What do Harry Truman, Barack Obama, healthcare reform, and a pint of Jim Beam have in common?
July 30, 2009 – I have a big, thick leather-bound book sitting on a shelf downstairs in my library. I saw it the other day and I thought of President Barack Obama’s health care reform proposal.
The name of the book? “Socialized Medicine,” by Zolly Frank.
I thought about that book this afternoon when I read the White House press secretary’s pool report from today’s dog and pony show at the AARP.
If you hadn’t heard by now, the president was out today, drumming up support for his health care overhaul at the Washington, DC headquarters of the American Association of Retired Persons.
July 30, 2009 - Fifteen years. Fifteen g-d years – and too many people just don’t get it. They whine, and complain about the system, and all that is going on in this nationa and around the world – but that’s o.k. – “Jesus will be here soon, and take us all away from these troubles. I’ze gwine gitz me a fuss-class limo-zine ride ups to Hebbin!”
The following email was received by me after I concluded my Wednesday evening broadcast:
I am so damned tired of people who say, “we can’t, they won’t listen to use; there’s nothing we can do.” I want to scream!!!! They might as well take a damned gun and shoot themselves in the damned head! Sorry, I’m pissed!
Well, hot damn baby! Welcome to my world! This is what I have been saying for a long-long – lonnnnnnnnnng time – and I sometimes believe – that it’s all for naught.
July 27, 2009 – Recently, on a trip to the heartland of America, I was privileged to meet and speak with hundreds of Americans of all walks of life.
The two gentleman pictured below, Thomas Franklin and Rufus Washington have been unemployed for nearly two years – each with families to feed, clothe, and house. Each of them voted for ‘the One,’ because they were of the belief that FINALLY – a man of color had been CHOSEN to lead them, and that he would CERTAINLY have compassion for his “bruthas and sistahs” and deliver them out of bondage. They now believe otherwise.
Congressional Health Care Reform proposals and counter proposals are getting heated debate and urgent calls for passage or rejection. Some erudite observers call for patience, a wait-and-see attitude. Let Congress come up with a final proposal, then see if it’s workable, they beseech. Why wait till Congress figures out how to put Americans into further uncertainty and likelihood of inestimable deeper debt? No proposal has yet to offer less cost, even though every proposal is supposed to be about better health quality, easier health care access, and lower health care cost. Cost saving predictions are purely theoretical, entirely dependent on reform working as reform writers presume.
There is scant agreement on ‘better’ care quality or easing access to care. Even more-or-less stauch reform supporters are caught up in political in-fighting and jockeying for control. “We, the People” should not go complacently about other business and expect Congress to fix health care. Are or are not “We, the People” capable of picking our doctors and our health care plans without Congress holding our hands? We’re better off turning up heat on Congress to get its nose out of our health care management.
‘It Will Win’: Confidence Grows as Democrats Plan to Resume Talks
July 27, 2009 – Defying skeptics in her party, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi vowed Sunday to overcome lingering obstacles and pass health-care reform in the House, restoring momentum to President Obama’s top domestic priority and order to her own unruly Democratic caucus.
“When I take this bill to the floor, it will win,” Pelosi (Calif.) said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “This will happen.”
The speaker, who has struggled to overcome a series of recent setbacks, raised the stakes by planning to restart talks Monday among bickering Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee, one of three House panels with jurisdiction over health care and where the bill stalled last week.
Editor’s NOTE: It is imperative that you don’t stop this fight. THIS MUST BE STOPPED at all costs. CALL NOW!!! Contact YOUR Representatives on the U.S. House of Representatives today. DO NOT LET THIS HAGGARD OLD HAG WIN – OR WE WILL ALL LOSE (Ed.)
July 27, 2009 – I have been told that I have a gift for writing, for putting things in terms that people can easily understand. I don’t know whether there is any truth to that or not. I only write the way I think.
