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Just Another Day in the Life of the american politician

The people in this country don’t like the “can-and-trade” bill, as it will probably add about $1300 -$1700 a year to people’s taxes.  Not directly, but to pay for the increases in their electric bill and for the increase in the cost the products of affected industries (all of them).  So the people won’t know, let’s just

RENAME it and introduce it again.  Then we’ll even tell the stupid Americans about it and they won’t know the difference!!!

 

How arrogant are these politicians?

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Sep 28, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

Its Been Happening For Years – It’s Nothing New

Ronal Reagan knew what’s been happening.

 

 

Nothing has changed!  Call, write or fax your Congress people. Stop this new attempt at Socialism now!

 

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Aug 29, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

Hurry Up And Die

The Death Book for Veterans

Ex-soldiers don’t need to be told they’re a burden to society.

By JIM TOWEY

If President Obama wants to better understand why America’s discomfort with end-of-life discussions threatens to derail his health-care reform, he might begin with his own Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). He will quickly discover how government bureaucrats are greasing the slippery slope that can start with cost containment but quickly become a systematic denial of care.

Last year, bureaucrats at the VA’s National Center for Ethics in Health Care advocated a 52-page end-of-life planning document, “Your Life, Your Choices.” It was first published in 1997 and later promoted as the VA’s preferred living will throughout its vast network of hospitals and nursing homes. After the Bush White House took a look at how this document was treating complex health and moral issues, the VA suspended its use. Unfortunately, under President Obama, the VA has now resuscitated “Your Life, Your Choices.”

Who is the primary author of this workbook? Dr. Robert Pearlman, chief of ethics evaluation for the center, a man who in 1996 advocated for physician-assisted suicide in Vacco v. Quill before the U.S. Supreme Court and is known for his support of health-care rationing.

“Your Life, Your Choices” presents end-of-life choices in a way aimed at steering users toward predetermined conclusions, much like a political “push poll.” For example, a worksheet on page 21 lists various scenarios and asks users to then decide whether their own life would be “not worth living.”

The circumstances listed include ones common among the elderly and disabled: living in a nursing home, being in a wheelchair and not being able to “shake the blues.” There is a section which provocatively asks, “Have you ever heard anyone say, ‘If I’m a vegetable, pull the plug’?” There also are guilt-inducing scenarios such as “I can no longer contribute to my family’s well being,” “I am a severe financial burden on my family” and that the vet’s situation “causes severe emotional burden for my family.”

When the government can steer vulnerable individuals to conclude for themselves that life is not worth living, who needs a death panel?

One can only imagine a soldier surviving the war in Iraq and returning without all of his limbs only to encounter a veteran’s health-care system that seems intent on his surrender.

I was not surprised to learn that the VA panel of experts that sought to update “Your Life, Your Choices” between 2007-2008 did not include any representatives of faith groups or disability rights advocates. And as you might guess, only one organization was listed in the new version as a resource on advance directives: the Hemlock Society (now euphemistically known as “Compassion and Choices”).

This hurry-up-and-die message is clear and unconscionable. Worse, a July 2009 VA directive instructs its primary care physicians to raise advance care planning with all VA patients and to refer them to “Your Life, Your Choices.” Not just those of advanced age and debilitated condition—all patients. America’s 24 million veterans deserve better.

Many years ago I created an advance care planning document called “Five Wishes” that is today the most widely used living will in America, with 13 million copies in national circulation. Unlike the VA’s document, this one does not contain the standard bias to withdraw or withhold medical care. It meets the legal requirements of at least 43 states, and it runs exactly 12 pages.

After a decade of observing end-of-life discussions, I can attest to the great fear that many patients have, particularly those with few family members and financial resources. I lived and worked in an AIDS home in the mid-1980s and saw first-hand how the dying wanted more than health care—they wanted someone to care.

If President Obama is sincere in stating that he is not trying to cut costs by pressuring the disabled to forgo critical care, one good way to show that commitment is to walk two blocks from the Oval Office and pull the plug on “Your Life, Your Choices.” He should make sure in the future that VA decisions are guided by values that treat the lives of our veterans as gifts, not burdens.

Nice way to treat our Vets Mr. President!!

