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The United States government, the same government that has ostentatiously funneled billions of American tax dollars into scientific projects of questionable value historically exemplified by such projects as:

Tax payer’s money spent on the study of eugenics as well as enormous sums used to implement various government policies, including immigration policies and the compulsory surgical sterilization of patients of state mental institutions based the eugenics proponent’s promise of producing better humans by weeding out individuals with adverse genetic indicators;

Vast sums of tax payer’s money spent on grants to study the search for extraterrestrial life that has gone on for many years with no discernable results;

Huge sums of tax payer’s money spent on the debate, design and construction of the world’s largest and most powerful superconducting super collider in the state of Texas that quietly fizzled out despite the expenditure;

More than $20 million in tax dollars spent to study and employ numerous “psychics” enlisted to help track down terrorists, discover the whereabouts of hostages and provide assistance to the government’s anti-drug activities;

Unimaginable billions of American tax dollars spent to subsidize research, debate legislative regulations and implement policies with respect to the entirely hypothetical and, as yet unproven hysterical belief that human activity is affecting the global environment and setting off an irreversible trend towards disastrous global warming that will inevitably result in the extinction of our species;

Enormous sums of tax payer money funneled into projects promoting “Green Energy” projects such as the proliferation of the highly inefficient wind power generators sprouting up all over the nation, experimental solar electric generating plants that require huge plots of land and return only minimal amounts of useable energy, the construction of geo-thermal plants requiring extremely high maintenance while annually producing more toxic waste per plant than all of the nations nuclear plants combined, and less than reliable solar cell arrays that are highly expensive to produce and have an average effective operating lifespan of less than ten years.

These six areas of government subsidized scientific research represent merely the smallest tip of the enormous iceberg reflecting the United States governments incredible amount of spending on the research and development of harebrained scientific theories of dubious merit, both past and present. These six items represent but a small part of a greater list of similar government expenditures on additional wholly unsubstantiated scientific theories, a list that would take years to compile and describe, and a list that would seemingly go on endlessly.

Admittedly some government subsidized scientific research has yielded beneficial results, but the estimated ratio of beneficial result to total failure is something like 1:700 and for every billion dollars of tax payer money being funneled into these questionable projects, the American people might gain a beneficial return valued at around 37 cents.

While the primary focus of this posting is not related to government spending for questionable scientific research, I feel compelled, after writing the statements above, to clarify that I am not opposed to scientific advancements. I have nothing but admiration for the wonders of modern technology which would not exist were it not for the dedication and hard work of astounding scientists all over the planet. In the sixty years of my existence on this planet the world has changed in many phenomenal ways as a result of scientific achievements and much of what we take for granted today would have seemed like magic when I was a young child growing up in the suburbs of Los Angeles in a home that boasted a two hundred pound television with an eight inch viewing screen. However, despite the my amazement at the scientific advances of the last half century, as an American citizen and registered voter who unwaveringly fulfills his civic obligation to participate in government elections, I support political representatives on the basis of their demonstrated integrity, honesty and truthfulness as well as their conviction to uphold the traditions that have made this the greatest nation on Earth. The United States Congress is filled with politicians not scientists. Politicians who were elected to represent the will of the people, not to mandate funding for the research of scientific theories of dubious merit. The greatest scientific achievements of the last century have been the result of private enterprise, not government funding. Private enterprise has electrified our homes, given us the ability to communicate across great distances, and made flying through the air possible, put microwave ovens in our kitchens and computers in our offices. The government did not achieve these things for us; they are all the result of private enterprise. The job of government is to protect our rights as citizens, make it possible for us to prosper according to our own means and prevent invasion by foreigners, and lately it has demonstrated a complete lack of competence at doing any of those things. The government of the United States has turned itself into a self-replicating monster demanding more from its citizens than it returns and considering the current rate of its growth compared to the dwindling income of its citizens, it has become economically unsustainable.

I have been labeled a strong conservative by some, but that does little to accurately describe my foremost desire to see this nation return to it’s original founding principles as they were intended by the authors and brave souls who signed the Declaration of Independence and went on to formulate the framework for a very limited government that gave the American people, not the government officials, the true ruling authority. I consider the current government’s use of illegitimate coercive power to dip their greedy hands into my wallet and remove my hard earned money for the benefit of others as morally reprehensible. The legislative manipulations of the United States Congress to legitimize the theft of a private citizen’s personal property is an abrogation of our inalienable rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, and the coercive threat of imprisonment or violence for those unwilling to comply with government sanctioned thievery is a level of government abuse that would not have been tolerated by our government’s founding fathers. The transformation of our formerly legitimate government into it’s present form as a tyrannical, far reaching, over-controlling monster representing only those who have the wealth to pay for the representation they buy while the common man has little or no say in the activities and decisions of our elected representatives is, in every respect, as sufficiently compelling a justification for revolution as were the British government’s abuses of colonists that inevitably resulted in this nation’s severance of British rule.

The powers of the United States Congress, carefully delineated in Article 1 section 8 of the United States Constitution do not include the coercive theft of the private property of American citizens, nor does it allow the redistribution of the product of such theft for the purpose of funding scientific projects. The use of private funds absconded through the use of government coercion to fund a national healthcare program that ensures medical care for individuals that have entered this sovereign nation illegally and in full violation of our federal immigration laws is an unmitigated travesty. It is bad enough that our government would consider the use of tax payer’s money to provide medical care for American citizens who are unwilling or unable to pay for such care themselves, but to force the American people to pay for the medical care of individuals who have no legal right to be in this country in the first place is nothing short of outrageous.

The cost of medical care and healthcare insurance in this country has significantly risen over the last twenty or thirty years primarily as a result of our government’s failure to enforce our nation’s immigration laws. That failure has allowed an estimated 20 to 40 million illegal aliens from every nation to take up residence within our borders. Many of these foreign invaders are illiterate, semi-skilled and essentially unemployable, and the vast majority of them are dependent on government entitlement programs and social welfare programs funded by the American tax payers. They have inundated our public school systems and degraded the formerly high quality education once available to American children. They have packed into our large metropolitan cities resulting in overcrowding, higher crime rates and increases in local taxes. Our state and federal prisons are packed to the bursting point with illegal alien criminals convicted of violent felonies against American citizens. Hospital emergency rooms have become over run with illegal aliens demanding expensive medical care that they have no intention of ever paying for even if they had the money to do so. Thousands if not millions of these parasitic invaders have taken to the streets of America in protest to demand further government entitlements subsidized by the American tax payers and our once noble government has become riddled with corruption as a result of our elected representatives willingness to accept campaign contributions that are actually nothing more than blatant bribes to influence further changes inevitably leading our nation farther and farther away from a government by the people and for the people to a form of government that is a convoluted concoction of institutionalized graft and greed intentionally sapping the prosperity and motivation of our hard working citizenry to supply an ever increasing array of subsidized benefits to the undeserving. The threat of legislative action related to healthcare reform, immigration reform and amnesty for the unknown millions of illegal aliens now residing in this country are counterproductive to the concepts of freedom, liberty and prosperity for the American people who will be adversely affected by these proposals if they are made law. Every one of these proposals will significantly increase the already oppressive tax burden we now shoulder and the benefit will not be to the American people but to the large corporations and special interest groups that consistently strive to undermine our democratic system by using the well established system of bribery legitimized and redefined by this nations corrupt politicians under the term “lobbying.”

