With the narrow passage of the Health Care Bill last night America has witnessed another part of freedom die with a loud gasp. It was drown out by the noise of 220 Congressman cheered for their attack on Liberty”…..our Liberty. Millions upon millions have been loudly protesting this hostile take over of of 1/6th of the American Economy, only to have their concerns fall upon deaf ears and hardened hearts. What makes the Leftist this this bill is so great? American Small businesses will be forced to spend more in these already hard economic times. The youth and healthy who do not want to buy health insurance will be forced to purchase it, under the threat of punitive fines and jail time!
Where is the individual freedom and personal accountability?
How American is forcing everyone in this country to do something?
Why can’t State, who give the Federal Government powers, opt out of this bill?
What happened to the 10th Amendment?
This is a pure and outright power grab by the Socialist movement in this country.
Passage of H.R. 3962, another nail in the coffin of Freedom
UnAmerican actions of a U.S. Senator
This is a disgrace! For the first time in U.S. History the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today released a bill to the senate floor without a full quorum being met! Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today broke Standing Rules of the Senate. Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, issued a statment to bring focus on this grevious injustice to the American People.
U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today released the following statement regarding the Committee’s approval of S. 1733, the Kerry-Boxer Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act:
“Senator Boxer said, A Majority of the EPW Committee voted to send the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act – S. 1733 — to the floor of the Senate today in full accordance with longstanding Committee and Senate Rules.
We did it for three reasons.
- S. 1733 addresses a crucial issue of our time and advancing the bill is a necessary step on the road to garnering the 60 votes we need for a comprehensive bill that will be melded together from various Committees and Senators from different regions of the country. This bill is already being worked on by Senators Kerry, Lieberman, Graham and others.
- We found, after questioning the EPA extensively, that the Republicans’ demand for another EPA analysis now would be duplicative and a waste of taxpayer dollars. The absence of the Republicans during the EPA’s presentation was a clear message that their criticism of the EPA analysis was not a substantive one. Indeed, the EPA said their economic analysis was “unprecedented” in scope and was never done for any other energy or climate bill at this stage of the process.
- The Committee and Senate rules that have been in place during Republican and Democratic majorities are there to be used when the Majority feels it is in the best interest of their states and of the nation to act. A majority of the Committee believes that S. 1733, and the efforts that will be built upon it, will move us away from foreign oil imports that cost Americans one billion dollars a day, it will protect our children from pollution, create millions of clean energy jobs, and stimulate billions of dollars of private investment.
We are pleased that despite the Republican boycott, we have been able to move the bill.”
There are many issues with this thinking. This is the first time in history that a bill has moved from committee without a quorum being met.
Rule 2. Quorums
(a) Business Meetings: At committee business meetings, six members, at least two of whom are members of the minority party, constitute a quorum, except as provided in subsection (d).
Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, issued the following statement in response to Chairman Boxer’s violation of committee rules by reporting out S. 1733, the Kerry-Boxer bill:
I am deeply disappointed by Chairman Boxer’s decision to violate the rules and longstanding precedent of the committee. The Republicans offered a clear path forward to a bipartisan markup, but it was summarily rejected by Chairman Boxer. Instead, she decided to ignore the entreaties of all 6 ranking members from Senate committees with some share of jurisdiction over climate change legislation, as well as leading moderates in the Senate. Her action signals the death knell for the Kerry Boxer bill.
“As was written recently, the Kerry-Boxer bill is ‘bad policy’ that ‘resembles the failed climate proposals of the past.’ It is time for a different approach, one that grows, rather than shrinks our economy, creates, rather than destroys jobs, and strengthens, rather than weakens our energy security. We can do this by encouraging development of all of America’s vast energy resources.”
With this move the Socialist Progressive Party of America, known as the Democratic Party is one step closer to a Marxist form of Government that the American People can not seem to stop.
The Dismantling of America
I read this and feel that I can not express in my own words what the author has conveyed. So Here is the entire article, very insightful:
Just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government official — not even a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate, but simply one of the many “czars” appointed by the President — could arbitrarily cut the pay of executives in private businesses by 50 percent or 90 percent?
Did you think that another “czar” would be talking about restricting talk radio? That there would be plans afloat to subsidize newspapers — that is, to create a situation where some newspapers’ survival would depend on the government liking what they publish?
Did you imagine that anyone would even be talking about having a panel of so-called “experts” deciding who could and could not get life-saving medical treatments?
Scary as that is from a medical standpoint, it is also chilling from the standpoint of freedom. If you have a mother who needs a heart operation or a child with some dire medical condition, how free would you feel to speak out against an administration that has the power to make life and death decisions about your loved ones?
Does any of this sound like America?
