This is a blog I am writing to make myself feel a little better. I will be writing about politics and other current events facing America that are really bothering me. I will probably go off topic some but don't inted to put alot of personal stuff in here.
So the White House has created a new email address for people to report "fishy" emails and blog posts related to Obama's Health Care plan to. They claim that they can't monitor everything so they want America's help in keeping an eye on us evil right wing conservatives (you know the ones that DHS said were terrorists) and reporting us if we disagree with what the messiah is saying about health care. I am all for the police force asking for people's help in solving a crime or preventing acts of terrorism, but reporting people who disagree ideologically is a little much. I feel like I woke up in "1984" and am looking out for the thought police. Well let me say this and maybe this will get my blog reported. The new health care plan will lead to a single payer system (Obama said in his own words that is what he wanted), there will be rationed health care, there is talk of the federal government paying for abortions under this plan, and there will end of life counseling for seniors. This administration is getting more dangerous by the day and we need to all be alert about what they are trying to do.
This is a great article from the conservative mouthpiece that is CNN (sarcasm). It goes into 5 key freedoms that Americans will lose under Obama's Health Care Plan. They include the freedom to choose whats in your plan, freedom to be rewarded for healthy living, freedom to choose high-deductible plans, freedom to keep your existing plan, and freedom to choose your own doctor. The facts of this plan are that sooner or later you are going to be on the public plan and once you are on there plan you are not going to have alot of options. You will be treated to whatever health care the government thinks you need. The Democrats are running around talking about the options you will have and the choices you will be able to make when it comes to your health care but that is simply not true. Health care will be rationed, companies will lose incentive to innovate, and their will be no cost savings recognized by the government.
Nice video showing a collection of clips from some of Obama's speeches where he talks about how what he really wants is a single payer healthcare system and how he feels the public option (the one being pushed for in the Universal Health Care Bill) is a big step on the way there.
Time to wake up people. House and Senate members will be home for recess over the next month. Make sure you let them know how you feel about Obama's Health Care plan.
So today's installment comes from a lesser known Founder, Dr. Benjamin Rush. Dr. Rush, known as the "Father of American Medicine" was a member of the Continental Congress, signed the Declaration of Independence, and served under five different U.S. presidents. People, myself included, often talk about how brilliant our Founding Fathers were and how they could foresee many of the problems are country would face in the future, well Dr. Rush was no different. As I was doing some reading I came across this brilliant quote:
"Unless we put medical freedom into the constitution the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship and force people who wish doctors and treatment of their own choice to submit to only what the dictating outfit offers."
WOW, this really blew me away when I read it. This is exactly what is happening with the Universal Health Care bill. The administration would have you believe that there will be no forced use of the government healthcare system and that you will be able to continue to keep your private insurance if you want it. Well how long do you think private insurance lasts the way we know it today if they have to compete against the government, which doesn't have to make a profit and can just print more money if they run out. The current House bill also gives the federal government more control over private insurance and how it is run. It also includes a provision that if you lose your current healthcare coverage and can not find a similar (as defined by Washington) program you must get on the government's plan. As well as a requirement that all employers must enroll employees in the government run health plan. So to me it sounds like this would lead us to a place where everyone is on the government run plan without any other options. That is funny considering President Obama is on record of saying ""I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program... But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately." Yes, he is out there preaching now that if you like your current plan you will be able to keep it, but for how long? Once we are all on the government plan they will have complete control over what services and medicines we receive or in many cases don't receive. Grandpa need a new kidney, well you know that would just cost too much money and he is already 70 years old and has lived a good life. Let's give him a few tylenol to ease the pain and send him home to die. Get ready America if government health care passes this is exactly what is going to happen. Ask a former member of the military or a patient on medicaid how happy they are with government run healthcare. Dr. Rush foresaw all of this over 200 years ago and could see what a tyrannical thing it would be. Don't believe this is exactly what the administration wants watch this video which outlines exactly how we got here and where they want to go from there.
This Universal Health care Bill calamity now has the left wing of the Democrat party turning on each other. Rep. Maxine Waters is now saying that Rahm Emanuel is to blame for the bill not passing already. This blame is tied to Emanuel's work as head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee which pushed for more middle of the road or "blue dog" Democrats to run in traditionally conservative districts during the last couple of elections. This strategy worked wonders for getting the Democrats a large majority in the house and Senate but it is those same Democrats who are now blocking Obama Care from passing in the House and Senate. The only problem with Rep. Water's complaint is that if it weren't the strategy of running "blue dogs" the Democrats may not have a majority now. Oh yeah and she threw in a little Reverend Wright classic as well saying that Emanuel's "Chickens have come home to roost."
