What This Liberal is Really All About

What is a liberal?

Someone who supports freedom.

Does Maxine Waters support freedom?

She supports Obamacare.

Obamacare is causing people to lose their current insurance.

They have to pay for more expensive coverage, or end up on a state-sponsored subsidy.

While Obamacare claimed to protect young adults, allowing them to stay on their parents' insurance until twenty-six, more parents are losing their insurance.

Doctors are leaving the medical profession.

Local clinics are closing up, or rationing care.

Even national Mainstream Media affiliates are reporting the devastating fallout of Obamacare.

The  mandatory provisions forcing people to purchase overpriced insurance having nothing to do with freedom at all.

I am a liberal, because I support free markets, free enterprise, and free people.

So it's time for this liberal to tell Waters and anyone who doesn't know what this liberal is all about.

This liberal is all about getting Maxine Waters out of office.

Maxine Waters Town Hall -- Extended

Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Gardena) hosted at a town hall meeting at St. John Church in El Camino Village on Crenshaw Blvd.

Before the meeting, I debated with three liberal activists from Torrance, all armed with "No War in Syria" placards. I agreed with their anti-interventionist stance, although the rest of their politics I would not care for. Following the redistricting efforts of 2011, residents in east Torrance ended up in the new 43rd, where Maxine Waters cruised to reelection against an unprepared Democrat, Bob Flores. They liked the change for the liberal. I got stuck with Henry Waxman in the 33rd (Click

here to learn more).

Another gentleman, Brian, joined our discussion, content to contend that Obamacare was the first step toward a single-payer system. I calmly objected, since socialized medicine had failed in Great Britain and in Canada. I shared the reports which I had read and seen from patients, doctors, and other health care professionals who had lived in those countries before the single-payer system emerged. Rationing, long lines, closed clinics, frequent misconduct, underground private facilities. He wouldn't hear any of it. "You're focusing on all the negatives!"

Obamacare is forcing doctors out of medicine, raising premiums, diminishing access, and raising taxes on Americans. Postives?

Brian then countered: "You cannot compare Canada and Britain to the United States. We should try it out here first." Then I recounted the failures in Massachusetts and Tennessee. Another man spoke up about the Medicare exchanges. I counted with reports from doctors who were leaving private practice, and the growing exodus of health insurers out of the exchanges, including Kaiser. "Where's the competition?" I asked. I then presented a novel idea: just because a law mandates something does not mean that the service will be there. Health insurers are leaving the industry. Law can demand, but it cannot supply.

One of the liberal anti-war protestors agreed with me -- there has to be profit in the medical profession. The other woman welcomed the dialogue. Brian stopped listening.

At 2:00pm, Waters took the church lector/podium. She blamed the conservatives in Congress for holding the budget hostage, for delaying the implementation of Obamacare, and for the savage cuts which were hurting every other victimized interest group created by liberal interests.

Next, Experts from the health care industry, lobbyists for small business, and a nurse from Cedar Sinai Medical Center muddled their way through the Affordable Care Act. The two hour gobbledy-gookfest would have frightened George Orwell for its insistence on telling people that everything will be fine. Such denial of the obvious was sickening. The nurse from Cedar Sinai declared that she was "joyful, ecstatic!" about Obamacare, which she personalized as "MaxineCare" or "YouCare". She misrepresented the length of the bill, claiming that there was gold in the nine hundred pages. Waters' brochures and frequent newspapers affirmed that the legislation was 2,500 pages. There were discussion of closing "the donut hole" in Medicare", followed by a slide with another "donut hole".

Aside from myself and one young black girl, the audience was made up of elderly people, but the "Young Invincibles" representative reminded everyone that young people have to buy insurance. They have to!

The presenters recounted statistic upon statistic, baptizing us into the Obamacare koolaid. I was disturbed, remained unbelieving.

Then came the mike. A long line of people showed up. The first speaker, from Encino, commented that the death panels were not in Obamacare, but in the stimulus. How about that? Someone from outside the district speaking up to Waters. I felt bolder. The next speaker, a classified employee from LA Unified, lamented his new, part-time status because of Obamacare, then questioned why illegal aliens would get health care but not have to buy insurance, while American citizens were forced into purchasing health insurance. A deranged Iraqi, the liberal anti-war protestors, and then John Wood of Inglewood took to the mike. Wood is the Republican candidate running against Maxine Waters in 2014. "We've been watching you!" Waters playfully admitted, then dismissed him after his lengthy question.