The United States of America, the birthplace of freedom, liberty and the inalienable rights of all men and women, has become morally and financially bankrupt as a result of government greed and corrupt politicians representing their own self interests. The restoration of the original principles upon which our government was founded; principles that made this nation the hope and dream of the entire world, is impossible to achieve from within the present system where redundant, overlapping layers of unconstitutional provisions legitimize the corruption and graft that now exists at every level. The current path does not lead to greater freedom, liberty and prosperity but away from those things we value above all else. The current path of our government leads to tyranny, previously unseen levels of government control over the day to day activities of our average citizens and the eventual establishment of a government class of elitists ruling everything they see with a power that would be envied by the ancient monarchs of Europe and Asia.

The founding fathers of our once glorious nation expressed their dissatisfaction for the British government in the Declaration of Independence and established that free and equal men are blessed by their creator with the inalienable right to alter or abolish any form of government that uses its authority to adversely and destructively impact the citizen’s struggle to pursue life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Two hundred thirty three years after those stalwart, brave souls adopted that declaration the citizens of the United States of America once again stand on the brink of tyranny facing certain enslavement and great hardship if courage fails and apathy eventually leads to acquiescence.

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The Democratic representative from the 16th district of New York State, José E. Serrano has introduced H. J. Res.5 before the United States House of Representatives. Serrano’s bill would repeal the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which currently prohibits a president from being elected to serve more than two terms of office. The end result of repealing the 22nd Amendment would be that an individual could serve an unlimited number of terms in office. Considering the track record of past presidents over the last twenty-five years as well as the highly questionable character now sitting in the oval office, I can’t imagine why anyone would want to see something like this pass.

You can find the text of this proposal at any of the following web sites:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=hj111-5

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-hj5/show

http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_H

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The Phoenix Business Journal has finally published what I have been saying here all along about the estimated 46 million people in the U.S. without medical insurance. On Wednesday, July 22nd the Phoenix Business Journal cited the statistic that the U.S. Census Bureau estimate repeatedly appearing on Barack Obama’s teleprompter and running off his lips like drool from a drunken wastrel includes as many as 15 million illegal aliens and their children. Furthermore, the article points out that the Census Bureau data also indicates that as many as 7 million of this nation’s uninsured have an annual income of more than $75,000.

What the Phoenix Business Journal article doesn’t say is that the estimated 15 million illegal aliens is the same outdated estimate that the U.S. Senate and the illegal alien advocacy groups have been feeding us for the last five or six years. In 2004, Senator John McCain admitted that the Border Patrol statistics for apprehensions in 2002 were correct and that the Border Patrol actually did apprehend nearly 4 million illegal aliens in that year alone. That works out to nearly 11,000 new illegal aliens a day entering the United States, and since the U.S. Congress has done absolutely nothing to curtail the invasion except backtrack on their promises to increase border enforcement, it can safely be assumed that 15 million doesn’t even begin to come close to being an accurate estimate, and the number of illegal aliens in the U.S. today is probably twice what the federal government is willing to admit to.

Be that as it may, Barack Obama, the U.S. Senate, the pharmaceutical industry, the health insurance companies and the accumulated representatives of the entire health care industry in this country are conspiring to screw the hell out of the American taxpayers and destroy our access to quality health care for the sake of millions of uneducated, semi-skilled parasitic illegal aliens and peck of irresponsible characters who can afford health insurance but don’t bother buying it like everyone else.

The cost of medical care in the United States is significantly influenced by the large number of illegal aliens using hospital emergency rooms as their personal free clinic. The federal government requires the hospitals to treat everyone who needs care regardless of whether or not they have insurance but the government does not subsidize the hospitals for the unpaid medical bills of illegal aliens. That cost is passed along to the consumer through higher hospital costs and higher medical insurance rates. The federal government could do a lot to solve the rising cost of medical care and medical insurance in this country by simply enforcing the immigration laws and fulfilling the constitutional obligation to protect the American people against foreign invaders. Without 20, 30 or even 40 million illegal aliens tapping into our health care system for free medical care every time one of them gets stabbed for selling bad drugs, the cost of health care to the American people would rapidly begin to decline and the cost of medical insurance would follow. At this point in time the United States still has a market driven economy. The more demand there is for a product the higher the cost, and it doesn’t matter if people actually buy the product or they steal it; if the demand is high the cost of the product will increase. When people steal the product, the cost of their theft is passed along to the consumer as an increase in price. It doesn’t matter if you are talking about the latest new gadget or medical care. In a market driven economy a product is simply a product, it sells or it doesn’t, people either want it or they don’t. Reducing the demand for health care in the United States by eliminating the millions of people who have no legal right to be in this country, violated our immigration laws to come here, and steal health care from hospitals they never intend to pay in the first place would substantially reduce the demand for health care and that reduction in demand would force a reduction in the cost. Its a matter of basic economics. With somewhere between fifteen and forty million freeloaders tapping into American healthcare on a regular basis the cost had to go up or the health care providers would be out of business. The solution is not to burden the taxpayers with the cost of the freeloaders but enforce the immigration laws and deport them. Deporting the illegal aliens may cost us a bundle but it’s certainly less in the long run than what a government run healthcare system will cost us in taxes that, once implemented, will never go away. Besides that, a government that can’t be trusted to enforce its own immigration laws certainly shouldn’t be trusted with running a health care program.

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Contrary to his own published administrative policies, campaign promises and expressed opinions on maintaining the transparency and openness of all government dealings, Barack Obama is now hiding behind the same Bush Administration exemption that outraged the Democrats and the news media and resulting in widespread public criticism of the previous presidential administration.

Requests for information related to Barack Obama’s meetings with 18 executives representing health insurers, drug makers, doctors and special interest groups playing a major role in the debate over nationalized healthcare and the massive healthcare reform that the Obama administration is currently planning to unleash, ran up against a stone wall as, at the direction of Barack Obama, the U.S. Secret Service, the agency responsible for replying to requests for executive disclosure responded by invoking the argument used by President George W. Bush that such information are considered “presidential records” and are therefore, exempt from public disclosure laws. Obama’s use of the controversial “presidential communications privilege” shields him from disclosing the frequency and nature of discussions held with lobbyists.

Barack Obama’s reliance on the same anti-transparency, pro-secrecy presidential privilege that the Bush administration so often favored is a clear indication that Obama’s primary campaign promise of “Change” in the way the American government operates, was completely hollow and without substance. Furthermore, this is not the first time that Barack Obama has relied on the disclosure exemption provided by “presidential communications privilege.” The government watchdog group, “Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics” has already sued the Obama administration for its failure to release similar information regarding the frequency and content of Obama’s secret meetings with executives and lobbyists representing the American coal industry and they are now preparing to file a similar lawsuit against the Obama administration to force the administration’s disclosure of details related to this latest round of secret meetings Barack Obama has held with health care lobbyists.

Throughout his campaign, Barack Obama repeatedly stated that the discussions formulating his healthcare reform plan would be televised so that all American citizens would be able to view the negotiations as they progressed. Obama’s refusal to disclose the frequency and content of his secret meetings with health care lobbyists is clear and irrefutable evidence that Barack Obama had no intention of fulfilling his campaign promise and that his promised transparency was a blatant and bald-faced lie.

To date, Barack Obama’s administration has met in secret with Billy Tauzin, president of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), Karen Ignagni, president of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), William Weldon, chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson and J. James Rohack, president of the American Medical Association. These individuals are the Chief Executive Officers of the primary lobbying groups involved in the healthcare reform debate.

The Pharmaceutical industry lobbyists, PAC funds and individual representatives have funneled more than $16,034,688.00 in the last two years directly into the coffers of the Democratic Party for the sole purpose of influencing the outcome of the healthcare reform debate. The Democratic Party has also received more than $27,684,414.00 from insurance company lobbyists and $54,012,294 from the lobbyists representing health care professionals all with the intention of influencing the healthcare reform debate.

