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Per the Senate of the United States of America, I have a new right. They tell me that I now have the right to health care. They say that all Americans have the right to health care. there are some things that the are not telling you.
They are not telling you that in America, there are two classes of health care. Health care for the royalty, and health care for the rest of us. The Government, that is the royalty, have their own 'special' health care plan. We don't know the details of that plan, but hell, we don't know the details of 'our' plan either.
They are not telling you that while you have the 'right' to health care, you just lost your right to make your own health care decisions. The range of treatment options available to you is going to be determined by a nameless, faceless, unaccountable beaurocrat who will take into account your 'value' to society. Face it, if you are over 50, the government will either want you healthy or dead.
They are not telling you that by making a huge number of people dependent on government for all manner of necessities, they are turning you into wards of the state. They are taking away your independence and teaching your children to beg at the trough of public assistance.
Merry Christmas.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Perhaps a Mis-statement
They call us 'extremists', and in carefully measured tones, they assail our motives when we dispute their royalist agenda. We are said to be 'bigots', and 'small minded'. Our gatherings in protest go unmentioned or discounted in the national media. Dripping condescension, the political class, the royalty, chants it's liturgy of lies about the economy, health care, and global warming but make no mistake, fewer and fewer Americans are listening.
Across this great country, Americans are waking up to the realization that evil exists in this world, and has taken up residence in Washington. Congress has reached a new low. It has given to the President billions of dollars of 'TARP' and 'Stimulus' money that is now being used by the President to 'buy' their votes for bills which strip us of our freedoms one by one . Every member of the Congress has the blood of our founders on their hands. Shame on every last one of them.
We are not buying the lies about health care that the President is peddling. It's not budget neutral. It won't cover everyone. It won't drive costs down, and they are going to pull the plug on Granny. Do you realize that in this Health Care Bill, the wages, bonuses, and profitability of the Insurance companies are going to be regulated? Since when does the government have any role in deciding how a private company is run and what a private company pays it's employees? Where in our constitution does it say that the government can limit profits of a private concern? When President Obama says this is not in the bill, he's not mis-stating things, he's lying.
We are not buying the lies about Global Warming that the President is peddling. The reason America consumes 60% of the worlds energy is that America produces 60% of the worlds goods and services. Cap and Trade is just a way to take money from Americans who have earned it and give it to corrupt politicians in 3rd world countries. That's all it is,. It's a massive transfer of wealth from those who produce it to dictators and tyrants and when the President says other wise, he's not mis-stating things, he's lying.
What do you call someone who claims you're a bigot because you don't think the government should own car companies, banks, mortgage and insurance companies? What do you call someone who claims you are a dangerous extremist because you don't believe Terrorists have constitutional rights and question the validity of mans impact on Global Warming? What do you call someone who tells you that you don't need to know what's in a bill before you vote on it?
Right now, we call him Mr. President, but in three years, we'll call him history.
Across this great country, Americans are waking up to the realization that evil exists in this world, and has taken up residence in Washington. Congress has reached a new low. It has given to the President billions of dollars of 'TARP' and 'Stimulus' money that is now being used by the President to 'buy' their votes for bills which strip us of our freedoms one by one . Every member of the Congress has the blood of our founders on their hands. Shame on every last one of them.
We are not buying the lies about health care that the President is peddling. It's not budget neutral. It won't cover everyone. It won't drive costs down, and they are going to pull the plug on Granny. Do you realize that in this Health Care Bill, the wages, bonuses, and profitability of the Insurance companies are going to be regulated? Since when does the government have any role in deciding how a private company is run and what a private company pays it's employees? Where in our constitution does it say that the government can limit profits of a private concern? When President Obama says this is not in the bill, he's not mis-stating things, he's lying.
We are not buying the lies about Global Warming that the President is peddling. The reason America consumes 60% of the worlds energy is that America produces 60% of the worlds goods and services. Cap and Trade is just a way to take money from Americans who have earned it and give it to corrupt politicians in 3rd world countries. That's all it is,. It's a massive transfer of wealth from those who produce it to dictators and tyrants and when the President says other wise, he's not mis-stating things, he's lying.
