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Health Care Reform Bill In A Nutshell

1.) Higher Taxes - tax increases across the board on all families, all sectors.

Taxes on Medical Equipment
Taxes on High Income Earners
Taxes on Those without "Acceptable Coverage"
"Health care contributions of nonelecting employers"

2.) $500 Billion in cuts to Medicare - Normally reforming Medicare is something we would support to reduce costs and improve efficiency of care but in this case the cuts are designed to force more seniors into the total government option.

3.) Single Payer/Government System - Largest expansion of government ever. Government will control every aspect of YOUR medical care.

4.) Taxpayer funded abortion - Despite decades of promises that the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v Wade would not lead to taxpayer funding going to abortions.

5.) Death Panels - The comparative effectiveness research panels are back in the bill and will be in place to help ration care.

6.) No Private choice - This bill would actually ban new private health insurance plans from being created.

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"One Nation Under God."
by Seth Adam Smith
October 31, 2009
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This simple phrase, added to the pledge of allegiance over 50 years ago has been the source of unbelievable debate and heated controversy. Likewise, the phrase 'In God We Trust' on our currency has been targeted and continues to be attacked as improper and politically incorrect. Lawsuits have been filed and legal minds employed to ascertain whether such statements violate the concept of 'separation of church and state'.

As this debate continues, some so called experts have implied or concluded that our Founding Fathers and Patriots were not religious. These secular champions, in an effort to further their own causes, have even painted these great men and women from our history as being devoid of religious passions or even a belief in God. This is a part of their strategy to remove any discussion of God from the public forum.

These men and women were passionately religious and saw the hand of God all around them. To God they gave Thanks for His Hand in the founding of this great nation. Tho Him, according to their own testimony they turned for wisdom and strength when life and liberty hung in the balance. Certainly the debate on separation of church and state will continue. But no one can dispute how our Founding Fathers and Patriots felt about God. The record is clear!

'One Nation Under God' is Jon McNaughton's witness and reminder that those who went before us knew from whence their blessings came!

To view the details of this artwork, click on the link below:

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True Conservatism =The Heartbeat of America
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Just thoughts, opinions, musings from the heartland…………

“Political parties must stand for something. When Republicans were in the wilderness in the late 1970s, Ronald Reagan knew that the doctrine of "blurring the lines" between parties was not an appropriate way to win elections.”….Sarah Palin

There seems to be a great deal of disappointment within both the Republican and Democratic parties as well as with our elected officials/employees and our government. Disillusionment within our parties is because we trusted that our employees were upholding the values and principles which is seems most Americans adhere to regardless of their party. All is not lost and a third party is not the answer. Conservatives across the board lose every time with a third party.

Ronald Reagan was the optimist. He always believed “there was a pony in every dung hill”. (His joke, his words, his staffs fighting call- There must be a pony in here somewhere. Let’s find the pony.)

We, the people feel betrayed by some who took an oath to uphold our constitution and protect our rights, freedoms and now appear to be violating that oath. We can right those wrongs. It isn’t going to be easy and it isn’t for the faint hearted or negative minded person. It is going to take determination, consistency, fortitude, cohesiveness and perseverance. By taking one step at a time, progress will be made, because it is quite clear that we have that pony, the constitution, which empowers we, the people, not our government.

Sarah Palin woke up many people with her values and principles she represented during this past election process. As conservatives, we need to send a clear message that we believe in values and principles, as well as our constitution, our traditions, our inalienable rights and individual freedoms and that we are not going to allow it to be taken away. Our foundations have worked for 230+ years and proves that the constitution is not a “hypocrisy” as the left, elitists would like to have you to believe. Although, people come from all walks of life, they all have the same problems, issues, even though the scope or range of them are different levels at times. But, the political issues will always affect everyone in the same way.

Conservatives must educate that they are not against change, but that they are for limited government, a strong national defense, lower taxes, choice in matters of our medical care, schools, and more. We do not need the government to make those choices for us as individuals. Conservatives must be clear and continue to promote just as Sarah Palin stated and “reach out to every part of our country, and every background in every political party or no party at all.”

