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Posted on 03/08/2010 11:55:00 AM PST by American Dream 246
It's all supposed to be voluntary, those "home visits" that are tucked into the mammoth Obamacare bill. If you have a strong stomach, and a stronger bottom, you can find home visitation on pages 568-595. That's Section 2951 of H.R. 3590, the Senate bill that Harry Reid brought down the chimney on Christmas Eve.
All voluntary, they say, but once you "volunteer" to have the oh-so-helpful folks from Social Services come in to help with your newborns, or with a number of other specified issues, will you ever be able to get rid of them?
The bill provides for federal funding and supervision for this vast expansion of government intrusion into family life. This is the Nanny State on steroids.
Is your family being "targeted" for such home visitations? Let's see if you fit into one of these very broad categories:
Families where Mom is not yet 21. (No mention here whether she is married or not.) Families where someone is a tobacco user. (Does this include the White House? Watch out, Sasha and Malia! Does Grandpa, whom you love and have taken in, enjoy his after-dinner pipe?) Families where children have low student achievement, developmental delays, or disabilities.
As if that list were not wide-ranging enough, here's the net that can encompass tens of millions:
Families with individuals who are serving or formerly served in the armed forces, including such families that have members of the armed forces who have had multiple deployments outside the United States. [Emphasis added.]
So while Johnny gets his gun, the government steps in to "help" his family at home. Ronald Reagan used to say the most frightening words in the English language were these: I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.
Who will sit atop the federal pyramid that runs this vast new invasion of family privacy? Why, it will be Sec. of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, of course. She was the most pro-abortion governor in American history when President Obama tapped her for his cabinet.
Do you spank your children? You should know that HHS bureaucrats think you are an abuser.
Do you support the Second Amendment? How would you like HHS bureaucrats asking your children if you maintain firearms in the home for family protection?
Do you home-school your kids? Take care. Members of Congress who have tried to abolish home-schooling are big backers of this health care bill. Do you wonder why?
There are abundant reasons to oppose this health care bill. Conservative leader Gary Bauer cites the colorful words of Oklahoma Democratic Congressman Dan Boren. Mr. Boren is one of the bluest of Blue Dogs. He says: "They can break my arms. They can do whatever they want to. They'll never get my vote -- ever. They'll have to walk across my dead body if they want my vote on this issue." Boren spoke for many concerned Democrats when he said, "there is no chance I am voting for this bill because it raises taxes on businesses, creates job-killing mandates, grows the size of government, and cuts services to seniors."
All of this is true. But the White House is pulling out all the stops. One of their senior advisers told CNN's Gloria Borger what President Obama's people are telling wavering Democrats on Capitol Hill:
BORGER: Right. This isn't going to be subtle at all today. I think this is it. I was speaking with one senior White House adviser just before I came on the air, and he said, think of it this way. This is the last helicopter out of Saigon, OK?
Could anything be more bizarre? A senior member of the administration is comparing the president's signature measure in Congress to the forced evacuation of the U.S. Embassy in South Vietnam in 1975.
Older Americans remember the shame and heartbreak of seeing thousands of America's allies desperately clinging to U.S. Army helicopters as the North Vietnamese army closed in on South Vietnam's capital city.
We don't want to re-fight the Vietnam War, but it should not go without notice that the Democrats also controlled Capitol Hill back in 1975. The Democrats, led by Sen. Ted Kennedy and Minnesota Congressman Don Fraser, had cut off all the promised U.S. funding for the South Vietnamese armed forces that were trying to stave off a brutal Communist takeover of their country. And we're told that we have to pass Obamacare as a tribute to Ted!
Is this the kind of hope and change Mr. Obama's top advisers now want us to embrace? Are his own people thinking of this last-minute push as a debacle? Helicopters in Saigon. What a confused and confusing mess this is!
One thing is clear: For life and liberty, we must defeat ObamaCare. Call your U.S. senators and representatives now (202.224.3121). Tell them to vote NO on Obamacare.
randomhero97: f**k off.
“PLEASE ASK THEM TO REPEAL THE BIG NEW FEES in TRICARE for Life, the retired Military over 65 secondary health ins. which they passed in a DOD bill. They promised our Military these benefits, and our Military have earned them.”
This is the problem. Politicians have promised more than they could ever deliver without bankrupting the country. There is no more money left. We are all going to be left holding an empty bag.
Are you sure you’re on the right forum?
And if you use marijuana, then they would be upset if the gov't DIDN'T monitor you.
Ping.
Important! Thank you for the heads’ up, metmom.
