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A house on a bad foundation WILL collapse.
I have heard many arguments lately in favor of this health insurance bill.
Some claim that we OWE this to our citizens.
Others claim this is what a compassionate country would do.
Still others make various arguments based on various beliefs and usually pull out some anecdotal sob story to support their argument.
I dismiss all of them and for a very good reason.
They are all based on fallacies.
I made some rather inflammatory statements on Facebook. That is my outlet these days, but I have no regrets over what I have had to say. I threw the word “Ignorant” and its variants arount rather freely. And I used it to describe some educated people. Sadly, they are NOT educated when it comes to this issue, rather they are ruled by their emotions.
And emotions lead to irrationality. These folks proved it once again.
I am not to persuade anyone to change their minds on this issue. I wish that they would find it important enough to become informed on the issue. If they did so, they would see the fault in their own arguments. And that would lead to one of two things. First, they would solidify their stance based on a solid, logical, legal and sensible foundation. And while I would disagree, I could then have an intellectual respect for them. Or the second option, they would realize that they were irrational, illogical, ignoring the laws of the land and were not even close to anything being sensible and while in their hearts they still feel that the providing for the people would be nice, it is just something that cannot be done.
I do not expect either of those to happen. Why?
For years, going back to at least 2006, I have directed everyone to the root causes of the health care costs problems that this country faces. If you want a refresher, here it is.
First, in 1943, the Internal Revenue Code was changed to allow companies to offer heath care/health insurance as a benefit to employees. This was a war-time measure and the intent was to keep employees who might otherwise jump to higher paying jobs, due to wage freezes preventing employers from giving raises to their existing employees. It made sense. But it should have been scrapped when the war ended.
Same goes for income tax withholding. But that is another issue.
What did this change do TO the American people? The first thing that it did was it kept people from SHOPPING for the best deal. People spend days, weeks or even months researching the best deal on their new dishwasher, car or furniture. But when was the last time you price shopped your health care providers, aside from prescription drug deals? Most of you NEVER have. I know that I haven’t. But I do look for the best deal on everything else in my life. Just not ON my life.
Does THIS make sense?
So, when no one pushes the issue of competition, why should health care providers care about their pricing? And that is what gets is $10 pacifiers and $5 aspirin tablets.
Then came the “War on Poverty” under the Lyndon Baines Johnson administration. [By the way, this was SO effective that the poverty rate is significantly higher today than when the "War" started.] Medicare and Medicaid (Federal funding to the state programs) were launched.
The 40+ years of problems with these programs is highly documented. They DO ration care. They do withhold care for some. Did you miss the story from Oregon about the cancer patient who was given the recommendation that he try assisted suicide because Medicaid would cover that, but not his cancer treatments?
But the REAL problem is that these programs attempt to “fix prices” that impacts the prices that private insurance companies pay. Often times, the private insurance companies have to make up for the cuts that the government forces on providers. Again, giving us the $10 pacifiers and $5 aspirin tablets, but this time to those of us in the private sector.
And you think THESE Government programs are going to provide the compassion that you want to give our nation’s people?
Every single argument in favor of socialized medicine, and that is what this is…even though it is NOT “single payer” yet…is build on incomplete information, bad information or outright lies.
So, when I tell people that they are ignorant, it is true. I am not calling them stupid. I would not engage the stupid, because they are beyond help. The ignorant can be helped, IF they make the effort. Unfortunately, too many do not and will not make the effort. That is why they are blissful and I am not.
The frustrating part is that they continually SHOW their ignorance, but cannot see it themselves.
If you know that the changes to the Internal Revenue Act back in 1943, the creation of Medicare and Medicaid, and the fact that the Federal Government IS the largest provider of health insurance in the nation are all the reasons that have pushed the costs of health care skyward for decades, then why do you want to give that same Federal Government more control and involvement in this industry?
If you are using logic, reason and sensibility, you don’t. And that puts you in the majority, even if you don’t know why. But if you think the Federal Government is the solution, you have built your house on a bad foundation.
And when that house collapses, do not come to me for more help. Your faulty, or lack of, logic has already tapped me out financially.
I don’t have any more resources for you to have stolen from me. You already did enough damage.
By the way, I have not even touched on the Constitutional problems with this bill. There are many and that is what really bothers me. Seeing Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and their gang of political thugs treating the Constitution with the same lack of respect as Lou Brown did Roger Dorn’s contract in “Major League” ought to offend ALL Americans. I am not surprised that it doesn’t, only disappointed.
