The Wayfarer Philosophy

It has been a while since I have posted. With Obamacare bearing down us, and the seeming inevitability of it, I quite surprisingly, became disconnected. Blogging and reaching the people with my thoughts on it didn’t make a difference, mostly because the majority of the country agrees with me, and despite this, the Democratic party decided to ram it down our throats anyway.

So now, our ever-present commandante, Barack Obama continues to tour around campaigning the Democrat Health Bill. They just can’t get over the fact that sixty percent of the American people did and still do not want it. He tells us that we deserve the same healthcare that the government officials have, but page 58 of the bill exempts these government officials from it. If it’s so good, why don’t they participate int he same healthcare plan that they forced on us?

So we are all supposed to be happy now that we will all be getting more affordable healthcare. Hmmmm… from last month to this month one of my prescription medications went up from $90 to $110. I guess it was just a coincidence. I don’t suppose all those new taxes on healthcare will make things ore expensive either. I’m sure that the fact that the government will oversee all the insurance plans that are offered, what they cover, and hoe much they cost, life will be easier on all of us. That way, if we can’t get the coverage we want, we know to just give up since there are no options. The government is running it all.

Well, now that the Democrat party is in single party rule and completely owns the healthcare system of the country, we all know who to blame for our healthcare problems. Hey, they wanted to take it over, so now they are responsible for all of us.

Well, the Democrats’ most recent version of Obamacare made it past the last major hurdle over the weekend. Obama’s quick to come out and pimp this latest version, and pour out the usual propaganda. With literally ALL of the major national polls showing that the American people are against even this latest plan, which only got released after voting on it (more of that Obama transparency), he has got to convince us that we are wrong and this is what we really want.

So, after working over the CBO, they come out with the numbers that the Democrats wanted. The Obamacare bill will actually save the government money. With half a trillion dollars being taken out of Medicare, and another half of trillion dollars in tax increases on our existing healthcare plans, the government will actually save money in the next 10 years. Amazing! The government saves money by taking it away from the people! Nice, huh? They save more money by throwing the uninsured onto Medicaid, and forcing the states to pay for it instead of the federal government. I wonder if those costs will trickle down to the people to? Nebraska is safe though, they bought Ben Nelson’s vote off by making Nebraska the only states excluded from having to pay the skyrocketing Medicaid costs that this bill creates.

Didn’t Barack Obama promise us that this was going to reduce the cost of healthcare? Yeah, but that doesn’t matter, increasing the costs on all of us is best for us anyway, that way the government can control everything, and the high costs are worth paying for creating this enormous bureaucracy.

So, by putting us on the hook for it, Obama says that the government will save $130 billion in the first 10 years of Obamacare, and then $1 trillion over the next 10 years. But wait a second, doesn’t those savings all get eaten up by the fact that Obama has promised the poor nations of the world that we will pay them $100 billion a year for climate change? Looks like Obama has already sent our governments saving anyway, just the week before. Oh well, looks like we’re on the hook for already spent savings.

Despite the fact that every single poll out there shows that the majority of the people in the United States are against the various healthcare proposals that the Democrats have been putting together, King Obama called together all senate Democrats to teh White House today to create a unified 60 vote coalition to make whatever current bill they have go through the senate for a final vote.  At this point, none of us know what the current draft of the bill is like. Apparently, the government option is gone and apparently they took out the expansion of Medicare to people 55 and over. Yet, we know nothing else.  It is quite likely that all of the mandates and controls over the medical system are still there, which means it is still government control anyway. Apparently, the $500 billion cut in Medicare is still there as well. Yet, we don’t know for sure.  The Democrats have stopped informing us of what their current bill includes weeks ago.

