The Heavy Hand Of Pelosi

Pelosi's health bill passed 220-215.

So?

Failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) will land people in jail. Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax, are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.

Question:

How will the the homeless, the near-homeless and the very poor deal with these new health care mandates? Destitute people can't buy anything, and a visit to any emergency room under this new law could land them in jail.

Does Pelosi intend to jail them all? Of course not. There are not enough jails on the planet to jail the Millions of people in America that will never be able to buy insurance or pay the fines. Pelosi and her ilk know this.

Then why the threats?

Because none of this is about health insurance for the uninsured. It's about centralized power and government control. Universal health care is only the wrapping masking this massive grab for power.

Who are these new fines and jail terms really intended for? Not for those who cannot - and never will - pay. It is for those people who the government wants to make examples of, to put the fear of government into those who have had no reason to fear their government before.

So. The poor, who pay no taxes in the first place, are not the target for these fines and jail terms. The rich? No, they are above this sort of fray. The target is the working middle-class that already pay for everything. They cannot be allowed to opt out, or to refuse. It is they who must be taught to fear their government.

This is the first time in the history of the United States that the federal government will be demanding and expecting all the tax-paying citizens - the working middle class - to buy something, something very expensive. The poor will be allowed skate on this. The rich and elite? Well, none of this concerns them.

Bad as that is, the threatened fines or jail time for not buying tells me that we are now under the thumb of a Marxist government that will preside over the sunset of a once great America.

You and I will be able to watch it all.