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The Ultimate Healthcare Post
Mar. 24th, 2010 01:19 pmWith my head buried in Washington for the past week, I imagine y’all think I’ve been oddly silent. The passage of the health care bill being lauded as on par with the founding of the nation and the civil rights movement by the left and decried as the equivalent of Pearl Harbor and the financial disasters that are Medicare, Medicaid, and SS by the right would surely inspire more than a post regarding procedure from me, wouldn’t it?
Cha’ it would. And here it is – all packed into one. I’ll debate any aspect of this post with anyone, but the purpose of the post is to as objectively as possible explain what’s in the bill. However, I can’t guarantee objectivity because I do have an agenda, and also, I admittedly am only going to include the negative things. … Not that I can think of anything positive about this bill, though. Really. It sucks hardcore. If you’ve been paying attention to the debate, then you should probably know a lot of this.
Note: I'm not an economist, so I can't begin to explain to you how the numbers are calculated. I do know, however, that they can be found in multiple sources, and that has to do for me.
( Sources )
( The National Costs )
( The IRS - New & Improved )
( The Cost in $$$ to you )
( The cost in $$$ to employers )
( Effect on Doctors )
( The Stupak Deal )
LIBERTIES LOST
I suppose I could break this bill down a million different ways - and I didn't even touch the education portion of it. I didn't even touch half of it. - I think the two most important individual liberties lost are those of choice and property.
Only big government liberals would march into your home, tell you they know best, and demand you purchase a product "for your health" with the legalized threat that they will confiscate thousands of your hard earned dollars/send you to jail if you don't. Only big government, socialist, redistribute-the-wealth liberals would call that liberty.
Nancy Pelosi had the unmitigated gall to mention the Founding Fathers in this. She couldn't even quote the Declaration of Independence! Gee, Madame Speaker. When was the last time you touched anything written by our founders, let alone READ anything they wrote?! Somehow I have a hard time believing Madison, Jefferson, Washington, Adams, Franklin, or Paine would celebrate imposing upon the American people punitive taxation for not purchasing a particular prized product.
Somehow, I think they would be mightily offended by the arrogance of the democratic party to partisan-ly equate itself with GOD to create rights! That is HIS authority, and HIS only!
Equivalent to the Civil Rights Movement of the 60's?! Those people refused to move to the back of the bus! They refused to leave the counter! They marched! They relied on GOD and each other, not government! They were fighting AGAINST the government, which was keeping them oppressed for majority opinion! They were beaten and hosed and KILLED in that movement! You're going to compare the most corrupt, leftist piece of legislation that has ever been partisan-ly passed in our country's history to the men and women of color who stood up in defiance to the majority and THE GOVERNMENT? How DARE you?! Is their fight and sacrifice so trivialized that you would dance on their tombstones?
It is sickening and disgusting that this administration has spit in the face of the American people. "Sit down and shut the #($)# up! We're doing whatever the ^#$&! we feel like, and there ain't nothin' you can do about it!"
Well dems, there is something we can do about it. There's a magical month known as November, and it's coming in 7 1/2 short months. We are coming to the polls in droves, and we are going to kick your arrogant butts to curb. "GET OUT."
Congress' approval rating on Monday was 11%. ELEVEN PERCENT! And they want to shove that steaming crap in our face and tell us, "It was for you!" Bogus! It was for government! The almighty government that we should, by their estimation, bow down and efface ourselves before.
Screw. That.
Unless Obama really is a dictator as I previously explained, we still have the RIGHT to VOTE. And vote we shall! If we allow liberty to die on our watch to the thunderous, arrogant applause one party, how will we ever face the next generations? How will America be the home of the FREE and the BRAVE? Where will people go when America no longer has the prized health care system of the world? - And don't you dare tell me that it's not. If it wasn't, people wouldn't come from across the globe to get treatment and specialized procedures! It wouldn't happen!
The question before us is thus: Are we Americans or are we Europeans?
Close allies as we are, there were very specific reasons America revolted against the British. We are still the most free and prosperous country in the world, and we believe that government has a LIMITED role.
So the President might want me and those like me to sit down and shut up, but I'm not going to. I've been missing on LJ because I'm looking for new ways to ACT. The Tea Parties are great for expression, but the government doesn't give a flip what the people think.
