World Net Daily posted a lengthy article about John Dennis, who is running against Nancy Pelosi next year.

The attention is well deserved, as the liberty candidate (running Republican) shares many of the nation’s grievances over the House Speakers irresponsible actions in recent times.

He blasted Pelosi’s “disastrous” legislative agenda advocating government-run health care, cap and trade and the Cybersecurity Act of 2009, a bill that would give the president “emergency” control of the Internet.

“Everything that Nancy Pelosi has her hands on is anti-liberty and pro-government power,” Dennis said, with a laugh

Dennis is a successful businessman and real estate investor.  He is very concerned with our nation’s spend-thrift attitude, especially considering our current economic meltdown.

He said the nation cannot ignore a $12.5 trillion mountain of debt that doesn’t include unfunded liabilities.

“We have no choice, we’ve got to do this,” he said. “Either that, or we’re going to debase the dollar and have a back-door default on what we owe. That will create chaos in the world.”

Dennis calls cap-and-trade a “poor excuse for a new tax.”

Regarding the Department of Education, he brings up an example unfamiliar to most Americans: Holland.

“What I found was, instead of the money going to the schools, the money followed the kids,” he said. “That’s the objective – to actually have the money go to the kids as opposed to being stuck in schools or some bureaucratic organization like the Department of Education, which may be the single biggest waste of money in the federal government.”

Dennis is an NRA member and proud gun owner.

“You have the right to your person, and you have the right to your property,” he said. “Without the right to defend your property and your person, then those rights are meaningless. That just goes without saying.”

He believes in allowing the free market to work properly, meaning that the government should step aside on such issues as healthcare and social security, which he believes citizens should be able to opt out of, considering it has become a “pyramid scheme.”

Above all, he is a constitutionalists, suggesting most of our problems can be solved simply by resuming our nation’s original governing intent.

“I want to go back and look at every portion of the budget and say, ‘Is this constitutional, or isn’t it?’” he said. “If it isn’t, let’s cut it and manage to somehow create a surplus as opposed to a deficit. Let’s start paying down the debt that we owe.”

Read More: World Net Daily

The bill levies a 5 percent tax on elective cosmetic surgery. The provision raises $5 billion and was needed to make the numbers work, according to a Democratic Senate aide.  Politico

Reform includes a shared responsibility requirement, for those who dont already have insurance to either purchase affordable health insurance or pay a fee of 2.5 percent of their income so they are not driving up everyone elses health costs.

Sorry about the volume!

Pelosi’s HR 3962 is 1,990 pages long.  Due to the exhaustive length it has become necessary for most to resort to summaries.  One decent summary you may want to look over was posted the day the bill passed in the House by New American, written by Joe Wolverton, II (11/07/09).

With ample page references, you can check the sources easily.  I’m sure there are far more worrisome aspects of the bill that he fails to point out, due to time hopefully rather than censorship, but certainly the hefty fines and jail time for those who cannot afford a $15,000 policy are reason enough for most to be concerned.

“Misdemeanor willful failure to pay is punishable by a fine of up to $25,000 and/or imprisonment for up to one year.” For those really hardcore healthcare criminals, the punishment is a fine up to $250,000 and/or five years in jail. You’ve read it right. If the Health Care Commissioner decides your policy isn’t Pelosi-friendly and you don’t make the appropriate changes to it, then you may do time.