Obama Address on Health Care Vote

Here is the propaganda from the White House on the health care vote.

On the White House Blog, Jesse Lee writes:

After a historical vote in the House to send health reform to the President, he speaks to all Americans on the change they will finally see as they are given back control over their own health care.

"Given back control over their own health care"?

IT'S THE OPPOSITE!

The government is taking control.

Here's the White House transcript of Obama's nationally televised remarks:

OBAMA: Good evening, everybody. Tonight, after nearly 100 years of talk and frustration, after decades of trying, and a year of sustained effort and debate, the United States Congress finally declared that America’s workers and America's families and America's small businesses deserve the security of knowing that here, in this country, neither illness nor accident should endanger the dreams they’ve worked a lifetime to achieve.

Tonight, at a time when the pundits said it was no longer possible, we rose above the weight of our politics. We pushed back on the undue influence of special interests. We didn't give in to mistrust or to cynicism or to fear. Instead, we proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges. We proved that this government -- a government of the people and by the people -- still works for the people.

That's right. The Democrats boldly bribed to win votes. Their corruption was limitless, the sleaze, the slime, and the lies unending.

This has been Chicago-style, thug politics.

I want to thank every member of Congress who stood up tonight with courage and conviction to make health care reform a reality. And I know this wasn’t an easy vote for a lot of people. But it was the right vote. I want to thank Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her extraordinary leadership, and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Majority Whip Jim Clyburn for their commitment to getting the job done. I want to thank my outstanding Vice President, Joe Biden, and my wonderful Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, for their fantastic work on this issue. I want to thank the many staffers in Congress, and my own incredible staff in the White House, who have worked tirelessly over the past year with Americans of all walks of life to forge a reform package finally worthy of the people we were sent here to serve.

Obama acts like he's accepting an Oscar.

Today’s vote answers the dreams of so many who have fought for this reform. To every unsung American who took the time to sit down and write a letter or type out an e-mail hoping your voice would be heard -- it has been heard tonight. To the untold numbers who knocked on doors and made phone calls, who organized and mobilized out of a firm conviction that change in this country comes not from the top down, but from the bottom up -- let me reaffirm that conviction: This moment is possible because of you.

There are millions of "unsung" Americans who wrote letters and e-mails, knocked on doors and made phone calls, who organized and mobilized out of a firm conviction to DEFEAT government-run health care to spare their families the agony of rationed care and government bureaucrats making medical decisions for them.

Millions of "unsung" Americans don't want to allow the government to control such a massive portion of our economy.

The overwhelming majority of "unsung" Americans reject the government takeover of health care, but that didn't stop Obama and his hacks from enacting their big government agenda.

Obama and the Democrats ignored the will of the people Sunday night. They didn't listen to our voices.

Most importantly, today’s vote answers the prayers of every American who has hoped deeply for something to be done about a health care system that works for insurance companies, but not for ordinary people. For most Americans, this debate has never been about abstractions, the fight between right and left, Republican and Democrat -- it’s always been about something far more personal. It’s about every American who knows the shock of opening an envelope to see that their premiums just shot up again when times are already tough enough. It’s about every parent who knows the desperation of trying to cover a child with a chronic illness only to be told “no” again and again and again. It’s about every small business owner forced to choose between insuring employees and staying open for business. They are why we committed ourselves to this cause.

Yeah, this is personal. Very personal.

We're talking about putting our health and well-being in the hands of the government and losing control over our health care decisions.

We all have stories. We've had medical issues ourselves or we have had loved ones whose lives were saved and/or enhanced thanks to the innovation and treatments offered by our current health care system.

No board of government bureaucrats in America has denied drugs or treatment to the sick as it's commonly done in countries with socialized medicine.

Tonight’s vote is not a victory for any one party -- it's a victory for them. It's a victory for the American people. And it's a victory for common sense.

This is no victory for the American people.

It's a disaster if you're against government reaching into all aspects of your life. However, if you're comfortable being at the mercy of the state, pop the champagne.

Now, it probably goes without saying that tonight’s vote will give rise to a frenzy of instant analysis. There will be tallies of Washington winners and losers, predictions about what it means for Democrats and Republicans, for my poll numbers, for my administration. But long after the debate fades away and the prognostication fades away and the dust settles, what will remain standing is not the government-run system some feared, or the status quo that serves the interests of the insurance industry, but a health care system that incorporates ideas from both parties -- a system that works better for the American people.

If you have health insurance, this reform just gave you more control by reining in the worst excesses and abuses of the insurance industry with some of the toughest consumer protections this country has ever known -- so that you are actually getting what you pay for.

Lies.

If you don’t have insurance, this reform gives you a chance to be a part of a big purchasing pool that will give you choice and competition and cheaper prices for insurance. And it includes the largest health care tax cut for working families and small businesses in history -- so that if you lose your job and you change jobs, start that new business, you’ll finally be able to purchase quality, affordable care and the security and peace of mind that comes with it.

This reform is the right thing to do for our seniors. It makes Medicare stronger and more solvent, extending its life by almost a decade. And it’s the right thing to do for our future. It will reduce our deficit by more than $100 billion over the next decade, and more than $1 trillion in the decade after that.

More lies.

So this isn’t radical reform. But it is major reform. This legislation will not fix everything that ails our health care system. But it moves us decisively in the right direction. This is what change looks like.

I agree on that point. "This is what change looks like."

I don't like what it looks like.

Obama has said establishing a single payer system, his goal, would take years to achieve, but he and his comrades are celebrating the fact that they have the foundation in place.

Now as momentous as this day is, it's not the end of this journey. On Tuesday, the Senate will take up revisions to this legislation that the House has embraced, and these are revisions that have strengthened this law and removed provisions that had no place in it. Some have predicted another siege of parliamentary maneuvering in order to delay adoption of these improvements. I hope that’s not the case. It’s time to bring this debate to a close and begin the hard work of implementing this reform properly on behalf of the American people. This year, and in years to come, we have a solemn responsibility to do it right.

Once again, Obama is slamming process, the very foundation of our government.

Obama doesn't understand that he's the president, not a dictator.

Nor does this day represent the end of the work that faces our country. The work of revitalizing our economy goes on. The work of promoting private sector job creation goes on. The work of putting American families’ dreams back within reach goes on. And we march on, with renewed confidence, energized by this victory on their behalf.

In the end, what this day represents is another stone firmly laid in the foundation of the American Dream. Tonight, we answered the call of history as so many generations of Americans have before us. When faced with crisis, we did not shrink from our challenge -- we overcame it. We did not avoid our responsibility -- we embraced it. We did not fear our future -- we shaped it.

No, Obama has altered the American Dream. We won't control our own destinies. We'll be controlled by the state.

The future shaped by Obama and the Democrats is not a good one.

They've created a crisis. Rather than employ fiscally sound ways to address problems and reform health care, they chose, in Paul Ryan's words, a "fiscal Frankenstein." They've condemned future generations to an economic nightmare, as well as poor quality health care.

Thank you, God bless you, and may God bless the United States of America.

I think "God help us" would have been more fitting.

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