IF THE AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE IS SO AFFORDABLE…..


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            Why do we have so many seeking exemptions and that includes Congress and their staff being subsidized?  WHY?  Because Affordable Healthcare or “OBAMACARE” is neither affordable, efficient, or better that what now exists.  It will not cover EVERYONE.  We will still have millions UNINSURED.  Dr. Ben Carson had a much better approach as have some of the Republican plans and even many Democrats recognize this disaster and the damage it is doing and will do to ‘health insurance’ and ‘health care’ in America.  It, like so many things out of Washington, is misnamed and the name misrepresents what it is all about.  It is not about ‘health insurance’ or ‘health care’ it is ultimately about CONTROL.  This monster, even when read, is terribly difficult to completely understand all the ramifications.  But, when it is studied in detail putting line upon line and precept upon precept it is a NIGHTMARE!

             When the government gets involved in anything it seeks to ‘control’ that in which it is involved.  It wants to make the rules, regulations, issue mandates, and edicts that require a certain performance or pathway to be allowed to do or have what you seek.  In health care when a bureaucrat or board of bureaucrats begin to make decisions based solely on the ‘monetary’ through the lens of a ‘statistical table’ exclude the recommendation of the doctor or the desire of the patient it is of great concern.  No two people are the same in any situation including the contracting of a particular disease or ailment.  Age cannot be an exclusive factor in the decision making.  The reason we purchase ‘health insurance’ is so that we can be covered, at least partially, in the event of a health need.  We purchase insurance and some virtually never use it until the waning years of their lives and then need it to be able to live out their days with a reasonable quality of life.  For the government to decide that a person, say 70 years of age, is no longer a qualified candidate to receive cancer treatment, joint replacement, or by-pass surgery for heart conditions is nothing more than ‘legalized euthanasia’ and, to me, is comparable to that of the Nazi’s in WWII regarding the Jews, or Stalin in Russia, or Chairman Mao in China, or any other despot throughout history devaluing human life to the point that they can willingly and with emotional detachment see the lives of citizens snuffed out in the name of whatever they are pushing.

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            The government has proven it is inefficient and inept in the ability to maintain our privacy via electronic data gathering such as the new mandate regarding medical records.  These records go so far beyond what is needed to evaluate our medical conditions and are shared across agencies that have no business seeing them or need for them unless they are to be used for some other more sinister plan.  I do not mean to throw in a conspiracy theory here but why do they need to share these, and why do they need all the information they are seeking?  It is beyond the need to determine the medical condition and propose a treatment plan.  That is a quote from two of my doctors.  Sadly, most of my doctors are feverishly making plans to get out of the medical field due to what they anticipate being the full impact of ‘The Affordable Health Care Act’ aka OBAMACARE.  They detest what is happening and feel that their oath of service as a provider of medical care is being infringed and they will no longer be practitioners of medicine but simply pill dispensers as per the dictate of the federal government’s panel which Sarah Palin aptly named, “Death Panels.”

             You may be uninsured, and have pre-existing conditions that make it difficult for you to receive ‘health insurance’ and my heart hurts for you, but is that reason to totally destroy the health care industry?  There are better ways to handle this situation.  The need is for a much more diligent and extensive means of evaluating people’s situation.  Is a person without health insurance because they choose not to pay the high price they would have to pay?  Is a person without health care because of pre-existing conditions?  Why are they without insurance?  I do not have time to list all the possible ways of handling this situation but we need to completely transform them Medicaid System, Welfare System, Disability Program, and even work on the Social Security System while maintaining the integrity and continuity of what the seniors now on Social Security are receiving and those soon to be on the program.  Medicare is also is serious need of work to make it efficient.  Then we come to the VA and many other programs of government but in HEALTH CARE alone we can do some things other than provide Barack Obama with some disastrous piece of legislation that he can try to hang his hat on as a landmark and signature piece of legislation that he got passed for his ‘so-called’ legacy.

             America has had one of the best health care systems in the modern world but that is rapidly changing and we are already seeing delays in care as well as denial of care based on what this law mandates and what is anticipated it is going to require.  As a Christian I have confidence in God to care for His children.  We are moving to a time when health care will once again be relegated to home remedies and the life span of people will decrease outside of God providing the miracle of healing for them.  Even those who are uninsured today can go to the Emergency Room and the law mandates that they be seen.  It is costing us billions if not trillions and the idea of a ‘Health Savings Account’ from birth is an idea that I would like to see much more study on.  A   Health Savings Account that is bequeathable!  

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            I make no claim to having all the answers, I only know that the “Affordable Health Care Act’ aka OBAMACARE is not it.  I know that if it were all it was purported to be there would be ZERO exemptions rather than the hundreds if not thousands that are already issued.  Congress would not be running away from it for themselves and their staff.  It is escalating cost for individuals, costing jobs, hours, and the well-being of millions while failing to achieve what was promised.  That, in my view, makes it a very bad law and one that should be repealed but will not be with the current administration and congress of today.

            May God bless you and may God bless America!

AMERICA – The Melting Pot Nation….


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            I may be wrong but I believe that the first use of describing America as a “Melting Pot” was in the writings of J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur in his “Letters from an American Farmer” in 1782.  It has been used by politicians, historians, and critics of the American culture and our view of and response to immigrants coming to this nation almost from the beginning of the United States of America as a nation.  If America is a “Melting Pot” then much of current multi-cultural and politically correct politics are in grave error, and I believe that to be the case.  But, is America truly a “Melting Pot”?

