Monica and Healthcare
Does anyone really think that Barack, “the Magic negro” gives one whit about their healthcare…really? This, from the ungrateful wretch that questioned his grandmother’s hip replacement surgery at an advanced age; that to this day allows his half brother to live in an 8 by 10 thatched roof, mud hut. Yet, this is the man held up by the left as the paragon of compassion.
I’m not renting it much less buying. So…why is the Bamster willing to sacrifice the Democrat party and give America healthcare that it doesn’t want? Hmmm…? It’s actually not that hard to figure out. All you have to do is think like a socialist weasel.
With government run healthcare Obama gets it all. This is the Democrat wet dream. Yet; when one dares to criticize the Bamster’s healthcare circle jerk he and his staff act like the indignant girl that got felt-up at the prom.
Has anyone ever heard of the United States Supreme Court decision in Oklahoma v. Civil Service Commission?
Synoptically, for brevity, the court found that in all endeavors…involving federal funds, with that comes an inalienable iron grip of the federal bureaucracy in all matters wherein the feds; “in Tony Soprano like fashion”, extort monies from the electorate and distribute it. Those receiving such federal funds are beholden to the strings Washington might apply.
Now comes government-run “and endowed” healthcare.
Since the courts have already allowed that with government largess comes government strings imagine this. Guns are a healthcare danger, “as recently quoted by an Obama Czar” so…the government won’t take your gun; oh no…but…because it is a health danger, and…government funds are involved in your healthcare they can require you to buy insurance for your weapon. Just in case it goes on a killing spree and endangers health. You fatty’s out there, “and you know who you are” suddenly your debit card doesn’t work at McDonalds. And…how about us smokers of fine tobacco? Well boys and girls, friends and neighbors, the addiction we have succumbed to we share with Washington. They are addicted to our cigarette taxes. So, we’ll only have to pay twice as much for half the healthcare as the rest of you.
Government run healthcare gets the governments finger in every pie. Why do you think it was the first thing Billy Bob Huckster Clinton tried? The only difference between then and now is Monica Lewinski.
Conservative Springfield Staff Writer
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Monday, October 5, 2009
It’s official; Osama Obama is the Manchurian President
The Bamster’s approach to governance only sanctions supports and corroborates a supposition that we conservatives have wildly held since Obama, “pimp strolled” into the United States Senate and uttered the phrase, “Where’s all the white women?
In addition to B. Hussein’s demonstrable, elitist ego, audacity, bluster, braggadocios and his rambling speeches focusing on I, I, I, Me, Me, Me… “A psychological foible”; He also suffers from a mental defect in that he has grand illusions of himself as the emperor of the world and Mullah to the multitudes.
Obama once told Nevada Senator and “straight jacket eligible” Harry, “the wimp” Reid that he has a gift for great oratory. This from the man that uses a teleprompter when ordering a happy meal and by most accounts in the Presidential bedroom, when engaging in a romantic interlude with his American hating spouse. Its little wonder Michelle Obama seems to always appear unsatisfied…and mad. After all; Obama’s teleprompter has an almost defiant propensity for malfunctioning.
In short work Obamalama-ding-dong has not only insulted one of our staunchest allies, “and the only true Democracy in the Middle-East…Israel; He has sided with the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah. The President a, “suspected Muslim” railed against new Israeli construction in the West Bank with either a complete ignorance of the geographic, historical relevance of the disputed territories or, “and more than likely” he has chosen to side with those of his own faith.
History 101; Pencils down…eyes forward. The West Bank before the Arab invasion and the six day war of 1967 belonged to Jordan; never to the Palestinians…NEVER! As a matter of fact the Jordanians hated the Palestinians. Israel captured said land in a defensive war and held it as a spoil of war…a memento if you will. It was then that Jordan expelled all Palestinians as thugs, rabble rousers and turban wearing troglodytes. The Jordanians expelled these terrorists to Israel and Libya. One might observe that before the influx of Palestinians into the country of Libya most international travelers cited Libya as the Monte Carlo of the Middle East. Today it is most aptly described as the butt-plug of the Middle East. Obama’s kindred Palestinians are no better than cockroaches…yet the Bamster puts on Sinatra, chills champagne and bends over for these animals.
One might ask…Why, oh why won’t any Arab or Persian country come to the rescue of these deranged damsels in Burkhas and give them sanctuary or at least a flop at Hijab motel eight. Short answer…They realize them to be fanatical Muslims that often go BOOM!
Yet; B.H.O. has insisted that the west bank be returned to these Palestinians thus giving them the high ground, overlooking Israel. Incidentally the west bank is the Nirvana for a geographic and strategic attack on Israel with the Palestinian Kassam rockets. The azimuth sighting and the geographic range from the West bank would allow these thug animals to be much more accurate in their sighting and target acquisitions thus ensuring Israeli School children be murdered by the bushel. After all, there’s nothing more threatening to the Palestinians than little Debbie with her Benjamin Netanyahu lunch box. Of course, we might overlook their mission statement to kill as many innocent Israelis as possible…gleefully and without remorse.
Then, an “intellectual” need only contemplate “Dumbo ears”, hen pecked executive order to completely abandon Americas long held promise to place defensive missiles in Poland and the Czech Republic to protect Eastern Europe from medium and long range missiles…by the way; it would also give America a practice shot at any ICBM headed for Newark.
The White House spin from useful idiot, “mostly incoherent” Robert, “I like to lie” Gibbs postulates that the Iranian missile program would not have the ability to fire an ICBM with the capacity of reaching the contiguous United States. After all; the arrogant press secretary uttered one of the most ill informed and deception posits ever to come out of the White House since Bubba Clinton got a Lewinski in the oval office and then parsed the word, “that depends what the meaning of is, is.
The fly in this ointment; the monkey in the wrench is as simple as the nose on your face…or the ears on Dumbo, “big ears “the Bamster!
Apparently Bamster INC. has concluded that intercontinental nuclear transport is too complicated for the Persians and we are as safe as a virgin girl surrounded by Catholic priests.
Of course this dynamic, treacherous tangent ignores Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hitting the glowing red button, firing off a two stage solid fuel rocket and deploying their hunk-a-junk space satellite. The Iranian Republic Guard recently fired off a low orbit satellite, technology employed in the pursuit of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. OOPS!
Still; Obama keeps touting his chit-chat with Arab and Persian animals that have sworn an oath to destroy Israel and then America.
And… the Islamic cherry on top of this Sunni-Shia Sundae is POTUS pissant Bam-Bam telling the General that he, “personally picked” to sacrifice American soldiers in Afghanistan and make due with forty thousand too few troops.
Just yesterday eight of those troops gave the last full measure of their devotion to this great country. Meanwhile…Obama gave another speech.
Conservative Springfield Staff Writer
In addition to B. Hussein’s demonstrable, elitist ego, audacity, bluster, braggadocios and his rambling speeches focusing on I, I, I, Me, Me, Me… “A psychological foible”; He also suffers from a mental defect in that he has grand illusions of himself as the emperor of the world and Mullah to the multitudes.
Obama once told Nevada Senator and “straight jacket eligible” Harry, “the wimp” Reid that he has a gift for great oratory. This from the man that uses a teleprompter when ordering a happy meal and by most accounts in the Presidential bedroom, when engaging in a romantic interlude with his American hating spouse. Its little wonder Michelle Obama seems to always appear unsatisfied…and mad. After all; Obama’s teleprompter has an almost defiant propensity for malfunctioning.
In short work Obamalama-ding-dong has not only insulted one of our staunchest allies, “and the only true Democracy in the Middle-East…Israel; He has sided with the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah. The President a, “suspected Muslim” railed against new Israeli construction in the West Bank with either a complete ignorance of the geographic, historical relevance of the disputed territories or, “and more than likely” he has chosen to side with those of his own faith.
History 101; Pencils down…eyes forward. The West Bank before the Arab invasion and the six day war of 1967 belonged to Jordan; never to the Palestinians…NEVER! As a matter of fact the Jordanians hated the Palestinians. Israel captured said land in a defensive war and held it as a spoil of war…a memento if you will. It was then that Jordan expelled all Palestinians as thugs, rabble rousers and turban wearing troglodytes. The Jordanians expelled these terrorists to Israel and Libya. One might observe that before the influx of Palestinians into the country of Libya most international travelers cited Libya as the Monte Carlo of the Middle East. Today it is most aptly described as the butt-plug of the Middle East. Obama’s kindred Palestinians are no better than cockroaches…yet the Bamster puts on Sinatra, chills champagne and bends over for these animals.
