Redistribution of wealth

There is a simple fact of life that the U.S. Congress has violated more than they violate the Constitution.  The two violations go hand in hand.

People who cannot create wealth cannot manage wealth.

The short and simple reason for redistributing wealth is to transfer it from the competent hands and minds of those who earn it, guard it and manage it wisely, to the incompetent hands of people who cannot earn it, will not guard it and fail utterly to manage it wisely.

Only in this way can predators plunder the wealth of the nation.  Whether the plunderers are wall street magnates or politicians is immaterial.  The complete and sole reason for redistribution of wealth is to make it accessible to predators.

All of the rhetoric about “helping the poor”, is just the facade used to gull hard working people into accepting their abusive legislation.

If anyone really wants to help the poor, they will rescind and revoke all wealth redistribution legislation.  Hard working, honest people are generous with charities.  Most charities are experts at helping the poor and know how to do it without creating poverty traps like welfare which doom the poor to chronic poverty.

As I sat to write this blog, I noticed a friend had sent me a link to an article that explains it in great detail, thus saving me all of that work:

Greedy Bastard Economics:  http://mises.org/story/3752

I can’t say it any better, so I won’t squander my time trying.

A new elephant in the room…Health Insurance

Where are our conservative political analysts on the issue of health insurance?

The “Health Care Reform” does not have anything at all to do with health care, it has to do with insurance.  By the simple twist of semantics to say “health care”, while referring to “health insurance”, we are all up in arms about the government taking control of the “health care industry”.

It is a fallacy, it is about insurance.  Presently, with the exception of the Federal government’s prohibition of insurance companies selling products across state lines, the insurance industry is under the jurisdiction of the States.  I will concede that most state have mismanaged that responsibility, succumbing to the insurance lobbiests and the idiotic demands for everything from physicals to viagra to be covered.

However, it is still legally a States responsibility.  It is this State responsibility that the federal government is usurping.

And not a peep from a single conservative pundit or analyst.

Can anyone explain why?

Can you hear us now?

Yes, I was there.  Yes, it was amazing.

The most telling sign was the one with a man holding a megaphone shouting “Can you hear us now?”  Since 9/12/2009, the message from the President, from Congress and from the media has been a very resounding “No!”

As this very wide angle photo of the protest shows, there probably was in excess of 2,000,000 people there.  As a participant, it was not possible, from a person’s eye view to see everyone, to even get a grasp of the magnitude of the protest.  When we saw estimates in the tens of thousands, we knew that was hooey, but 2.7 million, well that sounded like wishful thinking…until I saw this photo.

The interviews that are missing are the interviews of the hotel staffs where many of us spend the night, the restaurant maitre d’s where we went for lunch after the march.  Find out what they think of the tea party patriots.  Do we deserve the vitriol spewed at us?  Are we just a bunch of crankypants, old bigots who are suffering the death throes of our cherished white supremacism?

No, we are the people who fought and died to arrive on these shores.  We are the people who began protesting slavery over 400 years ago when we first learned of it.  We are the people who flooded the shores of Normandy and left a carpet of dead behind us.  We are the people who passed civil rights legislation in opposition to the Democrat party time and time again, only to watch them ignore it and fund the KKK to kill our fellow citizens, black and white.  We are the people who cared for and fed one another during the depression.  We are the people who love this nation for what it was, for what it is and for what it can be.

It will not be another failed socialist state.  That is not an option.

Since 9/12, Acorn has been defunded and the nationalization of health care has been pretty much derailed.  Both can be resuscitated if we stop watching, and we know it.  We are no less vigilant today than we were on 9/12/2009 or 9/12/2001.  We know when we and our nation are in jeopardy.  And we will not close both eyes simultaneously as long as we are.

Call us whatever names you want.   We were all bullied in school just like everyone else…in fact if you talk to most of the bullies, they thought they were bullied too.  We learned how to deal with it.  We learned that words from someone else’s mouth cannot harm us without our agreement.  We may have cried over it, but we didn’t forfeit our identity over it, and we did not become weak or embittered over it.  So go ahead, spread your vitriol and spew your malice.  We don’t care what you think or say because you have long since forfeited our respect.

As I  posted before, we want a laissez faire government, and we want to go back to our lives, our children our homes, hobbies and dreams.  We won’t do it though, until we know it is safe to do so.  And the longer it takes, the more annoyed we are going to become.  Just because we are not the kind of violent, degraded, debauched people who populate liberal protests, do not think we cannot make our weight felt.  We will find a way, it will be legal, but that doesn’t mean it will be pleasant for the people assaulting our nation and Constitution.

The Laissez Faire Citizen

Ok, I ‘fess up.  I am not really enjoying all of this unbridled patriotism.

One protest was fun, now I can say that I protested something.  But like all true conservatives, the reason I really like America is that citizenship is not really a heavy duty task. 

The biggest single problem with the Conservative Action Plan is that it would actually work.  Repealing the outrageous spending which threatens to bankrupt our nation, destroy our credit and standing in the world would restore our economy.  The longer project of restoring the republic would correct the despicable tyranny that is fomenting.  Then, it would be back to business as usual.  The drama would all be gone.

If the House of Representatives were really comprised of citizen statesmen and stateswomen who respect and listen to their constituents, it just wouldn’t be all that big of a job.  Nor would being  a Representative.  The entire Constitution is only 4 pages and it is very explicit about what the federal government may and may not do.

It is doing way too much and has been for quite some time.  So now it is incumbent upon We the People to rise up and set things right again.

