Monday, December 30, 2013

Interesting tidbits

Global Warming or Climate Change 

Isn't it interesting that a Russian ship is caught in ice preventing it from moving and at least 2 rescue attempts have failed to get to the site where the ship is stranded as the ice is increasing in thickness.  It seems odd that with all the claims of global warming that has to under go a name change to Climate Change since the ice in the Arctic and Antarctic have increased.  But we know, the ice is increasing because all the claims of the climate warming is bunk, but whether the climate is cooling or warming, we know everything will be because of Climate Change.  With many scientist debunking the climate warming advocates, they were forced to change the name to Climate Change so they can at least be consistent regardless of which way the climate goes.   

Oil production 

We can and are going to be able to produce all the oil and gas that this country can use even though the Obama administration has prevented oil drilling on government lands, but fortunately the private land owners where Fracking has produced our new oil production increase to the dismay of the Obama administration.  South Dakota land owners by leasing their land have become the latest millionaires and other states where Fracking is possible are trying for the same results.  Except of course, New York State where Gov. Cuomo has decided he rather have higher unemployment, and less tax collection than permit such drilling along the Pennsylvania border that could be an economic boom to the area and the state, but since his liberal radical environmental supporters would prefer us going back to the horse drawn wagons or the 35 mile electric car over oil gas production.  It has been well documented that we have more gas in the ground that could provide energy for our country for over 100 years.  And if we developed increased gas production and were able to develop safe vehicles to run on natural gas the only roadblock would be gas stations getting natural gas holding tanks that could be overcome in a short time.  But that would put a dent in the radical environmentalist argument.    

Obamacare

Better start reading on all the taxes that are coming with Obamacare in 2014 since everyone would be affected except those big corporations that are big donors to political campaigns.  Wonder who thought of that?

Saturday, December 28, 2013

Obamacare, taxes, Common Core and more


Under Obamacare, taxes go up, insurance premiums go up, doctor availability goes down, hospital availability goes down, prescription drug plans cost goes up and some prescription availability goes down and those of us that have some money are going to pay through increase taxes and cost for those that do not.  We can not forget for those that are on Medicare that Obamacare has taken $740 million from Medicare for Obamacare.  So you can rest assured and expect changes to the Medicare program if only to make up the shortage.  Obama's goal of redistribution.  Give to those that work hard to others so they won't have too.  And this is only in 2014.  Just wait until 2015 and 2016. 

For those that believe government making decisions in your life is the way to go, should move to Cuba or Venezuela and let us get back to what our Founding Fathers gave us.  We have government telling us what to eat, what to drive, what temperature our thermostats should be set, and coming to a location near you, where to live.   

Under the great educational program called Common Core, we will have the government telling us if we are college material or if we should go to a trade school and what they believe we are best suited for as an occupation.  If you are not aware of everything about Common Core, then you should take time and read. 

And now with the 2014 elections coming up, it is time to ask your member of Congress if he/she is a democrat, have they read the bill (Obamacare) yet.  When your representative votes for major legislation that could practically destroy this country's economy and way of life and does not read that legislation, it is time to have them replaced. These people are only concerned with keeping their job and will do anything to keep that job and that includes lies, deception and misinformation to keep that job.  Of course, the dumb and clueless voter has to be awakened or we will be known as the once great country.

Thursday, December 26, 2013

NSA spy scandal


One thing you are not being told on the NSA spying is that President Obama and his minions were using the NSA to spy on their political opponents.  Welcome to the third world.

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

The world in turmoil, but...............

The world is in turmoil, our country is running up debt as if our money supply is unlimited, our representatives in Congress are more interested in the 2014 election, Obamacare is destroying lives and what was the best health care in the world and yet the big discussion this week is what Fox News, Megyn Kelly said about Santa Claus being white and so was Jesus.  Any discussion to avoid discussing the real issues facing our country.  Santa Claus can be any color you want him to be, and Jesus is for all of us and color does not matter, but in the interest of diverting attention from what is going on in Washington, we get involved in stupid discussions.  Jesus is the reason for the season and Santa Claus is just that, an imaginary person for the benefit of kids and how shocking some of us were when we learned Santa Claus was not real.  But we got over that quickly.  But we will not get over our country's problems unless we actually address them rather than continue to kick the can down the road.   

We have a president whose poll numbers are tanking but in reality, he does not care like other presidents in the past.  Now why is that?  Because he is a follower of Saul Alinsky, an avowed communist, where the end justify the means and that is what President Obama is doing where is agenda is to destroy this country.  Remember his early educational years were in Indonesia where he was taught hatred of our country and this has carried over into his life today.  Destroy American and you can save the world.  This is what he believes and if you are honest with yourself and review his life and his administration up to today, that is the only solution you can come up with.   

Congress has no problem spending money since the money does not come out of their pocket.  If they need more money, just raise fees and increase taxes.  You and me must monitor our expenses and income to make sure we are living within our income.  Another way to look at our debt problem is if your salary is $27,000 annually, you spend $39,000 annually and have credit card debt of $170,000.  Your question to answer this dilemma is how would you solve the problem?  Reduce spending or print money to pay the debt?  Now printing money will get you a nice place in jail, continual spending without regard of where the money is coming from will eventually get you into bankruptcy.  And where would the money come from since you do not have it.  Steal? Like congress is doing to us by increasing taxes, fees and a complete disregard of our children's future or should we say what future?  They will not have a country that we came to know and love when we grew up.  Remember, President Bush left us $10 Trillion in debt and in 5 years of President Obama, we have seen that increase to over $17 Trillion.  When will this madness end?  Answer, when we wake up and demand our congressional representatives reduce our deficit or we demand a constitutional convention to address a balance budget amendment, repeal of 17th amendment, and term limits and not anything on the Bill of Rights.  If we could get 38 state legislators to vote for these amendments, they become part of our constitution.  Congress cannot pass amendments without state approval and we all know criminals (congress) will not legislate against themselves.  Or, we could remain silent and watch us destroy ourselves without a shot being fired.  Who would have thought.

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Boehner a Conservative?

Congressman John Boehner calling himself a conservative is like the Pope saying he is Jewish or Nancy Pelosi calling herself a conservative.  Duh.  NBB, No Backbone Boehner is his real name and failing the citizens is his game.  Some people will do anything to remain in power and Rep. Boehner is the perfect example.  Make no waves and always cave so your congressional seat will always be saved.

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

What they do not tell you on the Budget Deal

Any budget deal that is over 1 year like the one they just passed will have problems when the new Congress comes into session in January 2015.(not 2014)  What you are not being told is that when the new Congress is sworn in, previous budget agreements are completely ignored.  So be prepared for changes in 2015.  Something they will not tell you.

A real Budget Deal?


Rep. Paul Ryan and Sen. Patty Murray reach a budget deal that actually fails to address our bulging deficit, reckless spending, but does mean a great possibility of their reelection next fall. Rep. Ryan claims this deal will save $23 Billion over ten years or a better way to look at it is $2.3 Billion saving a year.  Of course, we spend more than $2.3 Billion every week and this does not address the nearly $1 Trillion deficit increase that we have seen every year since President Obama took office.  So, we can expect our $17 Trillion deficit increase to over $21 Trillion during the remaining term of President Obama.  Both parties just continue to spend money we don't have, the Federal Reserve continues to print money that reduces the value of our currency, and Congress continues to kick the can down the road.  Remember, it is not about reducing our deficit, cutting spending or our constitution, but it is about making sure they get reelected, enjoy their $174,000 salary plus perks, keeping their party in power and if the country collapses, they know they will no longer be members of Congress, but will be members of the Proletariat.  The clueless voters will continue to support and reelect these people of both parties and it is up to both parties to make sure the clueless voter remains clueless.  Throw the voter a bone periodically to keep them happy, continue the lies and deception until the 2014 election and then it is business as usual.   It seems, Profiles in Courage are definitely lacking here.  But then again, politicians have no courage to face tough situations, but will always take the easy road and just kick the can down that road.  Maintaining their position of power is their priority.  And they mocked Sen. Ted Cruz that actually took a stand, whether you like him or not, he did what he told the voters who elected him he would do.  It is just that we need another 400 more with similar courage.   Lots of luck when you realize the each party likes to hand pick the candidates they want us to vote for, except for people like Ted Cruz and others that ran against the establishment and we see the results.  Rest assured, each party is going to make sure this does not happen in 2014.  God forbid we actually see candidates that reflect our views over the establishment.

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

More on Obamacare

For all those who thought the Affordable Care Act, AKA Obamacare, was the second coming, I hope you do not get screwed like many citizens have been and will be in 2014.  What we see happening with Obamacare was always planned to get the pubic so outraged that they would jump at a single payer plan.   Now we are learning that in order to keep expenses down, you get higher premiums and higher deductibles so you out of pocket expenses increase and unless you have a major medical problem, you may never get the opportunity to file a claim with your insurance carrier.  And now we are learning your prescription drug plan may not be able to give you the prescription medication you are presently receiving or may receive in the future.  The whole idea behind Obamacare is to increase out of pocket expenses, especially for the young healthy insured to pay for those that are older or require more medical care.  It is like a Ponzi scheme.  Of course going back to what President Obama said in 2008/9 that if your treatment is expensive and a financial drain, maybe you should go home to die.  I do believe Rep, Alan Grayson made that claim back in 2010, but he wanted to blame the Republicans.  Now we know he was right, but the wrong party.  One of the problems we have is the clueless people that live in this country that this president and his fellow democrats hope remain clueless while they screw them.  Not to say the republicans are much better, but they have not sank to the bottom yet and many still believe in a balance budget, reducing spending and affordable healthcare.  Rep. Price from Georgia has introduced years ago a healthcare insurance plan that would meet the needs of all citizens, but Sen. Harry Reid will not bring it to the floor.   So when the President claims the republicans have not submitted a plan, it is just another lie that his friends in the news media will support.

