America’s Next Revolution

Richard Salbato,   9-11-09

 

For the last two weeks organizers for the Tea Parties have been going from town to town having rallies expressing their fears of too much government, federal and state.  The news media in general is not and will not cover these rallies.  Everyone knows about the Town Hall Meetings and the outrage over them but the news media played it down, and in general the Federal Government paid no attention to the voice of the people.  Polls show that people do not trust government and it is worse today than ever in history. 

Because there are so many of them, polls today are more accurate than ever before.  But as you know, even when over 70% of the people did not want to bail out the banks, the auto makers, and the stimulus package, the government passed it anyway.  The News Media is supposed to be our check against the government, our eyes and ears to keep them honest.  But somehow over the past 50 years the liberal, socialist branch of society has taken over most of the major news media outlets.  One way we know the news cares about the people is when they care about ratings, but the ratings of NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, and all liberal Radio are going down to almost bankruptcy, whereas, Fox News has taken first place in the top 8 positions.  Glen Beck, who has a bad time slot and with a news program less than a year old, has already taken over second place.

I am watching TV as I write this, and Fox News is covering the over Two million Tea Party marchers in Washington, DC whereas NBS, CBS and ABC are covering traffic and weather, and MSNBC is covering a talk by President BO in Wisconsin.  For two hours MSNBC continued to cover all of BO’s to less than a few hundred people but not one word of the 100,000 Tea Party people.  These Tea Party’s today are not only in Washington, DC but all across America.

The other way we learn the truth is in school and they have taken over that also. Here again the public schools are failing, whereas the private and home schools are thriving and growing. This shows that these people do not care about success or failure but only about their political agenda, only about socialism and sometimes atheism.

Thanks however to the freedom of the internet, talk radio, and Fox News the public is being educated in what is happening to this once great nation.  Most Americans call themselves Conservative (61%) or at least right of center.  Only 19% call themselves liberal or socialists, but this small group has taken over the government by pretending to be in the middle whereas they were far left socialists. 

Fooled by Lies and the News Media

In this last election we listened to a guy claim to be a centrist wanting to bring the right and left together and we believed him because he was a great salesman and seemed to be a change from the dysfunctional government we had over the past 30 years.  All the evidence was there that he was lying because of his actual deeds in the past but the News Media buried the proof in platitudes.   All of his background showed him to be a radical socialist and even surrounded by Communists and terrorists as close friends, but because we did not hear it from the main media we did not believe it.

However, within a few weeks he passed what we call a Stimulus Bill of over 1000 pages that no one read or even had a chance to read.  No one in congress would have even written this bill in such a short time.  He now know that organizations like Acorn wrote this bill and made 90% of it socialist programs. Only 10% of this has been spent so far but that was the non-socialist part, and when the rest gets spent we will see more Federal control over everything we do. 

Socialism is government control of all means of production.  By socializing the auto business, they took over 5% of production.  By taking over the major banks they took over another 14% of production. By controlling Fanny May and Freddy Mack they have taken another 12% of production.  When they take over the Health Care industry they will add another 17% to their power over production.  That already brings us to 48% newly socialized government.  But some of our government was already socialized, like Medical and Social Security.  Neither of these were started out as socialist, because they were supposed to be self supported, by what you paid in you got back.  However, they are now going to reach a $47,000,000,000,000 debt.  That is Forty-Seven Trillion! Debt is over and above what you have collected and cannot pay for.  Although this figure reaches out to 2027, no one is trying to correct it now.  We are going to add hundreds of thousands to the retired in the next 8 years, and the population of the work force will drop at the same time.  You are going to see that this is going to be more than 100% socialist because none of the above is completely socialist but only inching into it as was planed and written down in communist plans for taking over America. 

President BO intends to pass this Socialist Health Care bill by mid October and after that they will bring back to the floor their so-called Cape and Trade bill.  This will take over all our energy production.  Energy effects every production and non-production industry.  It will raise the cost of gas, electric and food for every person in American, and especially the very poor and the retired.  This could cost every single American an additional tax of over a thousand dollars a year and raise the price of food and other goods by 15%.  The entire lying reason for this stupid bill is Global Warming, and to understand this stupidity, read what I wrote last month – The truth about Global Warming.  Indirectly this socializes all the means of production, and every other industry.  To understand what they want, one congress women, in talking with the Presidents of oil companies and explaining to them why congress will not let them drill for oil, she actually said that she wanted the government to take over their entire industry and to socialize the oil companies.     