            A “Melting Pot” implies and demands that varied products or even similar products be placed in the pot and melted down forming a totally new product.  That new product is a singular product not a hyphenated one.  It is unique and transforms the product derived from its former identity into the identity of the new product.  It is not a ‘cooking pot’ for that would leave room for the hyphenation such as ‘beef-stew, chicken-gumbo’ or something else to be used.  It would be more akin to taking ore whether that is identified as Italian ore, German ore, French ore, British ore, African ore, or any ore and forming STEEL.  It is not Italian-steel, German-steel; French-steel it is STEEL.  In the case of America we are supposed to be a nation in which people of various nationalities or ethnicities come and are placed into the MELTING POT and become AMERICANS.  They are not Irish-Americans, German-Americans, Greek-Americans, or African-Americans they are AMERICANS.  I would suggest that the only group that has a legitimate justification to be identified using descriptors would be those who were here before the rest of our ancestors arrived and that would be the American Indian or Native Americans. 

            Although I am a quarter Cherokee I do not choose to be identified by that descriptor.  I am not ashamed of it because it is who I am.  The major national heritage from which I descend would be Scottish-Irish but I do not choose to be identified with those hyphenations I am an AMERICAN and that requires no hyphenation.  My ancestors came to this country, entered the MELTING POT and came out AMERICANS.  They assimilated into the culture which was vastly different from theirs and did not choose to be identified by hyphenations they have, so far as I can discover, always been proud to be identified as AMERICANS. 

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            The problem today with our multiculturalism and politically correct society is that we suggest that we should move this nation away from being a ‘melting pot’ into being more of a ‘salad bowl’ where each ethnicity or nationality maintains its unique labeling and culture without assimilating into the new product and become AMERICAN.  If that is the case, then why come to America?  If there was not a willingness to be transformed into something new and become a fully assimilated and functioning unit of what was established in 1776 and subsequently, why come?  If America is not to be unique as are other countries including those from which the immigrants come, why have a national identity?  I believe that is what the progressives and liberals are seeking, world citizenship not national citizenship.  They want a world without borders, national identities, or national sovereignty.  They want a world that is under a solitary ruler with a governing body that destroys all national sovereignty and subjects the world to the rules and laws of the select elite body of rulers that determine our fate.  I do not support that! 

            Only in the Kingdom of God can I accept ‘one rule’ and that being GOD ALMIGHTY Himself.  Only under the dominion of the Lord Jesus Christ can I lose my national identity or ethnicity.  But with regard to human governments and nations, I would never ask nor desire that France, England, Spain, Germany, Mexico, or any other nation give up its borders or culture.  I do not ask that those immigrating to America lose contact with their heritage or culture and have no problem with them celebrating it, but ask that they become AMERICANS not hyphenated Americans. 

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            America can only be strong when the peoples of this nation are ONE.  We do not have to agree on everything.  We can be vastly different in our political, social, or religious beliefs, but with regard to national identity we must become one and that is AMERICAN!  I realize that some will not agree with this and find it objectionable and possibly offensive and that is not my purpose.  My purpose is to call for everyone now citizens of this nation and those desiring to become citizens to also commit to being AMERICAN.  If you cannot take pride in being called an AMERICAN then why be one?  If you are more concerned about your hyphenation identifier than being an AMERICAN then why use American at all?

             This nation was founded and our independence secured through the valiant efforts of men and women who were willing to put it all on the line to provide a nation that would be FREE and allow people to come from all nations of the world and with LIBERTY, pursue their faith, fortune or as is in our founding document ‘Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.’  Be proud of your ancestral heritage and learn about that culture but if you are a citizen or want to be of the United States of America then be an AMERICAN!  I acknowledge that we have work to do on many fronts.  I acknowledge that we have made errors in the past and will in the future.  However, AMERICA was supposed to be a “Melting Pot” and if she is that she can remain strong and free, if she becomes nothing more than a ‘Salad Bowl’ she will eventually become non-existent.

             If you love AMERICA then please pray for this nation, labor for the restoration of our Constitutional Freedoms and Liberties, and become responsible owners and overseers of our government.  It is to be a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people.”  The Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and Bill of Rights still focuses on WE THE PEOPLE so let us return to being THE PEOPLE who determine our future!  The challenge is monumental and will not be achieved in a year, a decade, or possibly a century but it is achievable if we become a people COMMITTED, ASSIMILATED, and DETERMINED.

             God bless you and God bless America!

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DESCRIBING POLITICS AND POLITICIANS USING COLLOQUIALISMS AND WITTICISMS….


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            I have been thinking and wondering if you could describe Washington, DC using “colloquialisms and witticisms” and have decided to venture into that endeavor with both feet.  Will Rogers once said, “I don’t make jokes.  I just watch the government and report the facts.”  The truth of that image is so painful it is inescapable and the humor this endeavor affords, where it not for the painfulness, is almost endless.  In fact, humorist, have been making a living of doing just that for years and it is an incredibly successful practice.

