I can’t remember being much more frustrated as a U.S. citizen than when I saw the House of Representatives pass H.R. 3962 on a Saturday night just a few days ago.  Sneaky Democrats (including Nancy “The Catholic Church Isn’t Sure About Abortion” Pelosi) were smiling from ear-to-ear, jutting out their chins, and clapping in self-congratulation after passing what the Wall Street Journal has called the worst bill of all time.

Ladies and gentlemen, Barack Obama’s America!

If you’re like me, you want to drive to Washington and drop a flaming bag of poo on Nancy Pelosi’s doorstep.  But why exactly should we hate this bill?

Oh, let me count the ways.

1.  Even after the Stupak amendment passed in the House, beware of taxpayer-funded abortions.

The House of Representatives passed an amendment taking out the part about taxpayer-funded abortions in H.R. 3962, but as House Minority Leader John Boehner correctly pointed out, the liberals don’t mind this much because they can just re-insert those provisions.

This is what resulted in Boehner and Charles “Mind Your [Bleep] Business” Rangel having this exchange:

Charles Rangel’s concern for ethics is suddenly so important to him when it gives him an excuse to dodge Boehner’s revealing question about the Stupak amendment.

Democrats say all the time that “Oh, we’re all for less abortions, we just think we can go about it another way.”  If they were honest about that, the Stupak amendment wouldn’t have been necessary in the first place.

You want less abortions, Democrats?  HOW ABOUT NO TAXPAYER-FUNDED ABORTIONS, YOU DIRT-LICKING PILE OF NITWITS AND SCUM?

2.  The cost:  $1.055 trillion over the next decade.

After this disastrous year of the Obama administration and Democratic power on the Hill, it should be apparent:  Big Government Republicans bad, Democrats worse.

Even though Nancy “Watch Me Try and Change My Facial Expression” Pelosi low-balled the cost of H.R. 3962 at somewhere around $800 billion, the Congressional Budget Office puts that figure at $1.055 trillion over the ten years after the bill is passed.

Even if you want government health care, would you think about it twice if it just put us closer to bankruptcy?  I mean, even if you can’t see how a government bureaucracy would ruin health care, can you at least admit that spending a trillion dollars over the next ten years is a bad idea for a country already trillions in the red?

And look at social security, Medicaid, and Medicare, which apparently aren’t enough, even though they’re doing their own massive part to bankrupt our country.  Once initiated, they’ve stuck.  And stuck.

And stuck.

3.  Racial preferences.

I hate racial preferences like affirmative action because that’s the opposite of non-racism.  So what is in H.R. 3962?  You guessed it:  more legislated racism.  “Secs. 2521 and 2533 (pp. 1379 and 1437) establishes racial and ethnic preferences in awarding grants for training nurses and creating secondary-school health science programs,” says the Wall Street Journal.

What kind of weirdo moron do you have to be in order to actually twist your mind into think that government-legislated racism is all right?

4.  You will be required to enroll in a plan of their choosing and pay what they choose for it.

Again, from the Wall Street Journal (bold added):

• Sec. 202 (p. 91-92) of the bill requires you to enroll in a “qualified plan.” If you get your insurance at work, your employer will have a “grace period” to switch you to a “qualified plan,” meaning a plan designed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. If you buy your own insurance, there’s no grace period. You’ll have to enroll in a qualified plan as soon as any term in your contract changes, such as the co-pay, deductible or benefit.

• Sec. 224 (p. 118) provides that 18 months after the bill becomes law, the Secretary of Health and Human Services will decide what a “qualified plan” covers and how much you’ll be legally required to pay for it. That’s like a banker telling you to sign the loan agreement now, then filling in the interest rate and repayment terms 18 months later.

On Nov. 2, the Congressional Budget Office estimated what the plans will likely cost. An individual earning $44,000 before taxes who purchases his own insurance will have to pay a $5,300 premium and an estimated $2,000 in out-of-pocket expenses, for a total of $7,300 a year, which is 17% of his pre-tax income.

