How many of you, dear readers, were aware of the fact that the health care bill created another army?
The “Ready Reserves” mentioned in the Health Care bill are not military. They’re doctors. They’re part of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. The Surgeon General is in charge of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Public_Health_Service_Commissioned_Corps
Mind you, I find a “Public Health Service Commissioned Corps” pretty darn scary.
No, he didn't.
Read the context of the speech. He sure had a poor choice of words, but it was not a call for a police state, nor a private army. He called for the Leftists' dream of an organization with the funding & political power - on par with the US military - to race into an area and provide comprehensive high-intensity repairs, medical attention, food distribution, etc. in response to humanitarian disasters. The whole speech he was giving was about public/community/humanitarian service, and the quote in question was an impromptu addition of the kind demonstrating why he should never go off TelePrompTer.
This whole "OMGPoliceStateImminent" hysteria is spin, looking for any comment which could, with effort, be construed as proof of "OMGObamaIsTheAntiChristWTFHitlerBBQ". Cut it out, people, this is the kind of hysteria which DOES make the Right look like "wingnuts". There are plenty of actual problems to worry about without inventing more fanciful distractions.
That said, and before you get out the flamethrowers (oops, too late), this kind of "humanitarian organization" under the creation & direction of "dear leader" DOES risk being bent into something sinister. There's a difference between that and "it's his private army". They're not armed. They're not even drilling with brooms.
Are there any constituional challenges to this? Also, why hasn’t this been headlines at least in conservative papers?
Is an extension of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps or an entirely new beast?
Where can I find a copy of the latest bill online????
Thanks in Advanced
Warning, everyone: The trolls are out in force on this thread. What does that tell you? This is the most dangerous part of the act and the part that the Obama trolls most want to obfuscate and deny.
Did this actually make it through the “fixes”?
I believe this has to do with the office of the Surgeon General and the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service, and not the creation of a domestic military or paramilitary force:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Public_Health_Service_Commissioned_Corps
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/
Remember Eric Holder excluded whites from being a “protected” class, taking yet another step to turning us into Nazi Germany’s Jews.
This means his new NKVD will be exempt from existing employment classification/compensation law.
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