Post by Rob W. Case on Sept 8, 2009 1:03:41 GMT -6
Reasons Why the Government Doesn’t Deserve Our Trust on Health Care
Trust is a very important concept. Trust is the moving force behind your support for someone or something that someone stands for. When you lie, you cut off that support as now you are seen by the people who trusted you, as a danger who will sell you out in pursuit of his own selfish interests, and as such, mislead you rather for his own purposes rather than serve as a companion who will base his decisions on what is right for you, especially if that person is entrusted to represent you and your interests. I cannot stress this point enough. As things stand at the time of this writing, you are the bosses of your representatives. They have no control over you unless you give them the power to have control over you. If you are a registered voter, you are a shareholder in the direction of the country. If your representative fails you, you FIRE them. If your representative serves to protect and bring about the environment to allow you to prosper significantly, you reward them by re-electing them. But be aware. Some people will try and pervert your thinking process to get you to sign off your individual liberties, so that they can be under the control of a very exclusive and very out-of touch elite. When that happens, they will use the very power you signed over to them against you. They will make the system work for them, and not you. Ultimately, in the end you will be like a slave, making money for the government, and not yourself. Every Communist Government works in this fashion.
In this piece, I want to address the subject of Government runned health care. Regarding the current pending health care bill (H.R. 3200), and knowing the political nature of these politicians in Washington, I don’t have any trust in the government running such a system. Every power-hungry politician has pursued the same goals as each other. In fact, the agenda has been the same now for over 60 years regarding the agenda of the Democrat party. Their agenda doesn’t change. Nothing changes. Just their selling points do. The Democrat party calls itself progressive, yet they are pushing the same thing now that it pushed for, and was rejected 60, 40, and even 15 years ago. It is the same old thing that has been pushed for 60 years, and now, we are going through another round. The only thing is different this time, is that it is a little more fierce in that now death (via euthanasia, and suicide) is in the mainstream. In this piece, I am going to reveal to you some inside secrets that the powers that be, and the media protecting them would never tell you, and that people who work for hospitals have probably never thought to tell you, since they have no obligation to do so. I know the things I know because I actually dared to ask questions to people who actually work on the front lines in the medical field, and to my benefit, I actually got some surprising answers that explained things that would be considered foreign to the public.
A Democrat Principle:
If at first you don’t succeed, Damage, Damage, Damage, Until the People become desperate and become receptive to what you offer them.
Author, motivational speaker, politician, and free-market investment analyst Harry Browne once stated, "The government is good at one thing...it knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say 'see if it weren't for the government you wouldn't be able to walk.'" There is so much wisdom to that quote. Adding to that, Walter Williams, a professor, a columnist, and economist, once said, “Politicians have always coveted the liberties we hold.” Why is that? I will address that later in this piece.
Government controlled health care has been an issue which politicians have coveted for decades. Why? Necessity. The need to have it in society. I think the best way to describe it to you is by illustrating the concept of labor unions.
Many in transportation, food, coal mining, construction, railroads, and many other services that are needed to serve the population and play a role in growing neighborhoods and expanding societies have labor unions tacked on to them. Since all of those services are NEEDED, labor unions that are tied to things that we all need have the overall capital to flex their political muscle and threaten strikes, causing pressure in hopes to force a company to buckle under political demands to have the workers needed to be able to tend to the people’s needs. I remember a few years back, the truck drivers who work for the grocery company I currently work for, threatened to go on strike because their weekly health insurance costs rose per week. By threatening to withhold their services, the store would not be able to get the products needed to tend to the people’s needs, and if the needs of the people are not met by our place of business, then the people who shopped at our store would practically be forced to go to the competition to get what they needed. A strike is a form of intimidation that threatens to withhold the needs of the community in order to get one’s demands met. Government controlled Health care works the same way.
Since everyone in their lives, sooner or later will have to either visit a doctor for a check-up, or go to the emergency room, or get their annual shots, everyone NEEDS the medical field. Because there is a NEED for the medical field, big government politicians see it as an opportunity to bureaucratize that need, and make it work for them politically. Once the system is put in placed, it calls for the “need” of new organizations, organizations that are “responsible” for certain duties that are designed to work with another organization who is “responsible” for their specific duties. All of these numerous organizations, one working with the other, pull it all together. What that does is, within each government organization it opens, it “creates” more government jobs, and those government jobs will be filled up with people who will return their loyalty to their job providers by voting for candidates who “created” those jobs…..who in this particular case would be Democrats. I’ve seen this concept work first hand, because a few relatives of mine work for the government. When they vote (and they without fail, vote Democrat), they votes to keep their jobs, and they urge their other family members who do not work for the government to vote the same way. This kind of (I don’t know what you call it…) loyalty, dependency, sense of obligation, or whatever is what the very people selling this to you hope for. In essence, it is a clever and sneaky way to buy votes. If the Government gives you a job, then you need to repay the big government politician with your vote. But that is not its only function. There are many others, and those others are not for the betterment of your health, or society. This aspect is only one of many different angles in this government runned health care bill.
