The Obama administration had to twist arms, cajole and bribe to rush an expensive and flawed legislation that every single polls has shown not popular with the majority of the American people because of its cost, some of its content, the closed door meetings and open door to lobbies,and the lowest rated Congress ever, both sides of the aisle included.

Officially, it is gping to cost us about $900 billions over ten years but most likely, we are going to end up paying far more ….for far less coverage. So what, 10% of the US population had no other health coverage than over the counter medication, cheap walk in clinics and the ER… and half of them by choice (it is cheaper for me to take my kids to a walk in clinic for minor things than pay the $40 copay @ Kaiser). We already know that even this disastrous plan will not cover 1000% of the people anyways. And more studies will be out with time, showing us once again how bad iti is to rush partisan legislature, and how far off and wrong this one was!

In the meantime, social security is minus $2.5 trillions and most of its existing cash has been replaced by binders filled with IOUs. Are our prioriites wrong? 30 millions uninsured will be covered at the cost of a trillion plus while baby boomers about to retire will put the final drain at the social security system. Should I be entitled to the social security I contributed to all my active life? Should we?

Social security was based on money taken from the pay checks of generations of hard working americans to cover the retirement of the retiring waves of seniors. I work so you can retire with some confort. Our kids will work (good luck with that one!) so we can retire with some confort. The interests that piled up money was making were not protected and successive governements and lawmakers have looted them, diverted them toward more free entitlement and demagoguery. Most of us paid toward it to benefit from it and cover people less fortunate. None will happen and I am supposed to work until I am 68 to max it out…

The current health care reform is our paying to give freebees to people, most of them entitled I am sure.

This is like a difference between a freeway and a public library and entitlement programs. Public libraries and freeways are paid by the few (only 48% americans pay taxes) but profit all, payers included. Entitlement programs are paid by the same few but only serve a minority without any strings attached such as forcing them to get a job, go on a diet, adapt their lifestyle, change their lifestyle, etc…

Not only is this healthcare bill pure entitlelement –uninsured people still had the ER to go to and could not be denied medical care anyways- but it is also going to affect whatever existed for the workers/payers.

Simple laws everybody would have agreed on could have been passed quickly and been cheaper to make the current system better! Things such as allowing to purchase insurances across state borders, forcing companies to cover everybody paying in without discrimination on existing condition or age, allowing the purchase of foreign medicine, etc…

Nope…they went for the whole thing, took over the student loan industry in the same bag and are going for broke…literally!

Entitlement is not working….our fat kids are now going to be more motivated to stay home until they reach 26 years of age than go out, work and pay for their way… when Obama will pardon 30 million illegal immigrants in order to get re-elected, that will be 30 million more plus their extended families draining a social security and health care system they never paid for…

Governements are failing us and wasting our hard earned money. A report released today by the Californian Taxpayers association states that $18 billions were literally thrown away by the state in ten years in 127 projects…just plain wasted! How many average man/hours of hard work does it represent? And they say that they also identified 138 wasteful other project not quantifiabel in dollars and cents…

http://caltax.org/press/releases/2010/PressRelease3-22-10.pdf

But what is new. In the meantime, when I will stop working or being employable, I will have nothing coming out my way from all the money I contributed in Social Security….but luckily, thanks to the new health care program, I will have insurance and will be able to pay a visit to my physiscian and request assisted suicide for lack of the assisted living I financed all my life

Eric Chevreuil

The assault on Freedom of Speech and all our Constitutional rights to further government control of our lives by liberal elitist continues. Over the last several decades Marxist (aka: Liberals, Socialist or Progressives) have used the hijacked Democrat Party to create an environment of intolerance in almost every aspect of our public domain. This intolerance limits our Constitutional rights and is a path to abolish our liberty.

When I entered the work force as a young man in the late 1960’s I can remember lively debates on current events of the day, including politics. That was before liberal’s limited freedom of speech through “political correctness” or under the guise of the non-existent right “not to be offended” or right to work in a “hostile free environment”.

Recently I had a philosophical debate with one of my liberal co-workers. It was a rare event as the sharing of selective ideas is discouraged. The topics of this conversation was on what I believe is at the core of the current national debate on health care. Is health care a right and what is a right?

My co-worker demonstrated the typical liberal misconceptions about health care. He confused health care with health insurance. He expressed the socialistic myth that the high cost of health care and selective rationing is caused by insurance companies and it is the government’s responsibility to pay for health care for those who can not afford it. In reality Government, not insurance companies, is responsible for expensive and rationed health care due to excessive regulations and mandates. Yet, he and liberals completely ignore the facts supporting government causation. Instead he offers emotional and intellectually deficient theories. The core of his theories was predicated on the common liberal belief that health care it is a right.

However, history and empirical evidence contradicts his liberal theories. Ask a liberal to make the case for health care being a right and they will turn into an intellectual pretzel. Typical of liberals, the co-worker was unable to offer any empirical data to support his position and in order to explain how health care is a right he attempted to redefine a right. His argument consisted of emotional justifications or beliefs that can not be proven. He would just repeat that he believes in the right to health care and other “entitlements” with out being able to offer a factual basis for the belief. A typical characteristic of a religion and Liberalism is a religion.

The basic issue reverts to defining a right. Dr. Walter William’s eloquently noted “a right exists simultaneously among people… That means the exercise of a right by one person does not diminish those held by another.” For example one’s speech, or worship, or gun ownership, or ownership of property legally acquired does not infringe upon the right of another.

