To the Editor:
After hearing the flack this morning over Governor LePage’s comment on the IRS, a couple of questions, or so, come to mind.
Are we more concerned about the Governor’s comment or more concerned about thousands of additional IRS agents who have access to our bank accounts? Have we been concerned enough to read the approximately 2700 pages of the healthcare bill that take away unprecedented levels of privacy and freedom? Does it concern us that the IRS has asked for 4000 or so new agents just to track down tax cheats (and who knows how many will be tracking down those who will not have paid for their healthcare insurance)?
Does it bother us at all that we are preparing to take the greatest healthcare system on earth and turn it over to the government?
Hello, the U.S. Postal Service, the TSA, the IRS (pre-Obamacare), et al? Never mind the 300 or so new agents to be hired for collection of fees for Obamacare or the 537 new agents to be hired to take care of subsidies for low income people under Obamacare.
All these new government employees will be making substantial salaries, more than most of their private sector counterparts, and they will have the lavish benefits and pensions of government employees, and yes we’ll be paying for that, too.
Obamacare is about separating us from our freedom and our substance, not about healthcare. Those who really need help are going to be the greatest victims of this bill. The bill doesn’t fully implement until 2014, well beyond the results of the 2012 elections, unless you count the part about collecting taxes to pay for it – we’ve been doing that for some time. What incredible coincidences.
The other area about which I have questions is this concern about the rhetoric or “tone” used by Governor LePage. I’m just wondering if there was an equal amount of consternation and outrage expressed when there were calls for the assassination of President Bush (just one of many examples of attacks on him).
Was there an equal outpouring of anger over the unprecedented personal attacks on Governor Sarah Palin and her family, including her small children; similarly, Congresswoman Michele Bachman? Were we at all traumatized by the three-time vote of then Senator Obama not to give compassionate care to those precious innocent little babies who managed to make it through an abortion, or is our outrage, consternation, etc. selective?
So we get to decide whether we’re going to be useful tools, cattle to be manipulated by the government elites or whether we’re going to stand up for our freedoms at every turn.
Do we realize that elected officials are supposed to be servants of the people, not masters? What has happened to the America where people stood up on their own two feet instead of expecting the government to take care of every little detail of their lives? Where is our backbone?
Have we been turned into a nation of victims without the will or the wit for freedom? If so, count me out of that mix.
Emy Kanewske, Waldoboro