I have also been told that I should write a book, that I could make lots of money and become famous. I don’t know about that either. You see, the thing is that I am not seeking riches, or fame. My goal is much loftier, I write in the hope that I can turn the lights on in people heads, to awaken them to fact that we have completely abandoned the principles upon which this country was founded. I want them to see that all of the problems that we suffer from could easily be eradicated if we returned to those principles.
July 25, 2009 – These are challenging times and we need to stay calm and think things through – not just panic and react. Fear, panic and emotional reaction got us into this mess and it is certainly not going to get us out of it.
We also need to realise – here, now – that we have long crossed the line into a fully-fledged fascist dictatorship. It has hidden itself to most people this far, but it is about to lift the veil.
It is no longer an option to do nothing or passively acquiesce to authority out of fear or apathy. Or, at least, it’s not if we care about our freedoms and, most importantly, those of our children and grandchildren who will have to live almost their entire lives under a global jackboot of sheer, undiluted evil.
July 25, 2009 – I hear and read the phrase “homosexual rights” daily on television, radio and in print. Homosexuals believe they are discriminated against individually and as a group. Thus, they are very aggressively demanding their “rights.” This creates the question: What “rights” that everyone else has are denied to homosexuals that results in discrimination?
In the United States, our rights are listed in the Bill of Rights. Do homosexuals have and enjoy all of these rights, such as: right to worship, freedom of speech, right to assemble, freedom from excessive bail, to bear arms, due process, right to vote, to hold public office, to own property, to travel, etc.? Yes, on all basic legal rights provided to all Americans.
Editor’s NOTE:It look as if Neal shouldn’t have listened to Perspectives on America on Thursday (July 23rd) as we must have gotten his blood to boiling. JB
July 25, 2009 – While Barack Obama was campaigning for President one of his main plans was to create some sort of universal health care for all those who could not afford health insurance. I wonder if anybody remembers back in 1993 when Hillary Clinton tried to do the same thing, only to be shot down in flames?
This time things are different. Obama, with his silky smooth speeches, has the support of far more people than Hillary did back in 1993. This time around there seems to be much more support for some sort of universal health care program.
Those who support the idea of government run health care need to stop and think for a moment.
July 24, 2009 – Calls for comprehensive immigration reform are now abundant. These are nothing more than calls for an open immigration policy and amnesty for 12 to 20 million illegal aliens.
New American Media, in its commentary, published by the Northwest Asian Weekly (July 4–July 10) calls on this country’s “core values” including “economic opportunity, equality under the laws regardless of ethnic background, and an embrace of the world’s most innovative, energetic, and ambitious workers.” I always thought that our core values included following the laws of the country, but evidently that was not convenient to mention.
Who killed Yasser Arafat? When the Palestinian leader was declared dead in a French hospital on Nov. 11, 2004, there was no way of knowing how questions related to his death should be phrased. Was he killed or did he die from old age? If he was killed, then who killed him and why? The “mysterious” nature of his symptoms gave birth to a theory that he was poisoned over a period of time, provided enough evidence that foul play was involved, even accusing some of those closest to him. Although the man’s story has been recorded in the ever-growing chronicle of the Palestinian struggle and Palestinians have somehow moved on, recent breaking news has blown his story wide open once again, breeding new controversy and stories of conspiracy.
The best kept secret in our history, next to the truth about tyrant “Honest Abe”. (Read “The Real Lincoln” by Thomas DiLorenzo)
The Collectivists/Politically Correct purveyors’ worst nightmare would be for American citizens to learn of their true Founding history….from the establishment of Jamestown by adventurers and businessmen BEFORE the Pilgrim’s Plymouth Rock, the first Thanksgiving at Berkley Plantation, BEFORE the Pilgrims’, to the wonderment of the saga of the “Distressed Cavaliers”. (Such knowledge might give rise to the pride Americans once had in their heritage, something carefully destroyed by the Politically Correct method of Cultural Marxists.)
July 22, 2009 – Do you know who Gen. Robert Edward Lee, Major Gen. George Edward Pickett and Major Gen. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain were? Are children still taught about these men and all those who met on the famous War Between the States battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania? Some call the Gettysburg Battlefield the most haunted place in America as many thousands died on that fateful month of July 1863.