After President BO passes Cape and Trade, he will try to pass Card Check to pay back the Union support he got in the elections.  There is nothing more destructive already to tax payers and businesses in American than the modern Unions.  This is the reason for the massive debts in the States and the Federal government, and the reason for the bankruptcies of the major businesses in America. Some cities in California pay three times as much for their retired workers than they do for their active workers.  In New York 8 out of 10 fire fighters and policemen get 100% pay after retirement because they claim to be medically retired and this is never checked out.  These are retired people in their 40s. 

Believe it or not President BO tried to eliminate health insurance to out war veterans.  Bad press, including major mockery of the plan by comedian Jon Stewart, led to President BO abandoning his proposal to require veterans carry private health insurance to cover the estimated $540 million annual cost to the federal government of treatment for injuries to military personnel received during their tours on active duty. The President admitted that he was puzzled by the magnitude of the opposition to his proposal.

"Look, it's an all volunteer force," Obama complained. "Nobody made these guys go to war. They had to have known and accepted the risks. Now they whine about bearing the costs of their choice? It doesn't compute. I thought these were people who were proud to sacrifice for their country,” Obama continued. "I wasn't asking for blood, just money. With the country facing the worst financial crisis in its history, I'd have thought that the patriotic thing to do would be to try to help reduce the nation's deficit. I guess I underestimated the selfishness of some of my fellow Americans."  

President BO is now reducing the budget of the military, attacking the CIA, reducing our support for Israel and apologizing to Moslems.  He is making America unsafe again.  Nothing is being done about Russia and China steeling our top secrets and infiltrating our top secret computer systems, even to the point they might be able to shut down our systems in time of war.

President BO will then try to take over the news media and close down Fox News and Talk Radio.  One if his many so-called Czars has already mapped out how he wants to do this.  They already tried to pass this bill, and now they want to take it through the back door as an illegal executive order.  Watch for it coming, because it is even now all over Talk Radio.  

Can We Be This Stupid?

My definition of stupid is when people believe in something they know nothing about, or trust someone they do not know.  I think there are a lot of stupid people in the world today.  All you have to do is look at the number of woman who fall in love with some man because he looks good and talks sweet.  She does not bother to look into his character.  Stupid is a man who looks for a woman because of her sex appeal and never bothers to look into her character.  Stupid is an entire congregation that trusts and even loves a priest because he speaks good, and later is surprised when they find he is a pedophile.  Stupid is an entire Religion Movement that grows to thousands of priests and hundreds of thousands of people donation millions of dollars to finance a man they considered a saint because they did not investigate his real character.  Should they fell stupid and look into their own character now that they know he was a pedophile and has 4 to 6 illegitimate children, and even used their donations to support in great life style these illegitimate children.  Even now they follow the leaders who helped hide these sins.  Stupid!

Then there is the stupid that simply does not want to know anything.  They think if they do not hear a tree falling then it did not happen.  These are the people who go around listening to music that kills their brain, and watching soap operas so that they do not have to think.  The stupidity is that they then vote.

People Power

We need to take back our Churches and our Nation.  We cannot do that if we refuse to get educated, get involved, if we do not stop leaving it to others, and if we are apathetic.  We need to get involved and educate ourselves.  What do you know about the background of your friends, the people your children run around with, with your Pastor, your congressman, your President?  To help you educated yourself, I will give some good links at the bottom of this article that will help you get educated.

Not to many years ago there were 87 communist and dictatorial nations across the world.  Beginning in the Philippines when with the help of Cardinal Sin, the people took back their country, 86 of these countries were taken back by the people.  We now need to take back our country.  We have the majority, we just need the will to do it.

2010 Elections

I am sure that in the 2010 elections the majority of the people will elect more conservative Republicans, Democrats and Independents and throw out the socialists to a large degree.  What I worry about is just what happened in the Philippines and I was there on the ground at the time.  If you give BO more than a year to prepare for this election, with the help of Acorn, these may be the most corrupt elections in history, with voter fraud, miss-counted ballots, lost ballets, etc.  We must do what they did in the Philippines, and have thousands of people watching the voting booths, the transfer of ballots, and the counting of ballots.  We can know the truth, because if the elections do not match the poles, we will have to do again what they did in the Philippines and march on Washington.  If we do not get enough constitutional people in congress, we will loose this nation and we will become a dictatorship. 