That is why I do not have respect for the opinions of those who favored this. I cannot respect the ignorant and I cannot respect those who are willing to tear the very foundation of this country down.
If that is you, maybe now you will understand.
Meanwhile, since some of my readers have helped the Government further tax me, you could at least do me a favor and help me pay some of those taxes. Show some of that compassion that you claim to have. Visit my sponsors and buy something. Please.
Rome was once a great empire, now it is just interesting ruins
Rome was not built in a day. You have heard that saying. Rome also did not fall in a day.
Same can be said for the United States of America.
A great experiment was started with the Constitution of the United States. It was a the formation of a representative Republic based on the notion that the rights of man (meaning human beings) were those for man to possess and to CONSENT to being governed by laws. The Constitution opens with “We the People” for a reason. That is where it begins.
From 1789 until 1913, this nation, the United States of American was built. It started out as a agrarian place away from the rest of the world, separated by vast oceans on both sides. While isolated, the country had to grow on its own, but it did so with the help of the rest of the world by welcoming them to come take part.
The term “The American Dream” was coined. Immigrants could come to this nation and take advantage of the freedoms that it had to offer. Those freedoms turned this scruffy little nation in to a world leader in less than 125 years.
The Roman Republic was initially a welcoming society. Sure, they did go out an conquer other lands. But after they conquered them, they welcomed those people in as Romans themselves.
Then it transitioned to the Roman Empire. The growth continued for a while. The policies continued, for a while.
Things got too easy for the Romans. Rather than being held accountable, the Roman emperors kept the citizens happy and distracted with the gladiator bouts and other entertainment. “Bread and Circuses” is the term given to this.
Well since 1913, this has been the path that the United States has been on. First, the Sixteenth Amendment was thrust upon the American people, all on lie. Corruption was rampant following World War I. A lot of it was private corruption that then influenced the public. Prohibition was the largest factor.
In 1933, Prohibition was finally repealed. But we were in the depths of the Great Depression. To fix this, Franklin Roosevelt proposed and pushed social programs than actually made the Depression last longer and made it worse. It wasn’t until World War II that we got out of the depression. That was followed by a great post-war recession.
But we bounced back. And in the 1950’s the largest public works project in the history of the world was passed, the Interstate Highway Act. It was a gigantic expenditure of public money, but it was private money that would repay our economy for decades to come.
Now that system is on the verge of complete collapse.
In January 1961, President John Kennedy said in his inaugural address, “Ask NOT what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” Fifty years later, we have too many people who have their hands our looking for their government to do things for them.
In the 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s and 1980’s, we faced an enemy of ideology in the world. That was led by the Soviet Union and spread across Eastern Europe, into Asia, Africa and Central America. In 1989, Poland, Romania and East Germany all fell. In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed. The pressure of the West caused all of them to crumble under due to their economic models.
So, the United States should have been stronger for it. Sadly, it wasn’t. The nation that sent 15 men up to the moon, 12 of them to the surface of the moon to actually walk around on it, sat back and enjoyed ITS version of “Bread and Circuses” as the world’s only superpower. [CORRECTION: A total of 24 DIFFERENT men have been sent to the moon and orbited it. Apollo 8, 10-17 all went for a total of 27. Jim Lovell, Gene Cernan and John Young each made the trip twice.]
The United States gave Communist China a sweet trade deal, virtually killing manufacturing in this nation. NAFTA helped remove barriers between the US, Canada and Mexico. Free trade is bad, fair trade is what SHOULD have been passed.
In 2008, the United States of America fell under the same curse of Germany in 1933, post-war Soviet Union, 1949 China, post French Colonial Vietnam and 1958 Cuba….”cult of personality” defeated reason and sensibility. Barack Obama, using campaign slogans from the children’s television program, “Bob the Builder” was elected President of the United States. Most people who voted for him could not give a good reason why. They were blinded by the “cult of personality” of the man. And they voted for him because he was not George W. Bush….even though Mr. Bush was not running.
He pulled the wool over the eyes of many. But he is simply a symptom. A major symptom of a disease that is working to turn the United States into the next Roman Empire.
I do not want my son’s children and grandchildren wondering what happened to this great nation. But they will.
The prevailing wisdom today is that this health insurance bill, a bill that can send people to PRISON for not buying a product, is good. How can imprisoning people for choosing to opt out of something possibly be good?