During the 2008 campaign cycle, Barack Obama received thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from high placed executives and attorneys directly representing PhRMA, Johnson and Johnson put the squeeze on their employees for individual contributions amounting to more than $200 thousand dollars to Obama’s campaign fund, and there are far too many health insurance companies to sift through in the effort to discover, with any accuracy the amount of contributions their individual employees contributed to Obama’s campaign. Normally these contributions would be bundled together under one or more “Political Action Committees” or PACs but when Obama declared that he would not accept money from PACs, what he was really saying was that the bundled contributions of individuals contributing through political action committees would have to be sent to him as individual contributions so it didn’t appear that he was allowing political action committees to influence his future decisions. The Democratic Party didn’t express any concern about the appearance of being bought off and gladly accepted more than $97,731,396 in contributions from the Pharmaceutical industry, insurance companies, and health care professionals, much of which was used to further Obama’s campaign efforts but because of their presidential candidate’s weasely approach to accepting contributions from groups involved in lobbying efforts, it is nearly impossible to accurately estimate how many millions of dollars went into his campaign fund directly as the result of healthcare reform lobbyists. Obviously the amount was substantial enough to justify Barack Obama’s back flip over the campaign promise of government transparency, but as long as that information remains the guarded secret of a presidential administration willing to hide behind “presidential privilege” the American people will never know the truth and they will never know the extent of these lobbyists influence on how Obama’s healthcare reform effort finally shakes out. The most obvious question is why wouldn’t Barack Obama come clean about these secret discussions if there was nothing to hide, and the equally obvious answer to that question is that he won’t come clean because he is a corrupt political hack with no sense of honesty, integrity or decency and he never intended to do anything beneficial for the American people.

Barack Obama condemned his predecessor for being dishonest and in some respects George W. Bush could have been more honest about what he was doing and why, but he was the personification of truth when compared to Obama. Everything that Barack Obama has done since he first entered office in January has been aimed at paying back his major contributors, special interest groups and the labor unions that paid his way into office. The American people have gotten sky-high unemployment rates, bankruptcy, home foreclosures and more debt than they could ever hope to pay off in ten lifetimes, and now in the name of healthcare reform we will be restricted to lower quality health care with limited access, and we will be required to pay more than ever for less than what we already have. The pharmaceutical industry, insurance companies, the health care professionals and the federal government will reap the financial benefits resulting from Obama’s healthcare reform and the American people will be left holding the stinky end of the stick. All things considered, this is going to be another classic example of what Obama meant when he promised “Change” and the American voters were too apathetic and ignorant to ask what change he was talking about.

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A few months back, the Los Angeles Times ran an investigative piece about the large number of California teachers that were being paid their full wages for not entering a classroom or doing any sort of teaching because they couldn’t be trusted to do the job they were hired to do, but couldn’t be fired because of the extremely convoluted disciplinary procedure negotiated by the labor union representing them. Some of these teachers had repeatedly made inappropriate advances towards students and other staff members and the evidence of their guilt was substantial, and yet the school administrators could do little in light of a negotiated labor agreement demanding full pay for the obviously guilty party while the malefactor proceeded through a seemingly unending system of appeals, procedural hearings and intentional delays. In one case, a high school teacher that had repeatedly made sexually inappropriate remarks to female students and staff members had pulled in seven years worth of full pay and benefits as he manipulated the union negotiated system intentionally designed to frustrate the administrative disciplinary actions required to protect students from the inappropriate actions of sexual predators. After the tax payers of the state of California had paid this creepy character full pay for seven years of doing nothing, the frustrated school administrators finally took the case to court and managed to convince a judge to override the negotiated labor agreement and allow the termination of his non-productive employment.

According to the investigative article and a few follow-up pieces published, the example described above is not a rare or isolated case. There are nearly two hundred union represented teachers in the state of California who cannot be trusted with students because they have made inappropriate sexual advances towards students, have demonstrated a total lack of professional competence, or they have repeatedly refused to comply with well established guidelines intentionally designed to ensure that California’s students are given the equal opportunity to receive a decent education without being subjected to the inappropriate behavior of classroom tyrants, sexual predators, incompetent fools and the immature outbursts of emotionally unstable adults hired by the state to provide children with basic educational skills. In every case, the union negotiated agreement provides these individuals with an inexhaustible system of lengthy appeals along with full pay and benefits for doing no productive work for the duration of a process that can go on for many years.

More recently, the Los Angeles Times ran yet another investigative article regarding the failure of the California’s Board of Registered Nursing (CBRN) to effectively manage California’s 350,000 registered nurses, especially in individual cases where complaints of egregious misconduct have been filed. The paper’s investigation covered more than 2000 cases filed between 2002 and 2008, in which complaints against registered nurses, resulting from drug abuse, callous negligence, total incompetence, and in some cases violence against patients, were slowly processed by the CBRN while the nurse remained free to practice without restrictions and could even change jobs without their prospective new employer being notified of the disciplinary investigation because the individuals record remained clean until the CBRN reached their final decision on the matter.

According to the statistics maintained by the California Board of Registered Nursing, regardless of the egregious nature of the complaint or the overwhelming amount of documented and substantiated evidence against the nurse in question, the CBRN took an average of three years to complete their investigation and take disciplinary action, and in many cases, that disciplinary action was extremely weak and did not restrict the nurse from practicing in the state. In some cases, nurses that had been disciplined and restricted from practicing by similar licensing boards in other states, were allowed to practice in California where their prior record of abuse was entirely ignored even when it was pointed out to them in subsequent disciplinary investigations. In hundreds of cases the decision of the CBRN resulted in little more than unsupervised probation and in one example, an alcoholic nurse missed 38 scheduled drug screens, tested positive for alcohol five times and was actually fired from one nursing position before the CBRN finally revoked his probation three years later.

The nine-member Board is composed of four members of the public and five registered nurses. The five registered nurses include two direct-patient care nurses, an advanced practice nurse, a nurse administrator, and a nurse educator. Seven of the members are appointed by the Governor and two of the public members are appointed by the Legislature. Each member serves a four-year term and can be re-appointed, although the member cannot serve more than two consecutive terms. The nine appointees making up the California Board of Registered Nursing are political appointees including the five registered nurses. The appointments made are the result of political decisions. Exemplary service as a nurse, a nursing administrator or an educator of nurses is not a requirement for the five registered nurses serving on the board, and as far as the four members of the public are concerned, its impossible to say how they would qualify for a position such as this, however, I would venture to speculate that since all nine members of this board are political appointees the primary qualification for all of them is that they are somehow “connected” to the political party of the politician who appointed them, or they are “connected” to an organization that has funneled great gobs of cash contributions to California’s Democratic Party or to a particularly grateful politician. Furthermore, I would venture to guess that some, if not the majority of registered nurses appointed to the California Board of Registered Nursing are union members and former union officials from the labor organizations that represent the nurses.

Looking at some of the numerous cases of incompetence, it boggles the imagination as to why the CBRN takes so long to act. A nurse at the now defunct Martin Luther King Jr. / Drew Medical Center was suspended for a brief period of time after giving an anti-cancer drug to a meningitis patient, and she was ultimately fired in 2005 for failing to check a critically ill patient’s heart-rate monitor. As it turned out, the nurse faked the recorded vital signs on the patients chart because she didn’t feel like actually going through the hassle of checking the patient’s vital signs. She continued recording her phony entries on the patient’s chart even after the poor guy had died. The hospital fired her and a complaint was filed with the CBRN but they didn’t file a formal accusation against this nurse until September 2007, and they have yet to render a decision on this matter. In the meantime, this nurse’s record remains clean and it is entirely possible that she has found employment as a registered nurse in the state pending the final decision. Ultimately, Martin Luther King Jr. / Drew Medical Center was closed as a result of numerous incidents involving incompetent, negligent and sometimes down-right malicious nurses, and the case that broke the proverbial camel’s back was when an emergency room nurse at the hospital ignored the agonizing screams of a 43 year old woman who writhed on the floor for a full 45 minutes before dying of a perforated bowel. The nurse responsible for this woman’s death was ultimately terminated and she immediately, but unsuccessfully, sued the county for defamation and wrongful termination. Up to this point in time she has never been contacted by the CBRN, her record remains clean and she is free to work as a registered nurse at any hospital willing to hire her.