I am going to be involved, and I encourage you to be involved with me as much as you can. This is a war for the heart and soul of what liberty is in the United States of America! We cannot lose this war! We WILL NOT lose this war!
Cha’ it would. And here it is – all packed into one. I’ll debate any aspect of this post with anyone, but the purpose of the post is to as objectively as possible explain what’s in the bill. However, I can’t guarantee objectivity because I do have an agenda, and also, I admittedly am only going to include the negative things. … Not that I can think of anything positive about this bill, though. Really. It sucks hardcore. If you’ve been paying attention to the debate, then you should probably know a lot of this.
Note: I'm not an economist, so I can't begin to explain to you how the numbers are calculated. I do know, however, that they can be found in multiple sources, and that has to do for me.
( Sources )
( The National Costs )
( The IRS - New & Improved )
( The Cost in $$$ to you )
( The cost in $$$ to employers )
( Effect on Doctors )
( The Stupak Deal )
LIBERTIES LOST
I suppose I could break this bill down a million different ways - and I didn't even touch the education portion of it. I didn't even touch half of it. - I think the two most important individual liberties lost are those of choice and property.
Only big government liberals would march into your home, tell you they know best, and demand you purchase a product "for your health" with the legalized threat that they will confiscate thousands of your hard earned dollars/send you to jail if you don't. Only big government, socialist, redistribute-the-wealth liberals would call that liberty.
Nancy Pelosi had the unmitigated gall to mention the Founding Fathers in this. She couldn't even quote the Declaration of Independence! Gee, Madame Speaker. When was the last time you touched anything written by our founders, let alone READ anything they wrote?! Somehow I have a hard time believing Madison, Jefferson, Washington, Adams, Franklin, or Paine would celebrate imposing upon the American people punitive taxation for not purchasing a particular prized product.
Somehow, I think they would be mightily offended by the arrogance of the democratic party to partisan-ly equate itself with GOD to create rights! That is HIS authority, and HIS only!
Equivalent to the Civil Rights Movement of the 60's?! Those people refused to move to the back of the bus! They refused to leave the counter! They marched! They relied on GOD and each other, not government! They were fighting AGAINST the government, which was keeping them oppressed for majority opinion! They were beaten and hosed and KILLED in that movement! You're going to compare the most corrupt, leftist piece of legislation that has ever been partisan-ly passed in our country's history to the men and women of color who stood up in defiance to the majority and THE GOVERNMENT? How DARE you?! Is their fight and sacrifice so trivialized that you would dance on their tombstones?
It is sickening and disgusting that this administration has spit in the face of the American people. "Sit down and shut the #($)# up! We're doing whatever the ^#$&! we feel like, and there ain't nothin' you can do about it!"
Well dems, there is something we can do about it. There's a magical month known as November, and it's coming in 7 1/2 short months. We are coming to the polls in droves, and we are going to kick your arrogant butts to curb. "GET OUT."
Congress' approval rating on Monday was 11%. ELEVEN PERCENT! And they want to shove that steaming crap in our face and tell us, "It was for you!" Bogus! It was for government! The almighty government that we should, by their estimation, bow down and efface ourselves before.
Screw. That.
Unless Obama really is a dictator as I previously explained, we still have the RIGHT to VOTE. And vote we shall! If we allow liberty to die on our watch to the thunderous, arrogant applause one party, how will we ever face the next generations? How will America be the home of the FREE and the BRAVE? Where will people go when America no longer has the prized health care system of the world? - And don't you dare tell me that it's not. If it wasn't, people wouldn't come from across the globe to get treatment and specialized procedures! It wouldn't happen!
The question before us is thus: Are we Americans or are we Europeans?
Close allies as we are, there were very specific reasons America revolted against the British. We are still the most free and prosperous country in the world, and we believe that government has a LIMITED role.
So the President might want me and those like me to sit down and shut up, but I'm not going to. I've been missing on LJ because I'm looking for new ways to ACT. The Tea Parties are great for expression, but the government doesn't give a flip what the people think.
I am going to be involved, and I encourage you to be involved with me as much as you can. This is a war for the heart and soul of what liberty is in the United States of America! We cannot lose this war! We WILL NOT lose this war!
