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We are at one of those rare moments when we have to stand up and declare what we stand for as individuals, political parties, and as a nation. Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck has a list of 5 simple pledges that I for one want to know if my elected officials are on board with or not. Sen. Brown I can pretty much count out but I will be inquiring with his office non-the-less as to whether he is for America or not.

Becks 5 pledges are (and I’m including a screen shot of them at the bottom of this post)…

1. I believe in a balanced budget and therefore will vote for a freeze in government spending until that goal is realized.
2. I believe that government should not increase the financial burden on its citizenry during difficult economic times therefore I will oppose all tax increases until our economy has rebounded.
3. I believe that more than four decades of U.S. dependence on foreign oil is a travesty therefore I will support a plan that calls for immediately increasing usage of all domestic resources including nuclear energy, natural gas, and coal as necessary.
4. I believe in the sovereignty and security of our country and therefore will support measures to close our borders except for designated immigration points so we will know who is entering and why and I will vehemently oppose giving another country, the United Nations, or any other entity, power over U.S. citizens.
5. I believe the United States of America is the greatest country on earth and therefore will not apologize for policies or actions which have served to free more and feed more people around the world than any other nation on the planet.

I suspect that my Congressman, Jim Jordan, will agree with all 5 pledges. Sherrod Brown or Jorge Voinovich, I’m pretty sure they will avoid the topic. Where do your Congresscritters fall on the subject? Isn’t it YOUR duty to find out?

As promised…

Image captured from FoxNews.com

Gribbit Reporting for YGC Radio – Ohio

Just ask Howard “Yeehawww” Dean…

Knowing meaningful Tort Reform would save the health care industry an estimated $200 Billion a year in un-needed expenses, not to mention all the CYOA (cover your own ass) testing, wouldn’t you think that it would be a “no brainer” to include it in anything you are going to title “health care reform”? Then again, no one would accuse anyone who claims to be Democrat of being logical.

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I will take any opportunity to start off things with a delicious pun, so lets get started!

President Obama and the democrats health care reform seems to be in, ‘critical condition.’ 

Ba dum bum.

Now I know that no one really objected to H.R. 3200 of course until they read it.  I have been working through it, and I must say I am terrified.  After only 50 pages into the 1000 plus page bill I found myself breaking out in a cold sweat and wishing I still consumed alcohol.  It’s all in there.  This will be part of a three part blog series where I will go over parts of the bill, using direct quotes and translation to the best of my ability.  I have two dictionaries and a thesaurus to understand the bill, but I’m working on it!

I wanted today to start off with a simple comparison.  It starts off with the now famous ‘death panels’ remark by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin made on her Facebook page.  She spoke that there would be bureaucratic panels and advisory boards that might eventually come to decide which people could live and which could die.  Of course, she was not saying that someone with a Donkey pin on his shoulder and a set of horns could sneak in during the dark of night and literally pull the plug on grandma. 

What she was saying was that eventually it could come to the point where a panel would have to choose weather to save one life or another.  What is worrisome to her and many other people across the country is how we would gauge which life to save.  Would it be over whom was a more productive member of society, the younger and stronger being saved so that they might contribute more?  Could it be simply a matter of money?  Your surgery might cost less than mine, so you get to live, and I get the pain pills.  It doesn’t matter how it is decided.  It simply should not be allowed to ever happen.

There are many people who work in the Obama administration who are well known.  Rahm Emanuel is the president’s chief of staff, but someone who may not be so well know would be his brother, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel.  Dr. Emanuel is a top advisor to the president for medical policy.  The quote that is coming up again and again from Dr. Emanuel is from his advocating medical decisions being made on a system, which “produces a priority curve on which individuals aged roughly between fifteen and forty years get the most chance, whereas the youngest and older people get chances that are attenuated.” 

‘Angels and ministers of grace, defend us.’

Of course, Dr. Emanuel has said that his method of thinking has evolved.  It’s amazing this happened so quickly, since many of his views were written in January of this year!  It must also be a huge coincidence that he did not retract his views until he was called out on it. 

