What is the real agenda?

Why all of the rush, all of a sudden? Ever since the Democrats came into full power in January, they have been in full hurry-up mode.

I remember the so-called stimulus bill was rushed through before anybody could read it or understand it. Turns out it didn't stimulate much but it did feather a bunch of Democratic nests.

A bullet train from Southern California to Las Vegas for good old Harry Reid, for instance.

It is easy to recognize that some action was called for at the time. A day or two or even a month would not have made any difference. So why the rush?

The energy bill, aka the cap and trade bill, was similarly rushed through the House, with no time to read it, and no amendments permitted ( Ms. Pelosi makes Tom DeLay look like a warm fuzzy kitten).

And now the President is pushing it through the Senate, trying to pass it by August.

This so-called problem ended in 1998 when the globe started cooling again. Why not take a few months and have a good debate on it? Why the big rush?

And now we have the big push to pass socialized health care (disguised as "reform") by August as well. The health care business has been around for a long time, and Medicare and Medicaid have needed reform since they were initiated.

So why are we rushing into all of this? These are major bills that will have lasting, perhaps permanent, effects on our lives and our economy.

And we must pass them without even having a debate or being able to read and understand them before they become law?

Wait a minute. Just wait a minute. Is this the kind of "hope and change" we want? Does this constitute the transparency Obama promised? Or the bi-partisanship?

Maybe its just Rahm Emmanuel not wanting to lose the benefit of a good crisis to ram things through.

Could there be another agenda at work here? Not just health care reform, or solving global warming? Is this an attempt to transform the United States into a socialist state, where everyone has equal results in the pursuit of happiness?

Consider the energy proposals. This would levy high direct and indirect taxes on everyone who uses energy.

Companies that manufacture or produce things would be the heaviest hit. It would make those industries even more uncompetitive than the labor unions have managed to do. That would produce a huge drag on employment. This has very deleterious effects on the entire economy, because we have to produce things to create wealth.

Of course, we would all be hit, depending upon the energy we use. Walk to work and do away with all of your modern appliances, including lights, and you might avoid most of the tax.

The health care industry is also a large part of our economy, and employs a very large number of people. The proposals before the Congress would create a number of taxes on various aspects, and particularly employers within and without the industry. Uninsured individuals who don't want insurance ( about 40% of the total according to a study for the CBO) will be taxed, forcing them to buy or pay the tax. (Free country, right!).

Both of those bills will contribute to severely crippling our economy right in the midst of the worst recession since the Great Depression.

And anyone with any degree of intelligence should know it.

Now I know that Obama and his team are intelligent and should know this is true ( that does not apply to Lenin's "useful idiots" in the Congress).

So is it their real agenda to bring the US to its knees? Where are they heading us?

They have already nationalized the biggest automaker. Who will be next?