Aug 20, 2009 | 1 comment | View Post

End-of Life Decisions

Keeping End-of-Life Decisions, Our Decision

by Newt Gingrich

Emotions are high in the debate over the future of our health care, and for good reason. What we are discussing are deeply personal, often deeply emotional issues.

I think every American should have the opportunity my father-in-law had to have a conversation with their doctor about end of life care that is totally private, in which there are no standards set by the government and no fear of the bureaucracy.
We had that kind of an experience at Gunderson Lutheran Hospital in Lacrosse, Wisconsin, where my father-in-law died.
At Gunderson – without any mandates from government – 92 percent of patients have advanced directives setting out what kind of care they want at the end of life.
Patients are treated with compassion, dignity and humanity. Families are engaged. Doctors are allowed to do what they think is best for patients, without fearing that the federal government is looking over their shoulders.

 

Health Care Isn’t Politics.
It’s Personal.

End-of-life care is becoming a political football – and that’s precisely why so many Americans are fearful for the future of their health care.
Because it’s not politics. It’s personal.
And the test of any health care reform proposal is whether it gives us more power to control deeply personal decisions, or whether it takes that power away.
What follows is an article I wrote for the Los Angeles Times this weekend that explains how health care reform in Washington threatens to take us down the road to government control, and what we can do to stop it.

  Your friend,
Newt Gingrich
   Newt Gingrich

Aug 19, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

Is This What You Want?

Excerpts from the “Life Insurance selling Magazine” article, “To your good health: Of TV shows and children’s games”, by

Published 7/1/2009

Included in the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009” (aka “The Stimulus Bill”) was $1.1 billion to fund The Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research. When he was at The Brookings Institute, Obama budget director Peter Orszag became interested in a Dartmouth study indicating that despite wide regional disparities in payments for similar conditions, there was no corresponding improvement in outcomes. Additional fuel for the Council came from Senator Tom Daschle’s book, Critical: What We Can Do About The Health-Care Crisis, where he argues for a council similar to the British National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, which goes by the acronym “NICE.”

If the Federal Council in the stimulus bill is the beginning of this idea, NICE is the realization of what it could — and most likely will — become. A group of presidential appointees will begin reviewing treatments to decide which are more — or less — effective. This sounds innocuous and like the biggest no-brainer in the history of the universe, doesn’t it? A frequently-cited example of the type of review that the Council might undertake would be to determine whether drugs and “watchful waiting” are a better treatment than surgery for back-related issues. Who could argue that expensive and risk-laden surgeries should only be done if they can be proven to be more effective than non-invasive treatments?

A discussion of how the Council’s work might be brought into practice quickly leads to concern. For the moment, ignore those who, rightly in my view, believe that giving government access to our electronic personal health records in tandem with this Council’s guidelines will ultimately create the medical equivalent of Big Brother. We need only look at NICE to see the likely outcome.

NICE guidelines center on cost effectiveness, not around quality of care. How long will it take for Americans to realize that our version of NICE will likely mirror our cousins across the pond? To help everyone along, I suggest that you invest eight minutes of your time to watch a video clip about my friend Beth Ashmore. Some of you know Beth as a former president of the National Association of Health Underwriters, though you may not know her mother’s story. It is a shocking, firsthand account of what could be in store for us if we project the path of our current initiatives.   Watch the video here:

Critics in the medical community are becoming concerned about the Council’s effect on their ability to practice medicine and the potential effect on their physician-patient relationships. Their concern centers on the research from the Council leading to a “one-treatment-fits-all” set of rules and that the government would become the third party in the exam room, so to speak.

Many of us recall the admonitions made nearly two decades ago about “accountants at HMOs making medical decisions.” Absent a discussion of “medical necessity,” the HMOs were excoriated for enforcing the terms of a voluntary contract between employers and the HMO — terms which were known in advance. We’ve all heard the arguments about employees being the ones in that particular crossfire, and to a great extent that is true.

This is not the whole article. You can read the entire article here, at the Life Insurance Selling magazine.

Jul 19, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

Any More Questions as to Where “global warming” is headed?

 

An excerpt from a TIMESONLINE article of July 8, 2998:

Gore: U.S. Climate Bill Will Help Bring About ‘Global Governance’

 

Climate Depot Exclusive

Friday, July 10, 2009By Marc Morano  –  Climate Depot

Former Vice President Al Gore declared that the Congressional climate bill will help bring about “global governance.”