I want laissez faire government and it’s counterpart, laissez-faire citizenship.  You know,  pay a little attention at election time; debate the hot issues of the day; vote; pay taxes; follow the law.  We should all get involved a little more heavily every now and then, but being a citizen of a free country means that one is free to enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  That is the kind of government that I like, one that seeks out and follows the advice and meets the needs and demands of we the people, within the confines of the Constitution.

Texas is the perfect example.  Currently, it is probably the most successful of the United States.  The senior cause is that the job of being a State Legislator is part-time.  Laissez faire government, the less the better.

I understand that my proposed Conservative Action Plan is a significant threat to all of the activist conservatives who are currently enjoying the thrill of the power of the masses.  The thing is that We the People don’t like being the “masses”.  We prefer being individuals.

This game had better get moving.  I mean, there is a pretty high incentive for conservatives to drag it out as long as possible.  But the longer it takes for us to get our government back within the confines of the Constitution, the more our economy, wealth, influence and power will deteriorate.

I really do understand the envy of the liberals who can snap their fingers (and spew out a few million dollars of Mr. Soros’ money, some drugs, rock ‘n roll and sex) and have an instant protest or riot to send the cowering citizenry all atremble and willing to fork over untold tax dollars to quiet down the rioters.  I understand.

Just be warned…it gets old really fast.  We need and want a result.

Meet America

The placid middle class has ambled through history working, rearing children and attending church and back yard barbecues, comfortable in the certainty of providing for families and comfortable with the hereafter.

How do you awaken this particular giant?  Simply threaten that certainty.  Instill the fear that they may not be able to live their lives comfortably and to support and rear their children.  That is all that needs to happen, and that is what has happened.  The recent spending spree and host of legislation that is taking this nation straight down the path of socialism has squelched that certainty.

So, the middle class is no longer so placid, it is afraid.  Until resuming their complacency can be justified, they will remain in an uproar because they are not comfortable with fear.  They will oppose every action that prevents economic stability and growth.  This is very simple.  There are no platitudes that can assuage them, they must see recovery.  There will be no recovery as long as the deficit is so unsupportable, and socialism is on the horizon.

No more socialist legislation has a chance of being passed.   The economy won’t recover until the spending spree is rescinded and the threat of socialism is removed.  The middle class remains threatened until the economy recovers, so until it does, the rebellion of the middle class will constinue to escalate.

There is simply no other possibility.  These people will not just forfeit all that they have worked their entire lives for, no matter how mundane and humble.  These people are Americans and they, no, I mean we, will not rest until our future is secure in our own hands and our liberty ensured.

That is just the way it is.

President Obama, meet America, the one no one ever told you about.

Conservative Action Plan – ACORN and the Threat to Our Electoral Process

The biggest single threat to our electoral process in the history of the United States has arrived, with literally billions of dollars slated for the partisan, tax exempt organization called ACORN.  Everybody, and I do mean everybody who has ever heard of this group knows it is a far left wing lobbying group.  And there is every indication this organization is illegally receiving federal funds which, through a convoluted set of legal organizations, are used to subvert our electoral process.    A report was recently produced in Congress documenting that the organization is set up to engage in criminal and fraudulent activity.  [http://republicans.oversight.house.gov/media/pdfs/20090723ACORNReport.pdf]

This is an organization that last fall was under investigation for voter registration fraud in over a dozen states.  And somehow, miraculously, quietly, all of those investigations just disappeared.   We know that someone bussed Chicagoans in to the Iowa caucus to give Pres. Obama his first primary win.  We know that illegal voter intimidation tactics were practiced by someone to give Obama the Texas primary.  I do not know how many other primaries were tampered with.  But I have no doubt ACORN was involved, if not primarily responsible.

What can be expected of this group if it is permitted to receive the literally billions of dollars that have been set aside for it in the Stimulus, Omnibus Spending and Budget?

We expect the economy to continue losing jobs, leaving literally millions of people unemployed.  ACORN  is going to have access to billionsof dollars, and is going to be given a leading role in performing the 2010 census. 

Please rub a few brain cells together.  Given this orgnization’s history and the opportunities it will have to corrall hundreds of thousands of unemployed people to not only perform the census, but to engage in voter fraud and election intimidation, what do you expect to happen in the 2010 elections?

We must repeal all of the spending in the Stinulus Package, the Omnibus Spending Bill and the Budget that is allocated for this organization.

Our electoral process is in jeopardy.  As the American people are demonstrating right now, they will not stand for this type of abuse.  The threats and intimidation coming from the president’s office are very mild harbingers of what we can expect if we do not defang this organization before it is fully funded with our taxes without our permission.

Conservative Action Plan – Who owns this recession?

I do not buy that the current recession belongs to President Bush.

During my adult life, every time we get a new administration in the President’s office, there is a brief economic slowdown.  Businesses put a hold on expansion and investment, investors stop activity, everything slows down while determining how the new administration will affect the economy.  Once businesses get a grasp of the likely changes, they adjust their plans accordingly and then resume normal activity.

This happened when Reagan took office, when Clinton took office and again when George Bush took office.

The current slowdown started as soon as Obama became a viable contender for the office.  The Dow was at about 14,000 at the time and it bottomed at 6,000 several months into his presidency.  It did not bottom because there was any turn around, but because it simply could not fall any lower.  The market was not reacting to Obama personally, but to the threat of socialism that hangs over his shoulder much as the cloud of dirt follows Pigpen from frame to frame in Charles Schultz’s comics.

