When you think of freedom what do you think of? The basic essential of freedom is the ability to choose. I am free to choose how I worship, what I say, what I do and where I will spend my money. When I was a child my mother told me where and how I worshipped, what was the right things to say and do and when I did not say or do the right things she demonstrated to me the consequences of being wrong, usually with a belt across the back side.
My freedom is dependent upon doing the right thing. I can say or do what I want but not so that I inflict harm on someone else. That part is called responsibility. In this country we had freedom because everyone basically knew the difference of right and wrong. When the United States was founded we were about 95% Christian and our culture, the beliefs we held about right and wrong were the same.
We now are in a culture where the lines of right and wrong have been washed away. The freedom to speak out is limited by intimidation of the government and the media. The freedom as to how and where I will spend my money is being replaced by the government limiting me making these decisions for me, just like my mother. And now there is even punishment if I try to make my own decisions. The government is going to choose my insurance, the kind of car I drive, the foods I eat all in the name of protecting me. That is what my mother use to tell me, “This is for your own good”. But I’m not a child anymore and I want my freedom to choose and suffer the consequences. I want my freedom to make a good decision and enjoy the rewards and learn from the bad ones.
What people in the government are saying to you and me is that we are not grown up enough to make our own decisions. We need some one in the government to make these decisions for us. In other words our freedoms are gone. Our freedoms have been taken away and like the proverbial frog in a frying pan we are now cooked. The last freedom they will take away will be the freedom of religion and speech. They have had this one cooking for a while now. The government will decide if your religion is good for you. Of course you can imagine how a godless government will choose for you. No religion is good for you they will have you believe.
We are at a major turning point in our country. Either we return to a godly constitutional form of government or we take a nosedive to a socialist form of government, of which there will be no recovery.
Our capitalist, free market system has for many years supported and protect the economies of other countries. If we dissolve our economic system into a socialist style economy the other countries economies will crumble. Even communist China, that has embraced a limited free market system, is almost totally depends on the United States to buy their goods and keep their people working and producing. If we quit buying “made in China” products, China’s economy would also fail.
We need a revolution for freedom again. A peaceful, nonviolent but a very loud revolution to return this country to the Christian, freedom inspired, free market, constitutional government that we had in the beginning. The bible tells of the Israelites coming to a juncture where God gave them a choice. The decision was not real complicated. He told them they could choose life or death.
The United States is at a juncture also. The choice is very similar. We can choose freedom like we once had or bondage to a godless government that wants to rule over ever aspect of our lives. Choosing freedom is like choosing life because choosing socialist bondage will be a living death.
Nubby
Monday, April 26, 2010
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Virtue - Why We Must Have It
The great patriot Benjamin Rush of Pennsylvania wrote, “All its [Christian revelation] doctrines and precepts are calculated to promote the happiness of society, and the safety and well being of civil government. The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.”Virtue: 1. moral excellence; goodness; righteousness. 2. conformity of one's life and conduct to moral and ethical principles; uprightness.
Why are God and Christianity so important to the United States and its freedoms? Without God and the biblical teachings of the Judeo Christian culture there are no morals or ethical principles on which to base our virtues and there would be no freedom. Freedom requires responsibility. Freedom expects people to behave in accordance with certain standards and not require someone to be looking over your shoulder watching your every move.
As a parent didn’t we allow our children more freedom to do things when they showed us they were responsible enough to do the right thing? The older they became the more we granted trust to them and allowed them more freedom. At some point we believed they were at a place that we could give them total freedom and make all their own choices.
The same thing applies to our country. We allow each other freedom because we believe that the other person will choose to do the right thing. As a Christian country we believe that people will follow the virtues we have set according to biblical standards. Therefore we don’t need a plethora of laws and regulations to dictate every word or deed. We simply trust each other. Our freedom is built on trust. To be free means I can trust you and you can trust me. I can trust you because I know you have the same morals and principles.
Thus religion and virtue were expected to be taught in the early American schools. It was written into the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 that "Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged." Notice the order of the words. Religion first, Morality second and then knowledge. Knowledge is of no good value without morality and you cannot have morality without [Christian] religion.
When godless people are in charge they have no basis for virtue. Their lives are not built on any moral or ethical principles so in their mind we need rules and plenty of them. They require laws to be enforced and plenty of people to enforce those laws. Right or wrong is what they feel right or wrong means to them. Rules are based on their feelings at the moment.
Our country is at a massive turning point in government. It is no longer a choice of how will we implement the principles given to us from the bible like we have done for nearly two hundred years but whether we follow the principles of the bible at all. If we follow the rules of godless men we will no longer have morals and principles to follow, we will have no standards and we will no longer be able to trust men, especially the men in charge of making the rules.
The progressives in this country want us to change. Progress is what they call it, but is moving away from God progress? Is moving away from virtue progress? Can you call it progress when you can no longer trust people around you because they have no standard to believe in? Is moving away from our foundation for freedom progress? Is moving away from being a responsible person and becoming dependent on government progress? No, it is the child like behavior of an immature adult who has not yet grasped reality and these people are running our country. God help us.