One might ask…Why, oh why won’t any Arab or Persian country come to the rescue of these deranged damsels in Burkhas and give them sanctuary or at least a flop at Hijab motel eight. Short answer…They realize them to be fanatical Muslims that often go BOOM!
Yet; B.H.O. has insisted that the west bank be returned to these Palestinians thus giving them the high ground, overlooking Israel. Incidentally the west bank is the Nirvana for a geographic and strategic attack on Israel with the Palestinian Kassam rockets. The azimuth sighting and the geographic range from the West bank would allow these thug animals to be much more accurate in their sighting and target acquisitions thus ensuring Israeli School children be murdered by the bushel. After all, there’s nothing more threatening to the Palestinians than little Debbie with her Benjamin Netanyahu lunch box. Of course, we might overlook their mission statement to kill as many innocent Israelis as possible…gleefully and without remorse.
Then, an “intellectual” need only contemplate “Dumbo ears”, hen pecked executive order to completely abandon Americas long held promise to place defensive missiles in Poland and the Czech Republic to protect Eastern Europe from medium and long range missiles…by the way; it would also give America a practice shot at any ICBM headed for Newark.
The White House spin from useful idiot, “mostly incoherent” Robert, “I like to lie” Gibbs postulates that the Iranian missile program would not have the ability to fire an ICBM with the capacity of reaching the contiguous United States. After all; the arrogant press secretary uttered one of the most ill informed and deception posits ever to come out of the White House since Bubba Clinton got a Lewinski in the oval office and then parsed the word, “that depends what the meaning of is, is.
The fly in this ointment; the monkey in the wrench is as simple as the nose on your face…or the ears on Dumbo, “big ears “the Bamster!
Apparently Bamster INC. has concluded that intercontinental nuclear transport is too complicated for the Persians and we are as safe as a virgin girl surrounded by Catholic priests.
Of course this dynamic, treacherous tangent ignores Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hitting the glowing red button, firing off a two stage solid fuel rocket and deploying their hunk-a-junk space satellite. The Iranian Republic Guard recently fired off a low orbit satellite, technology employed in the pursuit of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. OOPS!
Still; Obama keeps touting his chit-chat with Arab and Persian animals that have sworn an oath to destroy Israel and then America.
And… the Islamic cherry on top of this Sunni-Shia Sundae is POTUS pissant Bam-Bam telling the General that he, “personally picked” to sacrifice American soldiers in Afghanistan and make due with forty thousand too few troops.
Just yesterday eight of those troops gave the last full measure of their devotion to this great country. Meanwhile…Obama gave another speech.
Conservative Springfield Staff Writer
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Like Father, Like Son?
Like Father, Like Son?
You know; I like to think my ole man is a pretty smart feller. After all; he did contribute to the DNA that I possess. Though…I have refined and improved on his genetic composition. Think of it this way, Einstein’s pop could barely tie his own shoes and spent his golden years yelling at cats.
My dad chooses to spend his golden years hustling the nursing homes for elderly damsels and “in a Cinderella like analogy” continues to search for that blue-haired babe that left her dentures in the back seat of his Dodge. I’m just saying.
Another thing dad has a propensity to do is to postulate absurd arguments and then search for coherent constructs by which to support nonsense.
To wit; pap recently revered the dialogical discourse deriding the second amendment as most of the American demographic is too dumb to safely caretaker a firearm and propped up this straw-dog by enunciating that oft eluded to Democrat vernacular-ease by way of, “think of the children”…don’t ya know. These are the times when I suspect I was adopted.
Still…I try to remain positive and look upon this beguiling blather as a fast ball across the plate. And; as such view this as an opportunity to hit it out of the park…batter up!
Dad’s argument that guns in the home are unsafe because, “don’t ya know” little Ricky is going to get his hands on it, sooner or later. Well spank my ass and call me Judy.
This half-assed, half-baked, short-bus condescension sends me from zero to pissed off in a nano-second. After all; it’s the same ole tired template. We have to give boys condoms, because…hey, they’re going to have sex anyway…we have to give eleven year old girls birth control pills…because they’re going to have sex anyway. We have to provide on-demand abortion because they’ll have abortions anyway. We might as well legalize illicit drugs and prostitution, because…it’s going to happen anyway.
Well boys and girls, friends and neighbors, murders, rape and anarchy poises an attack on the moral fabric that is this country every damn day. And…since we, “KNOW” it’s going to happen; why not legalize it?
Even overlooking that pesky second amendment those who wring their hands over personal gun possession are out to save a world that doesn’t need saving. Sure; some rubes will inadvertently leave their .44 magnum, loaded and in little Timmy’s crib. And of course…it only stands to reason that Timmy will take out his sister and parents before suckling the barrel himself. Yet; I would postulate my friends that this is exactly how we become a more intelligent people. Dumb people of all ages need be shot in the head. After all; one less idiot is one less welfare hog on the teat of America….Nuff Said!
Conservative Springfield Staff Writer
You know; I like to think my ole man is a pretty smart feller. After all; he did contribute to the DNA that I possess. Though…I have refined and improved on his genetic composition. Think of it this way, Einstein’s pop could barely tie his own shoes and spent his golden years yelling at cats.
My dad chooses to spend his golden years hustling the nursing homes for elderly damsels and “in a Cinderella like analogy” continues to search for that blue-haired babe that left her dentures in the back seat of his Dodge. I’m just saying.
Another thing dad has a propensity to do is to postulate absurd arguments and then search for coherent constructs by which to support nonsense.
To wit; pap recently revered the dialogical discourse deriding the second amendment as most of the American demographic is too dumb to safely caretaker a firearm and propped up this straw-dog by enunciating that oft eluded to Democrat vernacular-ease by way of, “think of the children”…don’t ya know. These are the times when I suspect I was adopted.
Still…I try to remain positive and look upon this beguiling blather as a fast ball across the plate. And; as such view this as an opportunity to hit it out of the park…batter up!
Dad’s argument that guns in the home are unsafe because, “don’t ya know” little Ricky is going to get his hands on it, sooner or later. Well spank my ass and call me Judy.
This half-assed, half-baked, short-bus condescension sends me from zero to pissed off in a nano-second. After all; it’s the same ole tired template. We have to give boys condoms, because…hey, they’re going to have sex anyway…we have to give eleven year old girls birth control pills…because they’re going to have sex anyway. We have to provide on-demand abortion because they’ll have abortions anyway. We might as well legalize illicit drugs and prostitution, because…it’s going to happen anyway.
Well boys and girls, friends and neighbors, murders, rape and anarchy poises an attack on the moral fabric that is this country every damn day. And…since we, “KNOW” it’s going to happen; why not legalize it?
Even overlooking that pesky second amendment those who wring their hands over personal gun possession are out to save a world that doesn’t need saving. Sure; some rubes will inadvertently leave their .44 magnum, loaded and in little Timmy’s crib. And of course…it only stands to reason that Timmy will take out his sister and parents before suckling the barrel himself. Yet; I would postulate my friends that this is exactly how we become a more intelligent people. Dumb people of all ages need be shot in the head. After all; one less idiot is one less welfare hog on the teat of America….Nuff Said!
Conservative Springfield Staff Writer
Monday, September 21, 2009
Turn Out the Lights; the Parties Over!
For an economics wonk, “such as I” observing the market guys, the economy guys and the political spinsters contort the economic health of America into a daily sound bite is like explaining Einstein’s theory of space and time by saying, “fast is slow”.
Practically absent in the economic debate is our blossoming debt and the dire consequences we face as it explodes under the Bamster. Don’t get me wrong; I bitched, moaned and opined when the Bushwhacker upped the federal ante. But, Obama has taken America’s credit card and not left the White House without it.
We have in the best of times, a $14 trillion dollar economy. We have $12 trillion dollars in debt, “mostly to China” and a Federal budget approaching $4 trillion dollars. Each year since 1969, Congress has spent more money than its income. The Treasury Department has to borrow money to meet Congress's appropriations.
We pay interest on that huge debt. And now the Treasury is having trouble finding lenders! Every week at the C.M.E., “Chicago Mercantile Exchange” we have bond auctions. Basically, this is the treasury selling our debt to finance our government largess. Up until a year ago, foreign investors, “China” hedge funds, and bond traders would purchase this debt in the form of long and short term treasury bonds…think I.O.U’s. Yet; those heady days are gone my friends. The world now treats the dollar much as a baby treats a diaper. So…enter the Federal Reserve, also known as Goldman Sachs. By the way; in a completely unrelated story…Lehman Brothers, “now defunct” was the only super bank allowed to fail and, “I’m just saying” just happened to be the only competition for Goldman Sachs, “AKA, the Federal Reserve”. Nothing to see here, keep moving. Where was I?