             The old rancher that I talked to some time back said about most of the politicians in Washington that “if brains were electricity, they wouldn’t have enough power to light a firefly.”  He then said, most of them were so dumb or acted so dumbly that “they could not find their behinds with both hands and a road map.”  He said that they have an IQ lower than their shoe size.  While I doubt that some of the things they do if you were to grade them on the ignorance scale you I am convinced you would have to use negative numbers.  He said of the President and some of his recent actions that “he’d screw up a two-car funeral procession.”  He said that the way those in Washington have been acting for a long time caused him to think that if you were to put their brains on the edge of a razor blade it would be like putting a pea on a six lane highway.  Needless to say, He was not impressed with Washington politics or politicians.

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            Napoleon once said, “In politics stupidity is not a handicap” and I believe he is painfully correct for it seems that the more ignorance is exhibited by politicians the more electable they become for many.     P.J. O’Rourke said, “When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.”  That is not just a witticism it is absolute truth!

            Henry Cate VII said, “The problem with political jokes is they get elected.”  Aesop said, “We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”    Plato declared, “Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who were dumber.”  Even the Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev understood and said, “Politicians are the same all over.  They promise to build a bridge even when there is no river.”  Clarence Darrow brought it even closer to home when he said, “When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it.”  John Quinton described politicians and politics accurately saying, “Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnels.”  Charles de Gaulle, the French leader said, “I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.”  Doug Larsen breathed some reality saying, “Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it’s better to change the locks.”

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            The sad reality is politics, as conducted by politicians, is an exercise that results in bigger government, more restrictiveness at the federal level, hindrance of the free market, loss of liberty by the people and a clear example of classic failure, ineptness, and inefficiency.  If a private company were to run a business the way politicians run the federal government with the ludicrous restrictions and deficit spending they would not last one year.  If they treated their customers the way politicians treat WE THE PEOPLE they would find a boycott of their product and/or services over time.  I know that some companies actually do treat us like the government does and when you are the only game in town you act like it.  The solution, in business, is to stop using their products and/or services and strive to provide a market that will entice someone else to step in and fill the void.  However, in government it is not quite that simple.  We can’t just boycott the federal government though I would like to.  We are stuck with them until WE THE PEOPLE utilize our constitutional right and privilege to CHANGE OUR GOVERNMENT or better RESTORE OUR GOVERNMENT to what it was designed to be and as is described in the Constitution. 

            Sadly it seems that P.J. O’Rourke was correct when he said, “Politicians are interested in people.  Not that this is always a virtue.  Fleas are interested in dogs.”  Herbert Hoover made an incredibly sad commentary saying, “Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the National Debt.”  I think that a quote by George Stephanopoulos while Bill Clinton was President fits the bill, “The President has kept all the promises he intended to keep.”  That was a truth and a revelation that I doubt he really intended to reveal but it is nonetheless true of ALL POLITICIANS including the current occupant of the White House and both Houses of Congress. 

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            We have a situation that, were it not so dire and serious, would be hilarious but I’m not laughing because it is so serious.  It is one thing to joke and another to be one and that is what our political system has become.  The ones that suffer the most from the politics of politicians are WE THE PEOPLE.  I don’t know about you but I’m ready for a change in the lot of them.  I want my country, my constitution, and my liberty back!

             God bless America and God bless you!

DO WE ELECT PRESIDENTS OR KINGS????


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            In my latest reading of the Constitution of these United States of America I was unable to find one mention of “Election or Coronation of Kings” as being the course of action by the American people.  I did find the “Election of a President” but not a “Sovereign, Monarch, Aristocracy, or King”.  So I am a bit perplexed seeing how this current president lives and acts along with the ‘first lady’ and the ‘first family’.  I realize that some people are so ‘privileged’ that they believe they are ‘entitled’ to treatment as a ‘god, sovereign, royalty or a monarch’ but that is not the authorization of the American Constitution.  I find the lack of angst by the media, Congress, or even much of the American public to be inexcusable.  We are in such severe economic times, citizens are losing their homes, jobs, life savings, and living in poverty at such a severe level that one would think that ‘excessive lavish extravagance’ by this President and family would elicit the ire of most including the media, Congress, and public but it doesn’t. 

             I do not know if the aforementioned are ‘afraid’ to challenge this President fearing being called a ‘racist’ or something equally as bad or worse, or if they believe he should live and act as a regal?  Either way it is an incredible indictment on the current American mentality. It has been my observation that when someone is afforded power and has access to lavish funds frequently will abuse both the power and the funds UNTIL and UNLESS they are stopped.  When there is no opposition or only token opposition to his lifestyle and insatiable appetite for spending why would he not continue to act as a Regal Monarch?

 

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            One of the latest incidents reflecting the mindset of someone who either has a ‘god-complex’ believes that they are ‘entitled’, or believes that they have been ‘crowned as a Regals’ was the ridiculous expense of the ‘first dog’ being transported on a separate flight. WHY?  Well the immediate cry of many was that in the Muslim faith dogs are considered ‘unclean’ and travel would of necessity be separate.  Is that the case?  Possibly or is it just that the mindset and attitude of entitlement drives this President and family to do things that will show the world that they CAN and DO live lavishly while the populace, by and large, live in dire economic conditions.  That has been the way of Kings, Tyrants, and Despots throughout history.  They live lavish lives while their subjects live in squalor and struggle to survive.  Nothing is too good or to be withheld from the Regal and that is clearly the Obama mindset. 