We need to restore Christian virtues back to our country. We need a revival. First in the chruches, then in our neighborhoods, then our cities, our states and our federal government. We need a revival from the bottom up. It cannot be a revival of just church attenders. It must be a revival of a people deeply hungry for God, hungry for the presense of God in their lives 24 hours a day, every day for the rest of their lives. You can't have freedom without God. If freedom is worth dying for it certainly must be worth living for. Living for God is much better than dying for nothing.
Nubby
Monday, April 5, 2010
Revival
I was just reading on a news website about Alabama planning to legalize video bingo. In the back of my mind I can immediately hear the sound of gasps and oh no’s in the traditional churches. How could we have come so far to allow this in our state? Oh the horror of it, legalized gambling.
Jesus didn’t say go ye into all the world and make a bunch of laws against everything you think is bad for you. Jesus was not a control freak. In fact he even gave a free will to choose. Why would he gave you that ability and then not allow you to use it? He wants you to choose. He wants you to choose to believe He is God and that He came to save you from your sins. You could make all the laws you want but that is not going to save you from sin nor will it make you holy. That was part of the original problem. God gave us a perfect set of laws but we couldn't keep them. We need His help to do what He wants us to do.
Jesus did say to the disciples "go into all the world and make disciples, teaching them the things I have taught you", things such as faith, love, hope and internal holiness. Jesus’ plan was to change people from the inside out, not make a bunch of laws.
I’m often reminded of the Welch Revival in the early 1900’s. From the Welch Revival website:
America needs to do several things: Get a real hunger for God and a hunger for revival. Be willing to accept whatever God does and how He does it. Then obey the last thing Jesus ever said on earth. Go, baptized and teach. Go with the fire of revival. Baptize all who will believe and teach everyone about the wonders of God. Forget the law thing. It all about the heart thing.
Nubby
Jesus didn’t say go ye into all the world and make a bunch of laws against everything you think is bad for you. Jesus was not a control freak. In fact he even gave a free will to choose. Why would he gave you that ability and then not allow you to use it? He wants you to choose. He wants you to choose to believe He is God and that He came to save you from your sins. You could make all the laws you want but that is not going to save you from sin nor will it make you holy. That was part of the original problem. God gave us a perfect set of laws but we couldn't keep them. We need His help to do what He wants us to do.
Jesus did say to the disciples "go into all the world and make disciples, teaching them the things I have taught you", things such as faith, love, hope and internal holiness. Jesus’ plan was to change people from the inside out, not make a bunch of laws.
I’m often reminded of the Welch Revival in the early 1900’s. From the Welch Revival website:
“People were changed in so many ways. The crime rate dropped, drunkards were reformed, pubs reported losses in trade. Bad language disappeared and never returned to the lips of many – it was reported that the pit ponies failed to understand their born again colliers who seemed to speak the new language of Zion – without curse and blasphemy – even football and rugby became uninteresting in the light of new joy and direction received by the Converts.”When real revival comes there is no need for laws against gambling, drinking or cursing. Men change inwardly and the behavior is changed outwardly. Bars will close, gambling establishments will lose money and crime rates will go down. Real revival comes with the power of God. In all true revivals there was a demonstration of God's power that draws men to Him. There is a hunger for that power. People want to change. People want change in their lives. They just don't have the power to do it. God has the power. You just have to want Him to show up.
America needs to do several things: Get a real hunger for God and a hunger for revival. Be willing to accept whatever God does and how He does it. Then obey the last thing Jesus ever said on earth. Go, baptized and teach. Go with the fire of revival. Baptize all who will believe and teach everyone about the wonders of God. Forget the law thing. It all about the heart thing.
Nubby
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
The Day Jesus left Heaven
Right now as I write this we are beginning the Easter season. Christmas was over three months ago and all of the decorations have been taken down. As I reflected on Christmas this year I had the image in my mind of heaven just before Jesus left to become the baby boy born to Mary and Joseph.
You know it was nine month before Christmas that Mary was impregnated with Jesus. So it is about the same time in April when we celebrate Easter that Jesus left heaven and it was around April when Jesus returned to heaven. I wonder what the significance of that is? I’ll figure it out someday.
Philippians 2:5 -8 Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. He had equal status with God but didn't think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what, not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human! Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn't claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death—and the worst kind of death at that—a crucifixion.
9 -11 Because of that obedience, God lifted him high and honored him far beyond anyone or anything, ever, so that all created beings in heaven and on earth—even those long ago dead and buried—will bow in worship before this Jesus Christ, and call out in praise that he is the Master of all, to the glorious honor of God the Father. (The Message Bible)
To comprehend what Jesus did, imagine him sitting on the throne in heaven next to the Father (they are one but yet still three separate entities). The Holy Spirit is all around. The moment has come. It is time for the baby Jesus to be conceived. The Angel appears to Mary and begins to tell her what is going to happen to her:
Luke 1: 30“And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. 31And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. 32He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: 33And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end. (KJV)
As the angel is telling her this, Jesus stands up in heaven and like an everyday piece of clothing he removes the glory of the father and lays it upon the empty seat of the throne. Then he lays down his majesty, royalty, omnipotence, omnipresence and omniscience. He takes off everything except his bare deity and stands spiritually naked before all of heaven. For a brief moment heaven is quiet, not a sound, not a movement, life frozen in time. The heavenly choir is holding its breath. The flickering waves of glory that radiate from the throne stand still like frozen ice in space.
