House speaker Nancy Pelosi gave her minions (the House democrats) a tiny little note card that they are to “never leave home without.” The note card is essentially, as politico.com put it, “a personalized cheat sheet to help Democratic members tell their constituents what they'll gain fromhealth carereform.” Even more humorously, the GOP strategy is to simply “ram it down their throats.” The logic is that since most Americans hate this health care reform bill, you might as well take the fight straight to the democrats. I've put the article in the link above.

The point in mentioning the article is that it sheds light on something I've been noticing for a while now. Some call it “politics as usual”, I call it greedy politicians trying to dupe the American people. Apparently duping the American people isn't very hard, considering they do it every election. I'm not exactly agreeing with Bill Maher or anything, but he isn't exactly wrong either. What I mean to say is, not only do the Democrats NOT have an answer for our failing health care system, neither do Republicans. I have not heard once from Michael Steele on what exactly THEIR plan is. I could be misinformed and if I am, please enlighten me.

History has shown that a free market model of health care works the best. According to Ron Paul, in his book The Revolution: A Manifesto, we had a system like that as early as the 1950's! What went wrong? Well, increased government bureaucracy, which in turn raised prices, which led to more government interference, which led to…well you get my point.

Both parties appear out of touch and slowly fading away. This health care issue is also shedding light on that as well. What I'm seeing now is a Democratic party in way over their head, and a Republican party trying not to get rubbed out as the primary party for economic and individual freedom. The Libertarian party seems to be growing strong, but who knows when they'll hit their stride.

The next time I go to vote, and I don't expect anyone else to follow my example, I vote independent. Voting Republican OR Democrat is just setting yourself up to get duped for the umpteenth time. I would rather support someone I completely disagree with, but who has convictions on his beliefs, then some typical partisan politician. Of course the exception to the rule is someone with fascist or neo-nazi beliefs. In that case, I would stay home on Election day.