Listen closely to what he says.

If you review what President Obama has been saying for the past 6 years, you will realize he does exactly what he accuses others of doing.  This is his mantra.  As I have said many times before, you watch the right hand, but what is the left hand doing.  And yet, it seems he is not called out to explain why he does what he accuses others of doing.  As long as the news media has organisms and wet their pants (Chris Matthews) over Obama, it will never be reported.  But his fall back position has always been, I did not know, was not aware, was not told, not informed or whatever he believes the news media will buy.

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

A numbering system?


With President Obama nearing the end of his 5th year in office and the fact that he has never told a lie but has misrepresented the facts, misreported the facts and misspoke, I believe it would be easier to use a numbering system when reporting stories on events in this administration.  I think the following numbering system should apply, Period.  Number 1, It was the Bush administration's fault, #2, A movie, #3, Republicans, #4, Fox News, #5 Tea Party organizations, #6, Talk radio, #7 2nd Amendments advocates, #8, Rogue employees, #9, A tsunami, and last but not least, #10, I only just heard about it when I read the papers.  I believe reporting the news on the president using this numbering system would be environmentally friendly, by using less ink and maybe eventually less paper since at times this administrations explanations for its failures can get long winded.  Of course, the carbon dioxide being expelled into the air may have to be addressed by the EPA with another regulation or would that require another number?

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

It is always someone else's fault

We are now learning the reason the Healthcare web site and Obamacare is not working is because of the Republicans. 

For the first 4 years of this administration it was former President Bush's fault and now our president must find another scapegoat for his dismal performance. 

Fast and Furious was Bush's fault, Benghazi was the fault of a video, NSA scandal was not what people were claiming, IRS scandal was a few rogue agents in Ohio, AP/James Rosen investigation was totally unknown even though AG Eric Holder signed off on the searches, and Obamacare lies were not lies but just misunderstandings on what the president said.  Because we all know that someone who will make the oceans recede, can walk on water, the smartest person in the room would never ever lie.  

What is scary, is he only learns about things from the news media and television even though all investigations of these items go back directly to the White House.  Either he is the dumbest person in the room or refuses to take responsibility for his actions or the actions of others under his supervision.  But, then again, when you elect a person with only the experience of a community organizer, never held a real job and never managed anything to the highest position in the country and holds the most powerful position in the world, that in itself should be frightening.  Think about it.  Look at your own life experiences and do you believe you could do a more superior job than this person.  No doubt about it.  As long you believe the country comes first, the constitution is the rule for governance and the country must live within its income, the country economic growth will expand and employment will increase.  However, if you believe you and your party comes first, then you will be a failure and the country will collapse.  But you will not care since you will have a nice pension and Secret Service to protect you for life. 

Saturday, November 23, 2013

A Follow-up to the Police State

If you think the previous blog on the police state may put a scare into you, try and think about the following.  The question is what do the initials VIPR stand for.  Well, they mean Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response Team.  The unheard part of the TSA.   Check this site out and then do your own research. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_Intermodal_Prevention_and_Response_team

Thursday, November 21, 2013

A POLICE STATE IN THE MAKING?

If you do not believe that this administration is moving towards a police state, just read the following information.   

In March 2012, DHS (Department of Homeland Security) and ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) purchased 450 million rounds of hollow point ammunition and another 750 million rounds of hollow point ammunition in August 2012.  Additionally, in August 2012, the SSA (Social Security Administration), that is correct the SSA, placed an order for 174,000 rounds of hollow point ammunition and it is reported they supposedly sent the ammo to 41 locations throughout the United States.  Why the SSA would need hollow point ammo or ammo in general is unknown.  In January 2012, the Federal Protective Service Officers with DHS conducted training with SSA in Leesburg, Florida.   

The next purchase will really make you wonder.  In August 2012, the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), which houses the National Weather Service requested 46,000 hollow point bullets to be sent to locations in Maine, Mass, NJ and Florida.  NOAA issued a statement the bullets were intended for Fisheries Office and Law Enforcement that enforce laws that conserve and protect our nation's living marine resources and their natural habitat.   I guess if they are attacked by a threatening fish or animal they will be able to take action. 

For those that do not have knowledge on bullets, hollow point bullets are designed to explode upon entry into the body, causing massive organ damage, and death. They are not used for target practice or for training purposes.   

So the question to ask is why the purchases and why distribute the ammo throughout the United States?  Well, if the people get fed up with government controlling every aspect of their lives and engage in demonstrations (Peaceful) the government will meet these terrorist (according to the Obama administration a terrorist is a Christian, returning veteran, Tea Party member or anyone who is outspoken against this administration) with military type force.  Something we read about in Marxist/Socialist/Communist countries.  Suppress the population at all cost.  And we thought Kent State was a problem.   

A little research, will verify this information.

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Liberals and Money


Liberals love spending money, however the money they love to spend is yours, not theirs.

Our Constitution and Obama

Under our constitution, you have the right to Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness. Our constitution does not give you the right to a job, health care, a car, a house, food, clothes, etc.  Assistance was mostly provided by religious organizations that is really the backbone of our public assistance until government got involved and has since screwed up assistance and has made the people government dependents.  And now we have the government making more dependents of their citizens by Obamacare.  It is bad enough that government has bankrupt both Medicare and Social Security that the government calls an entitlement and as an entitlement is close to $60 to $90 Trillion in shortage in paying out future benefits.  But that is not a problem since we can just print more money.  Of course, the more we print, the less our money is worth, although we do not hear people shouting from the roof tops on how dangerous this is going to be.  You cannot print yourself out of debt.  But you can print yourself into oblivion.  Remember, President Obama grew up disliking this country and what we stand for and is doing his best, together with his other socialist advisers to destroy what we are.  Something to think about if you want to be honest with yourself. Look on what has been happening within this country and internationally with this president.  We have lost respect world wide and are losing our country internally from what our Founding Fathers gave us.  President Obama's campaign claimed "Moving Forward", but he never completed that statement.  What he meant was Moving Forward to our destruction.  His fundamentally transformation of America to the giant garbage heap of former great countries, unless We the People wake up.

Substandard?


President Obama  believes most canceled health insurance are substandard.  Substandard according to whom?   President Obama, Pelosi, Reid?  Are they going to tell me my auto insurance is substandard, my home is substandard, my dental coverage is substandard, my clothes are substandard, where I live is substandard and I must move.  When will it end?  When government gains complete control of our lives or will the public wake up and vote all these idiots from both parties out of office.  Capitalism works  and history has  shown that Marxism, communism, socialism are all failures, but as usual these Ivy League graduates believe they know better as they lead us down the road to total collapse.

 

Another Scandal and Corruption?

We have learned today that during the presidential election last year, the unemployment numbers were faked and reduced from 8.1 to 7.8.  At the time, based on the number of people that were reported to have found a job, many people were suspicious of this number but were called out as anti-Obama people.  Now we know that Chicago politics were in play and yet what if anything will congress do about this deception?  As usual, with all the other scandals emanating from this White House, the president will claim no knowledge and only learned about this when he read the newspapers.  This is the usual storyline of playing dumb and believe the American people will swallow this again.  The next time this administration actually tells the truth, will be the first.  This president lied on the information in his two books, although he claims they were slight exaggerations.  This president does not believe he lies, just that he misstates, misleads, misrepresents the facts, but never lies.  You just do not understand him.  After all he was sent here to be our savior.  He and his staff are a strong believer of Saul Alinsky where the ends justify the means.  That is, lies, untruths, falsehoods are good as long as you reach your goal of total domination and control.  Destroying our constitution and country has been this president's objective from the beginning and has been groomed just for this.  When and only when the mainstream news media awakens and actually tells honest news, will we learn the truth.  But don't hold your breath.  

Friday, November 15, 2013

Businesses should not be in the business to make money.

In listening to the Democrats and the President on how insurance companies are the problem since they are out to make money, I have decided to open up a business to lose money since if I make money the Democrats will find that offensive.   I believe my business will survive about 1 day.  Maybe 2 days if I am lucky and get many customers.  Then I can file for bankruptcy and maybe live off the government for 96 weeks.

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Government Control


It is interesting how government is telling us what health insurance we should have, what cars we should drive, what food we should eat, what temperature we should keep our home thermostat at, what appliances we should buy, the water level in our washing machines, what size drinks we can purchase, what light bulbs we can use and coming to a neighborhood near you, UN Agenda 21 where you will be told where to live.  Unbeknown to many is how this Agenda 21 is slowly being implemented by governments throughout the country and eventually, people will wake up and wonder why they are being told where they can and cannot live.  Look it up and then see how you state and local governments are slowly strangulating your freedom. 

