The Cost is Freedom I

I made a couple of changes

December 12, 2009


The current hot topic in our nation is the “health care debate”. Let’s look beyond the talking points on this subject and look at the true meaning of this and other government programs.

The real issue is the massive expansion of the Federal (central) government. The greater the growth (expansion), the greater is the lose, or more accurately, the theft of our individual freedom! This taking, and in some cases, surrendering of our freedoms has been in the works for many decades but accelerated to Mach 2 during the last administration and has hit light speed under the current congress and administration. Let’s take a quick peek at a couple of the recent failed programs.

The $787B stimulus plan is reported to have saved or created about 650,000 jobs. That is over $1.2 MILLION per job! That’s government efficiency for you! The job numbers are easy to claim, but hard to prove. An across the board tax cut would have allowed business to create REAL jobs and actually stimulating the economy.

Cash for Clunkers. This was concocted to help the US automakers (the unconstitutionally government owned GM and Chrysler) increase sales. Most of the sales went to Toyota. Have you seen the videos of the many fine cars destroyed by this program? (Here is one example; you can check it out on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waj2KrKYTZo )
I am leery of a government that sees fit to destroy; this is an indicator that governments only consume, they do not create. And who was hurt most by this program? The folks who need dependable transportation and cannot afford to buy new vehicles. The very people the liberals/progressives allege to champion!

I could go on, but back to health care. We need true free market competition and fair taxing of benefits to have real health care reform. http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul339.html
The ridiculous amount of regulation that restricts our ability to choose the health care that meets our individual/family needs has been around and growing for the past 40 years or so. What is the cause of this and other government programs. The lobbyist? NO! The corporations? NO! It is the politicians who accept “campaign contributions” and other perks from the lobbyist/corporations and pass laws and alter the tax code to benefit the politicians’ donors. They no longer care about what WE THE PEOPLE have to say. (Although this is true for many of the AZ congressional delegation, it is not true of all politicians; there are a few honest ones.)

Even if the bill is passed without a single payer option, don’t buy into it. The government hates competition and can easily regulate to kill any competition! (Remember, they can rewrite the bill at 3:00 AM!) Think about the voucher program in Washington DC. The students who received vouchers and attended private schools were far more successful than their counterparts in the government (public) schools. The government didn’t like this competition and canceled the voucher program. Do you think heath care or any other government program/operation will be different? I say NO!

The Federal government has limited powers defined by the US Constitution and it does NOT include health care, business ownership or bailouts. Our elected officials took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, yet they knowingly violate that oath on a regular basis.

The dollar amount of debt we are passing on to future generations can never be repaid. Why? The current and future politicians will only add more entitlement/spending programs adding to the mammoth debt, unless we replace these politicians with (as Samuel Adams said) virtuous leaders.

Now, let’s look at what you and I owe now. The US debt now stands at about 12 Trillion ( a trillion is one million million!) That means EVERY US Citizens’ share is approximately $39,000! Here is a link. http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

This year the US deficit hit approximately $1.4 trillion, up about $1 trillion from 2008’s $486 Billion (1000 million). Per US Citizen? About $4500 each.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5966HC20091007
That means our US Government has put all of us in debt for about $43,500 EACH. I don’t have that much extra cash, do you?

But wait, there’s more! Let’s add in the cost of “healthcare reform”. Estimates I have seen are between $1,000,000,000,000 (that’s trillion) and $2.5 trillion over 10 years. It would also cut $500 billion from Medicare. Your and my share? Between $3000 and $8000. Now, add that to the total from above. http://www.pressregister.com/articles/2009/12/09/news/doc4b1e764685e6b987140315.txt

WE THE PEOPLE are the only protection the US Constitution has. It is time we step up, cut the fat and find leaders who will take the tough steps needed to return us to Liberty, individual freedom, opportunity and prosperity.

The real cost of this explosive expansion of government is nothing less than FREEDOM!

Bill Bulgier

Warden Pelosi

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=511806

Government conditioning of the masses, Swine Flu "emergency" ( How bogus!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RlVeJNT0QM&feature=player_embedded

Inside The Bureaucracy Obama Envisions

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=332725429530316

Healthcare problem solved

Obama has the solution to the “healthcare” crisis

Let us review:

During WWII the government froze wages (mistake one, messing with the labor market) the resourceful capitalist needed workers so they provided health care to attract those workers.

