If you aren’t scared by the health care bill, then you should be

Please forward this everyone of your friends and relatives

My wife and I just received this from a good friend by e-mail – who happens to be a retire pediatrician from the socialist state of Austria. If this doesn’t scare the hell out of you then nothing ever will!

“Someone did read the entire House Bill 3200: The Affordable Health Care
Choices Act of 2009

From Michael Connelly – Retired attorney, Constitutional Law Instructor,
Carrollton , Texas

Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill
3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009. I studied it with
particular emphasis from my area of expertise, constitutional law. I was
frankly concerned that parts of the proposed law that were being discussed
might be unconstitutional. What I found was far worse than what I had heard
or expected.

To begin with, much of what has been said about the law and its implications
is in fact true, despite what the Democrats and the media are saying. The
law does provide for rationing of health care, particularly
where senior citizens and other classes of citizens are involved, free
health care for illegal immigrants, free abortion services, and probably
forced participation in abortions by members of the medical profession.

The Bill will also eventually force private insurance companies out of
business and put everyone into a government run system. All decisions about
personal health care will ultimately be made by federal bureaucrats and most
of them will not be health care professionals. Hospital admissions, payments
to physicians, and allocations of necessary medical devices will be strictly
controlled.

However, as scary as all of that it, it just scratches the surface. In fact,
I have concluded that this legislation really has no intention of providing
affordable health care choices. Instead it is a convenient cover for the
most massive transfer of power to the Executive Branch of government that
has ever occurred, or even been contemplated. If this law or a similar one
is adopted, major portions of the Constitution of the
United States will effectively have been destroyed.

The first thing to go will be the masterfully crafted balance of power
between the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the U.S.
Government. The Congress will be transferring to the Obama Administration
authority in a number of different areas over the lives of the American
people and the businesses they own. The irony is that the Congress doesn’t
have any authority to legislate in most of those areas to begin with. I defy
anyone to read the text of the U.S. Constitution and find any authority
granted to the members of Congress to regulate health care.

This legislation also provides for access by the appointees of the Obama
administration of all of your personal healthcare information, your personal
financial information, and the information of your employer, physician, and
hospital. All of this is a direct violation of the specific provisions of
the 4th Amendment to the Constitution protecting against
unreasonable searches and seizures. You can also forget about the right to
privacy. That will have been legislated into oblivion regardless of what the
3rd and 4th Amendments may provide.

If you decide not to have healthcare insurance or if you have private
insurance that is not deemed “acceptable” to the “Health Choices
Administrator” appointed by Obama there will be a tax imposed on you. It is
called a “tax” instead of a fine because of the intent to avoid application
of the due process clause of the 5th Amendment.
However, that doesn’t work because since there is nothing in the law that
allows you to contest or appeal the imposition of the tax, it is definitely
depriving someone of property without the “due process of law.

So, there are three of those pesky amendments that the far left hate so much
out the original ten in the Bill of Rights that are effectively nullified by
this law. It doesn’t stop there though. The 9th Amendment that
provides: “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not
be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people;” The
10th Amendment states: “The powers not delegated to the United States by
the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are preserved to the
States respectively, or to the people.” Under the provisions of this piece
of Congressional handiwork neither the people nor the states are going to
have any rights or powers at all in many areas that once were theirs to
control.

I could write many more pages about this legislation, but I think you get
the idea. This is not about health care; it is about seizing power and
limiting rights. Article 6 of the Constitution requires the members of both
houses of Congress to “be bound by oath or affirmation” to support the
Constitution. If I was a member of Congress I would not be able to vote for
this legislation or anything like it without feeling I was violating that
sacred oath or affirmation. If I voted for it anyway I would hope the
American people would hold me accountable.

For those who might doubt the nature of this threat I suggest they consult
the source. Here is a link to the Constitution:
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html

And another to the Bill of Rights:
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html

There you can see exactly what we are about to have taken from us.

Michael Connelly
Retired attorney,
Constitutional Law Instructor
Carrollton , Texas”

I had already figured out the violation of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution. If this passes and is not challenged by the Supreme Court then we are in deep trouble.

The Terrorist Trial in New York a Huge Mistake

There is a lot of controversy about holding a trial in New York City for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other self admitted criminals who masterminded the worst terror attack on the USA in her history. There are those who wrongly believe that this is the proper venue for such a trial. They are further willing to grant non-U.S. citizens, captured in a foreign country, while committing acts of war against the United States and her allies full rights of citizenship in order to have them tried in a U.S. Federal civilian court.

