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Monday, November 2, 2009

The Foundation

"There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." --James Madison

Czar you ready for change?

Opinion in Brief

"Just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government official, not even a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate but simply one of the many 'czars' appointed by the President, could arbitrarily cut the pay of executives in private businesses by 50 percent or 90 percent? Did you think that another 'czar' would be talking about restricting talk radio? That there would be plans afloat to subsidize newspapers -- that is, to create a situation where some newspapers' survival would depend on the government liking what they publish? Did you imagine that anyone would even be talking about having a panel of so-called 'experts' deciding who could and could not get life-saving medical treatments? Scary as that is from a medical standpoint, it is also chilling from the standpoint of freedom. If you have a mother who needs a heart operation or a child with some dire medical condition, how free would you feel to speak out against an administration that has the power to make life and death decisions about your loved ones? Does any of this sound like America? How about a federal agency giving school children material to enlist them on the side of the president? Merely being assigned to sing his praises in class is apparently not enough. How much of America would be left if the federal government continued on this path? ... How far the President will go depends of course on how much resistance he meets. But the direction in which he is trying to go tells us more than all his rhetoric or media spin. Barack Obama has not only said that he is out to 'change the United States of America,' the people he has been associated with for years have expressed in words and deeds their hostility to the values, the principles and the people of this country. ... Nothing so epitomizes President Obama's own contempt for American values and traditions like trying to ram two bills through Congress in his first year -- each bill more than a thousand pages long -- too fast for either of them to be read, much less discussed. That he succeeded only the first time says that some people are starting to wake up. Whether enough people will wake up in time to keep America from being dismantled, piece by piece, is another question -- and the biggest question for this generation." --economist Thomas Sowell

Re: The Left

"[O]ur federal government, from the White House through Congress, and so many state and local governments, seems to be demonstrating every day that they cannot make things better. They are not offering a new path, they are only offering old paths -- spend more, regulate more, tax more in an attempt to make us more healthy locally and nationally. And in the long term everyone -- well, not those in government, but most everyone else -- seems to know that won't work. It's not a way out. It's not a path through. ... When I see those in government, both locally and in Washington, spend and tax and come up each day with new ways to spend and tax -- health care, cap and trade, etc. -- I think: Why aren't they worried about the impact of what they're doing? Why do they think America is so strong it can take endless abuse? ... We are governed at all levels by America's luckiest children, sons and daughters of the abundance, and they call themselves optimists but they're not optimists -- they're unimaginative. They don't have faith, they've just never been foreclosed on. They are stupid and they are callous, and they don't mind it when people become disheartened. They don't even notice." --columnist Peggy Noonan

Liberty

"Ah! Re-regulation. What a great idea. As I recall, the Soviet Union and old Eastern Bloc tried heavy government control and regulation, and it didn't work. The people rebelled. They wanted economic freedom, the right to keep their own money, the right to start their own businesses and the right to climb the ladder of success in a free economy. Now here's a counter-thought. The Ronald Reagan free-market revolution, which included regulation lite, a sound dollar and low tax rates, launched a three-decade-long boom. And yes, the Gipper's policies were copied around the world. ... So why not try something different? Unfashionable as it may be today, why not go back to the supply-side model of lower marginal tax rates for individuals and businesses, large and small? ... It's the incentive model of economic growth. At lower tax rates, where folks keep more of what they earn and invest, greater after-tax rewards spur greater work effort and investment risk. They also boost asset values. This is exactly what the economy needs: a rejuvenated dose of incentives -- permanent incentives. Think of this: At the same wage level from cost-conscious businesses, a 10 percent personal tax cut provides a handsome after-tax wage-increase incentive that will spur individuals to go back to work -- simply because work will pay more after-tax. ... That's the message for economic freedom fighters everywhere: Unite, and throw off your chains. Especially here in America." --economist Lawrence Kudlow

Insight

"It is obvious what the fraudulent issue of fascism versus communism accomplishes: it sets up, as opposites, two variants of the same political system; it eliminates the possibility of considering capitalism; it switches the choice of 'Freedom or dictatorship?' into 'Which kind of dictatorship?' -- thus establishing dictatorship as an inevitable fact and offering only a choice of rulers. The choice -- according to the proponents of that fraud -- is: a dictatorship of the rich (fascism) or a dictatorship of the poor (communism). That fraud collapsed in the 1940's, in the aftermath of World War II. It is too obvious, too easily demonstrable that fascism and communism are not two opposites, but two rival gangs fighting over the same territory -- that both are variants of statism, based on the collectivist principle that man is the rightless slave of the state -- that both are socialistic, in theory, in practice, and in the explicit statements of their leaders -- that under both systems, the poor are enslaved and the rich are expropriated in favor of a ruling clique -- that fascism is not the product of the political 'right,' but of the 'left' -- that the basic issue is not 'rich versus poor,' but man versus the state, or: individual rights versus totalitarian government -- which means: capitalism versus socialism." --philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