The motive of this health care plan is unadulterated power. But do they deserve it? In my opinion, no. Why? Because all of the other government systems imposed on us in the past have either failed, or are right now on the verge of total collapse. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and so forth were all programs created to serve the interests of politicians, not the people, although they were all at one point marketed as programs to serve the people. Social Security was campaigned as an insurance policy in which the younger generation would pay into a pool of money designed to pay the balance of what the older generation (when he/she turns 62) accumulated from the time he/she began to work to the time he/she retires. Of course, in reality, from age 62-65 to the time the person passes away, the government pays out miniscule amounts of money, ending up profiting significantly in the very end. Think about it; you pay into a system from the time you start working (age 16-18) to the time you retire (age 62-65). That is over 40 years you pay into the system. Then take the time you retire (age 62-65) to the time you pass away (the average life expectancy is 77.6 years). That is roughly around 15 years you get to collect from a system you paid into for over 40. Who gets the rest? The Government. Politicians get to then control that money and fund other things outside the program it is supposed to fund in the first place. Also, since every single American pays into the system, and since many Americans die before they reach the retirement age, whether it be from an accident, suicide, or what have you, all of the money collected from them over the years is pure gravy, in other words, all of that money is pure PROFIT placed into the hands of the Federal Government. That’s why it was invented, and that’s why it exists. Medicare is similar. It is a system for which you pay into your entire career, and once you need its services (I think you have to apply for it), they pay out so much, but they act like an insurance agency, only covering certain things and covering only a certain amount of money. Is it fair? I don’t think so. Why? Because you are obligated to pay into a system (aside from your regular income, social security, property, state, taxes) that is MANDATED by the Federal Government, which pays out sparingly when you begin to actually need its services. Medicaid is similar, but not the same as Medicare. Medicaid is a system that is geared towards low-income, or non-workers (for whatever reason), and pays medical bills at the expense of the taxpayer. Now, I ask you, with all of the PROFIT that comes from all three of these systems, plus the tax revenues that come in all around, should the government be bankrupt? No. The Government should really have a significant surplus, but it doesn’t. It is too concerned with spending far beyond its means for the items that the powers that be want, and are not concerned enough about spending money only on the things that we the people need. This is just one of the reasons why we need term limits in both houses of Congress. But that is another issue all together.
Government and Failure:
Watch this, because this is very interesting. Remember when I used the quote earlier in this article that Harry Browne once stated? Here it is again. "The government is good at one thing...it knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say 'see if it weren't for the government you wouldn't be able to walk.'" Again, this is a perfect analogy. When socialized health care fails to pass in Congress, the Democrats usually work to place more regulations on private health care companies’, which in turn affects costs, meaning that costs rise. You don’t realize this, because the very politicians that place all of these new stresses on private health insurance plans are the very ones outwardly complaining about the consequences that they created themselves by their own authority. When the campaign to get government runned health care fails, the Democrats retreat and use their authoritative muscle behind the scenes, to sabotage the private or employer based system. Again, they impose new regulations and federal standards so that prices go up, so when they are campaigning, they can complain about the rising cost of health care. They do it themselves and then turn around and damn the results of their actions by blaming the consequences on the “rich”, “evil,” “capitalist” private insurance companies,” and deceitfully blame Republicans for aiding such “evil” by being for the “rich.” True Republicans do not resort to these tactics, because they usually support a private, employer based system. That is part of a private, ownership society. Democrats are all about transforming the private ownership society into a socialist, controlled society with them at the controls. This is one of the reasons why I trust Conservative Republicans more than Liberal Democrats (whom I don’t trust at all) and Liberal Republicans (who I very rarely trust). When the powers that be force new regulations on private, employer based systems (many of which are frivolous), and impose new federal guidelines, or flood the system by forcing them to cover private insurers of people who cannot afford it, it causes health care costs among those who actually pay for it to rise. The people who then get their medical bills (completely ignorant of the details behind the scenes) are then outraged as to how much they have to pay. Then, the politician who helped cause those costs to rise comes out and talks about the rising costs of health care, attracting political favor from people who, in their state of ignorance, have to pay those higher medical bills. They are in no way aware of how those prices got high, nor does it matter to them. All they think about is that those prices are high, and nothing beyond that. Selfish politicians will work to get what they want, and if they can’t get it by the will of the people, they will try and force people to adopt it by making it so tough on them, that the people will want a “free,” system. Of course, nothing can compare with free when you’re stuck in the moment. But even the “free” clause is a deception. Their goal is to get what they want done, by any means necessary, and work to have people become totally dependent on the government, just to make those costs go away, even if that means you have to wear a mask and hurt them to “prove” your point. Let me say that again, but in another way. People who see their health care bills rise, will be more supportive of a “free” health care system if they are stuck with high health care bills, because they are completely unaware as to how those costs got so high. That is exactly what the politicians want, so they will use their government authority to place new laws, regulations, and restrictions on private health care companies to force those medical bills to be higher, so that people will hopefully support what the politicians want them to support. To realize this at its full impact, one needs to be able to connect the dots and ask questions.