How can forcing the hard working people of this nation to carry the additonal weight of those who do not even make an effort to produce be a good thing?
I don’t understand it. It is good and charitable to help out those who need help because they cannot help themselves. Forcing me to do for those who will not do for themselves is Marxism.
Twenty years ago, we helped defeat this ideology by pushing it to collapse under its own weight. Today, we are subscribing to it?
Really.
It has been said that those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it.
Thanks to many ignorant people, I am doomed as well. And I am not happy about it.
How can you possibly be?
I guess that is proof that “Ignorance is Bliss”…..well, I am not blissful. It is too bad that the bliss of others is going to ruin things for all of us.
On-the-air, but didn’t have much to say..at first.
For those who happened to tune in yesterday morning to KLIK’s “Sunday Morning Roundtable”, yes it was me behind one of the microphones.
And yes, I didn’t say a whole lot…at least in the first hour.
Nothing against the “Roundtable” show or the host, Cole County Presiding Commissioner Marc Ellinger, but I am just much more comfortable driving the ship. In the first hour, I left most of the conversation to Marc and our guest, Jefferson City Area Chamber of Commerce President Randy Allen. It was a review of a meeting that both of them were at, so Marc had more background on the topics than I did. Keep in mind, my wife Kathleen was at that meeting and told me a lot about it, so I was prepared.
I just felt that I was better prepared as the show went on. If there had been a third hour, I would have probably led those segments.
But all of this proved one big thing.
I miss it.
Apparently, so do the listeners in Jefferson City. But this is not about me…it is more about what I once provided.
People miss having options in LOCAL Morning talk radio. There is only ONE option in Jefferson City now. And they do a decent job. I provided a second option.
I know that IF there were ratings, I would have had half the audience of my competion. BUT that was still a very viable chunk of the audience.
Several months ago, I offered to come back to KLIK and do a 6-9am show. I show up at 6:oo and I leave at 9:00 and that is ALL that I would do. They were not interested. Probably because in the short-sightedness of their ownership, they don’t have a studio to do more than one local show. When they moved, they built ONE studio for three stations.
Ooops.
So, that is not going to happen anytime soon. Unless they were smart enough to partner with the coffee shop across the parking lot. Creative thinking is not the strong suit of these folks.
But any how. My point is that I miss it. I would love to get back in, obviously. However, it has to be under the right circumstances. And that includes it being a win-win….or at least a win for me.
And that wasn’t the case from January 2007 until February 2009.
I’ll be back, on a occasion, as Marc and Al need someone to fill-in. It is still kind of fun.
Another Blog to check out…
Midwest Computech launched a NEW blog AND Twitter page today. Worth checking out and following.
Let me answer your questions before you ask them. I am just ONE of several contributors to the blog. Same with Twitter. AND the topics will be related to technology and information technology specifically.
Sure, there will be news links on there. But that is when something like a new virus or malware arrives on the scene and we have some advice for you. Or if there is anything else that could impact your line of work AND Midwest Computech has some suggestions for you.
The Blog is at http://midwestcomputech.wordpress.com and the Twitter is http://twitter.com/midwestcomputec(the “H” is dropped off of the end due to the 15 character limitation).
Feedback is appreciated there as well. Please write and let us know how we can direct that blog to best keep you informed.
Thanks!!
It is called HYPERBOLE.
Hyperbole. Merriam-Webster’s On-line Dictionary defines Hyperbole as “extravagant exaggeration” and cites the example of “mile high ice cream cones” to illustrate.
I like hyperbole. I use it a LOT. Sometimes, people do not see things AS hyperbole and take it literally. And I should know better. My son Ben, who has Aspergers, is very literal. With him I am extremely careful.
Yesterday, I closed out my entry by saying that someone should “swallow a high velocity lead projectile”….rather mean spirited. And as much as I dislike, disrespect and despise this individual that I was referring to, I do not literally think that he should do that.
The world needs is boogeymen. He is one. For President Barry O, it is George W. Bush or Rush Limbaugh. Or insurance companies. Hitler had Jews.
So, if my use of hyperbole was extreme and offensive, sorry. I do know that I would likely insure that I would never get rehired by Cumulus Media…so that is a good thing.
I always told people off-the-air that I would never say anything on-the-air that I didn’t mean, with the exception of hyperbole. And I felt that my tone of voice was great at indicating those times.