2012 Elections

Personally I do not think OB even cares about being re-elected in 2012 because he thinks he can destroy this nation before that.  But assuming he does we need to start building our resistance right now.  We need to look for the right people to send to congress and the White House who will sign pledges to do what we want them to do.  We need to cut 76 Federal Programs from Washington, and give them back to the States.  We need a pledge not just to stop expanding government but by reducing it by 15% a year for ten years.  We need a pledge to veto every Pork in every bill.  We need a pledge to repeal every bill passed in the last 4 years. We need a pledge to get the Federal Government out of Our Schools.  We need to brake up Federal Unions.  We want a pledge before even running for office to put God back in government and schools.  We need a pledge to stop politicizing our school books.  We need a pledge to give children a choice in schools, by passing the Voucher Program.  No more government spending, except on the military, which I would expand.  Repeal every law that rightfully belongs to the states.

States Rights (the 10th Amendment)

There are three states now who have passed laws telling the Federal Government that they are not going to obey Federal Laws on Gun Control, and other States are following suit on other laws, repealing Federal Laws, that they had no right to pass in the first place.  The Constitution gave most powers to the states, but because of Federal money, some states gave up their rights, thinking the money was more important than the independence from the Feds. Freedom was sold out for money.  

Take Back Your Nation

It is time to take back your Nation or you will loose all your freedoms.  If you are Religious, pay attention to politics or you will loose your religious freedoms. If you have children, pay attention to politics or your children will have no future.  Right now every working American owes $300,000 as his share of the Federal Debt, not counting the State Debts, and the future Debts stated above.

 

Educate Yourself:

FIVE QUESTIONS THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA IS AFRAID TO ANSWER

1.                 Why are you hiding your real birth certificate?

2.                 Even if you are an American, are you an American at best?

3.                 Why don’t Americans trust you?

4.                 Why do you take our freedom in exchange for a false sense of security?

5.                 Do you want to play the role of God in our daily lives?DISLIKES AND CONCERNS

CONCERNS ABOUT PRESIDENT OBAMA FROM OUR AMERICAN PEOPLE

1.                 No formative years of his youth growing up in America!

2.                 Half of his life he aligned himself with radical extremists who hate our country and he refuses to publicly denounce those radicals who wish to see America fail!

3.                 Cheerleader for "blame America" crowd and deliver this message abroad.

4.                 Health care system with a government controlled one!

5.                 Goes against wounded soldiers!

6.                 Says he is a Christian – believes pro abortion!

7.                 Bows down to the king of India!

8.                 Denounces Rev. Right once he runs for president – with him 2o years!

9.                 Tell other countries that America is not a Christian nation!

10.             Too inexperienced to be President and also appears to be incompetent as an executive, more-than-just-politician-level-dishonest and a bit of a narcissist (if not a fascist).

11.             He seems to have little understanding of American history, her dreams, or her tremendous potential for risk-taking, self-correction and innovation.

12.             He and Michelle have turned out to be quintessential Ivy League Oppression Studies majors with (carefully concealed) attitudes!

13.             Abeam seems, above all, to be a Community Organizer with shakedown credentials and extraordinary speaking ability!

All of this should have been clear – had we simply done serious background checks. The following 4 items, at least, should have been clear to voters:

1.                 His surrogate father figure was Frank Marshall Davis, an avowed Communist!

2.                 Barrack served as a committed trainer for Community Activist and Marxist Saul Alinsky!

3.                 He sat for nearly 2 decades at the feet of Jeremiah Wright, an angry, anti-American Black Liberation Theologist!

4.                 Obamas first autobiography, Dreams from My Father, was almost certainly ghost- written by William Ayers, a Vietnam-era domestic terrorist!

