Our non-representing representatives are determined to give us "free" health care whether we want it or not. They have determine we are too stupid to know what we need. They have also determined because a few can't afford to get it or don't want it that all must be ma de to take it. Is it just me or is there something about this that doesn't sound reasonable?
Consider for a moment because there are several million in the country that can't find jobs or for whatever reason are on welfare, does this mean that everyone should be given welfare? For that matter does it mean they should all be forced to take welfare whether they want it or not? This is what is being proposed for our declining welfare, entitlement nation. The new health care bill goes much further than this. This bill has been an excuse to put every government intrusion in place our non-representing representatives have ever wanted to put in place but were afraid too, all in the name of "helping" us.
So many of the things in this bill have nothing to do with health care that it ought to scare anyone who knows about it. The problem is our leaders are determined to make sure that we never learn what is in bills till after they are passed. Once bills are passed they know they will not be overturned. The only major exception to this rule has been slavery that was overturned by an amendment to the constitution.
One of our non-representatives admitted there wasn't much point even for them to read the bills since it would take 3 people to read them and 2 of those people would have to be lawyers. This was coming from a man who was a lawyer. Think about it for just a moment. Even a lawyer couldn't understand what was in the bill. Does anyone bother to ask, "just who is authoring these bills?" They are clearly so complicated and so full of legalese that it takes whole teams of people to try to read them and make out what they're saying yet our leaders don't take the time to read the bills before voting on them. I wonder sometimes if they don't vote on the bill just based on the title. Maybe their thinking is that any bill with a title that sounds politically correct must be good bill. Maybe they really just don't care. maybe they make sure the bills are written this way and know full well what is tucked away in many corners of the bill and just hope the public won't find out till it's too late.
If your non-representing representative bothers to take the time to have mock town hall meetings, such as Obama seems to puts on please, Please, PLEASE... take the time to go and don't let them put you off because you don't feel armed to ask intelligent questions, or because they've decided the really important things aren't going to be a part of their agenda. Don't let them get away with that!
Following is a link to a PDF file that has everything you need to know about the Health Care bill in plain english along with page references to the Bill. Please take the time to at least browse through it. That alone will be enough to get you motivated about what they're trying to do. Hound yoru congress people till they hear you.
You think this is free? Wake up people... the government does not have one dime of its own money. All of it's money comes from YOU!
Health Care Bill In Plain English
I hope you find the above link helpful. It is time the American people became informed about what is in the bills our wonderful non-representing representatives are trying to pass. I have taken to going down to my non-representing representatives office an hour a week and handing out flyers to passers-by advising them not to vote for her at the next election. This is the only thing our representatives may listen to. At least at this point they still need our votes to get re-elected though they're getting dangerously close to fixing the votes much like Iran's leaders.
There are so many lessons from history of nations that lost their freedom to vote and had fixed elections that destroyed their nations it is not hard to find one. The truly frightening thing about those examples is how quickly it happened and how the people were never able to recover their rights and freedoms once they were lost. Think it can't happen here... read the Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzenitzan.
Please read the bill link above and see what you think.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Government Media
Yes, people laugh and snicker when you say the government controls the media. The media swears it doesn't have an agenda and that it's independent, but the reality is that the government says to stop calling something "swine flu" and start calling it "H1N1". Obama and congress stop calling the new government managed healthcare, "government healthcare" or "single payer" because these aren't working well with the public even though they're the most accurate, so they start calling it health insurance reform. This of course makes it sound like they're going to fix the healthcare insurance that's already there rather than replace it with government healthcare and the media dutifully starts calling it what the government want them to call it.
Many of the "Townhalls" that Obama puts on seem like they're amazing for him. Normal people can't help but wonder where the hard questions are. But no one is willing to believe they are actually staged. It is no better than Pravda, They choose the people and the questions knowing what they are in advance and making sure only those questions they want are asked.
Check out the following clip. The reporters are a little annoyed but still they don't press it or put any ongoing pressure on Obama or the government.
Many of the "Townhalls" that Obama puts on seem like they're amazing for him. Normal people can't help but wonder where the hard questions are. But no one is willing to believe they are actually staged. It is no better than Pravda, They choose the people and the questions knowing what they are in advance and making sure only those questions they want are asked.
Check out the following clip. The reporters are a little annoyed but still they don't press it or put any ongoing pressure on Obama or the government.
Canadian Healthcare The System We Praise
It amazes me the number of people who praise the Canadian Healthcare system yet know almost nothing about the way it really works. What they know is that it's government run and "free". People for some reason seem to think that government of any country is known for doing things better than the private sector in spite of the fact they can't produce one instance of this except the military, which is after all what the government is for.
Following is an under cover look at the way Canadian healthcare works. This is the kind of healthcare Obama wants us to accept and seems to think will be good for the American people. What a joke!