BUT, I learned that this was not the case. I said things in an overly, extravagant exaggeration that were taken seriously. Like saying that my hopes for the FU Gators was for their bus to crash and burn en route to a game against the Vols. No matter how much I despise the FU Gators, even I would not wish that on them. I need them as my straw man, too.
It was NOT hyperbole when I said that I would put all of my USC Trojans clothing in storage until the time that Lame Kitten and Mike Garrett were both gone. With the exception of two t-shirts that I just found and a 20 year old sweatshirt hidden in the back of my closet, off of that clothing is currently in a Space Bag…better than a box. I look forward to pulling them out of storage in 2014.
I guess my answer to this problem with the misunderstanding of when I am, or am not, using hyperbole is best put this way.
Just ask me, I will let you know.
[This is for Ben...his birthday is in August...just saying.....]
I need to clear the air on this.
Recently, those of you who regularly read this blog or follow my links and posts on Facebook may have come to a certain conclusion that may not be entirely true. So, let me clarify.
I have made comments about the radio industry. Specifically, I have slammed my former employer Cumulus. So, here is where I need to clarify.
Cumulus Media is a horrible company led by horrible people who don’t know anything about radio. Lew Dickey is an overly educated egotistical midget, mentally and physically, who thinks his Harvard MBA is enough to get him credibility in any business. He is like Dr. Barbay in “Back To School”…he might know about “widgets” but he does not know about radio. And he does not know about the human factor…which is what made radio what it once was.
Furthermore, this scumbag was responsible for cutting 250 people on a Friday, then collect a bonus on Monday.
I have never met this idiot, but I despise him for what he has done, what he has bragged about doing and what he continues to do so long as he continues to suck air into his lungs. If Lew Dickey was to be harmed in a physical and financial way, I would not only not lose sleep over it, I might celebrate it. This would be proof of Karma.
The sycophants that surround this waste of DNA, are about as bad as him. They lack backbone. They lack, like their leader, integrity. They are part of the problem.
Now, you know where the rancor with me lies.
Let me move in another direction. The people that I worked with and for at Cumulus, for the most part, but not exclusively, are good and decent people. There are a couple who are of the ilk of Lew Dickey, but they were outsiders to the community and to the organization that I worked with on the local level. They were problems and nearly everyone was happy when these egotistical jerks moved on.
Yesterday, Cumulus had a ribbon cutting for their new offices. Normally, I would say studios, but they only have one. That is sad, but after the company was decimated by the loser at the top, that is what they are left with. They have a nice facility and some friends still work for the company. They are friends, I wish them well…I sincerely do. But, more than anything else, I worry about them because I know what a bad situation they are in.
It was nice to see them yesterday. And I was pleased that, as a Chamber Ambassador, I could be there to help with the festivities.
What I really wish for, for my friends, former co-workers and supervisors is this. I hope that they can, and I hope this can happen soon, be liberated from the inemptitude and arrogance of the Dickey family.
But as a broadcasting properties broker told me nearly a year ago, that is not going to happen anytime soon. He told me, that selling off these once fine properties in Mid-Missouri would be admitting failure or just a mistake.
Lew, let me give you a hint. You screwed it all up. You ignored the local markets and played from a generic, and very flawed playbook out of Atlanta, Georgia. You ruined not just these properties, but some lives along the way. The best thing you could do is either sell them off to local buyers, or to empower local managers to rebuild them in the image of their markets.
After you do that, then you can brag about your Harvard MBA.
So, if you don’t do that, do the industry a favor. Swallow a high velocity lead projectile.
For all of us!
Good things that President Obama has done
This will strike many of you as a bit of a strange entry coming from me. Keep in mind, I do not hate President Obama. I respect his office more than most people will ever realize, President Obama included.
But, I do not respect him. I think his is a bit of a wimp and a complete “post turtle”…making him unworthy of my respect. [If you don't know what a "post turtle" is, send me an e-mail and I will explain it to you.] As many of my military and former military friends have told me, you salute the rank and not the person.
So, will all of that said, there are somethings that President Barack Obama has done that are very good.
Or, could end up being very good.
Thanks to President Obama, it appears that the American people may finally recognize the difference between an empty suit campaigner who is good at using the words written for him by others and effective leadership. He has given us lots of the former, especially after the campaign ended, and NONE of the latter.
Due to the concerns over President Obama’s Progressive agenda, many people have taken the time to go back and read the Constitution of the United States of America. And they have realized what they didn’t know, because politicians from both the Republican and Democrat parties didn’t want them to see it, about the Constitution was a lot less than what the did know.
