Obama Care it's a Lemon

Obama turns health care focus to families, voters
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA?SITE=VTBEN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Of course, we would expect no less. No good used car sales man would sell his lemon any other way than directly to the buyer. Obama’s Health care is just that a lemon! No! We cannot make lemonade out if it either. This lemon is rotten.
The biggest problem with healthcare is that government is already controlling a major portion of this industry. Surprise America, YOU DO NOT HAVE A FREE MARKET HEALTH CARE SYSTEM! We are just taking the next step, because government is not efficient at running anything, but very good at ruining things. All of its interference has led to a system that is of course failing, government is going to fix it, the problem is; it is the mess that government created. Government being a use of force, has little incentive to let loose of power once it has confiscated it, and it never admits that it in fact caused the problem in the first place! Our present health care crisis, if there is one, was caused precisely because of government interference, Medicaid and Medicare and 136, 000 pages of government rules and regulations upon the health care industry. That is more pages than even the all powerful IRS has which requires business and industry to hire full time legal staffs and accountants to deal with. So what is the answer! Get government out of healthcare! It is certainly not to hand them more power to screw up the system even worse than they already have, and add another 136, 000 pages!

The reason people are losing their health insurance should be obvious; “It’s the economy stupid”! The list of businesses that have closed their doors is rather long and it is growing, most people are insured through their employers. The best way to obtain insurance is through your employee, it is non taxable income, a free benefit, an added bonus! Those who purchase their own insurance have no such luxury. That is of course government policy at work as well. Those who are insured through their employer pay no tax on the amount paid for their health insurance. Those who buy their own insurance are taxed on their income with which they buy insurance. Such laws are unconstitutional, but hey what’s a piece of paper. I mean it is only the rule of law. If any one knows that laws are meant to broken, just ask those who are making them. Unlike ordinary Americans those who make Law are somehow now above it. Or are they?
That businesses are closing is quite simply because the government by interfering with the market has created an economic crisis through the Fed and its monetary policy as well as GSEs like Fannie and Freddie, which is much too lengthy to detail here. It is sufficient to say when the government takes money from one area and gives it to another; it is not creating any thing new it is merely taking something from one person what belongs to them and giving it to another to whom it does not belong. In the case of bail out and stimulus it takes it from the productive and working taxpayer and gives it to those who have failed and have proven themselves unable to compete in the free market, which means those who have performed well or done their jobs well are the losers, it penalizes the successful. They take scarce resources from one sector and allocate them to proven losers, or to government projects, which is always a proven loser!
Why government wants nationalized healthcare is really simple it is a way to confiscate more of your income, while pretending to give you something in return. Government is in fact broke; it can’t afford Medicaid or Medicare. Thus a new scheme or in reality an old one; take from the healthy productive sector to fund the unhealthy unproductive sector. The problem is this will ultimately lead to rationing. The free market rations but it is blind, no one is making value judgments. Under a centrally planned healthcare system men will ration. They will set criteria and place value on life.
Mr. Obama in his appeal to the people, the voters does what politicians do best he appeals to fear as his words display, “14,000 Americans will continue to lose their health insurance every single day” and "If we do not reform health care, your premiums and out-of-pocket costs will continue to skyrocket," Yes that is what happens when the government causes inflation, that hidden tax which devalues the dollar. It means we pay more because our dollar buys less! Of course those who have their healthcare paid for by others, don’t think about the fact the resources are scarce; after all they aren’t paying the bill. Only those who pay for it-not government- understand that tough choices have to be made.
Now Mr. Obama wants us to believe that government can somehow afford to provide medical care to Americans better than they can themselves. To trust this would be ludicrous! I mean these are the same people who pay hundreds of dollars for a hammer or a toilet seat.
Obama is promising security and stability to you. The question we need to ask is at what cost?
How exactly is that, if Americans cannot afford it now? For some unknown reason people seem to forget who is providing for government in the first place. It is the productive; any one who makes a living that does not work for government and pays taxes. Now, when the government takes control it is not giving you a free service; for it cannot. Hospitals, clinics, equipment, doctors, nurses, housekeeping and maintenance all have to be paid, and pay for we will. But more important is the fact that by funding health care government will also take all the decisions concerning your healthcare out of your hands and put it into the hands of government agencies created for this purpose. These agencies bureaucracies are an addition to what we are already paying. Planning healthcare will require that government will have to make choices as to who will receive what, when and where. The very fact that as individuals we have to choose what is important concerning healthcare, what we can live with and without likewise reveals that government will be forced to make these same choices. Again we must ask; how will government allocate these scarce resources? What criteria will they use in determining who, what, when, where? Who will take and have priority under a government system. According to Mr. Obama the government, scientists and ethicists will decide. The government will ration healthcare according to standards set and fixed by government. Let us look to those who will be setting these standards. Mr. Holdren the new science tsar and what he promotes:
* Women could be forced to abort their pregnancies, whether they wanted to or not;
* The population at large could be sterilized by infertility drugs intentionally put into the nation’s drinking water or in food;
* Single mothers and teen mothers should have their babies seized from them against their will and given away to other couples to raise;
* People who “contribute to social deterioration” (i.e. undesirables) “can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility” — in other words, be compelled to have abortions or be sterilized.
* A transnational “Planetary Regime” should assume control of the global economy and also dictate the most intimate details of Americans’ lives — using an armed international police force. Read the full article here: http://www.thecitizen.com/~citizen0/node/38012
Let us take a look Peter Singer the Princeton bioethics professor and philosopher. Mr. Singer like Mr. Holdren doesn’t quite view things like ordinary Americans do. He believes the government should ration health care, and that government and men like he are better able to judge which life has more value than another.
What are some of his criteria; “Governments implicitly place a dollar value on a human life when they decide how much is to be spent on health care programs and how much on other public goods that are not directed toward saving lives.” Now, I always felt that life was something that was beyond price; that was of infinite value. Mr. Singer does not believe in the sanctity of human life, it is a dead and outdated mode of thinking according to him.
“The death of a teenager is a greater tragedy than the death of an 85-year-old, and this should be reflected in our priorities.
I would think this depends on which one you are, and upon your loved ones. Of course Mr. Singer does not regard things in such a way. As a matter of fact, there is little which Mr. Singer believes or promotes that ordinary Americans could find any common ground on which they agreed with Mr. Singer.
“The debate over health care reform in the United States should start from the premise that some form of health care rationing is both inescapable and desirable”.
Excuse me Mr. Singer those of us who pay for their own healthcare in reality do apply rationing to the same. We have limited resources and we decide how to allocate the same. Mr. Singer wants the government to ration health care for all, and rather than the individual deciding, government will decide! The real problem here is that government should not be paying for health care at all!
You can read Mr. Singer’s defense of rationing healthcare here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/magazine/19healthcare-t.html?_r=4&pagewanted=1
“On the contrary, once we abandon those doctrines about the sanctity of human life that collapse as soon as they are questioned, it is the refusal to accept killing that, in some cases, is horrific.”
“Infants are sentient beings who are neither rational nor self- conscious. So if we turn to consider the infants in themselves, independently of the attitudes of their parents, since their species is not relevant to their moral status, the principles that govern the wrongness of killing non-human animals who are sentient but not rational or self-conscious must apply here too. As we saw, the most plausible arguments for attributing a right to life to a being apply only if there is some awareness of oneself as a being existing over time, or as a continuing mental self.”
http://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/1993----.htm
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/medical_ethics/me0049.html
Mr Singer believes in infanticide, euthanasia for the disabled and elderly. Hmmm, this might make one think twice as to whether family and loved ones should be left with these decisions or government bureaucracies. Government run health care will remove these decisions from you and place them in the hands of those who have similar values to those quoted above.
Now that we have examined two very influential thinkers, who do you think should decide on where your scarce resources go? You or the government, those are your options. You make your own choices according to your worldview, or you allow others to make your choices for you. As far as what you spend, where, when, and how, you can bet that you will pay if you are productive under the government plan. If you are not productive, you might get some un-free care at the expense of someone else, but how long will the government pay for the unproductive at the expense and ire of the productive? Most certainly an appropriate value will be applied to you according to what government and men like Holdren and Singer feel your life is worth. Still sure you want government healthcare, if so you deserve it!

