thisThe senate is poised to vote on it's version of a health care bill this weekend. Yes, apparently there are an abundance of speed readers in Washington who are capable of reading 2,000 pages (of legal jargon) in less than 72 hours. This, despite the fact that 82% say Congress should post bills online for all to read before voting on them. Yes, that would be another strike against Obama's pledge of "accountability and responsibility". Hasn't he struck out by now? I would say he has the "hat trick" or possibly even the "golden sombrero".

Amazingly, 27% of Americans say they strongly approve of Obama's job performance Of course, this is a very low number, but it still amazes me that 1/4 of this country actually approve of his performance. Who are these people? Are they paying attention? What American in their right mind would stand for a president who continually goes around the world and criticizes and apologizes for America? What American would support a president who is quick to point out (in error) that the "Cambridge police department acted stupidly", yet in regards to the Fort Hood terrorist, Obama said


What American would stand for a president who appoints people such as Eric Holder, Van Jones, John Holdren, Cass Sunstein, Carol Browner and Mark Lloyd (Communists, Marxist and Socialists, of course, this is merely a coincidence).......or associates himself with the likes of Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers and Tony Resko? What American stands for a president who insists on giving admitted terrorist a trial within the American judicial system costing American tax payers millions of dollars and, essentially, putting America on trial?

Here is the point. Far too many of us are not paying attention. Or, if we are, we are doing nothing about the obvious deterioration of our nation. As Benjamin Franklin left the Constitutional Convention, on September 18, 1787 he was asked by a concerned citizen "what have you given us". Franklin replied, "A Republic, if you can keep it". You see, our Founding Fathers were concerned that the democratic institutions that were being put into place would eventually deteriorate and open the door for the tyranny that we are threatened with today.


After the election of 2009, I hope and pray that we have learned our lesson. Hopefully, we have learned that substance is much more important than style. Hopefully, we have learned that character is much more important than elitism.

There will be opportunities in 2010 and 2012 to implement REAL CHANGE. Change that will  incentivize success rather than apathy and laziness. Change that will give honor and respect, rather than disdain, to our military and our way of life. Change that will bring fiscal responsibility to all levels of government, etc, etc, etc.....

  The problem is we can't wait until 2010 and 2012. By then, it will be too late. I am imploring everyone to call their Senators (hopefully, you know who they are) and let them know you do not support the monstrosity better known as the health care bill. Please don't misunderstand my heart. I sympathize and pray for the needy. I am a faithful tither to my church which does a tremendous job of ministering to and helping the needy. In addition, I make a conscious effort to give to worthwhile charities. However, I am reasonable enough to know that I need to check my emotions at the door in regards to feeling sorry for the uninsured and recognize the trojan horse that is the health care bill.

Let's not kid ourselves. This bill is not about insuring the uninsured or getting health care costs down. If that were the case, our representatives would be looking at real solutions, such as, tort reform, medical savings accounts and competition across state lines. This bill is about creating a massive government entitlement program that will "spread the wealth" (re: Joe the Plumber, just another forecast into the heart and idealogy of Barak Obama that so many of his sycophants refused to acknowledge).

Ask your representatives why the House bill and the Senate bill have to be more than 1,000 pages and 2,000 pages respectively. The entire Constitution is less than 20 pages.

Ask them if the bill is so great why they (our representatives) will not participate in the plan.

Ask them why the House bill proposes to spend $1 trillion (conservatively), yet only insures an additional 10 million people. Do the math, that is $100,000 per person.

Ask them if it is so crucial that we pass this bill this week (obviously without reading it), why it will not be implemented until  2013. Don't forget, however, that the increased taxes will start immediately.

Speaking of taxes, read this to get a sampling of the litany of taxes that are in the bill.

However, the one that really gets me angry is the 8% increase in payroll taxes that companies will have to pay for each employee. This will break the backs of small businesses and drastically increase the unemployment rate, which is already at 10%.

Currently, small businesses are paying roughly 7.5% in payroll taxes per employee. An 8% increase would mean that small businesses would have to pay more than twice as much in taxes for each employee. The bottom line is that, in order to maintain their business at the current profit margin, small businesses will have to cut their payroll in half. Wow! This sounds like a great recipe for a struggling economy that is still losing jobs.

Upon the election of Barak Obama, we were told that we should embrace it because it was an "historical" election. Well I certainly agree with that, but the premise is quite different. Indeed, the election of Barak Obama was historic. It was the culmination of wealth envy, white guilt, political correctness, entitlement mentality and the overall emasculation of American society.