Every president from the past tells us that this should be held as a military tribunal with military rules of proceedings. Yet, we have people such as Linda P Campbell of the McClatchy Newspapers give credence to the opportunity to turn the trial into a political arena favoring the defendants and giving them a platform to spew their hateful rhetoric. Their attorney, Scott Fenstermaker agrees that they should have the right to have their “motivations” for the attacks be heard. Bill O’Reilly interviewed the defense attorney on the O’Reilly Factor on the Fox New Network on Monday, November 23, 2009. Just like Attorney General Holder was unable to answer a direct question from Senator Graham last week during Senate hearings, this attorney refused to give a direct answer to a specific question when asked. Why is it that the apologists for these admitted terrorists will not give a direct answer to a direct and specific question. The United States of America should not be put on trial and she should not give voice to a group of fanatical radicals who want to subjugate the rest of the world to their very narrow and perverted views. Click on the link below to listen to the interview of Scott Fenstermaker by Bill O’Reilly.

Bill O’Reilly gills 9/11 attorney Scott Fenstermaker

The real agenda behind the Copenhagen Global Warming Summit

The Global Warming Summit being held in Copenhagen has very little to do about the NON-existent global warming problem. According to the new EU president Herman Van Rompuy of Belgium, this summit is about Global Political Management. What does that mean, you may ask?

That means the European Union is jealous of the affluence of the American Economy and the freedoms her citizens enjoy. What makes this even a scarier proposition is that our current U.S. President is in agreement with them and is currently doing everything in his power to make it come to pass. The EU wants to run our markets. The EU wants to dictate case law to our courts. The EU wants rule over the USA.

Everything about the Copenhagen Treaty (thankfully has been tabled for the time being) in direct conflict with the Constitution of the United States of America. I encourage everyone who loves the United States to view the terrible content of this video: http://video.aol.co.uk/video-detail/new-eu-president-confirms-new-world-order-desire-19nov09/17989978

The phony science of global warming is just a front for a back door assault on the freedoms and sovereignty of the United States. Do not get sucked in by the lies. You ask “What is real”. What is real is that 100 years ago we didn’t have the sophisticated measuring instruments that we have today and what instruments they did have were few and far between each other. Make sure you let your elected representatives know the real agenda behind any treaty generated from the Copenhagen Global Warming Summit – It has NOTHING to do with the phony global warming science being used as a smoke screen.

An Open Letter Regarding Obama/Reid/Pelosi Care

I sent the following in an email to my Senators, Johnson & Thune and to my Representative, Herseth-Sandlin. I am sure that my Senator John Thune will be using this argument on the Senate Floor. I suggest everyone send it to their Senators and Representatives:

The two proposals, both behemoth plans Senate and House versions, should have one test regardless of cost to the American Taxpayer. The question you need to ask yourself, since they are being sold as panacea’s to healthcare reform, is — “Am I willing to give up my healthcare (the one that covers you and your family, Senate and Congressional) plan and replace it with the one that is proposed and for which I am being asked to vote?” If the answer is NO, then you need to vote in opposition to the measure. If you do not then you need to ask yourself the question why do I want to shove it down the throats of my friends and neighbors, the vast majority who already have excellent healthcare programs – albeit far inferior to the one you enjoy?

Pres. Obama needs to stay within our borders

Why is it that every time President Obama leaves the country he either gives away our sovereignty, control of our own markets, embarrasses the U.S., or loses face on the world stage?

If you think I am blowing smoke, look at his record. On the very anniversary of the German Blitzkrieg of Poland, he tells the Poles that he is going to yank the missile defense system that we promised them, with absolutely no concessions from the Russians. What does that tell Russia; Poland is in your sphere of influence and not ours – Go ahead and do what you want. In Copenhagen during the Climate Warming Summit, the President allowed the dissolution of our sovereignty by allowing the world courts to dictate case law to be used in adjudicating our trials. At the same conference, he allowed the same World Administration to have complete control over our market system (we all know how well the Europeans direct their own markets —– not). Just this last weekend, the President showed how little he knows about the world stage and how to comport himself. The only thing he didn’t do in greeting the Japanese Prime Minister was to prostrate himself on the ground. He bowed way below what was diplomatically correct. And then, And then, he lost eye contact with his counterpart, thus saying “I am your servant, please direct my actions and the direction I am going to take in this meeting.”