Oh Yeah, the monetization of our debt. Since the rest of the world is living in economic sanity our Federal Reserve is not only printing our currency, they are also using it to purchase our debt from their evil twin, the Treasury. Think of it this way; you use your credit card to buy that big screen television that you’ve been pining for. Then…you write a bad check to pay your credit card bill.
So…how is the Federal Reserve paying for our debt? Simple, they are printing dollars on every damn thing they can fit into their printing presses. The ensuing inflation that will result from this fiduciary folly will make Germanys Weimar Republic look like Mayberry’s lady druggist raising Aunt Bea’s miracle cure by a dime. Think of it this way; imagine moo juice at $100.00 a gallon and my favorite bourbon costing a Porsche.
Yet; sadly, that isn’t the worst or the signature of this ingenious postulation. Add to our increasing debt of $12 trillion dollars another $65 trillion in unfunded federal liabilities, currently on the books. As even the Bamster himself has said, “this is unsustainable”. Yet he and the Democrat congress keep spending.
Frankly; it is probably too late. Countries traditionally expire large debt with production. Think of the 110% debt to GDP ratio America incurred during WW2. Though; we held the anvil of production. We made things. Today a full 70% of our economy is service oriented. What are we going to do? Loan our shyster trial lawyers to China so that they can sue the hell out of each other? Not bloody likely governor.
Obama had a small window early in his Presidency to signal fiscal fidelity to a world awash in dollars. And…as the Federal Reserve halts Treasury purchases at years end, “as they have promised to do”. We will see the beginning of the end. By the way America; last man standing should turn out the lights…the parties over.
Conservative Springfield Staff Writer
Practically absent in the economic debate is our blossoming debt and the dire consequences we face as it explodes under the Bamster. Don’t get me wrong; I bitched, moaned and opined when the Bushwhacker upped the federal ante. But, Obama has taken America’s credit card and not left the White House without it.
We have in the best of times, a $14 trillion dollar economy. We have $12 trillion dollars in debt, “mostly to China” and a Federal budget approaching $4 trillion dollars. Each year since 1969, Congress has spent more money than its income. The Treasury Department has to borrow money to meet Congress's appropriations.
We pay interest on that huge debt. And now the Treasury is having trouble finding lenders! Every week at the C.M.E., “Chicago Mercantile Exchange” we have bond auctions. Basically, this is the treasury selling our debt to finance our government largess. Up until a year ago, foreign investors, “China” hedge funds, and bond traders would purchase this debt in the form of long and short term treasury bonds…think I.O.U’s. Yet; those heady days are gone my friends. The world now treats the dollar much as a baby treats a diaper. So…enter the Federal Reserve, also known as Goldman Sachs. By the way; in a completely unrelated story…Lehman Brothers, “now defunct” was the only super bank allowed to fail and, “I’m just saying” just happened to be the only competition for Goldman Sachs, “AKA, the Federal Reserve”. Nothing to see here, keep moving. Where was I?
Oh Yeah, the monetization of our debt. Since the rest of the world is living in economic sanity our Federal Reserve is not only printing our currency, they are also using it to purchase our debt from their evil twin, the Treasury. Think of it this way; you use your credit card to buy that big screen television that you’ve been pining for. Then…you write a bad check to pay your credit card bill.
So…how is the Federal Reserve paying for our debt? Simple, they are printing dollars on every damn thing they can fit into their printing presses. The ensuing inflation that will result from this fiduciary folly will make Germanys Weimar Republic look like Mayberry’s lady druggist raising Aunt Bea’s miracle cure by a dime. Think of it this way; imagine moo juice at $100.00 a gallon and my favorite bourbon costing a Porsche.
Yet; sadly, that isn’t the worst or the signature of this ingenious postulation. Add to our increasing debt of $12 trillion dollars another $65 trillion in unfunded federal liabilities, currently on the books. As even the Bamster himself has said, “this is unsustainable”. Yet he and the Democrat congress keep spending.
Frankly; it is probably too late. Countries traditionally expire large debt with production. Think of the 110% debt to GDP ratio America incurred during WW2. Though; we held the anvil of production. We made things. Today a full 70% of our economy is service oriented. What are we going to do? Loan our shyster trial lawyers to China so that they can sue the hell out of each other? Not bloody likely governor.
Obama had a small window early in his Presidency to signal fiscal fidelity to a world awash in dollars. And…as the Federal Reserve halts Treasury purchases at years end, “as they have promised to do”. We will see the beginning of the end. By the way America; last man standing should turn out the lights…the parties over.
Conservative Springfield Staff Writer
Monday, September 14, 2009
Conservatism
An admonition for those persons or person intent upon reading the ideas and tenets of conservatism I am about to proffer in this soon to be award winning literary composition. I offer a warning in the interest of mental and physical health. Liberals when confronted with the philosophy of conservatism have been known to suffer anxiety, mental confusion, hives, and irritable bowel syndrome and on rare occasions revert to a fetal position, sobbing hysterically while sucking their thumb. Having been forewarned let’s get this party started. Please hang on tight.
A common misconception when labeling conservatives is that we are all racists, sexists, bigoted homophobes. In short we are bible thumping rubes driving pickup trucks with a shotgun rack in the window, along with a rebel flag sitting next to our fourteen year old spouse who also happens to be our cousin. We are illiterate tobacco chewing, Hee Haw watching, toothless, poor white trash. These are but a few of the insulting stereotypes in the vast array of adjectives, used to discredit conservatives. Most are untrue. Well, some are untrue. These assertions are put forth by the left in order to marginalize us as extreme right wing kooks who should not have a forum. The liberal left in this country can ill afford a debate in the arena of ideas with true conservatives. Instead we are labeled as the right wing fringe and until recently have not been seriously included in the national debate. For decades in this country the conservative voice wasn’t just marginalized it was completely ignored. In 1985 that all changed when Rush Limbaugh got hold of a microphone and the national monologue became a dialogue.
Though Limbaugh’s audience share in the beginning was sparse he has turned his, EIB network comprised only of The Rush Limbaugh show into the Top radio show in the country with a dedicated weekly audience of 13.5 million regular listeners and up to 22 million part time listeners. Limbaugh is widely credited with saving talk radio when many experts believed it to be a fading medium. He was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1993. In 2002, industry publication Talkers Magazine ranked him as the greatest radio talk show host of all time. Liberals have put forth the argument that the vast audiences of The Rush Limbaugh show are mind numbed robots who haven’t the necessary capabilities to analyze current political events or the intellect to think for themselves. This is complete sophistry.
As evidence I provide the following reasonable conclusion based on a Pew Poll recently released. Judged by the respondent answers to three knowledge questions, the most informed audiences belong to the political magazines, Rush Limbaugh's radio show, The O'Reilly Factor, news magazines, and online news sources. Rush Limbaugh isn’t the only star in vast cavalcade of conservatism. One of our best known, most respected in conservative circles and most controversial keeper of the torch, is the brilliant, witty and extremely direct in her prose, Ann Coulter, celebrated author and speaker.
I offer this back round knowledge of our two most prominent conservatives only to present this insight, bonafides, as a walking, talking, gun toting conservative in good standing, able to enunciate a true conservative point of view.
Probably the most recognizable descriptor attached to conservative thought would be anti- abortion. Though apt, it is often misunderstood by those unfortunate souls who happen to be liberal. Conservatives do oppose abortion on moral grounds but we are equally offended by the adulteration of our constitution. To conservatives, the constitution of the United States is sacrosanct. In the case of Roe V. Wade, the United States Supreme court found a general right to privacy in the constitution where one did not exist. The constitution does not explicitly mention any right of privacy. Simplistically the United States Supreme Court did not interpret law but made new law. The making of new law is the explicit domain of an elected congress. Abortion is a social issue and not a legal conundrum. As such it should be the decision of the people through their elected representatives.
What is so frustrating to conservatives is the hijacking of our constitution by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court consists of nine lawyers with all of the foibles and flaws shared as mere humans. They do not reside on Mount Olympus nor do they walk on water, contrary to their personal beliefs, though distasteful to conservatives, legal constitutional abortions could be performed in this country without subjugating the constitution to the Supreme Court. Before the Roe case, abortion was legal in some states and illegal in others. The populace of the state through their representation decided that question after a public debate. Effectively what the Supreme Court did was to end the debate about abortion, or so they thought.
