Cops jump on swine-flu power: Shots heard 'round the world

You might think that the headline above was a farce or was some lame attempt by me to garner a fantastic eye grabbing headline. But you would be wrong. It is absolutely true.

Dateline: the Peoples Republic of Massachusetts. The New England state that is famous for the likes of the Liberal Lion Ted Kennedy and the arrogant gay man representative Barny Frank now gives us a glimpse of what government is willing to do to its own citizens.

The State Senate of Massachusetts has passed Pandemic Response Bill 2028 a bill which could force the residents of MA to inoculated against their will, destroy their property and/or have property taken all without a warrant and if one fails to comply or allow compliance with this law, a citizen will be fined up to $1,000 per day of non-compliance.

Now first of all, one could say it is just a small state. This would be true. But it could also be true that this would be a test case for the rest of the nation. Remember, Health Care Reform is the baby of Ted Kennedy and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has a form of Kennedy health care already. It is the model for the HR 3200 for national health care reform.

The MA model does not work by any standard. So now we are going to be looking at another test case that will infringe on the rights of Americans and they will do it in the name of "public safety" and "public health". Remember this is the same bunch of Liberals that say smoking a cigarette outside is a public health threat and they wanted to ban smoking in public parks.

You have to understand that Liberals will stop at nothing to get power, to keep power and to lord that power over you on a daily basis. It is now coming down to them wanting the very power over weather or not you get health care and weather or not you get inoculated with drugs that are not even proven to work or even proven to be safe.

It used to be said that as the State of California goes, so goes the nation. Well California recently decided that the people are the final voice and when the people vote that vote shall be upheld. But that does not seem to be spreading across this nation. Instead, it seems the Washington has been eying what goes on in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. So the saying could be changed to as "Taxachusetts" goes, so goes the rest of the nation.

I'm wondering, will this proposed new law give the Obama Health Czar the idea of forcing every citizen in this nation to take drugs of mind altering capabilities to sedate those of us who would be thought of as seditionist? Don't laugh or think me crazy. Just look at what they are proposing and then tell me it could not happen under a "state of emergency."

As for me an my house? They will have to kill me in order to inject me with anything I don't want them to inject me with. My state motto is still "Live Free or Die". It's my personal motto as well.

Health Care or Health Insurance?

There are some who have answers to the Health Care debate. And the answers are based on putting patients and doctors in charge of health care, not government, not insurance companies.



The one thing this video missed is the fact that insurance should be for covering the major things in health. Not every day things like physicals or because your kid gets the sniffles and you want to go to the doctors office because all you have to pay is a $10 co-pay.

Hey, think of this next time you visit your doctor under a stupid co-pay. How much do you pay annually for this kind of insurance? Then ask yourself how much did you use it? I think you will find that if you got yourself a major medical kind of insurance plan and banked the rest, you would have a ton of cash to pay for that stuff you now overpay for.

Think of health insurance as the Universal Life Insurance of health care. Everybody wins with that kind of insurance but the person who is actually insured. Thank about it.

Sympathy doesn't change the facts

I am sitting here going nuts. I am having a hard time keeping my cool. I am sure my medical emergency someday will be due to a heart attack from stress. The question is why did I have the stress and will the government pay for my treatment to keep me alive.

The answer to the second part of that question is, in my opinion in which I believe with all my heart is, no. I am a conservative and as such I don't believe in government run health care. I am sure someone at some point in the future is going to look at my record and decide that since I was so against the government, it would be better for everyone (at least the government) if I were to no longer be on this earth.

Now make no mistake about it. I am a Christian and I firmly believe that when I am absent from this earthly body, I will be in the presence of my Lord in heaven. So for me to die by natural causes is not a fear that I have. The point is will I be helped along by those in power because I did not agree with them in taking control of my health care.

The first part of the question begs another question...why did I have so much stress in the first place? The answer is a simple one. My government gave me the stress.

I tried listening to a Blog Talk Radio talk show this evening that was talking about health care and the reform that our government wants to foist upon us all. It was even disguised as a "faith" talk about health care reform.