             Why does this bother me so much?  Because when you examine the record of the number and lavishness of the vacations that they have taken, the separate vacations that Michelle and the children have taken, the incredible expense of security that he demands, the overboard entourage that accompanies them everywhere you find that it is astronomical in the actual cost to the tax-payer.  The tax-payer who is working to keep his/her head above water.  The tax-payer that is being lampooned as ‘not paying his/her fair share’ by this ‘would be emperor’.  The tax-payer who is seeing his/her America Dream completely vanish.  The tax-payer who is forced to ‘cut back’ and live a more austere lifestyle while watching the ‘first family’ parade around the country and the world in luxury.  This Presidents claims to be the ‘defender of the middle-class’ but who of the middle-class can live that lifestyle.  It is the lifestyle not just of the ‘rich and famous’ but the ‘Regals and Monarchs”. 

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            While I do not mind and desire that the American Presidents are protected, travel in a style commensurate with the top leaders of the world, I do find it insulting and objectionable that, in times of economic hardship, there is such disregard and empathy for the American people.  I find it insulting that he would make campaign speeches lambasting the ‘rich’ when he is doing far worse than the most lavish of the rich in that they pay their own way and he does not – WE PAY!  I find it insulting that he would attempt to operate politically, socially, or privately as a KING.  The Constitution affords no such luxury.  He is an ‘elected’ public servant or supposed to be.  He has not ascended to the Throne of America he was inaugurated into the Office of President not crowned King.  Congress should cease treating him as royalty, take the gloves off, defend the Constitution, and the interests of the American people IMMEIDATELY!  It should not matter what party you are in or identify with his actions, lavish living, and incredible spending should infuriate you.

             Where are the lovers of Freedom, the defenders of the Constitution, and the Patriots?  Where are those who are struggling to make ends meet?  Where are those who want a Restored Constitutional Democratic Republic?  Where are the representatives of the people?  WHERE?  Sadly, it seems that those of us willing to be vocal are in the minority but we dare not allow ourselves to become complacent.  We must attempt to turn up the heat, intensify the cry for liberty, and become involved both in prayer and work like never before.  AMERICA IS AT RISK!

             May God bless you and may God bless the United States of America!

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THE STANDARD OF NO STANDARD FOR MR. OBAMA…..


 

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            For several years now I have wondered how it is that if a Conservative, Constitutionalist, or Republican makes a faux pas in speaking or saying something that is factually, historically, geographically, incorrect he never hears the end of it and is branded as ‘dumb’ or some other equally demeaning characterization, but if Mr. Obama does it is because he is so ‘brilliant’ that his mind cannot entertain things so mundane and unimportant as how many states there are in the Union. 

             Recently, and most of you have already moved on from this, Mr. Obama was on Jay Leno’s show campaigning and trying to be likeable by the public and made so many gaffes that had that been George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, or any other Republican President or politician we would still be hearing it in the main stream or lame stream media.  It would be in every newspaper, on every national television and radio network, and the laughing or the ridicule would be endless, but not so with Mr. Obama.  There is deafening silence from those venues.  It is the ‘standard of no standard’ when it comes to him and his administration.  It is hypocrisy and so blatantly partisan that one would have to wonder how any rational voter could possibly not see through it and become disgusted with the double-standard.  But, I forget that many are ‘willingly blind’ and therefore the ‘standard of no standard’ is not only acceptable but desirable.

             Candidate Obama spoke in a church in Selma, Alabama on the anniversary of the ‘Bloody Sunday March’ where he told his audience that the Kennedy’s did an airlift that would bring young Africans to America so they could be educated and his grandfather heard that call and sent his father, Barack Obama, Sr. to America.  That would be great but there is a small or not so small problem.  In following the timeline of Barack’s life we find that he was born in August 1961 so he would have been conceived in November 1960 (or there about).  He suggested that it was through those endeavors that his mother and father got together and produced him.  That is a bit problematic and would suggest that the shout his grandfather heard would have had to have been that of Dwight David Eisenhower not Jack or Bobby Kennedy.  Jack Kennedy did not assume office until January 1961 so it would have been impossible for him to have been instrumental in a program that brought Barack, Sr. to Hawaii in 1959.  He declared that what happened in 1965 in Selma gave his mother a white woman from Kansas and his father a black man from Kenya the courage to get married and have a child.  The wee problem here is that since he was born on August 4, 1961 and the first of the three marches did not occur until March 7, 1965 or at least five years after Barack’s parents met.  But who is checking facts it is only a political speech right?

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            Of course when candidate Obama declared that he had campaigned in all 57 States the correlation with the 57 Islamic states was immediately dismissed and labeled as Islamophobic and racist so most Republicans backed completely away from it.  When he declared in September 2011 in Cincinnati that America is the country that built the ‘Intercontinental Railroad’ no one batted an eye.  When did we and where is that railroad that spans continents?  Oh I guess it is in one of the 57 States that I haven’t visited yet.  Also in November 2011 he said while speaking in Hawaii, “When I meet with world leaders, what’s striking – – whether it’s in Europe or here in Asia….”   When did Hawaii become a part of Asia?  Oh I guess my geography needs to be refreshed with the revisionist geography of Mr. Obama and the left.  Then the classic, “UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right?  It’s the Post Office that’s always having problems.”  That was his argument for Obamacare.  WHAT?  Mr. Obama you just destroyed your argument and identified why we should have ‘less’ not ‘more’ government involvement.

