I sincerely hope that we never forget this “Era of Obama” as long as we are a nation. As a free people we need to remember how, by mob rule, the Democrats, acting as the majority, so willingly, and I might add, gleefully, voted to take away the rights of the acting minority. Let this time of national shame and humiliation be an object lesson in how easily our precious liberty can be taken away from us, not by force, but by our own greed and ignorance.

In my 69 years I have never seen such purposeful and deliberate attacks from our own Congress against the freedoms and liberties of our own citizens. The majority party in both the House and Senate have studiously ignored the voice of the minority in order to cram their agenda down the throats of the American people when honest polls show that the majority of Americans do not want either Cap And Trade(Tax) or Obamacare. By another name this is nothing more than mob rule. The very essence of political rights is to ensure that the minority does not suffer the loss of their rights, yet the Democrats have done just that.

Pretending that this is what the majority of society wants does not justify such blatant denial of anyone’s right to be heard, and this is exactly what the Democrats have done by refusing to consider the opposing party’s voices.  They intend to further enslave the producers of this country in order to ensure the economic equality of all citizens, whether they have earned it or not. It is a well-known fact that liberals consider the Constitution a major hindrance to their socialist agenda, and it is obvious that they are side-stepping and ignoring it in order to force their wishes upon the American people. They have decided what is best for all of us and by hook or by crook, they are going to see that we get it, never mind that it will force a horribly expensive one-size-fits-all monstrosity on everyone.

When the Founding Fathers wrote about our basic right of the Pursuit of Happiness, they did not in any way intend that to mean that we the people have an obligation to provide happiness to anyone. What they clearly meant was that we have the right to pursue our own happiness in our own way. However, now, in the Era of Obama, that right has been abrogated; it no longer exists because we are being forced at gun point to take a portion of our earnings and purchase something we don’t want and can’t afford.

“Oh how can you be so selfish and cruel to deny health care to the poor?” This is a specious argument at best, and completely ignorant at worse. No one in this country is being denied health care on the basis of their financial status. The government has long ago mandated that anyone who appears in an Emergency Care Center at any hospital will be given the best medical care available regardless of their ability to pay. This was a federal mandate forced on hospitals in which they were reimbursed for services rendered to the poor and indigent.

As an aside: from Michelle Malkin’s book “Culture of Corruption” comes a tale of Michelle Obama’s involvement in the Chicago School of Medicine hospital where she worked as a $300,000.00-a-year consultant (while her husband was a Senator). As a way to cut expenses, she worked a deal that all indigent walk-in’s were to be shuttled to inner-city free clinics and not to be treated at the hospital. However, they were logged into the Emergency room first thereby allowing the hospital to receive the federal funds without treating them. Yet another example of the liberal "compassion."

Watching the majority party in the House dancing in the aisles and high-fiving each other reminded me of seeing Hitler’s bizarre little jig on the newsreels after he signed the papers of France’s surrender. I guess I understood that, but watching liberals celebrate the taking away of the rights of their own citizens -- now that is bizarre -- and downright frightening. Having more money confiscated from my earnings in order to pay for more unearned benefits claimed as a “right” by the ruling party is not only unconstitutional, it is criminal. Nobody, no state or any individual has the right to claim my property (that which I earn by my own labor) as theirs for any reason other than in the common defense of my country against physical force or tyranny both from inside and/or outside our borders. Our government was never given a constitutional mandate to decide on what is beneficial for society and then go about confiscating (with the full force of the government behind them) money from its citizens in order to provide that benevolence.

From now on I cannot see how Americans can ever again hold our heads up in the world and claim that we are the shining example of freedom and democracy; that we are a bright light shining on the hill for all to aspire to. We gave those bragging rights up when we elected a liberal congress and a liberal Marxist as president. I never again want to hear of our country lecturing some other developing country on human rights. We can no longer speak to that issue with any authority since our elected officials now celebrate the stripping of individual rights in favor of group rights.

There can be no such thing as group rights since groups are made up of individuals. Without individual rights then the group is no more than a mob being ruled by a dictator who decides what rights they have at his whim. If a group claims rights in and of itself, it means that none of its members has individual rights and must surrender to the will of the group. True Americans will never surrender their freedoms and Constitutional rights to a group which is why the idea of total government control of their health care is so abhorrent to them.

By what right can we claim the moral high ground in Iraq and Afghanistan when we allow ourselves to be ruled by a petty little dictator? Are we going to allow them to be free to run their own country as they see fit? Or are we going to exploit them the way we exploit our own people; using them as cash cows to further a statist agenda?

And now that the liberals have entrenched themselves so deeply into the fabric of our society, like bloated ticks who have sunk their heads under our skin, what is in store for us next? Since they consider national patriotism a cause of world problems and the reason countries go to war, they are taking aim at a One World Government where no country has sovereignty and borders are open to everyone. No one will be afforded individual rights since this encourages individual actions which a socialist/communist government cannot abide. Internationalism is the next logical step for Obama and his minions so don’t be surprised when you wake up one morning to find that our Constitution has been replaced by a UN treaty and Barak Hussein Obama is the new World President.