It will take hard work to find the best and most effective way to counter the wrongs, the corruption and those who used their self interests for their own gain. It will take perseverance to restore and repair and then continue to preserve our constitution and traditions. It is those whose self interests, greed and corruptive activities that have failed us. It is those who have breached their fiduciary duty and not upheld the constitution that have failed us. They have failed their own families, future generations, the citizenry and lost our trust. Those that have failed us, have diminished their value and worth as our representatives. Our constitution has not failed us.

"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.".....Thomas Jefferson. What happens when our rights and freedoms are lessened and curtailed? It makes it easier for the liberal elitists to amass power and achieve their socialist agenda. It appears that what needs to be addressed is an apparent lack of understanding of the history of our country by so many Americans. The more they are educated with facts, the more they will object to flagrant constitutional violations the left continually promotes, such as campaign finance reform, gun control, abortion, speech, and much more. Those on the left continue to talk about their visions for change for America. It isn't new, it is just repackaged socialism. History proves that socialism, communism, Marxism, has never worked and they have failed every time.

Former British Minister Margaret Thatcher once said, "first win the argument, then the vote." In order for conservative Republicans to secure and maintain a perpetual majority at every level of state and federal government, they must win with strong practical ideas and factual information. We can make sure we protect and preserve our constitution, traditions, our individual freedoms and inalienable rights as well as our principles and values that are under attack from the left, by refuting the claims and assertions of the left by communicating effectively with factual information.

The voters in America must be made aware that the liberals use class warfare, race baiting, personal attacks, and threats, intimidation, scare tactics and more to mask and misrepresent the truth for the purpose and goal to gain political power and to advance their far left and socialist agendas. It is essential that they are informed with facts and for all to realize that a party, such as the democrats, liberals, socialists, the far left, can become more dangerous and use the aforementioned tactics, when they realize they can be defeated and that the citizens realize what their agenda is for our country. Remember, all they can do is be the bullies on the playground, the spoiled brats throwing temper tantrums, nothing more as 'we the people' have the power endowed to us by the constitution and 'we the people' are their bosses, not the other way around.

Dr Adrian Rogers(1931-2005), stated: "You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."

Americans need to understand how liberals and the left use people in order to achieve their goals and to amass power. In the long run, it is not beneficial to those they use nor is it good for the country. The elitists, liberals, the left work hard to make sure that as many people as possible are dependent upon the government. It appears that basically the liberal base consists of non-taxpaying citizens, those on welfare, and the lower half of the working people. Those groups, are being encouraged by rich liberals, the elitists, the left, the democrats and those who have the most to gain by keeping the large majority of those Americans uninformed and uneducated. It is all about their power and control. The problem with this scenario, is that sooner or later, along with the human factor coming in to play, the money runs out and the system fails. It has failed everywhere, every time it has been tried. Everyone then loses.

For conservatives to survive and thrive and to be effective in their endeavors they need to educate, speak out, stay knowledgeable, search for the truth and make their case by communicating confidently and effectively a clear and cohesive message promoting and defending our conservative positions, not only to our traditional constituencies, but also to our minorities, centrist democrats and independents. In other words to people from all avenues of life. We cannot dilute our message to garner favor to pacify anyone, but that we believe that change and progress can either be good or bad and as a society we should progress in such a way as to maximize both freedom and virtue. When conservative Republicans diffuse conservative principles and values to appease moderates or to court favor with the media they are apt to lose the impact of the message which only dismays their supporters and indirectly gives assistance to their opponents. Conservative Republicans vote more frequently and with strength when they have a good solid conservative candidate. They are less likely get out and vote for a RINO.

It is quite clear that conservatives will not support centrists or moderates, or anyone who believes in the liberal ideology, which as failed every where it has been tried. Ideology, theory, philosophical ideas do not work at any level no matter how you spin it. Never has, never will. Liberals, the leftists, socialists ideology includes public housing, forced busing, high taxation, managed health care, welfare, rehabilitative justice, government education. Remember, just because the terminology changes over a time, does not mean that the liberal goals are now different.

