Can We Survive Our Politicians?

I am so angry I cannot even see straight. On August 27th, Senator Diane Watson of California, a Democrat stated, "that Fidel Castro was a bright man and great leader." I saw the direct quote on the Glenn Beck Show, Monday, August 31st. Unbelievable. I am stunned. We have Senators praising FIDEL CASTRO of CUBA. A brutal dictator. Cubans have swam to our shores for decades, the last 4o years, to escape this brutal dictator and a U.S. Senator had the nerve to praise him.

This says it all AMERICANS. Democrats are idolizing communists, socialists,and dictators. THIS SHOULD SCARE YOU!!! No wonder they want more and more of our liberties.

Praising FIDEL CASTRO, stunned, just stunned!

Here it is for your viewing. Let me know how you feel? This goes beyond party lines. Americans should be upset. Period.

Ted Kennedy's America

Ted Kennedy's America is a land where women who want to keep their babies are pressured by their boyfriends into having abortions. It is a land where people have grown accustomed to depending on the government for their living instead of making a living for themselves. In Ted Kennedy's America, the schools would require children to learn about evolution and forbid any criticism of evolution or any alternative. Veterans would be treated and profiled as terrorists. In Ted Kennedy's America, health care will be rationed out to the socially useful, the good looking, and the democrats of America.

A Little Comedy to Make A Point!

I know that Healthcare seems to be all the talk and to be honest my head hurts and my ears hurt even more from all the Healthcare discussions.
Therefore, I have chosen not to post about it at this time.

One thing I believe is comedy is a great way to make a point at times.

I use to be a teacher. I still currently teach religion once a week but no longer teach Social Studies. I thought this was appropriate with all the children heading back to school.

Below is an email that was sent to me from a teacher. Enjoy and think.
It is funny and yet it is sad.
When the majority of Americans believe in God and yet we allowed a minority to stomp out the Majorities wishes.
The Separation of Church and State has been taken too far and waaay out of context. Americans need to be careful how far they let minorities go with all of their demands. We must remember that minorities are to be treated fairly BUT not run the majority. A democracy or better yet, a Republic stands on the fact that the majority makes the decisions, that is the purpose of voting.

Now for the Joke!



THE TEACHER APPLICANT

After being interviewed by the school administration,
the teaching prospect said,
"Let me see if I've got this right:
You want me to... go into that room with all those kids,

1. correct their disruptive behavior,
2. observe them for signs of abuse,
3. monitor their dress habits,
4. censor their T-shirt messages,
5. and instill in them a love for learning.
You want me to..
6 - check their backpacks for weapons,
7 - wage war on drugs and sexually transmitted diseases, and
8 - raise their sense of self esteem and personal pride.
You want me to....
9 - teach them patriotism and good citizenship, sportsmanship and fair play, and
10 - how to register to vote,
11 - balance a checkbook, and
12 - apply for a job.

You want me to
13 - check their heads for lice,
14 - recognize signs of anti-social behavior, and
15 - make sure that they all pass the state exams.

You also want me to....
16 - provide them with an equal education regardless of their handicaps, and
17 - communicate regularly with their parents in English and Spanish by letter, telephone, conferences, email, homework hotline, webpage, midterm newsletters, and report card.

You want me to do all this with a piece of chalk, a blackboard, a bulletin board, a few books, a big smile, and a starting salary that qualifies me for food stamps.

You want me to do all this and then you tell me......


"I CAN'T PRAY?"

Are you nuts!

Summaries

The State of Hawaii killed plans for a privately funded-hospital to go up on Maui because they decided the public hospital couldn't compete with it. In other words people are receiving inadequate health care because the big-government politicians admit the government can't do as well as private business.

On the island of Maui, there is only one acute-care hospital, the state-run Maui Memorial Medical Center. For years, residents of Maui have complained that the hospital does not meet their needs — too few beds, not enough specialists, and long waits in the emergency room. State bureaucrats finally cleared the way earlier this year for a small private hospital to be built, but only after scuttling plans to build a larger, more accommodating private hospital. A larger hospital, they said, would have an adverse impact on “the existing health-care system.” In other words, it would compete too effectively with what is now a state-run monopoly.

