In visiting my parents, my mom gave me a short newspaper clipping from decades ago that my grandma Stallings cut out and kept. It is a rewording of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address as a taxpayer’s lament. In light of the health care legislation now giving the IRS even more onerous power to attack and confiscate more of our money, the quaint mention of the ‘Bureau of Internal Revenue’ is chilling. Author unknown.

We are here on Form 1040. We have come to dedicate a large portion of our income to a final resting place with those men who here spend their lives that they may spend our money. It is altogether anguish and torture that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot evade, we cannot cheat, we cannot underestimate this tax. The collectors, clever and sly, who compute here, have gone far beyond our poor power to add and subtract.

Our creditors will little note nor long remember what we pay here, but the Bureau of Internal Revenue can never forget what we report here.

It is not for us, the taxpayers, to question the tax which the Government has thus far ignobly spent. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these vanishing dollars we take increased devotion to the few remaining – that we here highly resolve that next year will not find us in the higher income bracket, that this taxpayer, underpaid, shall figure out more deductions, and that this tax of the people, by the Congress, for the Government, shall not cause solvency to perish.

All you need to know about the new health care ‘reform’ law – all former and current members of Congress are exempt, tax payers will be paying for abortion, and it is the largest redistribution of wealth in our history.

We need to fix the cost and access issues that government interference has already caused and the solutions do not require breaking the medical care system we all rely on. Let us start with Health Savings Accounts for all, tax deductions for those who are buying their own insurance, no cap on the deduction of medical care costs starting from dollar one, insurance sales across state lines and tort reforms. There are real solutions to our health care system problems and government is not it.

For months, we have called, emailed, written and visited Emanuel Cleaver’s office to express our opposition to this Health Care bill. Although Emanuel Cleaver admits the overwhelming majority of his constituents in the 5th District wanted him to oppose this legislation, he made it very clear from the start that he is in support of the government running our health care by getting between us and our doctor. Reverend Cleaver has even accused those opposed to his vote of racism.

I am outraged at this behavior by our elected officials in Congress, and by our own Congressional Representative, Emanuel Cleaver, as are the citizens of the 5th District. I am focusing and committing all my energy towards my campaign in order to replace Mr. Cleaver with a voice of the people in the next election. 2010 is our year. I am prepared to fight harder than ever to make sure that the people of the 5th District have a Representative who will listen to them. We need to put our District back where it belongs – in the hands of the people.

I cannot stress enough that our fear and frustration over the health care vote has to turn to positive action by concerned Americans working for new Representation. We can only turn this around with enough votes in Congress and that requires a conservative voice from Missouri’s 5th.

Government takeover is serious and now ever present. As today’s world is listening to John Stewart make light of serious situations that are detrimental to our freedoms granted by God and the Constitution, we listen to the news and vow to redouble our efforts to get a voice for all the people to Congress from the 5th District. The concept of “Government Creep” now comes into play meaning new programs are just the beginning. As the years go by the Federal government continually expands its power far beyond the original promises being made.

It means this brave, new Health Care world will in a few short years end up as a total government takeover of our medical care creating a single payer system that will drive limited availability of life saving medicines and procedures. Citizens need to be very cautious in who to believe and what to believe because our politicians through the years have proven that the bills passed often have unattended consequences that don’t surface until the full measure of legislation plays out over time. Insurance mandates, limited care, access for none. All of which is unconstitutional.

As the Virginia attorney general said: “With this law [Health Care], the federal government will force citizens to buy health insurance, claiming it has the authority to do so because of its power to regulate interstate commerce,” he said in a press release. “We contend that if a person decides not to buy health insurance, that person — by definition — is not engaging in commerce, and therefore, is not subject to a federal mandate.”

This is the beginning. Will you join us in the fight to take back our freedoms from ‘Progressives’ like Cleaver?

In Sports Illustrated, I  just read the tragic story of Joe Gaetjens, goal scoring hero of the 1-0 U.S. World Cup victory in 1950 over far superior world soccer power England with a shot that reverberated through the soccer world at the time. He was eventually arrested and killed by Papa Doc in a fetid Haitian prison. Why doesn’t Congressman Cleaver realize dictators like the Castro brothers oppress, torture and kill their people on emotional whims and how his words of blessing on those two murderers hurts all those whose family members have been brutalized and killed by the Castro brothers?