Posted by
J Vidrine on Thursday, August 13, 2009 1:02:03 PM
Ever listen to Pres Obama? His speech is very “calibrated”, e.g.. his wording on saying that the Cambridge, MA police acted stupidly and later saying that he should have “calibrated his words differently.”
His speeches and townhalls are long on generalities but miniscule on specifics. There are examples concerning taxes, Gitmo, unemployment, jobs, and more. But I digress. The area in which he is most ambiguous is health care. His calibrated words tell us of the “crisis”, of the need for urgent, immediate action, and therefore the push to pass H.R. 3200 stat. Over 1000 pages of governmental mumbo-jumbo, unintelligible to even Congress as Rep Dingel (D,MI) explained. Most Americans (and Congress members) don't realize some of the groundwork for Obamacare was tucked into the emergency stimulus bill.
The government co-opted media is reporting disinformation and some outlets are not correcting it when they are caught. Lifenews.com reports, “Associated Press Reverses Itself, Admits Health Care Bills Include Abortion Funding .” (i.e., your tax dollars paying for ending the lives of the most vulnerable in society.)
H.R. 3200 also includes mandated end of life consultations for those over a certain age. Like the state of Oregon, payments for physician-assisted suicide but not for expensive cancer drugs for those with a shorter life expectancy. Bureaucrats making your decisions for you. This is not liberty. It is not ethical or moral.
The real hidden secret: federal government control of 1/6 of America's economy. This “centralizing” of power is the real agenda. That is why all life. womb to tomb, must be defended from the central planners of this administration. Martin Niemöller, German Protestant minister and social activist, wrote this poem:
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out. (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Niemoller)
I would like to take poetic license to paraphrase Rev. Niemoller:
First they came for the unborn,
I remained silent.
I was already born.
Then they came for the mentally ill.
I did not speak out,
I was sane.
When they came for those not able to contribute to society,
I remained silent,
I was a contributing member.
When I became old, infirmed, mentally ill, physically disabled, they came for me.
No one spoke out because those who would were gone,
Those who could are now powerless.
“ The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'”, quipped Ronald Reagan. Government programs, especially those that should belong to the private sector, are black holes of inefficiency, waste, and inhumanity. They don't create wealth, merely transfer it from producers to non-producers.
So when it comes to protecting life, speak out. The elitist “do-gooders” sure do. From an interview in the July 12, 2009, New York Times Magazine, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg commenting on the Supreme Court's 1980 decision in Harris v. McRae, ruling that the Hyde Amendment's exclusion of funding nontherapeutic abortions from Medicaid was constitutional:
“Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion. Which some people felt would risk coercing women into having abortions when they didn’t really want them. But when the court decided McRae, the case came out the other way. And then I realized that my perception of it had been altogether wrong.”
Ginsburg has finally said aloud what the elites and eggheads have known all along. Weeding out undesirable populations will be a consequence of this health care reform bill. Unintended or intentional? The reader must decide. But as Pres. Obama has demonstrated in bailouts, takeovers, stimulus bills and now health care, the devil is in the details.