Now understand this, Christ Himself would not go for government control of health care. But some of our so-called faith leaders seem to think that health care is a right granted to us by God. It is not. You don't even have a RIGHT to eat. Think I am wrong? Then well answer this question. If eating is a RIGHT then why is it not the case that our government owns and operates every single grocery store in the land? Hey, eating is far more important than health care. You can live for a long time with out going to the doctors office. But you can only last so long without eating.

We have even people of "faith" who are willing to lie for the left because they think it shows sympathy. Well, it doesn't. True sympathy would be to help others help themselves. The old wise tale of feeding a man with a fish and teaching him to fish applies in every aspect of our life including health care.

We have seen that by giving humans something that they feel doesn't cost them anything often leads to those things becoming highly expensive and highly over used. Don't believe me? How often do you think people would go to their doctor if all they had to do is pay five or ten dollars out of their pocket? Very often as it turns out. They go even for a simple cold.

Why is it then, that nearly every other country with government run health care rations that health care in some form or another? Is it out of sympathy? Not it is out of cost control.

Simply put, you cannot control cost on the healthy. You cannot control cost on those who do NOT use the health care system. You can only control cost on the sick. You can only control cost on those who DO use the system.

So the question should be, if all of you who support so-called health care reform, will you complain when it does not live up to your expectations? Because by its very nature and design it cannot.

Will you curse health care on your early death bed or will you praise the wisdom of some government board who denied you life saving or life extending care?

Yea, I didn't think so.

I need a Sledge Hammer

When are people in this country going to wake up. Seriously. It is getting to be very frustrating dealing with people who do not even understand the concept of freedom.

Sure you have the freedom to give up your freedom. But why would you do it? Sure you can blame president Bush for the stupid Patriot Act but why do you vote for others who tell you to your face they will take away your freedom and limit your choice?

Does anyone stop and think any more? Do you really understand the meaning of hypocrisy. Seriously.

I run into people all the time who are aghast that I do not support Barrack Obama. When I ask them to tell me why they are supporting him no body can tell me outside of the sound bites why they support him.

He will bring change, they say. Bill Clinton promised the same kind of change but other than redefining the meaning of sex, what change did he bring? And of that change, if there was any, did you like it? The answer is usually no they did not like the change Bill Clinton brought about.

So many people don't have health care. So I ask do you like the government telling you what to do in any aspect of your life? They usually answer no. So why then would you want the government to tell you when and where you could get your health care? They wouldn't, they admit. So why vote for someone who says he or she is going to take over the health care system? They wouldn't they say. But you will vote for Obama? Yes, they say. I want to bash my head with a hammer at this point.

Do you like being taxed, I ask. Well, no, they reply. Do you think you pay too much in taxes, I ask. Usually they reply with a resounding yes. So why would you support someone who says to your face he is going to raise your taxes? But he represents change they say. The kind of change you want then, I reply. Not exactly they say.

Where is that hammer?

You probably want out of Iraq. But should would bail out as soon as possible even if it means leaving the Iraqi people in an insecure position? Well that would not be right, they say. Oh, so the people of Iraq deserve freedom and they deserve to be able to live in peace then? Well everyone on the planet deserves to live in peace, they reply. Then taking out the troops now and ending that peace and leaving the people of Iraq to the terrorist and the evils of Iran is OK then. Well, no they respond with concern in their voice. So Obama wants to get out now and do just that, should you still support him? Well yes, they say. They use that word change again.

I need a huge hammer.

So you don't agree with Obama on taxes, health care, your freedom, the battle for Iraq yet you still support him? I am sorry but I just don't understand why you would?

Well he is so eloquent in his speech. He is good looking and he is black.

Huh?

I tell them about some of his gaffs only I lie and say George Bush said those things and they say, he is an idiot and needs to be impeached. Then I correct myself and say (and prove) that Obama said those things and they still don't believe. I tell them where they can hear him and see him say those things (57 states) and they still think he is a brilliant man.

