Our government is the herder...we are the SHEEPLE!
The "Affordable Health Care For America Act" (HR3962) IS ANYTHING BUT! In addition, it is NOT about providing better health care for Americans at all! It is all about POWER AND CONTROL!
"We are 5 days away from a TOTAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE UNITED STATES! - Barack Obama in a campaign rally speech 10/29/09.
"This bill ... as our Founders who said that all men are born with unalienable rights...including Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness...will give Americans BETTER, HEALTHIER LIVES to help them pursue their hopes and dreams IN THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS..." (Paraphrased) - Nancy Polosi, after the passage of the Health Care Bill, 3/21/10.
REFERENCE LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZt8QdD39Mc
"Congress has proven once again that the Government of the People and by the People is still working FOR the PEOPLE!" - Barack Obama, after the passage of the Health Care Bill, in the wee hours of 3/22/10.
"An overwhelming majority of Americans voted for SOCIALISM when they elected Barack Obama." - Al Sharpton on Fox News 3/22/10.
Some of the provisions of the bill include the creation of over 100 NEW GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES, a multitude of NEW TAXES ($560 BILLION over 10 years), deep cuts in Medicare ($500 BILLION over 10 years), MANDATORY HEALTH CARE INSURANCE (with minimum coverage requirements dictated by the Secretary of Health & Human Services and the Health Choices Commissioner), penalties imposed on those who REFUSE TO BUY health insurance (ENFORCED BY THE IRS!), a Government takeover of the STUDENT LOAN PROGRAM (??? in a HEALTH CARE BILL????), adds MILLIONS of people to MEDICARE (adding further burdens on cash-strapped individual STATES...called UNFUNDED MANDATES), PROVISIONS THAT WILL PROVIDE GOVERNMENT PAID ABORTIONS and a plethora of other requirements and provisions
REFERENCE LINK: http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=5668
Moreover, the TAXES START IMMEDIATELY (except the surcharge on "Cadillac Plans" do not take effect until 2018, to appease the Unions), but BENEFITS DO NOT START UNTIL 2014 (except for expansion of certain provisions related to children's health care). That means 10 years of TAXES for only 6 years of BENEFITS!
The bill does NOT include the restoration of payments to Doctors for Medicare Coverage [so-called "DR. FIX" - $250-300 BILLION over 10 years], due to be cut by 21% this year. Therefore, the $183 BILLION reduction in the National Debt (over 10 years) projected by the CBO, does NOT include this expense. It should be noted that MANY DOCTORS do not accept Medicare patients and EVEN MORE do not accept Medicaid patients...TODAY! That number is projected to significantly increase over the coming years.
The CBO has to make cost projections BASED SOLELY ON THE ASSUMPTIONS MADE BY CONGRESS! These assumptions given to the CBO for analysis includes a RAPID RECOVERY OF THE ECONOMY AND RECORD REVENUE over the next 10 years! Also, the $500 BILLION cuts in Medicare has been counted TWICE! On the one hand, Obama has said that it will be used to FIX MEDICARE! On the other hand, he has said that these funds will be used to cover costs related to an increase in the number of insured! The CBO projections do NOT show this, although they pointed out that you cannot count it twice...you can't have it both ways! Yet, Obama continues to make these claims. The projection of a $1.3 TRILLION savings over the second 10 years is PIE IN THE SKY (and the CBO said so), is based on super-rosy projections of the economy, assumed health care cost savings and other dubious, unsubstantiated claims. ANY claims of reductions in health care costs, and therefore insurance premiums, are unsubstantiated.
LOGIC: YOU CANNOT ADD 32 MILLION PEOPLE WITH HEALTH INSURANCE, INCREASE THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE ON MEDICAID SUBSTANTIALLY AND BAILOUT MEDICARE FREE! Moreover, NONE of the cost projections include ANY of the increased costs to STATES for increased Medicaid costs, due to the inclusion of additional people!
38 states (and counting) have pending legislation challenging the imposition by the Federal Government of mandatory health care insurance as being UNCONSTITUTIONAL (Idaho and Virginia have already passed such laws). 10 or so states, including Texas, Florida, South Carolina and Alabama, are planning to file a challenge in court immediately after the law is signed by President Obama (3/23/10). Many lawyers have expressed that this provision of the law is UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
For those of you have the time, patience and inclination, here is the link to the law itself, including the reconciliation package, which must yet be taken up by the Senate.