Both of his parents were socialists.  His grandparents on his mother’s side, who reared him after his mother and Mr. Sotero determined he was too much trouble, were both socialists.  His mentor during adolescence was a well-known communist.  These are all very antipathetic influences to free markets.  This threat is what put undue pressure on the markets causing every weak spot to spring leaks (with the assistance of some market manipulation in mid September of 2008 which has still not been fully explained).

We have had numerous bubble bursts in the past, but never before have we seen the economy crumble in its entirety like a row of dominos.

Now, all of the weak or corrupt elements of the economy have imploded and formerly sound sectors of the economy are now being ground down and are threatened.

The vigorous resistance to the nationalized health care legislation is generating a few positive indicators.  Do not be deceived and become complacent that the worst is over.  The worst is taking a break as the resistance to socialism gives hope to the markets.  If HR 3200 is passed, the market will sink again and if it is defeated, recovery will escalate.

If HR 3200 is defeated and the recovery does escalate, this tells us we must repeal the Stimulus and Omnibus spending legislation.  Then, we must recall the Budget, prune it to a rational level and re-submit it.

Socialism fails.  Socialism destroys the nations that embark upon it.  If we do not want to fail, we must repeal all socialist legislation, including legacy socialist programs like welfare, social security and medicare/medicaid.  It will not be necessary to abruptly eraticate these programs, but we must outlaw them and demand of Congress a strategy to eliminate them with the least amount of disruption.  There will be some disruption and it must be made very clear that it is not the government’s responsibility to ensure that no one ever experience any challenge or hardship.  It is only the government’s responsibility to ensure a sufficiently stable nation, free of foreign invasion and crime so that individuals are free to face their respective challenges with courage, ingenuity and decency.

Everything you ever wanted to know about HR 3200…and then some

EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW

ABOUT THE HEALTH CARE BILL NOW BEING

CONSIDERED IN WASHINGTON

PLEASE Sign the “Free Our Health Care Now” Petition

http://freeourhealthcarenow.com/

…and please send it to all your family and friends to sign

Let Washington know THIS IS NOT WHAT AMERICA WANTS!!

It does not reflect the values of the American people.

Fix Health Care Policy

A Project of the Heritage Foundation

This is a great website for all current information.

http://fixhealthcarepolicy.com/

7-30-09

Obamacare: One Pill, Two Pill, Red Pill, Blue Pill

Top 10 Reasons Obamacare Is Wrong for America

http://www.heritage.org/Press/FactSheet/fs0036.cfm

Health Scare

7-14-09

Video

Must-see expose of Socialized Healthcare in Canada.

This video was made by 20-somethings Steven Crowder and his friends with some humor.

Watch any five minutes of it and you’ll want to pass around to friends, but don’t stop there!

Send this to your kids if they’re old enough, because understanding that everything good can’t be free takes some time, and we may not have that time at the rate the Left is pushing toward single payer.

WATCH THE VIDEO:

http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/07/13/must-see-undercover-expose-of-socialized-healthcare/

FACT: Obama voted against every Republican attempt at

improving Health Care during his time as a Senator

7-25-09

Video

YOU MUST WATCH THIS … This is a really great, comprehensive discussion on the Health Care debate.   Panel includes Betsey McCaughey, former NY Lietenant Governor and Health Care expert plus others who have studied the issues at length.    If you don’t have time to read massive amounts of material in order to understand the issues of the debate, just sit back and  WATCH THIS …

Health Care Causality? What you’re not being told …

Betsey McCaughey, Paul Gigot + WSJ Editorial panel

Published: Sat, 25 Jul 2009

Description: How senior citizens would suffer under government overhaul

http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/m/25473089/health-care-causality.htm

7-25-09

Video

Doctor resigns from AMA over health care reform bill

http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/m/25470764/protest-vote.htm

Video

Key Democrats speak candidly about plans for healthcare reform

Their Goal Is a Single Payer-Health Care System

The Obama administration is pitching government-run health care to cover 46 million uninsured Americans, despite opposition from the American Medical Association, Republicans and even some members of his own party.

The president may give you the headline, but to understand what this plan is really about, you need to listen carefully to what those on the left are saying.

Please understand, the public insurance option will put employer-based, private insurance out of business and the government can bide its time — taking losses — until that finally happens.  Here’s proof that this is their goal:

VIDEO

http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=011008&streamingFormat=FLASH&referralObject=6020772&referralPlaylistId=playlist

Video

7-27-09

Single Payer Government Health Care is Democratic Goal

Barney Frank lets us know that the Democrats’ goal is single payer, but it will have to be done incrementally – first step is the Public Option.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3BS4C9el98

Video

7-23-09

How Would Healthcare Bill Affect Catholic Hospitals

Catholic hospitals do not perform abortions,and if the governments plan is passed they would be forced to perform them.No federal funding for abortions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS45dGmn06E

Video

7-27-09

“Freedom of Choice Act” Means Goodbye to Catholic Hospitals

A new version of FOCA, however, is back. As reported by Fox News contributor Father Jonathan Morris, FOCA, like a mutating virus, has been newly re-packaged and is just as insidious. Father Morris, interviewed on Sunday Morning’s program Fox and Friends, described the main difference between the old bill and the new one: The new version of FOCA now mandates that, if passed, abortion coverage must be paid for by taxpayers, regardless of what their personal stand may be on abortion. This new version of FOCA is the proverbial wolf in sheep’s clothing.

http://newsrealblog.com/2009/07/27/fox-news-freedom-of-choice-act-means-goodbye-to-catholic-hospitals/

7-22-09

The Devil in the details of Obama healthcare

An end to all Catholic hospitals and facilities?

