“The Sunday Morning Bray”, by Bray!
“But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? Matt 20:13
America’s Independence lasted from July 4th 1776 to July 4th 2012. We are no longer a free and independent people we are dependent on an overbearing gummit which can now tell you what to buy and how much you must pay for that purchase. What are you purchasing? Your life has been sold to that gummit by a Democrat congress and a corrupt Supreme Court. After 236 years and numerous wars to maintain our freedom we have had our freedom taken by an enemy from within.
Tonight when you watch those fireworks, just remember they are being fired at you rather than celebrating the defeat of an overreaching, overtaxing and tyrannical king. Tonight will be a celebration of the District of Corruption of the completion of a nearly hundred year plan to slowly own your life and now they have it. If you want to take your chances and go without insurance, you have no choice in that matter; you will buy health insurance. If you want a high deductible since you rarely if ever use it, you have no choice in the matter; you will buy all the bells and whistles. If you want to drop your kids from your plan when they move out or turn 21, you have no choice in the matter, you will cover him. And if you want that heart transplant when you are 68 since your doctor says it will help you live another 10-15 years, you have no choice in the matter; the gummit says no.
We are now living in a Soviet Union where the Central gummit has complete and absolute control of your life from cradle to grave. They now tell you what you can and can’t do and where you can and can’t buy insurance. You are now buying it from DC it’s just they are allowing a number of companies who they have chosen to collect the premiums or in this case the Federal taxes. This health insurance unlike the insurance you have had before is mandated so you have no choice of coverage or what options you believe fit your lifestyle. This is because the gummit focuses on the lowest common denominator so the crack addict or alcoholic in the poorest parts of town can’t afford a high deductible that option isn’t available to you. Just like Moscow or London in 1776, they can’t centrally plan for flexibility so you are forced to take what they have to offer, but don’t forget to pay your higher taxes for that inflexibility.
Now don’t expect any service for the added premiums to cover the uninsurable and crack addicts, you will now have to deal with a bureaucracy that will make Medicare look like the Indy 500. We will be looking at pre-approvals that will be done with the compassion of the IRS and the efficiency of the Post Office. You will be filling out form after form divulging every wart and pimple to some Federal zombie and trying to convince him that you need that mammogram or heart pacemaker like it was his money and not yours because now it is his. Tonight we celebrate the end of Freedom and Independence from King George Obama.
We have one last hope of saving this great experiment of mankind and not Hope and Communism, our hope is the upcoming election and making sure we have 51 Senators. We have to expand the numbers in the House and control the Senate. Every Democrat Sinator is the 51st vote on repeal which is what we have to do or the Death Panels will do their ghoulish work in such efficiency that all of our seniors will be gone in less than 10 years. What Obama, Reid and Pelosi didn’t say is the only way to make the numbers work is to get rid of all the high usage insured so you just tighten down the matrix and the computer keeps on denying operations and soon you have a younger healthier less costly group. The fact you have to resort to euthanasia has never bothered the communists since why should killing old people bother a Party that runs on killing babies.
What is our solution? Repeal this monstrosity and let the Free Market and Free People do what they do best. Bring in real competition like they have in the auto insurance industry so the Progressive girl is promoting new and vibrant ideas which cut down on the overhead and give you exactly what you are looking for, cheap coverage. Allow those who want a $5-10,000 deductible have them and enjoy the savings while at the same time having coverage for something major. We don’t need King George ruling over us telling us what to eat and drink as well as when to do it we need more freedom not less. It is time for him and Pelosi to go and take their ill-gotten millions with them. It is time to campaign like your lives depended on it and in this case it literally does.
Benedict Roberts has destroyed our freedom and it is time to get it back. This will be looked back on as either when we lost our Country or the darkest days of a new dawn. Just like the commies were able to use the baby boom generation as an incrementally communist moving agenda, we have to do the same thing from a freedom granting capitalist movement. We need to educate and redirect people away from big gummit solutions and towards individualistic capitalist solutions. The use of higher deductibles and risk pools as well as Progressive streamlined purchasing options to hold down premiums and eliminate central control and taxation.
This is a long term strategy and movement that will not happen overnight just like the imposition of socialized medicine didn’t. We will have to peel away the onion skins one at a time before we begin to approach that original idea of 1776 which says free men can govern themselves. We have to promote idea that Freedom and Liberty is the most original and efficient means for both politics and economics for being a dynamic Country. It will take every bit as much effort as our Forefathers gave to defeat an evil tyrant back in our founding as is needed to defeat the evil one we are oppressed by now. It is time to fight the fight to take back our Freedom and give it to the next generation and the next.
