Gene's Footnotes

I have never been impressed by the messenger and always inspect the message, which I now understand is not the norm. People prefer to filter out discordant information. As such, I am frequently confronted with, "Where did you hear that...." Well, here you go. If you want an email version, send me an email.

March 22, 2010

A few highlights of the new "healthcare bill."


1.  16,000 new IRS agents will be hired (good for unemployment rate!) to track down those who don't have an "approved" plan.  [The CBO estimated the IRS would need $5 billion to $10 billion in the first decade to cover the costs of its expanded role. The IRS' annual budget is currently $11.5 billion.]

2.  Tax money will be used for killing a foetus, if you don't have insurance.  If you do have insurance, then the government it telling you that you have to pay for them out of your own money (I read this twice, I am not making this up. I figure it is a way to screw people with money while at the same time pretending to not fund abortion.) 
If you are upset by all this, your state can opt out, you know like NY, California, Illinois.  Oh yeah, or Obama can promise to make an Executive order that such money cannot be spent. It used to be Congress disbursed money, back in the days of the Constitution.

3.  The Executive branch will take control of lending money to students.  Students will also be required to do "community" service. (In brown shirts)

4.  Those who refuse to buy "affordable medical coverage" will be fined upward from $1,000.  This actually sounds attractive. Pay $1,000 and when you are sick, present yourself at the hospital.

5.  New taxes on insurance companies (they can't get away with that 3.3% profit margin).

6.  Even more taxes on better insurance plans. This will be repealed because the unions are upset by it, as they have better plans. It is already scheduled out in 2018 for implementation.

7.  Less Medicare:  $483 billion.  Not to worry, $436 will go to the new "health plan".  This way the government can claim they are saving money. (They actually do this).

8.  More Medicaid:  $395 billion.

Say, did you want to see something about health? Trial lawyer fees? Interstate coverage?  Don't be silly. There are people who still think Congress passed a bill about health care.


Remember:  Anybody but Murphy. No more dilettantes.

Remember 2:  Taxation without representation is tyranny.  See On Civil Disobedience.  It is time to consider the broad political theories involved now that our republic is coming to an end. Do you want to support a tyrant who takes your money and uses it to subjugate you, while he reprograms your children?  Think about it. The pusher needs the junkie.

If you pay your taxes because you are afraid, not because are happy to, it is time to resist. Otherwise, you are not free.  Of course, there are many who don't care as long as they get theirs.

 

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September 16, 2009

FOCA: 600 Catholic hospital would close


In July 2007, Barack Obama promised a group of his supporters that, if elected president, he would sign a particular of legislation. Such an event would be the end of some 40 years of incremental lying. I've mentioned this before.

When I was young, the hysterical push for freedom from anti-abortion law was sweetened with the promise that is was just to get rid of mean old laws that forced women in to back alleys, not that I knew any of them, and no government money would ever be used.

I knew even then, this was a lie. We are now at the three yard line on this drive.

The "Freedom of Choice Act," or FOCA isn't about "freedom" or "choice." Its just part of the PR-language game that works so well with morons. We no longer understand that Roe v. Wade struck down a state law. No, people, now, think it established a "right" and, with FOCA, it is a right that will be enforced or paid for. Do you understand what "incrementalism" is?

MIKE HUCKABEE:

It's about forcing each and every American citizen -- regardless of his or her view on abortion -- to support abortion-on-demand not just as a "fundamental right" but as a taxpayer-funded entitlement. But the compulsion wouldn't stop there. Because FOCA would also run roughshod over the conscience rights of doctors, nurses, and hospitals that oppose abortion on religious or moral grounds -- forcing them to provide or counsel for abortion or face professional de-certification, loss of funding, lawsuits, and even prosecution. Not only that, FOCA would immediately strike down any and all state restrictions on abortion -- even those with wide popular support, such as prohibitions on partial-birth abortion and parental notification requirements for minors seeking abortions. Make no mistake: FOCA is the most radical piece of pro-abortion legislation ever proposed, one that would go far beyond Roe v. Wade in making abortion a government-protected and taxpayer-supported "right," through all nine months of pregnancy. That's why I'm asking you today to support HUMAN EVENTS in its efforts to stop this outrageous piece of legislation before it ever reaches President Obama's desk.
Of course, these people don't bother with that trivial Constitution except to create rights under its name, an act the Constitution was created to bar, but who cares when you are a fascist? Only control matters and if there are some poor saps who still believe in the law, then this will get them.

There is no section under the Constitution that enables the federal government to take control of what they consider medical care. This is where we have come since Roe v. Wade, when, those old white men I constantly hear about, decided a 3 month old fetus is not a human, but, in a Solomon act of wisdom, decided a 4 month old one is. Now, we see you can't let insanity get its foot in the door.

When I was in Vermont full time, Roe v. Wade was used as the basis for the court ordering the legislature, another unconstitutional act, to create a law that permits the social contract, a deal giving property rights to a same-sex partner. It doesn't matter that you may approve of the end, the means are crazy, a carefully selected term, and unconstitutional. A case saying a three month old fetus is not a person is the basis of ordering insurance companies to provide benefits. The insane are in charge of the hospital. Just make stuff up when you have the power - the end of a nation.

If a people decide there is no moral implication to killing a fetus, fine. OK, we believe in killing inconvenient truths, but think about the insanity of carrying the banner of insanity like the Roe decision. If you carry insanity as your banner, what does that make you?

If you do decide to kill off annoying DNA, there being no sacramental aspects to life, then why not make it available for any age? At least, to two years old, so you can see if you want the child or sell it. Call it a post-natal abortion, which will sound very important and legal. What's the bid deal about capital punishment. You can't permit abortion and be offended by killing off a murderer. What are you thinking?

From Medical News Today:

Some Catholic Bishops To Close Hospitals If FOCA Is Enacted, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Reports

Roman Catholic bishops are threatening to close more than 600 Catholic hospitals if the Freedom of Choice Act, which would codify Roe v. Wade, is enacted, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. FOCA's sponsor, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), intends to reintroduce the bill, which failed to pass out of subcommittee in 2004, now that its former co-sponsor President Obama is in office and the Democrats control Congress, according to Ilan Kayatsky, a spokesperson for Nadler.
That is right. SIX HUNDRED hospitals. This is not an idle threat, as political hacks and amoral people would believe. They don't understand non-relative morality.

Abortion is contrary to the religion, as well as other religions, and will not be done after sucking in one's price. This is not like having to wear a seat belt when you don't want to.

So, what happens to this medical care insanity when 600 self-funding hospitals are gone? What happens to, what, hundreds of thousands of medical professionals?

Why do we not even consider the consequences of our acts?

We are, really, at the end of the American experience. It is morphing into another deranged socialist cess-poll while China is buying our best resources and preparing to take over the auto business, which it will being a great capitalist country as its cost per employee will be $180/mo. China and India are run by economists, engineers, and business people while the we are run by amateur Marxist ideologues.

It is time to teach the children you haven't killed Mandarin.

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