How about a federal agency giving school children material to enlist them on the side of the president? Merely being assigned to sing his praises in class is apparently not enough.
How much of America would be left if the federal government continued on this path? President Obama has already floated the idea of a national police force, something we have done without for more than two centuries.
We already have local police forces all across the country and military forces for national defense, as well as the FBI for federal crimes and the National Guard for local emergencies. What would be the role of a national police force created by Barack Obama, with all its leaders appointed by him? It would seem more like the brown shirts of dictators than like anything American.
How far the President will go depends of course on how much resistance he meets. But the direction in which he is trying to go tells us more than all his rhetoric or media spin.
Barack Obama has not only said that he is out to “change the United States of America,” the people he has been associated with for years have expressed in words and deeds their hostility to the values, the principles, and the people of this country.
Jeremiah Wright said it with words: “God d— America!” Bill Ayers said it with bombs that he planted. Community activist goons have said it with their contempt for the rights of other people.
Among the people appointed as czars by President Obama have been people who have praised enemy dictators like Mao, who have seen the public schools as places to promote sexual practices contrary to the values of most Americans, to a captive audience of children.
Those who say that the Obama administration should have investigated those people more thoroughly before appointing them are missing the point completely. Why should we assume that Barack Obama didn’t know what such people were like, when he has been associating with precisely these kinds of people for decades before he reached the White House?
Nothing is more consistent with his lifelong patterns than putting such people in government — people who reject American values, resent Americans in general and successful Americans in particular, as well as resenting America’s influence in the world.
Any miscalculation on his part would be in not thinking that others would discover what these stealth appointees were like. Had it not been for the Fox News Channel, these stealth appointees might have remained unexposed for what they are. Fox News is now high on the administration’s enemies list.
Nothing so epitomizes President Obama’s own contempt for American values and traditions like trying to ram two bills through Congress in his first year — each bill more than a thousand pages long — too fast for either of them to be read, much less discussed. That he succeeded only the first time says that some people are starting to wake up. Whether enough people will wake up in time to keep America from being dismantled, piece by piece, is another question — and the biggest question for this generation.
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DNC Contestent finialist Video contains desecrated Flag
The DNC is holding a contest for an ad for Health Care. One of the finalists however features a video where the American flag is desecrated. This ad is on Obama’s political web site and depicts Old Glory being defaced with graffiti and desecrated with slogans about health care reform. Then the ad asks viewers for money to help air this garbage! It is bad enough that the left wants to control 1/6th of the U.S. Economy by the hostile takeover of the Health Care system but now they desecrate the symbol of American freedom to push this agenda? Remember this is being sponsored by The Democratic National Committee!! This is deplorable! Does this cross the line? How American is this? What, if anything positive can come from this? Here is the video, you decide.
Service.gov And Its Soviet Similarities
I saw this and had to post the entirety, I have been real busy this week. I should return soon!
USSR, 1959: I am a “young pioneer” in school. History classes remind us that there is a higher authority than their parents and teachers: the leaders of the Communist Party.
The story of young pioneer Pavlik Morozov is required reading. Pavlik reported his father to the secret police for disobeying government regulations. His life exemplified the duty of all good Soviet citizens to serve their government.
From the first year in school, all of us are made aware of our ethnicity (ethnic Russian, Jewish, Asian, etc.) and class (proletariat, intelligentsia), around which society is structured. This inherent divisiveness makes it easy for the government to stir ethnic and class tension and in this way distract from economic failure.
Newspapers and TV transmit government-approved news. Any critical voice is immediately suppressed and publicly denounced.
My parents, as all citizens of the USSR, work for state-run companies. All workers are unionized — another way the state controls the citizens. There is no private enterprise in USSR.
Whatever small private farms or shops that existed before 1930 have been taken over by the state. All medical care and schools are state entities. The government regulates what kind of technology, service and compensation are allowed.
From school age through adulthood, citizens are called to public service four to five times a year. Activities such as farming, cleaning places of work, and paper/metal scrap collections are mandatory.
Religious symbols are forbidden in schools or on state property. Most old religious buildings are transformed for secular use.
The Soviet government imposes the Iron Curtain. The state has strict control over our ability to travel abroad. This prevents us from realizing the discrepancy between the media’s image of the great socialist country and the reality of our low standard of living.
USA, 2009: “Progressives” control the government. Children in some public schools sing songs about the president and study his directives.
Progressives view people not as unique individuals, but as groups. They play on class envy, or divide people by ethnicity (African-American, white, Hispanic, etc.). From early childhood they remind children of their ethnic identity. The idea of a color-blind society united under the American flag is not politically correct.
The mainstream media are aligned with the government. Those media outlets critical of government policy are publicly criticized by government officials and are in danger of suffering repercussions.