The Gipper

"There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States. Those who ask us to trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state are architects of a policy of accommodation. They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong. There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right." --Ronald Reagan

Government

"The recently revived idea of creating a government-run health plan to compete with private insurers may reinforce the impression that President Obama and his allies in Congress are standing tall against those corporate fat cats who delight in denying lifesaving care to children and old ladies. But Obama and the insurers still see eye to eye on a central element of his health care agenda: the requirement that every American obtain medical coverage. It's obvious why the insurers like this idea. What industry wouldn't welcome a law that forces everyone to buy its product? But the insurers also argue that a mandate will help control costs, and the president agrees. Judging from the experience in Massachusetts, which imposed its own insurance requirement in 2006, they're both wrong. ... Since 2006, Michael Cannon notes in a recent Cato Institute paper, health insurance premiums in Massachusetts have risen by 8 percent to 12 percent a year, almost double the national average. During the same period, total medical spending has increased by 28 percent. The cost of subsidizing coverage through the state's Commonwealth Care program is expected to hit $880 million next year, 20 percent more than originally projected. ... [W]hen you subsidize something, people tend to consume more of it. Total spending is therefore bound to be higher, whether it's covered through direct taxes or through the indirect tax of forcing people to pay for insurance they don't want." --columnist Jacob Sullum

For the Record

"It takes no great leap of faith to understand that people who don't pay taxes in the first place welcome the prospect of increasing the burden on those who do -- especially if the 'taking' classes correctly expect to be the beneficiaries. So, too, those whose 'poverty level' exempts them from taxes correctly see the mediocre care under a nationalized health system as better than the longer waits and ER dependency they now experience, especially if someone else is paying the freight. What the average American may regard as inferior care and service is seen as an improvement by those who live at least partly off government redistribution programs. This constituency cares not a whit for the increased costs to taxpayers and future generations of taxpayers; they don't pay taxes, so it's not their problem. Nor do they care about the prospect of reduced overall care quality and availability; they see it as an improvement on what they experience now. Most of all, they have no fear of the vastly increased power a socialized medicine program would give the bureaucracy through control of a major portion of the American economy. They see the government as the main source of sustenance and problem-solving in their own lives -- so the bigger, the better." --columnist Richard Weltz

Culture

"Last week, the Pew Research Center released a poll showing that belief in, and concern for, climate change is evaporating. Belief in global warming has dropped from 71 percent in April to 57 percent; only 36 percent believe man is mostly responsible for climate change. Only 35 percent of respondents said it's a 'very serious problem,' down from 41 percent. This is after more than a decade of near-relentless fearmongering -- er, sorry, 'education' -- from Al Gore, academia and Hollywood. They can't persuade the American people to spend trillions for less than a degree Celsius of cooling a century from now. No doubt the fact that neither climate models nor doomsday predictions have panned out (there has been no increase in global temperatures since 1998) is a big part of the story. But my hunch is that the bigger reason for the shift is that Democrats are threatening to really do something about it, and the costs no longer seem hypothetical. Throw in a bad economy, and Americans simply balk. And that's Americans -- the notion that China, India and Brazil are going to don carbon handcuffs is just silly. Those countries want to get rich, and they'll gladly sell their carbon to do it. But the anti-global-warming industry seems to be on autopilot, churning out books that only half-jokingly propose eating your pets. Others insist that Americans will have to restrict themselves to only one child, just like in authoritarian China. If those are the costs, free people will not pay them." --National Review editor Jonah Goldberg

Reader Comments

"Excellent essay on 'Nobody Questions That.' Your Essential Liberty Project is also an excellent start to stress the importance of the U.S. Constitution. I believe it may be wise to send copies of the Constitution to our congressmen and president -- they seem to be unfamiliar with it and perhaps have not read it. I keep a copy in my purse and on more than one occasion have taken it out. Keep up the good work!" --Debi

"What else can we do to defend our Constitution from the traitorous politicians ruining (ruining not running!) our country? I can write letters and emails till I'm blue in the face, and what good does it do? Instead of defense we must start a new offense! Educating the general public is the only way to get that done. Supporting The Patriot Post is the most honorable mission I can think of, other than professing my Christian faith, in saving this country. God's richest blessings to The Patriot Post!" --Kurt

"I felt like standing up and cheering after reading Mark's piece. This gang of carpetbaggers we now have in this administration are going to destroy what we have long giving our Blood and Treasure for. Wake up America before it's too late. This is another fight that we must win. I just hope its not too late already. We yet may have to defend our founders legacy." --Ann

"Have arms, will travel!" --R.