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            Then the Leno show where there were a number of gaffes but nothing sticks to him and he is held to ‘no standard’ again.  Remember when Dan Quayle misspelled ‘potato’ and how long that continued and to this day he is labeled and characterized as being lacking in the mental department.  Mr. Obama downplayed the threat of terrorism and we all know that Al Qaeda is not on the run, decimated, nor has their core been depleted.  They are possibly better organized today and as committed to terrorism as ever.  He wrongly claimed that Vladimir Putin once ran the KGB but the fact is Mr. Putin was a Lt. Colonel in the KGB not the head.  His geography is abysmal and we now have the “Gulf Coast’ and the “Gulf of Mexico” being somewhere near Savannah, Charleston, and Jacksonville.  He mixed up the summer and winter Olympics in his statements but no problem his intelligence is so astounding that small details like that should be expected from the “Big Brained People” such as Mr. Obama.

            He said one more thing that bothered me and I would have hoped for more inquiry to find out what he meant.  He said with regard to the question about Benghazi, “The odds of people dying in a terrorist attack obviously are still a lot lower than in a car accident, unfortunately.”  So it would be better if the odds of dying in a terrorist attack were higher than dying in a car accident?  You mean you want and lament that there are not more and more effective terror attacks?  PLEASE EXPLAIN MR. OBAMA!  I am waiting for your explanation but I know that it won’t be forthcoming.  If that was a Freudian slip it would suggest that as he declared in his book, “If the political winds ever turn sour I will side with the Muslims” is much more problematic than anyone thought or has suggested.

            I, for one, am tired of the standard of no standard with regard to this president or any politician.  I’m longing for and will work for a restored America, that honors and obeys the Constitution, and for a media that is, at least, a little honest who reports the news not one that slants and shapes it for their political agenda.

            God bless America and God bless you!

THE HIGH COST OF PATRIOTISM…..


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            Throughout American history the ‘Price of Patriotism’ has been gargantuan and required incredible commitment and resolve to maintain.  There are those today who suggest that conservative ideological beliefs, traditional family values, morality, and the U.S. Constitution are ‘outdated’ beliefs from a bygone era to be dismissed as things of antiquity.  They laugh at what those of us who hold those values would consider ‘patriotism’ and consider us ‘domestic terrorist’ to be treated as common criminals and silenced.

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            During the time the colonies were contemplating whether to ‘fight’ for Independence or remain subservient to the British Crown, American Patriotism was a costly position for one to adopt.  It cost more than most of us could possibly calculate in terms of money, social standing, political standing, and physical safety.  We find in studying history that a significant number of those who adopted the stance of ‘American Patriotism” lost position, property, family, and at times, life itself.  Yet those who treasured Freedom considered it a price worth paying to secure Liberty for those living at that time and posterity.  They considered it unacceptable to live in servitude to tyranny and although they looked for ways to compromise and reconcile with the Crown, they could find none that would not leave them servile so they opted to take the only steps available in an attempt to secure Independence, Liberty, and Freedom.

             Thomas Paine said, “These are times that try men’s souls.  The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.  What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.  Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.”  He also said, “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”  Patrick Henry in his infamous declaration said, “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?  Forbid it, Almighty God!  I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”

             Dr. Walter Williams said, “The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection against congressional tyranny.”  Robert A. Heinlein said, “Love your country, but never trust its government.”  Jacob G. Hornberger said, “Of course, the proponents of political tyranny are usually well-motivated. Those who enacted the gun-registration law in California point to criminals who have used semiautomatic weapons to commit horrible, murderous acts.  But the illusion – the pipe dream – is that bad acts can be prevented by deprivation of liberty.  They cannot be!  Life is always insecure.  The only choice is between liberty and insecurity, on the one hand, and insecurity and enslavement on the other.  The true patriot scrutinizes the actions of his own government with unceasing vigilance.  And when his government violates the morality and rightness associated with principles of individual freedom and private property, he immediately rises in opposition to his government.  This is why the gun owners in California might ultimately go down in history as among the greatest and most courageous patriots of our time.”  Thomas Jefferson said, “The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.”  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it.”

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            Men from every era, ethnic background, social strata, and political stripe have at one time or another, in our history, demonstrated an understanding of the value of our unalienable God-given rights that were enumerated in the Constitution by our Founding Fathers.  A document that begins “WE THE PEOPLE….”  A document that identifies ‘Unalienable Rights’ and establishes means to hold tyrannical overreaching and intrusive government in check and insists that the ultimate power and authority of America belongs to the citizens thereof.  Today, we have a government that does not believe that!  We have a President that has gone around the World trashing this nation and people, and recently in Tanzania declared that the Tea Party and conservative Republicans who were conservative Christians, gun owners, and held to what he deemed to be antiquated ideology of morality and self-determination were a small group and fit the description of ‘domestic terrorist’.  We have never had anyone serve as President of these United States who was so distant from American values as this man.  We have never seen a time when so many, in high office, want to so radically transform our American Heritage into something that would dismiss the Constitution, invalidate our traditional moral values, and destroy the sovereignty of this nation bringing us into subservience to the United Nations or some World Governing Body. 

