The White House - Defenders of Truth!

Last week, there was a video circulating the web that shows an interview that President Obama gave in 2007, as he was beginning his bid for the White House, as well as clips of him from 2003, and clips of other liberals touting a Single Payer Health Plan, which is government language for socialized medicine. These interviews show that what the President really wants is to eliminate the private insurance industry. Here's the video:



Now...this is pretty clear cut to me. It's no surprise to anyone who paid attention during the election, but it's nice to reminisce.

After the video above made its way around for a few days, the White House released this stunning rebuttal:



Are you serious? Taking someone out of context is one thing, but these interviews are clearly Obama speaking to an audience about his "plan".

Come on lady...those clips that you showed to refute other clips of Obama are from the last two months. What do you think he's going to be saying? What, is there some sort of limit on when things aren't valid anymore? Let's be reasonable, I could understand if he said he wanted to eliminate private insurance when he was in college, but a year and a half ago?

This happened a lot during the election. People, myself included, would point out to colleagues or friends that Obama's record was pretty left-wing and radical, and the response was always, "you have to take him on his word now, last week he said ."

Listen, I think it's time we all were intellectually honest - Obama is not telling the truth now about...well...anything really, but especially Health Care.

I'm disgusted by people like Linda Douglas. They know exactly what the President is trying to do, and they're lying to cover it up. It's despicable.

Bob, I hate to tell you this, but you are very stupid. :)

There is a dude named Bob somewhere in the US who in my opinion is very mistaken in his philosophies regarding taxes and who should pay them. I ran into Bob, actually his comments, after reading a blog detailing how President Obama will break his pledge to not raise taxes on the middle class (the corruptionless-class, unlike those filthy rich who wipe their corpulent behinds with thousand dollar bills while starving children shovel coal into their basement furnaces).

So, Bobby Marx makes the following quote to demonstrate his disagreement with, catch this, not the premise that Obama is going to raise taxes when he said he wouldn't (liar), but his disagreement is with the notion that the "rich" shouldn't be burdened with high rates of taxation.

The following is Bob's eloquent comment:

Does anyone out there really believe that $250,000/year is middle class? It’s less than 4% of the population!

Make the richies pay more taxes! They live in a country that enabled them to earn that much- time to pay for the privilege.

Bob

Wow!! Let me say that one more time-WOW!!! Are you kidding me!?

But wait, Bob's friend Mike chimes in with a supporting comment:

i agree with BOB. are the top 5% paying enough back to the system they are so good at profiting from?

Mike

What!? Paying back the system that they are profiting from! Are you kidding me!!!? Excuse me for not drinking the Kool Aid and thinking that the government provides me with the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. According to the Declaration of Independence, you know that document we sent to the Brits and all other nations throwing off the tyrannical rule of a King, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Now let me be clear (but not clearly lying like you know who), the government does not bestow those rights upon all men. Those are unalienable rights that we are endowed with by our Creator. Neither Bob nor Mike provided any other person with the right to pursue their own way in life, including making a living (whether that living is greater than or less than that of those two tools). To state that the government should confiscate the earnings of one group over another based on the so-called right bestowed on that person to make that living by those around them is fallacious and fueled by ignorance at best, and the greenest of covetousness at worst. If Mike and Bob really believe that they system (of which they are a part) can control who "wins" the "rich lottery", then why don't they lobby for their own success?

Why not? Because they know deep down that each individually controls his destiny, and that it is not the system that discrimately determines the winners and losers, but the choices of individuals. The fallacious concept of systematic control is a malicious justification to set up a "system" that confiscates the "unjust" winnings of another in order to satisfy the envy and covetousness of the so called "have-nots", who more often than not have sufficient but will never have enough (especially if the Jones family just bought a boat).

Additionally, profit comes from providing a service to others. If Bob stopped worrying about taking from those he feels unjustly received their "allowance" and developed a service that was innovative enough to create its own niche in the market, he might end up a "richie." If he provided a service that many needed/wanted and were willing to pay him for, he just might find himself "rich." Then how would he feel? Would he still be drinking the Kool Aid, or would he have spewn it out of his mouth as he came to the realization that he developed that service, and that he earned all that he has? My guess is that the later would be true...at least I hope it would be.

I have an idea. Let's find Mike and Bob and send them out to "rich" areas of town, and have them go door to door explaining to the families living in those areas why they deserve to pay higher taxes. As they do so, M&B, lets just call them BM, can start collecting from those families. Would they do it? Would BM get out and try this little experiment? No, because they wouldn't have the guts to do something like that...I mean they wouldn't have the brains...I mean, they wouldn't dare do anything like a home invasion robbery. And why not? Because they would either get beat down or thrown in jail...preferably both, and because the IRS already does the job of invading homes and confiscating money coersively for them.

Thank you for indulging me and taking the time to read my thoughts regarding Bob and Mike, the Stalin brothers. I hope you more easily see the illogical nature of the "tax the rich" stance.

A Little Humor

There's this senator, her name is Maxine. Maxine is a liberal...and an idiot. I don't think that the two are corollary, but when you see Maxine in action, you'd think so.

I found this video tonight. It is brilliant!

Of course, this is an old clip, but it's poignant still today.

What We Can Do...

I often wonder what I can do to affect a change to the direction I feel this country is headed in. I found a petition online that is being advertized by several of the leading talk radio hosts in America. The website is called "Free Our Health Care Now"

Here's a video to introduce the petition, and to give a little background as to why it's important.

