Pennsylvania’s Senators fail their Constituents once again!

December 23, 2009 by pu3106.

No matter what your position on the “Senate Health Care” bill moving toward approval in the senate this holiday season, all citizens of Pennsylvania should be Mad as Hell at the two sad sack senators who pretend to represent them.

It has been discovered that many backdoor deals were used to buy yes votes from selected senators to advance the bill.  These senators ,used the fact that the democrats needed every single democratic senate vote to pass the bill, to get special treatment for their states. Now that may be how it is done in congress these days, but one would have thought our two empty suit senators would have had enough concern for their constituents best interest to have at least got the same deal for their state. But instead they offered up their valuable votes for nothing, or at least nothing that benefits the citizens.  What private gains they may have gotten or will get in the future is not known at this time.

What is known at this time is that Nebraska will get federal money to support any new Medicaid benefits required by the bill.  Pennsylvania’s citizens will have to pay for their own state costs as well as Nebraska’s cost.  What a great deal for Pennsylvania, thanks Senator Specter and Casey.  We also know that Florida’s senior citizens will not have their Medicare Advantage Plus benefits cut, but the citizens of Pennsylvania will.  The cost of the retained benefits for Florida’s citizens will be borne by the citizens of Pennsylvania while at the same time senior citizens for Pennsylvania will have to pay additional costs for the same benefits.  Again a great deal for Pennsylvania, thanks Senator Specter and Casey.

How could that be.  If they had no objection to the special treatment given a few other states, then why would they not have held out their vote for the same treatment for Pennsylvania.   If they objected to a few states being given special treatment while other were not, then why did they vote yes for the bill.  They had absolute control and could have forced the senate to fix the inequalities in the bill all by themselves. Either one or both could have done so. Maybe they were not aware of what was in the bill. But if they didn’t read the bill how in hell could they have voted for it.

As citizens of the great state of Pennsylvania we are left with only one course of action.  WE MUST GET THESE BUMS OUT OF OFFICE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! They are either incompetent, corrupt or lazy. No matter which choice is true they have no business representing our people and our state!

Paul Upson

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