The Republican party and leaders must understand that we will accept nothing less than strong conservatives who believe that we need to get out of the UN, in a strong national defense, lower taxes, limited government, strengthening the family, balancing the budget, free markets, choice in matters of schools, welfare reform, will protect our borders, our language and our traditions and culture, one who will not breach his fiduciary duty, will uphold the oath of office and who is dedicated to upholding the constitution, our traditions, and protecting our inalienable rights, and individual freedoms.

Conservatives are standing side by side and are not wavering as we take our message to all that we will accept nothing less.

Barry Goldwater, the father of modern conservatism, shrewdly asks in the footnotes of The Conscience of a Conservative, "Have we forgotten that America made its greatest progress when Conservative principles were honored and preserved.”

"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories." .....Thomas Jefferson

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Unconstitutionality at Heart of Health Care Reform
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How is it possible and why is there even legislation being worked on to have a "national system" for something that is definitely not included in the established enumerated items that are delegated to the Federal government? Congress can only do what's allowed under Article I, Section 8. There are only 18 expressly stated powers. Health care is not one of them

There seems to be many people, because of their own self interests and others who wish to destroy the very foundations this country was built upon, who continue to ignore the above fact as well as many other facts. One such item that by increasing the size and range of federal government in the health care system, it has restrained free-market advancement and free enterprise. This resulted in fabricated shortages, price controls, less choice for consumers and higher costs. There are many erroneous facts and exaggerations about about health care in America and it appears that most of the main stream media is not reporting the discrepancies or is ignoring it. It seems that it is up to Americans to do our own research, evaluate and consider the facts. The issue of health care in America is too important to be decided by people that might manipulate or exploit it as a strategy for gaining political power by using scare tactics or by imploring to the predilections and emotions of the public through melodramatic rhetoric and propaganda that is politically designed to mislead or persuade.

Thomas Jefferson stated: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

Health Care is not a right. That seems to be another item ignored by the proponents of health care and those that claim no American should go without health care and that health care should be a guaranteed right of every American. Health care is not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights. The founding documents state that our rights are rights to action. We don’t have a right, as in “right to pursue happiness”, to have somebody else pay for our happiness at the expense of someone else's happiness.

The constitution does not decide who is deserving and who is not. The Constitution is the foundation which reinforces the laws. Thomas Jefferson clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence that man has been endowed with certain fundamental, inalienable rights which preexist government. Those inalienable rights are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It does not guarantee food, clothing, shelter, vehicles, health care. etc. This does not need to be interpreted or dissected, it is quite clear that when you take from one person to make another person happy, you have taken that right of pursuit of happiness from someone else and infringed upon their inalienable rights.

The purpose of the bill of rights and our constitution is to secure “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” for every American. Our constitution protects every American’s right to life. Our Constitution establishes justice, protects domestic tranquility, provides for the common defense, promotes the general welfare and secures liberty. The government is to protect our rights. They are not the source of those rights. It is not in the constitutional jurisdiction of the government to provide health care to every American citizen. A benevolent society always provides charity for the less fortunate, and United States is one of the most, if not the most generous and charitable in the world. It will be difficult at best to continue that trend when we have little residual income left from our hard earned money.


It seems that another erroneous item being promoted is that too many Americans do not have insurance. Although, the claim is that as many as 45 million Americans do not have a health insurance plan, no US citizen and non citizens can by law be turned away from any hospital emergency room in America. In other words, these same people are also ignoring the reality that everyone in America already has universal access to health care. According to federal law, hospital emergency rooms are required to treat anybody, including the uninsured and illegal aliens/non citizens.

Communist and socialist countries have universal health care, but freedom is scarce in those countries. It appears to also has been a failure in those countries. Individuals should be responsible for obtaining insurance on their own. That is what is called a free society.

These same people are also appear to be ignoring and failing take into consideration that many Americans, notably the self-employed and those who have good health, have chosen not to purchase insurance and that they pay cash anytime they visit the doctor. One should be asking why should anyone who pays for their own health insurance be forced to subsidize others who can afford to buy insurance but choose not to.