An adept rhetorician and politician, Obama has marginalized the U.S. Catholic bishops in the debate over healthcare. What is coming are pressures on Catholic hospitals to violate their principles regarding abortion. Massachusetts leads the way.

http://www.speroforum.com/a/19925/The-Devil-in-the-details-of-Obama-healthcare

7-24-09

GovernmentCare’s Assault on Seniors

Since Medicare was established in 1965, access to care has enabled older Americans to avoid becoming disabled and to travel and live independently instead of languishing in nursing homes. But legislation now being rushed through Congress—H.R. 3200 and the Senate Health Committee Bill—will reduce access to care, pressure the elderly to end their lives prematurely, and doom baby boomers to painful later years. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203517304574303903498159292.html

7-31-09

How House Bill Runs Over Grandma

Rationing: In the recesses of the House health care “reform” bill is a provision

for end-of-life counseling for seniors. Don’t worry, granny, they’re from the

government and they’re here to help.

http://ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=333933006516877

7-30-09

Inside Obama Healthcare

Americans may or may not have a chance to review the 1,000 pages of the health care bill

now considered by the House of Representatives. Among its troubling provisions are

“end of life” issues.

http://www.speroforum.com/a/19988/Inside-Obama-Healthcare

7-24-09

GOP Rep. Compares Obama Picking A Puppy & Health Care Reform

DON’T RUSH HEALTH CARE BILL!!

At least take as much time as you took to pick a puppy!!!

Republican [Although CNN Misidentifies Him As A Democrat] Congressman Nathan Deal Of Georgia Compares Obama Picking A Puppy & Health Care Reform – 07/24/09

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwpIzdANs7A

7-16-09

Mayo Clinic’s reaction to House Tri-Committee bill

“The real losers will be the citizens of the United States.”

In general, the proposals under discussion are not patient focused or results oriented.

http://healthpolicyblog.mayoclinic.org/2009/07/16/mayo-clinic%E2%80%99s-reaction-to-house-tri-committee-bill/

7-22-09

Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center – Health Care Blog

Open Letter to Congress

Mayo Clinic, along with 18 other health care organizations around the country, sent an open letter to Congress on July 22.

http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthpolicycenter/pdfs/open-letter-to-congress-7-22-09.pdf

In addition, on July 19, 2009 the Chicago Tribune published “Bending the Curve on Health Spending” authored by Denis Cortese, M.D., and MD, President & CEO, Mayo Clinic and Jeff Korsmo.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-oped0719mayojul19,0,2771064.story

This is absolutely a must read …

7-24-09

DEADLY DOCTORS

Savings, he writes, will require changing how doctors think about their patients: Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, “as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others” (Journal of the American Medical Association, June 18, 2008).

Yes, that’s what patients want their doctors to do. But Emanuel wants doctors to look beyond the needs of their patients and consider social justice, such as whether the money could be better spent on somebody else.

He (Emanuel) explicitly defends discrimination against older patients: “Unlike allocation by sex or race, allocation by age is not invidious discrimination; every person lives through different life stages rather than being a single age. Even if 25-year-olds receive priority over 65-year-olds, everyone who is 65 years now was previously 25 years” (Lancet, Jan. 31).

Dr. David Blumenthal, another key Obama adviser, agrees. He recommends slowing medical innovation to control health spending.

Blumenthal has long advocated government health-spending controls, though he concedes they’re “associated with longer waits” and “reduced availability of new and expensive treatments and devices” (New England Journal of Medicine, March 8, 2001). But he calls it “debatable” whether the timely care Americans get is worth the cost.

Obama appointed Blumenthal as national coordinator of health-information technology, a job that involves making sure doctors obey electronically deivered guidelines about what care the government deems appropriate and cost effective.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07242009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/deadly_doctors_180941.htm

4-29-09

The Attack On Doctors’ Hippocratic Oath

In critiquing the Hippocratic Oath, Dr. Emanuel calls for training medical students “to move toward more socially sustainable, cost-effective care.”

President Obama has appointed impressively educated advisers. But no matter how many degrees they have, it’s still important to examine what they think. The views articulated by Drs. Emanuel and Blumenthal are contrary to American values.

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=325900812716750

7-26-09

Abortion unleashed in Obama healthcare

The current health care bill will expand abortion more than anything since the Roe v. Wade decision by the Supreme Court. It will offer no freedom and little choice.

http://www.speroforum.com/a/19954/Abortion-unleashed-in-Obama-healthcare

7-21-09

Don’t Be Fooled by Obama’s ‘45 Million’ Uninsured

TAKE A CLOSER LOOK:  When the numbers are crunched, it turns out that only 11 million legal American citizens who would like health insurance don’t have it, and even that figure is likely high. If we take it at 11 million, that’s less than 4% of the country.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/07/21/se-cupp-obama-healthcare/

7-21-09

House Dem Health Plan Contains Words of Coercion — not Choice

… the bill is really about empowering bureaucracy and limiting freedom, competition, and the marketplace,” said NTUF Director of Congressional Analysis Jeff Dircksen.

… the words “choice,” “options,” and “freedom” appear just 85 times in the mammoth 1,018-page legislation, while three restrictive words — “require,” “limit,” and “must” (and variations) — were nine times more prevalent.

http://www.ntu.org/main/press.php?PressID=1108&org_name=NTUF

7-29-09

Analyzing Obama’s Health Care Rhetoric

I … looked for the same words as our earlier analysis (of the HC Bill).