Now think about that. Liberals argue that if a person can not pay for health care they are still entitled to it. Liberals support government pilfering the earnings of one American to service another American by paying for their health care, housing, utilities, food and other welfare. Some might consider that a form of slavery. Compound that by liberal’s attempt to impede opposing views by demagoguery of critics.

I support the theory that health care, as well all of the other welfare provisions are not entitlements or rights but rather a societal good. A good is not a right. Contributing to the good of another American from your own earnings is laudable charity. But contributing from the pockets of another is not. Liberals are very generous with other people’s money. They feel superior by reaching into the pockets of one American to contribute to the charity of another American. Then wrap their theft in the mantle of an inalienable “right”.

George Torres

In another example of the wide adoption of the Bush security and military agenda, the White House –President Obama- went against its own justice department and declared that the Guantanamo detainees should be tried by military courts and not civilian courts on American soil.

After renewing the Patriot act as it was, such a flip-flopping coming from the Commander in chief and his associates shows us that there are no fuzzy woozy solution to deal with terrorists and other illegal enemies of the country that “fight” with no respect of the Geneva Convention and its clearly defined international rules of war.

It seems like our second wartime president has finally understood that the hard stance of the Bush-Cheney administration was better suited to manage the wars and the foes of America.

He ran the campaign of an immature idealistic teenager reaching for other utopians. Now he has matured with a real job and the great results of the Bush-era surge in Iraq made him realize that only victory and toughness will save us…and maybe his political future.

We are all expecting pimply teenagers and young adults to be idealistic and open armed, full of love and compassion, laziness and stupidity, drugs sex and rap…until they have to work and pay for their ways!

We bear with it because we know that fortunately, most of them will naturally become mature contributing adults, often with their own family to support and care for. Eventually, they will wake up to the realities of life and shake out their foo foo dreams, shed their pink baby skin.

Welcome to the club Mister President! It took a little longer for you but you are almost there and fast greying to real responsibilities.

You guys should be so proud!

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/05-2

Eric Chevreuil

“It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.” … Philosopher David Hume

Thomas Sowell, one the great minds of our times, wrote a thought provoking article exploring some ways a society loses freedoms. Mr. Sowell noted, “The most politically effective totalitarian systems have gotten people to give up their own freedom in order to vent their resentment or hatred at other people– under Communism, the capitalists; under Nazis, the Jews.” A profound comment that critical thinkers will appreciate; and unfortunately, too many liberals will not understand.
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2010/02/16/playing_freedom_cheap

For several decades our freedoms have been incrementally usurped by government. Not only have the people have allowed this to have happened, too many don’t realize it or care. Public education and academia controlled by entrenched liberals subscribing to the ideology of Marxism have indoctrinated and dumbed-down a significant segment of the population. They have created a mentally challenged citizen that flocks to the Democrat Party. During periods of power these anti-liberty zealots have incrementally taken away freedoms and continue to attack traditions that have made America great for over 200 years.

There are a plethora of examples that prove American traditions and freedom are under attack by Marxist Liberals, often with assistance of the courts because a majority of Americans rebuke the liberal agenda. Their attack on religion escalated with the Supreme Court decision in Murray vs. Curlett (1963), which banned organized school prayers. Since then liberals have been committed to eliminate Christmas symbols and other religious symbols in public places, or caroling in public schools, the words “under God” in our Pledge of Allegiance or the use of God in any government communication. The lie used to promote this agenda is the non-existent “Separation of Church and State” clause in the U.S. Constitution. It’s a liberal myth! A provision created by an overreaching liberal activist Supreme Court.

Take something as benign smoking tobacco. The freedom to choose to consume a legal product has been taken away incrementally. It started in the 1960’s with restrictions to smoking in sections of airplanes, then airports, restaurants, places of employment and parks. This was followed by confiscatory taxes on tobacco products and multibillion-dollar suits against tobacco companies, then prohibition of smoking in individual cars and homes. Other Constitutional freedoms and property rights are being taken away in the same manner.

The most egregious Liberal attack on liberty is the assault on freedom of speech and thought. Tyrants and politicians supporting totalitarian systems know that to control the population you must control speech and thought. To this end liberals have passed “Hate Crimes” legislation, one of the most egregious violations of the U.S. Constitution ever passed by Congress and upheld by a Supreme Court. What a person is thinking when committing a crime against another person is not of consequence. The act alone should be judged and punished.

Freedom of speech and thought, along with property rights, are of the most cherished freedoms of any free society. Once government controls freedom of speech and thought they can dictate “appropriate” language, which liberals have done with so called “Political Correctness”. By controlling the use of words such as retard, queer, nigger, spic, kike, etc., governments can control the people. The 1st Amendment was adopted to protect the most insensitive speech and with out it there is no freedom. Think of the absurdity of rewriting great literary works of bye gone eras, like those of Mark Twain, because of the use of “incentive” words as defined by liberal elitist.

Team Obama and Democrats are shinning examples of the Marxist Liberal agenda to control the people. They use lofty rhetoric like economic and social justice, which does not sow justice but only spreads misery and poverty. They are master midway carnival barkers and political magicians using slight of hand, out right lies, misinformation, and distortion of empirical data, rewritten history, hate and class warfare to advance the agenda. Liberals posting on this blog is proof positive. Liberal icons are able to convince indoctrinated minions lacking critical thinking skills to give up their freedoms with bumper sticker slogans and sound bites that allow liberal naval gazers to feel good about their lofty self perceptions while being led into tyranny like a flock of sheep.

George Torres