Wait a minute, if he stays home he proposes disastrous domestic policies. The bail-out of the GM (the initials are the same but the name has changed to Government Motors) is an utter failure. The sham bankruptcy did nothing to benefit the company. The most telling result was the closing of the most profitable dealers leaving them in debt and then having to turn over their inventory to others. Now they are going to borrow more money from the Stimulus to pay back the previous stimulus. Why is it that Ford (who took no moneys from the government) earned a profit in the third quarter (granted the crash for clunkers program did help a bit), while Government Motor posted a loss in the billions of dollars — yet they can say they are being successful? Hmmm, that doesn’t seem to add up? Hey the US Postal Service just raised the prices of mailing letters, yet again they are showing a fiscal loss. What’s with that, while their competitors are earning a profit? ———- The almost 2000 page Health Care Proposal would destroy the best health care system in the world. They are not addressing the real issues at hand such as; portability, selling health insurance across state lines (competition), and tort reform. The latter is probably the most expensive part of our health insurance is to cover the cost of a doctor to be in business is the cost of malpractice insurance premiums caused by the kook lawsuits, the ravenous punitive damages, the legal costs — I’m not saying those injured don’t deserve reimbursement of ACTUAL damages but do they deserve 50,000% of those damages in punitive awards? That’s right the average in punitive awards is in the range of 10,000% and 90,000% of the actual damages. That’s right we are talking the tens of thousands percent – that is obscene! Now we need to look at the decision to try WAR CRIMINALS in our domestic judicial system and affording them the same rights as U.S. citizens. These detainees have absolutely NO respect of our laws or way of life. Why then do we treat them as we would each other? They need to be tried in the Military courts not the civilian courts.

The Obama Administration Employs Voodoo Economics

I remember back to when Ronald Reagan, when running for President was accused of using voodoo economics. His plan was simple and the math worked; cut taxes for everyone and the economy will grow on its own with no other help from the U.S. government. More income in the employee’s pockets more spending at the store. The increase in income at the store equaled the need for additional employees to help out with the extra sales. The extra sales equaled more orders from the manufacturers. The more orders required more employees needed to produce the goods. The more employees equaled more money to spend thus an exponential growth of the economy.

That is simple mathematics at work. Compare that to the economics being used by the Obama Administration since the beginning of the year of 2009. The first program initiated was the Economic Stimulus that was supposed to stimulate 1,000,000 new jobs by the U.S. Government paying out $160,000,000,000.00 (yes that is billions). That equals $160,000.00 per job. The administration statistics tell us that there were 640,000 jobs created or saved. Here’s the problem; every economist has no idea where the administration came up with the phantom figure of jobs saved. Every one of them say that is an impossible figure to calculate. The actual number of jobs created was closer to 60,000 (on the high side). Let’s use the figure conjured by using voodoo 640,000 that equals the TAXAYER spent $250,000.00 per job saved or created. If we use the original premise of the Stimulus of creating jobs that equals $2,600,00.00 per job created; but we’re not going to use this figure because the number is too low, thus proving the program was a failure.

Next in line came the New Stimulus package, $8,000.00 tax credit for first time home buyers. The IRS says that 1.9 million taxpayers will receive that credit the tax year 2009. The National Realtors Association reported that 350,000 of those buyers could not have bought a home without this stimulus. The cost to the TAXPAYER is $15,200,000,000.00. Let’s break that down to the number of house purchased by people who otherwise would not have been able to purchase a home without the stimulus, $15,200,000.00 divided by 350,000 equals $43,400.00 per home purchased that would not have been otherwise. The National Association of Realtors also noted that approximately 80% of those homes were not new construction, thus relating to virtually no increase in jobs in the housing construction industry.

Next comes the Cash For Clunkers Program. This program sucked $3,000,000,000.00 (yes, again we are talking billions of TAXPAYER money). Let’s take a look at the automotive consumer researcher Edmounds.com, an well established and revered forecaster of automotive sales trends and results. Their published results state that the cost to the TAXPAYER was $24,000.00 per vehicle sold (The Obama Administration accused them of covering cars sales on Mars). I have yet to figure out where that voodoo connection came from? The Edmunds study compared historic sales figures during the recession to conclude that the Cash For Clunkers program only generated 125,000 sales that would not have occurred anyway. The study did not differentiate between sales of domestic to foreign car purchases, so there is no way to calculate the number of jobs created or saved.

Now the triumvirate Obama, Reid & Pelosi wants us to believe that the $1.3 Trillion government take-over of our health care system is going to be tax neutral. The most current information from the IRS there were 138,372,000 tax returns filed in 2008 for the tax year 2007. Let’s be generous and say there will be an increase of 10% in the number of filling for tax year 2008; that equals 152,000,000 tax filers. Now we must remember that only about 40% of those actually pay any taxes, so that leaves about 61,000,000 TAXPAYERS. Let’s do the math; 1,300,000,000,000.00 divided by 61,000,000 TAXPAYERS equals $21,.300.00 per TAXPAYER in cost.