Many Americans who can afford their own health insurance have chosen to spend their money on electronics, cars, trips, and more, rather than on health insurance. Again,one should ask why should taxpayers have to subsidize these people. Bottom line health care legislation is against our constitutional rights.

Another fact being ignored is that there are approximately 18.8 million uninsured between the ages of 18 and 34 who voluntarily chosen not buy insurance coverage because many states offer “guaranteed issue” laws which enable individuals to put off purchasing insurance until they get sick and need it. This law appears to encourage the irresponsible to delay buying insurance. The fact regardless, is that they do have access to health care insurance. They have simply chosen to put off purchasing until they are sick enough to need it.

There is another item that is apparently being overlooked. It appears that one third of those who are uninsured are eligible for Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, but are not enrolled. More than 14 million Americans who are eligible for insurance can apply for health care assistance if and when required.

If one takes a look at the census bureau data it shows the total number of Americans with health insurance rose to a record 243.3 million in 2003. It shows that the number of those without insurance 15.6 percent lower than it was in 1997 -1998. This has been basically in the same range for the last decade.

Bottom line, it would seem that everyone in America already has access to health care if they so desire to obtain it. So, if everyone already has access to universal health care, and the fact that it is clearly not within the powers enumerated in our Constitution, why are our legislators even considering health care legislation? There are many reasons I'm sure, and it appears that as in the case of the health care debate, probably is not what is best for America and it's citizenry and future generations. No matter what they try to do, or how hard they may try to convince us by ignoring facts or with impassioned rhetoric, and propaganda, Congress cannot fix health care. It is not designed to do so. It has no business running a nationalized system nor should they be telling or instructing anyone as to how, where, or when they can receive health care.

The whole health care issue should be a non issue since it seems everyone in America already has access to health care. Does it need to be fixed? Possibly, as with anything, there can always be improvement, but it doesn't need to be interfered with or fixed by the government. One then might ask, 'Then, what is the real issue?' The main issue and the only issue in my humble opinion is that it health care legislated by the government is against our constitutional rights. Our very foundations of this country is the issue. If our representatives and senators, and elected officials vote to pass health care legislation or any other legislation that is violating our constitutional rights in any way, shape, or form, they have breached their fiduciary duty to the their employers, the American citizens and taxpayers, we the people who own the government and they will have also violated the oath they took when taking office. Our very core foundations that America was built upon and has been successful for 230 plus years due to the foresight of our forefathers is what is at stake here and the main issue that seemingly is being ignored by so many.

The 10th Amendment to Constitution states, “the powers not delegated to the United States by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." The states and first and foremost the people are substantially stronger and eminent and have more power than the federal government. They, also need to be reminded that they work for us, not a political party, any individual, or any self interest groups, and that we don't work for them. We are the employer. It is time to remind these people, our employees in Congress of this fact repeatedly until they finally get it. If they don't get it, we will send them a very clear message with our votes by electing individuals that do get it.

In my opinion, health care legislation violates everyone's constitutional rights.

Thomas Jefferson, the primary author of the U.S. Declaration of Independence said on March 31 1809, "The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government"

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." Thomas Jefferson

" I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
Thomas Jefferson


"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
Thomas Jefferson

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THOUGHTS SIMPLY FROM THE HEART:

Choosing Serfdom or Dignity

Can making Fedzilla INC more powerful REALLY redress corporate abuses of power?

by William R. Collier Jr.

 

For most Americans the politics of this or that policy or bill are outside their conscious consideration. Because most Americans are too busy working and making society run, they often have little to no time or energy to put into the laws, regulations, or policies that define how society will be run. They have even less time to thoughtfully consider the principles or ideas, much less the philosophy or the ideology, that we should use to help us determine what the laws, regulations, and policies should be.