Then suddenly Jesus is gone. You could look through every inch of heaven and Jesus would not to be found because now he has come to earth. He has given up everything and now dwells in the form of a little baby fetus. He has become like us. His deity has joined with the human egg of Mary and for the next nine months he will grow in her womb just as any other man. Then for the next twelve years he will depend on human parents to provide for him, teach him and nurture him until he become a full grown man. Then at Age thirty he will begin his ministry and the rest of the story is well known.
Can you imagine Jesus giving up all those things he had in heaven, the power that created the worlds, the glory, the omniscience, the omnipotence and everything that made him who he was, God, and become a simple man? He was not only just a man but the perfect human sacrifice to pay for the sins of the whole world. That the life he chose to live would pay a painful price to redeem all of mankind from their sins and give them a new life. One in which they could live forever with him in heaven. From the day he was born, that first Christmas morning, he was destined to die a horrible painful death so we might live eternally.
Jesus gave all he had so we could receive all that the father could give; righteousness, peace, joy, fullness of the Holy Spirit and so much more. If we who are now in Christ Jesus are living by the power of Jesus then we are also created or I should say recreated to give as he gave. Not just our money but our time, our hearts, our lives if necessary so that others also might live eternally. Giving is supposed to be part of our new nature. Giving should be easy or is it.
We might think it was easy for Jesus to leave all those things in heaven and become a man, after all he is God, but maybe it was not so easy. The bible said he had to humble himself to become a man. That is not necessarily an easy thing to do. To be number one in heaven and take yourself down to become lower than the creatures that you created. Man had submitted himself to Satan and became a slave to Satan. Jesus was not under the power of Satan but had to accept the status of a slave to be truly human. Giving up his place in heaven wasn’t necessarily easy but Jesus was committed to the plan that the triune God developed before the foundations of the world. Giving was a choice and a commitment.
We always think of Christmas as the season of giving but Easter is the real time of giving. God so loved the world that he gave us his only begotten Son. Jesus.
Nubby
You know it was nine month before Christmas that Mary was impregnated with Jesus. So it is about the same time in April when we celebrate Easter that Jesus left heaven and it was around April when Jesus returned to heaven. I wonder what the significance of that is? I’ll figure it out someday.
Philippians 2:5 -8 Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. He had equal status with God but didn't think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what, not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human! Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn't claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death—and the worst kind of death at that—a crucifixion.
9 -11 Because of that obedience, God lifted him high and honored him far beyond anyone or anything, ever, so that all created beings in heaven and on earth—even those long ago dead and buried—will bow in worship before this Jesus Christ, and call out in praise that he is the Master of all, to the glorious honor of God the Father. (The Message Bible)
To comprehend what Jesus did, imagine him sitting on the throne in heaven next to the Father (they are one but yet still three separate entities). The Holy Spirit is all around. The moment has come. It is time for the baby Jesus to be conceived. The Angel appears to Mary and begins to tell her what is going to happen to her:
Luke 1: 30“And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. 31And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. 32He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: 33And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end. (KJV)
As the angel is telling her this, Jesus stands up in heaven and like an everyday piece of clothing he removes the glory of the father and lays it upon the empty seat of the throne. Then he lays down his majesty, royalty, omnipotence, omnipresence and omniscience. He takes off everything except his bare deity and stands spiritually naked before all of heaven. For a brief moment heaven is quiet, not a sound, not a movement, life frozen in time. The heavenly choir is holding its breath. The flickering waves of glory that radiate from the throne stand still like frozen ice in space.
Then suddenly Jesus is gone. You could look through every inch of heaven and Jesus would not to be found because now he has come to earth. He has given up everything and now dwells in the form of a little baby fetus. He has become like us. His deity has joined with the human egg of Mary and for the next nine months he will grow in her womb just as any other man. Then for the next twelve years he will depend on human parents to provide for him, teach him and nurture him until he become a full grown man. Then at Age thirty he will begin his ministry and the rest of the story is well known.
Can you imagine Jesus giving up all those things he had in heaven, the power that created the worlds, the glory, the omniscience, the omnipotence and everything that made him who he was, God, and become a simple man? He was not only just a man but the perfect human sacrifice to pay for the sins of the whole world. That the life he chose to live would pay a painful price to redeem all of mankind from their sins and give them a new life. One in which they could live forever with him in heaven. From the day he was born, that first Christmas morning, he was destined to die a horrible painful death so we might live eternally.
Jesus gave all he had so we could receive all that the father could give; righteousness, peace, joy, fullness of the Holy Spirit and so much more. If we who are now in Christ Jesus are living by the power of Jesus then we are also created or I should say recreated to give as he gave. Not just our money but our time, our hearts, our lives if necessary so that others also might live eternally. Giving is supposed to be part of our new nature. Giving should be easy or is it.
We might think it was easy for Jesus to leave all those things in heaven and become a man, after all he is God, but maybe it was not so easy. The bible said he had to humble himself to become a man. That is not necessarily an easy thing to do. To be number one in heaven and take yourself down to become lower than the creatures that you created. Man had submitted himself to Satan and became a slave to Satan. Jesus was not under the power of Satan but had to accept the status of a slave to be truly human. Giving up his place in heaven wasn’t necessarily easy but Jesus was committed to the plan that the triune God developed before the foundations of the world. Giving was a choice and a commitment.
