Liberals are not Rational

I'm trying to understand why liberals don’t think rationally and why they just want to do things that "feel" good rather than work. How can a rational person look at the facts and think that the government taking over 1/6th of the US economy is good much less necessary.

Fact: Current US run health care systems, Medicare and Medicaid, are economic failures near collapse.

Fact: When heath care markets are free and open to competition prices go down and quality and service go up (look at plastic surgery, Lasik, etc.).

Fact: Every social program enacted by the federal government has exceeded its initial cost estimates by huge amounts.

Fact: Significant numbers of Doctors have said that will change careers if the government takes over health care, which will result in a shortage.

Fact: Government's own estimates show that we will still have 10 million people uninsured when health care reforms are enacted.

Fact: Citizens are up in arms over closed door meetings where the liberal leaders are trying to force government health care upon them.

Fact: Current Democrat leaders will not allow the citizens ,or for that matter members of congress, to have time to read the proposed healthcare legislation before it is voted on. (Please would somebody explain to me how allowing time for both congress and the people to review proposed legislation is a bad thing, and why the Democrats won’t allow changes to rules/bills to insure that both congress and the people understand the details of such a huge change in the way we do health care before it becomes law?)

Fact: The Government exempts itself from the proposed health care legislation.

We all would like to hope our government would do what’s best for its citizens, but no place has it shown any evidence that it will change its ways and become trustworthy. We have the same lies during campaigning followed by more and bigger government and less liberty and freedom for the citizens regardless of whether a democrat or republican wins.

Why isn’t Obama insisting on CSPAN coverage of the health care bills in committees? Pelosi said the house would be the most honest and transparent in history. How can any person Libertarian, Conservative, Independent, or even Liberal support our federal government’s current proposals for health care reform, under the circumstances that the government will not let us see or know the details until after it has become law? What are they hiding in the details that they don’t want the people to know? Obama is lying right to our faces, yet liberals for some reason trust him and the Democrats to be honest and transparent about health care reform.

Do we trust the government not to torture captives in the war on terror? Do we trust the government to protect individuals over protecting big businesses? Do we trust the government to not violate our civil rights? Do we trust the government to fairly collect taxes? Do we trust the government to be honest with us? I don’t care if the government is run by Bush, Clinton, Regan, Carter, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy, Truman, Lincoln, or Obama it has proven itself over and over again not to be trusted. Our forefathers divided the government’s powers, put limits on the government not the people, created a bill of rights, and warned us not to trust government, even the one they created.

The fact that the Democrat leaders don’t want either the congress and senate to be able to review the entirety of health care reform, nor to allow the people to see what they are doing, should be enough for every person to be up in arms. What has the government ever done to deserve such trust that we should let them just take over everybody in the nation’s health care? How can any rational thinking person examining the facts and then trust the same government that purchases $600 hammers to oversee the entirety of health care in the US?