Excellent teachers, like highly skilled and compassionate nurses are a blessing to every life they touch. There are talented educators with the wisdom, patience and talent to identify and inspire the budding capacity of future writers, engineers, doctors, artists, scientists and mathematicians in the midst of irrepressible pranksters, juvenile delinquents and slackers populating America’s classrooms. In most cases the highly successful adults, the greatest contributors to modern society, the leading innovators in every field of human endeavor can look back over their early years and quickly identify the one person who, magically saw through the youthful impulsiveness and identified a talent worth the effort of inspiration. Educators like this do not regard teaching as an occupation; they view what they do as a calling. They derive the sort of deep satisfaction from their work that can only be found by those who do what they love to do most. The wages, the benefits, the occupational security and the opportunities for advancement did not influence their decision to become teachers. They were drawn to their chosen field because that is where they are most talented and the expression of that talent is where they find their deepest satisfaction in life.

The most highly skilled and compassionate nurses, like excellent and dedicated teachers, stand out amidst the seemingly chaotic activities endured by hospital patients across this nation like sainted angels of mercy. Their dedicated vigilance and the depth of their compassion for the sick, the suffering and the dying patients they serve is an expression of their love and concern for others. Their demonstrated excellence is not the result of the wages and benefits they receive for their work but stems from their innermost personal desire and dedication to provide care and support for those in need. The satisfaction they derive from the high quality care they provide for their patients is the primary motivating factor behind their choice of careers. The talent, the concern, the patience, the love and compassion they feel for others is the compelling force that calls them to a field of endeavor where those characteristics are most useful and appreciated.

The influence of labor unions on teachers and nurses has significantly degraded this nation’s educational and health care systems. Labor organizations hold that all workers are equal according to classification and the only differentiating factor allowable is the amount of time that each worker has spent on the job. Talent and skill are of no particular consequence in the perspective of union leadership because all union members are considered equal according to their occupational classification. The laziest and least talented, but more senior member of a union is given preferential consideration over the most highly skilled, compassionate and truly dedicated but junior employee. Natural talent, the desire to develop excellence in one’s chosen field and performance above and beyond the minimum requirements of the employer are regarded as being questionably suspicious, and even detrimental to the working environment of a union represented workforce and well-talented, dedicated “over-achievers” often find themselves being subject to harassment by their union peers, and in some cases subjected to disciplinary action by their union leaders for their effort to provide more than the negotiated minimum requirements of their position.

While I can only speak from my own personal experience as a long term private sector union member as well as my experience as a financial officer, executive board member and president of what used to be one of California’s largest local unions, I know that there is little difference between the way private and public sector unions operate and how their officers think. The national and international organizations that the local unions are affiliated with provide the same level of service, advice and political propaganda regardless of whether the members of any given local are working in the private or the public sector. As far as the national and international labor union leadership is concerned, the only thing that really matters is the monthly per capita checks rolling into their treasury and the amount of political power they can purchase with that money. The inherent philosophy of all labor organizations holds that the sole motivating factor for all workers is money and benefits. This is the universally accepted fact of life by which all labor organizations operate without regard for the occupation of those they represent. It is a common belief held by the labor representatives of unionized janitors, truck drivers, laborers, carpenters, electricians, teachers, nurses, social service workers, and any other union represented occupation you can think of. The commonly held belief of all labor organizations is that people work for money and benefits alone and any satisfaction they might derive from doing a job well is inconsequential, probably delusional, and certainly is not appreciated by the company the worker is employed by. The relationship between a labor union and the company whose employees they represent is an adversarial relationship. In order to maintain the appearance of providing beneficial representation to their members, union leaders must constantly struggle to increase the compensation of its members and minimize the company’s efforts to weed out and discipline union members who fail to perform effectively or meet the minimum requirements of their job classification. The successful defense of non-performers slowly erodes the overall productivity of the represented workforce and each successful defense gradually establishes new precedents that subsequently undermine the employer’s ability to establish minimum requirements expected for any given job classification. Historically, most labor organizations discourage the company’s efforts to recognize exemplary performance of union represented employees. Meritorious service awards undermine the union’s philosophy that all workers are equal and every effort is made to restrict such awards because they are viewed as an attempt to undermine the solidarity of the union membership.

In a union represented workplace there is little motivation to excel and there is little encouragement for an individual who feels called to perform above and beyond the minimum requirements of any given job. The only satisfaction considered acceptable is derived from the union negotiated compensation received on a weekly or bi-weekly basis and anyone who bucks the system by striving for excellence, overachieving, or striving to perform at a higher level than what is required is viewed with disdain by their peers. The decline of this nation’s educational system, like the decline of American health care began with the first negotiated union contract in those institutions and has continued to the current sorry state of both. Few individuals become teachers or nurses today because they feel compelled to satisfy their inner drive to selflessly serve others. With few exceptions the primary motivating factor for choosing to become a teacher or a nurse is the money and lucrative benefit packages made possible by union negotiated contracts. The rare exceptions find little satisfaction in a union environment and normally move on to non-represented private facilities where they can find fulfillment without the interference and restrictions commonly associated with union representation. This fact is most evident particularly in field of education where small private schools consistently provide a higher level of education and maintain a significantly better record of academic achievement among their students than any of the larger, much better funded, public schools that are staffed entirely by union represented teachers. Most of California’s state budget is funneled into the state’s union dominated educational system, and that system has proved itself to be a total disaster. The drop-out rate among California’s public high school students is outrageously high and many of the graduating students lack the basic reading and math skills that were expected of third grade students fifty years ago. Private and parochial schools in California are typically staffed with non-represented teachers, Their efforts are not subsidized by the state government and their resources are severely limited in comparison, but their overall drop-out rate is minute in comparison and the academic achievement of their students far exceeds anything accomplished by their union dominated counterparts.

The field of nursing is no different. Hospitals that have managed to fend off the organizing efforts of labor unions consistently demonstrate better records and higher quality care than their unionized counterparts. Nurses working in an at-will environment meet or exceed the demands of their job with far more consistency than represented nurses working under the protection of a labor organization that will bail them out when their demonstrated incompetence or laziness becomes a problem for management and the patients they were hired to serve. In a non-represented workplace a nurse can perform work above and beyond the expected norm and achieve the acknowledgement and appreciation of management for meritorious service. This directly translates into a better level of care provided to the patients, and the reputation of the hospital is enhanced in the community they serve.

