To Senator Jeff Merkley, D-OR

07 March, 2010
Dear Senator Merkley;
Thank you again for your service to Oregon and to the United States.

My familial obligations prevented me from attending your town hall meeting in Sherwood, so I must tell you via e-mail that the vast majority of Oregonians not currently employed by a governmental body are adamantly opposed to "Obamacare" in its current version. The opposition stems from the realization that this is not a "reform" bill, but a "takeover" proposal, and that ceding this much personal choice to the Federal government will usher in a Socialist regime, the "fundamental transforming" of which then-candidate Obama spoke so glowingly.
This debate is NOT about healthcare nor reform: it is about the transfer of power and authority to the Federal bureaucracy, which transfer only the plutocrats of Washington,D.C. wish to accomplish. Not since the Volstead Act have we seen such a devastation-inducing piece of legislation, yet many in Washington are ready to sacrifice their careers in order to instigate this program, knowing that, once a leftist/socialist state has been created, like Frankenstein's creature, it will be all but impossible to destroy. So the 2010 and even the 2012 elections swing toward conservatives, so what? What can a conservative Congress do to change a leftist state? Nothing. The die shall have been cast, the future sealed.
Do I want to live in the Soviet Socialist Republik of Amerika? No. And what of you, sir? Where will you be living? This abominable bill is the proverbial camel's nose into that state. Why else would it be so vehemently and absurdly promoted, replete with its dubious case histories, laughably incorrect and fanciful bookkeeping, and its mandates for prison terms, political payoffs, and irreversible decrees?

No. No, ten thousand times NO, good sir. This is the wrong bill at the wrong time covering the wrong things by the wrong people for the wrong reasons, and more than two-thirds of the American people know that it is wrong.
Sadly, I expect you to vote as your party dictates, rather than represent the best interests of the people of Oregon in this matter. At the point of your "yea" vote, it becomes an issue of power, and not of right. And it will usher in the demise of a once-great nation of free men, a nation which was a great beacon of prosperity, of peace, and of liberty will become a nation from which people will flee, even as Cubans, Latvians, Estonians, Poles, Germans, and Russians once fled their Socialist dictatorships. To whence shall we turn when America collapses? And who will be the ones of whom history shall say: "They brought her to her knees?"

How shall you be remembered? And how shall I?