Then it was my long-awaited turn.

First, I complimented Congresswoman Waters for seeking to end the War on Drugs. I also agreed that insurance companies should not push people off their plans.

Then I catalogued the rise in premiums reported in the LA Times and in news affiliates across the country. I mentioned insurance companies leaving the Medicare exchanges. "That's not a shopping mall. That's a monopoly!" I talked about a retired teacher in Torrance who had four doctors because each one retired over Obamacare.

Then came the piece de résistance:

"You gotta be tough for this game, and I'm not afraid of anybody. And I think that Obamacare should go straight to hell!"

I mimicked Waters' offensive rhetoric from a 2011 town hall meeting, then stormed off, refusing to listen to Waters dialogue from the same false premise that "Obamacare is good."

I left the church with loud boos following.

I don't know if I accomplished much that evening, but I had a good time giving liberals and Congressman Waters a piece of my mind.

Waters in Gardena Town Hall Meeting

Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Westchester) hosted at a town hall meeting at St. John Church in El Camino Village on September 14.

　

She wrongly blamed the conservatives in Congress for holding the budget hostage, for delaying Obamacare, and for the savage sequester cuts. Conservatives are trying to save this country by staving off insurmountable debt.

Next, Experts from the health care industry, lobbyists for small business, and a nurse from Cedar Sinai Medical Center to explaion the Affordable Care Act. The nurse from Cedar Sinai misrepresented the length of the bill, claiming that there was gold in the nine hundred pages. Waters' brochures affirmed that the legislation was 2,500 pages. There were discussion of closing "the donut hole" in Medicare", followed by a slide with another "donut hole".

Then came the mike for public discussion. The first speaker, from Encino, commented that the death panels were not in Obamacare, but in the stimulus. The next speaker, a classified employee from LA Unified, lamented his part-time status because of Obamacare, then questioned why illegal aliens would get health care but not have to buy insurance, while American citizens were forced into purchasing health insurance. Then John Wood of Inglewood discussed the premium hikes of Obamacare. Wood is the Republican candidate running against Maxine Waters in 2014. "We've been watching you!" Waters playfully admitted, then dismissed him after his lengthy question.

Then it was my turn.

I complimented Congresswoman Waters for seeking to end the War on Drugs.

Then I catalogued the rise in premiums reported in the LA Times and in news affiliates across the country. I mentioned insurance companies leaving the Medicare exchanges. "That's not a shopping mall. That's a monopoly!" I talked about a retired teacher in Torrance who had four doctors because each one retired over Obamacare.

Then I shouted, mimicking her tirade during a 2011 town hall meeting in Inglewood:

"You gotta be tough for this game, and I'm not afraid of anybody. And I think that Obamacare should go straight to hell!"

Every American should shout at their Congressman: Obamcare should go straight to hell!

I am glad for an open forum to share my views (Congressman Henry Waxman shut me down in an open forum, as well as resident in Venice), but Congresswoman Waters cannot wade through all the paperwork, stats, and conflicting information to convince anyone that Obamacare is anything more than "a train wreck."

About Maxine Waters in Torrance

For the first time in California history, an Independent Citizens Commission redrew the Congressional Districts. Unfortunately, Congresswoman Waters faced neither a change nor challenge to her constituency dominance. Featured on last week’s Torrance Tribune cover, Congresswoman Maxine Waters has reigned in South Los Angeles for twenty years. From raising taxes to threatening the nationalization of major companies, no representative better typifies poor financial understanding mixed with racial overtones than Waters.

 

Despite an easy campaign, Waters advertised in a remarkably widespread fashion, posting in the Argonaut News as well as local South Bay Papers. Now that she is in office, whose views will she represent? The same impoverished policies which have diminished the opportunities of residents in West Athens and Gardena, or the more freedom-loving and free market principles of Torrance and Lomita, two new constituencies which she did not even bother to visit during her “campaign” for the new 43^rd Congressional District?

 

Congresswoman Waters’ record should have disqualified her from running for office. In one Congressional panel, she claimed that President Ronald Reagan flooded LA streets with drugs. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washingtonranked her as one of the most corrupt members of Congress. Two years ago, Waters was under investigation for steering TARP funds toward one of her husband’s banks. After that, she cried out “The TEA Party can go straight to hell!” while pretending to ally the economic fears of her constituents in Inglewood and South Los Angeles.

 

Torrance residents: Keep your eyes on “Queen Maxine.”