             If we have ever had a time, since the American Revolution, when there was a need for True Patriots to rise up, band together, make their voices heard and have the resolve to stand for the long haul IT IS NOW!  If we fail to unify as a voice of reason, demand and defend Liberty and Freedom we will soon have neither.  Patriots it is in your hands!  Your country is being destroyed and as Dr. King said if we see it happening and remain silent we are as guilty as those who are perpetrating it.  We must be involved.  We must be diligent in prayer.  We must be committed to obtaining and retaining Liberty and Freedom.  It is up to us.  I do not have all the answers and sometimes feel I have no answers but I know one who does and to Him I am interceding for this nation.  I want a nation in which ALL CITIZENS can have “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”  I want a nation in which ALL CITIZENS can pursue the American Dream with a real hope that it is attainable.  I want a Constitutional Democratic Republic as was originally established. 

             God bless you and God bless America!

JAMES MADISON’S TAKE ON PRESENT DAY POLITICS….


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            Oh I realize that I have to theorize to hypothesize what Mr. Madison would or would not have thought or said regarding today’s Federal Politics but I am taking that liberty based on history and his own words.  As with anything that I or anyone else writes or says you have the right and liberty to choose to agree or disagree, but I hope to make you think and cause you to examine your perspective and views.  I believe it is good from time to time to reexamine what we think and why we think it.

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            When it comes to the ’lack of ‘transparency’ in contrast to what was promised by Barack Obama, that we would have the ‘most transparent’ administration in American history, I believe Mr. Madison’s own statements would help to conclude what he would think.  Mr. Madison, in a letter to W.T. Barry in August of 1822 said:  “A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”  Mr. Madison and our founders believed that it was not only good but mandatory that the government be forthcoming to the people and that it was not only good but essential that the people be informed.  They realized, as should we, that this may require the public to do some personal research but one of the responsibilities of government and elected officials is to provide access to information in keeping the ‘public trust’.  To suppress the ability of the public to know what is going on in Washington is the door to a “sham government” and will ultimately result in Tyranny.  Yet, today we are afforded less information than from any administration in history and we’ve had some pretty tight lipped administrations.  Sadly, too many voters just do not care so long as they get their handout or piece of the pie.

             When it comes to indiscriminate spending, welfare, subsidies, and some of the most outlandish expenditures in foreign aid I believe that Mr. Madison would have been outraged at what is happening.  Again, I go to his, own words as a basis for my conclusions which were echoed by many of our founders.  Mr. Madison said, in a letter to Edmund Pendleton January 1, 1792 – “If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one subject to particular exceptions.  It is to be remarked that the phrase out of which this doctrine is elaborated, is copied from the old articles of Confederation, where it was always understood as nothing more than a general caption to the specified powers, and it is a fact that it was preferred in the new instrument for that very reason as less liable than any other to misconstruction.”  Mr. Madison did not view the ‘general welfare clause’ to mean that Congress or the President should take tax-payer funds and use them to redistribute the wealth to people creating a Nanny State. 

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            He further stated, on the House floor during the Cod Fishery bill in February 1792 – ”If Congress can apply money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may establish teachers in every State, county, and parish, and pay them out of the public Treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing the manner of schools throughout the Union, they may undertake to the regulation of all roads other than post roads.  In short, everything, from the highest object of State legislation, down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress; for every object I have mentioned would admit the application of money, and might be called, if Congress pleased, provisions for the general welfare.”

             Mr. Madison’s objection should serve as a clear warning and evidence that the framers did not believe, as is being proclaimed by many on the left, that the ‘general welfare clause’ was a license for Congress and/or the President to create a Nanny State nor did they believe that every citizen had a right to ‘happiness’ as some have said only that they had the right to PURSUE HAPPINESS unimpeded by the Federal Government. 

             Mr. Madison also said regarding using tax-payer funds for benevolence, I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”  In the Annals of Congress, House of Representatives, 3rd Congress, 1st Session, Page 170 (January 10, 1794).  The Annals summarize speeches in the third person and Mr. Madison’s statement is as follows:  “Mr. Madison wished to relieve the sufferers, but was afraid of establishing a dangerous precedent, which might hereafter be perverted to the countenance of purposes very different from those of charity.  He acknowledged, for his own part, that he could not undertake to lay his finger on that article in the Federal Constitution which granted a right of Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”  The expense in question was for French refuges from the Haitian Revolution.

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            I am convinced that our Founding Fathers would be totally opposed to what is taking place in Washington today and has been the norm for some time.  They wanted a very restricted and limited government and believed that any law or action MUST be in harmony and in obedience with the written Constitution of these United States of America.  This is foreign to most members of Congress and is most assuredly foreign to this President and his Attorney General. 

             We need men and women in Congress who will completely and strictly uphold the Constitution, follow the Rule of Law, and do what is right for America and Americans.  We, as citizens, need to pray diligently for our nation and seek the mercy and grace of God in these troubled times. 

             God bless you and may God bless America!

WHAT EXACTLY IS IT THAT THIS ADMINISTRATION WANTS TO HIDE….