What a shocker! Obama’s rhetoric utilizes positive words more than 5.5 times as often as the negative ones. That’s a complete reversal of what the Democrats’ legislation actually says.
http://blog.ntu.org/main/post.php?post_id=4799

7-9-09

Obama Can’t Be Trusted With Numbers

So Why Should WE Trust Him with Health Care?

Mr. Obama has already created a river of red ink. His health-care plans will only force that river over its banks. We are at the cusp of a crucial political debate, and Mr. Obama’s words on fiscal matters are untrustworthy. His promised savings are a mirage. His proposals to reshape the economy are alarming. And his unwillingness to be forthright with his numbers reveals that he knows his plans would terrify many Americans.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124709502661214861.html

7-21-09

Racial Preferences in the Democrats’ Health Care Bill

… The bill includes racial preferences. Under the Democrats’ health care bill, if a medical school wants to increase its chances of receiving many different kinds of grants and contracts from the federal government, it should have a demonstrated record of training individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups. This is because the Democrats’ health care bill requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to give preference to the entities that have demonstrated such a record in the awarding of these contracts to medical schools and other institutions.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/racial_preferences_in_the_demo_1.html

7-19-09

Obama Health Plan to Cover 12 Million Illegals

On Friday, Democrats moved one step closer to giving free health insurance to the nation’s estimated 12 million illegal aliens when they successfully defeated a Republican-backed amendment, offered by Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev., that would have prevented illegal aliens from receiving government-subsidized health care under the proposed plan backed by House Democrats and President Barack Obama …

http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/health_care_obama/2009/07/19/237484.html

6-26-09

Unions To Get Dues from ObamaCare

“Is it any surprise that unions are one of the greatest contributors to the Democratic party and that they are now exempt from one of the most controversial taxes he (Obama) is considering,” he asked.  “It’s not illegal, but gosh, does it look bad.”

http://townhall.com/columnists/JillianBandes/2009/06/26/unions_to_get_dues_from_obamacare

7-15-09

It’s Not an Option

From the beginning, opponents of the public option plan have warned that if the government gets into the business of offering subsidized health insurance coverage, the private insurance market will wither. Drawn by a public option that will be 30% to 40% cheaper than their current premiums because taxpayers will be funding it, employers will gladly scrap their private plans and go with Washington’s coverage.

What wasn’t known until now is that the bill itself will kill the market for private individual coverage by not letting any new policies be written after the public option becomes law.

The legislation is also likely to finish off health savings accounts, a goal that Democrats have had for years. They want to crush that alternative because nothing gives individuals more control over their medical care, and the government less, than HSAs.

The public option won’t be an option for many, but rather a mandate for buying government care. A free people should be outraged at this advance of soft tyranny.

Washington does not have the constitutional or moral authority to outlaw private markets in which parties voluntarily participate. It shouldn’t be killing business opportunities, or limiting choices, or legislating major changes in Americans’ lives.

It took just 16 pages of reading to find this naked attempt by the political powers to increase their reach. It’s scary to think how many more breaches of liberty we’ll come across in the final 1,002.

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=332548165656854

7-24-09

Community-Organized Crime

Throughout both Health Care Bills, references are made to things that will be executed by “community organizations.” They are referring to ACORN and its 350-plus organizations under its umbrella.

This organization is now under investigation – can you imagine what they could do with the trillions of dollars from our health care industry and how much damage they could do to our health care system?

“Operationally, ACORN is a shell game played in 120 cities, 43 states and the District of Columbia through a complex structure designed to conceal illegal activities, to use taxpayer and tax-exempt dollars for partisan political purposes, and to distract investigators,” the report says. Structurally, it is “a chess game in which senior management is shielded from accountability by multiple layers of volunteers and compensated employees who serve as pawns to take the fall for every bad act.”

http://spectator.org/archives/2009/07/24/community-organized-crime

Another reason President Obama is pushing national healthcare legislation:  It’s all about  EXPANDING UNIONS and “community organizations” like ACORN into another 17% of the economy.

KEEP READING:

6-17-09

Back to ACORN General Hospital

“What’s this?” I asked.  “It’s for the union.”  I handed it to her. “You don’t understand. I am an RN.  A professional. I won’t be joining a union.” She handed the card back to me. “No, you don’t understand. This is a closed shop. Fill out the card.”
… my brief stint as a union nurse was over. Until now. Because as I look over Obama’s healthcare plan, and the AFSCME and SEIU websites, it’s obvious that the service employees unions are all over Obama’s health care “reform.”

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/06/back_to_acorn_general_hospital.html

12-15-08

Welcome to ACORN General Hospital

I’ve been a registered nurse for 30 years, so the future of American health care is one of my greatest concerns.

Nowhere … is there any hint of taking care of sick people. Community organizing meets health care.

And what did Michelle accomplish as a hospital Vice President? According to her resume:  She grew a staff of two into a diverse, 23-person team that carries out a threefold mission of improving community-based health care, increasing business opportunity of South Side businesses and enhancing the Medical Center’s considerable service to the surrounding community.

So her first accomplishment was increasing the size of her own department eleven-fold! Forget the use of the word “diverse”. The sheer amount of expenditure involved in a 23-person department with a Director earning over 300K is breathtaking!

The last thing 9,200 Medical Center employees want to do after a tough week is to spend a day “reflecting” with Michelle and her diverse staff. And because, at the moment, the nurse works for the hospital and not for (the) federal government, she has the freedom to say “No thanks.”

