Majority of Americans Disaprrove of Health Care Bill

According to a recent Rasmussen Poll 53% of Americans disapproved the Health Care Bill and yet here we have it.

CNN's Research Opinion Poll has the number as high as 59%.

If the majority of Americans disapproved of this bill and the Democratic majority still passed the it, who's interest are they really serving?

As Obama stands in front of the camera's smiling championing his victory his approval rating is falling out of orbit, down to 43%.

Now maybe I fell asleep in government class but I was under the impression that in a Democracy the elected officials served the will of the people.

As I watch the all the commentators on MSM go back and forth with politicians on both sides I see two issues getting fused together in order to support this bill:

1. This bill provides Health Care to 32 million Americans.

2. It provides legal boundaries that the insurance companies can't go outside of.

Ok, to me both of these are reasonable and they do help people, no doubt about it. However, the thing I think most supporters don't look at is the mandate. Why not let individual people opt? If you need it or want it good, go get it. But for those who don't want it shouldn't they be allowed to opt out? Isn't this apart of the freedom that makes America, well...America? Isn't this apart of that freedom we go all over the globe to protect and establish, topple governments to enforce, over throw dictators to establish?

How can we go anywhere in the world and tell people we're fighting for freedom and democracy when we the majority at home yell a big collective, "NO" and the government still says "yes".

Republicans assail IRS provision in health care bill

"The bill would allow the IRS to confiscate refunds if there are penalties for not buying health care".

House Ways and Means Republicans on Thursday assailed a provision in the proposed health care reform bill under consideration this week.

Subcommittee on Oversight ranking member Charles Boustany (R-La.) said the IRS provision in the bill "dangerously expands, in an ominous way the tentacles of the IRS and it's reach into every American family," he said today during a press conference.

"This is a vast expanse of power," he said.

Boustany said the bill would allow the IRS to confiscate refunds if there are penalties for not buying health care.

Lawmakers have questioned whether the IRS can handle the increased workload to oversee, administer and collect penalties for people who don't buy health insurance.

"This is increasing tax liability and tax scrutiny," said Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.).

Ranking member Dave Camp (R-Mich.) said many Americans have already rejected the call for health care reform for other reasons and an expansion of the IRS should only add to call to "kill the bill."

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'Sovereign Citizens' Claim Immunity From Ind., Federal Law

Fed up and fired up, an increasing number of Indiana residents who have lost confidence in the government are going to extreme measures to claim they are "sovereign citizens."

By doing so, residents contend that they no longer have to pay taxes, claiming their homes as embassies and using identification cards that show them as diplomats, 6News' Rafael Sanchez reported.

Indiana authorities call such proclamations both illegitimate and illegal. About 10 people every month ask the state to put a seal on a document so that they can claim freedom from taxes.

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EDITOR'S NOTE: I always hear people say, "when are people going to wake up?", or "The general public is too dumb to see what's going on around them". While it's easy to dismiss or write off large groups of people when they don't necessarily show your level of concern about some particular issue, it important to show support when they do.

Homeland Security to scan fingerprints of travellers exiting the US

The US Department of Homeland Security is set to kick-start a controversial new pilot to scan the fingerprints of travelers departing the United States.

From June, US Customs and Border Patrol will take a fingerprint scan of international travelers exiting the United States from Detroit, while the US Transport Security Administration will take fingerprint scans of international travelers exiting the United States from Atlanta.

Biometric technology such as fingerprint scans has been used by US Customs and Border Patrol for several years to gain a biometric record of non-US citizens entering the United States.

But under the Bush Administration, a plan was formulated to also scan outgoing passengers.

Michael Hardin, a senior policy analyst with the US-Visit Program at the United States Department of Homeland Security told a Biometrics Institute conference today that the DHS will use the data from the trial to "inform us as to where to take [exit screening] next."

"We are trying to ensure we know more about who came and who left," he said. "We have a large population of illegal immigrants in the United States - we want to make sure the person getting on the plane really is the person the records show to be leaving."

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