If you are an American who thinks little on these things because you just want to live your life and don’t like to get into “politics or religion” then you are a normal human being and in normal times your attitude may in fact be very healthy. In an atmosphere in which government is not very involved in your personal life or in society in general, it may be perfectly reasonable to leave politics to the minority of people who are really into that sort of thing.

Today is different.

Your government is making lots of promises and it is coming up with lots of justifications for its new push to use the power of the state to control how things get done, in what order of priority, and by what rules those things will get done.

While some in government, who would get more access to more money and more power if these new policies become law, like to tell you about the evils of corporations, and there ARE things we can gripe about when it comes to corporations and how they treat us, what you need to remember is that government itself is a corporation of sorts.

Corporations have property, they employ people, they have policies for customers and workers, and they ask for money from customers in return for products or services. Often corporations try to make things so that they can buy low and sell high, and they want to stay on top by making things easier for themselves and more difficult for their potential competitors. Lots of regulations that get passed are actually requested by corporations.

A whole set of regulations is in place that prevents people from using new ways of building that actually work very well and that are centuries old, like straw bale construction. Straw bale construction is much cheaper, and easier, than the wood frame construction methods of building contractors: it is sturdy, it is excellent as an insulation from cold or heat, it can be made virtually fire-proof, and even untrained people, like the homeowner, can do most of the work themselves. The people who are into “green living” love this stuff.

So, if straw-bale construction is so great, why is it illegal in most locales, why do people who want to use it have to ALSO have a wood-frame construction on top of their straw-bale walls? The answer is simple: the big corporate contractors have asked for regulations that basically force you to use them. They may say they want things to be safe, but in reality they are like this group of people called Luddites who feared that new technologies, like machines, would cost them their jobs. The Luddites tried, sometimes with success, to create laws and regulations that made the cheaper, simpler, easier techniques illegal and thereby held back progress.

Corporations are not all rosy and nice. I get that, you get that. Corporations that don’t want some new idea or cheaper and simpler way of doing things to potentially put them out of businesses seem to be behind almost all the red tape that comes out of government at all levels. That is a little known fact that people forget when they say that if we want to reduce red tape, regulation, we must be FOR Big Business.

Investigate ANY regulation and you will find that in almost ALL cases some corporation or group of corporations was in some way behind it. Corporations don’t oppose regulations on principle, in other words they don’t have any philosophical commitment to the principles of a very limited government with little red tape to get in people’s way of doing things they want to do. Corporations want less regulation of themselves and more regulations for their competitors; often regulations are asked for by corporations that have taken the lead in some area and fear that new ideas or techniques might make it easier for other individuals or groups of individuals to make a better, cheaper product or service and put them out of business.

Whenever any politician says “there ought to be a law” you need to ask yourself: what corporations are behind that law?

That is not so easy to find. Corporations of any kind don’t want to reveal that they are being unfair, it turns customers off and makes people angry when they know that some company is trying to game the system so that new ideas that are simpler and cheaper can be suppressed all to support their bottom line.

OK, so we get it that corporations are not very nice, in fact I think we all realize that corporations are so large and powerful that we had better watch them like a hawk and we had better do all we can to make sure everything they do that effects society is known: we have to force them to be transparent and accountable to the People because if we don’t we all might end up building wood frame houses at three times the cost of straw bale houses!

Now, it seems fashionable to complain about the corporations, to talk about how evil they are, to go after their profits and ask “did they gouge the customer or exploit their employees or harm the environment?” These are good questions, to be sure, but not all corporations are “guilty as charged”, and in fact most US Businesses are small businesses that are not even remotely guilty of any of these things, although the “guilty until proven innocent” mindset of some against Big Business seems to be extending to ALL business.

Whatever you fear a corporation might do, you need to realize that your government is no different than a corporation except in two areas: unlike a corporation a government can send armed people to FORCE you to pay this or that or do this or that or NOT do this or that and unlike a corporation a government can set whatever price it wants you to pay without fearing any competitors at all or without fearing that people will choose not to buy what they are selling.

So, government has all the properties of a corporation but it has the additional properties of having the ability to use force and of being able to set the prices it charges without fear of competition and without worrying that people just won’t buy what they are selling.