Here is where the voodoo kicks in; there are approximately 308,000 in population in the U.S. That means only about 20% of the entire population actually pays any income taxes (that is the revenue needed to pay for the above programs). Let’s see how TAXPAYER NEUTRAL these programs are (We were sold on the idea that these programs would pay for themselves – just like Medicare, Social Security, Medicare, et al:

$ 160,000,000,000.00
$ 15,200,000,000.00
$ 3,000,000,000.00
$1,300,000,000,000.00
TOTAL $1,478,200,000,000.00

This is the additional tax burden added to the 61,000,000 TAXPAYERS in the United States. Simple math tells us that is an additional tax burden on the U.S. TAXPAYER of $24,233.00 individually (that is making a simple assumption that this amount is evenly distributed). What we haven’t taken into consideration is how much it is going to raise the cost of our goods and services. We all know that this cost is going to be passed on to the consumer. The consumer is having problems now paying for the necessities of life let alone any extras. When the costs increase then they will be looking to pare down the amount they spend and will not buy that extra piece of fruit at the grocer, will cut down their driving causing less in the amount of gasoline purchases. This will trickle down into the retailers laying off employees, the manufacturers laying off employees and the increase in the oppression exerted by the Federal Government.

I am not by any means a math genius. I am a writer and photographer; so I am using the facts and figures of those who crunch numbers for a living. I have no idea how these additional costs to the TAXPAYER is going to create anything more than a bushel full of new regulations and a handful of new Federal government employees to add more regulation on an already over-burdened TAXPAYER. From a TAXPAYER stand point, this sure does look like voodoo magic to me.

The Most Important 2 Paragraphs Written in the Past 30 Years

In 1995 Newt Gingrich wrote the book “To Renew America”. The first two paragraphs of the book state the most important political philosophy of the last 40 years. I recommend every voting American get a copy and read it at least twice until they understand how completely out of touch the Liberal Left is with who we are as Americans. These ideas, in my opinion, are more important now than they were in 1995.

FROM “TO RENEW AMERICA”

“These are the best of times and the worst of times, as Charles Dickens wrote. On the one hand, America is the leading country on the planet, with the largest economy and providing the opportunity to pursue happiness to more different kinds of people from more backgrounds than any society in history. On the other hand, our civilization is decaying, with an underclass of poverty and violence growing in our midst and an economy hard pressed to compete with those of Germany, Japan, and China.

We can look around us with both great satisfaction and great concern. We are the people who led the coalition that defeated Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and fascist Italy and then led a worldwide coalition that contained the Soviet Empire for half century before its collapse. While we as a people were winning our battles around the world, here at home our elites were deserting us. For the past thirty years, we have been influenced to abandon our culture and seem to have lost faith in the core values, traditions, and institutions our civilization. The intellectual nonsense propagated since 1965 – in the media, on university campuses, even among our religious and political leaders – now threatens to cripple our ability to teach the next generation to be Americans. We have placed men on the moon, led the world in molecular medicine, and entered the age of computers and telecommunications. Yet we have simultaneously allowed our schools to decay to the point that our children regularly score below all others of the industrialized world in math and science. We risk not being able to understand the very world we have invented…”

Michael Jackson died at age 50; What else happened in the world today?

If I hear one more piece of news coverage about Michael Jackson dying, I am going to get sick to my stomach. I think it was more newsworthy when George Carlin died than this recluse. At least George poked fun at the English language and how we use it and then would poke fun at us his fans in such a way we laughed at our own foibles. Yes it is worth reporting on the news that Michael died; but he is not worth us all fawning over his passing.

Here has been my experience since I got home from work: I came home from working a 12 hour day and sat down with my supper to listen to the news with Shepard Smith. The news article came on that Michael Jackson died at age 50. I agree that is a newsworthy story to tell. I got done eating and that news story is still going on, and on, and on, and on, and on. I have now finished supper and have washed my dishes and it is still going on and on… I watch Fox News because I am interested in National and International affairs. There are other stories that make the news of Michael Jackson dying worthy of an also ran story. I am to the point where I want to vomit. What is with our fawning over a music Pop Star as if he/she has some major influence of the important affairs of our nation or of the world?