Those are some of the grounds for which I do not trust the government in handling our health care. Another reason why I do not trust this new particular health care plan is because of the way it was sold to us. In civil politics, when somebody is not receptive of what you want, you try to come up with enough substance to convince the people that your plan is the best plan and why it deserves your support. When President George W. Bush campaigned in 2005 to privatize social security, he was always civil and focused primarily on the substance of the matter, yet the baby boomers rose up and worked feverishly to keep the system the way it was to keep it so that younger people would have to keep paying into the system to pay for their own retirements. Either way, right or wrong, Bush kept his arguments civil. For some reason, the Democrats wanting this bill so badly do not do this. Some, by their own admission, have not even read the bill. They imply that those who oppose their bill are deranged extremists, un-American, and paint them as dangerous. One obvious no-brainer in business is when you are trying to sell somebody something; you do not damn the customer. If you damn the customer, you will most likely lose the sale. Most people do not establish favor when somebody is trying to force something on them, and talk down to them if they do not support it. Choice is established by the favor you earn. What’s going on right now is that they’re not only damning the customer, but they are also reminding people that this is part of the “change” that they voted for in November of last year.
“I came to provide the sweeping change that this country demanded, when it went to the polls in November.”
--President Barack Obama
What is the substance of the health care plan?
I don’t know. It’s difficult to find anything that will actually help the people who would need its services. But I’ll tell you one thing, If you keep track of the lobbyists that are connected with the president and Congress, it will become obvious that this is a clever, sneaky, and evil way to fund their lobbyists (campaign contributors) with federal tax dollars (i.e. our money). Then, the organization who has been included to play a role in this health care plan will continue to lobby to Democrat politicians, but because the Federal Government now pays money into the organization that lobbies for them, in turn, it will be as if the taxpayer is funding the Democrats campaigns by force, by simply paying their taxes. Meanwhile, what about the Republicans? They are left to generate money for their campaigns via the free market, which Obama and the Democrats in Congress are trying to wipe away on a daily basis. If you get rid of the free market, you get rid of the cash to fund the Republican party. All of these policies work hand in hand, one in alignment with another, all building up to create an oligarchic political system, for which they (the Democrats) could never be removed from (or so they’re hoping).
Who’s Behind This?
This is another reason why people should not trust the government to run their health care. When you ask who is behind this bill, one begins to think. Of course, if you are not involved in politics, and are not informed, you are likely to be attracted to this bill like a moth to a light, only to find out in the end, it was really a bug zapper… but by then, it will have been too late. So, here is a partial list of the people putting their efforts into this bill, and what they specialize in.
Max Baucus (D)- Montana—Most effective in making deals with the business community and mustering up Republican support.
Rahm Emanuel (D)—A notoriously brutal politician. He was chosen by President Obama to serve because of the methods he uses to get his way, and work diligently to destroy the Republican opposition.
Nancy Pelosi (D) from California and Harry Reid (D) from Nevada—Pelosi (Speaker of the House) and Reid (Senate Majority Leader) are literally banking on this. They will personally profit if this bill passes because the bureaucratic organizations that participate in this health care plan lobby for their political campaigns.
Karen Ignagni—a top lobbyist for the nation's health-maintenance organizations was also a labor union leader, serving as director of the AFL-CIO's Department of Employee Benefits and thus serving the political interests of the Democrat party.
Henry Waxman (D) California. Waxman is one of the fiercest and most skilled legislators whose legal language has crafted bills that are socialistic in nature. He is a member of the Democratic Socialists for America which has admitted, “At the root of our socialism is a profound commitment to democracy, as means and end.” Of course, socialism is the forcing of one will over another. With his skills as a legislator, he has the know how and skill to force socialism down our throats under the radar. Jane Chastain, a California-based broadcaster, author and political commentator wrote in a 1998 article for World Net Daily what she experienced when she visited Waxman’s office. She explains, “I received the shock of my life. It was like stepping into an office in socialist or Communist country. It was drab. Everything was cold and impersonal. Members of his staff, were dressed down, way down. One staffer made a point to tell me that everyone who worked for Mr. Waxman -- from the chief of staff right down to the secretaries -- all received the same pay.” He is a socialist through and through, and socialism is a system based on injustice to steal from the earners and keep the poor dependent enough on them to vote for them. Socialism is not in any ways a fair political system in the sense that a person who works harder than another is not rewarded, acknowledged, or does not come out ahead of somebody who does not care to work hard, does not work hard, or cannot work at all. Henry Waxman most certainly covets the liberties we hold, and strives to limit our freedoms to make room for the agenda of the Democratic Socialists for America. After all, his career will remain secure whether or not America falls completely under socialism. We will just have to suffer, and his attitude towards us is, “tough! Too Bad!”
Such personalities behind this bill raise concerns. Their backgrounds raise red flags that suggest that they are all about self, and not about us, their bosses, or the interests of this country. Their motives are purely political, and have no real benefit to your health and well-being.
The Timing:
Folks, isn’t it interesting that amidst massive deficits at historic highs, a so-called economic crisis, a shrinking economy, the decrease of the GDP, and so forth, we are trying to push another, I repeat ANOTHER, trillion dollar idea through Congress? And to boot, this is another trillion dollar idea that is not absolutely necessary at this time. We cannot afford to risk throwing away money that will take us generations (if this country still exists) to pay back.
