Posted on 08/13/2009 5:00:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
"She had spent her lifetime in the town, and it was easy to know who everyone was and where everyone lived." -- John O'Hara in Ten North Frederick, a novel about life in small town Pennsylvania
I am not a Nazi
I am not a Mob
I am not a Wacko
How dare you…
Underneath the pink hat shielding her from a hot August sun, the woman was furious.
Standing in the heat outside Senator Arlen Specter's town meeting in the small bucolic Central Pennsylvania town of Lebanon, along with a crowd estimated at over 1,000 by an astonished local policeman, she wanted to make certain something else was known. She held aloft her handmade sign, its message written as above, her fury directed at the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House of Representatives. "I'm a wife, mother and a homemaker. I don't even know anybody in the insurance business." Pause, the obvious sense of indignant wrath searching for expression. Finally: "I really resent the fact that Nancy Pelosi has deemed me a mob and a Nazi!"
Another sign bobbed in the crowd, yet another homemade reference to a Pelosi comment questioning the authenticity of the opposition to ObamaCare. "If it's Astroturf why are you trying to mow it?" Which raised the obvious question.
Was she sent here by someone? "No!" came the emphatic answer tinged with disgust at the sheer stupidity of the notion. No. She listened to Glenn Beck and "all of 580" --local jargon for the WHP radio affiliate that carries Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. Someone else mentioned Mark Levin. But she wasn't out here to please a voice on the radio.(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
We don't need to...
She is us.
We are her.
The gentleman who wrote this was President Reagan’s political director in the White House:
Jeffrey Lord worked on five Supreme Court nominations as a Reagan White House political director, including that of Robert Bork. He is the author of a book on the Senate’s judicial confirmation process and writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.
From it, I thought, "No one sent me. I am here because I can think for myself! Thank you very much."
We're getting damn sick and tired of getting shouted down or ignored by Philadelphia, Harrisburg and other homes of the professional political class who think we are only here to work and pay the bills for them.
[... Philadelphia — a city affectionately still
known as The City of Brotherly Love — are poised
to enact health care policies that are both distinctly
un-brotherly and absent of love...]
FABULOUS! One of the BEST articles yet!
Great post!
I reject the premise of this sentence. Of course, the author is being well-intentioned himself, but there is nothing benevolent in the intentions of the elites who would rule us as cattle.
Good honest post.......
The commentary is fantastic. I am going to quote one (usually comments are NOT subject to copyright). This is worthwhile (In response to “Bob” who claims to be a Conservative but who is clearly a troll although no one calls him that exactly. Bob says the angry people are speaking from ignorance and lies fed to them by Rush, Beck, Hannity, et. al.):
Dave| 8.12.09 @ 11:55AM
Bob,
If you have read the bill and are a social liberatarian and fiscally conservative, why don’t these provisions in the House bill disturb you?
These are direct excerpts from the House version ....
Page 22: The federal government will be empowered to audit the books of any corporation that self-insures.
Page 29, Lines 4-16: All health care will be rationed based on age, the present health of any patient and the availability of health services and supplies.
Page 30, Sections 123: A government committee will decide what treatments or benefits will be made available under the health care that will be provided. It will be illegal to provide any medical benefits to
anyone that haven’t been pre-approved by the committee.
Page 42: A Health Choices Commissioner will be appointed by the President and will choose what health services will be provided to each patient.
Page 50, Section 152: Healthcare will be provided to all Non-U.S. citizens within the borders of the United States , illegal or otherwise.
Page 58: The Health Choices Commissioner’s Office will have real time access to every medical patient’s financial records and all citizens will be issued and be required to have on their person at all times a National ID Health card.
Page 59: (Continuation of Page 58) The Government will have direct access to all bank accounts and electronic transfer accounts of patients.
Page 65, Section 164: Subsidization for retirees of Unions and groups like ACORN
Page 72, Lines 8-14: Brings all health care HMO and private insurance plans under government control.
Page 84: Section 203: All benefit packages for private health care plans will be under the control of the government.
Page 85, Line 7: The Health Choices Commissioner will specify what benefits will be allowable under private health care plans.
Page 95: Community Action Groups (ACORN and Americorps) will be authorized to sign up citizens for the Government Health Care Plan.
Page 102, Lines 12-18: All Medicaid eligible recipients will be automatically enrolled in Medicaid. They will have no “choice.”
Page 124, Lines 24-25: All government suppliers and contractors are exempt from price fixing lawsuits. “Judicial Review” is prohibited.
Page 127, Lines 1-16: The government will set salaries for all doctors.
Page 145, Lines 15-17: An employer will be required to automatically enroll all employees in the public option plan. The employee will not have any choice in the matter.