Today, one year later in the midst of a recession, a more significant chapter in history will be written. Americans will either embrace the ideas of their Founding Fathers, or they will embrace the ideas of the tyrants that our Founding Fathers fought so hard to defeat. Will we embrace liberty, which has led to the greatest nation in the history of the world; or will we embrace the "security" of government which ultimately leads to tyranny (See Mark Levine's "Liberty and Tyranny")?

"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" - Edmund Burke 1729-1797

"...There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. ... Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing." - Daniel Webster, June 1, 1837

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage." Alexander Tyler (A Scottish professor)  1897

Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.

Alexander Hamilton, Pacificus, No. 6, July 17, 1793

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

- Ronald Reagan

There are far too many points to be made in rebutting Obama's speech. Here are a few thoughts:

Obama said "My guiding principle is, and always has been, that consumers do better when there is choice and competition".

      Great! Then shut up and get out of the way! You are stifling competition, sir!

Obama said "Unfortunately, in 34 states, 75% of the insurance market is controlled by five or fewer companies. In Alabama, almost 90% is controlled by just one company. Without competition, the price of insurance goes up and the quality goes down."

     This is a direct result of government regulation! Once again, I urge you to get government out of the way.

Obama said "Now, I have no interest in putting insurance companies out of business. They provide a legitimate service, and employ a lot of our friends and neighbors. I just want to hold them accountable. The insurance reforms that I've already mentioned would do just that. But an additional step we can take to keep insurance companies honest is by making a not-for-profit public option available in the insurance exchange.

      Do you honestly think insurance companies  will be able to compete? The unintended consequence (which is actually intended) is      that private companies will be put out of business.

Obama said "There are also those who claim that our reform effort will insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false - the reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally."

      Technically he is right, but when you consider the fact that people will not be required to show ID, then the obvious conclusion is that illegals will be covered on the backs of the American tax payer.

Obama said "we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens.......is a lie, plain and simple. "

        This claim by Sarah Palin and others did not claim that the bill would actually set up death panels, but when one stops and considers that government bureaucrats will bemaking life and death decisions about patients rather than the patient's doctor then one can legitimately claim that death panels will be an "unintended consequence".

I honestly can't take anymore of this man's arrogance!

As the president tries to take control of 15% of the economy by “reforming” healthcare, it is important that we take a close look at the facts.  Obama and the liberal Democrats are relying on their propaganda machine and overall ignorance of the American people to seize control over, what will amount to, almost every aspect of our lives under what can only be described as “false pretenses”.

First of all, staying true to form, the president continues to talk about the “broken” healthcare system. Really, does this guy have anything positive to say about America? During the campaign, Obama supporters always referred to his inspiring message, yet his presidency has been anything but inspiring. From his apology tour around the world to his obvious disdain for doctors, law enforcement, military, Christians, small business owners, etc. ; he seems much more interested in fulfilling a political agenda than encouraging the very people and economic system that has enabled us to be the greatest country in the history of the world in 230 relatively short years. Barak Obama has almost single handily killed the idea of American Exceptionalism.

The fact is, our healthcare system is far from broken. There is no doubt that improvements are needed, but overall, Americans are more than happy with their healthcare. However, if we allow the Democrats to pass their health care bill, we will be stuck with a system that will certainly fail. Do we want the same people responsible for Social Security, MediCare and MediCaid to be in charge of our health care system?


Another “false pretense” being used by our president to leverage his plan is his idea that “every American should have access to health care”. The fact of the matter is that every American already has access to healthcare. The word “access” is political spin for “free”.  Unfortunately, most people now believe they should have routine doctors visits for free. The purpose of health insurance is to protect people from catastrophic health issues. We have to change the mindset that we are “entitled” to have routine doctors visits paid for.

We are told that it is unjust to have 45 million uninsured Americans. Once again, the man who promised to bring honesty, accountability and transparency is lying. The 45 million is a distorted figure. According to Mark Levin’s “Liberty and Tyranny”:

    * about 9.5 million are illegal aliens
    * about 17 million are people who make over $50,000, are self-employed and choose not to buy healthcare
    * 18 million are between the ages of 18 and 34 and choose not to buy health care
    * only 30% of the no elderly who became uninsured in a given year remained uninsured for more than twelve months. Almost 50%        regained their coverage after four months.

I am sure President Obama realizes that if more Americans did their homework and knew the facts that his plan to overtake our  system would be dead on arrival.

Finally, we are told that the price of health care is extremely high and needs to be regulated. There are two factors that must be considered in regards to health care cost.

First of all, one major factor in the high cost of health care is the incredible technological and scientific advances that are being made. These advances are a significant factor in improving and extending the quality of life of millions of Americans. This is hardly a symptom of a broken system. Rather than criticizing the greatest health care professionals in the world, our president should be praising them.