The Blame Game:
It is the classic, age old human response used by anybody who does not want to be held accountable for their actions. It is the blame game. President Obama is attempting to blame the Republicans for the lack of support on health care. The problem with this blame is that there aren’t enough Republicans to pin the blame on. The Democrats have the 60 proof majority in the Senate, as well as a filibuster proof majority in the House. This entire ordeal is Democrats against Democrats.
The Right to Death is a Right for the Government to Collect:
How much are you worth? To a true Conservative, you have a thing called a soul, given to you by God and when you are in authority, you carry the notion that you will one day be held accountable to your creator as to how you exercised your authority over the souls of others. To a liberal political figure, you are nothing more than a high cost, and a budgetary liability to the system. The truth is as cold as I said it. I was reading a piece in the Wall Street Journal about end of life care for Veterans. This part was interesting.
“Last year, bureaucrats at the VA's National Center for Ethics in Health Care advocated a 52-page end-of-life planning document, "Your Life, Your Choices." It was first published in 1997 and later promoted as the VA's preferred living will throughout its vast network of hospitals and nursing homes. After the Bush White House took a look at how this document was treating complex health and moral issues, the VA suspended its use. Unfortunately, under President Obama, the VA has now resuscitated "Your Life, Your Choices."” (Wall Street Journal, August 19th, 2009)
You can access the full book here….
www.scribd.com/doc/18981579/Your-Life-Your-Choice-Death-Book
If you do decide to access the book, I want to focus your attention on page 21 where it gives you a checklist to determine as it says itself, “what makes your life worth living?” Then look at page 24. The tone is hopeless. They are obviously trying to pressure people to get on board with this so that when a doctor (approved by the government) decides to pull the plug, they would have the go-ahead. It provides many opportunities and loopholes to end your life sooner than your appointed expiration date. All hope then is lost, as it is a matter of money rather than a matter of life.
I’m convinced that the hope is to convince people who get federal benefits to embrace death so they will stop collecting those federal benefits. Folks, you have to pay attention to EVERYTHING they are doing for everything they do on one issue is connected to another issue. When Obama talks about the inheritance tax, believe me, it is in part, connected to the health care plan. Everything he is pushing is inter-connected with each other. If a person decides to have the plug pulled, then the government will profit because now, due to the increase in the inheritance tax (which is a scheme in which the government gets a larger percentage of all your loved one’s willed assets) the government will not only save money from the life they discontinued, but will collect money on all the money the deceased individual earned in the past, and government insurance policies (like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid) he paid into his entire life. By choosing death, the government gets more money. When you die, the Government will be able to stop paying out social security checks, Medicare checks, and stop paying as many Medicaid bills. What this health care plan does is protect those past pools of money, and starts yet another pool of money, and then uses all of them to create a massive slush fund that political figures will be able to dip into for anything they want money for—i.e. government programs. It’s all about money. Don’t fool yourself. These very politicians pushing this bill speak very unfavorably about insurance companies. But the very things they publicly criticize about insurance companies, they want to adopt themselves for this health care bill. They want to be the insurance company making the profit, not a private insurer. They want another Government takeover of a business, and that is what an insurance company is, a business. The only difference is that this business is connected to every aspect of your life without your consent, and this business works hand in hand with all of the other government mandated programs (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid), that also were decided to be put in place for you, long before people like me were even born.
Now, earlier in this article I mentioned two things that that I promised to address. One was the quote by economist Walter Williams who said, “Politicians have always coveted the liberties we hold.” The other is how the plan will be funded. Both of them will go hand in hand. What do these things mean and what do they have in common? First off, Walter Williams is correct. Politicians have always coveted the liberties we hold. The reason being is because they want to be in control, and not you. They want power for themselves and do not want your say to drown theirs out, and your consent to cancel out theirs. They have the same liberties we have, but the difference is that they want ours, while they get to keep theirs. The whole concept of a socialist revolution is this; eliminate the middle class and create two classes, the ruling class and the poor. This is the very concept of revolution that Communist dictators like Russia’s Vladimir Lenin and China’s Mao Tse Tung initiated and wrote books about in their countries. The most effective way to successfully do this is best described by Lenin.
The way to crush the [middle class] is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
--Vladimir Lenin
As it now sits, the debt from this massive plan will add to the debt another $1.6 trillion. What it will do if it gets passed, is cause hyper-inflation. Inflation is the devaluing of money, and so prices will go up. Add to that, to pay the debt on this plan would be funded at the expense of the taxpayer, causing everything to go up dramatically to pay for it. The economy would continue to weaken further, shrink more, and consequentially, more Americans would lose their jobs, the middle class would become poor, and the Government would have in place a system to funnel money amongst itself, through the hands of a wealthy elite group in which capitalism would be exclusive to only them, and not us. Socialist policies breed a-moral capitalism. Again, oligarchy is at play here, and this health care bill is yet another step to make that happen. When an oligarchy occurs, political influence is mainly left in the hands of a few, wealthy elite. In other words, we the people could never on our own become wealthy because the government would control what wealth we produce, while having all the freedom for themselves to produce unlimited amounts of wealth for themselves. They will have a system that will dictate “do as I say, not as I do,” and will force government mandates to make sure you cannot do what they do.