We always think of Christmas as the season of giving but Easter is the real time of giving. God so loved the world that he gave us his only begotten Son. Jesus.
Nubby
Friday, March 26, 2010
Conservative Violence
Glenn Beck pointed out the other day that the radicals who were rioting, burning American flags, bombing police stations and Army bases in the 1960 are now the ones running the government. America saw them as radical, crazies, dope smoking, mindless zombies led by other radicals. They were marginalized. They didn’t really have a voice at the table with the respectable people.
Now the table has turned. The radicals are the ones running the government. We are the ones doing the demonstartions. The Social Democrats and the media want to do the same thing to us that was done to them in the 60's. That is why they are jumping on any signs of violence or unusual behavior as being typical of the Tea Party members. They want to marginalize us, make people believe that we are not rational; we are a bunch of racist, hate filled crazies who don’t deserve a voice at the table.
Social Democrats, Progressives, Alinsky-ites, Marxist and Fascist always have to have a bad guy to blame. Hitler blamed the Jews. Stalin blamed the capitalist as does Chavez, Castro and so on. There is always a bad guy or a straw man to point out into space and blame. The Tea Party people give them someone to point to. They point out how we hate blacks and Hispanics, Every word is measured and if it is out of line in any way they make an issue of it. Anything that happens anywhere negatively is the result of our attitudes and hate speech. People who love freedom, God and country are the enemy of their great society. We must be demeaned and pushed back and shut upped. Christians are their enemy. America’s religious fervor is their enemy.
The Democrats are demanding the Republicans denounce the violence and threats or step down. Wow is this a reverse end around. Republicans have been getting threats for months but nothing was made of it by the media, but now it different. Now they can use it for their propaganda. Now they can use it to make a public spectacle. So they shout it from the rooftops. To get what they want they are out to destroy everyone they can.
For the media this is a good way to distract the unwitting public about the reality that is happening to their country. Point to the bad guys on the street while in the shuttered offices and behind closed doors are radically changing our country from a free democratic republic to socialist controlled state.
People be wary. Any mistake you make will be amplified, displayed and You-Tubed. They have been planning this for 40 years. Now they are in charge. They are going to finish their plan, but only if we let them. Strike back but in the appropriate way, phone, email and voting.
Nubby
Now the table has turned. The radicals are the ones running the government. We are the ones doing the demonstartions. The Social Democrats and the media want to do the same thing to us that was done to them in the 60's. That is why they are jumping on any signs of violence or unusual behavior as being typical of the Tea Party members. They want to marginalize us, make people believe that we are not rational; we are a bunch of racist, hate filled crazies who don’t deserve a voice at the table.
Social Democrats, Progressives, Alinsky-ites, Marxist and Fascist always have to have a bad guy to blame. Hitler blamed the Jews. Stalin blamed the capitalist as does Chavez, Castro and so on. There is always a bad guy or a straw man to point out into space and blame. The Tea Party people give them someone to point to. They point out how we hate blacks and Hispanics, Every word is measured and if it is out of line in any way they make an issue of it. Anything that happens anywhere negatively is the result of our attitudes and hate speech. People who love freedom, God and country are the enemy of their great society. We must be demeaned and pushed back and shut upped. Christians are their enemy. America’s religious fervor is their enemy.
The Democrats are demanding the Republicans denounce the violence and threats or step down. Wow is this a reverse end around. Republicans have been getting threats for months but nothing was made of it by the media, but now it different. Now they can use it for their propaganda. Now they can use it to make a public spectacle. So they shout it from the rooftops. To get what they want they are out to destroy everyone they can.
For the media this is a good way to distract the unwitting public about the reality that is happening to their country. Point to the bad guys on the street while in the shuttered offices and behind closed doors are radically changing our country from a free democratic republic to socialist controlled state.
People be wary. Any mistake you make will be amplified, displayed and You-Tubed. They have been planning this for 40 years. Now they are in charge. They are going to finish their plan, but only if we let them. Strike back but in the appropriate way, phone, email and voting.
Nubby
The Army of Children
The president was arguing for his healthcare bill, after he had already won the healthcare fight, begging that people needed to get out and promote this thing. He specifically said “children you need to sit down and talk with your parents’ about the healthcare bill". He assumes the children know more about the bill and that they know better than their parents do. He is giving order to his new army.
The children are under attack, a different kind of attack, the kind that you use to see in Soviet Russia and Germany. It is the attack of the indoctrination in our public schools and on TV. We have complained for years that the schools are dumbing down our kids. That is on purpose. The Social Democrats (SD) need kids who are not aware of their history, the men and women who died for freedom. The SD need kids who don’t understand the Constitution, what it means, how we got it and why it is so important.
The TV has taught our kids that parents are stupid. Look at Malcolm in the Middle, the Simpsons and all the other sitcoms. The men are emasculated, weak and stupid. American men are nothing to be proud of. Fathers are to be disrespected. Kids have no problem accepting this idea. That reinforces what they believe anyway. Kids have always thought they were smarter than adults. The Progressives are just playing upon this to manipulate them. Turning them against their parent is easy to do. This is what Germany did before WWII. This is what Stalin and Mao did.
