Deliberative body?

The senate has voted to begin debate on the health care bill. I must admit that I struggle with politics. I have a vision of where the United States should go as a nation. We are a people of choices. Look at most products sold in this country and you get choices. Different cell phone companies, fast food, cars, and we even choose our leaders. I am weary of the legislation going forward in Congress. We are dealing with 10.2% unemployment and critical decisions facing us in Afghanistan. Congress has moved ahead with health care and with cap and trade legislation. I struggle with all of this because I feel as if we are slowly moving away from choices and closer to restrictions and insurmountable debt. Government may not always know best. Our system has worked so well because we let the common man, the "individual", make choices and have the grand opportunity to fail. I do not like the idea of debt in any form. I have read somewhere that J.C. Penny, the founder of the department store chain, hated debt. I would like to believe that we elected a president who loves this country and wants it to succeed. I don't understand the argument that we can spend a trillion dollars on a new entitlement program and save money. The Bible says, "The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender." Proverbs 22:7. We will continue to borrow and spend without end until the world community realizes what is already evident to many, we are out of money. Social Security and Medicare will possibly be insolvent within a decade. America will have to make some hard choices. We have to cut up our national credit cards and take a hard look at our priorities. If we think about it, most of us have been the beneficiaries of some kind of government program, state or national, at some point in our lives. The hope scholarship in Georgia, Medicare, Social Security, Welfare, the Pell Grant, public schools, Tricare, S-Chip, an array of short term stimulus money, etc. My wife and I did not even pay taxes last year and got over nine hundred dollars from state and federal returns and stimulus. This was money we never even asked for. We would be stupid not to except this money but I felt this was a case of government redistribution. Trust me, I did not make enough to get back over nine hundred dollars. For those who might think I am a party hack for the republican party, this stimulus money came from a Republican president. A mindset of entitlement has settled in on all sectors of society. How do we change our ways? I pray every day to God that he would have mercy on us as a nation and that He would lead us to repentance. I am ultimately a citizen of the Kingdom of God but I am blessed to live in the United States. Our problems will not be solely resolved by cleverly thought out doctrines or reforms passed by men. We Americans should get back to the basics that made this country what it is today. A reliance on God and the ability to choose our future in accordance with His divine will. Our founding father may not all have been Christians, but they understood human nature in accordance with biblical principles and created a system that checks many of the passions of human flesh. "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." -John Adams