So I guess Obama has "changed" his mind in the last couple of years. When it is the opposition party who wants to pass something quickly he thinks that it is major problem, but when his fellow liberals want to rush through agenda items that are going to fundamentally change this country for the worse that is just fine. Everyone in Washington needs to slow down, read the bill, and understand what effect it is going to have on this country before they vote. This goes for both Democrats and Republicans. The government is so busy rushing to vote for something that they often fail to recognize the impact it has on other very important aspects of this country. We saw it with the Patriot Act, Bush's TARP Bill, Obama's Stimulus Bill, the Cap and Trade Bill, and now they are trying to do the same thing to us with the Universal Healthcare Bill. These people make me just want to scream at them to stop and just read the freaking bill and think about it for a day or two. We haven't had Universal Healthcare for the last 200 plus years in this country and we are doing pretty good for the most part. I think it can wait another month or two.
So Texas Governor Rick Perry said his state may reject Obama's National Health Care Plan under the 10th Amendment. Bravo to you sir. Last time I checked the Constitution says nothing about health care which therefore according to the 10th Amendment means it is a issue for the states to deal with. According to Perry this bill is not good for Texas as it will cost them too much money. If the citizens of Texas don't like it they can vote Perry out of office or move to another state. I am glad that states are starting to stand up for their individual rights. The federal government has grown way too large and powerful and it is about time that someone has started standing up to them. I just hope it is not too late...
"If we're able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him." Jim DeMint talking to fellow conservatives about Obama's Health Care policy that he is pushing so hard.
I really hope that Senator DeMint is correct with this statement and pray that they are able to stop the health care bill from becoming law. I think that the President has to be very careful how he pushes Congress on passing government run health care. He risks alienating many of the more moderate democrats and those from conservative districts who are already thinking about their re-election bids. I think that many in the House feel that this bill could be like the Federal Assault Weapons Bill that cost the Democrats the majority in Congress in 1994 for the first time in 50 years. The other thing is the more Obama tries to push health care the more his approval numbers have been slipping with the American people. It is going to be much harder for him to get some of his radical agenda passed if Congress feels that a majority of Americans don't support it.
This is a video that was released in 1961 by Operation Coffee Cop which was a campaign of the American Medical Association. It is amazing that what Reagan saw in 1961 is still so relevant today. Programs like Social Security and Medicaid were implemented as a socialistic agenda that they knew would be an easy sell. On the surface everyone thinks that old people shouldn't be destitute or that poor people should have medicine. The truth is we need to see where these programs take us and what the outcome will really be. The government run health care program planned by the Obama administration will be the same way. We all look at it and say you know everyone should be able to see a doctor and nobody should die in this country because they can't afford surgery. The truth is that is the case now without the proposed plan. Emergency rooms in this country treat hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants every year in this country without a dime in payment. People are not turned away for life saving surgeries because they can't afford to pay for them. Believe any of the liberal myths about health care you want to believe but the truth is we have the best health care in the world. Rich people from other countries come here because they want to be seen by the best doctors in the world. I also believe that, much like Reagan believed in 1961, this plan for socialized medicine is another attempt to throw open the flood gates to socialism in this country. Remember the last line in this recording: "One of these days, you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children, and our children's children, what America was like when men were free." Ronald Reagan
That doesn't have to become a reality but we must all stand up and do something about it now!
Looks like the House and Senate are going to try and rush through a National Health Care bill in the next couple of weeks as President Obama hoped. The plan will be paid for by, wait for it... taxes on the wealthy (who saw that one coming). Increased taxes start at one percent for those making $280,000 a year and the percentage will go up to 5.4% for those making $1 million a year. This will only pay for about half of the plan. They plan to come up with the rest of the money with the windfall savings this plan will bring, and if for some reason that doesn't happen (which I mean we all know will never happen because every government plan works perfectly) they will double the tax increases in 2012. I am wondering when exactly it is that we started punishing success in this country but if I had to guess I would say probably sometime around FDR's presidency. One of the hardest hit by this setup will be small business and the people they will not be able to afford to hire. It is kinda of like Obama told Joe the Plumber "It's not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody that is behind you, that they have a chance for success too." The only problem President Obama is that you will eventually run out of rich people to take money from.
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