School teaches them about social justice, save the planet, save the poor, save the animals, etc., etc. Obama has a web site where teenagers can sign up for a summer camp type training on how to be a community organizer, (organizers for socialism of course). This is creating a large young army of ideologues who believe in and will support the socialist agenda. They will learn that for the greater good of the country they must bring change to the United States. Change for equality of outcome and economic fairness for all, social justice. They will help to root out the opposition, all those who stand in the way of the great new society of fairness and justice for all. Your children and your grandchildren will be your enemy. This is history repeating itself unless you are willing to fight for freedom once again. We have to stop this socialist train before it gathers anymore steam. It will take sacrifice, sweat and tears but we can save our country.
Nubby
The children are under attack, a different kind of attack, the kind that you use to see in Soviet Russia and Germany. It is the attack of the indoctrination in our public schools and on TV. We have complained for years that the schools are dumbing down our kids. That is on purpose. The Social Democrats (SD) need kids who are not aware of their history, the men and women who died for freedom. The SD need kids who don’t understand the Constitution, what it means, how we got it and why it is so important.
The TV has taught our kids that parents are stupid. Look at Malcolm in the Middle, the Simpsons and all the other sitcoms. The men are emasculated, weak and stupid. American men are nothing to be proud of. Fathers are to be disrespected. Kids have no problem accepting this idea. That reinforces what they believe anyway. Kids have always thought they were smarter than adults. The Progressives are just playing upon this to manipulate them. Turning them against their parent is easy to do. This is what Germany did before WWII. This is what Stalin and Mao did.
School teaches them about social justice, save the planet, save the poor, save the animals, etc., etc. Obama has a web site where teenagers can sign up for a summer camp type training on how to be a community organizer, (organizers for socialism of course). This is creating a large young army of ideologues who believe in and will support the socialist agenda. They will learn that for the greater good of the country they must bring change to the United States. Change for equality of outcome and economic fairness for all, social justice. They will help to root out the opposition, all those who stand in the way of the great new society of fairness and justice for all. Your children and your grandchildren will be your enemy. This is history repeating itself unless you are willing to fight for freedom once again. We have to stop this socialist train before it gathers anymore steam. It will take sacrifice, sweat and tears but we can save our country.
Nubby
No, I'm not a Racist
Some would say I’m a racist because I am against Obama. I am against what is in Obama head not the color of his skin. In fact Obama is not the real problem. He is simply the front man. The people behind him are the real problem. He is like the barker at the circus, out front on stage calling to the people getting them to come inside and see the show. It’s the people on the inside who are running things, the people controlling the show, pulling the strings and doing the magic. It would be nice to see who is really hiding behind that tent. Is it George Soros who occasionally visits the White House? Is it the union leaders that visit frequently?
George is a guy who used capitalism to gain billions of dollars. He didn’t use it like we do, he gamed the system. He used every crooked deal in the book to gain an advantage over others and made a killing. Now that he has got his, he wants to can the rest and sit on it. He is a big proponent of socialism. He has given millions of dollars to socialist/progressive groups like moveon.org, democratic candidates and others. He openly wants to destroy the American way of doing things. So why is he so welcome at the White House? Why does he even have a say in our politics? Why do we allow him to spend money on our political process? Inquiring minds want to know.
I’m against socialism. I’m against socialism in America. I’m against progressivism and liberalism that attempts to do the same thing but slowly. I’m against anyone who wants to destroy America, our free system and our liberty. I’m against the guy hiding behind the curtain. If Obama lines up on that side of the playing field then I’m against Obama.
George is a guy who used capitalism to gain billions of dollars. He didn’t use it like we do, he gamed the system. He used every crooked deal in the book to gain an advantage over others and made a killing. Now that he has got his, he wants to can the rest and sit on it. He is a big proponent of socialism. He has given millions of dollars to socialist/progressive groups like moveon.org, democratic candidates and others. He openly wants to destroy the American way of doing things. So why is he so welcome at the White House? Why does he even have a say in our politics? Why do we allow him to spend money on our political process? Inquiring minds want to know.
I’m against socialism. I’m against socialism in America. I’m against progressivism and liberalism that attempts to do the same thing but slowly. I’m against anyone who wants to destroy America, our free system and our liberty. I’m against the guy hiding behind the curtain. If Obama lines up on that side of the playing field then I’m against Obama.
The fix
With the noise about "repeal the bill", not funding the health provisions and nullifying as much of the bill as possible until we get a conservative president in office, we still need to look at the bigger picture. How did we get here? How do we fix it and what can we do to prevent it from happening again?
We just crossed over the line into major socialism. The healthcare bill made most of the structural changes the progressives (Social Democrats) needed to create a completely government dependent population whether we wanted it or not. Soon to follow will be bills on banking control, big business control, immigration deform and taxes, taxes and more taxes. Their plan is to redistribute the wealth, punish the rich and make economic slaves out of all of us. This will move us towards a beautiful one world utopia where we all live happily ever after (choke, cough).
It’s a beautiful dream but that is all that it is, a dream that will destroy not just capitalism but the country and a people. We got to this horrible place by slow incremental changes in our government, our laws and our courts over the last 100 years. To fix it like it happened, take 100 years to undo the progressive destructive work, is not acceptable. We need to fix the problems and fix it in such a way so it cannot happen again. This requires going back to the Constitution, our foundation, and correct the changes that allowed this happen and look at the loopholes that open the door to these changes. I have said repeatedly there were a few definitions that are needed and some amendments that should be repealed.