I still don’t know what happened in Iran since I left home this morning. I hear that our President-In-Training had ZERO people who either opposed or were still trying to make up their minds on the infomercial fawning over Obama-Care (the scourge on life in America). I want to hear what others have to say about it. The passing of Michael Jackson doesn’t pass this standard of importance in the lives of the ordinary citizen of the United States of America. I want to hear more about the train wreck in Washington, DC. I want to hear more about Barney Frank trying get Freddie Mac to make questionable loans, again. I want to hear more about South Dakota Senator John Thune’s exit plan from government ownership of our businesses and applying the sales proceeds to the National Debt. I want to hear more about South Dakota Governor, Mike Round’s meeting with our President-In-Training that was suppose to occur today, June 25, 2009. These are all more important topics than spending all night watching people fawning over the memory of Michael Jackson.

Don’t get me wrong, I feel sorry for his family and his close friends (of which, I am neither). I am sorry he had such a tragic life; and I am sorry for his passing. But there are other stories that are far more news worthy.

Barney’s at it again

One bullet Barney Frank is at it again. I haven’t figured out what is with him and Freddie Mac. Are they attached at the hip and share a few arteries? At the behest of Barney Frank and his compatriot in the Senate Chris Dodd required Freddie Mac to approve loans to people whose income was insufficient to cover the payments – not to mention the regular up-keep and the required to the banks to buy these loans and service them. This is what created our financial mess in the first place.

Well, Barney Frank is acting more like Barney Fife or Barney the purple dinosaur. He wants Freddie Mac to lower their lending standards so people whose income is not sufficient to make the monthly payments – not to mention the regular up-keep – can purchase a home. Didn’t we just bail out Freddie Mac and require they raise their standards? Barney, you created one crisis with your inventive underwriting standards already – please do not start another! Congressman Frank, it is high time you retire from public service; because we cannot afford to pay your bill anymore.

On the Job Training for U.S. President – Bad Idea – Bad Choice

We are well into month number six in the On-The-Job-Training as President of the United States of America. President-in-Training Obama is a very smart and a well educated man. Even with that background he is ill equipped to run the Executive Branch of the government without a lot of help. The problem is that the help he is seeking and following is leading him down the path to become the weakest and most miss-guided President in the history of the United States. Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reed are the worst examples to follow because they are Hell-Bent on a path that is destroying the Democrat Party for a long, long, long time. My great-grandfather’s first-cousin was a Democrat and a U.S. Vice President, Pelosi and Reed are driving his and his family’s descendants from that party in droves.

For all of his education, the President in Training has learned very little from history. The first history lesson anyone who lives in the United States has learned is that our economy is SOLIDLY based on the Free Marketplace. The second lesson learned is that is the very reason we had the Revolutionary War and declared our independence from any monarchy and repressive governments. The U.S. Revolutionary War was not a proletarian revolt. The third history lesson that was taught is that the Civil War was a war about economics. Yes, slavery in the U.S. was abolished, rightfully so; but that was not the main reason for the division of the country. It has been proven that slavery would have died a natural death within ten years of the Civil War anyway and that was part of the economic situation of the South that caused the division. This was really a war on the Industrial Revolution versus an agrarian society (doomed by progress). The fourth major lesson learned was after World War II; isolationism is not a good political model to follow.

The President in Training displayed this lack of knowledge when he addressed the celebration at Normandy for D-Day. Previously, Ronald Reagan made the very point crystal clear: “We in America have learned bitter lessons from two world wars: It is better to be here ready to protect the peace than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. We have learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response…” That statement is unequivocal and gives a solid moral stance on the world stage.

On the same stage many years later our President in training gives a speech that leaves more questions than it answered: “We live in a world of competing beliefs and claims about what is true. It is a world of varied religions and cultures and forms of government. In such a world , it is rare for a struggle to emerge that speaks to something universal…” Excuse me, chasing Osama Bin Laden is something universal. Supporting the protesters in Tehran IS universal. What our President in training is saying and doing is forgettable.

Our President in training was chosen because of his words about CHANGE. History has taught us that liberal partisan politics of the Democrat Party says “do not cross any picket lines formed by trade unions.” He also was chosen to perform economic reform. Failing to cross the highest paid fire-fighters union picket line in Rhode Island and failing to address the mayors of our cities who are hurting economically shows categorically that our President in training has learned nothing from history. If he had he would have addressed our mayors and listened to their concerns. He would have recognized those fire-fighters are a part of the problem and not a part of the solution. Trade Unions are selfish at best. They are concerned about guaranteeing their piece of the pie even after they have eaten the entire pie and all the ingredients to make pies in the future. Where’s the change, it appears to be Democrat politics as usual in Washington, DC.