Record numbers of American citizens are now legally carrying firearms for personal protection. Evidence shows that homicide rates have declined dramatically during a period when gun sales have skyrocketed. Everything the gun prohibitionists have been claiming and predicting over the past two decades has been fundamentally wrong. They have repeatedly argued that more guns will equate to more crime and more firearms deaths. Washington, DC with its extreme gun control has the highest murder rate in the nation, while Utah, with very liberal gun laws, has the lowest rate. The obvious truth is that firearms in the hands of law-abiding citizens are not a threat to anyone except the criminal that may harm them, their loved ones, or property.
With all the evidence showing that Americans are safer with guns why would the government continue to place bans and/or restrictions on them. That too is obvious. Fear of the people.
I invite you to watch the video below on the Second Amendment. It will enlighten you.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Washington Betrayal
As the American people stare down the barrel of so-called "healthcare reform," it is tremendously important that we take heed of how Progressive Democrats are going about achieving their long sought-after goal. It has been an ugly and often times unconstitutional process consisting of the bribing of Senators with taxpayer monies (the same taxpayers that overwelmingly oppose the bill), the bartering of favors by the White House, and the threats of withheld support for Democrat candidates by Pelosi, Reed, and even Obama hiself.
Congressional leadership has not only violated their Oaths of Office to uphold the rules set down in the US Constitution, but they have demonstrated, in no uncertain terms, that they hold it (the covenant between the governed and their government) in contempt. By blatantly employing tactics that literally ignore specific mandates set forth in the Constitution, they are proving beyond all doubt that an ideologically-driven coup is taking place in the United States of America.
We are at a very important moment in time; a crossroads for our nation. We must decide if we are a Constitutional Republic or whether we are an oligarchy. We must decide if we are governed by the rule of law – constitutional law – or by the ideological whims of an elitist class.
I, like most of you believe in the rule of law, the rules set down in the US Constitution. There is no doubt in my mind that it's Founders and Framers had it right and that James Madison was more intelligent than Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barack Obama.
Unfortunatly, I think the bill will pass today. The US Constitution will be stepped on and then tossed aside. I hear over and over that the American people will forget about this betrayal in a few months and go back to business as usual.
WRONG!
In the words of Isoroku Yamamoto after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Washington should be saying: "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve."
Congressional leadership has not only violated their Oaths of Office to uphold the rules set down in the US Constitution, but they have demonstrated, in no uncertain terms, that they hold it (the covenant between the governed and their government) in contempt. By blatantly employing tactics that literally ignore specific mandates set forth in the Constitution, they are proving beyond all doubt that an ideologically-driven coup is taking place in the United States of America.
We are at a very important moment in time; a crossroads for our nation. We must decide if we are a Constitutional Republic or whether we are an oligarchy. We must decide if we are governed by the rule of law – constitutional law – or by the ideological whims of an elitist class.
I, like most of you believe in the rule of law, the rules set down in the US Constitution. There is no doubt in my mind that it's Founders and Framers had it right and that James Madison was more intelligent than Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barack Obama.
Unfortunatly, I think the bill will pass today. The US Constitution will be stepped on and then tossed aside. I hear over and over that the American people will forget about this betrayal in a few months and go back to business as usual.
WRONG!
In the words of Isoroku Yamamoto after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Washington should be saying: "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve."
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Government Pay Off to Medical Insurance..My God...How far Does This Go?
This week the President started out on yet another cross-country campaign tour promoting his Washington takeover of health care. President Obama's main theme so far has been the outrageous profits of the insurance companies and how his plan is going to keep them under control and protect patients against their abusive practices. Like much of the health care debate, though, President Obama seems to be speaking out of both sides of his mouth.
President Obama's health care plan would actually provide a massive bailout to the insurance industry, a total of $336 billion in government subsidies for private health insurance, while requiring every American to buy their product. This is a backdoor way of paying off the big insurance companies.
And there's more. In addition to the subsidies, the government would use its powerful collection agency, the Internal Revenue Service, to make sure that every individual complies with the mandate to buy expensive private insurance. Yet President Obama insists on promoting himself as America's protector against the insurance industry.
How gullible does he think we are? No wonder President Obama has a major credibility problem.
ABC’s Z. Byron Wolf reports:
President Obama and Democrats launched a campaign to vilify insurance companies in the final stretch of their health reform effort.
Republicans, meanwhile, pointed out that those very same insurance companies would get huge checks from the government if health reform is enacted.
“(Health Insurers) will keep on doing this for as long as they can get away with it. This is no secret,” the president said. “They're telling their investors this – ‘We are in the money. We are going to keep on making big profits even though a lot of folks are going to be put under hardship,’” the President told supporters at a stop in Pennsylvania today.
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, meanwhile, wrote to insurance company executives demanding that they justify premium hikes.
Neither mentioned that the Senate health reform bill, which is the basis for Democrats' last best chance at comprehensive reform, would give the insurance companies millions of new customers required by law to buy health insurance. It would also require insurers to cover everyone, regardless of age, gender or pre-existing condition.