Please sign it when you have a chance - I think that this might be a step in the right direction.

$1 Trillion: An Illustration

How much is $1 Trillion? I found a video that helps to illustrate the answer in a very compelling, yet absolutely terrifying way.

Some Interesting Clips

I came across these clips tonight. They're from the Glenn Beck program on FoxNews. I don't usually watch this, because of the cable thing I've noted before, but sometimes I like to catch these.

"The One Thing" from 7/28/09

"The One Thing" from 7/29/09

It's a little scary - people like to bash Beck for being extreme. Granted, he does rattle off quite a bit, but he's got some pretty thoughtful commentary, and he's backing it all up. We should all work to know the issues so that we can speak clearly and intelligently about what we believe.

A Few Precious Gems...

I thought these two blog posts were great, I found them on www.townhall.com earlier today.

The first is a clip from Obama's Townhall, the kind where he plants people to ask softball questions about his agenda. This is a very interesting clip, watch this video:

This is what Greg Hengler, the author of the post, had to say about it.

"I've heard him state these 'facts' before. Hate to do it, but can you imagine how quick the media would have pounced on Bush if he was this much of a liar? Can you imagine how often this clip would be played next to fact after fact after fact proving how much he was lying? After this, SNL would spend a whole season mocking our liar of a president."

The next post is just a video featuring one Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). I just like how well he handles the question and introduces some great facts. Here's the video:

In both videos, we see a very important trend, which is lying, and masking what's going on by wrapping it up in pretty, and decidedly moderate rhetoric for the masses. This is getting pretty disgusting.

Socialized Health Care - Exposed!

Here's something I ran across this morning. This video is 20 minutes long, but it's very worth watching.

Health Care: Go with the Flow

Flowcharts are wonderful. They enable you to map out complex processes on paper so that you can make tweaks and present your ideas to a large variety of groups of people. The more complex the idea or process, the crazier looking the flowchart will be. Here's a really good example of an complex flowchart (click here to view):

This is insane. Seriously. Does anyone really think that this convoluted mess will be in any way good for America? Also, barring the hard-left crazies, can anyone who voted for Obama, and who is intellectually honest, truly say that they are still proud of their decision made back on election day?

I have faith in the American people. I know that, although the majority of us sometimes make uninformed decisions, by and large, Americans are good people. The best the world has to offer.

Let's all be very careful to make sure that this flowchart doesn't become the operating guide for the inevitable bureaucracy that will be "Public Health Care".

Granted, as some readers have pointed out in the past, the health care system we have now isn't perfect. I would absolutely agree with them on that. It's my personal opinion that any ills that have beset the current health care system we have are directly attributed to our Government's interference therein.

Tired of a long wait in the ER? Well, thanks to the Government, the ER has to treat everyone that comes in, regardless of their insurance, lack thereof, or even their citizenship. So what happens when someone that is either uninsured, illegally living in the US, or both, gets sick, or one of their kids gets a cold? Instead of taking them to a pediatrician, they take them to the ER. This is really happening. In fact, there is so much overcrowding that not only are some hospitals shifting toward ER Diversion, where ambulances are redirected to other hospitals mid route, but some hospitals are just plain closing their ERs.

Some will tell me "You're a heartless beast if you think ERs should turn people away!" Well...is it necessary for the ER to treat an 8 year old for the sniffles? Before the Government started mandating treatment to the uninsured, and before the nightmare of medicaid and medicare, health care costs were not only much more negotiable on a broader scale, they were much cheaper. All of the malpractice insurance and administrative costs and fees dealing with government agencies have made health care costs skyrocket. If health care was run by the free market, it wouldn't be all that expensive to just take your child into the pediatrician and have them treated for a cold, that is, if you didn't instead just let your kid sleep it off with some cold medicine.

Imagine if our health care system were treated like our car insurance system. You don't use your car insurance to go get the oil changed, do you? You have insurance so that, heaven forbid something major goes wrong, you have the insurance to kick in. Now granted, if you drop your transmission, there aren't a lot of insurance companies that will cover you, but what I'm trying to illustrate is that there are a lot of other alternatives out there like health savings plans that are a lot more attractive than a pork and Bureaucracy laden, 1,000 page, $1 trillion bill that would be thrust upon us.

Then there's this video:



Hey, the American people aren't on board! It's not time for us to "Buck up!" Forget it Obama - I want no part of this crap - I didn't vote for this, or for you.

I urge anyone that can to contact their representatives and Senators and let them know you're opposed to Health Care reform of this magnitude.

For more on this, here's some great videos on Health Care by John Stossel. Here's a small portion of it (my favorite one):



Sick in America: Part 1
Sick in America: Part 2
Sick in America: Part 3
Sick in America: Part 4
Sick in America: Part 5
Sick in America: Part 6

OBAMACare: Fact Check

The following is a list of promises made by the President concerning his Health care initiative, followed by links to articles debunking each. The list was emailed to members of the RNC, but posted for all to view on http://townhall.com by Matt Lewis, his post is linked here.

• "You can keep your plan. "You can keep your doctor." Busted by the AP.
• "Costs won't rise." But will be paid for by plenty of taxes according to the AP.
• "The plan will not add to the deficit." But CBO says plans would worsen budget outlook.
• "The 'public option' will provide competition." Even the Chicago Tribune editorial board knows better.

This information isn't surprising, given that in every sentence he utters, the President spews forth platitudes so empty and without meaning that they could be equated to a verbal twinkie - tastes good but leaves you even hungrier, and on a complete blood-sugar crash.