Another major factor in the high cost of health care is frivolous lawsuits. Why are the Democrats and president Obama not talking about tort reform? Wait….oh yeh! Trial lawyers are big time campaign donors. Seriously. How do we talk about health care reform without talking about tort reform?

It is crucial that each of us contact our representatives and tell them we are not going to stand for any legislation that gives more power to the federal government and takes more freedom from the American people. The goal of the Democrats is not to fix health care, but to establish even more entitlement programs that will, consequently, keep them in power for decades to come.

• "The 150,000 jobs, it comes precisely under the methodology I was just describing, that is we have -- we -- we know -- we know spendout, we know the types of spendout, we can assign multipliers to different parts of the plan.  For example, tax cuts generate a smaller multiplier than direct government spending.  Once you know the spendout and the type of spending that you're engaged in, then you can derive an estimate of how many jobs you believe you created relative to what would have occurred in the job market were you not doing that spending."

• "Now, if George Bush had tried, ever, at a single time during his eight years of presidency to talk about the jobs saved, he would have been laughed out of the briefing room, and so would have his press spokesman.  And if in the midst of unemployment reaching 9.4%, on the way to double-digit 10%, in the midst of 1.8 million jobs having been lost since Obama took office, if George Bush faced the same circumstances and touted 150,000 jobs saved or created, he would have been laughed at and editorialized out of the office."
• "We've lost 1.8 million jobs since Barack Obama took office and got the stimulus bill passed.  We were at 9.4% unemployment.  Do you believe these exchanges?  Do you think reporters would be asking for clarification on 600,000 jobs created or saved were it a Republican president who came up with this fallacious notion?  Absolutely no way.  This is the government-run media asking for guidance on how to report this so they can sell it to their viewers, readers, customers..."
• "reviewing the eight years of the George W. Bush presidency, using the Jared Bernstein economic projection formula....George W. Bush was the greatest economic leader in decades.  His economic plan, his tax cuts, created and saved over 32 million jobs.  He created or saved four million jobs a year for eight years following 9/11.  Create or saved 32 million jobs, unprecedented in American presidencies."

 

Last week, "this president" (taking a page out of the Democrat playbook when referring to George Bush) criticized corporate executives who benefited from the TARP plan for giving out bonuses. While I too am angry about this, the majority of my anger is with the politicians. THEY SHOULD HAVE NEVER GIVEN THE MONEY AWAY TO START WITH!

But, what really irritates me is when "this president" talked about it being the "height of irresponsibility". No, the "height of irresponsibility"is"this president" and his parasite friends in Washington who are trying to force a trillion dollar so-called stimulus package down our throats that does nothing but grow the size of government.

Two thirds of this plan does nothing to stimulate the economy. Instead, it plants the seed for more entitlements which creates even more people dependent on the government. Of the many ridiculous items in this bill is a tax credit of $500 for an individual or $1000 for a family in which illegal aliens will be entitled to. Yet, "this president" wants to talk about irresponsibility.

 In 1981, Ronald Reagan was dealing with an economy far worst than we are dealing with today. Thanks to Jimmy Carter, interest rates were above 20% and unemployment was twice what it is today. This is what Reagan had to say:

"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price."

The result of this common sense approach was the longest period of economic growth in history.

Thomas Jefferson once said,

"were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without  newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."This is because the press was considered to be an important aspect of a Republic because it held the government in check and informed the people when government tried to overextend itself to the point where it endangered our basic liberties.

Today, we must deal with a press that is more like the public relations wing  of the Democratic party. Instead of reporting objectively about what our government is doing to infringe on our rights and well-being, the media is more caught up in the celebrity of "this president". The media would rather show pictures of "this president" hangin' with celebs or working out than tell us about illegal aliens getting a tax credit. Worse, they saturate us with propaganda, fabrications and half truths in order to promote the agenda of the Democratic party and "this president".

The agenda? Create more dependency on the government where as to establish a permanent source of votes and complete power over the American people. Strong words you say? Well, think about it. If I am completely dependant on you, you essentially have total influence over my life.

Currently, the bottom 50% of income earners pay only 3% of the taxes.

http://www.atr.org/content/pdf/2008/August/081408ot-federalincometaxandwhattheypay.pdf

This is truly frightening when you think about it because when we get to the point (and we are not far away) where the majority of Americans pay no tax at all, we will reach the point of no return.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.    Alexander Tyler

I realize we are not a democracy, but it is obvious that we are dangerously close to the scenario described by Alexander Tyler. We know the solution to our problems. We have seen it work before. Unlike this past election,we need to refrain from making decisions based on emotion and make decisions based on common sense.