The 14th amendment is one place where we got off base. Where the states had all the authority that was not specifically stated in the Constitution the 14th amendment boomeranged all the federal limitations back onto the states and gave the federal government certain powers over the states to prevent further insurrection and secession after the civil war. This should be studied so the federal government cannot use this amendment to exercise authority over the states and expand it largeness without limitations.
Decide on a flat tax or repeal the 16th amendment. A flat tax might simplify the IRS but will still require reporting personal information to the government. Honest people will comply but the criminal element and dishonest citizen will still be a problem. Honest citizens will still get caught and punished while the dishonest can still avoid it. The flat tax if accepted should be implemented with limitations so it cannot easily be changed without the consent of the people. The flat tax should apply to 100% of the people.
Currently the progressive tax we have is being paid by a few people and enjoyed by many. It is impossible for the people paying the brunt of taxes right now to have an equal voice in the argument about taxes. The people not paying taxes, but receiving benefits, out number the ones who are paying taxes. This inequality should be eliminated by congress or the courts. I would like the courts to say that the Tax Code is an unfair and unequal application of the law.
A sales tax to generate revenues would be more in line with the original intentions of our founders. They were aware of the dangers of a direct tax on the people. A sales tax eliminates the IRS and the need to report your personal data to the government. A sales tax will get collected no matter where the money came from, honestly or otherwise. Everyone would pay the tax whenever they purchased anything retail.
The long term fix is also the quick fix. We need a constitutional convention called with a limited agenda just to fix these specific problems. When the constitutional changes are made then there would be a short period of time to review all current laws and budget expenditures and those that fail the test would be eliminated. Every area and agency where the federal government has grown outside the boundaries of the revised Constitution would be shut down, cut off, caputt.
A new amendment should be added. No elected or appointed representative of the United States shall be exempted from the application of any law passed by Congress (they should not be able to exempt themselves, even the president) . Nor shall any employee or class of employees of the United States be exempted unless agreed upon by two third of vote in both houses. In such case the person(s) shall be named and the limitation shall expire after a maximum of seven years. (Nobody should have special treatment).
And another amendment: The employee amendment. The average salaries and benefits of employees of the United States government shall not exceed the nominal average benefits of the working private sector. All conditions of employment and termination for any employee the United States government shall be the same conditions as employees working in the private sector. The above conditions and benefits shall be determined every three years by a panel represented equally by private employees, private management, public employees and public management.
The general idea is to fix the Constitution so Social Progressives, Marxists, communists or socialists can never gain control of our government again. We want to reset the system and bar the door. No more government takeovers allowed.
Nubby
We just crossed over the line into major socialism. The healthcare bill made most of the structural changes the progressives (Social Democrats) needed to create a completely government dependent population whether we wanted it or not. Soon to follow will be bills on banking control, big business control, immigration deform and taxes, taxes and more taxes. Their plan is to redistribute the wealth, punish the rich and make economic slaves out of all of us. This will move us towards a beautiful one world utopia where we all live happily ever after (choke, cough).
It’s a beautiful dream but that is all that it is, a dream that will destroy not just capitalism but the country and a people. We got to this horrible place by slow incremental changes in our government, our laws and our courts over the last 100 years. To fix it like it happened, take 100 years to undo the progressive destructive work, is not acceptable. We need to fix the problems and fix it in such a way so it cannot happen again. This requires going back to the Constitution, our foundation, and correct the changes that allowed this happen and look at the loopholes that open the door to these changes. I have said repeatedly there were a few definitions that are needed and some amendments that should be repealed.
The 14th amendment is one place where we got off base. Where the states had all the authority that was not specifically stated in the Constitution the 14th amendment boomeranged all the federal limitations back onto the states and gave the federal government certain powers over the states to prevent further insurrection and secession after the civil war. This should be studied so the federal government cannot use this amendment to exercise authority over the states and expand it largeness without limitations.
Decide on a flat tax or repeal the 16th amendment. A flat tax might simplify the IRS but will still require reporting personal information to the government. Honest people will comply but the criminal element and dishonest citizen will still be a problem. Honest citizens will still get caught and punished while the dishonest can still avoid it. The flat tax if accepted should be implemented with limitations so it cannot easily be changed without the consent of the people. The flat tax should apply to 100% of the people.
Currently the progressive tax we have is being paid by a few people and enjoyed by many. It is impossible for the people paying the brunt of taxes right now to have an equal voice in the argument about taxes. The people not paying taxes, but receiving benefits, out number the ones who are paying taxes. This inequality should be eliminated by congress or the courts. I would like the courts to say that the Tax Code is an unfair and unequal application of the law.
A sales tax to generate revenues would be more in line with the original intentions of our founders. They were aware of the dangers of a direct tax on the people. A sales tax eliminates the IRS and the need to report your personal data to the government. A sales tax will get collected no matter where the money came from, honestly or otherwise. Everyone would pay the tax whenever they purchased anything retail.
The long term fix is also the quick fix. We need a constitutional convention called with a limited agenda just to fix these specific problems. When the constitutional changes are made then there would be a short period of time to review all current laws and budget expenditures and those that fail the test would be eliminated. Every area and agency where the federal government has grown outside the boundaries of the revised Constitution would be shut down, cut off, caputt.