To help pay for the new insurance requirements the government would give to people money to buy insurance - $336 billion over the next ten years. That money, ultimately, would have to go to... drum roll... insurance companies.
People without employer-sponsored insurance who make too much money to qualify for Medicaid and less than about $88,000 for a family of four, would get tax credits to help them buy insurance on the open market. But the payment of the tax credits would be made, point out Republican researchers, directly to insurance companies. See page 37 here of the Senate Finance Committee's exhaustive explanation of the plan:
During the 2008 Presidential campaign, then-Senator Obama criticized a proposal by Sen. John McCain because it would send government help for people to buy insurance directly to insurance companies.
“But The New Tax Credit [For Health Insurance] He’s Proposing? That Wouldn’t Go To You. It Would Go Directly To Your Insurance Company – Not Your Bank Account," said Obama in October on the Campaign trail.
And yet that’s exactly what Democrats' proposal would do and why so many would prefer public insurance option to compete with the private market. Supporting the Senate bill will be tough for many liberal Democrats in the House.
To the Republicans’ (and Obama’s on the campaign trail) point about the payments going directly to insurance companies, remember that people with employer-sponsored insurance or current federal medical benefits do not usually get a separate check to buy insurance either. They pay premiums directly to the insurance company and so does their employer. The Senate proposal would create a similar relationship between people who don't have employer-based insurance and the government.
So why do Insurance companies, if they're set to receive more than $330 billion in government subsidies to insure people without insurance now oppose the Senate bill?
"Health plans proposed more than a year ago robust insurance market reforms and new consumer protections to guarantee coverage for pre-existing conditions. Much more needs to be done in the current legislation to address the skyrocketing cost of medical care, which is making health care coverage unaffordable for working families and small businesses," said Robert Zirkelbach, a spokesman from America's Health Insurance Plans, in a statement today.
He argued that health insurers should not be targeted by the President and their profits are lower by margin than other sectors in the health industry.
"For every dollar spent on health care in America, less than one penny goes towards health plan profits. The focus needs to be on the other 99 cents," he said.
President Obama's health care plan would actually provide a massive bailout to the insurance industry, a total of $336 billion in government subsidies for private health insurance, while requiring every American to buy their product. This is a backdoor way of paying off the big insurance companies.
And there's more. In addition to the subsidies, the government would use its powerful collection agency, the Internal Revenue Service, to make sure that every individual complies with the mandate to buy expensive private insurance. Yet President Obama insists on promoting himself as America's protector against the insurance industry.
How gullible does he think we are? No wonder President Obama has a major credibility problem.
ABC’s Z. Byron Wolf reports:
President Obama and Democrats launched a campaign to vilify insurance companies in the final stretch of their health reform effort.
Republicans, meanwhile, pointed out that those very same insurance companies would get huge checks from the government if health reform is enacted.
“(Health Insurers) will keep on doing this for as long as they can get away with it. This is no secret,” the president said. “They're telling their investors this – ‘We are in the money. We are going to keep on making big profits even though a lot of folks are going to be put under hardship,’” the President told supporters at a stop in Pennsylvania today.
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, meanwhile, wrote to insurance company executives demanding that they justify premium hikes.
Neither mentioned that the Senate health reform bill, which is the basis for Democrats' last best chance at comprehensive reform, would give the insurance companies millions of new customers required by law to buy health insurance. It would also require insurers to cover everyone, regardless of age, gender or pre-existing condition.
To help pay for the new insurance requirements the government would give to people money to buy insurance - $336 billion over the next ten years. That money, ultimately, would have to go to... drum roll... insurance companies.
People without employer-sponsored insurance who make too much money to qualify for Medicaid and less than about $88,000 for a family of four, would get tax credits to help them buy insurance on the open market. But the payment of the tax credits would be made, point out Republican researchers, directly to insurance companies. See page 37 here of the Senate Finance Committee's exhaustive explanation of the plan:
During the 2008 Presidential campaign, then-Senator Obama criticized a proposal by Sen. John McCain because it would send government help for people to buy insurance directly to insurance companies.
“But The New Tax Credit [For Health Insurance] He’s Proposing? That Wouldn’t Go To You. It Would Go Directly To Your Insurance Company – Not Your Bank Account," said Obama in October on the Campaign trail.
And yet that’s exactly what Democrats' proposal would do and why so many would prefer public insurance option to compete with the private market. Supporting the Senate bill will be tough for many liberal Democrats in the House.
To the Republicans’ (and Obama’s on the campaign trail) point about the payments going directly to insurance companies, remember that people with employer-sponsored insurance or current federal medical benefits do not usually get a separate check to buy insurance either. They pay premiums directly to the insurance company and so does their employer. The Senate proposal would create a similar relationship between people who don't have employer-based insurance and the government.
