We have all seen it. Someone makes a snide comment about some minority: racial, sexual orientation, color, intelligence, physically handicapped, etc, all of which are a personal, private issue. Let me stress up front that this is not a "bash" article, nor is it an "excuse" article. It is meant to be an article designed to encourage all conservatives to keep their eye on the ball and not get distracted by personal issues. Our time is short to save this nation - and it IS up to us to save it - our "leaders" seem notoriously out of fresh ideas.
Each portrayal may not be exact, but I trust you will get the gist of the sameness and difference between all parties.
1. Blacks, in particular, want total acceptance, and I think the country is well on its way of giving them that. However, their spokesmen seem to think more than equality is owed them. They also want reparations for slavery. No one living today was a slave, and no one living today owned a slave. That is unfortunate history. Forget about it and move on.
2. Those who are homosexuals, transvestites, et al want to be socially accepted.
I have been in many a situation, both business and personal, where there were both homosexuals and straights, and everyone seemed to be treated the same. But some homosexuals think more than social acceptance is owed them. They want to legislate that they want to be legally accepted as a married man and woman are.
3. Christians want to have a say in their government. And they do. But they want more than that. They want everyone else to comport with their values.
4. Physically handicapped individuals want to be able to go anywhere everyone else goes and be given jobs everyone else may be given. But some seem to want more than that. Let's face it, folks, it would be very difficult to be a surgeon if you were blind!
In each of these examples you may note there are actually two issues:
1. What the group's stated initial desire is and
2. The additional desires stated only after the initial desire is fulfilled.
This is commonly called the camel getting its nose under the tent. Wants almost NEVER stop once they start. In all cases above the public has shown its acceptance to the original desire, only to be disappointed that that wasn't really the agenda. From that moment on, the general public grows weary, then agitated as the "offender" will NOT be content with what he originally asked for and sometimes the "offender" gets in-the-face-of-the-public in his demands. A sure-fire way to win people to your side, huh?
Everyone of the groups, or any group, when agitating for what the public is against has taken a private thing and made it public. And anything that becomes public is grist for the mill.
Now to the purpose of this article: Getting the Obama team out of our capital.
Insults do nothing to state one's case and do nothing to win others over. What DOES work, if anything is going to work, is treating all respectfully. If you are arguing with an enemy that is one thing. However when you argue with your political friend, you are asking for defeat at the ballot box. For me a political friend is one who believes in limited government, lowest possible tax (or no tax at all), decency in all administrations, adherence to the US Constitution. If he believes in these things and acts accordingly, I couldn't care less what his religion or lack of same is. Same with all the other issues. When it comes time to win an election or LOSE FREEDOM, these are the only qualities I care about in any candidate and any supporter. To salvage freedom, never to be regained, I can be nice to people with whom I have differences that should not matter in an election.
As I said in a letter I wrote a friend - we conservatives better hang together, or to use a worn-out trite phrase, we will all hang separately. I personally believe that "progressives" when they vote do so in their own selfish interest. I have always thought conservatives voted, it was more for good of the country. But if some of the animosity I see on blogs is any indication we could well lose the coming election as well as future ones. Let's quit bashing each other and save that energy for those who would take our freedoms and throw them on the ash heap of history.
I tend to side with Christians on many things - not because they are Christian, but because these are things that should be agreed with - such as banning partial birth abortions in particular.
But I'd rather spend an hour with a pleasant homosexual than with a holier-than-thou Christian. It has nothing to do with WHAT they are but with how their personalities strike me. I'm not asking anyone to change his beliefs or his credos, or his moral stance. I'm just asking everyone to treat your political friends as you would like to be treated.
For this article the reasons for a person's distaste don't matter.
This morning I received an email from American Future Fund. It is something most taxpayers will want to read. It's chilling.
This is the body of the email:
Last week, we told you how Obama’s tanking approval ratings were hanging like an anvil tied around the ObamaCare legislation, dooming it to a near-certain failure. So, the liberals were quick to adapt, and called it KennedyCare with the hopes of capitalizing on all of the good will and around-the-clock media coverage that engulfed the airwaves for the past few days.