LINK: http://conservativecamp.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=332432:read-the-health-care-bill-and-revisions-here&catid=116:adminstrator&Itemid=179
Government controlled Health Care, Cap & Trade Clean Energy, Student Loan Program, Amnesty for illegal aliens, bailouts/ownership of the financial industry, insurance companies (AIG), private industry (autos, solar energy), and other planned actions are all part of Obama's plan to socialize America! It is all about a cradle to grave Federal Government control of our lives! George Orwell was right...the year 1984 was possible, but is just now taking place. The prospects of UNDOING this bad legislation is slim to none, although attempts to do so will occur! Add the Globalization Plan contained in the UN Agenda 21, of which the IBO World Schools and curriculum is a part, and our nation is headed for a TOTALITARIAN GOVERNMENT and a SOCIALISTIC SOCIETY! The Land of the Free and Home of the Brave will never be the same...if it survives!
WE ARE THE SHEEPLE!
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Monday, March 22, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
VOL I, NO 2 - ONLY IN AMERICA
A fool is one who betrays himself. I said that. Quote me!
Over the past year, I have been overwhelmed by the events which have unfolded in Washington! What intrigues me the most is the fact that Barack Obama told America EXACTLY WHAT TO EXPECT when he became President. Before the election, he made the following statement, and I quote, "We are five days away from a TOTAL TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA!" We have gotten more than we bargained for!
Mr. Obama promised CHANGE. We got change! Unfortunately, THAT IS THE ONLY PROMISE HE HAS KEPT! The changes so far are NOT what he promised, to wit:
1. Transpanrency: NOPE! We have been swamped with a jumble of selected "considerations" on every piece of legislation brought before Congress. While we have been trying to figure out what is being proposed, deals are being made behind closed doors, leaving us guessing. Moreover, the bills are pushed through without exposure or adequate debate. When passed, we, the American people, still do not know the details!
2. Green jobs: NOPE! Instead, we have been given a "snow job" over energy issues, fueled by Al Gore and his "global warming" propoganda, which the White House supports and wants us to believe. The answer, they say, is solar and wind energy, electric cars and a TAX on CARBON emissions. One note on the latter...already 3 people have been charged with fraud over a scam regarding "trading carbon tax credits"! The EPA has ruled that CO2 is "harmful to humans". The HOUSE passed the Clean Energy Bill early last year. The Senate has yet to consider it. However, with the EPA becoming more agressive and other moves made by Obama and other government agencies, some of the provisions are already being initiated, despite the fact that the bill is not yet law! Billions were given to companies to develop batteries for electric cars, more advanced solar and wind energy generation and improving the national electric grid. Yet, these same companies LOST BILLIONS last year, because the products are STILL TOO EXPENSIVE for mainstram America! Now, more money has been poured into upgrading windows and insulation in older homes and commercial buildings. In case you haven't noticed, compact fluorescent and LED lighting is taking over...regular bulbs are occupying less and less space on the shelves! These are just some examples. There has NO PROOF of an increase in jobs in this area! In fact, most energy companies have REDUCED their workforce!
3. HEALTHCARE REFORM: NOT YET! MAYBE NOT THIS YEAR! MAYBE NEVER! Well, almost everyone agrees that we need some kinds of reform to our healthcare coverage. There are many opinions as to what. However, yesterday, Massachusetts spoke loud and clear...NOT WHAT IS CURRENTLY ON THE TABLE IN WASHINGTON! The vast majority of Americans do NOT want to pay for OTHER PEOPLE'S INSURANCE, nor do they want to be unfairly taxed, through whatever means. Today, we pay for a lot of different stuff through "hidden" taxes on everything from tobacco, alcohol, gasoline, etc. Now, WHAT IF the government legalized industrial HEMP cultivation and production and, without raising taxes, create enough increase in revenue to reduce the current deficit AND pay for certain aspects of a new NON-GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED Healthcare Plan? What IF? Worth consideration, don't you think?
4. STIMULUS: NOPE! Oh, Congress passed a $787BILLION STIMULUS BILL...but we have lost over 3 MILLION JOBS since! What they stimulated was the pockets of a number of non-profit organizations like ACORN for dubious projects and PORK for projects in districts favored by the administration! MORE JOBS? All of the "data" cited over "jobs created or saved" have proven unreliable and immeasurable. BTW, only a fraction of the Stimulus money has been spent, so where was the "stimulus"? Unemployment is touted to be over 10%, but is closer to 20%, given that many have given up and are no longer counted in the unemplyment numbers! Another misleading manipulation of data!
5. BUDGET DEFICIT REDUCTIONS: HELL, NO! GIVE ME A BREAK! This administration has put us deeper into debt ALREADY than ALL PRECEDING PRESIDENTS COMBINED! I can't even discuss it! My Pastor would have my hide!