The story of the Battle of Gettysburg and 50th Anniversary Reunion would make for a heart-warming and touching TV Historic mini-series or Hollywood movie.
“Comrades and friends, these splendid statues of marble and granite and bronze shall finally crumble to dust, and in the ages to come, will perhaps be forgotten, but the spirit that has called this great assembly of our people together, on this field, shall live forever.” – Dr. Nathaniel D. Cox at 1913 Gettysburg Reunion
July 22, 2009 - First came the destruction of our Founding principles, now comes the methodical extermination of our Founding Stock.
The first great death blow to our Republic occurred at the hands of “Dishonest Abe”. That bloodthirsty dictator violated our Constitution with impunity and any who crossed him paid a heavy price….not only in the South, but the many Northerners who did not condone or participate in his carnage were imprisoned, even exiled. Slavery had very little to do with the War Between the States, but it did serve as a most convenient cover and excuse in the end. (Read “The Real Lincoln”)
Every other country ended slavery without war and the U.S. was on its way to doing so itself. ..Not only due to disdain for the practice but economically through mechanization.
July 22, 2009 – For those who know how the “affirmative action” works, the idea of a nationalized health care system must be really scary.
Here is why….
When you select your doctor or decide which one to let perform a surgery on you, the only beneficiary of the choosing that you have in mind is you. If he doesn’t look like a doctor, doesn’t act like a doctor, and doesn’t carry himself like a doctor, you just walk away. You don’t care about your doctor’s hardships while in school and college (or in jail), nor do you consider such factors as him being of under- or over-represented ethnicity, the number of kids he has to feed, or societal desire to make up for past injustices. You simply want the best doctor that you can afford, period. If you don’t trust him, you look for someone else without even having to explain to anyone the reasons of your rejection of him.
July 22, 2009 - I want to present something to the readers on this AKA Health Enslavement program.
First of all – please figure out what it is that you consider to be HEALTH CARE.
Once you have settled that in your mind then you need to determine exactly who and what is needed to provide HEALTH CARE.
Next, list all the things and people that are now involved in HEALTH CARE that aren’t needed. I have done this years and years ago and every so often I present my thoughts to readers.
I like to present mental pictures to readers and that is what this is going to be so get your popcorn and settle down in your comfy chair.
My picture of health care is whatever CARE is needed to ‘fix’ or repair something that has happened to ones body.
While discussing the upcoming Universal Health Care Program with my sister-in-law the other day, I think we have found the solution. I am sure you have heard the ideas that if youre a senior you need to suck it up and give up the idea that you need any health care. A new hip? Unheard of. We simply can’t afford to take care of you anymore. You don’t need any medications for your high blood pressure, diabetes, heart problems, etc. Lets take care of the young people. After all, they will be ruling the world very soon.
So here is the solution. When you turn 70, you get a gun and 4 bullets. You are allowed to shoot 2 senators and 2 representatives. Of course, you will be sent to prison where you will get 3 meals a day, a roof over your head and all the health care you need! New teeth, great! Need glasses, no problem. New hip, knee, kidney, lung, heart? Well bring it on. And who will be paying for all of this? The same government that just told you that you are too old for health care. And, since you are a prisoner, you don’t have to pay any income tax.
July 21, 2009 – It is truly impossible for someone to be a real Conservative and be in favor of Government Health Care. Regardless of if you favor a so called “Single Payer” system or you want Socialized Medicine. If you favor Obama Universal Health Care which is modeled after the now bankrupt (Only took seven months) Hawaiian program that was set up for children only, all of these programs are a disaster and only a Liberal will argue otherwise.
While I agree that there needs to be reform of some type, I also believe that those reforms must not dismantle our current system and they must be based in a free market solution. In this article I will lay out my case against Government intervention, in another I will lay out Free Market solutions that I believe are a viable alternative.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." ~ Ronald Reagan