More on Obamacare


As I stated previously, this whole Obamacare was made to fail.  This is a catch 22.  President Obama claimed you could keep you healthcare if it did not change after the bill was signed in March 2010.  But what they did not tell you, the bill was made for insurance policies to be canceled since what the bill demanded was that all insurance policies had to add certain provisions and thereby they would be changed canceling your insurance and throwing these policyholders into the insurance exchanges where they cannot keep what they had and will have to pay more.  This increase in premiums was intentional so this bill would have the money to pay for everything included in Obamacare.  So, all those out there that have not listened to what is going on that trickles out every day on what was contained in this bill, that incidentally nobody read until it was passed and many still have not read. I say wake up.  But with the elections coming next year, it seems those that were strong advocates for Obamacare are now hoping it will be delayed to better their chance on getting reelected.  They are not coming out to repeal the bill or submit legislation that would substantially change the bill, but only want a delay and after the election everything will remain the same.  If the voters are that dumb, then they deserve the government they elect.  Naturally, the republicans will allow the bill to be delayed without any changes and assure the democrats will again gain control of Congress.  Dumb and dumber is how one describes the republicans party.

Bill Clinton and Obamacare


Former President Bill Clinton comes out and says that President Obama should live up to his commitment when he stated that if you like your healthcare you can keep your healthcare, Period.  This from a person that did not live up to the commitment he made with his wedding vows and then went on and lied to a Grand Jury on another issue. 

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Who was responsible?

To this day, our president and fellow democrats continually claim that the Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and the republicans are responsible for the government shutdown last month.  However, if anyone out there would actually just use their brain and think for themselves and not have others decide for them, they will realize this is another lie by this administration and their minions.   

Remember, Sen. Ted Cruz performed a filibuster, the Congressional rules say he can do, and has been used many times by both parties in the past, to take a stand and live up to the promise he made to those who elected him.  A rare occurrence these days by a politician.   

But, as a result of the "I will not negotiate" stance taken by the president, the government shut down, or should we say some parts of the government.  Did the republicans or Sen. Ted Cruz order the closure of all Federal parks, the war memorial in Washington DC, but allow a immigration demonstration attendant by many illegal immigrations and democratic congressional leaders, but were meant to block our past military heroes from entering.  This and other actions taken by this administration with the intent to adversely affect the public as much as possible that this president indicated he wanted to do the last time this threat of a shutdown was lingering.   

This president and his fellow socialist democrats will do anything to maintain their party in power and that includes anything that will affect the public where they can blame their opposition.  And naturally, the lamestream media falls for this and reports this to the pubic acting as an extension of the democratic publicity machine.   

When and until the citizens of this country use their brains and research what is happening, this administration will get away with their actions to the detriment of our country.  Hopefully, they will awaken before our country is lost.   

After all, this administration is doing their best to give out free stuff to the voters for their support.  But, nothing in this world is free and somebody must pay.  Either the taxpayer with higher taxes or businesses with higher taxes.  This gives the worker less money to purchase items and business must maintain a profit margin to stay in business and have money to pay their workers, but with higher expenses (taxes) they either must raise their prices or cut the work force.  We see this with the threat to raise the minimum wage. This will either force companies with low profit margins to either lay workers off or raise prices and raising prices in a competitive market may result in going out of business and not only does the employer lose, but workers lose their job. 

This administration wants you to believe that all companies, businesses, fast food restaurants are rolling in profit and they should share that with their workers and yet, that is not only the case since some of their profit is in the 1 to 3%.  We might add, that those big bad oil companies have a profit margin of around 5%, but again this administration wants you to believe it is in the 50% bracket.  Again, little research will give you the truth.   

This president ran for office under the idea that his administration was going to be the most transparent administration in history of this country.  Think about that and review all the scandals where we have been lied too continuously up to today.  Fast and Furious, Benghazi, IRS, NSA, Obamacare, reporter James Rosen and the AP scandal.  This administration has tried repeatedly place roadblocks to any investigation on these scandals and has tried to rebuff all Congressional House hearings.  Remember, our congressional members represent us, (at least they are suppose too) and when they are thwarted in their efforts to get at the truth, we are thwarted.  This administration is attacking us the citizen as they try to continue to get government to control us.  Who do you want to make decisions in your life, yourself or government.  If you say government, especially those in this government, then ask yourself, how much actual experience do they have in the real world, how many jobs outside of government have they really had or is their experience from their radical professors in the Ivy league schools?  You decide.  Do you like our constitution and the Bill of Rights where our Declaration of Independence claim they come from God, or do you believe government gives us our rights?  If you believe government, remember again, what government gives you, government can take away. 

Thursday, November 7, 2013

What goes around, comes around


The democrats wanted Obamacare, voted for it, supported it for three years and now it seems with all the outrage over the higher cost, increased in deductibles, the lies of the President that you can keep it PERIOD they are now having second thoughts.  Of course those second thoughts are not on Obamacare, but on the threat that this may affect their re-election chances in 2014.  So, now they want to push for some kind of delay to give them a better chance for re-election.  This only goes to show that they could care less about how citizens are suffering or are going to suffer under Obamacare.   

Now a FLASH, we just heard that Pres. Obama made a somewhat apology for what he said about Obamacare and those that are suffering when they realize what he said is different from what is actually taken place.  Of course, he has no intention of trying to change his namesake to allow people to keep the healthcare they want and not what government dictates you should have.  After all, who is better to decide what insurance coverage a person should have, the person who knows what he can afford or government that knows what they want to dictate what you should have.  After all, if insurance is not expensive how can Obamacare be supported.

Thomas Sowell Article, worth reading. An Old 'New' Program

An Old 'New' Program

Thomas Sowell

11/5/2013 12:01:00 AM - Thomas Sowell
Like so many things that seem new, ObamaCare is in many ways old wine in new bottles.
For example, when confronted with the fact that millions of Americans stand to lose their existing medical insurance, as a result of ObamaCare, defenders of ObamaCare say that this is true only when those people have "substandard" insurance.
Who decides what is "substandard"? What is older than the idea that some exalted elite know what is good for us better than we know ourselves? Obama uses the rhetoric of going "forward," but he is in fact going backward to an age when despots told everybody what they had better do and better not do.
ObamaCare is old in yet another way. One of the fundamental reasons why private medical insurance has gotten so expensive is that politicians in state after state have mandated what this insurance must cover, regardless of what individuals want.
Insurance covering everything from baldness treatments to sex-change operations is a lot more expensive than insurance covering only major illnesses that can drain your life's savings. Now these mandates have moved up from the state to the federal level.
Insurance is an institution for dealing with risks. It is a costly and counterproductive way to pay for things that are not risks -- such as annual checkups, which are known in advance to occur every year.
Your annual checkup does not cost any less because it is covered by insurance. In fact it costs more, because the person who is insured must pay premiums that cover not only the cost of the checkup itself, but also the costs of insurance company paperwork.
If automobile insurance covered the cost of paying for your oil changes, would that make oil changes cheaper or more expensive? Obviously more expensive, since additional people would have to be paid to become involved in handling the transaction, instead of your simply paying directly out of your own pocket to the people who changed your oil.
Different people have different risks and different willingness to take care of risks themselves, instead of paying to have them transferred to an insurance company. But politicians in state after state have mandated what must be covered by insurance, regardless of what policy-holders and insurance companies might agree on if left free to make their own choices.
That has made it impossible to get less expensive insurance that covers only costly but rare medical problems.
Politicians love to play Santa Claus by handing out favors to voters, while depicting insurance companies as Scrooge when they raise insurance premiums to cover the costs of government mandates.
This kind of political game has been played for generations in other areas besides insurance.
Municipal transit used to be privately owned and run, but politicians would not allow the fares to be raised to a level that would cover costs. The net result was that private companies were driven out of business and local governments took over, saddling the taxpayers with the costs that fares don't cover.
That is what "single payer" means in any context -- a government monopoly that virtually guarantees worse service. Why would anyone want that for something as crucial as medical care?
One reason, of course, is the ever seductive illusion of something for nothing, an illusion spread by glib politicians, posing as saviors of the public against villains in the private sector.
Yet another way in which ObamaCare is an old political story is that it began as supposedly a way to deal with the problem of a segment of the population -- those without health insurance.
But, instead of directly helping those particular people to get insurance, the "solution" was to expand the government's power over everybody, including people who already had health insurance that they wanted to keep.
Since there has never been a society of human beings without at least some segment with some problem, this is a formula for a never-ending expansion of government power. Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are all on record as believing in a "single payer" system -- that is, a government monopoly able to impose its own will on everybody. Even the current and future problems of ObamaCare can help them to reach that goal.

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Catch 22?