Why? Because I want my kids and grandkids to have the same freedoms and opportunities that I have been blessed with, not the burden of paying the dept created by elite, out of touch politicians who have been enabled by unimformed Americans motivated by wealth-envy and influenced by charisma and star power. That, Mr. President would be "irresponsible" to say the least.

This says it all:

http://theinterface.blogtownhall.com/2008/12/02/sometimes_a_picture_is_worth_1000_words!.thtml

1. William Bradford was the governor of the original Pilgrim colony, founded at Plymouth in 1621. The colony was first organized on a communal basis, as their financiers required. Land was owned in common. The Pilgrims farmed communally, too, following the "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" precept.
2. The results were disastrous. Communism didn't work any better 400 years ago than it does today. By 1623, the colony had suffered serious losses. Starvation was imminent.
3. Bradford realized that the communal system encouraged and rewarded waste and laziness and inefficiency, and destroyed individual initiative. Desperate, he abolished it. He distributed private plots of land among the surviving Pilgrims, encouraging them to plant early and farm as individuals, not collectively.

 

Let's pray that we will have another William Bradford come along in 2012 to lead us out of the "disastrous" results of our obvious paradigm shift to socialism. Perhaps another Ronald Reagan to lead us away from the "disastrous" Carter administration.

 

History does not lie. Socialism has never worked, yet Obama and the Libs continue to move in that direction. The government educated masses are too ignorant to recognize this because they have never been taught our free enterprise system.

 

Capitalism is a timed tested success. No, capitalism does not guarantee everyone success. It does, however, give everyone the opportunity to succeed. Socialism guarantees failure to everyone.

Mitt Romney shares his perspective on the auto industry bailout.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/opinion/19romney.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&ref=opinion&pagewanted=print

He was my choice for the Republican nomination, but the Republican party thought it would be best to move to the center and try to bring in the independent vote. Of course, we know where that got us.

How soon will Americans realize they have made a huge mistake? How long will it take for people who are drunk with utopian euphoria to wake up with a big hangover and realize they made a big mistake? Or, has America truly changed form a country of independent, self-reliant, God-loving people to a country of people waiting on handouts and turning their backs on the unborn and, God forbid, the born-alive who as Obama said " would burden the original decision of the woman and the physician" if there was an effort to save them.

What we have done is elect a President who has never really accomplished anything. Obama worked for only 143 days in the Senate before he started running for President. In addition, we still do not know a lot about his history because the media never did properly vet him. There is still a large portion of his life that no one seems to know about and ask yourself this, how many people from Obama's past have come out to vouch for his character? Even John Kerry was able to find people from his past who would vouch for his leadership and character. I can not think of one person; but I do know that, despite the mainstream medias attempts to hide his past, we have learned about some of his associates. William Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Tony Resco are all prominent figures from Obama's past and they represent some of the most corrupt, radical, American haiting ideas that we know.

Many American's say they are worried about the economy, yet they voted for a man who will raise taxes and spend money like a drunken sailor. The truth is, they are not worried about America's economy, they are worried about their own personal economy. Unfortunately, far too many Americans would rather depend on the government  than rely on themselves. However, no one stops to think that when the "evil rich" see their taxes go up they will look for ways to cut expenses. One of the biggest expenses for any business is personnell. Therefore, we will see a rise in unemplyment and the very same people who thought Obama would help them get ahead will be looking for a job.


Many Americans say they are worried about national security, yet they voted for a man who will cut military spending and try to pre-maturely pull our troops out of Iraq, despite the fact that we are having great success there. Both of these scenarios could have serious consequences to our national security. If we leave Iraq too soon, the region will fall to the Islamic terrorists and our ally Isreal will be forced to defend itself, which could lead to a major world conflict. Cutting military spending speaks for itself. We have to be able to defend ourselves from Islamic terrorists, Iran, North Korea and a resurgent Russia.

I could go on and on about the ironies in this election, but I think informed Americans get the point. The problem is we are preaching to the choir. The people who will read this (the informed) are, for the most part, in agreement. The libs have a tremendous advantage to push their agenda through the avenues of the mainstream media, public schools, liberal universities and hollywood. As conservatives we have got to figure out how to articulate our values so we can turn this country around. However, we must be careful not to water down conservatism. We have got to figure out a way to educate people on the importance of  a small government, strong military and strong family values.

I believe that we are at a critical time in our history. At some point, Americans are going to realize we made a huge mistake and swing the pendulum back to the right or we are just going shrug our shoulders and accept the radical views of the left. The future of our country depends on conservatives no less than it did when Washington faced the British, when Lincoln faced the Confederates, and when Reagan faced the evil empire of the Soviet Union.