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            Forgive me but that statement or question is so open ended one could go in a myriad of directions, and time nor tolerance would not allow me to exhaustively pursue it so I have one thing in particular in mind – Benghazi.  What is it about Benghazi that Barack Obama and his agencies within the government are so vociferously laboring to keep from Congress, the media, the American people and the world?  It must be enormous for them to go to the lengths they have and are going to.  What is it about this ‘phony scandal’ as Mr. Obama has labeled it that is so damning he dare not let the truth come out?  It must be of epic proportions and more than just negligence because he has survived over four years of negligence and come away unscathed.  There has to be something so revealing that he, the State Department, the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the CIA are working overtime to insure that it remains hidden.  What is it?

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            Obviously, I do not know or I would be on the national scene and would be an immediate target of a drone assignation.  So, I openly declare that I do not know for sure but I am convinced that it must be something more than just dropping the ball, incompetence, or negligence.  It is far more sinister than that or they would not be going to the lengths they are to keep it hidden.

             CNN, of all sources, broke a story that the CIA is conducting monthly polygraph examinations on the survivors or agents who were in Benghazi to insure that they have not leaked any information to the media or Congress.  Why?  If it was a poorly produced and virtually unnoticed video that sparked this that would certainly not be necessary.  If it does not make any difference as suggested by Hillary as she angrily asked, “What difference does it make now?”  That would not be necessary.  If there was not chance or possibility of us rendering aid and support to the embassy and its inhabitants in time, this would not be necessary.  Why have they been relocated and even had names changed and are deemed to be in ‘witness protection”?  Why?

             CNN said sources informed them that the CIA had more than 20 agents at or near the U.S. consulate in Benghazi when Ambassador Stevens was killed.  In fact, the sources say that the CIA had 22 people in their annex the night of the attack.  Why 22?  Is this a normal number or was something else going on that Congress apparently did not know about.  Was this some covert under the table and behind the scenes operation?  I wish I knew and so should Congress, the media, the world, and the American people.  One source told CNN that there were 35 people at the consulate and annex with 7 of them wounded.  Obviously they knew it was an organized and well- orchestrated terrorist attack not some spontaneous riot as the result of a film or anything else.  What is it they do not want us to know?

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             Let me float a possibility, one that came up in the very beginning and Senator Rand Paul asked Hillary Clinton while she was under oath if the United States was involved in transferring weapons out of Libya to Turkey or any other nation.  Hillary attempted to brush it aside and he persisted.  She then deflected it to the CIA or some other agency declaring that she did not know.  With all that is being revealed by one of the most liberal and Obama friendly sources, CNN, one would have to ask, is this possible?  We already know about ‘Fast and Furious’ a scandal and ‘illegal gun running scheme’ that Obama and Holder have been dirtied by.  We know that Mr. Obama does not regard Congress, the Constitution, or the Law as a restraint for him because he has demonstrated he believes he is superior to any of those.  I do not know if this was another ‘illegal gun running’ operation conducted or authorized by this President but it is something so dangerous to him and the Democrats that they are pulling out all stops to keep it secret. 

             If the Republicans and any Democrats who even remotely want to keep our Constitution intact and desire to serve America do not press forward and get to the bottom of this they should be booted out of office immediately.  If Barack Obama was involved in an ‘illegal unauthorized gun running’ scheme to provide arms to the Syrian rebels he should be indicted and tried on the charge of treason.  As a concerned American citizen I am ramping up my DEMAND to my elected officials that they pursue this with all the power and influence they can muster.  This Obama labeled ‘phony scandal’ is far from phony and IT MATTERS!

             May God bless you and may God guard and guide America.

I HAVE A NOVEL IDEA FOR GOVERNMENT…..


        

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            It’s called a real “Pay As You Go Plan”.  Oh I know it is not a new idea and one that Congress and the President claim they embrace but obviously they either do not understand what it means to “Pay As You Go” or they do not believe in “Pay As You Go”.  I am fully persuaded that it is the latter and they enjoy using rhetoric believing that we are so gullible and dumb that we won’t know the difference.  Sadly, they have been right so often one would expect that from them.

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            If we roll back the clock to February, 2010 we find Barack Obama signing the federal requirement that the government only spend what it can afford.  But the day before he signed the authorization for $1.9 Trillion more federal debt.  Somehow those two do not compute UNLESS one has a different definition that any reasonable understanding of “Pay As You Go” and “Only What You Can Afford”.  The last one is where the rub comes in. “Only What the Government Can Afford” is the sticking point in this whole deal because Obama, the Democrats, and many Republicans seem to believe that the Government can afford ANYTHING and EVERYTHING.  The fact that we have over $17 TRILLION in National Debt not counting all the unfunded debt that we have in Medicare, Medicaid, etc. that is like a millstone hanging around the necks of all Americans and future generations.

             The President promised to “enforce” the PAY AS YOU GO or PAYGO which, in principle, requires all new spending to be offset by spending cuts, increase in revenue or a combination of the two.  Clearly Obama and the Democrats believe and desire to continually “increase revenue” without “cutting spending”.  After all, they have an obligation to keep the checks coming in for those from whom they have bought votes.

             Unfortunately, like all things Washington, this Law from 2010 is so riddled with exceptions and loopholes it is only an mirage having no substance or providing any hope of real balancing of the budget, spending cuts, or putting the government on a ‘monetary diet’.  It is nothing more than campaign fodder!  It is more spin and political double-speak to appease voters and divert the attention to something else while they continue to bury us in debt.      