So, why are congressional liberals so hell-bent on passing a wildly unpopular, government-run health care program? Because to them, it’s not even about health care anymore!
House Minority Leader John Boehner has uncovered explosive new revelations. You won’t believe what’s contained within the bill – it’s LOADED with special interest projects!
So, the liberals are desperate to pass their bill so as to bring home more power to the unions, trial lawyers and THIS:
Page 95; Section 205 – The bill directs the “Health Choices Commissioner” to conduct outreach activities, including through the use of outside organizations such as ACORN and others, to reach out and enroll exchange-eligible individuals and employers.
ACORN?! Unreal. Had enough?
How about this little nugget?
Page 53; Section 154 – The bill ensures that the new federal health care program will set a floor (but not a ceiling) for health care negotiations for unionized employers. The legislation cannot be construed to excuse them from good-faith bargaining over health care benefits. Furthermore, it will not permit unionized employers to unilaterally drop health coverage of its employees in favor of shunting them into the government-run plan or simply paying the penalty associated with not offering health care benefits to workers.
Can you believe it?!
With this bill, the liberals are intent on giving everyone power EXCEPT the taxpayers!
While you and I work each day, diligently paying the taxes that will foot this bill, the liberals in Congress have turned this bill into a playground for labor unions!
There’s more – this time it’s a nice kickback for trial lawyers:
Pages 533-551; Section 1412 – The bill requires the Comptroller General of the U.S. to conduct a study examining: “(A) the extent to which corporations that own or operate large numbers of nursing facilities … are undercapitalizing such facilities; (B) the effects of such undercapitalization on quality of care, including staffing and food costs, at such facilities; (C) options to address such undercapitalization, such as requirements relating to surety bonds, liability insurance, or minimum capitalization.” This provision primarily benefits trial lawyers who sue nursing homes.
Have you had enough yet?
This is what the liberals envision as KennedyCare. That’s some legacy to leave him, huh?
No matter how you feel about Sen. Kennedy, naming a pork-laden, special interest bill in his name is just plain wrong.
Yet, congressional liberals will stop at nothing until they can pay back their valued constituencies, no matter what the price – paid by YOU, the taxpayer.
Enough is enough. It’s time to put an end to Obama/Kennedy/GovernmentCare for GOOD.
Thanks for your support of American Future Fund Political Action
Tim Albrecht
AFF Political Action
Corruption, ruthlessness, and Far-Left agenda
Jim O'Neill, Author at Canada Free Press.com
“Find out just what the people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.” — Frederick Douglass, civil rights activist, (circa 1818-1895)
One of three possible scenarios is currently being played out in the United States.
Obama Administration is the most corrupt, dishonest, and inept Administration that America
The first option, is simply that the Obama Administration is the most corrupt, dishonest, and inept Administration that America has ever been burdened with.
That is the “best case” scenario. Unfortunately, this is the option that I think least likely.
I suppose it is possible that Obama has simply had a phenomenal run of bad luck; that the various bills and laws passed by his Administration have, by some fluke, been accidentally anti-small business, anti-free enterprise, economically suicidal, and have worsened the economic crisis, not ended it.
I might also mention that there has been a, how shall I say this—lackadaisical—attitude towards an American debt of biblical proportions.
Obama Administration despises individual freedom, capitalism, free-enterprise
The second option, is that the Obama Administration despises individual freedom, capitalism, free-enterprise, and is hell-bent on transforming the United States into a fascist/communist collective—a regime that will be run by a venal, ruthless, power-hungry elite.
That actually sounds more plausible to me.
Obama Administration is part of a global restructuring process, New World Order
The third option is, that the Obama Administration is part of a global restructuring process (New World Order), in which the world will be turned into a fascist/communist collective—run by a venal, ruthless, power-hungry elite.
My guess is—take your pick between options two and three.