Just A Hobbit

Anyone who has read Tolkien’s, The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings series knows Hobbits are just ordinary folk, who enjoy the simple things in life. They work, have gardens; and they love eating and gathering together with family and friends. They avoid all the confusion and power struggles of the world and its principalities, and for the most part they have no desire to leave the comforts and safety of the Shire and home.
That is until Sauron and the ring, both are incredibly evil. Sauron is the mastermind behind the ring, the ring is his means to control and enslave men and all the inhabitants of middle earth. Those places in allegiance with Sauron and under his power are dark and foreboding; they are the men of the east, the orcs and the like. The men of the west, the elves, the dwarves, cling to what remains of the areas not yet overcome by the darkness, although it is spreading and infiltrating the hearts of its great men.
Yet, it is not the great and mighty men which have the ability to destroy the ring, their greatness and ambition makes them especially vulnerable to the power of the ring. The heroes recognize their own weakness, and thus it is that Frodo with the support of Sam are entrusted with the almost insurmountable task of destroying the ring. This involves a long and perilous journey, one in which our heroes are often found longing for home and the simplicity of the Shire.
In the real world Sauron is the power of darkness, here in the West we call him the Devil and Satan and he is the adversary of men. The ring that binds them all is the system that we call government, it is unrestrained and unchecked and its goal and ambition is control of the whole world and the enslavement of its inhabitants. The men who have fallen under the sway of the ring are politicians, successful, wealthy, powerful, businessmen, professors and lawyers. They are ambitious and driven, they desire recognition and honor; they see themselves as higher, more intelligent, more enlightened, and more capable than ordinary humans. They do not recognize the evil of the ring; they see only the power and authority that it gives them, they are blinded to its very blackness and darkness, and the death and destruction it sows. They have lost the truth that life requires light, and that without it all living things die!
So what can a hobbit do? I am just a hobbit, I enjoy my simple life, my greatest joys and pleasures are found at home, and the work I do there, with family and friends, cooking and feeding the same, and in my garden. I am content at home in the shire. I have no desire for power, position or prestige. I have no yearning to control others or dictate the lives of others. I have my haven and am content there, but I am fully aware I can not force or control others to make them live it. Yet, I see the darkness and it is spreading, I see it in the hearts and minds of those who we have appointed as leaders, I see it in the system, I see the power of the ring and it is spreading and growing and encompassing the land, and its shadow is looming largely over the Shire.
So I ask again; what can a hobbit do to combat this darkness this evil that is spreading and threatening to destroy the Shire? Simple, foolish, not overly gifted, or extraordinary in any way, what can a hobbit do? Do we look to and depend upon the leaders, who because of their natures are especially vulnerable to the sway and hold of the ring? Can we use the power of the ring to gain control and force others to obey and live by what we believe is best? No, none of these will work. We must come out from the Shire and go off into the world and we must destroy the ring and its power, but we can not do this or achieve this alone, it will take many hobbit friends, for we will need to support and to sustain one another; for it is a long and perilous journey to the mountains and fires of Mordor. Yet, it is only we Hobbits who have the ability to resist the ring and its power, for in our hearts we only long for home, the simple things, and the bright light of day!