In the 1970’s, the government mandated managed health care (mistake two) and started regulating based on special interest buying off congressmen

The current administration states, out loud, “never let a crisis go to waste”

The government attempts to take over health care after being successfull at socializing other markets. (automobile and banking come to mind for starters)

The solution:



This is not partisan POLITICS except that THE GOVERNMENT CREATED THE MESS, NOW GOVERNMENT, GET OUT OF THE WAY AND LET THE FREE MARKET CLEAN UP THE MESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is only one attack on our constitution.

HR 3200 healthcare bill in PDF

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h3200ih.txt.pdf

I am still working on going thru this page 167 is nice and relates to page 203/204

Enjoy

This is a PDF so it is easy to navigate to specific pages.
Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed!
• Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and
benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals
process)
• Page 42: The "Health Choices Commissioner" will decide health
benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.
• Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with
free healthcare services.
• Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard.
• Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access
to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.
• Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community
organizer health plans (read: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)
• Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government
rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.
• Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the
Healthcare Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans)
• Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services;
translation: illegal aliens
• Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up
individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.
• Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically
enrolled: you have no choice in the matter.
• Page 222: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure!
• Page 124: No company can sue the government for pr ice-fixing. No
"judicial review" is permitted against the government monopoly. Put
simply, private insurers will be crushed.
• Page 127:: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages.
• Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the
government-run public plan. No alternatives.
• Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time
employees AND their families.
• Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does
not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll
• Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who
does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll
• Page 167: Any individual who doesn't have acceptable healthcare
(according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income.
• Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes
(Americans will pay for them).
• Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare
Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial and personal
records.
• Page 203: "The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated
as tax." Yes, it really says that.
• Page 239: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid.
Seniors and the poor most affected."
• Page 241: Doctors: no matter what specialty you have, you'll all be
paid the same (thanks, AMA!)
• Page 253: Government sets value of doctors' time, their
professional judgment, etc.
• Page 2265: Government mandates and controls productivity for private
healthcare industries.
• Page 268: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven
wheelchairs.
• Page 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing!
• Page 280: Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems
preventable re-admissions.
• Page 298: Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial
admission that results in a readmission, you will be penalized by the
government.
• Page 317: Doctors: you are now prohibited for owning and investing
in healthcare companies!
• Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot
expand without government approval.
• Page 321: Hospital expansion hinges on "community" input: in other
words, yet another payoff for ACORN.
• Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based
measures: i.e., rationing.
• Page 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage
Plans, HMOs, etc.
• Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals.
• Page 379: More bureaucracy: Telehealth Advisory Committee
(healthcare by phone).
• Page 425: More bureaucracy: Advance Care Planning Consult: Senior
Citizens, assisted suicide, euthanasia?
• Page 425: Government will instruct and consult regarding living
wills, durable powers of attorney, etc. Mandatory. Appears to lock in
estate taxes ahead of time.
• Page 425: Government provides approved list of end-of-life
resources, guiding you in death.
• Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life
treatment; government dictates how your life ends.
• Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate
treatment as patient's health deteriorates. This can include an ORDER
for end-of-life plans. An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.
• Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may
have at end-of-life.
• Page 469: Community-based Home Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN.
• Page 472: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs for ACORN.
• Page 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy.
Government intervenes in your marriage.
• Page 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining,
creating and rationing those services.

Nationalized (socialized) medicine

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_HEALTH_CARE_OVERHAUL?SITE=INLAF&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Please click on the title above



A couple of comments

President Obama is sounding more like a dictator, giving congress a deadline. Everything with him and the politicians that want this rammed down our throats is a crisis that cannot even be given time to review, debate or read. The Federal government needs to get OUT of helath care and let the market work.

You will be forced to have insurance. What is not stated here is that YOU will be fined (TAXED) if you do not have insurance. $1000.00 month? Will it be more/less? You will be required to prove to the IRS that you had coverage.

We need to replace the politicians in DC with people who are dedicated to the Constitution, small Federal (central) government, individual and state sovergienty which will return us to real freedom!

vaccine dangers, history repeats

vaccine dangers, you can google for more listings of this article from the 1976 swine flu scare.

We must all be free to decide medical options for ourselves and our children

click the title or below

http://www.wanttoknow.info/health/1976_swine_flu_vaccine_60_minutes_transcript

Heath care

the government taking away choice, and now fines. How long until they run the private insures out of business. read some earlier post for detail.

tell you senators NO on nationalized health care


click on title

Socialized Medical Cost

http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/06/30/alice_in_medical_care?page=2