If you like your insurance company, you can keep it PERIOD.  Words spoken by President Obama for over 4 years.  Now, after the 4 years of lies, he is now singing a different tune.  Now it is what I have been saying is that if you like you insurance you can keep it if it was in effect as of March 2010 and no changes were made.  What this president and his minions are not telling you is that under Obamacare, your policy must include certain other additions even if you do not want the additions or would ever use the additions.  So, in order to meet these new requirements, your policy will change and if it changes, you will lose that policy since these changes would have occurred after March 2010.  It is like a catch 22.  You get screwed, you lose your policy and get a more expensive policy you do not want with higher premiums and deductibles.  This is needed in order to get sufficient funding to meet Obamacare expenses that will be needed to meet their expected demand for services and if there is insufficient funds, then services must be cut in all probability to those most in need of the services.  Using a phrase by Congressman Alan Grayson from 2010, "die".  It seems congressman Grayson had it right, but it was not the republicans, but Obama and his cronies that want to put you out to pasture.  Just what President Obama stated when the bill was being debated.  "You may have to just go home and die if the cost of keeping you alive is expensive". It seems people forget this or it just flew over the publics head.  Or using the phrase that Rush uses, low information voters, but I like to call the "clueless".  Keep these people supplied with their I-phones, I-pads and other electronic devices and they will remain clueless.  Someday when they awaken, there response will be, "What Happen".  If I am not mistaken the people in Germany said the same thing over 75 years ago. 

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Rules on lying


1.            President Obama does not tell lies

 
2.            If President Obama lies, refer to # 1

Friday, November 1, 2013

LIAR IN CHIEF

It has been well documented over the past 4 years that this president has lied repeatedly on Obamacare and that he knows better what insurance coverage you need whether you think so or not.  After all government knows better.  You will still be purchasing maternity care when you do not need it and the plan that you had for many years and enjoyed, they believe they know better what you need and your plan is just junk.   

This president has lied even in the two books he wrote.  This has been well documented and even he admitted he made things up.  The president lied on his association with 1960's radical terrorist Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dorn and these two were responsible for beginning his run for political office.  Remember, he went to a church for 20 years and never paid attention or never heard the outrageous sermons by Rev. Wright. 

It seems he has denied knowledge of all the scandals in his administration and only heard about them when the public heard about that.  He was touted as the smartest person in the room and lately the smartest person in the world.  And yet if you review his administrations over the past 5 years, you would have to admit, this may be the dumbest president we have ever had.  Dumb like a fox.  He will not accept responsibility for any of the problems in his administration, but is quick to be out in front when and if something good happens and as long as the news media suck up to him, our country is lost and we will continue to head down the road of the garbage heap as we turn into a socialist country where your freedoms will only come with government approval.  Just examine what has happened to other socialist/Marxist countries.  Do your own research and become knowledgeable and not rely on what I say or the news media.  Your freedom is at stake. 

Thursday, October 31, 2013

IMPEACHMENT? DON'T BET ON IT

We had President Nixon forced to resign for lying on Watergate scandal or face an impeachment hearing.  We have President Obama that has lied and intentionally misled on Fast and Furious, Benghazi, DOJ, IRS, NSA scandals and now what he said for over 4 years on Obamacare that if you like you insurance you can keep it, keep your doctor and will see your premium decline by $2500.  Now he is trying to extract himself from what he said that everyone has seen on video recordings numerous times that we cannot even keep track of all the lies.   

According to the constitution you can be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors and one has to wonder would continually lying to the American people for 4 years fall under the category.  However, even if it did, the House must bring impeachment charges against the president and the Senate would hold the hearing under the direction of the Supreme Court Chief Justice.  In this case it would be Chief Justice John Roberts. But we also know that the Speaker of the House, John Boehner has no backbone and would not go down that path.  During this president's tenure, Congressman John Boehner has become a wussy and has allowed this president to get his way.   Most republicans are only interested in getting elected and remaining in power.  That is also the reason some of the establishment republicans are moving to collect campaign funds to fight against Tea Party candidates within their own party.  How dare these republicans actually represent those who elected them rather than the party.  If you are a democrat all you have to do and sit back and watch.   

If you are a republican, your motto should be, " No backbone, No money" when the republican party sends you mail requesting a contribution.  The people must be represented over the party.  And that goes for both republicans and democrats.  Both parties represent their party and not their constituents.  Party first, friends and family second followed by lobbyist and somewhere around number 10 you may find the constituents.   

Of the 535 members in Congress there are only approximately 15 that are worth anything.  That is why we need a constitutional amendment for term limits.  We know congress would not pass such an amendment but it could pass with 38 states.  Since all amendments must pass through the state legislature for approval, whether congress passes one or not does not matter since the final decision rest with the states and congress is not needed.  All we need is enough governors to call for a constitutional convention to pass such an amendment and only this amendment.  In fact, passing a second amendment rescinding the 17th amendment would be beneficial also.  The Founding Fathers knew. 

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Today, more NSA spying disclosed.


This government is getting out of hand with their NSA spying scandal.  Nothing is safe and when government is spying on their citizens, we have anarchy and now you know what it was like to live in the former Soviet Union and their satellite countries.  First it was just those making phone calls from the U.S. to Middle Eastern countries, then it ballooned to only 330 million Americans, now it is anything and everyone in the world.  Today we learned the NSA spied on Google and Yahoo worldwide.  Under the Obama administration, no one is safe from the prying eyes of government.  And we thought Orwell's 1984 was just a book.  Unless the American people speak out and demonstrate outrage and demand the NSA close down their Utah spy center, you will never get government changed.  Believe it when I tell you that the NSA is being used by the Obama administration to spy on their political opponents and unless the American people wake up, you will witness your government being taken over by subversives with their objective to destroy this country that has been the goal of Obama for over 25 years.  Unless of course, you like to be subservient to government that will tell you how to live, what to eat, what to drive, where to live, what job to have and all you have to do is roll over and allow it to happen.  The choice is yours.  Be independent or dependent on government for everything.  But remember, what government giveth government can taketh.

Obamacare, the lies and the politics and screw the public

Now that we are seeing the boondoggle commonly known as Obamacare (AKA The Affordable Care Act) we are beginning to hear rumbles from some Democrats that maybe the roll out of Obamacare should be delayed a year.  I had to listen to this twice to make sure I was hearing correctly until I realized why they wanted this.  It seems, aside from all members of the House up for re-election next year, there are approximately 12 Democratic Senators, all who voted for Obamacare, that face an election in 2014.  

Some Republicans tried to move towards defunding Obamacare recently and then the Republicans moved towards delaying implementation of Obamacare for a year.  However, since the House at least 42 times passed legislation to repeal Obamacare that was never taken up by the Senate and placed in the cylinder file by Harry Reid, I believe if you bought it, you keep it.  That is, this is there baby, they wanted it, they did it behind closed doors and forced it down our throats without any support from Republicans and now they see a possible election problem in 2014.   

This is not about what is good for the American people and not about complying with our constitution but all about getting elected, remaining in power and keeping their party in power.  

 I strongly recommend to the Republicans that they do not acquiesce to the call for a delay of implementation.  The Republicans gave the Democrats many opportunities to fix, delay or defund this Obamacare monstrosity and all their efforts were rejected.  So again, they wanted it, we had to pass it to see what was in it, so they can keep it and the Republicans should reject any attempts to delay implementation of Obamacare at this time.   

I also might add, that most Republicans suck also, but they are a few years behind the Democrats in this.  We should be voting for only those candidates that put our constitution first in any decisions they make and allow sufficient time for the citizens to view potential legislation for at least one month and not 4 days if they allow that at all.   Who can read a 2700 page bill in 4 days and actually understand it.  And, why do bills have to be 2700 pages.  After all, our constitution is only takes up 4 pages.  But then again, that was written not to confuse the people or benefit a particular person or group. 

Friday, October 25, 2013

Obamacare and the web site debacle


Whether the web site was actually designed to fail is a question to ask, but the answer is unknown.  However, you can be certain that Obamacare was designed to fail so we could go to a single payer insurance plan. 

As President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and other minions all claimed, children would be covered under their parents plan until age 26, there would be no premium increases and those who were not being eligible for insurance due to pre-existing condition would get insurance.   We were all promised by our president we would see our insurance premiums reduced $2500, we could keep our doctor and keep our insurance. 

However, the truth is, these promises were designed to make Obamacare fail and blame, the insurance industry for dropping customers, raising premiums, doctors not taking insurance and employers reducing work hours to avoid paying for insurance.  Remember, in a previous blog, I stated that President Obama considers himself a victim and when Obamacare fails as it was set up to fail, this president will claim we became victims of predatory insurance companies and businesses that are not going to provide insurance and doctors who will only take cash for treatment.  Then he will push for a single payer plan, operated by government, eliminating private insurance companies and making everyone to have insurance either through their employer by purchasing insurance from the government, the lone provider or directly from the government.  Be prepared for this.  That is why, the Democrats want to retain control of the Senate and take control of the House so they can passed such legislation and we will be witness to the decline of the best health insurance in the world.  After all, if the original idea was to provide insurance for the so called 30 million uninsured, why did we have to destroy the insurance of the other 300 million citizens.  The answer, single payer and more government control of our lives where the government will make the life and death decisions on medical treatment and not you or your family.  How else are we going to reduce cost on expensive medical treatment.   

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Death Panels Alive And Well In Canada And Coming Here


Health Care: Canada's Supreme Court has ruled that under the "law of the land" in Ontario, a government board, not the family or doctors, has the ultimate power to pull the plug on a patient.

Lost in the discussion of defunding ObamaCare and the failed effort in Congress is the fact that failure means the government's ability to defund your life through the ObamaCare's Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) remains. IPAB is regarded by many, starting with former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, as a death panel whose decisions based on cost effectiveness would result in health care rationing.