Thanks to President Barack Obama, people now know the difference between a liberal and a Progressive. Liberals are idealistic and want the government to do a lot for people, while they do nearly nothing for others. [Proven by studies of charitable contributions coming from liberals and conservatives.] Progressives want to force the government to do everything for the all of the people so that the United States is a peer in the world and NOT a leader in the world.
The American people now realize, thanks to President Obama, that fears of fascist actions by our strong Federal government can come as much, if not MORE, from the left as it can from the right.
“We the People” now understand, more than anytime in the last hundred years, that regular law-abiding citizens can and should keep and bear arms in their everyday lives. And by doing so, they are not criminals. But those who want to take them from “We the People” can be as dangerous to us as the criminals or terrorists who wish to do us harm.
More than anything else, President Obama, by his arrogance and his lack of leadership, has helped many of the American people finally wake up from their slumber of ignorant bliss.
The best thing that President Obama can do for the American people is fail. And fail in a enormous way. The bigger he fails, the better things are for the American people.
Months ago, many people who read this blog told me that my ideas of ending BOTH income tax withholding AND health insurance payments out of paychecks were bad ideas. People would never go for it. They said that the American people were too lazy. And that WAS MY POINT. They are lazy because we have allowed them to be lazy in our culture.
You see, I think the American people are an exceptional people. They do not. Neither does President Barack Obama. I think if you ask people to write a check for their taxes, they will want accountability. Obama and Congress, bipartisanly, does not want that. If people have to write a check for their health insurance, like they do for groceries, they will shop wisely. Obama and the Democrat-led Congress don’t want that.
When you allow, for over 60 years, the American people to not have to worry about paying their taxes or health insurance DIRECTLY, you are going to see many, like those I mentioned earlier, thinking that they can’t or won’t do it.
They are wrong.
But they also PROBABLY do not think that the American people are an exceptional people, as I do. They think you need the government to help with everything, probably.
Give us roads, give us border security, give us a strong national defense and get out of our way.
The best thing that President Obama can do is to tell us how he wants to give us everything. Because the best thing the American People can do in return is tell him, and Congress, no. We got this ourselves.
We did it that way for the first 100 PLUS years of our existence. And we can do it again.
We needed a wake up call. And the ignorant masses helped give him to us.
They voted for him.
Things will get better. Just keep up the resistance.
Remember, we were told for eight years how Patriotic dissent is, right?
With state budget cuts looming, how to keep the money in the classroom
Those of you who live and work in the state of Missouri, you already know the state budget problems.
Right now, Governor Nixon, begrudgingly submitted a budget with a two percent across-the-board cut to education funding. Some districts will be minimally impacted. Those are the districts that have good local tax collections. Jefferson City is one of those districts, at least for now. I say that based on my conversations with the JCPS Chief Financial Officer, Jason Hoffman. But these things can ALWAYS change.
Many others around the state are not as fortunate as Jefferson City Public Schools.
This is where my employer can help.
Back in August, I started with Midwest Computech as the Office Manager and Business Development Manager for the Jefferson City office. To fit on a business card, we shortened that to Accounts Manager. Any how, my point is to addrerss the heritage of this company.
Greg Miller, President of Midwest Computech, is a teacher. Greg was the band teacher at Tipton Public Schools for several years before coming to work for the company that he later bought. And the way he got to this company is interesting.
Back in the 1990’s, the use of technology in classrooms was growing at exponential rates. Tipton needed a Technology Coordinator to help in that district. Greg’s personal experience with computers made him a great candidate for that role. Well, one thing led to another and Greg found himself working with this company at the schools, then went to work for them.
Since that time, Greg bought the company, along with David Nivens, Midwest Computech Vice President, and continued the work with several school districts. Starting in Mid-Missouri, and spreading out across the state. Currently, Midwest Computech is working with over 50 school districts and has technical staff On-SITE in over 20 districts each week.
Why?
Because with the background of Midwest Computech being firmly in education, we feel that we can best help school districts save money on their information technology budgets AND either improve services to faculty and staff OR improve the educational experiences for the students. In many cases, BOTH.
Now, there are lawmakers who are wanting to cut in other areas to keep the money in the schools. This is a good thing. But what happens next year? Or the year after? Rumor is that the cuts could be TEN PERCENT in the 2011-2012 budget. And fifteen percent or more in 2012-2013.