A stark contrast between conservative and liberal thought, can also be found in the arena of just what is the government’s responsibility to its citizenry. Liberals proudly articulate the vast numbers of Americans, “legal and illegal” that their sponsored programs have helped. Conservatives on the other hand measure successful governance by the number of people who no longer need help. Contrary to popular opinion, cold hearted, evil conservatives do believe there is a place for government in helping its electorate yet that help should have defined and measurable goals with the ultimate goal of self sufficiency. Conservatives believe strongly in the traits that make us distinctly American, self reliance and personal responsibility.
As an example of good conservative governance, I cite Bill Clinton’s Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. Since 1996 welfare rolls have been cut by almost 60%, 1.6 million fewer children live in poverty, and more single mothers are employed than ever. While republicans and conservatives, “not always equivalent” were torturing puppies and robbing from the poor to further endow the rich, Bill Clinton was saving the world and reforming welfare. On the tenth anniversary of the welfare reform act Bill Clinton wrote in the New York Times, “TEN years ago today I signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. By then I had long been committed to welfare reform. As a governor, I oversaw a workfare experiment in Arkansas in 1980 and represented the National Governors Association in working with Congress and the Reagan administration to draft the welfare reform bill enacted in 1988.Yet when I ran for president in 1992, our system still was not working for the taxpayers or for those it was intended to help. In my first State of the Union address, I promised to “end welfare as we know it,” to make welfare a second chance, not a way of life, exactly the change most welfare recipients wanted it to be.” Pause for laughter. “Author inserted”
Welfare reform did work and was applauded by conservatives, after all it was the republican congress that sponsored and passed this bill, three times. President Clinton vetoed the bill twice and only acquiesced as he faced an upcoming election. As reported in Investors Business Daily on 8/23/06. It was a Republican bill passed by a Republican Congress, signed after 30 Republican governors sent Clinton a letter urging him to sign it, saying: "You have consistently said that we must 'end welfare as we know it.' The time is now. This is the bill. The rest is up to you." The welfare reform act is a good example of conservative legislation.
Public education is one of the most argued and divisive subjects on our collective social radar. The debate on this subject always becomes more heated during an election year due to the diverse opinions on both sides of the spectrum. Common ground in theory if not action is that we must have more funding for public education and our public school teachers are pitifully underpaid. Both Republicans and Democrats will recite this mantra on cue as this is what the public has been brainwashed to believe. Conservatives need not engage in this debate because the debate is over. What debate I rhetorically ask. The trifecta is to add class size to the non-debate and look sad.
We constantly hear that in some schools class sizes are as much as twenty five or more students per one teacher, a ratio that critics claim, “liberals or pseudo liberals” causes little Timmy not to read. Japan, Korea and Brazil have average class sizes of fifty students or more and yet these three countries continually mop the floor with us in international scholastics competition.
We are also forced to listen to the constant harping of the underpaid public school teacher. My first question is this, if we paid teachers more would our children graduate school better educated? The national average salary for a public school teacher is $45, 930. (5) When you consider public school teachers get summers off and go home at 3:00 everyday perhaps we should all get a teaching certificate. Before I forget, my Robert Morris College instructors are woefully underpaid and I will testify to that. Surprisingly recent numbers haven’t been released but as of 2003 as a nation we spent an average of $7500 per student enrolled in our public schools. (6) In New York they spend $11,474 per student only to be eclipsed by Washington D. C. (7) I would point out that what our public school system lacks is not funding, but competition. Student test scores and graduation rates have never been correlated to an increase in funding. Most American workers are compensated based on factors such as production, ambition, attitude, performance and results. If we introduce competition into our public schools and our public school teachers, the benefits will be reaped by our children. After all, it is our tax dollars that support theses scholastic endeavors. The governmental bureaucracy attacks the problem of public education with its usual aplomb. Raise taxes and spend more. As conservatives we believe we are overtaxed and under served. Taxes are the lifeblood of government, the crack cocaine to the politico and many of us right wing rubes think it’s time to twelve step our addicted electors.
One of the biggest frauds perpetrated on the public is that the rich don’t pay taxes and the poor get hosed. To the contrary, the poor of this country do not pay taxes and it is the rich taking the hosing. I say this as one of the poor, irony inserted. For one side of the political spectrum to carp about tax cuts for the rich at the expense of the poor is not only sophistry but fraudulent. The latest data from the internal revenue service indicates the top 50% of wage earners pay 96.54% of all federal taxes and unbelievably the top 1% of wage earners pay 34.27% of all federal taxes. (8) For those who matriculated through the public school system these percentages might seem inconsequential, yet when combined with the class warfare arguments promulgated from the left, one can only conclude an attempt at public deception. Liberals argue against tax cuts for the rich and in the same breath whine about job creation. Has anyone ever gotten a job from a poor person? Good government should create an environment that is conducive to business and get out of the way. The extolled myth that the wealthy do not pay taxes needs to finally be scrapped, along with others urban legends, “manmade global warming, evolution, a general right to privacy, dangerous second hand smoke and the innocence of O. J. to name a few.”
Simply put, conservatives believe in lower taxes, smaller government and personal freedoms. With personal freedoms we also expect personal responsibility. We know that our constitution does not have any language that separates church and state. We believe as Ronald Reagan did that government is not the solution to our problems but that big government is the problem. We believe in American exceptionalism and manifest destiny. We hail Ronald Reagan as one of our greatest presidents and ask ourselves what we can do for our country. We believe in God. We believe there is no moral relativism between us and terrorist. We believe that capitalism is simply freedom to engage in commerce. We believe the United States Constitution to be the greatest document ever conceived and consider it sacrosanct. We believe that this country offers more possibilities to it’s citizenry than any other country in the history of time. We believe that any citizen can go as far in this country as their aptitude, ambition and energy will take them. We believe that all men and women are created equal, but not the same. We believe the people should decide issues of social policy and not a judge or judges. We believe in personal property rights. We believe in law and order and demand that those who break our laws pay full price. We believe we have dominion over the earth and a responsibility to it. Conservatives are eternal optimist, because we believe.
Conservative Springfield Staff Writer
A common misconception when labeling conservatives is that we are all racists, sexists, bigoted homophobes. In short we are bible thumping rubes driving pickup trucks with a shotgun rack in the window, along with a rebel flag sitting next to our fourteen year old spouse who also happens to be our cousin. We are illiterate tobacco chewing, Hee Haw watching, toothless, poor white trash. These are but a few of the insulting stereotypes in the vast array of adjectives, used to discredit conservatives. Most are untrue. Well, some are untrue. These assertions are put forth by the left in order to marginalize us as extreme right wing kooks who should not have a forum. The liberal left in this country can ill afford a debate in the arena of ideas with true conservatives. Instead we are labeled as the right wing fringe and until recently have not been seriously included in the national debate. For decades in this country the conservative voice wasn’t just marginalized it was completely ignored. In 1985 that all changed when Rush Limbaugh got hold of a microphone and the national monologue became a dialogue.
Though Limbaugh’s audience share in the beginning was sparse he has turned his, EIB network comprised only of The Rush Limbaugh show into the Top radio show in the country with a dedicated weekly audience of 13.5 million regular listeners and up to 22 million part time listeners. Limbaugh is widely credited with saving talk radio when many experts believed it to be a fading medium. He was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1993. In 2002, industry publication Talkers Magazine ranked him as the greatest radio talk show host of all time. Liberals have put forth the argument that the vast audiences of The Rush Limbaugh show are mind numbed robots who haven’t the necessary capabilities to analyze current political events or the intellect to think for themselves. This is complete sophistry.
As evidence I provide the following reasonable conclusion based on a Pew Poll recently released. Judged by the respondent answers to three knowledge questions, the most informed audiences belong to the political magazines, Rush Limbaugh's radio show, The O'Reilly Factor, news magazines, and online news sources. Rush Limbaugh isn’t the only star in vast cavalcade of conservatism. One of our best known, most respected in conservative circles and most controversial keeper of the torch, is the brilliant, witty and extremely direct in her prose, Ann Coulter, celebrated author and speaker.
I offer this back round knowledge of our two most prominent conservatives only to present this insight, bonafides, as a walking, talking, gun toting conservative in good standing, able to enunciate a true conservative point of view.
Probably the most recognizable descriptor attached to conservative thought would be anti- abortion. Though apt, it is often misunderstood by those unfortunate souls who happen to be liberal. Conservatives do oppose abortion on moral grounds but we are equally offended by the adulteration of our constitution. To conservatives, the constitution of the United States is sacrosanct. In the case of Roe V. Wade, the United States Supreme court found a general right to privacy in the constitution where one did not exist. The constitution does not explicitly mention any right of privacy. Simplistically the United States Supreme Court did not interpret law but made new law. The making of new law is the explicit domain of an elected congress. Abortion is a social issue and not a legal conundrum. As such it should be the decision of the people through their elected representatives.