6. SECURITY AGAINST TERRORISM: NOPE, AGAIN! How can closing down GITMO and releasing the bad guys back to Yemen or putting them in U.S. prisons and conducting theie trials in U.S. Criminal Courts (instead of Military Tribunals) help make us safer? This is BEYOND ME!
6. BORDER SECURITY: NO, NO, NO, AND NOPE! When NO ACTION has been taken to strengthen our borders and airport security is so misguided as to allow a crazy loon (credit Bill O'Reilly) to board an American airliner with a bomb in his shorts, even though he was on the "terror watchlist", how are we safer? What about the other attacks in 2009? Do YOU feel safer? I don't!
7. NO TAX INCREASE FOR AMERICANS WHO MAKE LESS THAN $250,000 A YEAR! CERTAINLY NOT! Who bears the brunt of the 60 cent/pack increase in cigarette taxes? That was violation number one on this issue! More on the way, more being considered in Congress!
8. I INHERITED THIS MESS! WOW, WHAT A CROCK! Obama has been in office for a year! This is NO LONGER an excuse! Obama, you make your own bed now and YOU must lie in it! Oh, he does...LIE, that is!
Well, I am boring you. You know all of this! I could go on with examples for hours! However, I think it is time to make my point!
WHAT IF INDUSTRIAL HEMP CULTIVATION AND PRODUCTION WERE LEGALIZED? If one had only a few acres of vacant farm land, they could produce HEMP. Biofuels produced from HEMP could significantly reduce our dependence upon foreign oil. HEMP production would create MILLIONS OF NEW JOBS! Products made from HEMP in the U.S. would significantly reduce our imports of many, many commodities and keep jobs here, instead of China, Mexico and many other countries!
Moreover, WHAT IF MARIJUANA WERE LEGALIZED? Well, consider the possiblities. We would NO LONGER need IMPORTED MARIJUANA from Mexico and South America. This would break the drug cartels south of the border. More money would be retained here, rather than sent overseas. Could legalized marijuana possibly reduce the demand for hard drugs? Well, I can't answer that, but it is certainly something that I ponder, and so should you. One thing is for sure., THE LEGALIZATION OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA is without doubt a sane and humane objective! This legislation should be FEDERAL to cover ALL AMERICANS in need of this treatment! Get the DEA out from between patients and doctors! One problem with illegally available marijuana is that it is of inferior quality and strength needed to medical marijuana. This point is not well known or publicized in the public domain. The fact is, medical grade marijuana increases its medical benefits and reduces the frequency of use. This is good for the patients, in that it reduces their costs in the long run and provides greater beneficial effects in its use. This MUST be accomplished!
Over the past year, I have been overwhelmed by the events which have unfolded in Washington! What intrigues me the most is the fact that Barack Obama told America EXACTLY WHAT TO EXPECT when he became President. Before the election, he made the following statement, and I quote, "We are five days away from a TOTAL TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA!" We have gotten more than we bargained for!
Mr. Obama promised CHANGE. We got change! Unfortunately, THAT IS THE ONLY PROMISE HE HAS KEPT! The changes so far are NOT what he promised, to wit:
1. Transpanrency: NOPE! We have been swamped with a jumble of selected "considerations" on every piece of legislation brought before Congress. While we have been trying to figure out what is being proposed, deals are being made behind closed doors, leaving us guessing. Moreover, the bills are pushed through without exposure or adequate debate. When passed, we, the American people, still do not know the details!
2. Green jobs: NOPE! Instead, we have been given a "snow job" over energy issues, fueled by Al Gore and his "global warming" propoganda, which the White House supports and wants us to believe. The answer, they say, is solar and wind energy, electric cars and a TAX on CARBON emissions. One note on the latter...already 3 people have been charged with fraud over a scam regarding "trading carbon tax credits"! The EPA has ruled that CO2 is "harmful to humans". The HOUSE passed the Clean Energy Bill early last year. The Senate has yet to consider it. However, with the EPA becoming more agressive and other moves made by Obama and other government agencies, some of the provisions are already being initiated, despite the fact that the bill is not yet law! Billions were given to companies to develop batteries for electric cars, more advanced solar and wind energy generation and improving the national electric grid. Yet, these same companies LOST BILLIONS last year, because the products are STILL TOO EXPENSIVE for mainstram America! Now, more money has been poured into upgrading windows and insulation in older homes and commercial buildings. In case you haven't noticed, compact fluorescent and LED lighting is taking over...regular bulbs are occupying less and less space on the shelves! These are just some examples. There has NO PROOF of an increase in jobs in this area! In fact, most energy companies have REDUCED their workforce!