I’m really impressed with Bon Jovi and Sting. They are as brilliant as the intellectuals Thomas Sowell writes about:
Intellectuals Step ‘Off The Cliff,’ Drag Rest Of Us Down: Sowell
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2461148/posts?page=12
[Exposing the failed history of the loony left wing “intellectuals”. Strategy remarks in post 9.]
Everything that can be said about this bill has been said. It has been being said since the day they started this takeover. There is now nothing left to say except NO. No. No. AND
NO!
You can Call. Write. FAX and scream it from the rooftops. They are not listening. They do not just want to control you, OR your life. They want to control your children and your children’s children.
THAT is the very real danger of this. YOU may fight it all you wish, but someday in the future, YOU, the adults who are alive now, will be gone, (sooner rather than later for many, if this passes,) and your children will never know anything else.
Make no mistake. This is why the hardcore is willing to sacrifice literally everything to accomplish this. They think it is their destiny to control the universe. They think the system they invision for your children’s future is much more efficient and sterile than anything you could provide for them.
Welcome to 1984 writ large.
Buy bullets, some seeds, a chicken, and a cow. Your money will be worthless. You can’t eat gold. Gems might be good for some tools. But your life? It will change in ways you never believed possible even a year ago.
For many, it already has. They are coming for you. They don’t have to take you physically if they control the environment around you. Believe it. They don’t need to put/force you into camps. Many people out of work and homeless will be begging for places to stay and be taken care of.
They have NO IDEA how to survive in a world where they can’t get electricity because the government will control it with “smartgrids.” And many of you don’t either.
The bigger picture here is what they are already planning, what is coming, not what is.
All the talk about everyone deserving to be hooked into the internet is bogus. They want the net, which they will control, to control every aspect of human existence. They are planning for mega command and control centers already. They just haven’t called them control centers. They use words like data center. Information center. Data storage facility.
If THIS bill passes, you will never know freedom again.
No, I am not wearing tin foil. They have already made their plans very public. The PUBLIC is NOT paying attention. Our attention has been diverted by the extreme chaos this administration has deliberately set into motion. Worried and fearful people will accept just about anything...so they think.
Just stop and think for one second about the flap over one school district which gave out computers to students with spy capabilities built in.
Forerunners. And the story is gone from sight now. No big deal. Only ONE school overstepped its bounds.
REALLY?
muslims always do dry runs before they pull off the big strike. Everything this government does is a dry run. Be warned. The big strike is already planned and it is coming.
Obama-Care Includes Home Invasions
And guess who’s “Out” ?
James C. Dobson, founder and chairman emeritus of Focus on the Family, OUT.
Other headlines will also have links coming up ...
Sean Penn Wants Reporters Jailed for Calling Chavez ‘Dictator’
Poll: America less respected..
Romney: Rush Wrong on McCain Campaign (BARF ALERT)
Stimulus funds pay for monkey research in N.C.
Are ABC, CBS, NBC, FactCheck, and N.Y. Times ‘birthers’ too?
And more.
Guess who’s “Out” ?
James C. Dobson, founder and chairman emeritus of Focus on the Family, OUT.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=127297
“I think that Focus does have a new focus; an image change designed to make them accepted and well-liked rather than standing for righteousness in an unrighteous society.” — Dr. Kenneth L. Hutcherson
Poll: America less respected...
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/08/poll-obama-dems-losing-ground
Sean Penn Wants Reporters Jailed for Calling Chavez ‘Dictator’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2466682/posts
Former union president charged with violating labor law (Chicago)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2466680/posts
Romney: Rush Wrong on McCain Campaign (BARF ALERT)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2466812/posts?page=2
Sharrukin’s hard hitting post about Romney — several reports/quotes
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2466630/posts?page=21#21
Stimulus funds pay for monkey research in N.C.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/03/08/89974/stimulus-funds-pay-for-monkey.html
An Apple a Day? Study Shows Soluble Fiber Boosts Immune System
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2466978/posts
Right. At a guess, I would say:
failure to comply would be a choice with a price tag. Fines, penalties, whatever. 3rd Way social engineering.
Well, then... it looks like it’s time to bring back debtor’s prisons.
And all our fine politicians get to go there until they pay off all the money they promised (ie: for life).
Coming to my house would be a hugh mistake ;-)
You won't like the Article, nor #29.
It isn't his JOB to "move our thinking"!!!!! He's the vendor for policy; we're the customers. HE's supposed to move to where WE are!
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Horrific.
Have y’all read “The Day the Dollar Died” series online? It’s one man’s take on the coming events. It’s eerily prophetic and a griping good read.
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