hatin, I’m jus sayin…