A new amendment should be added. No elected or appointed representative of the United States shall be exempted from the application of any law passed by Congress (they should not be able to exempt themselves, even the president) . Nor shall any employee or class of employees of the United States be exempted unless agreed upon by two third of vote in both houses. In such case the person(s) shall be named and the limitation shall expire after a maximum of seven years. (Nobody should have special treatment).
And another amendment: The employee amendment. The average salaries and benefits of employees of the United States government shall not exceed the nominal average benefits of the working private sector. All conditions of employment and termination for any employee the United States government shall be the same conditions as employees working in the private sector. The above conditions and benefits shall be determined every three years by a panel represented equally by private employees, private management, public employees and public management.
The general idea is to fix the Constitution so Social Progressives, Marxists, communists or socialists can never gain control of our government again. We want to reset the system and bar the door. No more government takeovers allowed.
Nubby
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
About the healthcare plan
• Adding 30 million people to insurance plans who don’t pay for insurance will increase your premium about $90/month right off the bat.
• Government price controls will force a number of doctors out of business because they cannot charge enough to cover their cost. Doctor shortages will add to the cost of individuals insurance.
• Government price controls will force a number of hospitals to close causing longer waits, increasing cost.
• Doctors who do not want to be under government control will leave their practice for other opportunities. Surveys show that a minimum of 30% of the medical profession will leave medicine. Results: doctor shortages (like Canada and England) and longer waits.
• Projected revenue sources in the bill are unrealistic. A proposed 500 billion dollar cut in Medicare will not happen or seniors will have to do without. The 250 billion dollar Doc fix elimination will not happen. Results: Your premium increases about $250/month to cover seniors and disabled persons or we let them die.
• Part of the income revenue planned is to put a tax on all medical devices. Anyone using any medical equipment to improve their quality of life will have to pay more for that equipment and replacement costs. Which also drive up the overall cost of insurance paying for these devices? Either costs will go up or people will make do without them. It's cheaper to suffer sometimes. If the latter then revenues will not meet expectations. Taxes will increase to cover losses. (just like California, they keep raising taxes until there is nothing left to collect from and now they are broke)
• The added requirements to what businesses provide will drive up their cost considerable. One large national company said the requirements will use up half their profits. The reason to stay in business is to make a reasonable profit. The effect will be more unemployed as businesses have to cut cost to stay in business as a result of this healthcare plan.
• Businesses will figure out that paying the penalty for not providing employees with insurance is cheaper than providing it with all the added cost. They will tell you to go to the government plan. (Exactly what the socialist want). The cost of the government plan will be higher. Ask Massachusset. Their cost has risen dramatically. They pay the highest premiums in the country. They are having to reduce their coverage (rationing) and wating list are starting to happen. They only survive because the federal government keeps them propped up. Who is going to prop up the federal government? California?
• Insurance companies currently make about a 4% profit. Compare this to most major corporations who make between 10% and 20% profit. Price controls and government mandates will drive them out of business leaving the government option as the only choice for individuals.
• Insurance companies will start adjusting their prices to account for changes in the law before the cost actually start hitting the door. Your premium will go up as soon as they compute their expected cost.
• All the taxes and cost start happening right away. The implementation of the actual coverage (benefits) will not start until 2014. You will be paying for four years before you ever see one penny of benefit.
• The bill includes in their budget billions of dollars in cost cutting and eliminating fraud and waste. Government has never been able to cut cost, fraud or waste in anything over any period of time. If they could why are they not doing it already? This is actual cost that will be added to your monthly premium sooner or later.
• The bill will add 16,000 IRS agents to enforce it. Who will pay for this cost (2 billion dollars a year)? You will. Every year everyone will have the extra stress of making sure they all their insurance papers in order for the IRS to prevent a medical audit. Fun if you change jobs at the end of the year.
• The bill adds 160 new agencies to oversee, monitor, dictate rules and decide who can get what care for how much money. How do you sort all this out? Who pays for this? Who do you answer to? Which agency has authority over the other?
• They added the student loan program to the bill. There are no more private student loans. The government owns it all. Students will pay several extra percent to the cost of their loan to help cover the medical plan. Instead of a 3% student loan they will now pay 6%. This is what we do to our kids.
• A tax on the wealthy continues to increase for every thing the government wants. Sooner or later they decide to quit making money (don’t invest, no investment money, no jobs) and just sit on what they have or eventually they run out of money. In the long run the little guy will have to pay more for his share or have no money to pay for anything.
• Summary:
• Conservatives are planning stop this bill from being implemented and replace it with common sense legislation that will actually lower cost and still leave people free to make their own choices. There are good ideas in the bill which would work but without the socialism price tag that goes with it.
Nubby
• Government price controls will force a number of doctors out of business because they cannot charge enough to cover their cost. Doctor shortages will add to the cost of individuals insurance.
• Government price controls will force a number of hospitals to close causing longer waits, increasing cost.
• Doctors who do not want to be under government control will leave their practice for other opportunities. Surveys show that a minimum of 30% of the medical profession will leave medicine. Results: doctor shortages (like Canada and England) and longer waits.
• Projected revenue sources in the bill are unrealistic. A proposed 500 billion dollar cut in Medicare will not happen or seniors will have to do without. The 250 billion dollar Doc fix elimination will not happen. Results: Your premium increases about $250/month to cover seniors and disabled persons or we let them die.