What is so frustrating to conservatives is the hijacking of our constitution by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court consists of nine lawyers with all of the foibles and flaws shared as mere humans. They do not reside on Mount Olympus nor do they walk on water, contrary to their personal beliefs, though distasteful to conservatives, legal constitutional abortions could be performed in this country without subjugating the constitution to the Supreme Court. Before the Roe case, abortion was legal in some states and illegal in others. The populace of the state through their representation decided that question after a public debate. Effectively what the Supreme Court did was to end the debate about abortion, or so they thought.
A stark contrast between conservative and liberal thought, can also be found in the arena of just what is the government’s responsibility to its citizenry. Liberals proudly articulate the vast numbers of Americans, “legal and illegal” that their sponsored programs have helped. Conservatives on the other hand measure successful governance by the number of people who no longer need help. Contrary to popular opinion, cold hearted, evil conservatives do believe there is a place for government in helping its electorate yet that help should have defined and measurable goals with the ultimate goal of self sufficiency. Conservatives believe strongly in the traits that make us distinctly American, self reliance and personal responsibility.
As an example of good conservative governance, I cite Bill Clinton’s Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. Since 1996 welfare rolls have been cut by almost 60%, 1.6 million fewer children live in poverty, and more single mothers are employed than ever. While republicans and conservatives, “not always equivalent” were torturing puppies and robbing from the poor to further endow the rich, Bill Clinton was saving the world and reforming welfare. On the tenth anniversary of the welfare reform act Bill Clinton wrote in the New York Times, “TEN years ago today I signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. By then I had long been committed to welfare reform. As a governor, I oversaw a workfare experiment in Arkansas in 1980 and represented the National Governors Association in working with Congress and the Reagan administration to draft the welfare reform bill enacted in 1988.Yet when I ran for president in 1992, our system still was not working for the taxpayers or for those it was intended to help. In my first State of the Union address, I promised to “end welfare as we know it,” to make welfare a second chance, not a way of life, exactly the change most welfare recipients wanted it to be.” Pause for laughter. “Author inserted”
Welfare reform did work and was applauded by conservatives, after all it was the republican congress that sponsored and passed this bill, three times. President Clinton vetoed the bill twice and only acquiesced as he faced an upcoming election. As reported in Investors Business Daily on 8/23/06. It was a Republican bill passed by a Republican Congress, signed after 30 Republican governors sent Clinton a letter urging him to sign it, saying: "You have consistently said that we must 'end welfare as we know it.' The time is now. This is the bill. The rest is up to you." The welfare reform act is a good example of conservative legislation.
Public education is one of the most argued and divisive subjects on our collective social radar. The debate on this subject always becomes more heated during an election year due to the diverse opinions on both sides of the spectrum. Common ground in theory if not action is that we must have more funding for public education and our public school teachers are pitifully underpaid. Both Republicans and Democrats will recite this mantra on cue as this is what the public has been brainwashed to believe. Conservatives need not engage in this debate because the debate is over. What debate I rhetorically ask. The trifecta is to add class size to the non-debate and look sad.
We constantly hear that in some schools class sizes are as much as twenty five or more students per one teacher, a ratio that critics claim, “liberals or pseudo liberals” causes little Timmy not to read. Japan, Korea and Brazil have average class sizes of fifty students or more and yet these three countries continually mop the floor with us in international scholastics competition.
We are also forced to listen to the constant harping of the underpaid public school teacher. My first question is this, if we paid teachers more would our children graduate school better educated? The national average salary for a public school teacher is $45, 930. (5) When you consider public school teachers get summers off and go home at 3:00 everyday perhaps we should all get a teaching certificate. Before I forget, my Robert Morris College instructors are woefully underpaid and I will testify to that. Surprisingly recent numbers haven’t been released but as of 2003 as a nation we spent an average of $7500 per student enrolled in our public schools. (6) In New York they spend $11,474 per student only to be eclipsed by Washington D. C. (7) I would point out that what our public school system lacks is not funding, but competition. Student test scores and graduation rates have never been correlated to an increase in funding. Most American workers are compensated based on factors such as production, ambition, attitude, performance and results. If we introduce competition into our public schools and our public school teachers, the benefits will be reaped by our children. After all, it is our tax dollars that support theses scholastic endeavors. The governmental bureaucracy attacks the problem of public education with its usual aplomb. Raise taxes and spend more. As conservatives we believe we are overtaxed and under served. Taxes are the lifeblood of government, the crack cocaine to the politico and many of us right wing rubes think it’s time to twelve step our addicted electors.
One of the biggest frauds perpetrated on the public is that the rich don’t pay taxes and the poor get hosed. To the contrary, the poor of this country do not pay taxes and it is the rich taking the hosing. I say this as one of the poor, irony inserted. For one side of the political spectrum to carp about tax cuts for the rich at the expense of the poor is not only sophistry but fraudulent. The latest data from the internal revenue service indicates the top 50% of wage earners pay 96.54% of all federal taxes and unbelievably the top 1% of wage earners pay 34.27% of all federal taxes. (8) For those who matriculated through the public school system these percentages might seem inconsequential, yet when combined with the class warfare arguments promulgated from the left, one can only conclude an attempt at public deception. Liberals argue against tax cuts for the rich and in the same breath whine about job creation. Has anyone ever gotten a job from a poor person? Good government should create an environment that is conducive to business and get out of the way. The extolled myth that the wealthy do not pay taxes needs to finally be scrapped, along with others urban legends, “manmade global warming, evolution, a general right to privacy, dangerous second hand smoke and the innocence of O. J. to name a few.”
Simply put, conservatives believe in lower taxes, smaller government and personal freedoms. With personal freedoms we also expect personal responsibility. We know that our constitution does not have any language that separates church and state. We believe as Ronald Reagan did that government is not the solution to our problems but that big government is the problem. We believe in American exceptionalism and manifest destiny. We hail Ronald Reagan as one of our greatest presidents and ask ourselves what we can do for our country. We believe in God. We believe there is no moral relativism between us and terrorist. We believe that capitalism is simply freedom to engage in commerce. We believe the United States Constitution to be the greatest document ever conceived and consider it sacrosanct. We believe that this country offers more possibilities to it’s citizenry than any other country in the history of time. We believe that any citizen can go as far in this country as their aptitude, ambition and energy will take them. We believe that all men and women are created equal, but not the same. We believe the people should decide issues of social policy and not a judge or judges. We believe in personal property rights. We believe in law and order and demand that those who break our laws pay full price. We believe we have dominion over the earth and a responsibility to it. Conservatives are eternal optimist, because we believe.
Conservative Springfield Staff Writer
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Socialized HealthCare
Have We Tried Socialism Before?
Did you know that the first [Plymouth Colony Pilgrim's] Thanksgiving was a celebration of the triumph of private property and individual initiative?
William Bradford was the governor of the original Pilgrim colony, founded at Plymouth in 1621. The colony was first organized on a communal basis, as their financiers required. Land was owned in common. The Pilgrims farmed communally, too, following the "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" precept.
The results were disastrous. Communism didn't work any better 400 years ago than it does today. By 1623, the colony had suffered serious losses. Starvation was imminent.
(1) In his diary, Bradford wrote; “. . . the young men . . . did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives and children without any recompense. The strong . . . had not more in division . . . than he that was weak and not able to do a quarter the other could; this was thought injustice. The aged and graver men to be ranked and equalized in labors and victuals, clothes, etc . . . thought it some indignity and disrespect unto them. And the men's wives to be commanded to do service for other men, as dressing their meat, washing their clothes, etc., they deemed it a kind of slavery, neither could many husbands well brook it."
Governor Bradford concluded drastic measures were of need. He scrapped the communal system and assigned each family a plot of land for them to farm. All hazards, as well as any reward would be attributed to the landowner. The results were astounding:
(1)Bradford wrote, "This had very good success, for it made all hands very industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been by any means the Governor or any other could use, and saved him a great deal of trouble, and gave far better content. The women now went willingly into the field, and took their little ones with them to set corn, which before would allege weakness and inability, whom to have compelled would have been thought great tyranny and oppression."
In infancy, America experimented with socialism, “or communism lite” and found it lacking. The separatists who founded this country did so with individual freedoms as their cornerstone, “religious and otherwise”. And…capitalism is simply the freedom to engage in commerce.
Socialized healthcare would seem to UN-learn the lessons of Americas first settlers.