So why do Insurance companies, if they're set to receive more than $330 billion in government subsidies to insure people without insurance now oppose the Senate bill?
"Health plans proposed more than a year ago robust insurance market reforms and new consumer protections to guarantee coverage for pre-existing conditions. Much more needs to be done in the current legislation to address the skyrocketing cost of medical care, which is making health care coverage unaffordable for working families and small businesses," said Robert Zirkelbach, a spokesman from America's Health Insurance Plans, in a statement today.
He argued that health insurers should not be targeted by the President and their profits are lower by margin than other sectors in the health industry.
"For every dollar spent on health care in America, less than one penny goes towards health plan profits. The focus needs to be on the other 99 cents," he said.
Rome's National Guard Troop, Company A Comes Home Today
Rome's National Guard Troop, Company A, is expected home today between 1-1:30. A procession that will take the soldiers from the East Rome Wal-mart to Dean Street, Turner McCall Boulevard, down Broad Street to Second Avenue to Redmond Circle, then out to the Rome bypass to the back entrance of the armory on Wilshire Road. A small ceremony will be planned at the armory for the estimated 45 to 50 soldiers with the unit. Most of them are not from the Rome area, she said.
If you can make it out on to the route somewhere or for the ceremony at the armory today please do. Show our soldiers how much you appreciate them and welcome them home.
If you can't make it, please take a moment for prayer thanking god for their safe return and to remember those who did not make it.
Don't forget a special little prayer for Jeffery Jordan from Rome killed less than a year ago. While not in Company A, he was part of the 108th.
If you can make it out on to the route somewhere or for the ceremony at the armory today please do. Show our soldiers how much you appreciate them and welcome them home.
If you can't make it, please take a moment for prayer thanking god for their safe return and to remember those who did not make it.
Don't forget a special little prayer for Jeffery Jordan from Rome killed less than a year ago. While not in Company A, he was part of the 108th.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
The Democratcs Seem to Have Forgotten Their Own Words About Reconciliation
"The president was at it again today, ignoring the will of the people and insisting on shoving his health care plan down the throats of the American public. In his latest plea, President Obama called for an "up or down" vote on his plan, claiming all the best ideas from both sides of the aisle have been incorporated and that the debate is now over.
In reality, the president's plan is essentially the Senate-passed bill with a few minor tweaks to appease House Democrats. Right now the only bipartisan agreement that exists on health care is opposition to the current plan. Someone should tell the president you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.
As for an "up or down vote" -- well, that's just a cynical euphemism that the president is using to describe a parliamentary trick known as reconciliation that numerous Democratic senators (including then-Senator Obama) denounced only a few years ago as an "arrogant power grab against the Founders' intent."
(Copied with permission from "Patients First" Click title above for web site.)
The video below will show how congress thinks. Some things are bad, until they work in your favor. Then they are okay.
In reality, the president's plan is essentially the Senate-passed bill with a few minor tweaks to appease House Democrats. Right now the only bipartisan agreement that exists on health care is opposition to the current plan. Someone should tell the president you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.
As for an "up or down vote" -- well, that's just a cynical euphemism that the president is using to describe a parliamentary trick known as reconciliation that numerous Democratic senators (including then-Senator Obama) denounced only a few years ago as an "arrogant power grab against the Founders' intent."
(Copied with permission from "Patients First" Click title above for web site.)
The video below will show how congress thinks. Some things are bad, until they work in your favor. Then they are okay.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
The Proper Way to Address A Letter to a Congress (Not the way you would like to)
Below is the proper way to address both Senators and Members of the House when writing and emailing. I know most of you, like myself, have thought of many less respectful ways you would like to address them but we must use restraint if we are to be heard. I urge you to please write, not only your Congress-person, but all of them and express your views and remind them that they work for us and must abide by the Constitution. I am sitting here right this minute listening to the Senate on C-span 2 . I am amazed how many times I hear a Democratic talk about how they are doing what the people want when the polls clearly show this is not want the people want. I am not sure what "people" they are listening to but apparently they have limited hearing because the people, Americans, have made it clear what they want, and these Democrats aren't expressing those views. We need to make it clear what we want. We need to write over and over. We need to tell them to listen, get out, or we will get them out.
You can click the title above to go to About.com's Government Info page. There is a lot of very good information
Addressing Members of Congress
To Your Senator:
The Honorable (full name)
(Room #) (Name) Senate Office Building
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senator:
To Your Representative:
The Honorable (full name)
(Room #) (Name) House Office Building
United States House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Representative:
The above addresses should be used in email messages, as well as those sent through the Postal Service.
You can click the title above to go to About.com's Government Info page. There is a lot of very good information
Addressing Members of Congress
To Your Senator:
The Honorable (full name)
(Room #) (Name) Senate Office Building
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senator:
To Your Representative:
The Honorable (full name)
(Room #) (Name) House Office Building
United States House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Representative:
The above addresses should be used in email messages, as well as those sent through the Postal Service.
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