Trust is a very important concept. Trust is the moving force behind your support for someone or something that someone stands for. When you lie, you cut off that support as now you are seen by the people who trusted you, as a danger who will sell you out in pursuit of his own selfish interests, and as such, mislead you rather for his own purposes rather than serve as a companion who will base his decisions on what is right for you, especially if that person is entrusted to represent you and your interests. I cannot stress this point enough. As things stand at the time of this writing, you are the bosses of your representatives. They have no control over you unless you give them the power to have control over you. If you are a registered voter, you are a shareholder in the direction of the country. If your representative fails you, you FIRE them. If your representative serves to protect and bring about the environment to allow you to prosper significantly, you reward them by re-electing them. But be aware. Some people will try and pervert your thinking process to get you to sign off your individual liberties, so that they can be under the control of a very exclusive and very out-of touch elite. When that happens, they will use the very power you signed over to them against you. They will make the system work for them, and not you. Ultimately, in the end you will be like a slave, making money for the government, and not yourself. Every Communist Government works in this fashion.
In this piece, I want to address the subject of Government runned health care. Regarding the current pending health care bill (H.R. 3200), and knowing the political nature of these politicians in Washington, I don’t have any trust in the government running such a system. Every power-hungry politician has pursued the same goals as each other. In fact, the agenda has been the same now for over 60 years regarding the agenda of the Democrat party. Their agenda doesn’t change. Nothing changes. Just their selling points do. The Democrat party calls itself progressive, yet they are pushing the same thing now that it pushed for, and was rejected 60, 40, and even 15 years ago. It is the same old thing that has been pushed for 60 years, and now, we are going through another round. The only thing is different this time, is that it is a little more fierce in that now death (via euthanasia, and suicide) is in the mainstream. In this piece, I am going to reveal to you some inside secrets that the powers that be, and the media protecting them would never tell you, and that people who work for hospitals have probably never thought to tell you, since they have no obligation to do so. I know the things I know because I actually dared to ask questions to people who actually work on the front lines in the medical field, and to my benefit, I actually got some surprising answers that explained things that would be considered foreign to the public.
A Democrat Principle:
If at first you don’t succeed, Damage, Damage, Damage, Until the People become desperate and become receptive to what you offer them.
Author, motivational speaker, politician, and free-market investment analyst Harry Browne once stated, "The government is good at one thing...it knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say 'see if it weren't for the government you wouldn't be able to walk.'" There is so much wisdom to that quote. Adding to that, Walter Williams, a professor, a columnist, and economist, once said, “Politicians have always coveted the liberties we hold.” Why is that? I will address that later in this piece.
Government controlled health care has been an issue which politicians have coveted for decades. Why? Necessity. The need to have it in society. I think the best way to describe it to you is by illustrating the concept of labor unions.
Many in transportation, food, coal mining, construction, railroads, and many other services that are needed to serve the population and play a role in growing neighborhoods and expanding societies have labor unions tacked on to them. Since all of those services are NEEDED, labor unions that are tied to things that we all need have the overall capital to flex their political muscle and threaten strikes, causing pressure in hopes to force a company to buckle under political demands to have the workers needed to be able to tend to the people’s needs. I remember a few years back, the truck drivers who work for the grocery company I currently work for, threatened to go on strike because their weekly health insurance costs rose per week. By threatening to withhold their services, the store would not be able to get the products needed to tend to the people’s needs, and if the needs of the people are not met by our place of business, then the people who shopped at our store would practically be forced to go to the competition to get what they needed. A strike is a form of intimidation that threatens to withhold the needs of the community in order to get one’s demands met. Government controlled Health care works the same way.
Since everyone in their lives, sooner or later will have to either visit a doctor for a check-up, or go to the emergency room, or get their annual shots, everyone NEEDS the medical field. Because there is a NEED for the medical field, big government politicians see it as an opportunity to bureaucratize that need, and make it work for them politically. Once the system is put in placed, it calls for the “need” of new organizations, organizations that are “responsible” for certain duties that are designed to work with another organization who is “responsible” for their specific duties. All of these numerous organizations, one working with the other, pull it all together. What that does is, within each government organization it opens, it “creates” more government jobs, and those government jobs will be filled up with people who will return their loyalty to their job providers by voting for candidates who “created” those jobs…..who in this particular case would be Democrats. I’ve seen this concept work first hand, because a few relatives of mine work for the government. When they vote (and they without fail, vote Democrat), they votes to keep their jobs, and they urge their other family members who do not work for the government to vote the same way. This kind of (I don’t know what you call it…) loyalty, dependency, sense of obligation, or whatever is what the very people selling this to you hope for. In essence, it is a clever and sneaky way to buy votes. If the Government gives you a job, then you need to repay the big government politician with your vote. But that is not its only function. There are many others, and those others are not for the betterment of your health, or society. This aspect is only one of many different angles in this government runned health care bill.
