Our president and his allies don’t get the American people:  They know what polls reveal, that the more we learn about ObamaCare, the more we collectively hate it.  But they persist in thinking that this is a marketing problem, and that ObamaCare just hasn’t been properly sold to us.  So far, so bad.

This is where the story takes a really disturbing turn, and where president Obama’s administration thinks it appropriate to train our children to sell ObamaCare to their parents.  $36 million federal dollars of taxpayer money being spent in California to sell us something that we loathe.

But the really damnable part is indoctrinating our children to push the President’s ideology.  This is a fundamental violation of the premise of education:  That we teach our children for their own benefit, to help them mature and develop into their own selves, and not into our propaganda arm.

Mr. President, step away from our children.  When leaders resort to manipulating children, it’s because of values and principles that cannot stand on their own, but must be artificially propped up.  You are venturing into the footsteps of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, and that is a badly misguided course of action.  Nobody expects you to be perfect, but we do expect honesty, integrity, and the humility to admit when you’re wrong.  I expect those same things of myself.

My recent letter to my Congressman and Senators about the abject failure of ObamaCare.  I should probably have been a little kinder:

Have I badgered you recently about ObamaCare? Are you aware of the recent CNBC poll showing that 51% of small businesses have frozen hiring because of ObamaCare, and another 38% have scaled back plans to grow their business? Of the 51% who have frozen hiring, 19% have already reduced their workforce.

Small business is the lifeblood of the economy, and ObamaCare is killing it. And that’s on top of all the other horrendous things about this political pipe dream. I wonder whether Madam Pelosi has now had a chance to find out what’s in the law. (Of course not, because the IRS and HHS aren’t even finished writing the regulations yet.) Nobody is arguing against improving our medical and insurance systems, but this is not the way to do it, and the arguments for retaining ObamaCare are overwhelmingly political in nature. That same CNBC poll shows 52% of those polled believing that their quality of healthcare will go down because of ObamaCare. On top of that, ObamaCare has already seriously harmed religious freedom in this country, and I won’t even touch on the wrongness of the IRS being charged with enforcing ObamaCare.

Sir, this is an opportunity for you to do the right thing. America hates ObamaCare and doesn’t want anything to do with it, and polls show that the more Americans learn about ObamaCare, the less they like it. Your constituents need you to represent their views before the Federal Government: Put ObamaCare to death, and let’s begin developing legitimate healthcare reform.

Properly addressed and signed, of course.

It appears the 112th Congress is being criticized for being the “least productive” in modern history, as measured by the number of bills, measures, and resolutions passed.  Given that neither they nor anybody else seems to have read the monstrosities that they do pass, their lack of productivity may be the best thing they have going.

I suggest that a very noble and worthwhile endeavor for Congress would be to go through the mess of laws already in the United States Code, and work to remove all of the accumulated sediment.  In the software world, we call all that stuff feature creep or code bloat.  Our underlying design, the United States Constitution, is short, sweet, and to the point.  It wasn’t written by politicians but by people who had risked their lives and fortunes to establish this country, and it remains arguably the most significant and unique political document in existence.

There is agreement across the political spectrum that our Government has egregiously abused its authority.  Those who are sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution have in effect abdicated their responsibility to it, but lack the backbone or integrity to either make amends or resign.  That leaves it to those of us who love America to reacquaint the country with the Constitution and to reintroduce it into our collective consciousness.  I, for one, will die before I give up my country.