To our Prez I say...
A short Youtube Video -- "What are you... a doomsday machine..."
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Pelosi
Posted on 03/22/2010 1:44:50 AM PDT by Cindy
"Congress Votes to Socialize Health Care in United States" Monday, March 22, 2010 By Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief
SNIPPET: "According to the CBO, by 2016, the cheapest family health care plan that Americans will be required to buy under the law will cost $12,000 per year. The average family plan will cost $15,200. A family of four making $88,201 per year—or more than 400 percent of the poverty level—will not receive any federal subsidy to purchase such a plan. They will pay taxes, however, to subsidize the health care purchases of people earning less than 400 percent of poverty.
According to the Treasury Department the Medicare system faced about $37 trillion in unfunded liabilities before Sunday’s bill was passed."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
My condolences. If this is not beaten back, USA´s role as a glopal power and securer of the worlds peace and its democratic nations, will, like Europe, slowly turn inwards and become to preoccupied with buying off its own population to help the world.
It is a sad day, and we in my country are already feeling how it is to be abandoned to the whims of the regional bully. One thing I though look forward to, when people in the world start to realize what they had in a strong assertive America. But often you need to loose something to realize you needed it.
Dirtbags
That’s a thoughtful post Leifur.
Thank you.
Previously...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2476632/posts
“Bob Beckel: At Long Last, Universal Health Care (Prepare to purge!)”
Fox News ^ | March 20, 2010 | Bob Beckel
Posted on 03/21/2010 10:16:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
To our Prez I say...
Previously...
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2308266/posts
Facts Are Stubborn Things [flag@whitehouse.gov]
WHITEHOUSE.gov ^ | 6:55 AM | Posted by Macon Phillips
Posted on August 4, 2009 3:45:39 PM PDT by Cindy
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 4TH, 2009 AT 6:55 AM Facts Are Stubborn Things Posted by Macon Phillips
Opponents of health insurance reform may find the truth a little inconvenient, but as our second president famously said, “facts are stubborn things.”
Scary chain emails and videos are starting to percolate on the internet, breathlessly claiming, for example, to “uncover” the truth about the President’s health insurance reform positions.
In this video, Linda Douglass, the communications director for the White House’s Health Reform Office, addresses one example that makes it look like the President intends to “eliminate” private coverage, when the reality couldn’t be further from the truth.
For the record, the President has consistently said that if you like your insurance plan, your doctor, or both, you will be able to keep them. He has even proposed eight consumer protections relating specifically to the health insurance industry.
There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.
Here are the complete videos that Linda refers to. First from the AARP:
And then from the President’s news conference:
http://www.breitbart.tv/michelle-obama-flashback-health-care-reform-requires-americans-to-sacrifice/
So where are the “keep your laws off my body” folks?
I agree. I was reading some of the CNS articles about forced vaccinations, etc., that are mandated under the bill.
It doesn’t look good, FReepers. You’d better seriously think about how you’re going to fight this. This is no longer the “thin end of the wedge” of tyranny; this bill IS tyranny.
If there aren’t mass demonstrations and protests against this bill, it will mean that the majority of people are either too timid to protest, or in fact agree with the bill in principle — either one is bad for those of us who love liberty.
Or perhaps the leftists do not want us to be the defenders of the Free World any longer.
Income taxes are 50 percent in France and higher in other countries without a large defense budget.
This can be the second-worst evil of the bill, the necessary cutback of our military (the worst evil being the loss of freedom).
So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause. ...
Yes.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2476682/posts
“Victor Davis Hanson: We’ve Crossed the Rubicon”
Pajamas Media ^ | March 21, 2010 | Victor Davis Hanson
Posted on March 22, 2010 2:19:11 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
SNIPPET: “President Obama has crossed the Rubicon with the health care vote. The bill was not really about medicine; after all, a moderately priced, relatively small federal program could offer the poorer not now insured, presently not on Medicare or state programs like Medicaid or Medical, a basic medical plan.
We have no interest in stopping trial lawyers from milking the system for billions. And we don’t want to address in any meaningful way the individual’s responsibility in some cases (drink, drugs, violence, dangerous sex, bad diet, sloth, etc.) for costly and chronic health procedures.
No, instead, the bill was about assuming a massive portion of the private sector, hiring tens of thousands of loyal, compliant new employees, staffing new departments with new technocrats, and feeling wonderful that we “are leveling the playing field” and have achieved another Civil Rights landmark law. (NB: do the math: add higher state income taxes in most states; the new Clinton-era federal income tax rates to come; the proposed lifting of limits on income exposed to FICA taxes; and now new health care charges — and I think you can reach in some cases a bite of 65%to 70% of one’s income.)
So we are in revolutionary times in which the government will grow to assume everything from energy use to student loans, while abroad we are a revolutionary sort of power, eager to mend fences with Syria and Iran, more eager still to distance ourselves from old Western allies like Israel and Britain.
There won’t be any more soaring rhetoric from Obama about purple-state America, “reaching across the aisle,” or healing our wounds. That was so 2008. Instead, we are in the most partisan age since Vietnam, ushered into it by the self-acclaimed “non-partisan.” But how could it be anything else?
Partisanship all the time, everywhere
No, Obama has thrown down the gauntlet, and is trying to reify the sloganeering of the 1960s. He apparently reasons along the following lines: that centrist talk was campaign fluff; the voters fell for it, and now it’s his turn to remake America with 51% of the House and 44% of the people. Think Sweden, or, better, Greece as our model at home, and something like America as Brazil in matters of foreign policy. Apparently, Obama figures that people now may not like the present partisanship, but they didn’t like FDR at the time either. Yet whom do they associate their Social Security checks with? Hoover? Coolidge? Harding?
I don’t see why the ram-it-through, health care formula won’t be followed by similar strategies for blanket amnesty, cap and trade, and expansions of the state takeover of cars, banks, student loans, and energy.
Remember, all these will be packaged as “comprehensive” reform...”
bttt
National security trumps everything. The primary task of the President is to protect and defend the US and its citizens. If your country gets nuked, nothing else matters.
Those who place a higher priority on butter (luxury) over guns (defense), endanger all of us.
Just who is it that might have their priorities upside down, anyway?
There used to be a "Mommy Party" (butter) and a "Daddy Party" (guns). Here's what we have now
Those figures are staggering. So much for “affordable” healthcare.
Christian Scientists reject healthcare on religious grounds. I think we all should become Christian Scientists and avoid the mandate.
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