3. HEALTHCARE REFORM: NOT YET! MAYBE NOT THIS YEAR! MAYBE NEVER! Well, almost everyone agrees that we need some kinds of reform to our healthcare coverage. There are many opinions as to what. However, yesterday, Massachusetts spoke loud and clear...NOT WHAT IS CURRENTLY ON THE TABLE IN WASHINGTON! The vast majority of Americans do NOT want to pay for OTHER PEOPLE'S INSURANCE, nor do they want to be unfairly taxed, through whatever means. Today, we pay for a lot of different stuff through "hidden" taxes on everything from tobacco, alcohol, gasoline, etc. Now, WHAT IF the government legalized industrial HEMP cultivation and production and, without raising taxes, create enough increase in revenue to reduce the current deficit AND pay for certain aspects of a new NON-GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED Healthcare Plan? What IF? Worth consideration, don't you think?
4. STIMULUS: NOPE! Oh, Congress passed a $787BILLION STIMULUS BILL...but we have lost over 3 MILLION JOBS since! What they stimulated was the pockets of a number of non-profit organizations like ACORN for dubious projects and PORK for projects in districts favored by the administration! MORE JOBS? All of the "data" cited over "jobs created or saved" have proven unreliable and immeasurable. BTW, only a fraction of the Stimulus money has been spent, so where was the "stimulus"? Unemployment is touted to be over 10%, but is closer to 20%, given that many have given up and are no longer counted in the unemplyment numbers! Another misleading manipulation of data!
5. BUDGET DEFICIT REDUCTIONS: HELL, NO! GIVE ME A BREAK! This administration has put us deeper into debt ALREADY than ALL PRECEDING PRESIDENTS COMBINED! I can't even discuss it! My Pastor would have my hide!
6. SECURITY AGAINST TERRORISM: NOPE, AGAIN! How can closing down GITMO and releasing the bad guys back to Yemen or putting them in U.S. prisons and conducting theie trials in U.S. Criminal Courts (instead of Military Tribunals) help make us safer? This is BEYOND ME!
6. BORDER SECURITY: NO, NO, NO, AND NOPE! When NO ACTION has been taken to strengthen our borders and airport security is so misguided as to allow a crazy loon (credit Bill O'Reilly) to board an American airliner with a bomb in his shorts, even though he was on the "terror watchlist", how are we safer? What about the other attacks in 2009? Do YOU feel safer? I don't!
7. NO TAX INCREASE FOR AMERICANS WHO MAKE LESS THAN $250,000 A YEAR! CERTAINLY NOT! Who bears the brunt of the 60 cent/pack increase in cigarette taxes? That was violation number one on this issue! More on the way, more being considered in Congress!
8. I INHERITED THIS MESS! WOW, WHAT A CROCK! Obama has been in office for a year! This is NO LONGER an excuse! Obama, you make your own bed now and YOU must lie in it! Oh, he does...LIE, that is!
Well, I am boring you. You know all of this! I could go on with examples for hours! However, I think it is time to make my point!
WHAT IF INDUSTRIAL HEMP CULTIVATION AND PRODUCTION WERE LEGALIZED? If one had only a few acres of vacant farm land, they could produce HEMP. Biofuels produced from HEMP could significantly reduce our dependence upon foreign oil. HEMP production would create MILLIONS OF NEW JOBS! Products made from HEMP in the U.S. would significantly reduce our imports of many, many commodities and keep jobs here, instead of China, Mexico and many other countries!
Moreover, WHAT IF MARIJUANA WERE LEGALIZED? Well, consider the possiblities. We would NO LONGER need IMPORTED MARIJUANA from Mexico and South America. This would break the drug cartels south of the border. More money would be retained here, rather than sent overseas. Could legalized marijuana possibly reduce the demand for hard drugs? Well, I can't answer that, but it is certainly something that I ponder, and so should you. One thing is for sure., THE LEGALIZATION OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA is without doubt a sane and humane objective! This legislation should be FEDERAL to cover ALL AMERICANS in need of this treatment! Get the DEA out from between patients and doctors! One problem with illegally available marijuana is that it is of inferior quality and strength needed to medical marijuana. This point is not well known or publicized in the public domain. The fact is, medical grade marijuana increases its medical benefits and reduces the frequency of use. This is good for the patients, in that it reduces their costs in the long run and provides greater beneficial effects in its use. This MUST be accomplished!
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