Midwest Computech can help. Yes, this sounds like an advertisement. Maybe it is. But it is also from a taxpayer of the state of Missouri, the County of Cole, the City of Jefferson and, of course, the United States of America. I bring this up in a way to help our company, obviously. But if Midwest Computech can help schools with these budget crunches, isn’t that good for all of us.
If you have any influence with your school district here in Missouri, you may want to suggest that they meet with us at Midwest Computech.
It never hurts to sit down and have a conversation, does it? Especially when it could be to the benefit of the students AND the taxpayers.
You know how to find me.
MY problems with blogging
Blogging is NOT for everyone. Some have told me to quit, but these are those anonymous haters who are too cowardly to sign a real name behind their comments.
That is the problem with the internet, sometimes.
My problem with blogging is similar to what Rush Limbaugh said about his process of writing. My thoughts move a hell of a lot faster than I can write or type. I can get six or seven ideas out by speaking them before I can get just one of them by typing.
That is probably why I had so much trouble during the first fifteen or sixteen years of my life in our education system.
I am not writing this to imply that I am smarter than you or anyone else. I might be, but I may also be a drooling idiot by comparison.
I was thinking about my sons before I wrote this. Alex seems to be a lot like me, in that he is often very quick with his wit and reactions. Ben, on the other hand, is more delayed and deliberate. That is not to say that Ben is not as smart, but his language delays are part of an overall communications delay that he has. And that is typical of those with various forms of autism.
Of the two boys, Alex could, like me, starting writing something and possibly skip a point that he wanted to make and would have to go back to re-write and edit. For both of us, thank goodness for computers. With Ben, he would probably feel more comfortable with pen and paper to formulate his thoughts to make sure that he is very clear in his message before sitting down to put it in the computer. And then he might be more repetitive in his points, rather than skipping things over.
I don’t think that I am smarter than either one of them, nor they smarter than me, necessarily…though I hope they are.
Often times when I DON’T make a blog entry for a day or so, it is because I have SO much that I want to say, that I cannot clear things up enough in my own mind to say them.
That is why radio was a great medium for me to work in. And the blog that I used, wrote, back then was more of an outline for my show that day. Today, without a show, it is more free form. I do what I want, when I want and on what I want to talk about.
So, what was my point here? Oh, yeah…that is why I sometimes have trouble with my blogs. And why I jump around. I do have ADHD…that was diagnosed in 2001.
Sure is pretty outside.
I wonder if it is warm enough for golf. I think I have a box of unopened golf balls.
Can’t wait for baseball season.
I wonder what we will have for lunch at the Jefferson City Young Professionals meeting today.
Bear with me on my writing. I do get around to making a point….sometimes several of them….just not always following a straight line from point A to point B and continuing to points C, D, and E.
But, I do get there. Usually.
Testing the Gag Reflex of the American People
The American People do not want this. President Obama and his progressive=evil friends do. Who will get their way?
No, that “=” was not a typo. Progressives and their agenda are all about EVERYTHING the Founders of our once great nation were against. Against the American Experiment = Evil.
OK, so now that I have made THAT clear, I can continue.
Seventy percent of the American people want this debacle to Federalize one-sixth of our economy under the guise of health care reform to die. But the arrogant asses at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue know better than you do, so they are going to shove it down your throat.
Thus, my title.
I hope you have a strong Gag Reflex. If you do, you will puke it back up on them.
Now, let me be completely honest here, there are times when the will of the American people is dead wrong. Civil Rights is one area. Isolationism in the late 1930’s and early 1940’s is another. Those are times when true leadership was needed to make what had to be done the reality.
This is not one of those times.
Back in the 1930’s, one of the biggest arguments against Social Security was that it was little more than a vote buy. This has proven true.
This is more than an attempt at a long term vote buy. This is another step toward the removal of individual liberties.
But I have gone over all of this before and those who have a voice in this are deaf to the pleas of me and of those who are smart enough, or honest enough, to agree with me.
And that is just it. Honesty. There is a lack of honesty in this discussion and debate. Look back at the meeting held at Blair House last week. Democrat-Hypocrites continued their campaign accusing the Republicans of having NO plan. This is half true, because the Republicans do not have an albatross to dump on the American people like the Democrat-Hypocrites do. That is because the Republicans, and AGAIN for those of you who do NOT pay attention I am NOT a Republican, have a different approach. So, it is not a complete LIE when the Democrat-Hypocrites say the Republicans don’t have a plan, it is a half truth.