It is easy to understand why the owner of a company or the board of directors for any corporation would resist the attempts of union organizers bent on forcing them into a position of collective bargaining. Union jobs typically pay higher than non-union jobs and the benefits are normally better than those of their non-union counterparts, however, labor/management relations are always adversarial. On the average, the “at-will” employees of non-union shops are far more productive than union represented employees. “At-will” employees hire on to a company with the agreement to perform the work demanded by their employer and to do so with an expected level of proficiency, and if the employee fails to live up to the expectations of management he or she can easily be terminated, while union represented employees can perform below the expected level of proficiency and turn to the union for protection against management’s attempts to bring disciplinary action against them. Discipline in Union represented workplaces can become a very convoluted, long and drawn out process; terminations of employment are often subject to arbitration, and in many cases reversed by arbiters with a favorable bent towards collective bargaining groups. Attempted disciplinary actions can become quite costly for management and most companies facing this sort of problem on a regular basis are forced into the position of having to retain a legal staff to deal with such matters. Union organizers are perceived as a major threat to any company’s profit margin because the cost of dealing with a represented workforce can be very expensive. Unions have a place in the American workplace, especially in company’s that hire large numbers of unskilled or semi-skilled workers, skilled tradesmen and high level journeymen workers who are very knowledgeable in their field of expertise but otherwise somewhat limited in their level of academic achievement and have no or little experience with employment law and even less knowledge of their rights as employees. Public school teachers, college professors and other educational workers, health care workers such as registered nurses, licensed vocational nurses, therapists, and public service workers commonly have the benefit of a higher level of academic achievement and the educational capacity to understand some measure of labor law and their rights as employees. The positions they are hired to fill are positions of trust involving children and individuals with medical problems in need of assistance. In the public sector the union represented employee’s wages and benefits are paid by the tax payers who have little or no say in the negotiation of these union members’s working agreements and negotiated benefits despite the fact that their wages and pension benefits pose a burden to the taxpayers. As a political force, the power of federal and state government workers is second to none, and when you consider the fact that the unionized government employees and the private sector union members have the same agenda, support the same politicians and lobby for and against the same legislation in complete harmony, you can begin to understand the significant hold these special interest groups have on our nation and how they have managed to get legislation passed that greatly benefits them but has a disastrously adverse impact on the citizens of the United States and on this nation as a whole.

Organized labor is pouring billions of dollars every year into state and federal elections and into lobbying efforts across the nation. More than 95% of that money is going straight into the coffers of the Democratic Party, Democratic politicians and into the treasuries of Democrat controlled organizations advocating the liberal agenda. No corporation or group of corporations can match the vast amount of money poured into government by the labor unions. The demands the labor unions place on the state and federal elected representatives of the people take precedence over the will of the American people and the irreversible collapse of the American economy will be the inevitable result of our elected officials refusal to stand firm against the widespread corruption at all levels of American government resulting from organized labor’s heavy handed influence.

Kaiser Steel, General Motors, Ford Motor Company, Martin Luther King Jr. / Drew Medical Center, and many other formerly great companies, corporations and American businesses have been victimized virtually out of existence by the labor unions representing their employees. Millions of people have been put out of work; the lives of millions of American families have been irreparably damaged forever as a result of union greed. The union controlled Democratic Party now dominating the American government is trying to convince the American people that the best way to solve our current economic crisis is by spending more tax dollars, growing the size of government and making it easier for labor unions to force American workers into labor unions against their will by passing the Employee Free Choice Act and eliminating the worker’s right to cast a ballot in privacy when faced with union representation.

Admittedly, apathy may be the primary characteristic of most Americans when it comes to politics and government and nothing I say here is likely to change that fact, but union member or not, when the economic situation in this nation gets to the point where your over-inflated union paycheck won’t even buy you a loaf of bread and the starving people in this nation’s large metropolitan areas begin to riot and it is clearly too late to do anything to reverse the current insanity, you might want to take a second to remember the words written here.

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Scant attention has been given to Politico.com’s exposure of The Washington Post marketing flier advertising a series of off-the-record, sponsored dinners at the home of publisher Katharine Weymouth, where for the small price of $25,000 a head (or the discounted rate of $250,000 for 11 invitations), CEO’s, executive directors, and the representatives of this nation’s multitude of special interest groups would be given the opportunity to dine with Obama administration officials, lawmakers, lobbyists, business leaders, and Post editors and reporters in a relaxed, non-confrontational setting followed by exclusive meetings between the ticket holders and the Obama administration officials, lawmakers, lobbyists, business leaders, and Post editors and reporters. Essentially, The Washington Post was offering (at a stiff price) access to the Obama administration officials and other elected officials that the American people have foolishly voted into office. The shock is not that the Washington Post would sell their access to the elected and appointed politicians entrusted by the American voters to run our nation. The shock is that the elected and appointed politicians entrusted by the American voters to run our nation would consciously and willingly sacrifice all pretense of personal integrity by enthusiastically attending such an event.

Following Politico’s expose of the privately advertised event, the embarrassed Washington Post allegedly cancelled the 11 scheduled events, however, it has been revealed by other well-known journalistic publications that events like this are extremely common. The Wall Street Journal has scheduled a two day CEO Council in November where for the small price of $7,500, the elite can rub elbows in off the record meetings with the paper’s top editors and high-profile speakers like Tony Blair, Rupert Murdoch, and Education Secretary Arne Duncan.

During another Wall Street Journal event, held in March of this year, attendees paid up to $5,000 apiece to sit in on an event labeled the “Future of Finance Initiative conference,” which included an on-the-record talk by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. Following Geithner’s speech, the paying guests were whisked away in limousines to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. for an off-the-record discussion with National Economic Adviser Larry Summers.

The Economist currently has two off-the-record summits scheduled for later this year for the purpose of bringing government officials and Mexican business leaders key ministers on the policies and strategies of the current government. The events which are currently slated to be held in Mexico and Brazil, provide cheap access to the budget minded attendees, and while the exact price of attendance has not been listed, the tickets to similar events hosted by The Economist have run between a few hundred bucks and $4,000 a head.

David Bradley, the publisher of Atlantic Media defends the off-the-record meetings between corporate CEO’s, high level executives and special interest lobbyists and Obama administration officials, members of the U.S. Congress and other world leaders with the claim that such meetings advance legitimate purposes while promoting debate and discussion. Furthermore, David Bradley stated that Atlantic Media has been hosting these events for more than six years and more than 2000 individuals have willingly paid the high price of admission and the opportunity to speak privately with the government officials in attendance.

Barack Obama stood before the American people and made a solemn promise that the days of American lobbyists running the government were dead and gone. He promised that no lobbyist would be welcomed into his administration. He promised that the American government would be wide open to the scrutiny of all citizens and legislation would be conducted out in the open for all to see and comment on. Obviously the candidate’s forked tongue was carefully photo shopped out of existence and he was lying through his teeth. His administrative appointments include numerous former lobbyists who are currently serving in positions of importance they were directly engaged in as lobbyists, a situation of blatant and intentional contradiction to the promise he made during his campaign. More than a few of these individuals have been exposed for long standing violations of American tax laws that were benevolently forgiven prior to the assumption of office to which Obama appointed them. The most notable among them is Timothy Franz Geithner, the 75th and current United States Secretary of the Treasury, serving under Barack Obama. Mr. Geithner failed to pay self-employment taxes for numerous years. Despite the fact that his prior service as President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York required him to file annual an ethics statement detailing any taxes due or unpaid along with any other financial obligations and he failed to disclose the years of accumulative unpaid taxes, his personal apology to the Democrat dominated U.S. Senate panel considering his nomination was sufficient and the lame excuse that the nearly $50,000 oversight was caused by an programming error in TurboTax was deemed credible enough for the Democrats who confirmed his nomination as the United States Secretary of the Treasury where he is now oversees the American economy.

The Constitution of the united States of America begins with a preamble that clearly demonstrates the understanding intended by the founders of our government.

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

The founders of American government were the most intelligent and well-educated individuals the fledging country had to offer and they chose their simple words carefully to make it clearly evident to all parties concerned that the United States of America was to be a nation of common men and women, not elitists. To this end they expressed in simple language the intentional fact that the constitution was not handed down by God, King or council of politically powerful opportunists; it was the creation of the common people and the government it so carefully details derives its authority to govern from the common people that government was intentionally designed to serve.