The Last Word

"The Democrats' all-new 'opt out' idea for health care reform is the latest fig leaf for a total government takeover of the health care system. Democrats tell us they've been trying to nationalize health care for 65 years, but the first anyone heard of the 'opt out' provision was about a week ago. They keep changing the language so people can't figure out what's going on. The most important fact about the 'opt out' scheme allegedly allowing states to decline government health insurance is that a state can't 'opt out' of paying for it. All 50 states will pay for it. A state legislature can only opt out of allowing its own citizens to receive the benefits of a federal program they're paying for. It's like a movie theater offering a 'money back guarantee' and then explaining, you don't get your money back, but you don't have to stay and watch the movie if you don't like it. That's not what most people are thinking when they hear the words 'opt out.' The term more likely to come to mind is 'scam.' While congressional Democrats act indignant that Republicans would intransigently oppose a national health care plan that now magnanimously allows states to 'opt out,' other liberals are being cockily honest about the 'opt out' scheme. On The Huffington Post, the first sentence of the article on the opt-out plan is: 'The public option lives.' Andrew Sullivan gloats on his blog, 'Imagine Republicans in state legislatures having to argue and posture against an affordable health insurance plan for the folks, as O'Reilly calls them, while evil liberals provide it elsewhere.' But the only reason government health insurance will be more 'affordable' than private health insurance is that taxpayers will be footing the bill. That's something that can't be opted out of under the 'opt out' plan. Which brings us right back to the question of whether the government or the free market provides better services at better prices. There are roughly 1 million examples of the free market doing a better job and the government doing a worse job. In fact, there is only one essential service the government does better: Keeping Dennis Kucinich off the streets." --columnist Ann Coulter

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Dan R Friesland

So that your readers can grasp the reality of what is happening with healthcare providers over this obscene mess the Democrats are pushing on us, please dedicate a column about the number of Physicians practicing, ages, specialties. That would be sobering in itself to view what these Physicians wil do, RETIRE, if Obama/Pelosie/Reid care is enacted into law.

Posted November 2, 2009 at 11:11:57 AM

don ballew

Needs to be told (shouted from the rooftops)

The housing problems were created in the 1990s. ACORN agitated for sub prime loans and Bill Clinton forced lenders to make bad loans. This was the start of our 2008 crash.

ACORN is Obama's parent organization.

Obama blames Bush for all our problems but he is in the middle of the financial catastrophe.

This should be news every day.

Posted November 2, 2009 at 11:26:44 AM

Dutch Vandervort

Thomas Sowell once said, (I quote from memory), "Why do people think that which they cannot afford individually, they can afford collectively." Sage advice for the health care advocates.

Posted November 2, 2009 at 11:37:24 AM

Bob Ballou

Why can't any of the opponents of Obamacare admit publicly that the whole thing is nothing more than a way to buy votes from those that Obama's policies have put out of work or don't pay taxes?

Posted November 2, 2009 at 11:45:52 AM

TheEnigma47

"Opt-out"? The demagogues are now tossing out the phony "opt-out" concept. One, it is the individual state that MUST opt-out, not the individual citizen. Two, as soon as these demagogues get their cherished "osamacare" passed, the "opt-out" concept will be revoked, immediately.

One must also wonder, how many of the young who voted in "osama obama" and the demagogues and who currently choose to reject health care are prepared to be forced to purchase it under "osamacare"? Are they ready to forgo their daily "lattes" or health club memberships so that illegals and drug abusers can get free health care?

Posted November 2, 2009 at 12:17:48 PM

Impeachyomama

It is becoming more clear as time goes by that anyone espousing to be in politics MUST take a test on knowledge of the Constitution in terms of actual application.

It is disgusting to see our current crop of Pols tendering and supporting bills that are so blatantly outside of their Constitutional authority.

Posted November 2, 2009 at 12:20:54 PM

SB

I often wonder what my generation stands for? I am at the beginning of the X generation. Right on the heals of the baby boomer generation - in my opinion, the worst generation. Yet they are my older brothers and sisters, cousins and friends whom I love. What does X stand for? To me, X now marks the spot, the spot where you will stand for what you believe. I'll claim my X in conservative principles and start this discussion. After all, when the baby boomers start to disappear, my generation will be right behind it. So, for all you Generation X's out there, where will you stand?

