Speachless

Ok....so I guess I'm not really speachless since I'm blogging about this, and I have been keeping my mouth shut on this issue, trying to be optimistic, knowing that everything is in Heavenly Father's hands & plan, but my stomach has been turning in knots ever since I read this morning's paper. Somewhere along the line, some of people running our country (219 in particular) have abandoned the foundations upon which our country has been standing for hundreds of years. Since when has a bill that the majority of the population of America opposes, passed in both houses of Congress, the branch of government that is supposed to most accurately represent the people of the United States (I am giving a test on the Legislative Branch TODAY)? The scariest thing is that this Health Care Reform crap is going to have monumentous repercussions. You think our economy WAS bad? You think unemployment WAS high? Just wait. And because our leaders who are supposed to represent us, the people, have hidden agendas and only care about their own careers and getting ahead, we are the ones who are now having to wait and see what all this will mean for us because we are the ones this is going to negatively affect. I was thinking about how wonderful the experience of having Drew was, how my hospital stay was amazing, how much we love our doctors and I am terrified to find out how things will have changed the next time I am in that situation. I'm not trying to bash Democrats because there were 35 who voted against this and I am related to many members of that political party but I don't understand how we have come so far from the times of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Lincoln,...I teach this stuff to kids every day and sometimes when I'm reading about these people and what they had in mind for the future of this country, when I read about how much passion they had for the creation of a country this great, when we are discussing the written words of the Constitution and what they meant then, I literally want to cry when I watch or read the news and see what America is becoming. I honestly don't think this is what they had in mind and when the government is forcing people to adopt government-run healthcare, I know that is not what they could have intended when the Constitution was written. Read it, people! This is so incredibly unconstitutional, it is frightening! I have students say, "Mrs. McCartney, wouldn't it be violating our rights to have the government making these kinds of decions for us?" Why can't they have government healtcare that some people can buy if they need or want it?" Hmmm....what am I supposed to say to that?! Honestly, what am I supposed to say?! I certainly can't say what I really feel, which, as of right now, is sheer hopelessness, disappointment, and confusion. And come one, if my 15 year-old students can figure it out, the rest of America should be able to. Sorry, its how I feel...