"The Blob"

I’m pretty old, and I went to quite a few horror movies when I was a kid. Virtually, every Saturday afternoon of my young life was spent watching werewolves, vampires, space creatures and various members of the Frankenstein family on the “silver screen”. I watched Godzilla decimate Tokyo and Saucer-men destroy Washington D.C. while I was eating Milk Duds and box after box of hot buttered popcorn.

I remember a film called “The Blob”.  The Blob was a formless glob of outer space mucous that came out of a meteorite that landed near a small town and, over the course of the movie, absorbed countless innocent citizens as it devoured everything in its path. The more the Blob absorbed, the larger it became, and if left unchecked, it would devour the entire world! When the Blob was first seen, it was only the size of a softball; before its destruction, it was absorbing entire buildings filled with people. The Blob kind of reminds me of the way a cancer metastasizes when left unchecked; exponential growth that eventually destroys and consumes its host.

Horror movies are fun and a way to face danger without any real threat to our well-being. The Blob wasn’t real, Godzilla wasn’t really destroying Tokyo and the Saucer-men weren’t really attacking Washington; it was all make believe!

This week, in Washington D.C., America is getting its first real look at Obamacare, or as it is written “The Affordable Care Act”. The bill that had to be passed before we could find out what was in it, is now showing its face to Mr. and Mrs. America and it hasn’t been pretty.

Several companies have announced that they were going to eliminate their healthcare benefits or cut hours of thousands of hourly employees in order to cope with all of the government mandates they face under Obamacare.

Businesses aren’t the only ones who are facing these extra expenses and mandates. Just two days ago, a gentleman on FOX NEWS said in an interview that the cost of his self-paid health insurance went from $300 per month to $900 per month; a huge increase for a family to deal with.

Oddly, when Mr. Obama was touting his healthcare plan, he said healthcare premiums would go down, yet they are rising in an exponential way. Obamacare is beginning to metastasize before the eyes of every American, growing at a rate we cannot keep up with.

The crippling costs of this program threatens the very existence of America’s economic stability, yet the President, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi continue to endorse this “Blob” that is beginning to devour America.

In an effort to restore economic stability and sanity to our fiscal state, the Republican House has offered a bill to the Senate to extend the debt ceiling with the proviso that Obamacare is defunded, thus giving America a chance to recover some economic stability in these most trying times.

Senator Ted Cruz has filibustered in the Senate in an effort to reach those who will recognize the debacle that Obamacare will inflict on the American people.

Obamacare cannot be allowed to metastasize to the point of “destroying its host”, the United States of America, or we are all going to be “absorbed”!!