• Part of the income revenue planned is to put a tax on all medical devices. Anyone using any medical equipment to improve their quality of life will have to pay more for that equipment and replacement costs. Which also drive up the overall cost of insurance paying for these devices? Either costs will go up or people will make do without them. It's cheaper to suffer sometimes. If the latter then revenues will not meet expectations. Taxes will increase to cover losses. (just like California, they keep raising taxes until there is nothing left to collect from and now they are broke)
• The added requirements to what businesses provide will drive up their cost considerable. One large national company said the requirements will use up half their profits. The reason to stay in business is to make a reasonable profit. The effect will be more unemployed as businesses have to cut cost to stay in business as a result of this healthcare plan.
• Businesses will figure out that paying the penalty for not providing employees with insurance is cheaper than providing it with all the added cost. They will tell you to go to the government plan. (Exactly what the socialist want). The cost of the government plan will be higher. Ask Massachusset. Their cost has risen dramatically. They pay the highest premiums in the country. They are having to reduce their coverage (rationing) and wating list are starting to happen. They only survive because the federal government keeps them propped up. Who is going to prop up the federal government? California?
• Insurance companies currently make about a 4% profit. Compare this to most major corporations who make between 10% and 20% profit. Price controls and government mandates will drive them out of business leaving the government option as the only choice for individuals.
• Insurance companies will start adjusting their prices to account for changes in the law before the cost actually start hitting the door. Your premium will go up as soon as they compute their expected cost.
• All the taxes and cost start happening right away. The implementation of the actual coverage (benefits) will not start until 2014. You will be paying for four years before you ever see one penny of benefit.
• The bill includes in their budget billions of dollars in cost cutting and eliminating fraud and waste. Government has never been able to cut cost, fraud or waste in anything over any period of time. If they could why are they not doing it already? This is actual cost that will be added to your monthly premium sooner or later.
• The bill will add 16,000 IRS agents to enforce it. Who will pay for this cost (2 billion dollars a year)? You will. Every year everyone will have the extra stress of making sure they all their insurance papers in order for the IRS to prevent a medical audit. Fun if you change jobs at the end of the year.
• The bill adds 160 new agencies to oversee, monitor, dictate rules and decide who can get what care for how much money. How do you sort all this out? Who pays for this? Who do you answer to? Which agency has authority over the other?
• They added the student loan program to the bill. There are no more private student loans. The government owns it all. Students will pay several extra percent to the cost of their loan to help cover the medical plan. Instead of a 3% student loan they will now pay 6%. This is what we do to our kids.
• A tax on the wealthy continues to increase for every thing the government wants. Sooner or later they decide to quit making money (don’t invest, no investment money, no jobs) and just sit on what they have or eventually they run out of money. In the long run the little guy will have to pay more for his share or have no money to pay for anything.
• Summary:
o There is no free lunch or in this case healthcare. Everyone who now has insurance will have to pay a lot more under this plan. To start with about $300/month once the dust settles and it will increase after that.
o Liberals Democrats say this plan will cost fewer than one trillion dollars over ten years. Conservative say it is closer to 2.9 trillion dollars. Medicare was projected to be 9 billion over ten years when it was first created in 1965. It was actually $107 billion. No government program has ever come close to its original estimated cost.
o The plan will create shortages which will increase cost.
o Shortages will require rationing like in England. You have to reserve the labor room 10 month in advance to have a baby in a hospital in England. ah-hemm Do the math.
o The plan will eliminate innovation. American innovation is driven in a great deal by the profit motive. All the socialist countries with government run healthcare do not have any medical innovation. It all comes from the USA and other free enterprise countries.
o The government has never passed any bill that hasn’t contained unintended consequences. A bill of over 2700 pages will contain so many unintended consequences that it will be impossible to deal with them. A good bill coming from Congress will be only 3 to 5 pages long.
o Most importantly the plan will bankrupt America. The plan takes (supposedly) $500 billion from Medicare which is already bankrupt ($36 trillion in debt) to fund a new plan. That is illogical. That is trying to borrow money from an overdrawn bank account to pay for debt on a new credit card.
o This healthcare plan is a poison apple. The evil witch shows us a pretty apple. It looks good. It looks appealing. Initially it tastes good. The fruit feels good in your mouth. In the end the poison takes effect and you die.
o Name one country that started out as a socialist country and grew into a prosperous, thriving productive country. There are none. Every socialist country came from a productive country that was taken over and made it into a country that just exists. Unemployment is high in every one. Taxes are high in every one. The rich, the wealthy and the productive people have either quit trying or left. There is no incentive.
o The people running our government want us to be socialist like much of Europe. To be like Europe? They cannot defend themselves. They cannot afford a decent military. They all depend on the United States. Their economies are not growing, just existing. Four European socialist countries are failing, bordering on bankruptcy. Unemployment in Europe is running around 15% to 20%. Why do we want to be like that?
o Real Americans who know their history, patriotic Americans are not socialist and don’t want to be socialist. Socialism is a form of slavery. The government is the master. You do what they tell you to do or else they don’t give you what you need.
• Conservatives are planning stop this bill from being implemented and replace it with common sense legislation that will actually lower cost and still leave people free to make their own choices. There are good ideas in the bill which would work but without the socialism price tag that goes with it.
Nubby
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