If you’re surprised by my analysis, then you haven’t been paying attention to what has happened, and is happening, to the United States.
Let me roll out some facts and figures for you.
The SEIU (Service Employees International Union) is run by Andy Stern, a militant Far-Left thug, and Anna Burger, another Far-Left radical. The SEIU has increased its size and power through, arm-twisting intimidation tactics, and other nefarious means.
Two years ago Obama said before an SEIU rally, “I’ve spent my entire adult life working with SEIU.”
That is not good news. Once you’ve looked into the corruption, ruthlessness, and Far-Left agenda of the SEIU leadership, you will know that it is not good news at all.
Obama has appointed two stalwart friends of SEIU to high level positions: Kathleen Selibus (D-Kansas) as head of the Department of Health and Human Services, and Hilda Solis to head the Department of Labor.
The SEIU currently has over 2 million members. most of them are essentially unwilling inductees, but many are “true believers.”
Let’s discuss ACORN.
Wade Rathke, who “cut his teeth” in the Far-Left radical group SDS in the 1960s, founded ACORN, and also SEIU Local 100. These and numerous other Far-Left groups under the Rathke “umbrella” are funded by our taxpayer dollars.
According to the “Sweetness and Light” website: “ACORN claims more than 400,000 dues-paying member families, and more than 1,200 chapters in 110 U.S. cities.”
And lets not forget the hundreds of “advocacy groups” connected with Acorn: groups such as the WFP (Working Families Party),—which, according to an Associated Press report, was created in 1998 to help push the Democratic Party toward the left.” (Like they needed the help).
Many of our taxpayer dollars are funneled to various Far-Left organizations which, after the “bosses” get their cut, distribute the money among hundreds, possibly thousands, of groups which advocate the destruction of the United States as a free republic, and the installation of a welfare collective.
That’s not hyperbole folks. It’s a con game that is going on, and has been going on for years—with the assistance of radical leftist foundations like Arca, and the Tides Foundation.
Some deal, huh? Collect the money earned by some bourgeois chump, and then spend your time trying to destroy the system that enabled the chump to make the money in the first place. Sweet!
My point here is that there are already a number of available thugs in place, should the Obama Administration need them. And we shouldn’t forget AmeriCorp, and the other paramilitary groups getting ready to “muscle up.”
Although I’ve been talking exclusively about the Far-Left influence, I don’t want to be remiss, and forget to mention that greed, corruption, and duplicity are non-partisan vices. The right-wing has its share of snakes in the grass as well.
I watched a town hall meeting yesterday where Senator McCain was asked a question about Obama disrespecting the U.S. Constitution. Senator McCain replied, “I’m sure that he respects the Constitution.”
Senator McCain’s comment was booed, and I turned off the TV. Why are you covering for Obama, John?
How can a person with as many years on Capitol Hill as Senator McCain, say with a straight face, that Obama respects the Constitution. I guess it takes all those years in Congress, to be able to state such a bald-faced lie with a straight face.
With all due respect to his heroic service record, Senator McCain is either an inattentive dolt, or he thinks that the American public are morons. I’m not especially fond of either conclusion.
Obama and his ilk have been trying to tear down the Constitution for decades. It’s an axiom that the Far-Left hates the Constitution, and the liberal-left is no friend to it. They see it, and have always seen it, as an obstacle to implementing their collectivist social engineering agendas.
An article from “The American Spectator” states that Obama believes that, “The Constitution’s fatal “flaw” is that it set up a limited form of government, far too passive in its understanding of rights to deliver the liberal utopia for which radicals have rooted since the 1960s.”
The Far-Left has an undeniable panache for naming things what they are not. Calling the government takeover of health care, the “public option,” is one example. Another gem, is calling the “death by a thousand cuts,” of the U.S. Constitution, the “Living Constitution.”
As Bubba Clinton might have said, “Just how do you define the word—living?”
By the term “living Constitution” the Left means a pliable, moldable, elastic Constitution. A Constitution that can be stretched and formed to mean anything that they want it to mean. They mean the death of the U.S. Constitution, as it was written by the Founding Fathers.