The concept of a government the common people who gave it the authority to serve was not a new idea at the time the U.S. Constitution was written. The same concept was clearly expressed in the Declaration of Independence with the words; “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. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

Later in American history Abraham Lincoln reaffirmed this concept Thursday, November 19, 1863 during the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in a speech that has come to be known as the Gettysburg Address. Four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg, Lincoln stood before the crowd gathered he dedicated that memorial to the bravery of the men who struggled, fought and died on that battle field “that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government: of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

233 years and 4 days after the Declaration of Independence was signed by 56 sincerely courageous men, 222 years after the adoption of the United States Constitution, and after Abraham Lincoln reaffirmed the basic principle of a government by the people and for the people, we find that the American government, like the American people, has been sold out to the highest bidder. The issues and concerns of American citizens have been forced completely off the bus while special interest groups like La Raza, an accumulation of labor union political action committees, major corporations, insurance conglomerates, the banking industry, industry lobbyists and pseudo-scientific environmental groups, now propose, write, review, critique and ultimately approve or disapprove legislative acts and executive policies significantly impacting the day to day activities and lives of the American people who have little say in the government debates from which they are largely excluded. Furthermore, it is patently obvious that, by the time the common American citizen is made aware of any specific legislative debate, the deal between politicians and special interests are already concluded and the decision is already made. The debate witnessed by the American people as well as the discussions reported by the American news media are merely a distraction, political entertainment for the masses too ignorant to understand that the decision was finalized long before we became aware of the issue at hand.

The common American citizen has no voice in the government of this nation. The common American citizen can write letters, send emails and call their representatives in Washington D.C. until they are blue in the face, and in every case, the effort is futile. Acknowledgement of letters and emails received is automatic, formal replies are computer generated and sent in response regardless of content. Hand written letters are read by minor staff members tasked with the job of authoring responses carefully worded to exclude any commitment, pro or con, regarding the issue discussed, and in 99.9% of the cases, the actual representative to whom the letter was addressed, never sees it or reads any part of it. The replies sent commonly disregard the issue addressed altogether, list the dubious achievements of the representative and thank the writer for his or her input. The opinions expressed in these letters are tabulated in two columns – for and against with respect to the issue at hand. The representative is advised of the tally, but since the decision is already bought and paid for, the expressions of opposition and support merely serves to assist in the creation of whatever lame excuses are ultimately given. Occasionally, an expression of strong opposition will result in the addition of some meaningless loop-hole laden paragraph to appease the constituents but since the deal is already done, these weak efforts amount to little more than a flurry of nonsensical activity serving only as political entertainment for the ignorant masses willing to accept “I tried but failed,” and since the attention span of American citizens, with respect to political issues is about as long as a hyper-active five year old child, they soon forget and vote for the same crooked bastard in the next election. America’s recent history is full of examples. Elected representatives convicted of accepting bribes and flung from office are re-elected to other offices within a few short years. Pedophiles, adulterers, con men, spend thrifts, socialists, fascists, swindlers, tax-evaders, thieves, drug addicts, sociopaths and pathological liars are repeatedly voted back into office at every level of American government. Less than a hundred years ago, the majority of this nation’s professional politicians wouldn’t have stood a snowball’s chance in Hell of getting elected to any office, and most would have been chained together in stripped uniforms as they chopped weeds and broke rocks under the watchful eye of a shotgun toting prison guard.

Honesty, integrity, truthfulness and character are human characteristics that are entirely non-existent in Washington D.C. politicians and most state, county and city politicians.

The U.S. Declaration of Independence that was adopted on July 4, 1776 listed numerous egregious and intolerable acts by its English masters against the American colonists. That list included the failure to provide the American people with true representation, the obstruction of justice, the creation of multiple government bureaucracies, the imposition of multiple taxes and fees without the consent of the people, the abolition of our most valuable laws, the establishment of a truly arbitrary form of government, the extension of unwarranted jurisdiction interfering with the everyday activities of the American people, the usurpation of American judges, the failure to protect the American people from foreign invaders, the eradication of the people’s most common rights, the implementation of legislative acts developed in secretly held meetings through trickery and subterfuge without the input of those adversely affected by them. Does any of this sound familiar to what we see going on around us in the United States today?

How many American citizens can afford the $25,000 required to sit across the table from their elected representative and effectively voice their concerns on any given issue of importance? How is it that La Raza, Acorn, PETA, Planned Parenthood, The Sierra Club, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the ACLU can fork over the required fees, gain access to off-the-record meetings with the representative’s that the American voters put into office, high level Obama administration officials and effectively influence the direction of government? The proposed legislation put forth during the failed 2006-2007 Immigration Reform debate required the buy-in of La Raza and other Latino advocacy groups while the American people who would suffer the consequences of that incredulous piece of legislative garbage were denied access to its contents until very late in the game. While this is but one example of how our current government now operates, it is a common everyday occurrence in Washington D.C. where our elected representatives, from the most junior Senator to the questionable character now sitting in the oval office, entirely disregard the will of the American people and favor the big spenders, the largest contributors, and the deep pocketed special interest groups pushing ludicrous agendas that ultimately further the erosion of American freedom and abridge the inalienable rights guaranteed to all American citizens in the Bill of Rights.

The Declaration of Independence expressed the common understanding that “governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” This was not a new idea authored by the founding fathers of this nation simply for their lack of anything better to say. All forms of government derive their authority from the people governed. The power and authority of the worst, most tyrannical dictatorship, the Communist government of China and Cuba, the theocracies of the Middle East, and the institutionalized favoritism of American government are entirely dependent on the willingness of the people to comply. British rule over the American colonies ended when the people finally came to the realization that enough was enough, and compliance with British law required coercive force, the deployment of armed troops, and the imprisonment of unruly citizens. Tyrants, throughout history have been overthrown by the collective effort of common people pushed far beyond the limits of their endurance. The concept expressed in the Declaration of Independence is a fact that predates recorded history, the authority to govern comes from the people governed, not from the government itself, and when any form of government fails to meet the needs of the people it serves, non-compliance begins to build, government authority becomes entirely meaningless and revolution soon follows.

Can the obviously dire fate of this nation be altered? I can’t say but I can offer the speculation that the redirection of our current form of government would meet with great and persistent resistance by those who now benefit the most. Our system of highly complex, interwoven, redundant and irreversible laws has created a situation that is unlikely to change. The loss of financial opportunities by those currently in power will not be given up without a ferocious and bloody fight. The oppression of the American people is very selective and the citizenry of this nation is fractionalized, intentionally divided and mostly apathetic. The growing number of American citizens dependent on government subsidies is nearly as large as the number of working class citizens forced to subsidize them with constantly increasing taxes. Revolutionary action aimed at restoring American freedom is less than likely. The leadership of this nation is dedicated to maintaining the disunity of the citizens by promoting the diversity of cultures. The right to bear arms, once considered an inalienable right of all men, a right so fundamental to the founding fathers of this nation that it was guaranteed in the united States Constitution, has been infringed upon, redefined, diluted, eroded and regulated in an infinite number of ways and public safety has never been the actual cause for those changes. The primary reason why the Washington elitists fear the 2nd Amendment guarantee is the very reason why it was included in the Constitution; it gave the citizens of the nation the means to cast off an oppressive government. The destruction of our 2nd Amendment rights in conjunction with the government’s intentional division of the citizenry into fractionalized cultural groups scrabbling for their own personal agenda, sense of identity and political prowess has annihilated all sense of American unity, and unity is the key element of any successful revolution. The probability of a takeover by foreign creditors is far more likely to occur given the current economic collapse now being exacerbated by Obama’s insane economic policies. A bankrupt American nation will be divided among the foreign nations who now view our country as their personal asset. Foreign law will dominate, freedom and liberty will exist only in the minds and hearts of the few remaining American patriots, but those concepts will never die even though the soul of this nation is ripped to pieces by the foreign investors our elected leaders have sold it to.