Is Healthcare a Right?
Americans have been conditioned to assume, “rights” where “need” resides. Human rights are not reciprocal and do not exist in a vacuum. Whereas we have freedom of speech, yet… no one is required to listen. We enjoy the freedom of religion; yet…churches are not built at the taxpayers’ expense. The freedom to assemble and protest our government is a fundamental right, though; the individual is responsible for carrying their own sign. Our second amendment grants us the right to possess firearms, yet…your neighbor isn’t put upon to contribute to its purchase. Simply; a right comes not at the expense of another’s right. Socialized healthcare would impinge on your neighbors’ right to keep the fruits of their labors and the most basic right of choice as government would assume the role as arbiter in individual medical choice.
How Much Will Free Healthcare cost?
Democrats have spent their summer recess insuring the American electorate that the hoards of illegal aliens would not be covered under the Federal Health Insurance program. The president said:
“This has been an example of just pure misinformation out there. None of the bills that have been voted on in Congress, and none of the proposals coming out of the White House propose giving coverage to illegal immigrants — none of them. That has never been on the table; nobody has discussed it. So everybody who is listening out there, when you start hearing that somehow this is all designed to provide health insurance to illegal immigrants that is simply not true and has never been the case”.(4)
(2) H.R. 3693, a bill introduced by the Democrats has greatly contributed to Medicaid fraud. Before that bill became law, proof of citizenship was required when applying for Medicaid. H.R. 3693 changed that when it was passed in 2007. Now those enrolling in Medicaid are not even required to show identification.
This law virtually ensures that the 12-20 million illegal’s illegally in this country would automatically be enrolled in any institutional public indemnity.
President Obama and his Democrat cohorts have exalted the public option as the center piece of their reform, citing it as a cost saving mechanism. The Congressional budget office refutes these claims and scores the house bill as a net gain in costs of $1.5 trillion dollars. (3)
David Walker, former comptroller General of the United States was appointed by President Clinton. He recently resigned his position so that he could speak frankly to the American people.
In a presentation to the National Press Foundation, January 17, 2008, Mr. Walker brought forth the following facts and projections:
1. From 1966 to 2006, the percentage of federal funds spent on Medicare rose from 1% to 19%. This trend will grow exponentially as millions of “baby boomers” enter the entitlement pool.
2. For the same period, spending for mandated government commitments rose from 26% to 53% of the total budget. The budget is increasingly out of the control of government officials.
3. As of 2007, Medicare is running in arrears. In 2017 Social Security will be in deficit. By the year 2040, Medicare and Social Security alone will be running annual deficits of nearly 900 billion dollars.
4. Medicare spending from now until 2032 will be 235% of economic growth. By 2040, Medicare will be spending about 10% of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product annually, and the annual deficits of the United States will total some 20% of the total Gross Domestic Product.
The bottom line is this: mandated fiscal entitlements, projected into the future, are over 52,000 billion dollars. That will equal 90% of all household wealth in the U.S., and will place a burden of over 450 thousand dollars on every household in the land. This is almost ten times the present median household income level.
Mr. Walker concludes that “We face large and growing structural deficits largely due to known demographic trends and rising health care costs.” Further, “GAO’s simulations show that balancing the budget in 2040 could require actions as large as cutting total federal spending by 60 percent, or raising federal taxes to two times today's level.”
To close the revenue gap through growth, the United States economy would need to expand in the double-digit range for the next seventy-five years. During the boom years of the 1990s, the economy grew at an average rate of 3.2%. Walker concludes, succinctly: “we cannot simply grow our way out of this problem.”
Health care entitlements constitute by far the largest single piece of this economic disaster. Those who think that creating thousands of billions of dollars in new government entitlements—in a health care bill that adds tens of millions of Americans to government programs—will do anything except hasten the coming bankruptcy are out of touch with reality.
Mr. Walker has taken his show on the road, in an attempt to educate Americans about the financial disaster they are creating. He was accompanied by both the Brookings Institute on the left, and the Heritage Foundation on the right. He stresses that this coming financial meltdown is known by everyone in Washington--but no one wants to acknowledge it.
The Rasmussen poll shows that almost twice as many Americans think that cutting the deficit, rather than health care reform, should be the president’s top priority. Another poll shows that twice as many people think that the reform legislation will drive up costs than think it will lower costs. Perhaps these Americans grasp Mr. Walker’s point better than their elected representatives do.
A nation that violates the rights of its citizens cannot, in the long run, escape the consequences of its moral failure. When a nation with the unique strength of the United States does so systematically and over decades, the results must necessarily be catastrophic. The dire economic forecast of David Walker illustrates the connection between the moral and the practical. To regain our economic viability we must regain our moral viability. (5)
Is Socialized Healthcare Constitutional?
The tenth amendment to the constitution requires that those powers not specifically granted to the Federal Government are left to the states and the people.
Who were these “enumerators?” Most were citizens of very high standing.
They included, among others: Alexander Hamilton, James Wilson (a convention delegate and chief proponent in Pennsylvania), Edmund Pendleton (chancellor of Virginia and chairman of his state’s ratifying convention), James Iredell (North Carolina judge, pro-Constitution floor leader at his state’s ratifying convention and later U.S. Supreme Court Justice), John Marshall (a ratifier and later U.S. Chief Justice); Maryland Congressman Alexander Contee Hanson, Nathaniel Peaslee Sargeant (a Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court), Alexander White (Virginia lawyer, ratifier, and later U.S. Senator), prominent businessman Tench Coxe, and – of course – James Madison.
Here are some of the powers they solemnly promised would be outside the federal sphere:
• governance of religion
• training the militia and appointing militia officers
• control over local government
• most crimes
• state justice systems
• family affairs
• real property titles and conveyances
• wills and inheritance
• the promotion of useful arts in ways other than granting patents and copyrights
• control of personal property outside of commerce
• governance of the law of torts and contracts, except in suits between citizens of different states
• education
• services for the poor and unfortunate
• licensing of taverns
• roads other than post roads
• ferries and bridges
• Regulation of fisheries, farms, and other business enterprises. (6)
Articles one, two and three of our constitution list the authority granted to the federal bureaucracy. As often as I’ve read the constitution I have never noticed the power to apply a Federal solution to healthcare because the authority does not exist. The Federal government should abide within its enumerated powers…to settle disputes in the arena of interstate commerce, to negotiate international treaties, to provide for a common defense and to conduct a census. Socialized federal healthcare is not only un-workable and too costly, it is also unconstitutional.
Cites
(1) http://web.archive.org/web/20070906142939rn_1/www.mises.org/story/1678
(2) http://www.examiner.com/x-20909-Columbia-Independent-Examiner~y2009m8d23-How-much-will-covering-health-care-for-illegals-cost-Rampant-Medicaid-fraud-gives-an-indication
(3) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/16/AR2009071602242.html
(4) http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZWQ3OTdkOTc1Y2U3MWYwNzRlNDI4YzAzNDU1ZjNiNzE
(5) http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=5631
http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2009/04/12/the-enumerated-powers-of-states/
Did you know that the first [Plymouth Colony Pilgrim's] Thanksgiving was a celebration of the triumph of private property and individual initiative?
William Bradford was the governor of the original Pilgrim colony, founded at Plymouth in 1621. The colony was first organized on a communal basis, as their financiers required. Land was owned in common. The Pilgrims farmed communally, too, following the "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" precept.
The results were disastrous. Communism didn't work any better 400 years ago than it does today. By 1623, the colony had suffered serious losses. Starvation was imminent.
(1) In his diary, Bradford wrote; “. . . the young men . . . did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives and children without any recompense. The strong . . . had not more in division . . . than he that was weak and not able to do a quarter the other could; this was thought injustice. The aged and graver men to be ranked and equalized in labors and victuals, clothes, etc . . . thought it some indignity and disrespect unto them. And the men's wives to be commanded to do service for other men, as dressing their meat, washing their clothes, etc., they deemed it a kind of slavery, neither could many husbands well brook it."
Governor Bradford concluded drastic measures were of need. He scrapped the communal system and assigned each family a plot of land for them to farm. All hazards, as well as any reward would be attributed to the landowner. The results were astounding:
(1)Bradford wrote, "This had very good success, for it made all hands very industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been by any means the Governor or any other could use, and saved him a great deal of trouble, and gave far better content. The women now went willingly into the field, and took their little ones with them to set corn, which before would allege weakness and inability, whom to have compelled would have been thought great tyranny and oppression."