Government seizes a majority stake in two major auto companies and, through TARP money, has control over major banks. Congress discusses capping salaries in private businesses and is in the process of increasing its control over the health care industry.
Most from the left will say we who think these similarities are just a far flung coincidence, or a figment of our imagination. With Net Neutrality in the works how will we be able to tell the truth from what THEY want the truth to be. Know the truth and live by your own convictions, do not let your foundation be swayed.
Global Warming, a big steaming pile of… Wealth Redistribution
The Kyoto Protocol is set to expire in 2012. The Kyoto Protocol which sets binding targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions has been signed and ratified by 184 parties of the UN Climate Convention.The United States refused to sign this treaty. Why? Because it did not involve action on the part of major developing countries. and it would be harmful to the US economy. The replacement, the UN Climate Change Treaty. This Treaty is a poison pill that most world governments are expected to take in Copenhagen next month–including the United States. In a nutshell the treaty takes from the rich and gives to the poor. Rich industrialized nations will be, under treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, costing the individual, privately owned companies billions to convert to a more “Eco Friendly” way of controlling emissions. If they do not conform and comply the are fined. In return the poorer signing nations will be paid by those fines. Here are a couple of quotes from the document:
“Page 122:
“(a) Compensate for damage to the [less developed countries'] economy and also compensate for lost opportunities, resources, lives, land and dignity, as many will become environmental refugees;
(b) Africa, in the context of environmental justice, should be equitably compensated for environmental, social and economic losses arising from the implementation of response measures.”
Page 127:
“(b) Fulfil the implementation of the commitments contained in Articles 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.8 and 4.9 in the context of Article 4.7 of the Convention and be underpinned by the principles of equity and common but differentiated responsibilities. “
Developed country Parties shall provide financial resources and transfer technology to developing country Parties to make full and effective repayment of climate debt, including adaptation debt, taking responsibility for their historical cumulative emissions and current high per capita emissions.
Developing country Parties will, in pursuing economic development and poverty eradication, take proactive measures to adapt to and mitigate climate change;”
Here is a video of Lord Monckton
Global Redistribution of wealth? Yes.
National Sovereignty being signed away? Yes.
What next? If Corperation XYZ does not conform and comply will the U.N. troops come and take control and arrest the CEO for not following Global mandates? Time will only tell of this is not stopped.
Hummer sold to Chinese Company
Who would of thought, Hummer, a brand who manufactures the tough High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMVW) for the U.S. Military was sold to the Chinese Company Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Corp. China for a long time has been manufacturing HUMVEE knock offs for its own Military now owns the iconic brand. Where does this leave our military for new replacement vehicles and parts? What about protecting the supply of the same parts? What will the military do if the US and China break off relations? This has happened with Iran and the US in regards to the F-15 fighters delivered to them before the Shaw was overthrown.
This has me thinking, would this have happened under another administration? Would this have happened if the Government not taken over General Motors? What price will the US pay for this? Who in their right mind would have authorized this? If this would have transpired under the Bush Administration could you imagine the outcry? Until the replacement for the HUMVEE is rolled out this is a serious issue that might not be addressed until there is a real issue with national Security, then it will be too late.
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Obama Surrenders U.S. Sovereignty in more ways than one…
Under Obama U.S. Economic Sovereignty was surrendered at the G-20 summit. The G-20 Conclave will coordinate and submit all economic policies and programs to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for comment, final drafting and approval.
“We are to subject our most basic national economic policies to the review of a group of nations that includes autocratic Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia. Even though our GDP is three times bigger than the second-largest economy (Japan) and equal to that of 13 of the G-20 nations combined, we are to sit politely by with our one vote and submit to the global consensus. Europe has five votes (U.K., France, Germany, Italy, and the EU) while we have but one.
And the process will be administered by the IMF, whose counsel to less-developed nations during the past two decades consistently has called for social pain and economic austerity. The IMF’s misguided policies have been responsible for more revolutions than Marx, Engels, and Lenin combined. Its bureaucrats’ arrogance is legendary and their search for appropriate punishments to fit the crime of spending too much on the poor smacks of colonialism and imperialism. They are our new overseers.
This combination of the IMF and the G-20 will work not only to structure national economic policies but also to limit executive compensation at financial institutions. The watchful, wise leaders of such nations as Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia — among others — will monitor Wall Street to assure themselves that its compensation is not out of line. One particularly looks forward to the views of the Saudi monarchy on this question of excessive personal enrichment.