The motive of this health care plan is unadulterated power. But do they deserve it? In my opinion, no. Why? Because all of the other government systems imposed on us in the past have either failed, or are right now on the verge of total collapse. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and so forth were all programs created to serve the interests of politicians, not the people, although they were all at one point marketed as programs to serve the people. Social Security was campaigned as an insurance policy in which the younger generation would pay into a pool of money designed to pay the balance of what the older generation (when he/she turns 62) accumulated from the time he/she began to work to the time he/she retires. Of course, in reality, from age 62-65 to the time the person passes away, the government pays out miniscule amounts of money, ending up profiting significantly in the very end. Think about it; you pay into a system from the time you start working (age 16-18) to the time you retire (age 62-65). That is over 40 years you pay into the system. Then take the time you retire (age 62-65) to the time you pass away (the average life expectancy is 77.6 years). That is roughly around 15 years you get to collect from a system you paid into for over 40. Who gets the rest? The Government. Politicians get to then control that money and fund other things outside the program it is supposed to fund in the first place. Also, since every single American pays into the system, and since many Americans die before they reach the retirement age, whether it be from an accident, suicide, or what have you, all of the money collected from them over the years is pure gravy, in other words, all of that money is pure PROFIT placed into the hands of the Federal Government. That’s why it was invented, and that’s why it exists. Medicare is similar. It is a system for which you pay into your entire career, and once you need its services (I think you have to apply for it), they pay out so much, but they act like an insurance agency, only covering certain things and covering only a certain amount of money. Is it fair? I don’t think so. Why? Because you are obligated to pay into a system (aside from your regular income, social security, property, state, taxes) that is MANDATED by the Federal Government, which pays out sparingly when you begin to actually need its services. Medicaid is similar, but not the same as Medicare. Medicaid is a system that is geared towards low-income, or non-workers (for whatever reason), and pays medical bills at the expense of the taxpayer. Now, I ask you, with all of the PROFIT that comes from all three of these systems, plus the tax revenues that come in all around, should the government be bankrupt? No. The Government should really have a significant surplus, but it doesn’t. It is too concerned with spending far beyond its means for the items that the powers that be want, and are not concerned enough about spending money only on the things that we the people need. This is just one of the reasons why we need term limits in both houses of Congress. But that is another issue all together.
Government and Failure:
Watch this, because this is very interesting. Remember when I used the quote earlier in this article that Harry Browne once stated? Here it is again. "The government is good at one thing...it knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say 'see if it weren't for the government you wouldn't be able to walk.'" Again, this is a perfect analogy. When socialized health care fails to pass in Congress, the Democrats usually work to place more regulations on private health care companies’, which in turn affects costs, meaning that costs rise. You don’t realize this, because the very politicians that place all of these new stresses on private health insurance plans are the very ones outwardly complaining about the consequences that they created themselves by their own authority. When the campaign to get government runned health care fails, the Democrats retreat and use their authoritative muscle behind the scenes, to sabotage the private or employer based system. Again, they impose new regulations and federal standards so that prices go up, so when they are campaigning, they can complain about the rising cost of health care. They do it themselves and then turn around and damn the results of their actions by blaming the consequences on the “rich”, “evil,” “capitalist” private insurance companies,” and deceitfully blame Republicans for aiding such “evil” by being for the “rich.” True Republicans do not resort to these tactics, because they usually support a private, employer based system. That is part of a private, ownership society. Democrats are all about transforming the private ownership society into a socialist, controlled society with them at the controls. This is one of the reasons why I trust Conservative Republicans more than Liberal Democrats (whom I don’t trust at all) and Liberal Republicans (who I very rarely trust). When the powers that be force new regulations on private, employer based systems (many of which are frivolous), and impose new federal guidelines, or flood the system by forcing them to cover private insurers of people who cannot afford it, it causes health care costs among those who actually pay for it to rise. The people who then get their medical bills (completely ignorant of the details behind the scenes) are then outraged as to how much they have to pay. Then, the politician who helped cause those costs to rise comes out and talks about the rising costs of health care, attracting political favor from people who, in their state of ignorance, have to pay those higher medical bills. They are in no way aware of how those prices got high, nor does it matter to them. All they think about is that those prices are high, and nothing beyond that. Selfish politicians will work to get what they want, and if they can’t get it by the will of the people, they will try and force people to adopt it by making it so tough on them, that the people will want a “free,” system. Of course, nothing can compare with free when you’re stuck in the moment. But even the “free” clause is a deception. Their goal is to get what they want done, by any means necessary, and work to have people become totally dependent on the government, just to make those costs go away, even if that means you have to wear a mask and hurt them to “prove” your point. Let me say that again, but in another way. People who see their health care bills rise, will be more supportive of a “free” health care system if they are stuck with high health care bills, because they are completely unaware as to how those costs got so high. That is exactly what the politicians want, so they will use their government authority to place new laws, regulations, and restrictions on private health care companies to force those medical bills to be higher, so that people will hopefully support what the politicians want them to support. To realize this at its full impact, one needs to be able to connect the dots and ask questions.
