Healthcare reality
… 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.
Thought for the Day…
… borrowed from the Shambhala newsletter (Shambhala.org):
“If we plant peaches, we’re always going to get peaches. If we plant pears, we’re always going to get pears. Karma works in just this way. If you plant nonvirtue- migewa- you get suffering. If you plant virtue- gewa- you get happiness. If we’re using strong negative emotions to get what we want, and what we want is happiness, it’s never going to work. Therefore we need to contemplate our intentions and actions. Contemplating samsara and karma strengthens our intention to point our life away from suffering and toward true happiness.”– from Turning the Mind Into an Ally by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
Our deepest fear…
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?”
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God; your playing small doesn’t serve the world.– Marianne Williamson, quoted by Nelson Mandella in his inaugural speech
How many of us are afraid to face our own greatness, our own perfection as an instance of that Perfect, All-encompassing Light? How easy is it for us to doubt ourselves, our true worth, our brilliance, our power and strength, our natural divinity – if only on those most subtle levels? How does this limit us and our experiences here? … and just what would happen if we can come to terms with it?
Namaste.
-OMM.
More Light
Travel light,
live light,
spread the light,
be the light.
Gotta love it when your teabag hands you a Spiritual reminder while you’re still trying to pry your eyelids open!
Light is everywhere and is in everything. Everything we see and experience is an expression of Light, manifested physically. Even in the darkness, there exists Light – whether in the specific lessons that the dark brings, or in the contrast of the dark against the light which makes the Light seem all the brighter and helps provide us with a gauge by which to measure such things.
When we are truly connected to the Light, what wondrous peaks we humans can reach! In order to reach these peaks of human potential, it takes a bit more than just the realization of the Light and our connection to it – we must also have the ability and willingness to apply it to the physical world, and we must be personally responsible for ourselves and our actions. This combination of realization, responsibility and willingness to act (physical potential), enables us to act according to our higher nature and higher ideals. This is what manifests Light in our daily lives.
Without the personal realization and connection to Light, we are directionless, and easily lead astray from Right, moral action that is one of the goals of the Spiritually inclined. Without personal, conscious responsibility, we can not even see the Light or our connection to it and can not, therefore, express it in order to reach our higher nature; We are lost to the world, to ourselves, and to each other, and we are crippled in our ability to express our highest human potential. And without our willingness to act in accordance to the Light, we can not manifest it here.
But when we can combine the knowledge and insight of Light, personal responsibility, and our highest human potential for action, there is little we can not accomplish! When we act in this manner, we climb mountaintops, soar through the skies, cure disease, help pull others from the brink of disaster with the sharing of a smile, seek to understand our higher calling, ponder the meaning of life, and so very much more!
May you walk in the Light, my friends… and let us manifest it here!
Namaste,
-OMM
What is ‘Light’?
It’s used a lot these days in the metaphysical circles, but what does the term ‘Light’ really mean? Surely, it means the greater, omniscient, omnipresent Spiritual Essence known as God, Nirvana or as any number of other names. But ‘Light’ also means the essence of Spirit that resides within each of us – that “core” or “seed” of the Spirit of which we are reflections -in all our humanity- as we go through this human existence.
Spiritual texts -across a multitude of religions and cultures- support this idea of individuals being part of a greater, spiritual whole, and these same texts, time and time again, encourage us to first look within ourselves to discover our true essence -our individual connection to Spirit/God/Nirvana/Light.
The practice of ‘looking within’ reconnects us to our spiritual centers, but the process also encourages a certain self-examination of our behaviors, actions and emotions. With continued practice, we learn a number of things – patience, love, compassion, and respect, self-responsibility, and a certain consciousness of our actions among them. We become more connected and aware of each moment, we become more self-reliant and more independent while also becoming more and more aware of our interconnectedness with others. We discover that we really are reflections of this Spirit -this Light, and we strive to reach our highest potential as human beings in this life, and beyond.
So what is ‘Light’? It is our connection to Spirit, our connection to ourselves and others, the ability to be fully human, and the ability to reach our highest potential as reflections of Spirit/God/Nirvana. ‘Light’ is also the human potential to excel, to succeed, to be independent and responsible, to become aware, to expand… and yes, to evolve naturally.
With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.
– Dalai Lama
The kingdom of God is within you.
-Jesus, The Bible
En Lak’eck
-OMM
Manifesting Utopia: Thinking it Through
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. (more…)
Fire the Grid II ~ today!
Two years ago, I ran across the first of these events just a little too late to blog about it and share the information with others in time to participate (blog entry). This time, the timing is a bit better, (more…)
Health Care Bills TEXT
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:
- New York Post, O’S BROKEN PROMISES, HEALTH BILLS V. PREZ’S WORDS
- Text of H.R.3200 (Health Care Bill) as Introduced in the House
- Senate version of the Health Care Bill
U.S. National Healthcare?
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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