Yep, it’s more of that “unprecedented transparency” that we were promised by Obama, Reed, and Pilosi. Basicallly, they tell us what they want us to think, and they hide what is actually going on. All we know is that they are determined to pass whatever it is before Christmas. Yet, we must assume that some of the following issues are still part of the package:

• The most recent plan included an up to 40% tax increase on private health insurance plans. These are the so-called “Cadillac plans.” Of course there are still taxes on all kinds of private health plans.  This will obviously increase the costs of our healthcare, despite the promise that they are doing this to lower our healthcare costs.  Why tax us for having health insurance?  On the flip side, they fine you if you don’t have a health insurance plan.  What’s the deal? They’re just determined to fund their government bureaocracyover the healthcare industry on the backs of all of us.  We’re basically just going to be paying for the government to expand its power, not for improving our own healthcare.
• The $500 billion cut in Medicare will obviously be scary for seniors and those nearing retirement. The notion that Medicare will not cut benefits even though they are significantly reducing its funding is purely laughable. the money isn’t going to go toward improving Medicare, the funds will go toward creating the giant bureaocracy that the government needs to create in order to rule over the entire healthcare system.  Seeing how Medicare is going to be bankrupt in 8 years, it obviously needs fixing, but theis healthcare takeover is not focused on fixing anything, it’s merely focused on taking over the parts of the halthcare industry that government has not already ruined.
• while the government “option” may not be in the bill, all the regulations that the bills have had thus far control every aspect of the helathcare system.  From defining what types of plans are approved and allowed by the government to creating rules for health insurance companies and healthcare providers, how can anyone say that the government isn’t going to be in control of the healthcare system? It still is a government takeover.  All this money is just going to go to creating the gigantic government entity that will be controlling the whole system.

Let’s fave it folks, wheter we like it or not, the Democrats are determined to ram this thing through on us, and according to the numbers, they don’t need any Republicans to help.  All the bickering so far has been about making all the Democrats agree on their own plan that they developed on their own behind closed doors. Despite the fact that most of the country is against it, they will shove it down our troats. Let’s also face reality here, these plans are not designed to do any of t things they promised.  Healthcare costs will go up due to the government’s mandates and taxes, there will still be about 25 million uninsured people, and there will be less options for all of us since the government has to approve all healthcare plans.  With this example of how the ruling Democrat party does not listen or care what the people think, we can rest assured their striving to take over the healthcare system will not allow for customer feedback.

The following, self-described “moderate” or “Blue Dog” Senate Democrats are a bunch of liars that have pulled the wool over the eyes of their constituents. harry Reed, liberal idiot from Nevada, created this whopping 2,000 page bill that taxes the hell out of all our health plans to pay for a new government health insurance company. It doesn’t fix a damn thing about health care, it just creates a huge government bureaucracy that rules over the private health plans and creates a whole new national insurance company. The government will run the every aspect of health treatment in this country. You think it’s hard to deal with your insurance company, try having to deal with the government!

The Liars

Evan Bayh – Indiana

Mary Landrieu – Louisiana

Blanche Lincoln – Arkansas

Mary Landrieu was bought off for $100 million in Harry Reed’s
healthcare bill where our tax dollars will go to Louisiana as a favor for voting this forward. She’s also going to pay Reed back by having a fund raiser for his senate campaign. Would a moderate do that? Would an HONEST senator do that?

Ben Nelson – nebraska

The Lie

the vote that they had in the senate this past Saturday required 60 votes to go on. Now, only one of these supposed moderates needed to vote no to stop it. They all voted yes. They put a yes vote for all of the far-left big spending plans that have gone before them in the Senate. they have shown no signs of being moderate, because they AREN’T. Now, they said that they won’t vote for the bill the way it is. They are just voting yes so that there can be debate on the bill to change it. Well, if it’s a bad bill, then why vote it forward to debate it? Why not cut it off and start over on a new one that’s better? Instead, now that the bill is going forward, it will not require 60 votes for it to be passed. In other words, now these supposed moderates made it so that their votes “no” won’t even matter in the future. By voting yes on Saturday, they have made it impossible to stop. So now, the left wing of the Democrat party can add whatever the hell they want to it and then pass it on a simple 51 vote majority. This was their chance to show a shade of being moderate, but they decided not to. These idiots really think that we can beleive that it’s prudent to shine up a turd instead of starting over with a good bill?

