Is the current health care bill just the first step towards socialized medicine? Do we need a 3rd party.?

I believe yes, as the public option had no chance of being signed into law and now the the left has opted to incrementally bring socialism to America's citizens.

I also believe the the CBO report does not account for the 10 billion annually in cost to employ an additional 10,000 IRS agents (who will tax and fine those found to be non-compliant) nor the 200 billion medicare fix that will come in a separate bill to insure that doctors who accept medicare will not go in the red.

Also, (even Chuck Schumer d Ill) acknowledged that this bill will not reduce health care costs to the bulk of American citizens.

Seems to me that the progressives will use and say in 5 to 10 years down the road (after America is addicted to this "social welfare entitlement program" and they have given amnesty to 20 million illegals) that health care is too expensive and we must now go into socialized medicine in order to contain costs.Do you see health care legislation ending with the current bill??? (I don't)

To me; this current bill is not about cost or really even health care; it's all about accumulating power and regulating more and more aspects of American citizens lives, its all about social and economic justice (AKA communism/socialism).

Please don't think that I believe in the Republicans very much though, as their spending habits have been almost as bad as the dems in the last 15 years or so. They too have committed economic atrocities against the citizens of this country by encouraging the Global economy and the export of American jobs by big business to our competition overseas.

This is why I'm in favor of a third party, because dems and republicans both seem to only care about maintaining power but go about it in quite different ways. We need new politicians who respect the constitution, not tax & spend our money for their own interests or in the interests of big business, someone who will enforce our immigration laws, and govern by the will of the people who elected them, respecting individual States rights etc...

Funny how the country before the progressives instituted "temporary income tax" to the constitution the government supported itself (including the military) through tariffs on imports. (Seems to me that do to the nature of the trade imbalance over the past 30 years; this may be in the people's best interest to investigate once more as I know of no one personally or of any average American whom has benefited from NAFTA. (do you???) I think gay marriage should be unrecognized legally but should be tolerated socially. Although I don't smoke pot I say legalize it and tax it as we must keep the drug cartels of Mexico from gaining any more financial power and not allow their violence to continue spilling over the border. I don't personally believe in gay marriage either, but I say let them do what they want (are any of you going to stop them from being gay? Also, let them serve in the military "God knows someone needs to" only I would throw them out for sexual harassment if they solicit Heterosexuals for sex just the same as if someone harasses another of opposite gender.

Lastly, equal rights means equal rights... I would do away with "affirmative action" but severely penalize anyone guilty of discrimination or hate crimes (we need common sense balance in our country not left or right).

So if anyone asks me if I am a Republican or Democrat I say "neither, I am a constitutionalist/social conservative libertarian. Does the abbreviation CSCL sound good to any of you as well ?