“I bring you good news from the U.S., “Gore said on July 7, 2009 in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sponsored by UK Times.

“Just two weeks ago, the House of Representatives passed the Waxman-Markey climate bill,” Gore said, noting it was “very much a step in the right direction.” President Obama has pushed for the passage of the bill in the Senate and attended a G8 summit this week where he agreed to attempt to keep the Earth’s temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees C.

Gore touted the Congressional climate bill, claiming it “will dramatically increase the prospects for success” in combating what he sees as the “crisis” of man-made global warming.

“But it is the awareness itself that will drive the change and one of the ways it will drive the change is through global governance and global agreements.” (Editor’s Note: Gore makes the “global governance” comment at the 1min. 10 sec. mark in this UK Times video.)

Gore’s call for “global governance” echoes former French President Jacques Chirac’s call in 2000.

The above is an excerpt from the full article. I added the bolding.

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Jul 12, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post

We the People Stimulus Package

This video is one of many you’ll see here. What you see and hear are what we all need to be telling everyone about.

 

We the People Stimulus Package:

  1. Repeal Congress’ right to vote themselves a raise
  2. Balance the Federal Budget
  3. Make Congress Pay into Social Security
  4. Term Limits – no more that two terms
  5. Get their own 401(k)
  6. Pay their own Insurance Premium
  7. Throw all out who didn’t bother to read the biggest spending bill in history before voting for it!!
    1. Take it away from the corrupt and give it to the men and women of the Armed Forces
  8. Start no war unless we intend to win it
  9. Make English the official language of America
  10. Stop rewarding lawbreakers with our money
  11. Let the People elect the President
  12. Bring back Universal Service

Stop being a Spectator!!

Be proud to fly our Flag ALWAYS!!

Jun 13, 2009 | 1 comment | View Post

Where are we headed?

Washington Times
Jeffrey Kuhner , Washington Times. 2/21/09
The disastrous path on which America is currently embarked was tried in another country. A fact not well known is that Argentina , prior to World War II, was an economic powerhouse. Beginning in the 1880s and continuing through the 1920s and 1930s, it was regarded as one of the most prosperous and advanced nations in the world. Then Juan Peron and his wife Eva took control in the 1940s until a coup in 1955 ousted them from power.
Argentina had a strong industrial base, thriving agricultural exports, huge cattle ranches, and a broad and expanding middle class. Like America , it served as a magnet for immigrants from all over the world, especially Italians. Within 15 years under the Perons, Argentina , however, went from being one of the richest to one of thepoorest countries. To date it has never fully recovered.
Upon coming to office, Peron, along with his popular beautiful wife, Eva, created a state characterized by lavish social spending, elaborate welfare programs, protectionism, confiscatory taxation, and runaway deficits. Juan Peron used class warfare rhetoric. He attacked big business, the banks, the private corporations, and the propertied class. He gave the labor unions power and made them pivotal allies of his regime. Then Peron expanded the bloated government bureaucracy to intervene in every aspect of business and life, which led to internal corruption.
Peron’s central socialist economic planning destroyed industrial productivity and growth. The world’s investment capital fled. Taxes, inflation, unemployment, and interest rates soared and the middle class was wiped out. Finally, an independent judiciary and media ceased to exist. Eva’s cult of supporters fostered a climate of violence and political enemies of the regime were exterminated. Argentina degenerated into the typical debt-ridden Latin American country that it still is today.
The failure of Argentina under Peron should serve as a warning to us.. Socialism and a sky-rocketing debt can permanently impoverish even the wealthiest of nations and America is not immune from the laws of economics.
Obama is taking the first dangerous steps toward an American version of Peronism. His followers see him as a political messiah and a revolutionary change agent. He and the Democrats are plundering the country, using it as a vehicle to reward supporters and punish foes. They plan to confiscate wealth by taxing the rich and successful business class. Obama’s plan to do away with secret ballets will strengthen the labor unions. His wife, Michelle, is the Eva Peron of our time, a glamorous, chic, socialist fashion trend-setter who is beloved by the media.
Just remember, “Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it”.
May 30, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
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