"Dad, the unfinished business is done"

Senator Ted Kennedy's grave site, Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia. March 22, 2010

Be Careful Who You Follow.

I see where two of the more fringe characters in the local Tea Party movement were organizing a bus trip to D.C this past week to "Surround the Capital".

God bless them, Sue Ward and Lyn Bing bring their own brand of crazy to the Valley. In their words:

The rally will begin at noon when we join fellow patriots from around the country to surround the capitol and protest Congress' corrupt takeover.

"Corrupt takeover"? It was an election, or two really. One in 2006, another in 2008. We elected the President on a campaign promise of Health Care Reform. That's how democracies work ladies. You don't have to like it but you don't get to call it a "corrupt takeover", it was the Will of the People. America won, you lost.

You aren't "patriots", you are ignorant, angry rabblerousers. Big difference.

Now quit insulting your neighbors.

Reduce Federal Spending - Reform Health Care.

The largest consumer of health care services in America is...the Federal government.

The federal government’s spending on health care totaled more than $1 trillion in 2009.

Federal outlays for Medicare and Medicaid are about $700 billion; tax preferences for health care (especially the exclusion of premiums for employment-based health insurance from income and payroll taxes) amount to more than $250 billion;

....and the federal government also pays for veterans’ health care, public health initiatives, and other health programs.

Already, those direct and indirect payments for health care account for nearly 60 percent of total health expenditures for the nation.

Health Care reform IS Federal spending reform.