How can you say he is brilliant when you just said George Bush is an idiot for saying the same thing even thought GW didn't actually say those things? Um is their response.

Obama is only half black and he is half white and his father was not a slave descendant. I am part black and I am descended from slaves. Would I be a better president? No, they reply, you are not a democrat.

OK, I know have a sledge hammer.

Are we really this dumb as a nation?

I think one good whack with an 8lb sledge will put me out of my misery.

Food Police in the land of the Free

The food police are out in full force now. It is official. Boston is going to become the next city in a nation of “free” people to ban the use of trans-fats in food. Of course some of you think there is nothing wrong with that.

Boston joins New York City and Philadelphia (the city of Brotherly Love and one of the cradle cities of our nations birth) to ban this heart stopping kind of bad fat. But wait, I thought we lived in the land of freedom. I thought we lived in the land where you have the freedom and the right to chose. I guess some people think they know whats best for you and will chose for you.

Come, on now. Did you honestly think these liberal wackos would stop at cigerettes? It has gotten so bad with those things now, that some cities and towns won't even let you smoke them in public parks. Some states are considering banning them from cars, your car, if it has your kids in it.

The nanny state is going too far and each and ever one of you is letting it happen. Most of us don't remember the time of prohibition. That is a time when our illustrious leaders sought to put a ban on alcohol in the constitution. It was a total disaster and a true attack on personal freedom.

This is getting way out of control. We are bringing homosexual sex out into the open but forcing people who like to smoke and eat into the closet. If you think for one instant that the food and society police are going to stop at this level, then you are stupid. Let me be blunt. You are stupid and probably deserve to have your freedom taken away.

You are now being told what you can and cannot eat. Sure smoking may be bad for your health. But are they so sure that eating trans fats in moderation is bad? No they are not. We seem to find on a daily basis, some culture around the world that eats more of a particular bad food than we do yet they have a much lower heart disease rate than we do. They have lower diabetes rates than we do. They have lower disease rates in nearly everything that we do. And they have no universal health care.

Maybe its just the fact that these people have learned how to live their own lives without the government telling them how to. They have lived their lives and their way of life for centuries without the interference of some busy body government official trying to tell them what to put into their mouths.

Our government can't even get the food pyramid right and you will give them the power to tell you what to eat and how to live? This makes no sense. There should be outrage and loud voices of opposition to this sort of thing.

But no, our governments enact legislation that restricts your freedom and you barely make a peep. So when they come for your favorite pastime or food, when they take away your right to do what you want and should be able to do in your own home, in your own car, you will have only yourself to blame.

Health Care by Government, Only if You Want Medicare for Everone

There has been a lot of talk about health care. There has been a lot of talk about the 35 to 45 million people in the USA that have no health insurance coverage. The politicians claim that these people all want coverage but can't afford it.

Lets be honest here. First of all, not all those 35 to 45 million Americans want insurance. There are many who do not want to spend the money even if they can afford it. I remember when I was in my teens. I did not want to pay for health care coverage that did not make sense to me. Most people who are healthy in their teens and twenties don't see the need for regular health insurance. They don't visit doctors on a regular basis and they know they would be throwing their money away.

Well now, according to 60 Minutes, we have millions of people who are under insured. These people can't afford the co-payment or they don't have dental or eye care as a part of their current coverage. So that boost the number of people who do not have proper health coverage to nearly 100 million people.

That means that one third of the US population does not access the health care system. I find that hard to believe.

First of all, I do not believe that health care is a basic right. I'm sorry, but it is not. It is a business like any other. If it was not a business where a profit could be made, then you would not have the advancements we have had. Yes, if something goes wrong, I certainly want the best possible medical attention I can afford.

That is key. The word afford. Yes, I am sure I have just pissed off a lot of people but that will not change my view. I have been on both sides of the isle. I have had health care coverage and I have been without it. I have always been healthy and I rarely go to a doctor.