Instead of a bulwark protecting the American public from government interference, the Constitution will become a means for enacting Draconian laws to oppress the people. The “living Constitution” means a perverted travesty of the U.S. Constitution.
It’s rapidly coming down to this: either there will be a number of unpatriotic, if not anti-American individuals, who will be tried for treason against the United States, during a time of war—and I believe that the penalty for that is death—or the United States as a free republic, and world power, will perish.
As Abraham Lincoln so eloquently put it, “We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.” The time is upon us, and we cannot vacillate any longer.
Don’t buy into the H1N1 crisis
I live in Florida, and we’re used to getting ready for hurricanes. We buy portable radios, flashlights, and batteries. We stock up on non-perishable foods, and bottled water.
There is most definitely a “hurricane” coming, and for this storm, you might want to add arms and ammo to your shopping list.
Keep a “weather eye” out for the “Reichstag fire,” and don’t buy into the H1N1 crisis (yes, yet another crisis—yawn), and keep your butt out of any “quarantine camps.”
Godspeed. And may God bless America.
What with the Obama Administration's frantic push for socialized medicine, a lot of people have come up with some unique ideas to justify its passage. One unique idea that strikes me is the old canard: The federal government is responsible for the "General Welfare" of its citizens, and having the government provide for the health care is in keeping with that responsibility.
I am in perfect harmony with our Constitution, and, yes, it does charge the federal government to insure its citizens "General Welfare".   BUT.....
I accessed the CONSTITUTIONAL DICTIONARY
(see http://www.usconstitution.net/glossary.html)
I searched for 'General Welfare', and here are the results of that search:
welfare n. 1. health, happiness, or prosperity; well-being.
NOTE: (according to the Constitutional Dictionary)
Welfare in today's context also means organized efforts on the part of public or private organizations to benefit the poor, or simply public assistance. This is NOT the meaning of the word as used in the Constitution.
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I think people do not understand much about our government because our politicians have denigrated and misused words and meanings so often and so vocally that they have created a populace that is totally confused. The sad part is that, in many cases, the politicians' misuse of words is NOT deliberate, and this leads me to believe we elect some very, very dumb people to represent us and write laws for us, all of which deny us liberties we would otherwise be enjoying. Please do not misunderstand when I say dumb. I am not referring to education - I am referring mostly to character and sincerity which will lead anyone running for public office to learn the Constitution backwards and forwards.
Where is Liberty?
Given that every instance of collectivism...
Requires the Force of Government to initiate, regulate and administer; and
Eliiminates all rights of all individuals to determine and act in whatever they perceive as being in their individual best interest, and steals from the citizens whatever monies government, not the individual, deems necessary and appropriate, and
Eliminates the natural benefits of competition and choices always best provided by a truly free market, and
Sacrifices and removes all individual alternatives and incentives toward maximizing one's life, then
Insist on an answer to this one Question:
How does this enhance or preserve our natural rights to
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness?
The above was my reply to a TownHall post in Digg this morning, listing 10 questions to ask those who are pushing for, in this instance, Obamacare. The questions were great, designed to show any collectivist all the fallacies in this ruse but, as usual, missed the main point.
I have become simply exhausted and exasperated with every debate over so-called health-care or any other collectivist program deteriorating into a debate over
- whether it's fascism or socialism or communism or...., and
- The pro's and con's of each and every item in a 14-pound 1,500-page new proposal which is intended to distract everyone from the real truth, which is that...
- every word within such "debate" is naught but a different approach to enacting still another, still more, intrusion upon our liberty.
- This is exactly the same distraction as the "numbers game" of yore, which was 'don't address the issue, instead, declare that a challenged number renders the entire point void.