A glimpse of this brave new world can be had by casting a glance at our neighbor to the north. There, Canada's Supreme Court ruled 5-2 that under Ontario's Health Care Consent Act, which has been on the books for nearly two decades, doctors cannot overrule a family's wishes for an incapacitated patient regarding life or death decisions, but an administrative tribunal can.

In 1996, Ontario's provincial legislature created the Consent and Capacity Board, a body with the power to make the final decision when doctors and families disagree on keeping a patient alive with continued treatment or pulling the plug, a conflict that can result in endless legal battles.

At issue in the Ontario case was the fate of Hassan Rasouli, a retired engineer who suffered complications following brain surgery three years ago and has been in a vegetative state in a Toronto hospital ever since. Doctors say there is no hope of recovery but the family doesn't want to turn off life support.

The court ruled that the doctors could not overrule the family's wishes, but are able to appeal to the Consent and Capacity Board, which could. Canada has a full-blown single-payer system, which President Obama is undoubtedly aiming for. So the question of when it is cost-effective to treat or keep patients alive becomes more of a matter of space and budget rather than a medical issue.

The question of whether one's life is worth saving or one's condition is worth treating remains a key part of ObamaCare, even while being eclipsed by political maneuverings and enrollment difficulties. And having that decision made by a body such as IPAB has led to legislative efforts to pull the plug on ObamaCare itself.

A House bill to repeal IPAB attracted 22 Democratic co-sponsors. Arkansas Democrat Sen. Mark Pryor co-sponsored a Senate repeal bill after spending the previous three years defending IPAB. The Senate and House measures had, at last count, 32 and 192 co-sponsors, respectively.

Under ObamaCare, IPAB's board of 15 presidentially appointed "experts" will be empowered to make arbitrary Medicare spending-cut decisions with virtually no congressional oversight or control.

Its decisions will not be made on an individual level, but it will decide what treatments and therapies are cost-effective and therefore covered, affecting and possibly costing the lives of those in need of them.

We have documented for years how socialized medicine around the world, particularly Britain's National Health Service, makes centralized decisions based on cost-effectiveness rather than medical need, and how this has led to rationing and denial of service. People literally die while on waiting lists. ObamaCare tries to apply that same approach to Medicare through IPAB.

In a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that Palin could have written, Howard Dean, former head of the Democratic National Committee, called IPAB "essentially a health care rationing body." The former physician said it "will be able to stop certain treatments its members do not favor by simply setting rates to levels where no doctor or hospital will perform them."

The frightening specter of government appointees deciding who lives and who dies by controlling the availability or withholding of treatment based on cost-effectiveness is a grim reality in Britain and Canada. Unchecked, it will happen here.


EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse)

This is in the news again this week and should frighten everyone living in this country.  If you do not know what Electro Magnetic Pulse is, just look it up on the internet.  EMP's will destroy all electronic components.  That means anything that uses any form of electronics, cars, motors, computers, manufacturing equipment, farming equipment and anything else you can think of, will not work.  Just think about that.  How will you survive without air conditioning, refrigeration, motor transportation, food, water purification, heat and any equipment that has any type of electronic ignition or just any form of electronics.  Unless prepared with a food source (MRE's), non-perishable food items that can last a few months, you will starve to death.  Just give this some thought on how you would survive.  Most of us do not hunt for our food and rely upon supermarkets.  However, an EMP will prevent food from being delivered, manufactured, refrigerated and farmers and ranchers will have to resort to doing everything by hand and if smart will take care of themselves first.  Can you hunt, gut your kill and find a refrigerated storage to store you food supply when there will be no electricity to operate such refrigerated storage.   

Our government should have prevented measures in place but have not.  Remember, a EMP will cause planes to fall from the sky, boats and ships to not operate and our military and their equipment to not operate.   

Just something else to think about.  A country that launches an EMP attack against us can destroy us without firing a shot.  You could expect at least 200 million people to die one way or other.  There is a book written two years ago that uses this in their story line and it is worth reading.  The story is based on a study conducted for the DOD that they did not use as the Obama administration ignored the information.  The book is One Second After by William R. Forstchen.

What you may not understand or realize

The Fed Reserve is continuing to print $85 Billion a month that is $1.2 Trillion a year.  This is why the stock market continues to rise and lending rates are not rising.  What you are not being told however, is the more money we print, the less value your money is worth.  The Fed calls printing money as Quantitative  Easing.  Fancy words that really mean as we print money to pay our debt, you get screwed as your money is worth less.  

For those that have been living on another planet, the Fed Reserve is not a government agency, but a private corporation pushed into existence by President Wilson and developed from a meeting on Jekyll Island by a bunch of banks and to this day, we have no idea who the Fed really is.  The banks involved have not been disclosed and this is something that former Congressman Ron Paul pushed for but other members of Congress turned a deaf ear to.  What do you think?  Will your congressional representative hear your voice on this?  Eventually, we will have hyperinflation and collapse.  Anyone that tells you otherwise is either a fool or lying to you.  You cannot print or tax yourself into prosperity.  Our debt will kill us and we cannot continue to kick the can down the road.  Our president and Congress are only interested in power and getting elected over saving our country from collapse.  Ever wonder why China that owes more of our debt than any other country is buying gold like it is going out of style?  Think about it, do research and decide what you will do. 

Monday, October 21, 2013

It is not about Obamacare, but government control


If you listen to the news media on all sides you would think the faults with the web site for Obamacare, is a joke and a $630 Million waste of taxpayers money.  Now, many web designers have stated that this type of site could have been developed for a few million dollars.  So, if that is the case, how much of the $630 Million was kick backed to the democratic party and their supporters for the 2102 election.   

However, the truth is this is all about government control of the citizens and not just healthcare.  It is well known throughout recent history that the way for government to control its' citizen is to start with healthcare.  The fact that at this time there is a major problem with the web site and signing up for healthcare is no big deal since eventually this government will get what they want.  With the progressives republicans going along with this program and voicing objections against members in their own party that have tried to force changes in Obamacare, have it suspended or defunded, the democrats will jump at the opportunity to widen the split to their political advantage.  Of course, with the dumb republican leadership it will not be difficult. 

Before he ran for office, President Obama was critical of our constitution and that is why he campaigned on fundamentally transforming the United States.  Nobody questioned him on this and still don't.  The only thing wrong with this country is our elected officials not adhering to the constitution.  We have the best form of government this world has ever seen, but our politicians have been doing their best over the last 100 years to bypass the constitution and do whatever they want.  Government getting their power from government instead of the people.   

Over the years we have seen government moving to control education, energy and how we use it, what type of car we try, what medical coverage we need, what food we should eat, what our thermostat should be set at and moving towards enforcing UN Agenda 21 that will tell us where we should live. A good accurate research of Agenda 21 will awaken you to what else is on the horizon.    

What we are witnessing is our constitutional republic becoming a government dominated socialist/Marxist form of government where our rights will come from government and not our constitution.  If you doubt that and say this will never happen, you are either not paying attention, are in denial or believe government is the answer to the world problems.  Remember though, government control of its citizen has never succeeded in history, but our Ivy league educated people (mostly from Harvard/Yale) believe they are better educated and know better how we should live and what government can do for us.  Their knowledge is from books and radical anti-American professors who views are generally contrary to what is good for America.   Especially, when you realize many of these people are limited in their actual work experience and went from college to government living off the public dole.   

But fear not, in a few years you will be driving an automobile with a sail on the roof, a windmill on the trunk and all charging a battery.  You may laugh, but just think of all the money this administration has sank into green energy companies own by their big political donors that have failed.  Government is not the answer, but the problem.  This requires some thought, but that is the only conclusion one can draw from what is happening. 

Thursday, October 17, 2013

And one more thing

Have you noticed that since this administration's first scandal known as Fast and Furious through the present Obamacare debacle to the closing of mall to veterans that nobody, and I mean nobody has ever been fired or even hinted as being fired.  Incompetence permeates this administration and I guess when you are incompetent yourself you do not see it.  So much for a career community organizer assuming the biggest office in the world.  Clueless is the appropriate word to use.

We should be silent no more

Our president through Health and Human Services is trying to destroy Christianity and Judaism, especially the Catholic Church by forcing these religious organizations to violate their doctrines and moral code by providing insurance coverage for abortion and other procedures that are in direct violation of their teachings.  Now as of January 1, unless the Catholic Church gets a reprieved from court pending their case being heard that will eventually go to the Supreme Court, HHS will force these religious organizatons to provide insurance coverage that they are fighting against.  Now the Catholic Bishops have stated they will not violate their teachings and have even hinted if push comes to shove may close down their more than 600 non-profit hospitals around the country rather than submit to government demands that violates the constitution.  Will our president then become doctor in chief? 

Of course we must remember what Jesus said to Peter to paraphrase, "Thou are Peter the rock and upon this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it".  We now see that evil is located in the White House as this administration is doing their best to destroy Christianity and religion in general, except of course Islam.  I wonder why?   Obama and his cronies want government to be your religion and we saw how successful that was in the former Soviet Union. 

Our Declaration of Independence tells us that our rights come from God and President Obama believes that should not be and our rights should really come from government and we know what government gives government can take away.  In this case, mostly taken away.  With the collapse of the republican backbone, we are now have a dictator in chief .