This kind of plan would of course favor the strong and leave behind the weak.  It comes eerily close to falling in line with the earlier ideals of perfecting society, perfecting people.  The early twentieth-century progressives believed in saving the ‘really fittest’ so that society could move forward without those who were considered undesirable by society polluting the gene pool.  They also believe that those who soak up the most health care, the elderly and the chronically ill, would be free up much needed money if they were allowed to die at a younger age. 

Lets go back to the progressive movement of the early twentieth century.  This is not just a progressive ideology but a mindset as well.  It is a bridge between socialism and secularism.  Authoritarians and statists, joining hands with a common view. It is a viewpoint often seen in stark opposition from most conservative viewpoints.  We’ll go to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary for a definition on the Progressives:

Progressive: one believing in moderate political change and especially social improvement by governmental action

Progressive leaning ideologues come loaded with hubris.  They have a belief that people can be helped, or rather ‘helped along.’  Some other well-known progressives in history were Adolf Hitler, and Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger.  At the time it was called The American Birth Control League.  Sanger had written books pamphlets and papers about how the lesser fortunate denominations of humans, such as the Aboriginal population of Australia (which she believed to be the lowest species of human, just above the ape) should not be allowed to reproduce or contribute further to the human race.  She was also opposed to American blacks, and the waves of Asian and catholic immigrants.

There were many other undesirable people that were brushed aside during this time period.  People with physical handicaps were ignored or institutionalized.  Those with forms of mental retardation were forcibly sterilized and hoped to no longer have an impact on society.  Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were two very well known progressives, despite being on opposite political parties!  Wilson, a democrat, held the belief that the human race was something that could be improved upon.

I do not believe that there is a large shadowy conspiracy and there is no looming new world order.  There are however, people who hold common ideals. People have held these kinds of ideals before, and others that were equally harmful.  When people who hold them come into power they can do a variety of damage.  There are still many people in office who consider themselves to be progressives.  Democratic house speaker Nancy Pelosi comes to mind first and foremost.     

Ironically, and I do say this not to try to stab anyone’s scientific beliefs, those who seem to believe in dwarinism and evolution the most seem to be rather selective on where it applies.  If it is with animals on the Galapagos Islands it’s fine, but if it’s in your own backyard, then that’s something else.   It had better make sure it stays with the animals it seems!

Again I must stress once more that I do not believe in a huge conspiracy, no fifth column that needs to be toppled.  But, just like a group of fundamentalist Muslims might wish to impose Sharia law on those who do not share their beliefs, people who have money, power and influence might wish to organize things the way they see fit.

They will always believe they know what is good and what is right.  They believe they have the appropriate view for all.  Detractors try to say that the conservatives and religious among us will try to force our beliefs on others.  In reality, most conservative Christians and Jews want to be left to their own devices, and would respectfully do the same.  If they truly believe the books they have read, they would lead by example and hope that others follow.  They would not want anyone to come along whose arm they had to twist.  I wish I could say the same for the secularists and progressives…

They use money and power to influence the politicians and people.  When that fails, they will use the law.  They will truck in busloads of people in SEIU and Acorn shirts to intimidate the opposition.  They will camp out on your front lawn or spam you with e-mails. 

They have the hubris to believe that people need to be tended over like sheep.  People like President Obamas science czar John Holdren, who wrote in his textbook “Ecoscience” in the 1970s, about forced abortions, sterilants in drinking water and reducing the overall population of the planet for it’s own good.  The have the Gaul to know not only what is best for themselves, but for everyone else too.  The little people simply do not have the status or brains to choose for themselves they will say…

When questions come up about individual liberty and freedom, or a persons right to choose for themselves, they will stare blankly at you.  How could you possibly not see it from their point of view?  They will see humans not as their fellow beings but as Lego’s and tinker toys from which they can create a new image.  If they are defeated, there will come a time for them to try again.  They will constantly hold up to the ideal that they can make people, ‘better.’

In the next two blogs that come, I will show how some of these ideas are not entirely gone…

In the wake of the announcement that Senator Edward Kennedy lost his battle with brain cancer last night, YGC Radio would like at this time to pay tribute to the man by listing all of his efforts which have had a positive impact on this nation.

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I said YGC Radio would LIKE to list all of his efforts which have had a POSITIVE impact on the nation. However, we couldn’t find any.