The true legacy of the current administration will be exposed by the pain and suffering of the American people whose apathy and continual lack of vigilance has brought this once great nation to its knees. Like the Indians who lived here before us, we have sold our freedom and liberty for materialistic trinkets and the hollow promises of pathological liars.

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The American news media is working diligently to direct out attention to the need for a nationalized health care plan, health care reform, government subsidized health insurance, or the current administration’s burning desire to create a new “inalienable” right of “affordable health care for all Americans.” To put the last part of the former sentence in proper perspective I should point out that the word “inalienable” as it was used by the writer’s of the U.S. Constitution to define specific rights all men are born with, and in days long past the word “inalienable” was considered by our ancestors as being synonymous with the term “given by the almighty God.” Under the current circumstances, in an American government far removed from the Christian God who so heavily influenced the Caucasian forefathers and founders of our original system of simple government, the word “inalienable” when connected to the word “Right” has devolved in meaning to being defined as “entitlement” subsidized by American tax payers at the whim of a new God whose name is “Government,” and is usually referred to more affectionately as “Obama.”

Obama, the God, is somewhat less omnipotent than the God of our ancestors. His thunderous commands from on high fail to calm the boisterous seas in times of great danger, in his hands common mud is not transformed with life, mountain ranges refuse to appear and stars do not miraculously appear in the sky, but the news media, nonetheless portray him as an exalted figure who, with a brush of his masterful hand, transform limited supplies of American currency into trillions of previously nonexistent dollars with which he pays for the new “Rights” he creates. Like the God of our distant ancestors, the great God Obama can be a somewhat fickle master. He obviously favors the nation’s destitute and ignorant, and the money he seizes from wealthy Democrats and Republicans alike, he distributes, through government programs of his personal design, to those he favors. He does so not as a result of justice, fairness, or compliance with predetermined moral codes like the God of old. His actions are determined by the knowledge that the support of the destitute and ignorant are easily bought. Faith is unnecessary when the souls of the less fortunate can be cheaply purchased and loyalty can be assured with the nickels and dimes snatched away from the evil rich and poured into meaningless ineffective government entitlements promising much and delivering little.

The destitute and ignorant are the true believers of the new God’s socialistic vision of America’s future. He needs no burning bush to carry the message, the American news media is his burning bush and no matter how poor or destitute the believer might be, the government has assured all the right to hear his word. More federal welfare money is spent on flat screen televisions than food. The windows of the poorest, most blighted slums this nation has to offer are alight with the soft blue glow of the new God’s message. “The United States Government will take care of everything, your problems will dissolve before your eyes if you support us; your check is in the mail; your new home awaits you; vengeance on the greedy rich is coming; your oppression will end soon and your wildest dreams are right around the next corner. Follow us, follow us, and follow us.

Obama’s plans for health care reform will break the back of this nation and the best health care system the world has ever known will quickly become a hopeless quagmire of bureaucratic red-tape. The small number of currently uninsured will have their health insurance at long last, but it will be nearly worthless and those who paid dearly for effective health care plans will see no reduction in cost but a notable reduction in the quality of care offered. The same government that failed to effectively manage Social Security, Medicare, Fannie-Mae, Freddy-Mac, Immigration enforcement, agricultural development, the enforcement of labor laws; the same government that destroyed the best educational system on the planet, hung a millstone around the space program’s neck, and drove American prosperity into a high speed collision with the solid rock of reality is now proposing to nationalize American health care in the effort to “improve” it, make it more accessible to all and bring down the cost for everyone. In light of the U.S. Government’s long history of improvements clearly demonstrated in other areas, the economy is in ruins, the nation’s borders lay open and unguarded, high school students can graduate without being able to read English, we are entirely dependent on Arab oil but unable to tap into the vast oil resources beneath our own feet and despite the ever increasing taxes we pay, the nation’s infrastructure is falling down around our heads. We pay more each year for less and less and now Obama, the “Wonderful” wants to reform American healthcare. I can sum up my feelings about this idea with one word, “Bullshit”.

At 03:45 GMT on July 8, 2009 the population of the United States was estimated to be at 306,859,360 individuals. The fact that Washington politicians claim that there are 43,000,000 people in this country without medical insurance is highly questionable in light of the fact that an estimated 20+ million illegal aliens are among that number along with a lot of fairly rich folks who can do without the need for medical insurance and an untold number of young adults who suffer under the delusion that they are somehow immortal. The remaining 263,859,360 people in this country have medical insurance, and while they might complain about the high cost of having it, that cost is nothing compared to an even higher cost for a government run health care system that will be far less effective and provide a vastly degraded level of service. Eventually the young adults will overcome their delusion of immortality and get medical insurance; wisdom comes with age (hopefully). The rich can take care of themselves as they always have and need no help from the rest of us. The illegal aliens should be booted out of the country to wherever they came from, thereby eliminating more than half of the 43,000,000 problem cases. Sending the illegal aliens back home would also lower the health insurance rates and the cost of medical care by eliminating 90% of the unpaid emergency room visits, because the hospitals and medical providers must pass that unpaid cost on to the American citizens or face bankruptcy. The government doesn’t fully reimburse the hospitals for the care provided to illegal aliens. The hospitals and emergency medical care providers are lucky to get two cents on the dollar for the care they give to those people. The remainder of the bill is paid by everyone who responsibly carries medical insurance.

Essentially Obama knows all of this, and the same goes for every other politician in Washington DC. Despite that, they want the 263,859,360 responsible people who have health insurance to foot the bill for the health care of the 20+ million illegal aliens who shouldn’t be here anyway. It is not the right thing to do, but Obama, the news media, and the congress of idiots in Washington DC are determined to shove it down your throat regardless of what you think about it. Medical insurance is not an inalienable right, it’s an entitlement. Obama’s vision of health care reform will destroy the finest medical care system on the planet and force the economy into an even deeper hole. We don’t a National HealthCare Plan, we don’t need higher taxes and bigger government. What we do need is what Barack Obama entirely lacks – good common sense.

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Eighteen days without a single posting. That has to be a record, especially for someone who has been known to post two or three times a day for weeks on end, and more often than not, has published seven and eight page carefully substantiated articles instead of your average one paragraph posting found on most blogs. For anyone interested, I am pleased to announce that I am not dead, and while that may disappoint some, its a relief to me. My silence is not the result of mourning Michael Jackson’s death, an event that, in my opinion, should have happened sooner than later, and the silence is certainly not the result of an absence of news worthy events worthy of comment. Every one of the last sixteen days has offered up a plethora of potential subjects, the expressions of ignorant political ideas coming out of this nation’s capital remains unabated, the news media’s unrelenting propaganda effort favoring silly ideas continues as always and the downward spiral of America’s decline continues to accelerate. There is plenty to comment on and yet I sit here quietly watching and write nothing. What’s going on?