The Mitch McConnell Bribe


Sen. Mitch McConnell sold out the American people and the Republican party for a $2 Billion bribe.  The president and Dems got what they wanted and the American people get a deficit increase with no end in sight.  And oh by the way, he is up for election next year.

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Interesting Evaluation of President Obama

On Fox News on Wednesday, one of their contributing psychiatrist, Dr. Keith Ablow engaged in a discussion on President Obama and why he is what he is.  Dr. Ablow explained that President Obama looks at himself and others in society and throughout the world as victims.  He believes President Obama thinks this way because he was abandoned by his father and to extrapolate this thought on my part, when his mother remarried, his stepfather abandoned him and then his mother abandoned him when she gave him to her parents.  Then his grandparents gave him to Frank Marshal Davis as a mentor and communist.  So, his family left him.  If you look at President Obama in this way, you can understand why he acts the way he does.   

Remember, immediately after assuming his office, President Obama did his world apology tour, apologizing for the U.S. making them victims.  Using President Obama's logic, the U.S. has exploited the world.  This is another reason he and his administration will not used the phrase "Islamic Terrorist" but rather use "Man caused Disasters" or Overseas Continuancy Operations.  He considers Muslims as victims of the West and these radical Muslim Terrorist are just striking back for being victims.   

The Fort Hood shooting was a terrorist attack by a radical Islamic terrorist, Major Hassan, but in this president's eyes it was a Muslim striking back at what he perceived as U.S. aggression.  So instead of calling it terrorist, he calls it workplace violence.  The same can be said for other terrorist acts that his administration will not identify as such.  This is why we have done nothing on Benghazi since it was just Muslims punishing the U.S. for making them victims.  This why our president spoke out on the Cambridge police incident and Treyvon Martin debacle as well as other incidents.  Also, why we are not enforcing the border and giving illegal immigrants more rights just short of voting rights.  And why, well he believes the Mexicans are victims of the United States since we stole Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California among other states that at one time were under the control of Mexico.  So it is only right that the illegal Mexicans come here since we created them as victims.  

To go even further, the rich, as least those who are rich and not supporters of Obama, are victimizing the poor and middle class by not sharing their wealth and businesses that give low wages are just doing the same thing.  Now, this is all about socialism and Marxism being implemented without firing a shot.  So, if anybody out there can actually tell us where Socialism, Marxism, Communism, Fascism have been a successful form of government, please let us all know, since these form of governments have been failures throughout history.   

 So, when you give deep thought to what Dr. Ablow stated, it actually makes since.    

Monday, October 14, 2013

Know who he is, do research for yourself.


Understanding the president's past and you can see why he acts the way he does.  Earlier this century, around 2006, this president commented on our constitution and professed his dislike for our bill of rights where he stated they are negative liberties.  That is, they are not government sanctioned liberties that government can take away.  This is the precursor for this man's ideology.   

Our president was raised in Indonesia as a Muslim and both his parents were avowed Marxist.  His grandparents living in the state of Washington were card carrying members of the communist party.  His mentor, introduced to him by his grandparents, Frank Marshal Davis, was also communist and produced a communist newspaper for 10 years from Chicago.  In his boot Audacity of Hope, our president discussed his desire to associate with radicals and socialist, Marxist and radical professors.  His advisors, both Valerie Jarrett and David Axlerod have involved in communist ideology and Ms. Jarrett's father was an admirer of and friend of Frank Marshal Davis.  As we know, this president was also friends with and associated with two domestic terrorist from the 1960's, Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dorn both of whom were instrumental in getting his campaign going to run for political office.  Then there is his radical pastor where he spent 20 years listening to his radical rhetoric but when questioned about this, our president was clueless on his pastor's speeches.   

Know the man and you understand his ideology that is not in keeping with the values of our country nor his desire to make sure our constitution is at the forefront of any political or domestic discussion.  He is as he stated when running for the presidency in 2008 to fundamentally transformed our country.  The question that was not asked is "Transform us to what"?  I think we not know the answer.  Just like his father, he has a dislike for this country and our history, believes all the world problems are caused by the United States and he is going to do his best to destroy us internally.  That is why he has refused to negotiate with republicans on issues since he believes he is a dictator and how dare anyone disagree with him.  If the democrats were somehow to gain control of both houses of Congress again, our president will have 2 more years of complete control to implement his destructive policies.  This president wants to destroy this country financially through increasing our debt by spending, giving handouts and destroying state sovereignty and dig our country into a giant hole that we may never recover from and thus accomplishing the dream of his father and his communist associates.

This also why he has used the NSA, IRS and DOJ to spy on our citizens in keeping with communist ideology that we saw in the former Soviet Union and Eastern bloc countries and has ignored in responding to these scandals as well as Fast and Furious, Benghazi to name a few more.   Know what you have sitting in the White House and use that information in 2014 which may be our last free election, maybe.

