Government “Controlled” Healthcare – vs – Government Run Census
Allow me to relate to you a story of an American citizen’s experience with the 2010 Census:
When the census began earlier this year, he did not receive the form. Then, if you recall, the government said there would be a second mailing. He did not receive the form in the second mailing. Soon afterwards he saw a notice in his regional newspaper that informed those having still not received their census forms to call a certain telephone number and request a form be sent to them. So, as a dutiful citizen, he called the number and made his request. In a couple of days, or so, he received the form. Within 48 hours he sat down and took the 5 to 6 minutes required to fill out the form and he mailed it back to the US Census Bureau.
It was finally done, he thought. . Thinking that all was well with the US Census, and himself he put the matter out of mind.
A few days ago, his wife found a notice stuck in their front door. It was a notice that a census taker had tried to contact them and was unable to do so and it gave a number to call. This time he decided to wait until the first day of the coming workweek. Since it was already Saturday, there did not seem to be a rush.
The very next day, which happened to be a Sunday, a knock came at his front door. When he opened it, there stood what he instantly recognized as a census taker dressed in shorts and a tank top and carrying a clipboard.
He explained that he had been missed by both mailings, had called, received a census form, had filled it out, and returned it. The census taker was polite but asked if he would mind answering the questions for him anyway.
As it was a Sunday, and this particular American citizen is, at heart, a peaceable fellow (especially on a Sunday morning) he agreed. They sat down and the census taker asked the very same questions this American citizen had already answered and sent to Washington. They shook hands and parted company.
Soon after hearing this story, I began to think, which, as regular readers already know, can be dangerous. I thought: This is THE CENSUS! It only takes place every TEN YEARS. Then why the dickens was it so confounded screwed-up? I mean, its not like it was done “off the cuff.” There is a good ten years between the taking of the censuses to iron out the problems, and be reasonably certain it will go off with a minimal amount of glitches. In the case cited above it resembled more of, what we used to call (in the military) a “cluster****!”
But, then again, there is the old expression that seems apropos to this situation: “Close enough for government work.”
This whole experience is worrisome for me on two fronts. One: unless some one in DC catches the error, this American citizen’s state will wind up with at least two more citizens on its rolls than it should have. Depending upon how many times this has happened nationwide, the Lord, Himself, will only know how many American citizens there actually are. Remember these numbers are often used to determine the letting of government funds and services to the several states, and cities, etc. A REASOANABLY accurate counting is extremely necessary.
Then on front number two: Horrors of horrors, I thought, this is the same government to which we now, by law, must entrust our health, indeed, our LIVES!
It is one thing to have a screw-up while gathering and adding numbers for a census. It is quite another thing to entrust our lives to the same government’s doctors in a hospital or clinic run by (or controlled by) that very same government. This is a hellish nightmare!
Remember, too, this is the same government that could not run a postal service when private companies all around them were running circles around them delivering packages on time, at a reasonable rate, and making huge profits for their businesses.
You are only kidding yourself if you actually believe that ObamaCare will be anywhere near as efficient — or the quality of care will come anywhere near that which we enjoy today.
Rationing is a given. Healthcare will cost we Americans far, far, more than we are paying now — and for what? Less healthcare, rationing of healthcare, fewer doctors and hospitals resulting in longer waits just for the privilege of seeing a doctor who is, for all intents and purposes, a government employee. As I said, it is going be a hellish nightmare.
The ONLY alternative we have, until we can gain indisputable control of a veto proof Congress, is to defund and make every effort to repeal ObamaCare.
Remember in November!
~ The Author ~
J. D. Longstreet is a conservative Southern American (A native sandlapper and an adopted Tar Heel) with a deep passion for the history, heritage, and culture of the southern states of America. At the same time he is a deeply loyal American believing strongly in “America First”.
He is a thirty-year veteran of the broadcasting business, as an “in the field” and “on-air” news reporter (contributing to radio, TV, and newspapers) and a conservative broadcast commentator.
Longstreet is a veteran of the US Army and US Army Reserve. He is a member of the American Legion and the Sons of Confederate Veterans. A lifelong Christian, Longstreet subscribes to “old Lutheranism” to express and exercise his faith.
Federal Observer contributing columnist, J. D. Longstreet blogs daily at INSIGHT on Freedom.
Do you really want your government controlling your health care? Maybe you should read this story below first.
Don’t think the government would poison you without your consent? Check out this website and its information. One of them specifically talks about flouride.
A History Of US Secret
Human Experimentation
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1931 Dr. Cornelius Rhoads, under the auspices of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Investigations, infects human subjects with cancer cells. He later goes on to establish the U.S. Army Biological Warfare facilities in Maryland, Utah, and Panama, and is named to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. While there, he begins a series of radiation exposure experiments on American soldiers and civilian hospital patients.
1932 The Tuskegee Syphilis Study begins. 200 black men diagnosed with syphilis are never told of their illness, are denied treatment, and instead are used as human guinea pigs in order to follow the progression and symptoms of the disease. They all subsequently die from syphilis, their families never told that they could have been treated.
1935 The Pellagra Incident. After millions of individuals die from Pellagra over a span of two decades, the U.S. Public Health Service finally acts to stem the disease. The director of the agency admits it had known for at least 20 years that Pellagra is caused by a niacin deficiency but failed to act since most of the deaths occured within poverty-striken black populations.
1940 Four hundred prisoners in Chicago are infected with Malaria in order to study the effects of new and experimental drugs to
combat the disease. Nazi doctors later on trial at Nuremberg cite this American study to defend their own actions during the Holocaust.
1942 Chemical Warfare Services begins mustard gas experiments on approximately 4,000 servicemen. The experiments continue until 1945 and made use of Seventh Day Adventists who chose to become human guinea pigs rather than serve on active duty.
1943 In response to Japan’s full-scale germ warfare program, the U.S. begins research on biological weapons at Fort Detrick, MD.
1944 U.S. Navy uses human subjects to test gas masks and clothing. Individuals were locked in a gas chamber and exposed to mustard gas and lewisite.
1945 Project Paperclip is initiated. The U.S. State Department, Army intelligence, and the CIA recruit Nazi scientists and offer them immunity and secret identities in exchange for work on top secret government projects in the United States.
1945 “Program F” is implemented by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). This is the most extensive U.S. study of the health effects of fluoride, which was the key chemical component in atomic bomb production. One of the most toxic chemicals known to man, fluoride, it is found, causes marked adverse effects to the central nervous system but much of the information is squelched in the name of national security because of fear that lawsuits would undermine full-scale production of atomic bombs.
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http://www.healthnewsnet.com/humanexperiments.html
Some people, after filling the first form out, received as many as three more forms, each requesting they fill it out and return it. And some people, like myself, received none at all, nor a visit from a census taker. I sent an e-mail to my elected Republican representative regarding this obvious irregularities occurring with the census; my e-mail was not answered. I was present when a census worker showed up at a relatives home. They had already provided the information that was constitutionally required. The census worker was adamant that they answer her questions. I stepped in and told her that to file two census forms was, in fact, a felony and I was advising my relates to not respond to her questions. She finally left, after trying every trick in the book to get my relates to answer her questions including that she would get fired if they didn’t answer her questions and she was “just trying to feed her kids in this hard economy.”