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.
July 9, 2009: TIME – Sarah Palin is that most exotic of American creatures: an Alaska original, raised and ripened in an environment remote, extreme, unfamiliar — and free. A land of self-invention, where no one bats an eye at a mom-deckhand-governor-whatever-comes-next. Ever since John McCain introduced his running mate last year, Palin has been like a modern-day version of the captive specimens hauled back to Europe by explorers of old. Like Squanto in London, she speaks the language — if not always the idiom — of the audiences she fascinates. But she remains, on some level, unknowable.
This outsider quality is easy to ignore when you see her in full dazzle on a convention stage, but it comes into focus should you find her in her habitat.
July 20, 2009 — On a recent morning, Kris W. Kobach, a conservative law professor, rushed late into a federal courtroom here with his suit slightly rumpled and little more than a laptop under his arm. His mission was to persuade the judge to uphold an ordinance adopted by a Dallas suburb that would bar landlords from renting housing to illegal immigrants.
“To rigidly separate local government from federal government when we think about immigration enforcement is not only legally incorrect, it’s also bad policy,” said Kris W. Kobach.
A team of lawyers from a Latino advocacy group had set up early at the opposing table, fortified with legal assistants and stacks of case documents. Unfazed, Mr. Kobach unleashed a cascade of constitutional arguments. Case names and precedents spilled out so rapidly, the judge had to order Mr. Kobach several times to slow down.
July 20, 2009 – From the ninth floor of a downtown office building on Wilshire Boulevard, Jack Soussana delivered staggering numbers of mortgages to homeowners during the real estate boom, amassing a fortune.
By Mr. Soussana’s own account, his customers fared less happily. He specialized in the exotic mortgages that have proved most prone to sliding into foreclosure, leaving many now scrambling to save their homes.
Yet the dangers assailing Mr. Soussana’s clients have yielded fresh business for him: Late last year, he and his team — ensconced in the same office where they used to broker mortgages — began working for a loan modification company. For fees reaching $3,495, with most of the money collected upfront, they promised to negotiate with lenders to lower payments on the now-delinquent mortgages they and their counterparts had sprinkled liberally across Southern California.
“We just changed the script and changed the product we were selling,” said Mr. Soussana, who ran the Los Angeles sales office of Federal Loan Modification Law Center. The new script: You got a raw deal, and “Now, we’re able to help you out because we understand your lender.”
July 20, 2009 - The meat and potatoes of this health care crisis are saving money, and a quality of care that everybody can participate in? The amount of cold hard cash spent on doctors, hospitals and a subsidiary of middle men goes into the trillions of dollars annually. Health care is a major part of the GMP, because our system of health care contains very little preventative medicine and–EVERYTHING–to do with keeping the status quo well furnished with dollars. The AMA has ruled the roost since the 1920’s and allowed very little alternative medicine to surface amongst the now multi billion dollar industry such as Cancer. A good example is the Rife machine that was heralded by many doctors in the 1930’s, but because of its was a new innovation to combat disease it disappeared, with its inventor ostracized and black listed by the medical Federation. The medical profession suddenly comes to the realization that perhaps this new medical tool could cut down the patient line at their office. Instead of the research being immediately picked up by the AMA and studied, it was consumed in ugly controversy and vanished from public view.
Forty years later, the old basTURD is still holding down his office – even if it’s from his death-bed in Hyannis Port. Taking a girl out for an illicit apple-bob after dark didn’t seem to bother anyone. But then the midnight swim thing didn’t wither.
Monday, Nov. 12, 1973 – The National Lampoon’s jejune penetrations of the frontiers of bad taste have earned it a devoted following (800,000) and hilarious profits. But a mock advertisement in Lampoon’s 1973 Encyclopedia of Humor brought the magazine’s madcap staffers some serious trouble. “If Ted Kennedy drove a Volkswagen, he’d be President today,” said the realistic-looking ad copy under a photo of a Beetle floating hubcap-deep in water. The text explained that Volkswagen’s watertight construction—a selling point in genuine VW ads—would have prevented the 1969 drowning of Mary Jo Kopechne. Volkswagen of America began receiving outraged letters from readers who thought that VW itself was responsible for the ghoulish idea (“I will be damned if I will buy another Volkswagen after seeing an ad like the attached,” wrote one customer).
July 20, 2009 – For a moment I would like for you to imagine that you are a contestant on one of those gameshows that tests your knowledge on a wide range of subjects. You are in the final round, and all you have to do to win half a million dollars is answer one more question correctly. The question is, “What form of government did the U.S. Constitution establish?”
If you are like most people I know, you would be inwardly jumping for joy at being given such an easy question. You would quickly scribble your answer down, a democracy. Unfortunately, you would be going home penniless, because you would have answered incorrectly.
Don’t feel bad, you are not alone when you think that our system of government is a democracy. Even many of those we elect to represent us in that government call it a democracy, as do the media and our public school systems. They are all equally as wrong. Let’s take a moment to find out why.
"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
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