In infancy, America experimented with socialism, “or communism lite” and found it lacking. The separatists who founded this country did so with individual freedoms as their cornerstone, “religious and otherwise”. And…capitalism is simply the freedom to engage in commerce.
Socialized healthcare would seem to UN-learn the lessons of Americas first settlers.
Is Healthcare a Right?
Americans have been conditioned to assume, “rights” where “need” resides. Human rights are not reciprocal and do not exist in a vacuum. Whereas we have freedom of speech, yet… no one is required to listen. We enjoy the freedom of religion; yet…churches are not built at the taxpayers’ expense. The freedom to assemble and protest our government is a fundamental right, though; the individual is responsible for carrying their own sign. Our second amendment grants us the right to possess firearms, yet…your neighbor isn’t put upon to contribute to its purchase. Simply; a right comes not at the expense of another’s right. Socialized healthcare would impinge on your neighbors’ right to keep the fruits of their labors and the most basic right of choice as government would assume the role as arbiter in individual medical choice.
How Much Will Free Healthcare cost?
Democrats have spent their summer recess insuring the American electorate that the hoards of illegal aliens would not be covered under the Federal Health Insurance program. The president said:
“This has been an example of just pure misinformation out there. None of the bills that have been voted on in Congress, and none of the proposals coming out of the White House propose giving coverage to illegal immigrants — none of them. That has never been on the table; nobody has discussed it. So everybody who is listening out there, when you start hearing that somehow this is all designed to provide health insurance to illegal immigrants that is simply not true and has never been the case”.(4)
(2) H.R. 3693, a bill introduced by the Democrats has greatly contributed to Medicaid fraud. Before that bill became law, proof of citizenship was required when applying for Medicaid. H.R. 3693 changed that when it was passed in 2007. Now those enrolling in Medicaid are not even required to show identification.
This law virtually ensures that the 12-20 million illegal’s illegally in this country would automatically be enrolled in any institutional public indemnity.
President Obama and his Democrat cohorts have exalted the public option as the center piece of their reform, citing it as a cost saving mechanism. The Congressional budget office refutes these claims and scores the house bill as a net gain in costs of $1.5 trillion dollars. (3)
David Walker, former comptroller General of the United States was appointed by President Clinton. He recently resigned his position so that he could speak frankly to the American people.
In a presentation to the National Press Foundation, January 17, 2008, Mr. Walker brought forth the following facts and projections:
1. From 1966 to 2006, the percentage of federal funds spent on Medicare rose from 1% to 19%. This trend will grow exponentially as millions of “baby boomers” enter the entitlement pool.
2. For the same period, spending for mandated government commitments rose from 26% to 53% of the total budget. The budget is increasingly out of the control of government officials.
3. As of 2007, Medicare is running in arrears. In 2017 Social Security will be in deficit. By the year 2040, Medicare and Social Security alone will be running annual deficits of nearly 900 billion dollars.
4. Medicare spending from now until 2032 will be 235% of economic growth. By 2040, Medicare will be spending about 10% of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product annually, and the annual deficits of the United States will total some 20% of the total Gross Domestic Product.
The bottom line is this: mandated fiscal entitlements, projected into the future, are over 52,000 billion dollars. That will equal 90% of all household wealth in the U.S., and will place a burden of over 450 thousand dollars on every household in the land. This is almost ten times the present median household income level.
Mr. Walker concludes that “We face large and growing structural deficits largely due to known demographic trends and rising health care costs.” Further, “GAO’s simulations show that balancing the budget in 2040 could require actions as large as cutting total federal spending by 60 percent, or raising federal taxes to two times today's level.”
To close the revenue gap through growth, the United States economy would need to expand in the double-digit range for the next seventy-five years. During the boom years of the 1990s, the economy grew at an average rate of 3.2%. Walker concludes, succinctly: “we cannot simply grow our way out of this problem.”
Health care entitlements constitute by far the largest single piece of this economic disaster. Those who think that creating thousands of billions of dollars in new government entitlements—in a health care bill that adds tens of millions of Americans to government programs—will do anything except hasten the coming bankruptcy are out of touch with reality.
Mr. Walker has taken his show on the road, in an attempt to educate Americans about the financial disaster they are creating. He was accompanied by both the Brookings Institute on the left, and the Heritage Foundation on the right. He stresses that this coming financial meltdown is known by everyone in Washington--but no one wants to acknowledge it.
The Rasmussen poll shows that almost twice as many Americans think that cutting the deficit, rather than health care reform, should be the president’s top priority. Another poll shows that twice as many people think that the reform legislation will drive up costs than think it will lower costs. Perhaps these Americans grasp Mr. Walker’s point better than their elected representatives do.
A nation that violates the rights of its citizens cannot, in the long run, escape the consequences of its moral failure. When a nation with the unique strength of the United States does so systematically and over decades, the results must necessarily be catastrophic. The dire economic forecast of David Walker illustrates the connection between the moral and the practical. To regain our economic viability we must regain our moral viability. (5)
Is Socialized Healthcare Constitutional?
The tenth amendment to the constitution requires that those powers not specifically granted to the Federal Government are left to the states and the people.
Who were these “enumerators?” Most were citizens of very high standing.
They included, among others: Alexander Hamilton, James Wilson (a convention delegate and chief proponent in Pennsylvania), Edmund Pendleton (chancellor of Virginia and chairman of his state’s ratifying convention), James Iredell (North Carolina judge, pro-Constitution floor leader at his state’s ratifying convention and later U.S. Supreme Court Justice), John Marshall (a ratifier and later U.S. Chief Justice); Maryland Congressman Alexander Contee Hanson, Nathaniel Peaslee Sargeant (a Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court), Alexander White (Virginia lawyer, ratifier, and later U.S. Senator), prominent businessman Tench Coxe, and – of course – James Madison.
Here are some of the powers they solemnly promised would be outside the federal sphere:
• governance of religion
• training the militia and appointing militia officers
• control over local government
• most crimes
• state justice systems
• family affairs
• real property titles and conveyances
• wills and inheritance
• the promotion of useful arts in ways other than granting patents and copyrights
• control of personal property outside of commerce
• governance of the law of torts and contracts, except in suits between citizens of different states
• education
• services for the poor and unfortunate
• licensing of taverns
• roads other than post roads
• ferries and bridges
• Regulation of fisheries, farms, and other business enterprises. (6)
Articles one, two and three of our constitution list the authority granted to the federal bureaucracy. As often as I’ve read the constitution I have never noticed the power to apply a Federal solution to healthcare because the authority does not exist. The Federal government should abide within its enumerated powers…to settle disputes in the arena of interstate commerce, to negotiate international treaties, to provide for a common defense and to conduct a census. Socialized federal healthcare is not only un-workable and too costly, it is also unconstitutional.
Cites
(1) http://web.archive.org/web/20070906142939rn_1/www.mises.org/story/1678
(2) http://www.examiner.com/x-20909-Columbia-Independent-Examiner~y2009m8d23-How-much-will-covering-health-care-for-illegals-cost-Rampant-Medicaid-fraud-gives-an-indication
(3) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/16/AR2009071602242.html
(4) http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZWQ3OTdkOTc1Y2U3MWYwNzRlNDI4YzAzNDU1ZjNiNzE
(5) http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=5631
http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2009/04/12/the-enumerated-powers-of-states/
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Ted Kennedy; a premature compassionate Eulogy
Since, “in polite circles” it is a societal faux pas to speak ill of the dead, I’ll have to hurry this literary smack-down of Teddy Kennedy and if what we are hearing from Kennedy spokespeople is true; I’d better make this jiffy quick.
Sadly; Teddy has lived much longer than those who chose to passenger with him. And; Ted’s imminent demise is already having an effect on the local economy in Massachusetts. Call- girls are filing for un-employment and Scotch distillers are shuttering their businesses. Not to mention that tow-truck drivers are suddenly out of work.
Teddy, “the swimmer” and his incremental movements towards the light, “much too slow” permits us, with fervor, to examine the life and times of this silver spooned spoiled brat who set out to destroy his own country, while drunk.
The latest attack by Ed against sound government is his plea to the state assembly to change the law in re; the appointment of U.S. senators to vacant senate seats. In 2003 uncle Ted petitioned the assembly to change the process by which vacant senate seats were filled. At the time, the law allowed for the sitting governor to appoint a replacement for any senate vacancy at their discretion. A widely held thought then was that Munster look-alike John, “I served in Vietnam” Kerry would trounce sitting president, George Bush. Governor of the bluest of blue states was then republican Mitt Romney. As a blatant jury rigging rouse Kennedy pushed for the law change allowing a five month election run-off for a spanking new senator so that Romney couldn’t appoint a republican to Kerry’s vacant seat after he ascended to 1600 Pennsylvanian Avenue.
