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Cash For Clunkers: ObamaCare Preview

2009-08-01T09:06:00.001-04:00

Most of us would not buy a car without taking it for a test drive. One of the purposes of driving before buying is to get a feel for the vehicle and to see if it fits you. It would be a huge risk to make such a large purchase without knowing how it runs, if you will be comfortable in it and so on.

Unfortunately, most of us don't have a way to test run government health care. That is unless you have had the pleasure of having been treated in a VA hospital or had to wait for Medicare to determine if it is going to pay for the medicine you need.

If you are caught up in the idea that this legislation means free health care for everyone and haven't really thought about how the government operates something, here is a little preview of what to expect...

Popularity, Web Snafus Nearly Broke 'Clunkers'

Cash for clunkers started out with the intention of getting people to buy new cars, jolt the economy and save the auto industry. As is the case with any government intervention, a plan is initiated and no thought process beyond that is delivered.

14 Pounds, 1 Foot High, Nobodys Read It

2009-07-29T22:39:00.002-04:00

The hypocrisy of a hypocrite...

How Obama Got Elected And Media Malpractice

2009-07-25T12:03:00.001-04:00

How Obama Got Elected

How To Save California

2009-07-25T11:47:00.003-04:00

California woman offers up her solutions for saving the state...

After all, we should all be more like California.

Dodd Keeps Taking Lobbyist Money Despite Claiming Independence - Political News - FOXNews.com

2009-07-25T10:33:00.003-04:00

Dodd Keeps Taking Lobbyist Money Despite Claiming Independence - Political News - FOXNews.com

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Has Liberalism Jumped the Shark?

2009-07-25T09:34:00.002-04:00

Has Liberalism Jumped the Shark?

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Stupid Is As Stupid Does

2009-07-24T09:34:00.002-04:00

President calls police stupid without knowing the entire story, then defends his statement by not really addressing the issue...

FoxNews: Butt Out Of My Arrest

AP: Mass. police 'deeply pained' by Obama's criticism

Arrest report

Thune Amendment-National Concealed Carry

2009-07-24T08:42:00.005-04:00

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Examiner: The sham vote on national concealed carry 'Thune Amendment' by Paul Valone

Anti-Gun Senators Defeat Common Sense Thune Concealed Carry Amendment

The Prescription For Disaster

2009-07-22T22:25:00.010-04:00

No matter what your position is on health care, this is too big to ram through without anyone reading the bill. We should all, especially those of us that pay taxes, have the chance to read, understand and know what it is that is going to be done to us. Now, more than ever, it is time to do your homework. Here are a few articles to ponder...

Beware of Comprehensive Health Care Reform

NYPost: Rx For Disaster

Forbes: Rationing Health Care

Stossel: Arrogance

The Congressional Budget Office: By the end of the 10-year period, in 2019, the coverage provisions would add $202 billion to the federal deficit, CBO and JCT estimate. That increase would be partially offset by net cost savings of $50 billion and additional revenues of $86 billion, resulting in a net increase in the deficit of an estimated $65 billion.

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ACORN Set To "Help" You Fill Out The Census

2009-07-21T16:20:00.002-04:00

The Hill OP-EDs: Don't let ACORN taint the 2010 Census

Surgeon General Pick Sends Mixed Signals

2009-07-21T16:14:00.002-04:00

ABC News: Critics Slam Overweight Surgeon General Pick, Regina Benjamin

2012 Match-ups: Obama, Romney Tied at 45%; Obama 48%, Palin 42%

2009-07-20T22:30:00.003-04:00

2012 Match-ups: Obama, Romney Tied at 45%; Obama 48%, Palin 42%

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Stopping ObamaCare

2009-07-20T18:27:00.004-04:00

Karl Rove: The GOP Can Stop ObamaCare
The public is in no mood for drastic changes in current coverage.

Freedom Works: How the Grassroots Can Stop ObamaCare

Dick Morris: Urgent Action Needed On Healthcare

As Freud Would Say

2009-07-20T16:46:00.004-04:00

President Obama and the Freudian slip...

Politico: Barack Obama's gaffe: seeking greater inefficiencies

Thrown Under The Bus

2009-07-19T15:48:00.004-04:00

Commerce Secretary sheds some light on why Americans are going to pay for their wrongs...

Reuters: U.S. should pay for carbon content of imported goods-Locke

Trips Abroad

2009-07-19T15:45:00.004-04:00

The Fall Of The Republic

2009-07-17T16:12:00.005-04:00

Alexander Fraser Tytler, lawyer and writer, is credited (although it is undocumented) with the following:

A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.

Sources:
"Alexander Fraser Tytler." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 03 July2009. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fraser_Tytler. Under Creative Commons License.

The founding fathers studied this and feared it. The reason that The United States was set up as a republic and not a democracy is because they were attempting to break this cycle. They knew that if people could vote themselves entitlements, they most certainly would.

The Republic has outlasted the Tytler Cycle, so far. The problem is that the country has shifted backward, rather than moved forward. Unfortunately, many do not understand this, as they really have not been students of history.

If you think about what is going on right now with regards to the shift to an entitlement society, the case can certainly be made that we are at the "From apathy to dependence" stage of the cycle. Voters are voting for promises of stuff they want (i.e. health care), therefore allowing the government to grow and take over more aspects of their lives.

If they do not wake up and see what is happening, it will not be long before they move back into the bondage stage our forefathers fought so hard to escape.

Barbara Boxer Disgraces Herself, Yet Again And Again And Again

2009-07-17T11:47:00.004-04:00

California Senator Barbara Boxer has got to be fired...

In the next video, she displays her ignorance on how military personnel use the terms "Sir" and "Ma'am" as signs of respect...

Can California please elect someone competent to office????