First of all, I have been busy doing other things that demand my attention and leave little free time in which to write, but more importantly, I have reached a point where the futility of my opinionated expression is becoming more evident. In some respects I suppose it could be said that I am facing a crisis of faith. I have began to doubt the possibility of reversing the serious damage that has been done to our nation, and seriously question the intelligence and will of the American people who seem to think that everything is fine as it is. With each passing day I become more and more convinced that drastic action needs to be taken if we hope to save this nation, restore liberty and salvage freedom. I know what needs to be done to accomplish those goals, but to publish those ideas for public consumption would jeopardize my continued freedom as well as my ability to communicate. The words of the Declaration of Independence endlessly run through my mind. Words that most American have read in the past, but unfortunately, don’t seem to understand.

“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. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.”

The common sense and logic of these words are clearly evident. The situation facing the American people when these words were written is not too much different from what the American people face today. I know that this is true and the United States government clearly understands the relevance of these statements and dreadfully fears the citizen’s right to follow the train of logic to the obvious conclusion that words are fine, but action is necessary. The American people are no longer represented in government. Graft and bribery have been redefined and legitimized under the term “lobbying,” and every level of the U.S government is now subject to the controlling influence of special interest money. The American people no longer authorize government action and our elected representatives no longer work to benefit the American people because they have been bought off by the special interests whose large contributions have transformed our representatives into their personal puppets. Legislative action, proposed and passed by the human weasels we have put into office legitimizes their unethical and immoral actions. Intentionally engineered loopholes isolate their criminal behavior from prosecution and they have placed themselves above the laws that all common citizens must comply with. “Justice” in American courts is rarely seen and criminal prosecution has become more a tool of political oppression than an effort to ascertain truth and fairness. Compliance with government mandates is demanded under the threat of violence and incarceration awaits those who would dare to resist. The people of the United States no longer give this nation’s government it’s authority to act, the government now dictates what actions the people can and can not take. The inalienable rights so carefully delineated by our forefathers have been interpreted and re-interpreted to the point of complete meaningless and “freedom” has evaporated from our land, and the only real freedom we now have is the freedom to remain slaves of the state or suffer the dire consequences imposed on those who fail to comply. Our government officials no longer serve the people. We now serve the government. We are milked of our prosperity by the ever increasing demands of government taxation and the formerly important concept of personal property is now subject to so many convoluted regulations that the entire idea is beyond comprehension.

The expression of the truth before us, the direction we must take to restore liberty and freedom can no longer be safely stated. for to utter the obvious would constitute a serious felony, prosecution would certainly result and anyone who would dare to encourage the obvious action we are required and obligated by the self-evident truths of our founding fathers would certainly find themselves locked away in chains. Such an individual would not be deemed a true patriot; the news media would castigate that individual as a disgruntled, emotionally unstable nut, the American government would feel the need to protect society form his or her influence, re-education would be necessary and extended isolation in an eight by nine foot super-max cell would inevitably result.

This nation is being purposely destroyed, your freedom is being taken away, the concept of liberty is being redefined by your government and all of us are being enslaved by a government we no longer control. The fact that our government should be overthrown, dismantled and rebuilt is patently obvious. The time for reform and repair is far behind us and the entire concept of working from within the system to promote change is nothing more than a simple minded joke. Drastic action is necessary, violent action is required and blood must flow for that is the high cost that true liberty demands. However, I clearly deny that I encourage such actions because I know all too well that the consequence of such encouragement is imprisonment and even though I see this course as the only viable alternative to the inevitable slavery we now face, I will stop short of actively fomenting the violent overthrow of the American government. I can express my opinion freely, that may be the only right I still retain as an American citizen. If the reader perceives this posting as an encouragement, that perception is beyond my control, this is an expression of opinion only; you are free, at least for now, to view it anyway you want.

The simple truth is that the politicians in Washington DC, like most state politicians at every level just don’t see the picture we are looking at, and it isn’t because they can’t see it; its because they don’t want to see it, they don’t care to look because it doesn’t affect them and they are above it all in their own isolated elite little world where the laws that we must obey, don’t apply to them.

Our representative form of government provides representation only to those who fork over the most money; the common people have no representation and therefore lack all authority.

Our justice system is politically motivated at every level of its existence and the “LAW” that applies to you and me does not apply to the well-connected the politically powerful or the larger contributors. Our courts are driven by procedure instead of justice or fairness. The innocent are victimized by the guilty and justice goes to the side with the trickiest, most expensive lawyer while questions of right and wrong, honesty and dishonesty, morality and immorality never even get to first base.

The character calling himself “The President,” has taken over the banking industry, he is working to take over the operation of most large businesses, and his health care reform plan is nothing more than an effort to seize control of the entire health care industry as well as the large health care insurance providers. The concept of “free enterprise” is dying quickly while Barack Obama replaces this nation’s free market economy with socialism and prosperity has given way to the government’s plan to level the playing field between workers and CEO’s. “Level the playing field” is liberal code speak for the redistribution of wealth, a plan in which the government seizes the majority of a private enterprise’s profits, marginally increases the wages of the workers by a few dollars a year, drastically cuts the income of the owners and investors and uses everything left over to fund social programs intentionally designed to reel in the future votes of minority special interest groups.

The government employees labor unions are all but running the nation. They claim solidarity with their private sector brothers and sisters but offer them nothing. The private sector members are known for their hard work and craftsmanship, the public sector for their incompetence, craftiness and greed. The private sector shrinks while the public sector dramatically expands and America’s blue collar workers provide the best demonstration imaginable that the strength and craftsmanship of the hard working men and women in the private sector is not shared by the weak performance of incompetent government lackeys whose cunning calls for union solidarity has sucked in the American workers who profit little and retire broke as their taxes increase to pay the lucrative salaries and pension benefits of their union brothers and sisters in stable government employ. For the private sector the future ahead is bleak and filled with hardship, but their resolve is undiminished. They will fight to the bloody end for a socialist government that seeks to enslave them even as their wages sink, their benefits diminish and their numbers dwindle away to nothing.

Today is the 4th of July, 2009, for some it is a day of celebration, a day for fireworks and hot dogs grilling on the barbecue. It is the 233rd birthday of American independence from British rule. The freedom and liberty formerly associated with that independence has dwindled as surely as the American buffalo and the great bald eagle but today is the day to reflect on such things, watch fireworks, get drunk in front to the television set and try not to think to hard about the bravery and sacrifice of those who bought and paid for our gifts with the blood they willingly gave up on foreign shores. If we can successfully fool ourselves into actually believing that those long-past and now dead souls made their noble sacrifice for the sake of what now passes for freedom and liberty in the USA, then we can wake up Monday and return to work thinking only of ourselves as so many other naturally do. Unfortunately some of can be fooled in this manner while others find it difficult to do so, if not downright impossible. The lines of a very old song come to my mind here, “I was blind, but now I see.”

The concepts of freedom and liberty, concepts pure and true in the minds of those who originally formed this nation, are immortal. The government of the United States, the former protector of those high ideals, and now the chief adversary of what was once considered God’s gift to all men and women, is not immortal. We are too far down the wrong road and there is no going back. The damage done is irreparable. The current system is far too complex and convoluted to allow any attempt at reversing the trend. The opposition is deeply entrenched and well defended. Resistance is futile. Opposition leads inevitably to disaster. I no longer hope for freedom’s return. While I know in my heart the solution to the problem before us, and with certainty, I know that this knowledge, a fact so obvious that I am assured it is commonly shared, I can not speak of it for to do so would bring the wrath of the vengeful down on me and those I love would be made to suffer the consequences of my words. I am not a fool and I do not want to spend the remainder of my days locked away in the isolation of some government dungeon. I am too old for war and too slow for combat, but my mind is not so numb that it can’t feel the tension in the air and the building stress before the splintering crack and I know that the time is coming. Inevitably the mouse will roar out its defiance and charge the lion. Keep your powder dry; ultimately, you may need it.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing

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