Since time and responsibilities have not yet afforded me the opportunity to complete a rather long-winded blog entry concerning the continuing National Healthcare debacle, this video will have to act as stand-in for the moment. I am very pleased to see that some within the ranks of the elected can see this situation for what it truly is, and that they are speaking out.
… cartoon by Michael Ramirez, from TownHall.com
Obama’s speech last night was little other than lies and misinformation, artificial connections of “data points” with no basis in reality, used to push his agenda to push Universal Healthcare through. He basically said that if you’re not willing to talk to him about forwarding this agenda, that he’s not going to talk to you; The plan is going to go through… whether we want it to or not - don’t bother voicing your valid concerns about it to him - he’ll turn a deaf ear!
Was this supposed to be an introduction to a new healthcare plan? It didn’t seem to be the case to my ear! Obama still plans on forcing everybody into a plan - whether you want one or not. If you don’t want a plan, you’ll be taxed (up to $3,800 annually) and he’s still insisting on a Public Option (which despite his protests will lead employers to drop private insurance for their workers, and actually limits the Health care choices available instead of expanding them).
Instead of calling for tort reform, he announced plans to investigate it on an “experimental basis”. This (Tort reform) is a measure we can implement right now; something that will cost us Nothing and which would have an immediate impact on the overall cost of health care by giving the doctors a chance to actually practice medicine for the benefit of their patients instead of requiring all sorts of medical procedures to be performed in an attempt to cover themselves legally from malpractice suits. How many unnecessary tests have you had to take just so that your doctor can say “he did all the tests” and “there was nothing more he could have done” for any given diagnosis? When was the last time you went in with a mere cold, and ended up with a prescription - just to make you feel like the doctor did something and so you can’t sue him later?
Much of Obama’s speech was empty words and empty promises made - things we are expected to just take his word on, with nothing to back it up. Illegal immigrants won’t be covered under this insurance plan, he says. Although that may be the case on the surface, it wouldn’t take much legislation to make all those illegal immigrants legal residents or even citizens… who would then be eligible for the Universal Health Plan he has in mind.
Obama’s call of Moral Responsibility, while discussing his “close friendship” with Ted Kennedy was nothing more than an attempt to elicit emotion for the now-dead Senator and guilt among the masses for not supporting the Universal Healthcare idea that Senator Kennedy supported. Ted Kennedy… the murdering, philandering senator held up by Obama as a moral role model and reason to push Universal Healthcare through? What a joke!! Much like this plan… if it weren’t such a serious threat to our Freedoms and Rights and sense of personal, moral responsibility to ourselves and future generations.
Many of us envision -or have visioned- a “perfect” world, where society works smoothly and harmoniously with Nature and with all of mankind, where no gender or racial or social differences impact the quality of any of our lives. We envision a world without fear, coercion, inequality, hatred, violence, hunger, sickness, indifference, or any other human ailment… We envision a world lived in and through the Heart, in Love, and in Light - for all.
Such a world is possible. Read the rest of this entry »
For those of you still doubting the concerns and validity of some of the dissenting voices about the “Health care” Bills now being considered by both the House and the Senate, please read the following:
National Healthcare is big on the media and Presidential coercion blitz circuit these days, but is it a good idea? In an idealistic world, perhaps, but although we are evolving every day, this is not an evolved place just yet. Instead, it is a world still riddled with politics and coercion and fear and manipulation and a sense of entitlement carried like a flag by those who seem to believe they are owed something simply because they live.
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In my last post, I stated that the U.S. Federal Government seems to see itself as some kind of babysitter for all mankind. What I didn’t mention was that in order to secure this role for current and future generations, it is currently quite busy making power grabs in just about all aspects of our lives - private industry, banking, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, and much, much more. Some of the spin the mass media (government propaganda) outlets are putting on these “advancements” (a.k.a. power grabs and attacks on individual freedoms) may sound pretty good… at least until you start actually thinking about them and doing the real, independent research into the policies that are actually being written - and passed!
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With a presidential election underway now in the United States, there’s been a whole lot of talk, debate, accusations, implications, assumptions, coercion, and wrangling of all sorts going on lately. Read the rest of this entry »
The 4th of July - the celebration of American Independence from the taxes, government and overall tyranny of England. Or at least that’s what the American history books would like us to believe. Two hundred years later however, and we seem to have taken that initial tyranny to whole new levels of abuse and scale, affecting not only our own populace in ways the Founding Fathers hoped would not occur or recur, but also affecting the peoples of countries world-wide. And most Americans -most people- do nothing. In fact, most don’t even realize that their rights, safety, independence and self-responsibility have been hijacked by governmental and industrial force. After all, it’s easier to just mindlessly follow the directions given us by others, isn’t it? But the thing about that situation is that although it may appear to be an easier path to follow (at least initially), it is very often not the right thing to do, and is very often a much more difficult path to tread in the long-run.
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”
-Harry S Truman
Perhaps it’s time we take a moment to reflect what Independence actually is and how -or if- it is alive in the world today… and how we can embody it, enliven it, and live it.
“No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.”
-Barbara Ehrenreich
Happy Independence Day, America.
In Light, Love and Liberty…
Namaste.
-OMM
It’s not very Buddhist, not very New-Age, Metaphysical or anything of the sort… and it’s certainly not a very detached perspective on the world, but I despise politics. I utterly despise them. I always have. Read the rest of this entry »
As we fast approach the anniversary of our Independence, it occurs to me that despite the Founding Fathers best efforts, how much of Mother England’s influence and attitudes we have brought with us and resurrected within a scarce 200 years’ time. With yet another heated and controversial Presidential election looming in the near future, the world in a shambles, masses starving, millions sick with current health care, human and personal rights being violated across the globe, Mother Earth destroyed in favor of mankinds’ greed, bombs exploding, species dying, and so many more atrocities going on, it seems appropriate to take a step back a couple hundred years and review those things thought important enough to document in the Bill of Rights … or, as Richard Henry Lee put it, “those essential rights of mankind without which liberty cannot exist.”
The full text from the US Bill of Rights, from a web site on James Madison, is as follows… Read the rest of this entry »