Gribbit Reporting for YGC Radio – Ohio

“Choice” is a word that is familiar to the political left, but they seem to not know what the word means. When it comes to murdering unborn human beings, leftists hide behind the word “choice” as if it is the end of all ends to justify their actions and/or support. They seem to forget that the woman desiring an abortion actually already made a “choice”; a “choice” that she seeks escape from. She chose to have sex and a consequence of her having sex is pregnancy. She further wants to compound her problems by making another “choice” – a “choice” that ends in death.

Barack Obama is attempting to sell his health care plan as if “choice” exists within it. The problem for Barry is there is no “choice” in H.R. 3200. Section 102 eliminates “choice”. According to the legislation, if you are uninsured you MUST be enrolled in the public “option” (another name for “choice”). There is no “choice” there. You MUST enroll in the government plan because it will be unlawful according to H.R. 3200 to enroll in a private plan if you are not enrolled prior to the 1st day the legislation takes affect.

This same section also removes your ability to modify your current health coverage. Should you change jobs you must be enrolled in a health care plan that is equal to your old plan or it will be unlawful to be on private coverage. You MUST then enroll in the government plan. Again, no “choice” there.

Obama further attempts to influence you, the non-involved peasant, into thinking that his plan allows you to choose your own doctor. I doubt that. Currently, the federal government reimburses doctors and hospitals less for a Medicare/Medicaid patient than it costs to treat them. Should these plans be expanded or the government enrolls millions of people in a new government plan, doctors will elect to not treat these government option patients in favor of privately insured patients. Your doctor, who the President promises that you can keep, may be one of these smart doctors who elected to forgo treating government patients.

The truth is “choice” is a lure. They lure women into thinking their “choice” is being protected in an effort to empower them. They are attempting to lure you into thinking that the government health care plan is a “choice” when it isn’t. And they further want to lure you into supporting their expansion of government by making you believe that you have a “choice” in who your doctor is.

Government health care is not a “choice”. H.R. 3200 and its companion bills in the Senate seek to eliminate “choice”. The goal of universal health care is control, not “choice”. Eventually abortion won’t be a “choice”. Just ask the Chinese. Soon, the government “option” won’t be a “choice” either when it becomes the only “option”. And with current doctors abandoning patients covered under the government “option” and fewer people entering the practice of medicine, just how much “choice” will the government be leaving you?

“Choice”? What “Choice”?

Ask yourself, what would be a better scenerio, finishing 2009 without “reforming” health care OR H.R. 3200? If you said finish the year without doing anything to health care you agree with a solid majority of the nation.

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone poll asked this question and 54% of respondents believe that doing nothing this year is better than passing any of the reform packages currently being discussed in Congress.

Thirty-five percent (35%) of American voters say passage of the bill currently working its way through Congress would be better than not passing any health care reform legislation this year. However, a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that most voters (54%) say no health care reform passed by Congress this year would be the better option. ¹

The first rule of medicine is “do no harm” which is an appropriate topic of discussion as the very liberal United States Congress attempts to decide what is best for you. Doing nothing is “doing no harm” but acting on the Obama/Pelosi/Waxman/Reid Death Care proposals would mean a total government take over of health care. Aspects of the portion of health care they already control seem to indicate the government’s incompetence when it comes to health care (and other areas of the economy). Medicare and Medicaid are so well run in the opinion of Obama and crew that they want everyone to be on it. But tell that to the current Medicare or Medicaid recipients who see first hand the shortcomings of both systems. Medicare is bankrupt and Medicaid is a joke. But if left to Barry, Nancy, Henry, and Harry, you will be forced onto a system exactly like Medicare or Medicaid and you won’t have any choice in the matter. Neither run any more efficiently than the US Post Office and losing money at a faster pace.

Doing nothing is preferable to the something that Democrats suggest. No one is currently turned away or given instructions by some health care bureaucrat to walk to a hospital while in labor as happens in the UK. Ours is an expensive system but far more superior than the “free” systems of the world.

Gribbit Reporting for YGC Radio – Ohio

1. Source – Rasmussen Reports ‘54% Say Passing No Healthcare Reform Better Than Passing Congressional Plan‘ [↩]