(This last assertion has now been supported by careful analysis of syntax, spelling and common errors). I. These unusual treads (standing alone) are discounted to the point of not being dis qualifiers, those evaluating Barack Obama might have considered that he’d never:

1.                 Held a job in the private sector!

2.                 Managed a payroll!

3.                 Led a turnaround or iv!

4.                 Held any sort of executive position!

But none of this mattered in the fall of 2008. After 6 months, I am left wondering if power brokers on the Far Left of American politics aren’t pinching themselves at their success in creating a fictitious character the press ushered to market in a Bush-weary and "politically correct" America. In his second (!) autobiography, The Audacity of Hope, Obama recognizes the advantage of his tableau Rasa creation when he writes, I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.

                                                                    LOVE IN CHRIST,

                                                        REV. ANDREW E. RANHOSKY

http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?u=21174&PID=21610048

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/6147211/Barack-Obama-accused-of-making-Depression-mistakes.html

http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v15/i1/communism.asp

http://shop.wnd.com/store/item.asp?ITEM_ID=3125&AD_ID=EMA142

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbg_dhI4XCs

http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/belief-blog/2009/sep/03/muslim-prayers-to-surround-us-capitol/

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/sep/09090901.html

http://americangrandjury.org/lucas-smith-affidavit-now-filed-with-the-us-district-court-obama-kenyan-bc

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/09/08/Another-Shocking-Warning-About-Swine-Flu-Vaccine.aspx

http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/world-news/2009/08/07/swine-flu-health-expert-warning/does-virus-vaccine-increase-risk-of-cancer.html

http://catholicfire.blogspot.com/2009/08/makers-of-vaccination-refuse-to-take.html

Is this what the USA is facing under Obama's "health" care plan?  God help us!

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/sep/09090901.html

A look at the House Democrats' health bill

House Health Care Bill - H.R.3200: America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress

Health Care Bill Page 425 - The Truth

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/10/dylan-ratigan-provides-ra_n_282318.html

 http://patriotupdate.com/stories/read/1111/Obama-Set-to-Force-ObamaCare-while-His-Eligibility-Trial-Date-Set-

http://www.schroonlakefishandgameclub.com/Control4.pdf

ACORN - Obama's personal "community organizers" who got him elected - many indicted on fraudulent voter registration.  They are entitled now, through his regime, to 8.6 billion dollars of the "stimulus" money - hard earned money of citizens.  Now there's this evidence of their other authorized "activities" in handing out that money:
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/10/videos-acorn-advising-on-tax-evasion-for-pimps-and-prostitutes/
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/11/video-the-acorn-pimp-shielding-network/

http://www.acton.org/commentary/546_marxisms_last_stronghold.php

http://www.redstate.com/e_pluribus_unum/2009/09/10/ted-cruz-gaining-momentum-in-texas-ag-race/

http://www.projectshiningcity.org/edit25.php

http://www.redstate.com/bs/2009/09/10/obama-and-the-911-murderers/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIHz5tevLAw


What if he is right?
Dr. David Kaiser
History Unfolding

I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books on history that have been published in six languages, and I have studied history all my life. I have come to think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is simply a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus.

Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten to fifteen years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.

We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back? Why?

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We learned just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has "loaned" two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms. That is our money.. Yours and mine. And that is three times the $700 billion we all argued about so strenuously just this past September. Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a government of "we the people," who loaned our powers to our elected leaders. Apparently not.

We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy.. Why?

We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, school boards continue to back mediocrity.. Why?

We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it simply wants marriage to remain def ined as between one man and one woman. Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?) We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what purpose?

Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, social security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our entire government. Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and I know precisely what I am talking about) - the list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth.. It is potentially 1929 x  ten...And we are at war with an enemy we cannot even name for fear of offending people of the same religion, who, in turn, cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so.

And finally, we have elected a man that no one really knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla, Alaska. All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders? No? Oh, of course. The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe are more important.)

Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one word: Change. Why?

I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now.

This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again.

And that is only the beginning.

As a serious student of history, I thought I would never come to experience what the ordinary, moral German must have felt in the mid-1930s In those times, the "savior" was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they should have known was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory. Conservative "losers" read it right now.

And there were the promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and frowned and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his "brown shirts" would bully and beat them into submission. Which they did - regularly. And then, he was duly elected to office, while a full-throttled economic crisis bloomed at hand - the Great Depression. Slowly, but surely he seized the controls of government power, person by person, department by department, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The children of German citizens were at first, encouraged to join a Youth Movement in his name where they were taught exactly what to think.. Later, they were required to do so. No Jews of course,  

How did he get people on his side? He did it by promising jobs to the jobless, money to the money-less, and rewards for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe , and across the world. He did it with a compliant media - did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and ....  change. And the people surely got what they voted for.