These so-called “Blue Dog Democrats” are really a bunch of “Lap Dog Dummycrats.”

They are liars. They are Subversive. They must go!

Whty not at least be honest about being left-wing liberals?

President Barack Obama blends in well with the totalitarian leaders that are speaking at the UN in this week. In fact, he has a lot of common ground with them. Obama’s still on the war path with our own CIA for interrogating terrorists. He has refused to go ahead with a missile defense shield for our west coast and the one in Eastern Europe to pretext allies as well as ourselves. Obama has the backing of Venezuela’s communist dictator, Hugo Chavez and Cuba’s dictators, the Castro brothers. Iran and Russia are happy to have us not put up a defense shield. Why? So we can’t shoot down their missles. After all, that’s what a defense shield is for. As Obama strives to get our enemies to like him, he throws our allies, like Poland and Israel under the bus. His attempts to control free speech over the air waves and to influence the grants from the NEA to artists also put him right in line with the world’s other totalitarian dictators. That’s why he should be known as Comrade Obama.

For the past few weeks, the mantra of the government healthcare promoters has been “Health Insurance Reform.” Barack Obama, Nancy Pilosi, Harry Reed, Henry Waxman, and Barney Frank (the usual far-left suspects) have been demonizing health insurance companies and have been blaming the surge of disappointment from the American public with the Obamacare bills on “special interest groups.” Obama and Pilosi have been characterizing their plans to take over the healthcare system as fighting for the little guy against big special interest. Of course, the polls indicate that it is the majority of the American public that is against Obamacare. Does the majority of the American people work for the health insurance industry?

At the same time, the Democratic National committee has been mobilizing its union groups, including SEIU, NEA, UAW, and AARP on bus trips to town hall meetings to pressure congressmen to support whatever Obamacare bills come out of committee. This sounds more like the real “Astroturf” to me. As Nancy Pilosi characterizes anyone against the Democrats’ plans as “swastika bearing neo-Nazis,” the polls seem to indicate that the majority of the people in our country are apparently neo-Nazis because they do not support the Obamacare proposals.

Organizing for America, Barack Obama’s campaign fund-raising organization is now run out of the DNC and is staging town hall meetings and funding their union thugs to go to these meetings to look like they are actually int he majority of opinion instead of what the polls clearly indicate. So, where’s the real Astroturf? It’s amazing how the far-left is actually trying to get away with having their paid operatives fake the semblance of having the majority of the public in favor of Obama’s healthcare plans. No wonder his approval ratings are plummeting. How long will he be able to get away with his lies and propaganda?

Here, SEIU thugs wearing their purple union T-shirts are beating up a man outside of a town hall meeting. This reminds me of the kind of stuff that Chavez or Castro would organize. no wonder why these two dictators like Obama so much.

Here is a book that everyone should check out. It is being freely distributed by the Center for Public Policy Research. People are encouraged to download it and pass it around. It is entitled Shattered Lives: 100 Victims of Government Health Care.

Free Download: Shattered Lives: 100 Victims of Government Health Care

In my judgement, government should not take over the health care system. The uninsured people who cannot afford health care are supposed to be treated by Medicaid. If Medicaid is not covering these people, then the government needs to fix the program that it has already created. There are health insurance plans that cover those people who have pre-existing conditions. I am one of these people and I got coverage. Why destroy the whole system when there are options? Why have the government take over more when the programs it created, Medicare and Medicaid, are not working effectively and are going broke?

Remember when Nancy Pilosi commented on the grass roots movement of the tea parties that protested the outrageous spending by the Democrat-controlled congress? She said that it was really “Astroturf” because, according to her, it was backed by conservative groups. Of course, she did not support her argument with any example of big money groups supporting them. In reality, the tea parties were just average people going out and protesting and just synchronizing their efforts together via the internet.