Following is an under cover look at the way Canadian healthcare works. This is the kind of healthcare Obama wants us to accept and seems to think will be good for the American people. What a joke!
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Independence Day
Well here it is the 4th of July. How quickly we've forgotten what this holiday stands for. Like so many of our national holidays it has become about nothing more than a day off to spend with families, eat, and maybe go to the fireworks.
Independence was about being independent from an oppressive nation. That nation, England, had a King and a general government that felt it could tax the people anything it wanted. The Americas were rich in natural resources and England felt those resources naturally belonged to it. The way these resources are taken is always through taxes. You send people there to work let them keep a small amount of what they work for and take the rest.
The men and women on this continent were forbidden from trading with other countries that might pay them more for their goods. They were forced to house soldiers in their homes. They reached the point where the taxes became too oppressive and the revolt began.
At even the hint of a tax revolt the media starts warning people they should do that or there might be consequences. I can't help but wonder what our nation would be today if the leaders and papers here at given the same advice to the colonists.
We hear about the tea party, but I don't think most understood what really happened that night. We are having tea parties now that I suppose are symbolic but mean nothing to our leaders because those "tea parties" are not really costing or threatening our leaders in any way. They don't feel the least afraid of what they might mean. Maybe they should but be that as it may they are not behaving as though they are the least concerned with the tea parties. When the colonists through the tea into Boston Harbor, it was not a small amount of tea they threw overboard. It was 50,000 pound of tea. An OUNCE of tea today costs about $5-$8. At the cheap end this comes to about $4,000,000.00 in today's economy. This was no small thing!
They were not only telling the King and England that he wasn't going to get any taxes for the tea, they hit him where it hurts, in the pocketbook. This of course provoked a strong reaction from the government, who sent soldiers. They then told the soldiers and the government to forget it that this kind of severe taxes was not going to happen.
Understand before all this happened they tried to negotiate with the King and got nowhere. This is so much like our present day circumstance. At some point it is either going to be time to dump the tea so to speak or just give in to the government demands. Understand I'm not advocating taking up arms. But we can certainly go exempt on our pay checks for 1 month. The amount of loss to the federal government would send a clear signal either give us what we want and stop taxing us so much or you won't get any more.
Yes, there is little doubt if we do this they are going to try to scare us into submitting. At this point our representative elite (Rulers, for they do not view themselves as representatives any more) will respond by sending people to arrest us or they will give us what we want. The question is, "Are the American people up for the challenge?"
It is time we started thinking seriously about how much ground our leaders have gained in taking away our liberties and our money for the sake of spending it on every ridiculous program they can think up.
One example of what our leaders think about tea parties and protests.... My representative (read RULER) Lynn Woolsey like many other representatives got so many calls the day of the vote on cap and trade that it brought down the lines in washington more than once. The ratio was 20-1 against and they ignored those millions of calls saying they were just special interest groups flooding the lines. 10's of millions of calls is not special interest groups, but even if it were it's still 10's of millions of calls and they were ignored.
The senate is getting ready to do the same thing and don't fool yourself if you think they're going to listen to you this time any more than the house of Rulers... er representatives did. What congress is more likely to do is to simply make changes and amendments to what they’re already planning on passing so it makes it look as though they’re fine tuning what the people want and need. The problem is the concept not the execution. This is what congress either doesn't get or chooses to ignore.
This new bill has an amendment in place that will require the "green police" to come to your home before you sell it. If it doesn't meet up to their green standards you will have to make it comply before you can sell it. This potentially could mean you'll need to replace all your windows with new double pane glass, reinsulate your house, change your hot water heater for one that's engery efficient, replace your washer and drier and dishwasher, re-roof your house and maybe even add solar panels before you can sell your house. This will effectively make it impossible for people to sell their homes. This means the governement will be able to tell you when you can sell your home.
If you're fine with this then just let congress go ahead and pass this bill. And this is only one of the things in a 1300 page bill none of our rulers have read all the way through. You ought to be outraged. Our rulers always do all this stuff at the beginning of their terms because they know the American people have very short memories. They plan on getting you all kinds of goodies (read PORK) at the end of their term, at the expense of other people's money through taxes in districts where other representatives/rulers are just starting their terms and ot afriad of what their people will do to them.
They continually play this shell game and so far it seems to have worked just fine. Even though congress as a whole has only an 11% approval rating 95% get voted back in because they give you other people's money at toward the of their terms knowing you'll forget all the damage they did earlier.
I hope there is someone out there that reads this and has enough reach and influence to start a genuine tax revolt. As I mentioned it probably wouldn't take more than a large number of people going exempt on their paychecks for 1 month to send the message. Of course once people realize they're sending the government more every month than they spend on their mortgage they might not want to go back to paying all those taxes.
