"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
-Edmund Burke
Call these four Democratic Senators who are still "on the fence" regarding how they are going to vote on the Healthcare Bill. Be courteous, but also explain that if they vote for this bill, everything will be done in our power to ensure they are not re-elected. Below are the names and numbers of the Senators:
Mary Landrieu of Louisiana
202-224-5824
Ben Nelson of Nebraska
202-224-6551
Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas
202-224-4843
Evan Bayh of Indiana
202-224-5623
It won't take long to pick up the phone and voice your opposition to this infringement on our individual liberty. There is SO MUCH at stake with this vote.
Do it.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Misery Index on the Rise
My friend PitchPull posted this on his site and I feel it deserves some attention.
The Misery Index factors in inflation and the unemployment rate to calculate what level of "misery" the American people are currently experiencing.
The last index (2 months ago) was 8.51%.
This month is 10.02%.
It's going to be interesting to see where it will be in a year from now, let alone six months from now....ugh....
I will continue monitoring and provide updates.
The Misery Index factors in inflation and the unemployment rate to calculate what level of "misery" the American people are currently experiencing.
The last index (2 months ago) was 8.51%.
This month is 10.02%.
It's going to be interesting to see where it will be in a year from now, let alone six months from now....ugh....
I will continue monitoring and provide updates.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
The Future is Now
Fast forward to the year 2014. The Government-run healthcare reform was signed into law just over four years ago and has just been fully implemented.
The company you work for, although a Fortune 500 company which has provided you a steady job, has elected to no longer provide health insurance for you and your co-workers in order to "keep costs at a minimum." Because your company must provide a list of employees who are no longer covered to the government, you know you have no choice but to enroll in the government-run "public option," or risk going to jail for failure to provide yourself a healthcare plan.
Not long after, you realize you need to go to the doctor for chronic and severe headaches. You find the doctor assigned to you on the government-run website and call his office. The secretary informs you that the first available appointment will be in two months. The shortage of doctors due to the government mandated physician pay cap has discouraged people from becoming doctors and has driven other doctors out of the industry completely, forcing a shortage across the nation.
You reluctantly make the appointment and get through the next few months with a lot of over-the-counter pain medication. When you finally show up to the doctor's office, you take a number in the waiting room and realize there are close to 50 patients ahead of you to see the same doctor. But, after a four and a half hour wait you finally get the chance to tell the doctor the problem you have been having and that it has gotten steadily worse with time.
The doctor runs a few tests and says that he would like to give you an MRI, but the type of headache your describing (i.e. location of pain and frequency) don't qualify to receive an MRI under the treatment guidelines imposed by the government treatment review board. His hands are tied for now and the best he can do is provide you a little stronger pain medication.
Rewind to where we are now. A government health panel has just recommended that women under the age of 50 not receive mamograms. I'm not a doctor (or a woman), but would it not be prudent to receive a mamogram before the age of 50?
What will happen if the goverment takes over our healthcare system, and a panel such as this makes a "recommendation"? Will we be denied treatment? Will our choice for how we want to maintain our own health be systematically taken away from us?
The problem is that WE DONT KNOW what will happen if we allow the government this much control into our daily lives.
The above scenario is worst-case, but why do we want to give the government the right to decide what healthcare treatment is best for us? Government-run healthcare could easily devolve into a tyrranical system for deciding who receives treatment and who doesn't.
Many will try to discredit this possible scenario as "fear-mongerring." Instead of resorting to getting angry and finding any and every way possible to discredit this type of scenario, connect the dots with what we are seeing today and the implications it might mean for our future.
I certainly don't claim to know the future, but I don't want to give the government (or anyone for the matter) the access to control my decisions.
How can anyone who loves individual liberty disagree?
The company you work for, although a Fortune 500 company which has provided you a steady job, has elected to no longer provide health insurance for you and your co-workers in order to "keep costs at a minimum." Because your company must provide a list of employees who are no longer covered to the government, you know you have no choice but to enroll in the government-run "public option," or risk going to jail for failure to provide yourself a healthcare plan.