Where are the swastikas Nancy?

Now, Pilosi is demonizing the people who are going to town hall meetings to tell their elected representatives what they think about the proposed healthcare plans. She calls them “Nazis” and representatives of health insurance companies, which she further describes as villains. It’s the old liberal game of demonizing whatever companies htey need to to get people to support their even bigger company, government. Trouble is, with the sheer multitude of people, it is painfully obvious that these are just regular American citizens that are not happy with what THEIR government is doing. This fact is even supported by all the major polls, Rasmussen, Gallup, et al..

Health Insurance company profits are lower than most sectors. I guess since the government specializes in debt, all profit is considered “immoral.”

Most Americans are against the Obamacare plans. So, are we all Nazis?

So, the left-wing plan is to demonize health insurance companies as having too much money from “windfall profits.” Of course, this is not true. The average growth of the health insurance sector was about 3% last year, far behind other sectors. The software development sector, for example, had profits in the 20% region. While some people do have problems with their health insurance policies, at least they have choice at this point to find other policies. Having a government option will drive out private insurance companies and leave people with no option. As I have been writing, if the government does with standard health insurance what it did to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security (3 almost bankrupt government-run insurance programs), the government will only make healthcare worse.

At least the lefties can be happy that Obamacare is more popular than Pilosi herself.

The next step is to demonize people who disagree with Obamacare and the current proposals in the Senate and House. Unfortunately for the left-wingers, the majority of the country is against these proposals. But, the left-wing propaganda artists are going all out spending millions on TV ads to try and change this. Along the way, they have to call regular people “Astroturfers” in that they are somehow controlled by the health insurance companies that the left is trying to shut down and drive out of healthcare. Somehow this does not make a lot of sense with the sheer numbers of people who are against the healthcare proposals. The majority of the country works for health insurance companies?

Here, SEIU union thugs in their purple shirts are beating up a black man who was handing out material outside of a town hall meeting. So, where are Jesse Jackson and Al Sharp ton on this one? Beating up a black man is ok if you’re a liberal Democrat, I guess.

With great hypocrisy, the left is now rolling out their hired goons to fill town hall meetings and make it look like there are just as many people in favor of the healthcare proposals. These goons come from the standard line up of left-wing unions, ACORN, SEIU, NEA, AARP, and AMA. They also have PHARMA supporting them, which represents the large pharmaceutical companies. So which side has the real Astroturf? These groups are also a lot less civil than the ordinary citizens that are protesting the healthcare plans. There are even ads on Craig’s List for hiring volunteers to go out and support Obamacare in their neighborhoods and at these town hall meetings. Hmmm… isn’t “paid volunteer” an oxymoron? The SEIU is also paying devoting 33% of their overall capital into these efforts. This decision was made in January, 2009. Sounds like special interest and Astroturf to me.

Looks like the people protesting Obamacare are peaceful protestors… don’t see swastikas yet.

Peaceful disagreement outside, and on the inside, the representative doesn’t want to talk.

It’s funny how the left characterizes ACORN protesting banks not loaning to people who can’t pay them back as freedom of speech, but calls people engaged int he political process with their elected representatives “Nazis.” Two Blank Panthers threatening voters in Philadelphia with Billy clubs is no big deal to the left, but senior citizens worries about how their healthcare will be rationed by the government have no right to protest. This is another clear sign of the inherent tyranny in far-left statist politics.

Sheila Jackson-Less thinks her cell call is more important than listening to a cancer survivor in her district talk to her at a town meeting.

Here is one point that is not being answered by the proponents of the government-run plan in the healthcare debate. Those who want the government to run the healthcare system and drive out private insurance companies cannot seem to explain why the current government plans that are designed to make sure everyone has the opportunity to get healthcare coverage aren’t doing what they’re designed to do.