That’s not freedom, it’s not constitutional, and it’s downright un-bleeping-American.  The people who voted for this bill should be totally ashamed that they are working toward making the America that our veterans fought and died for nonexistent.

This is utter insanity.

5.  More burden on businesses trying to hire you.

Oh, by the way, if you want a job, under H.R. 3962  you’d have to get someone to pay 72.5% of your health care cost under penalty of incurring an 8% payroll tax.

I don’t know what galaxy Nancy Pelosi is from, but here on Earth in the Milky Way, forcing employers to pay massive costs for health care is beyond stupid.

But then more people will have health care simply by working!  Yay!

What good is health care if it just eats our economy – and hence our quality of life – from the inside?  By the way, do you know why employers started paying health insurance in the first place?  Because of government wage freezes.  How about that?  An unintended consequence to a government regulation, who knew?

People, there are usually unintended consequences when you try to enact laws like these!  And when you pass a 1,900-plus page bill with all of these complications, taxes, fees, and requirements, you aren’t helping, you’re asking for disaster.  Even if universal health care was a good idea, couldn’t you do that in a bill that was, say, a few pages long?

6.  Our entitlements are already disasters.

I heard Charles “Mind Your Own [Bleep] Business” Rangel saying something about social security – that Republicans would have blocked social security from being passed or some other thing; I can’t give you the exact quote.

But Democrats do actually think like this.  They actually think that Social Security was a good idea, despite the fact that it’s a Ponzi scheme that’s going to cripple us.  It’s like some rich guy saying “Thank goodness I went with that Madoff guy” ever after the Ponzi scheme stuff came out.

Oh, you Republicans would have argued against social security and Medicare/Medicaid!  You stone age folk.

Uh, yeah, because those entitlements are stupid.

For instance, guess how much money Medicare has in unfunded liabilities (for the liberals who don’t understand money, an unfunded liability is something you’ll have to pay but don’t have the money for).  THIRTY-SEVEN BLEEPING TRILLION DOLLARS.

What if H.R. 3962 went on Suze Orman’s “Can You Afford It?” segment?

7.  Artificially controlling costs.

Programs under H.R. 3962 would try to lower costs in high-cost areas, presumably by doing that with government.  Of course, this is a terrible idea, because artificial prices lead to bubble inflations and general misery.

I gave myself a bad haircut the other week, and I realized that you get what you pay for.

8.  Turning doctors into public school teachers.

I get a chill up my spine just writing it.

Tell me:  If the government is going to mandate what you do and what you get paid, wouldn’t you rather work in something that could not only be more profitable, but help more people?

I’m fine with doctors making a lot of money, because what they do is very valuable and in the free market, those who create value are rewarded with value in return.  But our education system is a mess, and we already have nationalized education.  How do you think it will turn out in the case of health care?

Just wait until you see weed-smoking in the “Doctor’s lounges.”

9.  Free money for community “entities” with little verification that they’re doing anything for communities.

If you don’t believe in the free lunch, then you are not acquainted with H.R. 3962.

Sec. 399V (p. 1422) provides for grants to community “entities” with no required qualifications except having “documented community activity and experience with community healthcare workers” to “educate, guide, and provide experiential learning opportunities” aimed at drug abuse, poor nutrition, smoking and obesity. “Each community health worker program receiving funds under the grant will provide services in the cultural context most appropriate for the individual served by the program.”

Yeah, this sounds like a good idea, just like a sarcasm detector is a real useful invention.  When all you have to do for grant money is have something documented with “community activity and experience with community healthcare workers,” you can easily rip off the government.  I don’t think I’m giving away any secrets here because people do that stuff all the time; it’s called waste and fraud.

10.  Killing the engine of low prices:  competition.

When customers are able compare prices and pick what they buy based off of that, prices generally stay down so that businesses can compete with each other and attract more customers.  But in this bill, you will generally receive a health care plan comparable to everyone else’s.

So, in essence, the opposite of what drives low costs.

For more info, refer to the Wall Street Journal’s article “What the Pelosi Health-Care Bill Really Says.”