Perhaps as part of his public spasm of apology, President Obama also strove, successfully, to increase the voting strength of the debtor nations on the IMF from 43 percent to 48 percent. This is the economic equivalent of giving deadbeat debtors more votes on their bank’s governing board of directors.
thus, the world’s most successful economy — ours — which is the only one that has produced reliable economic growth for three decades and has lifted real personal incomes almost every year, is going to subject itself to the burden of justifying its own economic policies in front of a global community of 20 nations, some of which do not even embrace free-market economies in the first place.
Indeed, it is only through access to our markets that nations have been able to escape poverty. Japan, Germany, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, China, and India sequentially have trod this path into prosperity
Obviously, we live in a global economy. But the United States is 24 percent of it. We are entitled to more than one-20th of a voice, and it is the world that should be following our policies — not the other way around.”
Not the end of it yet!
This is not where it ends, now the Russian Government will have unprecedented access to our Nuclear stockpile under the guise of a new strategic arms treaty. It has roots in the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, which expires in December and negotiators have been trying to reach agreement on a new plan. Obama and Clinton, with this new agreement, will inform Russia exactly how many nukes we have and their exact location. This all is in pursue of diplomacy with Iran.
What would they do with this information?
Who will have access to it?
When will this end?
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Bogus Baucus Bill, don’t believe the hype.
Yesterday the Senate Finance Committee passed the “Baucus Bill” with a helping vote from Republican In Name Only (RINO), Olympia Snowe (R-MA). She stated that she struggled with the decision, but quite frankly is just a Washington Politician that has lost touch with the Citizen. There are seven fatal flaws with the Bill.
from http://fixhealthcarepolicy.com/research/seven-fatal-flaws-of-baucus-bill/
Seven Fatal Flaws
1) Middle Class Tax Hike: The Baucus bill would impose a new sales tax on drugs and medical devices and a new federal excise tax on insurance plans that exceed $8,000 for an individual and $21,000 for a family. These taxes will ultimately be passed down to the consumer, putting many middle class families on the receiving end of a tax hike.
2) An Individual Mandate: In 2013, almost everyone would be required to purchase health insurance that complies with new federal standards. Those making more than three times the poverty level would face a tax penalty of $950 (maxing out at $3,800 per family) and $750 (maxing out at $1,500 per family) for those below 300 percent poverty. This penalty could apply to individuals with incomes as low as $10,831 a year.
3) No Privacy: In order to enforce the tax penalty provisions, the government would be forced to collect detailed health insurance information on Americans, reducing patient privacy and adding significant administrative costs to employers and insurers.
4) A Pay-or-Play Employer Mandate: Employers with more than 50 employees that don’t offer health coverage would have to pay a penalty for each employee who qualifies for new federal subsidizes under the bill. Inevitably, low-income workers will be hurt the most as employers would simply downsize or cut wages.
5) A Thinly Disguised Public Option: The Baucus bill invites indefinite federal control of a “co-op” by providing an unnecessary $6 billion in federal funding for startup loans and grants and it gives broad latitude to the HHS Secretary to regulate co-ops and promote them. The co-op created in this bill is literally an acronym for a new government-run health plan.
6) Medicaid Expansion: Under the Baucus bill, millions of Americans would end up on Medicaid. The current Medicaid program is unsustainable and poorly serves the needy and indigent now. Taxpayers will pick up the new costs of Medicaid, and states will have little flexibility for real reform.
7) Medicare: The Baucus bill establishes value-based purchasing, requiring compliance with government guidelines on the delivery of medical services. Hospitals and physicians who don’t comply would get lower Medicare payments. This approach could bias or compromise doctors’ decisions and contradict U.S. law on the federal interference in the practice of medicine.
The President needs to lead by meeting with key leaders of both parties and seek bipartisan reform around two key themes: 1) instead of a one-size-fits-all federal solution, Congress should let the states take the lead on reform, and 2) reform the tax treatment of health insurance to give all taxpayers tax relief for purchasing private insurance and extend assistance (through spending offsets) to low-income families to purchase private insurance instead of expanding government care.
Obama to Sport fishermen, put your reels away and leave the fish alone!
The USA is one step closer to joining the International community in a warm embrace. The White House created an Interagency Oceans Policy Task Force under executive order 13366 signed by G.W. Bush in December, 2004 but just implemented in June by Obama. Their timeframe, just 90 days to develop a comprehensive federal policy for all U.S. coastal, ocean and Great Lakes waters. Wow so much time to work, seeing as there has been almost 5 years since the executive order was signed buy a prior President! Under the guise of ‘protecting’ these areas, the current second phase of the Task Force direction is to develop zoning which may permanently close vast areas of fishing waters nationwide.
This is to be completed by December 9, 2009.
Sports anglers pump $125 Billion into the economy, in return only only catch 3%of the fish that are hauled in every year, not to mention employ over one million jobs in industries such as fishing boats, rods, reels and tackle.