What do you call someone who claims you're a bigot because you don't think the government should own car companies, banks, mortgage and insurance companies? What do you call someone who claims you are a dangerous extremist because you don't believe Terrorists have constitutional rights and question the validity of mans impact on Global Warming? What do you call someone who tells you that you don't need to know what's in a bill before you vote on it?
Right now, we call him Mr. President, but in three years, we'll call him history.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
A Far Away War
To be fair, Afghanistan is a tough problem. The Taliban is in the hills and is still a functioning force. Al Qaeda is hiding and festering in Pakistan. It's legend and message, it's decentralized cell structure and the internet make it yet a potent threat to the safety of westerners around the world. In this, the worlds first global guerrilla war, this combination of asymmetrical threats may well be our introduction to a new and deadly manner of conflict.
In the rugged hills of Afghanistan, theory is for corpses, and practical men triumph in the night. In this battle, symbolic victories are at once everything, and nothing. The perception of victory will foretell victory, and the perception of defeat will outweigh body counts. In many ways, your manner of fighting will determine how you are perceived, and that will determine your enemy's strength for the next battle. So, how do we look?
We are trying the 9/11 Terrorists as common criminals. Think of the trial as a 2 year recruitment infomercial for Al Queda.
Speaking only of an 'Exit Strategy' and without saying anything about victory, we have told Al Queda and the Taliban that we are leaving Afghanistan, and that they only have a year and a half to shoot more our soldiers. If I am Al Queda and the Taliban, I ramp up IED and ambushes to run up the US body count as much as I can because victory is only 18 months away.
In the mean time, we are sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, and we are begging Europe for 5ooo more. From the Al Queda/Taliban perspective, since the new troops are not there to 'win' the war, they are simply more targets. Their mission isn't to win the war. It is to protect President Obama from criticism for not pursuing victory in the war on terror. When you think about it you realize that we are asking young men to die so people don't say bad things about the president.
If we are not there to defeat Al Queda and the Taliban, we ought to leave tomorrow. If we are not there to achieve victory over forces who threaten us, then this far away war is not worth one more American life.
Not to worry, it's not really a 'far away war'. It's a global guerrilla war. It's coming to a shopping center near you! If we don't have the guts to win there, will we have to guts to win when it shows up here?
In the rugged hills of Afghanistan, theory is for corpses, and practical men triumph in the night. In this battle, symbolic victories are at once everything, and nothing. The perception of victory will foretell victory, and the perception of defeat will outweigh body counts. In many ways, your manner of fighting will determine how you are perceived, and that will determine your enemy's strength for the next battle. So, how do we look?
We are trying the 9/11 Terrorists as common criminals. Think of the trial as a 2 year recruitment infomercial for Al Queda.
Speaking only of an 'Exit Strategy' and without saying anything about victory, we have told Al Queda and the Taliban that we are leaving Afghanistan, and that they only have a year and a half to shoot more our soldiers. If I am Al Queda and the Taliban, I ramp up IED and ambushes to run up the US body count as much as I can because victory is only 18 months away.
In the mean time, we are sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, and we are begging Europe for 5ooo more. From the Al Queda/Taliban perspective, since the new troops are not there to 'win' the war, they are simply more targets. Their mission isn't to win the war. It is to protect President Obama from criticism for not pursuing victory in the war on terror. When you think about it you realize that we are asking young men to die so people don't say bad things about the president.
If we are not there to defeat Al Queda and the Taliban, we ought to leave tomorrow. If we are not there to achieve victory over forces who threaten us, then this far away war is not worth one more American life.
Not to worry, it's not really a 'far away war'. It's a global guerrilla war. It's coming to a shopping center near you! If we don't have the guts to win there, will we have to guts to win when it shows up here?
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