So you probably know that the health care bill passed the House vote last night.  I won't bore you with details, but I did a little research on the bill today; here's my summary:

Basically the bill is government takeover of insurance companies. There would be a new government insurance "company," and all private companies would be subjected to tons of regulation. No company would be able deny anyone, every citizen would be required to get insurance (or pay a fine), and for financing there would be a $400 billion cut in Medicare over a decade and a 5.4% tax on individuals making more than $500,000 and families making more than $1 million.

If you want to read a real article, here's one from the Wall Street Journal.

I also read articles from whitehouse.gov and cato.org, so I could see several sides of it.

If you live in America, please call or e-mail your senators and urge them to vote no on the health care bill.

Here are e-mail addresses and phone numbers for senators:

You can sort by state to find your's, and there are phone numbers on a file in the right-hand column.  I haven't called yet (will asap Monday morning), so hopefully they're all correct.

If you want to e-mail your senators, here's what I sent.  Obviously don't copy mine word for word, but it can give you some ideas:

Dear Senator ______,

I would like to encourage you to vote NO on the upcoming Senate health care bill.

When the government pays for anything they take the money out of someone else's pocket.

The proposed 5.4% tax increase on individuals making over $500,000 is $27,000 per $500,000.  That will cause job loss and hurt the economy, because the "rich" individual would have most likely spent that money on an employees wages, in the economy, or invested it in a bank where someone else could use it for financial growth.

Furthermore, the free market has great incentive to continue to develop medical advances and cheaper health care, because America will pay for the best.  When the government pays for it the advances will be stifled, because the playing field will be leveled and when there is less competition there is less incentive to win.

So please vote NO on the health care bill.

Thank you for your time,
Jane Doe (not my real name)


Yes, I know this post was very slanted and propagated my own opinion.  If you call your senator and urge them to vote for the health care bill that is perfectly fine.  It just should not be said that I failed to promote what I believe is right and in the best interest of my entire country.  I am biased and proud, but I have research to back my beliefs.

The other day I was driving my dad's mid-life-crisis Toyota Avalon, which is about one step below a sports car.  A car had been tailgating me the entire trip and finally he passed me on a double-yellow line and it was this little dinky car.

My dad, who was in the passenger seat, said to me, "You're faster than him, pass him back on that double-yellow line!"  I said, "That's ok, I'll just sit here, smug with the satisfaction that I can outrace him."


I have a friend named Nate, and his brother's name is Matt.  My dad knows about a zillion Matts, so he always accidentally calls Nate Matt.  Then yesterday he decided to dub him Anti-Matt.

Last week someone else called Nate Matt, and then he started lamenting about how everyone calls him Matt, and he just doesn't understand it.

Nate: "Matt's the short, ugly one!"
Me: "And you're the tall, ugly one!"
Nate:  >.<


"Remember kids, a clean knife is a happy knife!" - Alton Brown