Page 146, Lines 22-25: Employers must pay for the health care for any part-time employees AND their families.
Page 149, Lines 16-24: Any employer with a payroll of $400,000 or more who does not provide a public option, will be required to pay the government 8% surtax on the payroll.
Page 150, Lines 9-13: Any employer with a payroll between $251,000 and $400,000 who doesn’t provide a public option will be required to pay a 6% surtax on their payroll.
Page 170, Lines 1-3: Any non-resident Alien is EXEMPT from individual health care taxes.
Page 195: All officers and employees of the Health Care administration will have unlimited access to the financial and personal records of ALL American citizens without the necessity of a search warrant.
Page 203, Lines 13-18: (The following is a direct quote!) “The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as a tax.” (Presumably therefore it cannot be deducted on income tax returns)
Page 239, Lines 14-24: The government will reduce physician services for Medicaid, thereby rationing medical support for the poor.
Page 241, Lines 6-8: All doctors will be paid equally, with no regard to speciality of training required.
Page 253, Lines 10-18: The Health Care administration will decide the value of the time of physicians, professional judgment, etc.
Page 265 Section 1131: The Health Care administration will control and mandate productivity for private health care industries, nursing services, hospice, retirement centers, drug production, etc.
Page 268, Section 1141: The Health Care administration will regulate the rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs.
Page 272, Section 1145: The Health Care administration will determine what treatment will be provided at Cancer hospitals and will ration treatment based on type and the classification of a patient.
Page 280, Section 1151: The government will penalize hospitals if they exceed their quota of “preventable readmissions.”
Page 298, Lines 9-14: If doctors treat a patient during an initial admission that results in a readmission to the hospital, the government will penalize the physician.
Page 317, Lines 1-20: The government will be authorized to tell physicians what they can own and how much, and can audit their personal records without a warrant.
Page 317, Lines 21-25 & Page 318, Lines 1-3: Hospitals will not be permitted to expand their physical facilities.
Page 321, Lines 2-13: Hospitals wanting to expand may appeal for an exception to the expansion rule, but community approval is required through community action agencies (ie: groups such as ACORN)
Page 341, Lines 3-9: The government has the authority to disqualify Medicare supplemental plans, HMO, private insurance plans, etc., which will force all citizens into the government plan.
Page 354, Section 1177: The government will restrict enrollment of “Special Needs” patients (ie: Downs Syndrome, Speech Therapy, handicapped, etc.)
Page 379, Section 1191: The government will create a Telehealth Advisory Committee which will provide health advice by phone.
Page 425, Lines 5-12: An “Advance Planning Care Consultant” Department will be created. Think ‘End of Life’ for Senior Citizens.
Page 425, Lines 22-25: (Page 426: Lines 1-3): The Government will provide a list of end of life resources that will guide senior citizens to their death.
Page 427, Lines 15-24: The government will mandate orders for end of life actions. In brief, the government will decide how life ends.
Page 429, Lines 1-9: An “Advance Care Planning Consultant” will be used more frequently as a patient’s health deteriorates.
Page 429, Lines 10-12: The “Advance Care Planning Consultant” will include the authority for “End of Life” plans, on an order from the government.
Page 429, Lines 13-25: The government will specify which doctors will have the authority to sign an “End of Life” Order.
Page 430, Lines 11-15: The government will decide what level of treatment patients will receive at the end of their lives.
Page 469: Medical services and nursing for home-based patients will be provided by “Community-based organizations.” (groups such as ACORN)
Page 472, Lines 14-17: Such community based organizations will be paid by the government once each month based on the number of patients they serve. Such organizations will not be required to employ registered or practical nursing professionals.
Page 489, Section 1308: Marriages and divorces will be subject to government marriage and family therapy.
Page 494-498: All Mental Health Services will be provided by the government including defining, creating, and rationing those services.
Page 501, Lines 17-25: Title IV QUALITY, establishes a Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research which will mandate “the manner in which diseases, disorders, and other health conditions can most effectively and appropriately be prevented, diagnosed, treated, and managed clinically.” (i.e. Comparative Effectiveness is used in other national health programs to establish a cost base line for health care based on life expectancy. In other words, the older you are or the sicker you are, the less health care expenditure you can expect to receive.)
And this only the first draft, the Federal gvernment is notorious for incrementally tightening the screws over time.
” The government will mandate orders for end of life actions. In brief, the government will decide how life ends.”
This is the generation that decided that life didn’t begin until birth, and could be terminated for “economic convenience” any time before then.
Now that the “life” barrier has been breached, the government wants to decide how and when to abort this same generation at the end of life.
Karma’s a bitch...
Please - do you have a link to the bill(s) that give page numbers???