If you think I am exaggerating, look it up. It's all there in the history books.

So read your history books. Many people of conscience objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and ridiculed. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though. And the world came to regret that he was not listened to.

Do not forget that Germany was the most educated, the most cultured country in Europe. It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And yet, in less than six years (a shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency) it was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors.. All with the best of intentions, of course. The road to Hell is paved with them.

As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong by closing my eyes, having another latte, and ignoring what is transpiring around me.

I choose to believe the evidence. No doubt some people will scoff at me, others laugh, or think I am foolish, naive, or both. To some degree, perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I believe-and why I believe it.

I pray I am wrong. I do not think I am. Perhaps the only hope is our vote in the next elections.

David Kaiser, Jamestown , Rhode Island, United States    

Seniors Health Care

Since many of you enjoy senior citizen status or will sometime in the not too distant future, I thought you might be interested in this information. 

Most of you know by now that the Senate version (at least) of the "stimulus" bill includes provisions for extensive rationing of health care for senior citizens.  The author of this part of the bill, former senator and tax evader, Tom Daschle, was credited today by Bloomberg with the following statement. Bloomberg:  "Daschle says health-care reform will not be pain free. Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them." 

If this does not sufficiently raise your ire, just remember that Senators and Congressmen have their own healthcare plan that is first dollar or very low co-pay which they are guaranteed the remainder of their lives and are not subject to this new law if it passes. 

Please use the power of the Internet to get this message out.  Talk it up at the grassroots level.  We have an election coming up in one year and nine months.  We have the ability to address and reverse the dangerous direction the Obama administration and its allies have begun and in the interim, we can make our voices heard!  Let's do it!

Fines proposed for going without health insurance

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press
WASHINGTON – Americans would be fined up to $3,800 for failing to buy health insurance under a plan that circulated in Congress on Tuesday as President Barack Obama met Democratic leaders to search for ways to salvage his health care overhaul.

In advance of what Obama hopes will be a game-changing speech to lawmakers, the one idea that most appeals to the Democrats' liberal base lost ground in Congress. Prospects for a government-run plan to compete with private insurers sank as a leading moderate said he could no longer support the idea.

The fast-moving developments put Obama in a box. As a candidate, he opposed fines to force individuals to buy health insurance, and he supported setting up a government insurance plan.

Democratic leaders put on a bold front as they left the White House after their meeting with the president.

"We're re-energized; we're ready to do health care reform," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., insisted the public plan is still politically viable. "I believe that a public option will be essential to our passing a bill in the House of Representatives," she said.

After a month of contentious forums, Americans were seeking specifics from the president in his speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night. So were his fellow Democrats, divided on how best to solve the problem of the nation's nearly 50 million uninsured.

The latest proposal: a bipartisan compromise that Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., a moderate who heads the influential Finance Committee, was trying to broker.

Baucus, meeting with a small group of fellow senators, promoted a plan that would guarantee coverage for nearly all Americans at a cost to taxpayers of under $900 billion over 10 years.

Some experts consider that a relative bargain because the country now spends about $2.5 trillion a year on health care. But it would require hefty fees on insurers, drug companies and others in the health care industry to help pay for it.

Just as auto coverage is now mandatory in most states, Baucus would a require that all Americans get health insurance once the system is overhauled. Penalties for failing to get insurance would start at $750 a year for individuals and $1,500 for families. Households making more than three times the federal poverty level ­ about $66,000 for a family of four ­ would face the maximum fines. For families, it would be $3,800, and for individuals, $950.

Baucus would offer tax credits to help pay premiums for households making up to three times the poverty level, and for small employers paying about average middle-class wages. People working for companies that offer coverage could avoid the fines by signing up.

The fines pose a dilemma for Obama. As a candidate, the president campaigned hard against making health insurance a requirement, and fining people for not getting it.

"Punishing families who can't afford health care to begin with just doesn't make sense," he said during his party's primaries. At the time, he proposed mandatory insurance only for children.