Some people would say I am crazy for not visiting my doctor on a regular basis. Why should I? There is very little in our world that people access when they don't need to.

The point is, there is nothing on this planet other than breathing that is given to anyone free of charge. You even have to work for your food. So why do we think we can take what is essentially a business and start giving it away or dictating the cost and price of it.

Communist and Socialist countries have all tried to make parts or all of their health care a free and open access policy and they have all failed or they are currently failing. Canadians come to the USA for basic health care needs because they cannot get them in Canada or their waiting list is too long for the good of their health.

England, Sweden and other socialistic nations have had to change or overhaul their government health care system because their old systems were not working and/or it was bankrupting the government and the people.

Those of you calling for the Federal Government to take over your health care should take a look at Medicare and Midicaid. They should also look at the VA system. All three are in shambles and are shameful examples of how government can screw up your health care.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has changed their health care system. They say they are doing everyone a great service. The only problem is they are in the back pockets and in the bedroom of every one of their citizens. In Massachusetts if you are 18 years old or older you MUST have health insurance. If you don't, then the state will fine you. Now of course if you fall within certain income guidelines you are eligible for a state plan. Again you are forced to have something you may not want. It is not the same as being forced to have car insurance. You can chose to not own or drive a car. The only choice you have with health insurance is to move out of the state.

And yes, Massachusetts is losing population. The neighboring states of New Hampshire and Rhode Island are gaining a good portion of those fleeing the over taxation and over regulation in Massachusetts

Health care and health insurance is not FREE nor is it cheap. To say you want the government to give it to you is ludicrous. It is the very definition of insanity. I do not want an organization that already has made a mess of health care to be in charge of my health care.

I am one of those very healthy people even though high blood pressure and diabetes runs in my family. I choose not to go to the doctor for a number of reasons. Mainly because I am healthy and I eat right and exercise and just plain take care of myself. It is safe to say that if the majority of Americans lived the way I lived, there would not be nearly as high a need for drugs and doctors as we have now. And yes I do eat sweets and junk food on occasion.

The point is, when the government get hold of your health care, they will be able to tell you how to live if you want to continue getting that care. You don't think other measures will come down the pike? Think again.

There are already people in congress proposing a fat tax on snack foods similar to the taxes on tobacco. Sugar soft drinks are also in their radar sites. Yes you will be hounded and taxed to death if you do not conform to someones ideal way of life. That is the power of government and once you give them that power, it is nearly impossible to take that power away.

Remember, just like driving, you do not have a constitutional right to eat anything you want. At least that is what they will say which will give them the right to tax your eating behavior. Snack foods and other foods not deemed healthy will be viewed as privileges. Hell there may even be age limits imposed on snack foods. Petty soon you will need to be 16 or 18 or 21 years of age to buy potato chips. You think I am going too far?

Just look at tobacco, alcohol and some over the counter drugs. Don't think for an instant that the health police will not come after you or tax you and your favorite snack chip. The point is government has no business being in my or your living room, bed room, bathroom or anywhere else in your private life. But you allow them to take over the health care system and you will give them that right.

Not to mention you will be much poorer for it. You think health care in the USA is expensive now, just wait until the government gets hold of it. When was the last time government was able to bring down the cost of anything while keeping the service the same or improving it? Right, there has not been a time.

Our government is here for public safety, yes. Health care is not a public safety issue. You can take care of yourself. And if the government would get totally out of health care, then maybe, just as with car insurance, it will be more affordable for those who want it.

Just think. Right now you can get a health coverage plan in various forms. It could be an HMO or a PPO or even a major medical policy (which makes the most sense for young people who are healthy) but if the government takes control now you can only get what they say and trust me the more efficient policies out there will not be allowed.

I find it horrifying that the American people would allow the government to make decisions as personal as health care.

You had better be careful because if our health care system tanks, then where are you going to go? Already most of the world comes here for health care because your system is the best in the world. So if you destroy the best, who is left? Canada? England? Sweden? France? They all come here when they can. You, the people of the USA, my fellow Americans, will be shit out of luck.