Saturday, October 12, 2013

A must read from David Horowitz and why we must awaken or else


- FrontPage Magazine - http://frontpagemag.com -

The Threat We Face
Posted By David Horowitz On October 10, 2013 @ 12:52 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | 238 Comments
Below is a speech given by David Horowitz at the Kohler conference of the Bradley Foundation. It has been revised and edited for publication as an article.
I was born at the beginning of the Second World War into a family of high school teachers who were members of the Communist Party, and therefore were actually part of a vast conspiracy dedicated to the destruction of this country, although they would never have looked at it that way, and so-called liberals would be the first to deny it.
In those days, the schools were old fashioned enough that my parents did not use their classrooms to indoctrinate students as tens of thousands of university professors and even more K-12 teachers regularly do today. It is also an unhappy but hugely important fact that the conspiracy to which my parents belonged has steadily migrated into the heart of the Democratic Party until it now occupies the Oval Office in the person of our president, Barack Obama, and his closest advisors.
The president, his chief operative Valerie Jarrett and his chief political strategist David Axelrod all came out of the same Communist left and the same radical new left as I did, and all have remained heart and soul a part of it. As someone who turned his back on that destructive movement, I can say with confidence that they have not. If a person belongs to an organization or is the supporter of an idea that they come to see as destructive or evil, the first thing they will want to do when they leave is to warn others against it, to warn them of the dangers it represents. If a person does not do this – that tells me that he or she hasn’t left the destructive movement or abandoned the pernicious idea but has just put another face on them. Instead of calling themselves communists or socialists they call themselves liberals and progressives. This camouflage is very old. I never once heard my parents and their party friends refer to themselves as Communists. They were progressives – and registered Democrats.
This is why – to take one disturbing example, I know that Hillary Clinton’s right hand, Huma Abedin, the former deputy secretary of state, and chief foreign policy adviser on Muslim Affairs is a Muslim Brotherhood operative. Huma Abedin’s late father was a Muslim Brotherhood leader, and her mother and brother still are. For 12 years until the moment she was hired by Hillary, Huma Abedin worked for Abdullah Omar Naseef, one of the top three funders of Osama Bin Laden who is still wanted by our government for his role in the 9/11 attacks.
Huma Abedin has never to my knowledge uttered a word of disapproval about the Muslim Brotherhood’s desire to rid the world of Christians and Jews or to bring all infidels under the heel of totalitarian Islamic law. Her spiritual adviser Yusef al-Qaradawi is the spiritual leader of the Brotherhood. Qaradawi has publicly said that the Holocaust of the Jews was God’s punishment for their corruption, and that it would come again, and when it did, “Allah willing it will be at the hands of the believers.” Huma Abedin has not broken her relations with this evil man or dissociated herself from his genocidal remarks. Nor has she opposed the policies enacted by Obama and Hillary, which have supported the Muslim Brotherhood at home and in the Middle East.
On the contrary. when the Obama administration supported the Brotherhood’s rise to power in Egypt, Huma Abedin was our government’s key adviser on Muslim affairs. She was at Hillary’s side when security was not provided to our diplomatic complex in Benghazi and when al-Qaeda fanatics murdered our Ambassador. The murder of Ambassador Stevens led to the most shameful presidential act in our history when the President turned his back on the cries for help of three American heroes who served him and who were in a desperate fight for their lives. It is a time honored American code never to abandon our warriors on the field of battle. But America’s commander-in-chief turned his back on these brave fighting men and left them to die; and then lied to the American people to cover up his crime.
Ever since Barack Obama was elected and began his radical course, American conservatives have been in a state of shock, as though they couldn’t quite believe what was happening. Until then there had been a general collusion in the practiced deceptions of the left as commentators on all sides would refer to unrepentant radicals, and dedicated socialists as “liberals,” and turn half blind eyes to their anti-American agendas. What is “liberal” about the mean-spirited intolerant people of the left, except their attitude to hard drugs, sex, and criminal behavior? Oh yes, and spending other people’s money?
Today the Obama juggernaut is systematically bankrupting our country, and undoing our constitutional arrangements. Its contempt for consultative and representative government is relentlessly on display. This week Senate Majority leader Harry Reid defended his refusal to negotiate with Republicans over Obamacare and the debt in these words: “We are here to support the federal government. That’s our job.” End quote. Forget about representing the people whom our Founders made sovereign. Forget what America is about.
The fact that I had a radical past allowed me to see much of this coming. But even I never thought we would be looking so soon at the prospect of a one-party state. Those words may sound hyperbolic, but take a moment to think about it. If you have transformed the taxing agency of the state into a political weapon – and Obama has; if you are setting up a massive government program to gather the financial and health information of every citizen, and control their access to care; and if you have a spy agency that can read the mail and listen to the communications of every individual in the country, you don’t really need a secret police to destroy your political opponents. Once you have silenced them, you can proceed with your plans to remake the world in your image.
The good news is that the bad five years we have just been through have aroused a sleeping giant among Americans who didn’t see it coming and couldn’t imagine that it would. For the first time since the Cold War, people with a public voice are calling socialists by their right name; conservatives are finally organizing at the grassroots to defend their freedom; and at last we have leaders who are willing to stand up to the thuggery of the left and who have the spine not to back down.
As a sometime Jonah freed from the whale let me offer some intelligence about the political forces arrayed against us. Do not make the mistake of thinking that progressives and conservatives are people who merely differ about practical agendas. There are four defining features of the left, which distinguish it as a movement of individuals who approach politics quite differently from pragmatically-minded conservatives.
The first of these features is their alienation from country: If you ask progressives about their patriotic feeling, they will tell you that they don’t think of themselves first as Americans but as “citizens of the world.” That even has a Harvard imprimatur. They are, in fact, so profoundly alienated from their country as to be in some sense foreigners to it. They are hostile to its history and to its core values, which they see as reflections of a society that has been guilty of racism and oppression on an epic scale. And they are fundamentally opposed to its constitutional arrangements which the framers specifically designed to thwart what they deemed “wicked projects” to redistribute income and share individual wealth.
This is perhaps the hardest feature of their progressive adversaries for conservatives to comprehend. It is difficult to imagine that people as privileged by America’s generosity as Barack Obama and his entourage of despoilers should be so alienated from their country as to feel themselves in it but not of it. And there is no more shocking example of this than Benghazi. No matter what your politics, or what solutions you propose to the problems that confront this nation, ask yourself this: Could you have done what Barack Obama did that night? Could you as commander-in-chief abandon three Americans fighting for their lives under your command? These men had served their country for more than a decade. For seven hours they cried out for help from their government, but you refused to give it.
How, as a fellow American, could Obama have just left these men to die? No one with an ounce of patriotic feeling could. But he did. Even Alexei Kosygin, the Soviet premier of a Communist dictatorship, maintained contact with his astronaut as he burned up in space. But not our president. When the attack on our embassy in Benghazi began, he hung up the phone and went to bed, and then on to a fundraiser with Beyonce and Jay-Z in Las Vegas in the morning. This, with four Americans including our ambassador dead.
As a nation we are now confronted by mortal enemies in Iran and Syria, in Hizbollah and Hamas – enemies who have openly declared that we are the devil’s party and should be erased from the face of the earth. How could an American president deliberately set out to appease such enemies? How in the face of such threats could he reduce our country to an international laughing stock, no longer respected by our friends, no longer feared by our foes? How could he be so cavalier about having failed so miserably to have defended his country’s security and uphold its honor? How could an American commander-in-chief then put himself in a position to be snubbed by the Iranian Hitlerites, which is what they are, and which is what Obama did? How could he snub our Israeli allies and at the same time grovel before our Islamic enemies? But he did. How could he create a vacuum in the Middle East allowing Russia to become the new regional power? How could he make himself an ally of the Muslim Brotherhood, which slaughters Christians, and promises the extermination of the Jews and spawns terrorist armies like al-Qaeda and Hamas?
The answer to all these questions is that Obama doesn’t identify with our country. He sees himself as a “citizen of the world,” and a redresser of grievances for the suffering he imagines America has inflicted on our adversaries, including Hitlerite Iran.
The second feature of the progressive left that is key to understanding it is its instinctive, practiced, and indispensable dishonesty. As I previously noted, the Communists in the circles I frequented in my youth never identified themselves as Communists but always as “progressives” and “Jeffersonian democrats” (which is the last thing they were). When I was a young man and Stalin was alive, the goal of the Communist Party U.S.A. was a “dictatorship of the proletariat,” and a “Soviet America.” But under Stalin’s inspiration the official slogan of the Communist Party was “Peace, Jobs, and Democracy.”
The lesson? People on the left may be delusional but they are not stupid. They know what they can say and get away with, and what they can’t. Barack Obama is a born and bred member of the left and not coincidentally is the most brazen and compulsive liar ever to occupy the American White House. What other politician could have successfully explained away the fact that two of his closest political confidantes over a twenty-year period were an anti-American racist, Jeremiah Wright and an anti-American terrorist William Ayers?
There is a marked difference between the radicals of the Sixties and the radical movement Obama is part of. In the Sixties, as radicals we said what we thought and blurted out what we wanted. We wanted a revolution, and we wanted it now. It was actually very decent of us to warn others as to what we intended. But because we blurted out our goal, we didn’t get very far. Americans were onto us. Those who remained on the left when the Sixties were over, learned from their experience. They learned to lie. The strategy of the lie is progressives’ new gospel. It is what the progressive bible — Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals — is all about. Alinsky is the acknowledged political mentor to Obama and Hillary, to the service and teacher unions, and to the progressive rank and file. Alinsky understood the mistake Sixties’ radicals had made. His message to this generation is easily summed up: Don’t telegraph your goals; infiltrate their institutions and subvert them; moral principles are disposable fictions; the end justifies the means; and never forget that your political goal is always power.
An SDS radical wrote in the Sixties: “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.” The Alinsky version is this: The issue is never the issue; the issue is always power: How to wring power out of the democratic process, how turn the process into an instrument of progressive control. How to use it to fundamentally transform the United States of America — which is exactly what Barack Obama warned he would do on the eve of his election.
The chosen legislative instrument to begin this transformation was Obamacare. It was presented as an act of charity, a plan to cover the uninsured. That was the “issue” as they presented it. But the actual goal of Obamacare’s socialist sponsors was a “single payer system” – government healthcare — which would put the state in control of the lives of every American, man, woman and child. That is the reason that none of the promises made about Obamacare was true, beginning with his campaign lie that Obamacare government health care was not a program he would support. Obamacare will not cover 30 million uninsured Americans, as Obama and the Democrats said it would; Obamacare will not lower costs, as they promised it would; Obamacare will deprive many Americans of their doctors and healthcare plans, as they assured everyone it would not; Obamacare is a new tax, as they swore it wouldn’t be. All these promises Obama and the Democrats made were false because they were only a camouflage for their real goal actual goal, which was universal control.
A third feature of progressives that defines their politics is that they regard the past, which is real, with contempt, and are focused exclusively on a future, which is imaginary.
To understand why this is important, think of progressives as a species of religious fundamentalists planning a redemption. Like fundamentalists they look at the world as fallen – a place corrupted by racism, sexism and class division. But the truly religious understand that we are the source of corruption and that redemption is only possible through the work of a Divinity. In contrast, progressives see themselves as the redeemers, which is why they are so dangerous. Because they regard those who oppose them as the eternally damned. Progressives are on a mission to create the kingdom of heaven on earth by redistributing income and using the state to enforce politically correct attitudes and practices in everyone’s life. They want to control what you do, and who you are, and even what you eat. For your own good, of course.