The problem is that health care workers aren’t college students. Forced “service learning hours” aren’t part of the job description, and if one hospital tells me that taking part in Michelle’s “Adopt-A-School” program is part of my contract, I’ll head over to the hospital down the road.  And I’ll deck the first limousine liberal who tells me that health care workers need to be forced to help their communities.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/welcome_to_acorn_general_hospi.html

7-17-09

O’s Broken Promises

One troubling provision of the House bill compels seniors to submit to a counseling session every five years (and more often if they become sick or go into a nursing home) about alternatives for end-of-life care (House bill, p. 425-430). The sessions cover highly sensitive matters such as whether to receive antibiotics and “the use of artificially administered nutrition and hydration.” … This mandate invites abuse, and seniors could easily be pushed to refuse care. Do we really want government involved in such deeply personal issues?

The most recent ABC News/Washington Post poll (June 21) finds that 83 percent of Americans are very satisfied or somewhat satisfied with the quality of their health care, and 81 percent are similarly satisfied with their health insurance.

Congress should pursue less radical ways to cover the uninsured. We have too much to lose with this legislation.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07172009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/os_broken_promises_179667.htm

6-24-09

How Health Care Reforms Will Mess With Your Coverage

But for patients, there’s a bigger danger: a mandate that will limit your choice of health plans and restrict when you can see a specialist. You may be compelled to pay 10% or more of your income for insurance you don’t want.

Let me address a few big questions you may have …

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/06/24/2009-06-24_how_health_care_reforms_will_mess_with_your_coverage.html

6-26-09

The Dangers of “Fannie Mae Health Care”

A public plan would have certain advantages. That’s precisely the problem.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124597297859757163.html

6-30-09

A ‘Fix’ We’ll Likely Regret – George Will

Most Americans do want different health care: They want 2009 medicine at 1960 prices. Americans spent much less on health care in 1960 (5 percent of GDP as opposed to 18 percent now). They also spent much less — nothing, in fact — on computers, cell phones and cable and satellite television.

Your next car can cost less if you forgo GPS, satellite radio, antilock brakes, power steering, power windows and air conditioning. You can shop for such a car at your local Studebaker, Hudson, Nash, Packard and DeSoto dealers.

http://townhall.com/Common/PrintPage.aspx?g=f8f064a0-64cc-46d1-9d84-0fbac4e48d2f&t=c

5-29-09

When the Right to Die Becomes a Duty

Wagner, a great-grandmother and retired bus driver living in a low-income apartment, could not afford the drug herself. So she asked her state-run health insurance plan for help.

The response she received shocked her. Oregon state officials sent a letter saying that they would not pay for medication to extend her life, but they would foot the drug bill for an assisted suicide — an expenditure of roughly $50.

Assisted-suicide laws like the one in Wagner’s state are a potential boon to tight-fisted insurers and bureaucrats looking to cut health care costs. And the growing acceptance of assisted suicide and euthanasia, even in states that do not explicitly permit them, makes it easier for frustrated physicians and caregivers to convince themselves and others that severely ill and disabled patients would be better off dead.
http://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.3838/pub_detail.asp

7-27-09

Health Bill Boils Down to August Battle

The president and his allies hope that the profusion of new progressive groups, which have organized under the rubric of “Unity ‘09” and which coordinate closely with one another and with the White House, will be enough to quell citizens’ concerns about the bill, to keep members in line, and to fuel a sense of outrage at the status quo. It’s a fight those groups have been preparing for since the inauguration.

“What we have is a strong, practiced field infrastructure, which is gearing up because they now understand the stakes,” MoveOn’s Hogue said of the progressive movement. “In the August recess, we are going to see the full force of that pressure brought to bear on those who are on the wrong side of history, and an unrelenting chorus of voices calling for the undecideds to move on health care reform, a clean energy economy and the other urgent priorities of the American people.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25419.html

7-19-09

How Bad Is Obama Healthcare?

If passed, it will reduce the quality and increase the cost of health care in America. But more importantly, it will severely undermine our already weak economy….
http://www.lewrockwell.com/schiff/schiff35.1.html

7-24-09

Emanuel: House will vote on Health Care next week …

The House of Representatives does plan to vote on health legislation before leaving for its August recess, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told NPR.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106946745

7-23-09

Perry raises possibility of states’ rights showdown with White House over healthcare …

Texas Gov. Rick Perry … suggested Thursday that he would consider invoking states’ rights protections under the 10th Amendment to resist the president’s healthcare plan, which he said would be “disastrous” for Texas.

http://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/1504240.html

7-23-09

Physicians and health care professionals might like to see this.

The “Comments” section to the piece are just as good …

Healthcare Policy, Social Justice and Thugs

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/healthcare_policy_social_justi.html

4-29-09

The Attack On Doctors’ Hippocratic Oath

In critiquing the Hippocratic Oath, Dr. Emanuel calls for training medical students “to move toward more socially sustainable, cost-effective care.”

President Obama has appointed impressively educated advisers. But no matter how many degrees they have, it’s still important to examine what they think. The views articulated by Drs. Emanuel and Blumenthal are contrary to American values.