See the article here.

The killing of the F-22 leaves us without a fifth generation fighter jet that would probably cost the same or less than the Joint Strike Fighter. It is the only plane that could outdo Chinese aircraft. Is this cancelation part of Barrack Obama's intent to weaken the US military? It also kills our chances of exporting an aircraft to our allies. The F-22 contract was between NG and Boeing, but now Northrop gets all the funding. See here.

This article mentions that a 65 year old was dropped by his doctor because the government doesn't pay enough. This is the path of what Obama calls 'keeping the costs down'.

And Sarah Palin has a very strong chance of winning the GOP 2012 primary.

The Health Of The Elderly

Mr. Timothy's earlier comment:

Seniors in America already have Government-run healthcare in the form of Medicare. As far as i've heard, they have not been forced to die off en masse. I don't see how you can define something like this as a death panel when you already have insurance companies deciding not to treat people who are going to die because it is unprofitable. Caring for someones health is not always going to be a profitable endeavour, so they cut them loose through loopholes in the contract. It's happened so many times. The main goal of a corporation is to maintain (or increase) profits for the shareholders, and I don't see how philosophically that can be reconciled with caring for sick people. Their profits rise as the price of premiums increase and the depth of coverage declines.

America already spends more money in healthcare per person than any other country, and because it goes to subsidising private companies and not actual care, millions aren't insured, many of the ones who are are underinsured, and everyone still has to pay a sizable sum to be insured. It's absurd.

Although I applaud Timothy's attempt to understand another nation's health care I insist that he is far from understanding our current health care situation.

Firstly, insurance companies are not lining their pockets. My insurance company is HMSA, and they are on the verge of bankruptcy and they are far from alone. If any company declares bankruptcy the shareholders tend to lose the vast amount of their investment. If they were simply scamming people out of free money, why would they be on the verge of bankruptcy? If the CEOs were overpaid they would cut their salaries. Americans pay the highest amount of money toward healthcare because we have the greatest health care quality in the world. Why do you think people with prostate cancer are twice as likely (40% vs. 80%) to die from prostate cancer in the UK than if you had it in the US?

The other reason we pay so much is because the trial lawyers (who funded Barrack Obama's campaign) are lining their pockets and providing basically no help to Americans other than driving the cost of malpractice insurance up and along with it the cost of health care. Tort reform would massively lower costs for average folks many times more than "prevention" and other hyped up nonsense. [1]

Second, the goal of any corporation is to earn money (as opposed charities, which 80% of Americans believe work better than government aid) and I expect every corporation I have invested money in to make every dollar they can. My question for you, Tim, is how can a company make money by denying coverage to paying customers when they can switch their providers? If the government is the only health care provider and they say, "No" then who can you turn to? Not the insurance companies if the government drives them out of business.

Third, the status of executions en masse of the elderly with medicare and medicaid is in question. Obamacare is already in place in Oregon and they're telling some cancer patients they will not be compensated for life-extending drugs. Right now the Democrats are targeting medicare and medicaid because the funding of these entitlement programs is getting in the way of financing Obamacare. So basically the Democrats want to tell grandma to take a painkiller and forgo the surgery so they can pay for universal healthcare without breaking the bank (it would have broken the bank anyway, but not as obviously). Barack Obama has already put this on the table, and I find it very difficult to look at this option as anything other than a "death panel". To say that it doesn't currently kill seniors en masse doesn't mean the government is not planning to do this (it is), and the government is already doing this to some extent.

Government Healthcare

Government-run health care will be very, very bad for seniors. [1] [2]

Obama himself has admitted "experts" will need to build a consensus around "what works" which might include telling Grandma to take the painkillers instead of having life-extending surgery.

Sarah Palin called this cabal of experts a death panel and the Associated Press is going for her throat. They're saying her claim has been "widely discredited" and that it's all been "debunked" [1].

Which is strange because a panel of people deciding who lives and dies (by Barrack Obama's own admission) sounds a lot to me like a death panel. The Associated Press -more than any other group touting itself as a 'news organization'- is just a sounding board for liberal editorialists. No wonder the local papers are canceling their AP licenses.