For many moons now, I have been writing about Morality, and more lately expanding to discussion of the Force and Sacrifice, as these are the basis of all governments, which have nothing to "give" except that which they steal from their citizens. This morality is not about some high-faluting worship of some lord or allah. It is simply our natural rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
This is clear and concise in our Declaration of Independence, yet so dispised and distorted and shredded within our Constitution. Over these 230 years, the collectivist / communist set have diligently set out to subvert these basic principles into a pity-pity society in which moral free market capitalism is said to be the villan, and that individual heights are to be subordinated to some nebulous "greater good", productivity and self-reliance are less important than sloth, and the supreme "moral" value is to sacrifice one's own life to anyone from anywhere merely because they hold out their hands and say "oh, pity me".
According to the collectivists, each man, having his own mind and the unique human characteristic of being able to THINK, is now somehow to be denied that treasured characteristic and his mind deferred to any unknown other, who cannot prove and is not required to prove any superiority of Mind over You, the individual.
The brainless immoral collectivist "ethic" has now gained the foothold sought for at least the last century, and has set America on it's long winding path to economic and moral devastation. America is leading the path to worldwide self-destruction, to such extent that we must question now whether humanity can survive.
You wonder why life has become poorer and holds little but nonsense and drudgery? You wonder why "Atlas Shrugged"? Well, at least we've got you wondering -- the rest us up to You!
Principled Perspectives.
A is A, and Socialism by any Other Name...
that Obamacare isn’t socialism ignores socialism's essential nature. Technical definitions aside, socialism is a form of
collectivism, the doctrine that holds that the standard of value is the group, to which the individual is subordinate and can be sacrificed on any group whim, as represented by the state. Communism, Nazism, welfare statism, fascism, democracy, and socialism are all manifestations of collectivism. The
sacrifice of individual rights under a statist regime is the political essence of collectivism, and that is exactly the nature of Obama’s health care plan.
But to advocate socialism openly and honestly is and always has been a loser in America. After the tyranny, wars, and unprecedented mass murder wrought by the socialist regimes of Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China, and the many smaller variants of the 20th century, socialism is dead as an intellectual force. That is why the champions of socialized medicine run from the socialist label as from the plague.
As the great Aristotle said; A is A. And socialism is socialism. We are headed toward totalitarian socialism in America, and have been for the past century. Under Obama, the trend is accelerating. But he is an empty suit, simply cashing in on the trend…the collectivists preferred method of American socialization…
the back door of fascism. Step by step, through programs such as the Veterans Administration, Medicare, a myriad of government controls and taxes, etc., total government control of medicine (and, in fact, the entire economy) is and has been advancing in America…long before Bush-Obama socialism appeared on the American scene.
The fascist method was explained by a former leader of a major Western nation some time ago:
“The party is all-embracing…” said Adolf Hitler upon taking power,
“Each activity and each need of the individual will thereby be regulated by the party as the representative of the general good…This is Socialism- not such trifles as the private possession of the means of production. Of what importance is that if I range men firmly within a discipline they cannot escape. Let them own land or factories as much as they please. The decisive factor is that the State, through the party, is supreme over all, regardless of whether they are owners or workers…Our Socialism goes far deeper…[the people] have entered a new relation…What are ownership and income to that? Why need we trouble to socialize banks and factories? We socialize human beings.” (From Herman Rauschning’s The Voice of Destruction, as quoted in
The Ominous Parallels, by Leonard Peikoff, page 231-232.)
We will maintain our illusion of privacy, while the state, through the medical bureaucracy, exercises total control over the medical and business decisions of patients, insurers, and providers alike. Doctors won’t be technical employees of the state (the communist brand of collectivism), at least not initially. But,
fascism is socialism…and so is Obamacare…whether
Mr. Schwalb, President Obama, or Bill O’Reilly want to call it that or not. Obamacare will "range men firmly within a [health care] discipline they cannot escape.” The medical bureaucracy will be “all-embracing”, and the people will be socialized…sooner (if the democrats have their way) or later (if the current GOP has its way).
The only antipode to collectivism/socialism is individualism/free market capitalism…the system based upon America’s founding principles of unalienable individual rights and
textconstitution republican government…long absent from American health care.
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