Not long after, you realize you need to go to the doctor for chronic and severe headaches. You find the doctor assigned to you on the government-run website and call his office. The secretary informs you that the first available appointment will be in two months. The shortage of doctors due to the government mandated physician pay cap has discouraged people from becoming doctors and has driven other doctors out of the industry completely, forcing a shortage across the nation.
You reluctantly make the appointment and get through the next few months with a lot of over-the-counter pain medication. When you finally show up to the doctor's office, you take a number in the waiting room and realize there are close to 50 patients ahead of you to see the same doctor. But, after a four and a half hour wait you finally get the chance to tell the doctor the problem you have been having and that it has gotten steadily worse with time.
The doctor runs a few tests and says that he would like to give you an MRI, but the type of headache your describing (i.e. location of pain and frequency) don't qualify to receive an MRI under the treatment guidelines imposed by the government treatment review board. His hands are tied for now and the best he can do is provide you a little stronger pain medication.
Rewind to where we are now. A government health panel has just recommended that women under the age of 50 not receive mamograms. I'm not a doctor (or a woman), but would it not be prudent to receive a mamogram before the age of 50?
What will happen if the goverment takes over our healthcare system, and a panel such as this makes a "recommendation"? Will we be denied treatment? Will our choice for how we want to maintain our own health be systematically taken away from us?
The problem is that WE DONT KNOW what will happen if we allow the government this much control into our daily lives.
The above scenario is worst-case, but why do we want to give the government the right to decide what healthcare treatment is best for us? Government-run healthcare could easily devolve into a tyrranical system for deciding who receives treatment and who doesn't.
Many will try to discredit this possible scenario as "fear-mongerring." Instead of resorting to getting angry and finding any and every way possible to discredit this type of scenario, connect the dots with what we are seeing today and the implications it might mean for our future.
I certainly don't claim to know the future, but I don't want to give the government (or anyone for the matter) the access to control my decisions.
How can anyone who loves individual liberty disagree?
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
F.U.B.A.R.
When I was in the military, FUBAR was a term we used when something was screwed up. FUBAR is the first thing that comes to my mind when I see how this administration is handling the trial of Khaleid Sheik Mohammed.
Sen Graham (even though I am not a huge fan) was right on the mark in his questioning of Attorney General Holder. It is evident to me that this trial has not been thought through completely and therefore, FUBAR.
(Check out the dude behind Senator Graham--he's thinking this is FUBAR, also)
Sen Graham (even though I am not a huge fan) was right on the mark in his questioning of Attorney General Holder. It is evident to me that this trial has not been thought through completely and therefore, FUBAR.
(Check out the dude behind Senator Graham--he's thinking this is FUBAR, also)
Is this transparency we can believe in?
Townhall.com Blog : Meredith Jessup : "Phantom Districts" Now Number 440; Cost Taxpayers $6.4 BILLION
I'm just wondering where the $6,383,184,549.00 actually went to...
Maybe it went to help fund the multiple getaways on Air Force One by the Obama's...
Or, maybe it is going to funding all the badly needed "Czars" in the Obama Administration...
Or, maybe it's helping to fund Michelle Obama's staff...
It could be going to help fund Nancy Pelosi's 767...
The scary thing is that its probably not going to ANY of these things...we will probably never really know where this money is going.
FRAUD. WASTE. ABUSE. The by-products of big government. If the government can't handle the task of tracking our $787 Billion from the stimulus package, why would we trust them to handle our healthcare system at a cost of up to $3 Trillion over the next 10 years?
CHANGE-WE-CAN-BELIEVE-IN. Right.
Wake Up People.
I'm just wondering where the $6,383,184,549.00 actually went to...
Maybe it went to help fund the multiple getaways on Air Force One by the Obama's...
Or, maybe it is going to funding all the badly needed "Czars" in the Obama Administration...
Or, maybe it's helping to fund Michelle Obama's staff...
It could be going to help fund Nancy Pelosi's 767...
The scary thing is that its probably not going to ANY of these things...we will probably never really know where this money is going.
FRAUD. WASTE. ABUSE. The by-products of big government. If the government can't handle the task of tracking our $787 Billion from the stimulus package, why would we trust them to handle our healthcare system at a cost of up to $3 Trillion over the next 10 years?
CHANGE-WE-CAN-BELIEVE-IN. Right.
Wake Up People.
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