This isn’t the kind of change we wanted.

In case you’re living under a rock over spring break and haven’t heard, Congress passed the sweeping bill on health care last night–with the oh so small margin of three votes.

Hurrah!! We have health care! Woohoo!! All of our dreams have come true! Everyone in this country will now be covered and everyone else will benefit from it! We should expect the deficit to go down. We should expect that everyone will magically be able to have health care and no one will be worse off for it. The government is in charge now. Woo! Well, newsflash: Medicare and Medicaid and SCHIP were already in place. They were government-run, and they denied more claims than you want to know.

Sure, we’ll be covered. But watch, you may not get the care you want. You may have healthcare, but now that it’s a political issue, politicians can use it as leverage in political campaigns. Worse, people who know nothing about politics can and will vote in elections that decide these issues. You think you have a choice in your healthcare? Just wait and watch. When was the last time the federal government actually carried out a program without going over the predicted budget for said program? If you believe that this bill will actually reduce our deficit, you have another thing coming. If you have a moment, check out these graphs — but I warn you: they aren’t for the faint of heart. Here are a few of them:

I want to believe that the president and Congress just don’t know what they’re doing. Because if I allow myself to believe otherwise, I must believe that they knew what that they were passing that bill against the will of the people and that they were purposefully fundamentally changing the way this country works. There are about 300 million Americans. According to some estimates, 47 million are uninsured. But once you take out illegal aliens, people who can afford insurance and don’t want it, there are really only about 10 million people here who wanted health care and couldn’t get it without the help of this bill. Why couldn’t we have used some of the stimulus money to cover them? I’d like to think that they were just too stupid to see the other options and that it was just an accident that this plan involves a government takeover of things which the government has no business regulating. But that’s a little hard to believe.

Just some food for thought: Now that Democrats have shoved through health care, they will need to find votes somewhere because Americans are angry and resentful. Now where is he going to get votes? Think about it and it won’t be too much of a stretch. The next big issue will probably be amnesty for illegals. Obama needs their votes – if he promises them health care and finds a way to allow them to vote.. well, think about it. He needs this done by November – stay alert because this could be a very scary few months; these people just showed us that they are not going to ease up and listen to the American people just because elections are in November. No, they are going to get more bold and we cannot just sit back and watch as the government gets bigger and we lose our freedoms, our choices and our hard-earned cash.