Those are some of the grounds for which I do not trust the government in handling our health care. Another reason why I do not trust this new particular health care plan is because of the way it was sold to us. In civil politics, when somebody is not receptive of what you want, you try to come up with enough substance to convince the people that your plan is the best plan and why it deserves your support. When President George W. Bush campaigned in 2005 to privatize social security, he was always civil and focused primarily on the substance of the matter, yet the baby boomers rose up and worked feverishly to keep the system the way it was to keep it so that younger people would have to keep paying into the system to pay for their own retirements. Either way, right or wrong, Bush kept his arguments civil. For some reason, the Democrats wanting this bill so badly do not do this. Some, by their own admission, have not even read the bill. They imply that those who oppose their bill are deranged extremists, un-American, and paint them as dangerous. One obvious no-brainer in business is when you are trying to sell somebody something; you do not damn the customer. If you damn the customer, you will most likely lose the sale. Most people do not establish favor when somebody is trying to force something on them, and talk down to them if they do not support it. Choice is established by the favor you earn. What’s going on right now is that they’re not only damning the customer, but they are also reminding people that this is part of the “change” that they voted for in November of last year.
“I came to provide the sweeping change that this country demanded, when it went to the polls in November.”
--President Barack Obama
What is the substance of the health care plan?
I don’t know. It’s difficult to find anything that will actually help the people who would need its services. But I’ll tell you one thing, If you keep track of the lobbyists that are connected with the president and Congress, it will become obvious that this is a clever, sneaky, and evil way to fund their lobbyists (campaign contributors) with federal tax dollars (i.e. our money). Then, the organization who has been included to play a role in this health care plan will continue to lobby to Democrat politicians, but because the Federal Government now pays money into the organization that lobbies for them, in turn, it will be as if the taxpayer is funding the Democrats campaigns by force, by simply paying their taxes. Meanwhile, what about the Republicans? They are left to generate money for their campaigns via the free market, which Obama and the Democrats in Congress are trying to wipe away on a daily basis. If you get rid of the free market, you get rid of the cash to fund the Republican party. All of these policies work hand in hand, one in alignment with another, all building up to create an oligarchic political system, for which they (the Democrats) could never be removed from (or so they’re hoping).
Who’s Behind This?
This is another reason why people should not trust the government to run their health care. When you ask who is behind this bill, one begins to think. Of course, if you are not involved in politics, and are not informed, you are likely to be attracted to this bill like a moth to a light, only to find out in the end, it was really a bug zapper… but by then, it will have been too late. So, here is a partial list of the people putting their efforts into this bill, and what they specialize in.
Max Baucus (D)- Montana—Most effective in making deals with the business community and mustering up Republican support.
Rahm Emanuel (D)—A notoriously brutal politician. He was chosen by President Obama to serve because of the methods he uses to get his way, and work diligently to destroy the Republican opposition.
Nancy Pelosi (D) from California and Harry Reid (D) from Nevada—Pelosi (Speaker of the House) and Reid (Senate Majority Leader) are literally banking on this. They will personally profit if this bill passes because the bureaucratic organizations that participate in this health care plan lobby for their political campaigns.
Karen Ignagni—a top lobbyist for the nation's health-maintenance organizations was also a labor union leader, serving as director of the AFL-CIO's Department of Employee Benefits and thus serving the political interests of the Democrat party.
Henry Waxman (D) California. Waxman is one of the fiercest and most skilled legislators whose legal language has crafted bills that are socialistic in nature. He is a member of the Democratic Socialists for America which has admitted, “At the root of our socialism is a profound commitment to democracy, as means and end.” Of course, socialism is the forcing of one will over another. With his skills as a legislator, he has the know how and skill to force socialism down our throats under the radar. Jane Chastain, a California-based broadcaster, author and political commentator wrote in a 1998 article for World Net Daily what she experienced when she visited Waxman’s office. She explains, “I received the shock of my life. It was like stepping into an office in socialist or Communist country. It was drab. Everything was cold and impersonal. Members of his staff, were dressed down, way down. One staffer made a point to tell me that everyone who worked for Mr. Waxman -- from the chief of staff right down to the secretaries -- all received the same pay.” He is a socialist through and through, and socialism is a system based on injustice to steal from the earners and keep the poor dependent enough on them to vote for them. Socialism is not in any ways a fair political system in the sense that a person who works harder than another is not rewarded, acknowledged, or does not come out ahead of somebody who does not care to work hard, does not work hard, or cannot work at all. Henry Waxman most certainly covets the liberties we hold, and strives to limit our freedoms to make room for the agenda of the Democratic Socialists for America. After all, his career will remain secure whether or not America falls completely under socialism. We will just have to suffer, and his attitude towards us is, “tough! Too Bad!”
Such personalities behind this bill raise concerns. Their backgrounds raise red flags that suggest that they are all about self, and not about us, their bosses, or the interests of this country. Their motives are purely political, and have no real benefit to your health and well-being.
The Timing:
Folks, isn’t it interesting that amidst massive deficits at historic highs, a so-called economic crisis, a shrinking economy, the decrease of the GDP, and so forth, we are trying to push another, I repeat ANOTHER, trillion dollar idea through Congress? And to boot, this is another trillion dollar idea that is not absolutely necessary at this time. We cannot afford to risk throwing away money that will take us generations (if this country still exists) to pay back.