The fact that they see themselves as saving the world – or “saving the planet” as they would prefer — results in a fourth key characteristic of their politics, which is that they regard politics as a religious war. This explains why they are so rude and nasty when you disagree with them or resist their panaceas (and of course if they had the power, the punishments would be more severe); that is why the politics of personal destruction is their favorite variety, why they are verbal assassins and go directly for the jugular, and why they think nothing of destroying the reputations of their opponents and burying them permanently. And that is why they can perform their character assassinations without regrets – or did I miss Obama’s  apology to Romney for accusing him of killing a woman with cancer during the campaign? Why apologize when you did it for the good of a world transforming cause?
To sum this up: Progressives see themselves as an army of the saints, and their opponents as the party of Satan; and that will justify almost anything you can get away with.
An appalling episode of their Machiavellian politics has shaped the international conflict in which we find ourselves currently impotent in the Middle East. The root of that impotence lies in the way Democrats turned the issue of the Iraq war against the Republican president George Bush. The Democrats’ case against Bush was that he acted unilaterally, deceptively and in haste.
Nothing could be further from the truth. The policy to remove Iraq’s government by force was put in place by a Democratic president, Bill Clinton, when he signed the Iraqi Liberation Act and fired 450 cruise missiles into that sovereign country. He did it, by the way, not only unilaterally but without consulting anyone.
That was in 1998, which is five years before Bush sent American troops into Iraq. Ten months before Bush did that he warned Iraq’s dictator, Saddam Hussein, to obey the Gulf War truce he had signed in 1991 and then repeatedly violated over the next ten years. Seven months before sending our troops into Iraq Bush went personally to the UN and got a unanimous Security Council ultimatum to Saddam. UN Resolution 1447 said: Obey the terms of the Gulf War truce by December 7, 2002 – or else.
Two months before that deadline Bush went to Congress and requested an authorization to use force in the event that Saddam did not voluntarily observe the terms of the UN Resolution, and the Gulf War truce he had signed and then violated.  Both houses of Congress including a majority of the Democrats in the Senate voted to authorize Bush to use force in Iraq. He also got an authorization from NATO and he also formed a coalition of 40 nations, including America’s oldest allies, the Brits, to enforce the UN Security Council ultimatum.
Not only was the decision not made in haste, and not made without consultation, as the Democrats claimed. The truth was just the opposite. The process of making the decision to go to war took 10 months and every significant authority was consulted. But once U.S. troops entered Iraq on March 19, 2003, it took only three months for the Democrats to betray them and their president, to turn their backs on the war they had authorized and supported, and claim it was – to use the words of former Vice President Al Gore, “unnecessary, immoral and illegal.” Or in the words of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, “the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time.”
Why did the Democrats betray the war they had supported? It was not because of any fact on the ground in Iraq, or any principles Bush had allegedly violated. They betrayed our troops and turned on their commander-in-chief for one reason and one reason alone: to gain political power at home.
At the very moment of their treachery a Democratic primary was in progress. An anti-war Democrat – a Sixties leftist named Howard Dean — was on the verge of winning their presidential nomination, burying other candidates like John Kerry and John Edwards in the polls. Until then, Kerry and Edwards were full-throated supporters of the war. Kerry made a speech on the floor of the Senate in support of the bill authorizing the use of force. He explained why the forcible removal of Saddam was necessary to defend the country and secure the peace.
But that was before the anti-war candidate Howard Dean had surged ahead in the polls. When that happened, and Kerry saw that he was going to lose the party nomination, he decided to switch sides. He turned his back on everything he had said in defense of the war, and the necessity of using force, and he turned his back on our troops in the field, and attacked their commander-in-chief. He did it for one reason, and one reason only. He did it because he saw it as the only way to win the Democratic nomination and have a chance of winning the presidency in 2004.
Kerry and the Democrats betrayed the war they had authorized; they betrayed the young Americans they sent into harms way; they betrayed the country they had sworn to serve. They did it to win the political power they were going to use to change the world. No conservative in his right mind would behave like this. No conservative would regard a political administration in Washington as a stepping stone on the way to a brave new world, and therefore something to justify opposing a war they had authorized and supported.
What were the issues the Democrats used to make their case against the president and the war in Iraq? It didn’t really matter, because the issues were never the issue. The Democrats opposed Bush and the war because both stood in the way of their quest for power.
The Democrats attacked Bush for acting in haste and acting unilaterally. Both charges were false. Worse, the Democrats claimed that the war was about weapons of mass destruction, ignoring the fact that Saddam had violated the Gulf War truce and had failed to comply with sixteen Security Council resolutions attempting to bring him into line, including the ultimatum of December 7. To make their case they claimed that Bush falsified the intelligence reports about weapons of mass destruction and lied in order to fool them into supporting the war. This was the biggest lie of the entire war. CIA chief George Tenet was a Clinton appointee. John Kerry sat on the intelligence committees with other Democrats like Feinstein and Rockefeller. The Democrats had access to all the intelligence information that Bush did. Bush could not have persuaded them to support the war by lying about the data, even if he had wanted to.
Why did they accuse him of lying? Because they could not admit the actual reason they had betrayed the war and the young men and women they sent to battle. They did it for partisan political gain. Unfortunately neither the White House nor any Republican had the political courage to hold them to account, and we are all paying the price for that.
For five years the Democrats conducted a scorched earth campaign against their country and its commander in the midst of a war. The harm they did is irreparable. Their sabotage of the war crippled our efforts to prosecute it – for example to follow Saddam’s weapons and generals into Syria, where they had fled; to take the war to Iran which supplied the IEDs which killed most of our troops; to close the border with Syria across which jihadists entered Iraq to fight our troops. The Democrats’ sabotage of the war created the power vacuum in the Middle East, which the terrorists and the Russians have now filled. And it most certainly inflicted casualties on our troops, though no one has had the political courage to say so.
The Democrats sabotaged the war in Iraq for the worst of reasons. They claimed it was for principle, but it was really – and only — to save their political skins.
Once the Democrats recaptured the presidency, it took no time at all for events to expose this destructive farce. Unlike the majority of his Democratic colleagues, Senator Barack Obama had always opposed the war in Iraq. He was against American interventions in sovereign countries, and he was against presidents who acted unilaterally, and in haste. Or so he said.
But when Obama became president and had the power to do so, he invaded Libya: unilaterally, and without authorization, and with no national security interest at stake. And he lied about the cause. There was no prospect of massacres as he claimed, and it was not a human rights intervention. If it were, Libya would not now be in chaos with al-Qaeda resurgent, and in a worse state than before.
Obama’s invasion of Libya was not merely unilateral. It was egomaniacal. Obama consulted no one outside his White House inner circle, not his own party, not the Congress, not the United Nations. Unlike Bush, he acted without constitutional authority and he acted alone. Yet there was not one Democratic leader who stood up for the principles they had all invoked to cripple America’s war against the jihadists in Iraq. Not one Democratic leader opposed the Democratic president, or criticized his aggression. They abandoned the principles of multilaterialism, consultation with Congress, and support from the U.N. because it would have been bad for their leader if they didn’t; it would have jeopardized their power.
The political consequences of the differences between conservatives and progressives is not only not small, it affects the way both sides conduct their political battles. Progressives focus on an impossible future, a utopia of promises, and this justifies for them their unscrupulous means. Issues for them are merely instruments for accumulating political power.  Conservatives look to the past as a guide to what is possible and humanly practical, and what is not. Issues for them are problems that need to be fixed, and they take seriously the policies they devise to address them. This puts conservatives at a huge political disadvantage. It causes them to argue policy as though they were debating a party with whom they shared goals and only differed on the means to get there. But that is far from the case.
Take the present debate about a government shutdown. A statement from Boehner’s office explains, “The entire government is shut down right now because Washington Democrats refuse to even talk about fairness for all Americans under ObamaCare.” This is a proposal for compromise and is designed to portray Republicans as reasonable. We’re all part of the same social contract, and we need to give on both sides to resolve the impasse. We’re all interested in fairness, when all is said and done. If individuals were to be given a year’s extension under Obamacare, as corporations already have been, that would be fair. But since when is Obamacare about fairness? That’s a Democratic façade and talking point, courtesy of the Republican Speaker. By way of contrast, this is how the Democrats make their argument: “Republicans are trying to shut down the government so they can prevent us from providing all Americans with affordable healthcare.” In other words, Democrats are standing up for fairness and ordinary Americans, against the selfish Republicans who want deny them affordable care and shut down their government. This is three lies in one sentence. But who do you think wins that vote?
If you want to fight the left you have to fight fire with fire. That means first and foremost you have to hold them to account for hurting the people they are pretending to help. Whose opportunities are going to be wrecked by Obamacare? Health care taxes will go up for those who pay taxes – the middle class — while their incomes will go down. Already Obamacare is cutting the workweek to 30 hours. Whose pocket books do you think that is hitting?
They claim conservatives are conducting a war against minorities; we need to throw the truth back in their faces. We need to tell the people that progressives are the principal oppressors and exploiters of minorities and the poor in this country. Progressives control the inner cities, which are teeming with the nation’s minorities and poor; and they run the broken public school systems that have become dumping grounds for those who cannot afford a private education.
The city of Milwaukee has been run by liberals and progressives without interruption for more than 100 years. What is the consequence of this progressive rule? Milwaukee’s median household income is forty percent below the rest of the country. The black unemployment rate is 27%, three times the national average for everyone. Milwaukee’s population is majority black and Hispanic, and 30% of it lives below the poverty line. A third of Milwaukee’s public school children drop out before they graduate; those who do are barely literate. That’s what progressive policies achieve. Don’t let them forget it.
Conservatives need to put the human disasters of progressive policies in front of people every chance they get. We need to confront progressives with the misery they have created in America’s bankrupt cities, Detroit and Chicago, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, St. Louis, and the nation’s capital, and every city they have controlled for 25, 50 and 100 years, without interruption.
Conservatives need to talk less to the voters’ heads and more to their hearts. Government debt is not just an accountant’s nightmare. Debt is a form of economic slavery. If you add up all the taxes Americans pay — federal, state, local, income, sales — Americans already work half the year for government rather than for themselves. Like Obamacare and the political use of the I.R.S., debt is a threat to individual freedom.
Freedom is what our cause is about not just fiscal responsibility. Fiscal responsibility has no emotional appeal except to people who already understand what it means. Fiscal responsibility is a means to an end. The end is freedom, and that is what inspires commitment and sacrifice and the passion necessary to win. Because it speaks to the heart.
Conservatives need to speak up as champions of the little guys, the underdogs, whose lives are being steadily constricted – made less free — by the ongoing destruction of a system that once afforded more opportunity for more people than any other in the history of the world. Conservatives need to speak up for the young whose future horizons are being rapidly diminished as the trillion dollar Obama deficits pile higher and higher. Conservatives need to speak for all Americans whose security under Obama has been degraded to the most dangerous levels since the end of the Cold War.
This is the threat we face, and the sooner we grapple with it the greater our chances to survive it. The most important battle in the world today is not being waged in the Middle East but here at home in the United States. If we lose this battle, everything is lost. But if we will take the measure of the enemies of freedom and prepare ourselves to fight them, we have a better than even chance to win.
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