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=325900812716750

7-20-09

Obama and the CPUSA

And their overwhelming approval of Obama’s agenda

(Communist Party of the United States)

(1) Obama’s policy agenda and that of the CPUSA are in perfect alignment: more stimuli; green jobs; global warming; public sector jobs; more regulation and, in fact, restructuring of the entire economy; eventual single-payer health care, with the public option being critical to any immediate plan; union-friendly legislation; cutting defense spending; engaging and normalizing relations with the US’s mortal enemies like Hugo Chavez, the Castro brothers and the reigning mullah’s of Iran; claiming victory in Iraq as their own.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/07/obama_and_the_cpusa.html

First Do No Harm

Problem solved:  More Doctors = more competition.

The poor and the aged already have socialized medicine. Changing the method of payment for the rest of the population will have little substantive effect other than to introduce economies of scale offset by bureaucratic gigantisms.

http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1618/article_detail.asp

The New New Deal

… Obama’s mission was to save not capitalism but the welfare state. He trusted the market more than FDR did, because it had proved over many decades its ability to generate a surplus that could be redistributed to the poor (a relative term, of course), and because it had made many Democrats with educations and careers like his quite rich. But Obama realized that the entitlement state’s spiraling costs would eventually prove unsustainable. Audaciously, he decided to double down: to declare health care a right and move toward universal coverage under an increasingly nationalized system. He bet that this will force higher taxes and, at the same time, give him and his successors greater control over costs.

… To the Democrats it’s always 1932. They think Americans should believe in a depression even when they don’t see one. The paralysis of the financial markets and the plummet in stocks were real enough, to be sure, but Obama’s agenda for nationalized health care, draconian environmental taxation and regulation, and the steady expansion of government (except for national defense) was already in place long before the economy tanked. It was in the Democratic Party platform, under H for Hope. Now it’s marketed under F for Fear—without these urgent new initiatives, we are warned, the American economy will never recover.

http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1612/article_detail.asp

Conservative Action Plan / Request for Comment

One of the major premises of a representative republic is that collectively, we are wiser than competent statesmen. I believe that is correct and look forward to hearing from all of you.

Publius

CONSERVATIVE ACTION PLAN

We the People of the United States of America hereby demand our nation and our government back. We demand all egregious spending, including the Stimulus Package, Omnibus Spending bill and the Budget be rescinded immediately.

As an object lesson for our government, We the People, are about to embark on an object lesson in how to “not spend money”.

EMERGENCY ACTION PLAN

The singular observation we made early this year, after calls and letters to the government were between 50 and 100 to 1 against the TARP program and all subsequent spending, was that our government no longer represents us. Indeed, our government has demonstrated such contempt for us, for life, liberty and happiness that we have difficulty recognizing it as a government of the United States of America. These actions constitute gross betrayal and abuse of our trust and shall not stand.

Emergency Demands:

Repeal the Stimulus Package.

Repeal the Omnibus Spending Bill

Recall the Budget, eliminate all unnecesary spending and pork and re-submit for a vote

 

Phase 1 Protest Monthly 48 hour spending freezes beginning July 5 and July 6, 2009.

 

Repeat monthly on 2nd Sunday and following Monday with increasing participation until the impact is felt and noted by national markets and local, state and federal governments.

When the media can no longer ignore the spening freezes, Phase 1 is complete.

 

 Phase 2 Protest

 Halt the the 48-hour spending freezes and engage in a long-term discretionary spending freeze. During this long-term freeze we will refrain from making any purchases or investments which are not absolutely necessary to hold our jobs and feed our children.

This spending freeze will continue until all of the above terms are met.

While engaging in the spending freeze, we will further research and debate the following initial recommendation for a long term strategy to fully restore our republic and self govenment:

STRATEGY TO RESTORE THE REPUBLIC

Restructure the House of Representatives to equal either the 1 Representative per 30,000 citizens as stated in the Constitution, or at a minimum 1 Representative for every 60,000 Citizens.

Split all Congressional districts in half every two years, thus doubling the number of Representatives until the target ratio is met.

As the House becomes better populated, more and more Representatives can reside in their districts most of the year and participate in debates and votes electronically from their home offices.

Offices in Washington, D. C. can be shared and rotate to allow all Representatives some time in Washington, and most of their time in their home offices where they are available to their constituents.

Repeal the 17th Amendment allowing general elections to select State Senators. Restore to the State Legislatures the right of selecting the Senators to hold office in the Federal Senate as this amendment has diminished the sovereignty of the States.

Repeal the 16th Amendment allowing the Federal government to tax income.  This will reduce federal revenues by about 50%.

Dismantle all Federal agencies, bureaus and departments not specifically authorized by the Constitution.

Where desired by the States, they can assume authority over those federal bureaus, departments and agencies as are hosted within state borders and continue their operation at the individual state discretion.

SUPPORTING LOGIC

Recipe for Tyranny

In 1911 the number of Representatives in the House reached its present size of 435.   Two years later, the 16th Amendment granted the Federal Government the right to tax “income” (though the exact definition of “income” remains in some dispute).  In 1929, membership in the House was formally capped at 435 members.

These two events created two corresponding statistics, one going up and one going down, that have reached critical mass in their relationship.

The two statistics are:

1. Per capita representation in Congress which is going down. At present, with a population of over 306,000,000 and approximately 535 members of Congress, we have 1 legislator for every 570,000 people. When the Constitution was written, it stated “The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative;”

2. Federal revenues from income tax are going steadily up. The liberal desire to “spread the wealth” may have some merit. We currently have, by one revenue chart, as much as 40% of the GDP of our entire nation under the incontestable and un-monitored control of 535 people who are more answerable to campaign contributors and lobbyists than to their constituents.

This is a recipe for tyranny. Whether it results in an oligarchy that engages in socialism, communism or any other ism is immaterial. Losing our right to control our individual and national destiny is a problem that warrants some attention, even some action.