Would you want Microsoft, ATT, Exxon, or even any non-profit corporation like ACORN or the Christian Coalition to have that kind of power? Imagine if Exxon could make a law and say “you MUST purchase 500 gallons of gas per month at $5 per gallon.” Now, what if, in addition to the power to make that law, Exxon had its own “Civilian Defense Force” to come out and ARREST you if you did not buy your quota every month?

While corporations are often unethical and need to be held accountable, what is more dangerous in your mind: multiple competing corporations that at the very least don’t have the power to force us to buy what they sell nor the police or military power to back that up or a government that has monopoly powers over 30% or more of ALL economic activity, and still wants more,  as well as ownership over 30% or more of ALL land with power to take MORE at will after the Kelo Vs. New London ruling a few years back?

Andy Stern of the SEIU loves to talk about his compassion for the maid, the "Marias of this world", he sounds like like a saint just wanting to help the little guy, caring deeply for the poor and the exploited. He is an example of the populist themes we are seeing from certain quarters these days.

I for one will believe the populist rhetoric of those who may cry out against the abuses of the People by corporations when I see policies that will make it easier, not more difficult, for average people to invent and create alternative products and services that are simpler and cheaper so that the little guy can compete with the big guy. Instead, we see these people like Michael Moore talk about the “evils” of “capitalism” (he is confusing corporate abuse with capitalism, as people often do) while at the same time he praises Cuba’s corporate-state which holds a monopoly of political and economic power over the population in a ruthless dictatorship.

Michael Moore and the Moorites who seem to be in the majority within our government, with most in the Democratic Party but many also in the GOP, lack credibility on the issue of being “For the People” because their so-called “fix” is snake oil: they think that we’ll buy the idea that we can fight against corporations and their abuses of power by taking power from them and giving it to an even bigger corporation, let’s call it Fedzilla INC, that also has the power to use force if need be to force to buy whatever it is selling at whatever price it wants to charge.

How is it that taking power FROM corporations, which many of us would like to see, and transferring it to Fedzilla INC is somehow good for the People?

Here is another great mystery: how is it that some of the biggest corporations, including Unions (a corporation in their own right), GE (one of the largest corporations in the world), most of the health care companies and even insurance companies, AARP (a massive corporation that makes BILLIONS selling products and services to senior citizens) are all firmly behind all these alleged efforts to deal with “corporate abuse.”

Could it be that we are being LIED TO? Could it be that that the Moorites in both parties are merely frauds who want us to think that taking power from hundreds of corporations, which many of us may naturally think is good in and of itself, but THEN giving that power to a SINGLE corporation- state hybrid (Fedzilla INC) will make things more fair and equitable when they KNOW that all that will really happen is they will become super rich and super powerful like the party apparatchiks of certain other corporate-state regimes?

Well, I am usually loathe to pretend to know motives or to question people’s characters.

We humans can be simplistic at times, and most of the time simplistic is good. When you touch a hot stove the simplistic response is to pull back your hand. If, however, the “hot stove” is “too much power in too few hands, which results in exploitation, gouging, lack of equity or fairness, and lack of transparency and accountability” then why, pray tell, is the right response to pull our hands from THAT hot stove and put them on the blazing furnace of Fedzilla INC?

It is simplistic to simply pull your hand off a hot stove, but to do so without having a BETTER, cooler, place to put your hand is foolishness. Only someone who is delusional would imagine that you could save yourself from being seriously burned by removing your hand from a hot stove and placing it on a blazing furnace.

Let’s not try and take this analogy too far, the point is this: if the danger is too much power in too few hands then the solution is to disburse power, not to take it from, say, 10,000 or so hands at the top of most corporations and then give it to a few hundred hands at the top of Fedzilla INC.

The people who want to feed Fedzilla INC with ever more control over money, the marketplace, the powers of corporations, the land, and natural resources may try to fool you by saying that words like “public ownership”, but they are JUST WORDS. In certain regimes they often said that the People owned the means of production, but ownership is the power to decide and the keeping of the fruits produced by that enterprise. In certain regimes, like Cuba and, increasingly, Venezuela, the real power to decide is firmly in the hands of a very few individuals and the fruits produced by most economic activities are disbursed according to the will of a few leaders, not on the basis of how much an individual actually contributed by their participation.