ObamaCare
Pg 22 of the HC Bill MANDATES the Govt will audit books of ALL EMPLOYERS that self insure!!
Pg 30 Sec 123 THERE WILL BE A GOVT COMMITTEE that decides what treatments/benefits you get
PG 50 Section 152 HC will be provided to ALL non US citizens, illegal or otherwise
Pg 58 Govt will have real-time access to individual’s finances and a National ID Healthcard will be issued!
Pg 59 lines 21-24 Govt will have direct access to your banks accts for electronic funds transfer
Pg 95 Lines 8-18 The Govt will use groups i.e., ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Govt HC plan
PG 85 Line 7 Specs of Benefit Levels 4 Plans. AARP members - Your Healthcare WILL be rationed
PG 102 Lines 12-18 Medicaid Eligible Individuals will be automatically enrolled in Medicaid. No choice
PG 124 lines 24-25 No company can sue GOVT on price fixing. No “judicial review” against Govt Monopoly
PG 127 Lines 1-16 Doctors/AMA - The Govt will tell YOU what you can make.
Pg 145 Line 15-17 An Employer MUST auto enroll employees into public opt plan. NO CHOICE
Pg 146 Lines 22-25 Employers MUST pay for HC for part time employees AND their families.
Pg 149 Lines 16-24 ANY Employer with payroll 400k and above who does not provide public opt. pays 8% tax on all payroll
PG 150 Lines 9-13 Business with payroll between 251k and 400k who doesn’t provide public option pays 2-6% tax on all payroll
Pg 167 Lines 18-23 ANY individual who doesn’t have acceptable HC according to Govt will be taxed 2.5% of income
Pg 170 Lines 1-3 Any NONRESIDENT Alien is exempt from individual taxes. (Americans will pay)
Pg 195 Officers and employees of HC Admin (GOVT) will have access to ALL American’s financial/personal records
PG 425 Lines 4-12 Govt mandates Advance Care Planning Consultant. Think Senior Citizens end of life
Pg 425 Lines 17-19 Govt will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of atty. Mandatory!
PG 425 Lines 22-25, 426 Lines 1-3 Govt provides approved list of end of life resources, guiding you in death
PG 427 Lines 15-24 Govt mandates program for orders for end of life. The Govt has a say in how your life ends
Pg 429 Lines 1-9 An advanced care planning consultant will be used frequently as patient’s health deteriorates
PG 429 Lines 10-12: advanced care consultations may include an ORDER for end of life plans. AN ORDER from GOV
Pg 429 Lines 13-25 - The govt will specify which Doctors can write an end of life order.
PG 430 Lines 11-15 The Govt will decide what level of treatment you will have at end of life
http://edlabor.house.gov/documents/111/pdf/publications/AAHCA-BillText-071409.pdf
Thanks for that link.
for one blaring ex: why would any health insurance program need to include the right to monitor you bank accounts?
We need for people to be able to QUOTE these things, naming the pages, and ask our “Representatives” to explain them... They won't answer - but the people will have heard...
I have to refer you back to the commentary — someone does post the link that provides the page numbers.
At the link: nice photo of Specter checking his watch...
The 35 year old mom who referred to awakening the sleeping giant: Katy Abram. The attack machine is after her and her family. Here’s her appearance on Hardball (Lawrence O’Donnell) and on Glenn Beck’s radio program Thursday morning:
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/29355/
>Another sign bobbed in the crowd, yet another homemade reference to a Pelosi comment questioning the authenticity of the opposition to ObamaCare. “If it’s Astroturf why are you trying to mow it?” Which raised the obvious question.<
That is pure gold. It had to be a FReeper!
> Further into the crowd another woman holding a pro-ObamaCare sign and vigorously arguing with a thirtyish man suddenly fell silent when asked who she was with. “She’s not allowed to say” sniped the disgusted young man. Her sign went up, hiding her face at the sight of a video camera. Why? “It’s not the union,” she said, although no one had asked about “the union.”
With some coaxing, a retired state employee wearing the purple T-shirt of the SEIU acknowledged that, well, now that the subject was out there, “Oh no…” he wasn’t sent by the union. Pause. Or at least not paid by the union. But he was asked to come by the union? “Yes, I was told to come, some of our people are inside…but I’m here on my own time.” A nice man who was satisfied with his own health care, he attributes the controversy to a “misunderstanding.” He believes that everyone should have good health care because the United States has “the biggest economy in the world and certainly can afford to make available affordable health care.” In saying this he was immediately challenged by a white-haired man who began reeling off statistics about the financial status of the Lebanon area hospital. The union man declined, politely, to get into a debate.<
Nobody wants to talk about where these people are coming from.
I’ve made phone calls to reps.
They all claim ignorance.
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