That is because the Republicans understand political physics. For every action, there COULD be an equal or opposite reaction. So their plan is to take things step-by-step and make changes as needed along the way.
Less painful, in theory. And that is why I prefer their methodology. This plays in to the concept of “leaving your self an out” to protect themselves, politically, if nothing else. But it seems more responsible. Especially, IF the real goal is toward reforming the health INSURANCE industry.
There it is. What is the real goal of the Democrat-Hypocrites?
Most of you do not know. Most people are too busy complaining about how rude or how bad the judges on American IDULL are this season. Or are wetting themselves over “Glee” starting back up soon. Or that Buzz Aldrin, if they know who he is, being on Dancing with the Has-Beens.
Progressives=Evil want you to be DEPENDENT on a LARGER and more powerful Federal Government.
I have posted on the plans on Saul Alinsky. I have tried to educate many on Cloward-Piven. And the will of the American people is against this bill would be proof to many that the efforts of me and others to inform the public is working.
But I don’t see it that way.
Why?
Because the Democrat-Hypocrites are moving forward. The reason why I have added Hypocrite to their party affiliation is because the move they are about to begin documents their hypocrisy.
President Obama, as a Senator, spoke against majority only votes in the United States Senate. He did so when he ran for the Senate. Vice President Joe Biden did the same thing. Harry Reid as well. In fact, Harry Reid denied that “reconciliation” would be used at that Blair House meeting last week, when he said just SIX DAYS earlier that it was something under consideration.
So, this is going to happen. Don’t accept it if you don’t like it, call your Senators and Congressman. YOU could stop it.
But let me go back to the meeting at Blair House. This was billed as an open discussion.
Bull Shit!
Look at the content of that meeting. Barry O spoke more than anyone else. Barry stammered and lied repeatedly while sucking up the time that could have been used to a true open discussion. Barry misrepresented the Congressional Budget Office conclusions to the plans. He was called out, by Senator Lamar Alexander (that Barry claimed was twisting things) and by Representative Paul Ryan.
The problem was further complicated by the pulling at heart strings that was offered up by the Democrat-Hypocrite members of Congress. The story of the woman using her dead sister’s dentures….I know I heard THAT one before. Here is a clue….medicaid or medicare would cover you for that. So, rather than talk about how IGNORANT your constituents are, HELP THEM!! THAT IS YOUR JOB!! And Tom Harkin, one of the biggest progressive-evil members of the U.S. Senate read a letter from a farmer…..yawn. Senator, help your constituents.
Alexander and Ryan, among others, masterfully used the words of Barry O and his ilk against them.
That meeting accomplished little. For those who are against the 2700 document becoming a law to enslave the American people view this as a good public relations move for their side. It exposed the Democrat-Hypocrites as wanting to use this occasion to spin the Republicans as uncooperative. It did that, but the American people still don’t want the Progressive=Evil agenda pushed on them. They saw that the Democrat-Hypocrites are going to forces this mess on the American people.
This is what “bi-partisanship” in Washington has become. And when you Republicans get ready to praise me for saying this, I am going to turn this back on you, too.
Ye reap what ye sow. Republicans tried the same strong-arm tactics when they were in power. And the Dems did it before them.
Bi-partisanship in Washington means that one side wants something so they will beat the other side until they surrender. This is a lot like an MMA cage match, but the results impact the audience.
I am disgusted. I have rambled on and I know it. But here is my point, and yes I have one.
We have a liar in the White House. We have a bad agenda being pushed by him and his evil minions in Congress. And Evil IS the word that I will use. Forcing the American people to be dependent is EVIL.
We have gotten the Congress and the President that we deserve. James Garfield warned us of this 130 years ago.
So, here is my final question. How many of you, who were outraged by ALLEGED lies of George W. Bush, and who voted for the Liar in the White House now, are going to give this CROOK a pass? And how many of you, who thought Richard Nixon was bad, are sitting back and accepting this LIAR to continue to serve and continue to LIE to the American people?
How long will you give him a free pass?
If you are and if you do, you prove my point that the term Democrat-Hypocrite is accurate.
If I offended you, good. That was my point. I want YOU to start with the man or woman in the mirror to make things right.
This dangerous liar needs to go. He is hurting our nation. Before it is too late, stop this bill and then stop this man’s agenda.
Meanwhile, the rest of need to puke on them….as our Gag Reflex is being challenged.
