United States ARE

Before the War of Northern Aggression occurred in 1861, The people referred to the United States ARE, not the United States IS. In fact, Jefferson referred to Virginia as his country, and Robert E Lee rejected a command in the Union Army in order to instead fight for his country - which was also Virginia.

It is an amazing thing as you watch the dismantling of the United States by the Democratic Party, that the founding fathers in their infinite wisdom, put so many checks on the power of what the Federal government can and cannot do. This was usurped yesterday when the Congress voted to restrict a person's right to carry a concealed weapon across state lines. There is a little thing called the 2nd Amendment that says the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, but the Dems never let the Constitution get in their way before.

And so here is an article today that illustrates the fact that several states are once again reasserting their rights under the 10th Amendment. And those are the only countries I'd fight for.

A personal story about the future of health care

In my state, as in most I am sure, the state requires that to become a nurse you must be licensed and to get that license you take a final test, which you cannot take until the state processes your paperwork.

This processing time takes six to eight weeks. Ours took exactly eight weeks. One more day it would have been nine.

At the 6th week, my wife started calling to get the status. To get the status, you have to call the government office. This waiting time averages 20 minutes before a grunt picks the phone up and says, hello. The first time she called, they said they didn't receive the package they needed from the school. So my wife called the school and had the package resent - placing us in peril of another eight-week wait.

The next call was to get to the person in charge. But the person in charge doesn't accept phone calls and doesn't return messages either.

I then called my state rep to help. He is a conservative so I knew I'd at least have a sympathetic ear and could utilize the help of someone in government who knew government. His person in charge also called and got similar cold shoulders. When the government person explained to the other government person that we were unemployed and needed to get moving on the licensing so we could get unemployed in a state that has high unemployment, the government lady in charge was "unmoved."

In the second to last call, my wife tried to get in touch with the person who did know everything about her paperwork and was working on it. The reply was that she was out of the office on vacation and no one was sure when she'd get back. (Keep in mind that this type of accountability is above most civil servant's pay grades.)

Finally success. We got the paperwork.

But this is just a taste of what government health care will look like if it passes.