Think about it. You could pay off your mortgage in half the time. You could buy a new car and still have plenty of money and time to build a nice nest egg for retirement even without social security or at this point I suppose we should call it social insecurity since our rulers seem to feel they can take and use that money as they please and just put IOU's in the money's place because we don't need it yet.
Independence was about being independent from an oppressive nation. That nation, England, had a King and a general government that felt it could tax the people anything it wanted. The Americas were rich in natural resources and England felt those resources naturally belonged to it. The way these resources are taken is always through taxes. You send people there to work let them keep a small amount of what they work for and take the rest.
The men and women on this continent were forbidden from trading with other countries that might pay them more for their goods. They were forced to house soldiers in their homes. They reached the point where the taxes became too oppressive and the revolt began.
At even the hint of a tax revolt the media starts warning people they should do that or there might be consequences. I can't help but wonder what our nation would be today if the leaders and papers here at given the same advice to the colonists.
We hear about the tea party, but I don't think most understood what really happened that night. We are having tea parties now that I suppose are symbolic but mean nothing to our leaders because those "tea parties" are not really costing or threatening our leaders in any way. They don't feel the least afraid of what they might mean. Maybe they should but be that as it may they are not behaving as though they are the least concerned with the tea parties. When the colonists through the tea into Boston Harbor, it was not a small amount of tea they threw overboard. It was 50,000 pound of tea. An OUNCE of tea today costs about $5-$8. At the cheap end this comes to about $4,000,000.00 in today's economy. This was no small thing!
They were not only telling the King and England that he wasn't going to get any taxes for the tea, they hit him where it hurts, in the pocketbook. This of course provoked a strong reaction from the government, who sent soldiers. They then told the soldiers and the government to forget it that this kind of severe taxes was not going to happen.
Understand before all this happened they tried to negotiate with the King and got nowhere. This is so much like our present day circumstance. At some point it is either going to be time to dump the tea so to speak or just give in to the government demands. Understand I'm not advocating taking up arms. But we can certainly go exempt on our pay checks for 1 month. The amount of loss to the federal government would send a clear signal either give us what we want and stop taxing us so much or you won't get any more.
Yes, there is little doubt if we do this they are going to try to scare us into submitting. At this point our representative elite (Rulers, for they do not view themselves as representatives any more) will respond by sending people to arrest us or they will give us what we want. The question is, "Are the American people up for the challenge?"
It is time we started thinking seriously about how much ground our leaders have gained in taking away our liberties and our money for the sake of spending it on every ridiculous program they can think up.
One example of what our leaders think about tea parties and protests.... My representative (read RULER) Lynn Woolsey like many other representatives got so many calls the day of the vote on cap and trade that it brought down the lines in washington more than once. The ratio was 20-1 against and they ignored those millions of calls saying they were just special interest groups flooding the lines. 10's of millions of calls is not special interest groups, but even if it were it's still 10's of millions of calls and they were ignored.
The senate is getting ready to do the same thing and don't fool yourself if you think they're going to listen to you this time any more than the house of Rulers... er representatives did. What congress is more likely to do is to simply make changes and amendments to what they’re already planning on passing so it makes it look as though they’re fine tuning what the people want and need. The problem is the concept not the execution. This is what congress either doesn't get or chooses to ignore.
This new bill has an amendment in place that will require the "green police" to come to your home before you sell it. If it doesn't meet up to their green standards you will have to make it comply before you can sell it. This potentially could mean you'll need to replace all your windows with new double pane glass, reinsulate your house, change your hot water heater for one that's engery efficient, replace your washer and drier and dishwasher, re-roof your house and maybe even add solar panels before you can sell your house. This will effectively make it impossible for people to sell their homes. This means the governement will be able to tell you when you can sell your home.
If you're fine with this then just let congress go ahead and pass this bill. And this is only one of the things in a 1300 page bill none of our rulers have read all the way through. You ought to be outraged. Our rulers always do all this stuff at the beginning of their terms because they know the American people have very short memories. They plan on getting you all kinds of goodies (read PORK) at the end of their term, at the expense of other people's money through taxes in districts where other representatives/rulers are just starting their terms and ot afriad of what their people will do to them.
They continually play this shell game and so far it seems to have worked just fine. Even though congress as a whole has only an 11% approval rating 95% get voted back in because they give you other people's money at toward the of their terms knowing you'll forget all the damage they did earlier.
I hope there is someone out there that reads this and has enough reach and influence to start a genuine tax revolt. As I mentioned it probably wouldn't take more than a large number of people going exempt on their paychecks for 1 month to send the message. Of course once people realize they're sending the government more every month than they spend on their mortgage they might not want to go back to paying all those taxes.
Think about it. You could pay off your mortgage in half the time. You could buy a new car and still have plenty of money and time to build a nice nest egg for retirement even without social security or at this point I suppose we should call it social insecurity since our rulers seem to feel they can take and use that money as they please and just put IOU's in the money's place because we don't need it yet.
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