The truth is Democrats have major concerns with government run health care, but you won't read that in the news. I've read article after article on RCP.com where Barack Obama supporters are opposing these deals and sometimes referring to the government comittees as "death panels".

The first person I can remember opposing Obama's health care agenda was Mary Landrieu of Lousiana. Harry Reid was adamantly opposed to the single-payer option. And there are a host of other democrats against it.

This whole issue will be a major albatross around Obama's neck. Entrade is majorly betting it will never pass in any form, and the companies who could be destroyed from the health care legislation are seeing their stock prices climb. If investors thought they were going to lose money, they would be selling it off like hot bricks.

It will not pass, and the Democrats are going to lose big next year.

Bill and Ben Franklin

Bill O'Reilly recently compared Barack Obama's health care policy with Ben Franklin's views on government.

Mr. Obama, of course, is a liberal guy—a community organizer who fundamentally believes that the American deck is stacked against many poor folks who, through no fault of their own, have been denied opportunities by society. So the president believes that it is government's responsibility to give those people as much money as possible. Free health care is free money.

That puts Obama squarely against Benjamin Franklin who said, "When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." Dr. Franklin realized that politicians who attempted to buy votes by promising rich entitlements could not look out for the good of the entire country. Thus, an inevitable decline would occur.

This continues the discussion Tim and I have been having about how Americans viewed Big Government when the nation was still getting started.

Palin Calls Obamacare 'Downright Evil'

Sarah Palin on Barak Obama's health care plan:

The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil

And also:

Nationalizing our health care system is a point of no return for government interference in the lives of its citizens. If we go down this path, there will be no turning back

Source: AP

Do we really value our Soldiers?

September is right around the corner and sometimes I wonder if we will ever look back and be able to examine all our reactions more objectively!

It has been argued that comparing the military and law enforcement personnel benefits to the compensation the families received for attack on 9/11 is an unfair comparison. Some say it is apples to oranges.

Let's put it this way. The victim's families from 9/11 have received large sums of money for a horrible tragedy. For their loved ones being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Typically, families have prove wrongful death. They have to SUE. The families would have to SUE the United States claiming they could have prevented the attack and by all accounts that was not possible. It was an act of war, blind sided, all out terrorism and typically, families don't get paid for casualties of war. BUT, the United States did pay and Americans lovingly donated to these families and YET we be grudge the people who KNOWINGLY and WILLINGLY die for US.

Below is a piece by Rush Limbaugh the numbers are accurate from the time he wrote it. It does make you stop and think, at least it should!!!


By Rush Limbaugh, March, 2002

I think the vast differences in compensation between victims of the September 11 casualty and those who die serving our country in Uniform are profound. No one is really talking about it either, because you just don't criticize anything having to do with September 11. Well, I can't let the numbers pass by because it says something really disturbing about the entitlement mentality of this country. If you lost a family member in the September 11 attack, you're going to get an average of $1,185,000. The range is a minimum guarantee of$250,000, all the way up to $4.7 million.?If you are a surviving family member of an American soldier killed in action,the first check you get is a $6,000 direct death benefit, half of which is taxable.

Next, you get $1,750 for burial costs. If you are the surviving spouse, you get$833 a month until you remarry. And there's a payment of $211 per month for each child under 18. When the child hits 18, those payments come to screeching halt.

Keep in mind that some of the people who are getting an average of $1.185 million up to $4.7 million are complaining that it's not enough. Their deaths were tragic, but for most, they were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Soldiers put themselves in harms way FOR ALL OF US, and they and their families know the dangers. (Actually, soldiers are put in harms way by politicians and commanding officers.)

We also learned over the weekend that some of the victims from the Oklahoma City bombing have started an organization asking for the same deal that the September 11 families are getting. In addition to that, some of the families of those bombed in the embassies are now asking for compensation as well.

You see where this is going, don't you? Folks, this is part and parcel of over 50 years of entitlement politics in this country. It's just really sad.

I agree Mr. Limbaugh!
It really is SAD!

Do we have a President?