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            In my personal budget I have no choice but to adopt a “Pay As You Go” approach to my finances.  If I do not, the result will be the same as that of Detroit and many Americans who go bankrupt because, if my, “out-go” is continually higher than my “in-come” then I am upside down and living on borrowed time and borrowed money.  I am sitting on a ticking time bomb that will explode sooner rather than later.  For that to happen in government will have such a disastrous effect it will be far more than some austere tightening of the belt which we can survive, it will be economic collapse like not seen even in the ‘Great Depression.’ 

             Am I saying that “Doomsday” is coming economically for America?  I do not know for certain but all the signs are there. I do know that the current path that we are on is taking us onto a slippery slope that ends with an apocalyptic catastrophe economically.  That will, in turn, result in such anarchy and chaos that the ‘civil unrest’ will be uncontrollable and people virtually becoming a ‘law unto themselves’ with crime and mayhem being the norm rather than the exception in all cities and towns across this nation.

             The “tax & spend” approach that has been transpiring for too long now cannot continue because at some point we reach the line of demarcation when people can pay no more and attempting to force them to do so will result in 100% of society with their hand out for government to feed, clothe, and house them.  We MUST and I emphasize MUST adopt a “Pay As You Go” approach nationally and I suggest that with the national economic unsteadiness it would behoove each of us to do so individually.

 What do we do?  I am working toward several things:

  1.    Intercession for the nation and her leaders.

 2.    Diligently seeking information about what is going on and the actual and potential results of those actions.

 3.    Applying pressure to my elected officials and any elected official that will give me the time of day.

 4.    Seeking candidates to support who will honor the Constitution, seek to Balance the Budget, shrink the Size of Government, cut spending, respect the Law, and work to return this nation to being a Constitutional Republic as it was in the beginning.

            Are those enough?  I don’t know but it is what I can and am doing now.  As more comes to light that I can do I will do them.  I want to see this nation restored to being “One Nation under God” with “Liberty and Justice for All.”

            May God bless you and may God guard, guide, and bless this Nation.

THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS….


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            I know this is old news now but I want to rehash it just a bit if you will indulge me.  One has to wonder what the real motivation of Mr. Obama in delaying the implementation of the Obamacare mandate for businesses but not individuals.  I believe that the “devil is in the details” and ultimately we will see some very bad things for Americans who work and pay taxes coming out of this.  It has a design and that design is quite diabolical, in my opinion.

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            One possibility, which all Republicans and opponents of Obamacare hope for, is that something will finally be laid at the feet of the Teflon President and help defeat the Democrats in 2014.  It could but with the “low information” crowd I would not bet the farm on it.  Instead when the employers dump health plans because they see a way out of the nightmare, the employees, media, and Democrats are going to call them every name under the book and it will further fan the flames of ‘class envy’ that Obama has worked hard to stir up.  If that happens then the most likely scenario is that they employees with the help of the Media and Democrats will blame the Republicans somehow and the sheep will buy it hook, line, and sinker.

             What is his real motivation beyond trying to help the Democrats avoid a good old fashioned “butt kicking” in the 2014 Elections?  I personally believe that his ulterior motive is to escalate and facilitate driving people out of private sector insurance and into the government run system of a National Health Care Single Payer System.  Once that is complete he will be able to virtually destroy the Private Health Insurance Industry then he can move to the next step of restricted, reduced, and denied health care for individuals he and those of his ilk deem prudent.  If you are a vocal conservative and have passed the age of 65 you can just about count on it you will have restricted and reduced, and likely denied care.  I know that I am cynical when I say that but what is it in this administration that would inspire me to be other?

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            I have just about given up hoping that people will WAKE UP because there have been so many opportunities to do so and it has not happened.  Nothing from the IRS, NSA, Media, and other scandals has prompted people to actually blame Obama for this other than those who have been vocal about his politics and ideology from the beginning.  Oh, there are a handful, from time to time that come over from the dark side but by and large that number is relatively small.  His approval ratings are dropping and the majority of people do not trust him or government but when it comes time to vote they still vote LIBERAL.  To make sense of that is impossible from a rational reasonable viewpoint.

             Following the Alinsky motto – “The end justifies the means” and as Rahm Emanuel said, “You never let a serious crisis go to waste.  And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”  They will use and abuse even their sheep to get what they want and what they want is the dismantling of America and the fundamental transformation of this nation. They want to strip the Constitution of all its power and reduce it to nothing more than another of the many documents in government but meaningless and powerless.  They want to destroy the economic system of capitalism and free market that has made America what is was before this latest collapse economically.  They want to dismantle the military and reduce us to 2nd or 3rd rate status in the world and force us to become just another member of the Family of Nations under the governance of the United Nations.  They want to see Agenda 21 implemented in its fullest scope.  One way to reach those goals is to have such control of the lives of the citizens that they cannot breathe without the government’s okay.  That will be implemented, in a great measure, through Obamacare with all its nuisances, hidden mandates and regulations.

             Yes, ‘the devil is in the details’ and it will likely be too late when people finally realize what has happened.  I pray that I am wrong and that God will open the eyes of the blind politically and turn the hearts of millions to return to Him and the foundational principles upon which this nation was founded and has operated for over 200 years.

             May God bless you and may God bless America!