• Medicare - This is the government program that is supposed to provide healthcare to the elderly as well as the disabled. If there are elderly people or disabled people not receiving healthcare, this is the program that is supposed to do it. why doesn’t the government fix Medicare first, instead of taking over the health insurance industry? The fact that Medicare is running out of money and will soon be bankrupt might also be a red flag that maybe the government already has its hands full and should not be expanding its control over healthcare.
• Medicaid - This is the government program that is supposed to provide healthcare to those who cannot afford private insurance plans. So, if there are people who cannot afford healthcare and want to, maybe this is a program that is not working as it should be. Why doesn’t government fix this program instead of taking over the whole industry?
• COBRA and HIPA - These are two government mandates that force insurance companies to cover people who lose their health insurance from changing jobs, divorce, or whatever occurs that separates people from their healthcare policies. COBRA mandates insurance of the same coverage for 18 months, and then HIPA takes over indefinitely after that. So, if people are not insured because their coverage has been dropped, why don’t they call their insurance companies and demand the COBRA and HIPA coverage? If these plans are not affordable or not working, then why doesn’t the government fix these mandates first before taking over the rest of the healthcare insurance industry?

The Effectiveness of Government as an Insurance Company

Even beside the concept of personal responsibility and budgeting effectively to make sure that healthcare insurance is a priority instead of other expenditures in life, people also have these already existing government programs to make sure that they receive healthcare coverage. Either people are not using the programs, or the programs are not working effectively. In either case, these are government programs that are already in existence. Shouldn’t the government make sure that their current programs are working effectively instead of taking over more? When Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reed, Barney Frank, and all the special interest groups (AARP, AMA, SEIU, and AFL-CIO) argue that our current healthcare insurance system is not working, should they not take a look at themselves and the government programs that are already there that are apparently not working? No, they just want to take over more. It’s the typical statis line, “We can’t be expected to make the current programs work because we need to take over more of the industry to make it all work.”

Basically, the statist  idea is that the government should be given more and more power and control. Then, their programs don’t work as they are supposed to. Then, the government says that they need even more power and control to make things work. The vicious cycle continues until the government runs everything aws in socialist countries, and then the entire country becomes a failed state. At thsi point, the government can only maintain power and control by eliminating dissent and using totalitarian tactics such as propaganda and secret security organizations to make sure that their power and failures do not get free and open debate. This is where we are heading folks.?

So, all you people who want a government-run public option in health insurance coverage, why should we have the government run the whole industry when these government programs that should be eliminating the the problem of uninsured people are not working effectively? Why should the government have more power and control instead of fixing what it has already has? With Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, being the the government’s main insurance programs, are going bankrupt, why should we have the government expand their control over insuring us?

So, how good do you think the government customer service office will be in this one and only insurance company for the whole country?

Comrade Obama needs your help! He wants to eliminate any “misinformation” about his healthcare agenda. Well, actually, the word that the White House web site uses is “fishy.” So, if you know of any personal conversations, emails, or websites that you have been in contact with exhibiting “fishy” information, the White House wants to know about it! They have an email address set up to receive any “fishy” information that you have found that you want to report to the bureau of honesty.

Facts Are Stubborn Things

 

;t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov. Here are the complete videos that Linda refers to.  First from the AARP: Viewing this video requires Adobe Flash Player 8 or higher. Download the free player.     And then from the President’s news conference: Viewing this video…

so, does any information that disagrees with Obama’s statements considered “fishy?” Is comrade Obama included int he “fishy” patrol? Remember, in 2003 and 2007 he made speeches to the AFL-CIO and the SEIU that a public option health insurance plan would be a good method for eliminating private insurance companies in order to implement a single-payer plan. Now, he is saying that the public option will not put private insurance companies out of business, but would only provide competition to keep them “honest.”

Actually, is it not fishy that the White House, the center of the executive branch of government is calling for emails of people snitching on anyone who is saying things “fishy” about Comrade Obama’s healthcare agenda? Is the word “fishy” a clear standard for for judging what information requires informing the White House about it? Hmmmm.. seems like this call for reporting on peoples’ opinions seems “fishy” to me.