Reconciliation - Two Wrongs Do Not Make a Right

So the democrats are now going through with pushing the health care bill through reconciliation. As a lowly American citizen, I do not know much about this process so I looked it up on Wikipedia. Reconciliation, by definition, "is a legislative process of the United States Senate intended to allow consideration of a contentious budget bill without the threat of filibuster...It was expected to be used together with the second resolution adopted in the fall, and was to apply to a single fiscal year and be directed primarily at spending and revenue legislation acted on between the adoption of the first and second budget resolutions." Correct me if I am wrong, but this appears to state that reconciliation should only be used to rectify minor budget disputes that arise after the adoption of the first budget resolution. How in the world did we get to a point where our health care is going to be changed dramatically - health care constitutes 1/6th of our economy by the way - by using a process which was never intended for this purpose. This, in my lowly opinion - I am just a citizen of this country whom the people in congress are supposed to be representing after all - is a direct violation of Due Process.

Supporters of reconciliation are using the defense that the Republicans have been using this procedure for questionable bills for years. Two Wrongs DO NOT Make a Right - even if you are Obama - the chosen one. In actuality, both parties have used reconciliation when it fits their agenda. In fact President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid are all on the record having been strongly against reconciliation in the past - I have to admit this was the first thing I have ever heard that I actually agree with them on, at least before they flipped. This procedure was never intended to be used for a bill of this magnitude, let alone for a bill which over half of the country has come out strongly against.

Abraham Lincoln's government "of the people, by the people, for the people." is being severely threatened by people who are encouraging a government which believes they know what is best for the people regardless of what the people say. I for one pray that this bill does not pass for many reasons. But what American's need to consider most is what is next. If we allow the government to blatantly circumvent the procedures that have been implemented and practiced in this country for so many years what are they going to do next? If we allow the government to ignore our voices and insist that we cannot know what is best for us where will it end?

I will leave you with this quote from one of histories most infamous characters, "For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him." Karl Marx