Listen, I know we all claim that we want the President to relate to us but how much?? I don't want my President endorsing television shows. He is the President of the United States, why oh why is he promoting a television show? Oh, and it is George Lopez's show. A late night television show by a minority. Guess he is already campaigning. How about WORKING. How about focusing on the problems of the country. LIKE UNEMPLOYMENT.

Oh, well, I better be careful about what I say. I might be accused of being paid by the Republican party to write something up or special interest to pick on Obama.


I am sad that my country has turned to this lack of free speech. We are no longer allowed to express our opinions. We are not allowed to criticize our President. We are suppose to treat him like a god. It is outrageous. I am saddened.

I miss my country. A country that allowed us to express our opinions about our President, any President.

Calling people Mobs, just because they are protesting, way outrageous.

But, hey, glad the President has time to make a commercial and no one cares that he is already campaigning and not focusing on the issues!!!
Please Enjoy this 'Psalm' I received in an email.


FROM THE FIRST BOOK OF DEMOCRAT

PSALM 2008-2012

OBAMA IS MY SHEPHERD, I SHALL NOT WANT.
HE LEADETH ME BESIDE THE STILL FACTORIES.
HE RESTORETH MY FAITH IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
HE GUIDETH ME IN THE PATH OF UNEMPLOYMENT.
YEA, THOUGH I WALK THRU THE VALLEY OF THE BREAD LINE, I SHALL NOT GO HUNGRY.
OBAMA HAS ANOINTED MY INCOME WITH TAXES.
MY EXPENSES RUNNETH OVER MY INCOME.
SURELY, POVERTY AND HARD LIVING WILL FOLLOW ME ALL THE DAYS OF HIS TERM.
FROM HENCE FORTH, WE WILL LIVE ALL THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES IN A RENTED HOME WITH AN OVERSEAS LANDLORD.
BUT I AM GLAD I AM AN AMERICAN, I AM GLAD THAT I AM FREE. BUT I WISH I WAS A DOG AND OBAMA WAS A TREE.

Status of the Nation

Our government revenues are plummeting. The riches of many are scattering. Millions of Americans are losing their jobs. Many Americans face the possibility of losing their health care as they know it. As the people make less money, the government receives less money.

This clearly demonstrates the government does not derive its power from the collective efforts of men bound together. The drop in revenue is a result of a weakened economy (despite every vain act to stimulate it), and not a weakened government (which is enlarging itself daily).

The government should stop taking credit for the prosperity of men.

President Obama's worldly status stands on the shaky approval of those who have no ideals beyond their own appetites. His popularity is descending as it was destined.

As it falls the lawmakers of America are realizing his agenda will never succeed in passing. His appetitive allies will abandon him far faster than the allies of George W. Bush abandoned him.

And just as the realization of Obama's reign drove those who posted here into the light, so too the realization of Obama's eminent fall from power draws the writers here into their nobler and more real interests.

Farewell brave men and brave women. I wish you the best. I am glad for you and see you as an example for myself. Truly I wish the deceitful study of politics would forever leave my heart. You do not have my anger but my envy.

Whether a Republican sits on the throne of America or a Democrat I hope we all take this opportunity to look back and realize the affairs of men are not promoted and valued by the hand of government. It is the single individual who governs and decides the prosperity of the people.

I am not referring to the individual who sells his house to buy a business and provide desired goods to others. I am not referring to the individual who seeks out a lucrative career to provide for his family without assistance from the government. These are individuals I respect highly, but I cannot give them the credit.

The credit belongs solely to that single individual Jesus Christ who spoke the heavens into existence and assembled the earth and all living things with the strength and purpose of the Almighty.

May the confidence of my fellow citizens never again fall into the refuge of false messiahs. God has revealed the Beast is on his way and is destined to come. Woe to the individuals of any nation who place their trust in such a man or any man save the man who lowered himself and became obedient unto death, the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, Jesus Christ.

May his name be praised forever. May it forever proceed out of the mouths of babes and the tongues of the feeble. May the poor see their wealth in Him. Let earth rejoice, and let the earth be glad for the Lord God rules over all!