I don’t want to answer the question “WHY would people who SAY they want power for the People transfer power to ever fewer people?” I don’t want to argue the finer points of propaganda about how we can have “public ownership” because we get to vote every few years for someone that is anointed by the media, the parties, or their rich backers to be a candidate in the first place. It is silly, and beyond the range of common sense, to try and convince anybody that a government that is effectively controlled by the whims of a few hundred people with a few dozen outside backers who fund their campaigns can OWN anything under the banner of combating corporate abuses or somehow “leveling the playing field” or serving the good of the People and actually DELIVER on those populist-sounding promises.

Let’s leave aside the ideology and the philosophy and break this down to the basics.

If you want somebody else to manage your finances, tell you where to go, when to go, how to do what you need to do, what you cannot do, and where to live or work in exchange for a promise of guaranteed access to health care, education, a house, income, or what have you then you are a fool. I know that sounds harsh, but it's just like saying "trying" Ectsasy is foolish or thinking you can smoke two packs of Camel non-filters a day isn't likely to end badly for you is foolish.

You take one puff of Fedzilla INC and it might just be your last act of free will!

Can you think of any single person you would give total power of attorney to over your life RIGHT NOW on the sole condition that they use their absolute power over you only for good? If somebody said they were going to give their power of attorney to, say, your driking buddy or your ex girlfriend, in exchange for total bliss and happiness would you say they were smart for making that choice?

Remember as you think of this, once you give over that power you have no means of taking it back, not even if the individual you give this power to fails to live up to their promise, not even if the promised health care turns out to be crappy or the house you receive is a run down hovel with no running water or electricity.

If government gets the power of attorney over your health care, your checking account, or anything really you will not be able to just walk up to them later and say, “you know, I don’t think you being in total control over my life is working out, this health care sucks, it’s about as efficient as the DMV and about as compassionate as the IRS, so, I’m gonna take you to court and get my power of attorney back.”

Imagine your surprise, and sheer terror, when you show up to court and the idiot who promised you all these benefits in exchange for power of attorney over your life WITHOUT delivering on those benefits turns out to be the judge and his agents turn out to be your attorney AS WELL AS the attorney for the prosecution who is accusing you of a “crime” for daring to try to hold back some area of your life from the state’s control!

You can get lost in all the nonsense about caring for the poor and needy, of combating corporate abuses, and all those things the advocates of government’s effective power of attorney over your life like to ramble on about, but the truth is much simpler than that: you cannot combat the abuse of power of a few thousand corporations by transferring their power to Fedzilla INC.

We can talk about how to transfer power from the thousands of powerful elitists at the top of the corporate world to individuals, private associations of individuals who CHOOSE to associate together, and very local communities where transparency and accountability are not an ideal but unavoidable realties of small town life which, while they may be skirted in places, and for a time, cannot be skirted forever nor on too large a scale.

The first thing we have to do is to stand up and tell Fedzilla INC: we are not stupid! You may be delusional and really believe in the twisted logic that we can reduce corporate abuses by giving more power to ONE corporation that ALSO has the power of the State to back it up, or, worse, they are frauds who know EXACTLY what they are doing and think we are too stupid to see through their sales pitch.

I for one don’t care if the Moorites who are selling the snake oil of Fedzilla INC are frauds who think we are stupid or simply delusional utopians who are stupid, what I do care about is that we don’t let one evil that many of us detest and want to have more power and resources to combat, the concentration of power in too few hands, to be made WORSE by decreasing the number of hands that have that power while at the time increasing the AMOUNT of power others can exercise over our lives.

We’ll deal with the “corporate interests” in due time, and for that I propose LOCAL action by individuals and private groups with the support of local governments that care more for their People than anything or anyone else, but for now, you need to decide what matters more: your political party and your ideology and your belief that you are somehow going to BENEFIT from Fedzilla becoming the ULTIMATE power over ALL THINGS or your most basic right to exist as a free and sovereign human being?