The fly in the ointment, the monkey in the wrench was that Kerry couldn’t win a game of horseshoes if he was actually sitting on the horse.
Fast forward to present day; while Ted has given up Scotch for baby food and hookers for long naps in onesies, he still finds a coherent moment to again fiddle in Massachusetts political do-si-do.
Now the moral imperative is to again change the law back to a governor appointee to any vacant senate seat and scrap the five month election of candidates. Keep in mind that upon Ted assuming room temperature the magic senate number of sixty becomes fifty nine and would stay so for five months. The words, “arrogant dying, murdering bastard” come to mind.
Teddy the, “cheater” enrolled in Harvard University in 1950, but was kicked out in 1951 after he was caught paying another student to take a Spanish test for him. Little Ted eventually, “earned” a degree from Harvard and the dean of students, “earned” a summer home in Kennebunkport, kismet.
In 1962 young Teddy was the legacy candidate to the United States senate thanks to his brother vacating it and his father doling out bootleg whiskey money for it.
In 1963, his brother Jack was assassinated in Dallas, Jack was the Kennedy with a semblance of character. {Emphasis semblance}
In 1968, his brother Robert was assassinated in Los Angeles, no character assumed or implied.
Then the whopper, July, 1969, “drunken motorist” Teddy drove his car off a bridge, returning from a local party on Martha's Vineyard. He swam to shore, adjusted his tie, burped twice, went to a local hotel, hobnobbed briefly with the clerk, and tucked in for the night, basking in the safety of his warm bed and clear conscience. In the morning, a fisherman spotted the car and reported it to the police. Inside the car was the body of 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne. The coroner determined that she had survived the crash and had remained conscious for several hours in an air pocket in the submerged car before dying. Begging the question; who said chivalry is dead? Eventually, Teddy, “the frogman” suffered the crushing weight of our judiciary, his license to drive was suspended.
Teddy, “the victim” ostensibly, to rid himself of the haunting memories of murdering a young woman, turned to women for comfort and nurturing. When a supermarket tabloid published pictures of a married Kennedy getting "amorous" with a woman on his sailboat, one of his colleagues (Senator Howell Heflin) remarked that it appeared that Kennedy "had done changed his position on offshore drilling." In 1985, he and Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd allegedly made a "waitress sandwich" at a DC restaurant while their dates were in the rest room. Think layers and physics without condiments.
And then there’s this, only because you haven’t heard of it, if you have just play along, it’s fun. At the height of the cold war, Teddy, “the Bolshevik” began an all out effort to work with the Soviet KGB in order to defeat Ronald Reagan. He stole and destroyed classified records from the national archives, leaked top-secret documents to the media, and pursued a plan of capitulation against an enemy we were clearly beating the pants off of daily and twice on Sundays. This from the elder statesman of the Democrat party, again, while drunk.
Time or energy, “mine” would be of waste delving further into this pathetic life, it can be summed up quite efficiently by the following; Quixote Ted has held hostage the vaunted and illustrious senate on many issues but none more than wind turbine energy. He’s just daffy about it and would like nothing better that to plop a windmill in every yard and back alley. Yet, “windy” Ted had long since fought placing those twirling electrical juggernauts five miles off of Martha’s Vineyard, home to the Kennedy compound. That singularly sums up Ted; it’s all about him and always has been. America will little miss this worthless life when he finally passes and, if I’m right, “as I usually am” Ted and Mary Jo will never meet in the afterlife, having been assigned to different regions of eternity. And…I’d don’t wish to sound completely unfeeling as to the loss of this mans life and that effect on his family. So; I’ll just end with this…May you burn in hell you arrogant bastard and good riddance to you.
Conservative Springfield staff writer
Sadly; Teddy has lived much longer than those who chose to passenger with him. And; Ted’s imminent demise is already having an effect on the local economy in Massachusetts. Call- girls are filing for un-employment and Scotch distillers are shuttering their businesses. Not to mention that tow-truck drivers are suddenly out of work.
Teddy, “the swimmer” and his incremental movements towards the light, “much too slow” permits us, with fervor, to examine the life and times of this silver spooned spoiled brat who set out to destroy his own country, while drunk.
The latest attack by Ed against sound government is his plea to the state assembly to change the law in re; the appointment of U.S. senators to vacant senate seats. In 2003 uncle Ted petitioned the assembly to change the process by which vacant senate seats were filled. At the time, the law allowed for the sitting governor to appoint a replacement for any senate vacancy at their discretion. A widely held thought then was that Munster look-alike John, “I served in Vietnam” Kerry would trounce sitting president, George Bush. Governor of the bluest of blue states was then republican Mitt Romney. As a blatant jury rigging rouse Kennedy pushed for the law change allowing a five month election run-off for a spanking new senator so that Romney couldn’t appoint a republican to Kerry’s vacant seat after he ascended to 1600 Pennsylvanian Avenue.
The fly in the ointment, the monkey in the wrench was that Kerry couldn’t win a game of horseshoes if he was actually sitting on the horse.
Fast forward to present day; while Ted has given up Scotch for baby food and hookers for long naps in onesies, he still finds a coherent moment to again fiddle in Massachusetts political do-si-do.
Now the moral imperative is to again change the law back to a governor appointee to any vacant senate seat and scrap the five month election of candidates. Keep in mind that upon Ted assuming room temperature the magic senate number of sixty becomes fifty nine and would stay so for five months. The words, “arrogant dying, murdering bastard” come to mind.
Teddy the, “cheater” enrolled in Harvard University in 1950, but was kicked out in 1951 after he was caught paying another student to take a Spanish test for him. Little Ted eventually, “earned” a degree from Harvard and the dean of students, “earned” a summer home in Kennebunkport, kismet.
In 1962 young Teddy was the legacy candidate to the United States senate thanks to his brother vacating it and his father doling out bootleg whiskey money for it.
In 1963, his brother Jack was assassinated in Dallas, Jack was the Kennedy with a semblance of character. {Emphasis semblance}
In 1968, his brother Robert was assassinated in Los Angeles, no character assumed or implied.
Then the whopper, July, 1969, “drunken motorist” Teddy drove his car off a bridge, returning from a local party on Martha's Vineyard. He swam to shore, adjusted his tie, burped twice, went to a local hotel, hobnobbed briefly with the clerk, and tucked in for the night, basking in the safety of his warm bed and clear conscience. In the morning, a fisherman spotted the car and reported it to the police. Inside the car was the body of 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne. The coroner determined that she had survived the crash and had remained conscious for several hours in an air pocket in the submerged car before dying. Begging the question; who said chivalry is dead? Eventually, Teddy, “the frogman” suffered the crushing weight of our judiciary, his license to drive was suspended.
Teddy, “the victim” ostensibly, to rid himself of the haunting memories of murdering a young woman, turned to women for comfort and nurturing. When a supermarket tabloid published pictures of a married Kennedy getting "amorous" with a woman on his sailboat, one of his colleagues (Senator Howell Heflin) remarked that it appeared that Kennedy "had done changed his position on offshore drilling." In 1985, he and Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd allegedly made a "waitress sandwich" at a DC restaurant while their dates were in the rest room. Think layers and physics without condiments.
And then there’s this, only because you haven’t heard of it, if you have just play along, it’s fun. At the height of the cold war, Teddy, “the Bolshevik” began an all out effort to work with the Soviet KGB in order to defeat Ronald Reagan. He stole and destroyed classified records from the national archives, leaked top-secret documents to the media, and pursued a plan of capitulation against an enemy we were clearly beating the pants off of daily and twice on Sundays. This from the elder statesman of the Democrat party, again, while drunk.
Time or energy, “mine” would be of waste delving further into this pathetic life, it can be summed up quite efficiently by the following; Quixote Ted has held hostage the vaunted and illustrious senate on many issues but none more than wind turbine energy. He’s just daffy about it and would like nothing better that to plop a windmill in every yard and back alley. Yet, “windy” Ted had long since fought placing those twirling electrical juggernauts five miles off of Martha’s Vineyard, home to the Kennedy compound. That singularly sums up Ted; it’s all about him and always has been. America will little miss this worthless life when he finally passes and, if I’m right, “as I usually am” Ted and Mary Jo will never meet in the afterlife, having been assigned to different regions of eternity. And…I’d don’t wish to sound completely unfeeling as to the loss of this mans life and that effect on his family. So; I’ll just end with this…May you burn in hell you arrogant bastard and good riddance to you.
Conservative Springfield staff writer
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