Pray for America
Note: The above opinion is not necessarily mine, but FReeper Bray’s. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.
Someone was arguing that the Republicans and Romney have no plan to fix the economy aside from saying Obama has to go. I think you've found the solution right here:
What is our solution? Repeal this monstrosity and let the Free Market and Free People do what they do best. Bring in real competition like they have in the auto insurance industry so the Progressive girl is promoting new and vibrant ideas which cut down on the overhead and give you exactly what you are looking for, cheap coverage. Allow those who want a $5-10,000 deductible have them and enjoy the savings while at the same time having coverage for something major. We don’t need King George ruling over us telling us what to eat and drink as well as when to do it we need more freedom not less. It is time for him and Pelosi to go and take their ill-gotten millions with them. It is time to campaign like your lives depended on it and in this case it literally does.
In other words, stop the damage and get out of the way!
And Flo selling Health Insurance? Priceless!!!!
Brilliant as usual buddy.
We should make sure Mitt sees this piece since it should be coming from his mouth to the ears of everyone in the US. You summarized the may downsides of obamcare exquisitely and so easy to read that everyone is now on board.
Zerocare is also irs agents and all the other facets of a socialist bill which is much much more than a health care bill but a takeover of 1/6 of the economy pos. Always has been.
Of course true to nature our side seldom explains these things as well as they should. That's why the job falls on to the New Media, you, the rest of us, Rush and others to do the heavy lifting. Once again you have done so.
Good essay Bray.
I’m so sick of that stupid Obama, YEAH I SAID IT! If he were near me in striking distance I’d reach out and punch him in the face for constantly talking silly nonsense about how well we are doing.
This economy is so bad it sickens.
I was quite intrigued over that interesting stat re disability claims recently being so darn high.
Like Rush Limbaugh said last week, softly....”You gotta eat.”
This rise in SS disability claims is no surprise. It’s the BEST way to be assured of a regular check each month PLUS health insurance.
Just need to be disabled is all.
There’s the rub. “Disabled” is a substantive term after all.
Again, like Rush pointed out, all you gotta do is get a lawyer. Almost ANYBODY can get a disability classification nowadays, so long as one is ready to go six months without money and willing to slug it out.
Bi-polar is a good one. Can’t prove it, go nuts enough times to disallow a steady job, maybe enter some kind of rehab program.
It’s anecdotal but folks, by coinkydink, all around me I’ve known several folks who’ve gone on disability and by me, none of them were all that handicapped.
Still and so, for example, one guy had a motorcycle accident when he was in his 20’s.
Terrible thing, messed his leg bad, but he returned to work and worked very hard for many years. He’s a bricklayer, now in his 50’s and....well I dunno, he just can’t get a steady job. And when he does he’s got all kinds of problems doing it as bricklaying, while a well-paying job, is tough work.
In exasperation he applied for SS disability and he got it and frankly he probably should have. He likely could have been collection disa all his life but he could get work, he was young.
Another guy I know (these are boyfriends of my nieces)...nice guy, worked all his life. Same thing. He’s close to 60, always had health issues but he too worked and supported his family.
He got laid off, he’s 60, he’s got health issues that are bad enough, obviously, to have him collect SS disa. IF he was still employed I suspect he would keep on working.
Point is that the economy is effectively culling down those older, not so hale and hearty folks, onto the disability rolls.
IE, it’s another sign of a failing economy.
Again, my stories are anecdotal but I suspect fairly typical.
People are dropping out of the work force and like Rush says, they gotta eat.
You have a way of getting right down to brass tacks.
Alas, it may be worse. The hapless establishment GOP seems to have lost the will to really fight as necessary and has a standard bearer who has now surrounded himself with "business as usual" advisers and looks more and more like John McCain II. The Demoncrats meanwhile are doubling down with ever more outright tyranny, Executive Orders, and louder lies.
Between now and the end of December, it will be a monumental struggle to save what is left of this country as a constitutional republic. If Obama and the Democrats aren't defeated in November, the hope of a peaceful and orderly political solution level dims quickly.
This is an uphill battle against the forces of deliberate and powerful evil in highest places, monumental public ignorance and sloth, widespread subversion of the voting process, an intimidating array of powerful totalitarian-loving propaganda organs (aka the mainstream media). Thrown into this devilish brew is a likely major war with Iran and a possible global economic collapse. This will be a strategic battle, perhaps our last viable attempt at crossing the Delaware. The other side holds most of the high cards except genuine truth, justice, and the American Way. Which will prevail? Only God knows.
As you often say, bray, "Pray for America"...