I have news for those of you who are still not convinced: if you are gullible or stupid enough to buy into the snake oil sales pitch of Fedzilla INC don’t expect the rest of us to go along for the ride. We will not go quietly into the night and let any majority of voters choose for us a devil’s bargain  in which their selfish desire to get others to give them guarantees of welfare or security, or what have you, is the reason for giving the power of attorney over their lives to Fedzilla INC.

I was born free, I will die free if I have anything to say about it, and while I prefer to let those who want to be slaves go off and become slaves so long as they and their masters stay out of my life, the traditions of this great nation favor those who say with Patrick Henry, “give me liberty, or give me death!” Fedzilla INC and those who think that voting FOR Fedzilla INC as their “power of attorney” in exchange for empty promises of bounty and security, should pause now, before we get too far down this road, and consider the consequences of what might happen if they push free people too far and leave them only the choice of abject surrender or fierce resistance.

I pray that I never have to see such a horrible day arrive, and I depend on the common sense of the People to recognize that the path towards serfdom is often laid with promises of equality and righting injustices.

What devil promises hell to capture a gullible soul? What tyrant PROCLAIMS in public to the whole world, over and over, their intentions to kill all their opponents or enslave the whole populations BEFORE they have the power in their hands?

Surely, I can only HOPE and pray, the People in this nation, those who know HOW this nation was founded and WHY, those who value their own freedom even if that means they are also solely responsible for their own success, welfare, and prosperity, are not going to let a bunch of well spoken empty snake oil promises cause them to suddenly say, “well, I don’t need my freedom, I think the only way to stop corporate abuses of power is to give that power to ONE giant corporation and then to INCREASE that power, because, after all, they promise to make my life better and keep me healthy, housed, and fed NO MATTER WHAT!”

You choose: on one hand people who are either delusional or who are frauds asking you to sign over total authority over your whole life in exchange for things they cannot possibly deliver but which are not even worth the price you have to pay, and on the other hand a life of freedom which may be hard at times, and which has no guarantees, but which can at least be lived with dignity and humanity and which can at least be rooted in your own dreams and ambitions.

Neither path will lead to utopia, but the path to serfdom, with Fedzilla as your new MASTER, will not only guarantee a loss of dignity and humanity for YOU but may also guarantee a loss of dignity and humanity for MANY generations into the future, for by surrendering YOUR “power of attorney” to Fedzilla, for whatever reasons and in return for whatever promises given, you are also surrendering the same “power of attorney” for future generations who would be born into a place where they have no power to decide which path to follow.

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Morals Matter
How far have we come in this nation that when fraud is uncovered, when taxpayer FUNDED organizations are found to be willing to collaborate in setting up a BROTHEL for under-age illegal immigrants from El Salvador the “Attorney General” of a major US City actually threatens the people who uncovered the corruption?

We support LIFE, we support LIBERTY, and we support the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS, in short, we support Human Dignity, and we know that immorality, corruption, and betrayal of common sense values, including protecting freedom and human life and the sanctity of marriage, are the prime ingredients for seucity, freedom, and prosperity.

The recent case of ACORN being uncovered in its lack of ethics and morality, and its willingness to violate the law, is a graphic illustration of what happens when we pretend that morals do not matter.

I encourage you to go read Mark Tapstcott’s article in the Washington Examiner that will tell you all about this and then I encourage you to TAKE ACTION, to let this “Attorney General” know how you feel and to tell your congressman know that you demand better oversight of such organizations!

www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/
beltway-confidential/
Maryland-to-prosecute-ACORN-video-makers-59122807.html

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Just a small town gal and that is all I'll ever be, where life is just another iced sweet tea away,  where you can see the twinkling stars at night, the wonders of the moon,  and puffy white clouds floating across the blue sky.
Welcome to my blog from the heartland, full of random musings, observations things I love, events in my life, humor.......