White House officials have since backed away somewhat from Obama's opposition to mandated coverage for all, but there's no indication that Obama would support fines.

One idea that Obama championed during and since the campaign ­ a government insurance option ­ appeared to be sinking fast.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., told reporters a Medicare-like plan for middle-class Americans and their families isn't an essential part of legislation for him. Hoyer's comments came shortly after a key Democratic moderate said he could no longer back a bill that includes a new government plan.

The fast-moving developments left liberals in a quandary. They've drawn a line, saying they won't vote for legislation if it doesn't include a public plan to compete with private insurance companies and force them to lower costs.

Rep. Mike Ross, D-Ark., who once supported a public option, said Tuesday that after hearing from constituents during the August recess, he's changed his mind.

"If House leadership presents a final bill that contains a government-run public option, I will oppose it," Ross said.

Obama's commitment to a public plan has been in question and lawmakers hoped his speech to Congress would make his position on that clear.

He's called a public plan an important tool to help check the excesses of private industry. But his aides suggested on the weekend that he could sign legislation even if it does not include a public option.

In the Senate, the public plan is not part of Baucus' proposal. He's calling for nonprofit co-ops to compete in the marketplace instead.

An 18-page summary of the Baucus proposal was obtained by The Associated Press. The complex plan would make dozens of changes in the health care system, many of them contentious. For example, it includes new fees on insurers, drug companies, medical device manufacturers and clinical labs.

It would require insurers to take all applicants, regardless of age or health. But smokers could be charged higher premiums. And 60-year-olds could be charged five times as much for a policy as 20-year-olds.

People working for major employers would probably not see big changes. The plan is geared to helping those who now have the hardest time getting and keeping coverage: the self-employed and small business owners. New purchasing pools would be set up in each state, allowing them to band together and get some of the advantages big companies now have.


                            FIREARMS REFRESHER COURSE

1.
"Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not."  ~Thomas Jefferson
2.  Those who trade liberty for security have neither. ~John Adams
3.  Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.
4.  An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.
5.  Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.
6.. Gun control is not about guns; it's about control.
7.  You only have the rights you are willing to fight for.
8.  Know guns, know peace, know safety. No guns, no peace, no safety.
9.  You don't shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.
10. Assault is a behavior, not a device.
11.  64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.
12.  The   United States Constitution (c) 1791. All Rights Reserved.
13.  The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others.
14.  What part of 'shall not be infringed' do you NOT understand?
15.  Guns have only two enemies; rust and politicians.
16.  When you remove the people's right to bear arms, you create slaves.
17.  The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.

9/9/2009

I just got finished watching the president’s speech and in my opinion I was not surprised at what he stated throughout the speech. He was as forceful as he could be to make the populace believe what he was stating. I firmly believe that this forceful way was made only to get his supporters, who now are having second thoughts about ever putting him into office in the first place. It was if he were possessed and did show anger at times during the speech, especially when he made it clear that he was tired of the media saying things that were not true. Nevertheless, Obama has been dodging questions all through his campaign for the presidency and to this very day he will not admit that the questions were screened by his supporters, as Helen Thomson let press secretary Gibbs know during a press conference a few weeks ago.

Also, Congressman Joe Wilson, from South Carolina, who openly, during the speech, let out his opinion after Obama made mention that any illegal aliens, would not be covered by his healthcare plan.  Congressman Wilson stated, "THAT’S A LIE". It might not have been correct to voice his opinion at such a gathering in respect for the president, but it was not respectful either for the president to disrespect the American people went he went overseas and bow down to the king of India and also stating to other nations that America was not a Christian Nation and that America has been wrong for the things that America has done in the past to other nations. It also was disrespectful for the president and his wife to spend thousands of dollars for attorney fees not to let the public see their college transcripts. No other president has ever done so and therefore why are they hiding this information. Don’t we have the right to know! I’m only asking respect for, "WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA".

     Please do not get me wrong. I do respect the office of the presidency, but that does not mean that I have to respect the president, as many others have the same right! Let us now stand together and not give up our fight for what is correct. Little by little, in my opinion we are being led by the liberals in our country to disaster and the ending of our country as it was in the past.

                                               LOVE IN CHRIST,

                                THE REV. ANDREW E. RANHOSKY