The Blame Game:
It is the classic, age old human response used by anybody who does not want to be held accountable for their actions. It is the blame game. President Obama is attempting to blame the Republicans for the lack of support on health care. The problem with this blame is that there aren’t enough Republicans to pin the blame on. The Democrats have the 60 proof majority in the Senate, as well as a filibuster proof majority in the House. This entire ordeal is Democrats against Democrats.
The Right to Death is a Right for the Government to Collect:
How much are you worth? To a true Conservative, you have a thing called a soul, given to you by God and when you are in authority, you carry the notion that you will one day be held accountable to your creator as to how you exercised your authority over the souls of others. To a liberal political figure, you are nothing more than a high cost, and a budgetary liability to the system. The truth is as cold as I said it. I was reading a piece in the Wall Street Journal about end of life care for Veterans. This part was interesting.
“Last year, bureaucrats at the VA's National Center for Ethics in Health Care advocated a 52-page end-of-life planning document, "Your Life, Your Choices." It was first published in 1997 and later promoted as the VA's preferred living will throughout its vast network of hospitals and nursing homes. After the Bush White House took a look at how this document was treating complex health and moral issues, the VA suspended its use. Unfortunately, under President Obama, the VA has now resuscitated "Your Life, Your Choices."” (Wall Street Journal, August 19th, 2009)
You can access the full book here….
www.scribd.com/doc/18981579/Your-Life-Your-Choice-Death-Book
If you do decide to access the book, I want to focus your attention on page 21 where it gives you a checklist to determine as it says itself, “what makes your life worth living?” Then look at page 24. The tone is hopeless. They are obviously trying to pressure people to get on board with this so that when a doctor (approved by the government) decides to pull the plug, they would have the go-ahead. It provides many opportunities and loopholes to end your life sooner than your appointed expiration date. All hope then is lost, as it is a matter of money rather than a matter of life.
I’m convinced that the hope is to convince people who get federal benefits to embrace death so they will stop collecting those federal benefits. Folks, you have to pay attention to EVERYTHING they are doing for everything they do on one issue is connected to another issue. When Obama talks about the inheritance tax, believe me, it is in part, connected to the health care plan. Everything he is pushing is inter-connected with each other. If a person decides to have the plug pulled, then the government will profit because now, due to the increase in the inheritance tax (which is a scheme in which the government gets a larger percentage of all your loved one’s willed assets) the government will not only save money from the life they discontinued, but will collect money on all the money the deceased individual earned in the past, and government insurance policies (like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid) he paid into his entire life. By choosing death, the government gets more money. When you die, the Government will be able to stop paying out social security checks, Medicare checks, and stop paying as many Medicaid bills. What this health care plan does is protect those past pools of money, and starts yet another pool of money, and then uses all of them to create a massive slush fund that political figures will be able to dip into for anything they want money for—i.e. government programs. It’s all about money. Don’t fool yourself. These very politicians pushing this bill speak very unfavorably about insurance companies. But the very things they publicly criticize about insurance companies, they want to adopt themselves for this health care bill. They want to be the insurance company making the profit, not a private insurer. They want another Government takeover of a business, and that is what an insurance company is, a business. The only difference is that this business is connected to every aspect of your life without your consent, and this business works hand in hand with all of the other government mandated programs (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid), that also were decided to be put in place for you, long before people like me were even born.
Now, earlier in this article I mentioned two things that that I promised to address. One was the quote by economist Walter Williams who said, “Politicians have always coveted the liberties we hold.” The other is how the plan will be funded. Both of them will go hand in hand. What do these things mean and what do they have in common? First off, Walter Williams is correct. Politicians have always coveted the liberties we hold. The reason being is because they want to be in control, and not you. They want power for themselves and do not want your say to drown theirs out, and your consent to cancel out theirs. They have the same liberties we have, but the difference is that they want ours, while they get to keep theirs. The whole concept of a socialist revolution is this; eliminate the middle class and create two classes, the ruling class and the poor. This is the very concept of revolution that Communist dictators like Russia’s Vladimir Lenin and China’s Mao Tse Tung initiated and wrote books about in their countries. The most effective way to successfully do this is best described by Lenin.
The way to crush the [middle class] is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
--Vladimir Lenin
As it now sits, the debt from this massive plan will add to the debt another $1.6 trillion. What it will do if it gets passed, is cause hyper-inflation. Inflation is the devaluing of money, and so prices will go up. Add to that, to pay the debt on this plan would be funded at the expense of the taxpayer, causing everything to go up dramatically to pay for it. The economy would continue to weaken further, shrink more, and consequentially, more Americans would lose their jobs, the middle class would become poor, and the Government would have in place a system to funnel money amongst itself, through the hands of a wealthy elite group in which capitalism would be exclusive to only them, and not us. Socialist policies breed a-moral capitalism. Again, oligarchy is at play here, and this health care bill is yet another step to make that happen. When an oligarchy occurs, political influence is mainly left in the hands of a few, wealthy elite. In other words, we the people could never on our own become wealthy because the government would control what wealth we produce, while having all the freedom for themselves to produce unlimited amounts of wealth for themselves. They will have a system that will dictate “do as I say, not as I do,” and will force government mandates to make sure you cannot do what they do.