The Citizen Statesman and Self-Government

The purpose of the lower house, the House of Representatives, is to ensure self government by the Citizens of the United States of America. The House was to be composed of citizen statesmen, not professional or career politicians. The term is only for 2 years for multiple reasons, to prevent too long of an interruption in the citizen statesman’s career, and also to prevent complacency and self indulgence to take root.

This body of citizen statesmen is the only arm of the government empowered to introduce new legislation to raise revenues. Yet, our President has just this year demanded such of them, and they have complied against the will of the people they represent.

The Constitution was so designed that all laws are to originate with the people, via Congress, not the government.

The upper house, the Senate was to be composed of longer term, career statesmen who can provide balance and guidance to the members of the House. Neither the executive branch nor the judicial branch is empowered to introduce new legislation, only Congress. And that lower house was to be composed, not of politicians, but of citizens.

This proposal is submitted to the people of the United States of America for consideration, debate, and comment. It is a starting point, please feel free to add comments and refinements to help us Restore the Republic.

Publius

Recommendations:

1. Challenge the principle of the electoral college. The primary reason for this is that electoral votes are allocated by population, not by the voting population. A state with a very large population, but very few voters has undue influence over the electoral process.

2. Targeted boycotts instead of acute short term spending freezes and long term general/discretionary spending freeze.

A letter to the President on Independence Day

Dear Mr. President,

Happy 4th of July.

I realize that you do not think that you hate the United States of America, but I must disagree. Throughout your life you have been reared and educated by socialists, socialist sympathizers, communists and Islamists. All of these ideologies are antipathetic to the founding principles of this great nation.

All of these ideologies are tolerated here because liberty is the rule of law. Now, here you come along, hating everything that America stands for, liberty, self-governance, rule of law, respect for the individual…and you want to fix us. You want to make us more like all of those failed, hateful societies and cultures that so resent America, because you were reared and educated by such people.

They are wrong. You are wrong. All of your programs: Stimulus bill, omnibus spending bill, nationalizing the auto industry, nationalized health care, cap and trade…every single one of these programs is socialist in nature and anti-American. Every one of them is a direct assault on our nation, on our economy and on our liberty.

And, you don’t see it. I know that you don’t. You have been reared in the tradition of “dirt worshippers”. These are people who believe that the physical universe, the material universe is the “real” universe and that the spiritual universe is the “imaginary” universe, and hence, not “real”.

All of the principles that move you are based on the concept of the law of diminishing returns. This is the law of dirt, of material, of rock and molecules. It tells us that there are limits, there is only so much oil, there is only so much energy, there is only so much resource…so you have to control it. You have to apportion it. This is the principle behind mercantilism (take as much as you can get from the other guy), that is the principle which the real imperialists were working off of when they raped, pillaged and plundered the third world. But that was old Europe, not the U.S. Do not blame our nation for the follies and ill-will of the very people against whom we rebelled for those exact reasons. The law of diminishing returns is also the law that underlies socialism and communism. These principles both adhere to the physical laws of limitations and diminishing returns.

Only Judaism and Christianity teach the law of exponential returns. This law says, the more you give the more you receive. The more you create the more there is. It teaches that creation is possible. It is God’s law. It is the law underpinning the creation of the universe, it is the law of the Creator, however you choose to define It. The material universe was created by some force or identity of the spiritual universe. That law is senior and the material world is subordinate to it. And, man was created in God’s image; thereby man is at his best when creating, not when destroying or “allocating”. That will to create is the driving force behind the nation of the United States of America.

Capitalism is based on the principle of creating more wealth, the law of exponential returns, not re-distributing what already exists.

Americans believe in and live by the law of exponential returns. That is why we have become the wealthiest, most powerful, most benevolent and most generous nation in the history of the world. We are the only nation that really operates off of the law of exponential returns. Interestingly, the world has consumed twice the known oil reserves of the planet since the 1970’s. How is that possible? Only the law of exponential returns can explain it.

Science has its place, but that place is subordinate to true spirituality and the laws of the spiritual universe.

The other thing that I must point out to you is that in every conflict between the dirt worshippers and the God worshippers, the God worshippers have won. I am sorry, but Islam is a religion that worships the material, as are the Greek and Roman religions, Germanic paganism and all of the other idol worshipping creeds. People are entitled to adhere to that limited view. They always produce societies rife with criminality, hedonism and violence. They are free to live that way so long as they do not try to impose it upon the rest of us. That is where, I am afraid, you are about spin out.

The United States of America rejected all of those degraded ideologies; it is those ideologies from which it declared independence. The spiritual laws that we have adhered to as a nation are vastly superior to all of the other ideologies combined. This ideology always wins, because it can always create more. The material ideology always loses because it runs out of resources. In the Civil War, the north didn’t win because it had more resources than the slave-owning South, the North had more resources because it did not enslave other people. Slavery is a dirt worshipping mentality and it loses to liberty every time. Unless you trade sides, you too will lose. I just wanted to let you know in case you want to be a winner. You “won” the presidency, because you sold yourself as a God worshipper. Then you proceeded to try to impose your socialist, dirt worshipping ideology on our great nation. You will lose in all of your causes as long as you side with the dirt worshippers (liberals, socialists, communists, tyrants of all breeds).

If you actually receive and heed this message, today will be your Independence day; and you will know what “independence” means for the first time in your life. Until that moment you have been a slave to the material universe. I wish you well.

Best regards,
Publius