Posted November 2, 2009 at 12:21:35 PM

joesixpack31

Excellant article with a couple of exceptions. First, the use of the term "czars" in connection with the marxist Obama regime. There were no czars within the 70 year "hell on earth" soviet era. Only whiney, snivveling "commissars". Secondly, the famous, historic St Basils Russian Orthodox Church photoshopped onto the image of the soviet hammer and sickle and the Obama marxist whitehouse is an enormous disservice to the Russian Church. Almost as though your editors know nothing of the last 100 years history....and the death of millions of Russian Orthodox faithful at the hands of the marxist regime. Can you folks wake up to the fact that the Russian church is NOT the enemy.

Posted November 2, 2009 at 12:40:39 PM

Ruth Ann Wilson

Mr. Friesland is correct. I have heard the comments of doctors who have said they are not going to have their "judgments" on procedures prescribed to patients abrogated by 23 year old smart alecks in the bureaucracy under the Office of the President. They prefer to "RETIRE".

Which brings me to another subject totally unobserved by the "bunch" trying "to push this down our throats" (this UNCONSTITUTIONAL program.) No matter what type of "plush policy" you as "government legislators" may have. There will be NO conscientious doctors and nurses at facilities like Cleveland Clinic or Mayo, they will all have "QUIT". The research will go into the "ditch". So who will fulfill your "needs" according to the "plush policies" that you think will be your "comfort" when you need a conscientious doctor or nurse?????

If you are one of those legislators "on the fence" about voting for this UNCONSTITUTIONAL Health Care to destroy this Country,( if you are the "ONLY ONE" to be considered) you better not vote for this because your "plush policy" will do you no good, when no one is working in the Health facilities to which you would like to be a patient.

As the Old Song says, "No hiding place down here."

For God & Country

Ruth Ann Wilson

Posted November 2, 2009 at 12:50:28 PM

C. Barney

Totally agree with R. Weitz's comments. Perhaps if only those who pay taxes were allowed to vote, we might be able to rid ourselves of the 'career' politicians and bring our economy under control. Just a thought.

Posted November 2, 2009 at 1:10:34 PM

Robert Kenny

There are 2 main points everyone seems to be missing regarding the healh care debate - First, the great majority of Americans did not have any health insurance in one of the most productive decades in our recent history, that being the 10 years after WW II. That was before government "improvements".

Second, the main reason that health insurance has been going up so fast is GOVERNMENT MANDATES. If everyone was allowed to buy a true cafeteria plan, buying only what you need, the cost would go way down, except of course for those who enjoy the socialized medical coverage required by the state insurance commissions. Those interest groups would have to pay a cost based upon their actual cost to treat, just like auto or life insurance. As each state or federal regulation goes into effect requireing all insurance to cover pregnancy, AIDS, mamograms, etc, the cost to all insurance holders goes up. Why should a single male have to subsideze the medical costs of a married female?(the difference in rates is not discrimination, it is just the cost of greater amount of service) Why should a healthy non-drinker / non-smoker be required to subsidize the costs for someone who has a destructive lifestyle? Why should the 18 yr old college student subsidize the cost for illegal aliens?

Return the medical insurance industry to the freedom it used to have, allow no state to add in any special interest coverage, and then allow those who cannot afford it to apply for some form of medical insurance from the US treasury (Medicaid Extension)separate from the private industry. Also, proceed with reforms needed, such as modifying COBRA to a 5 year period, not 18 months, no exceptions for preexisting conditions if it is within the coverage you chose, and allow portability, which will be much easier if the cafeteria method is used.

Posted November 2, 2009 at 1:12:07 PM

Howard Last

Columnist Jacob Sullum noted what happened in Taxachuetts with health care costs. It was Romney who pushed this through when he was governor. Now some republican leaders (still an oxymoron) are pushing him for President in 2012. The only difference between him and BHO is degree.

In the 23rd Congressional District in the Peoples Republik of NYS the RINO dropped out and endorsed the democrap. Is anyone surprised?

The above two items are more proof that we have one political party with two squads. How soon before the God Owful Party joins the Whigs in obscurity? Just glad we relocated to Wyoming.

Posted November 2, 2009 at 1:53:19 PM

Craig Kinard

Most Americans oppose the health care legislation. Aren't the Democrats "crazy" to try to impose it? No, they're not; here's why: This is a 2,000-page blueprint for the largest civil service expansion in our nation's history, whose members will be grateful Democratic Party voters for generations. If public employment expands enough, this Democratic-voting juggernaut will eventually destroy the private sector economy. We can say were "present at the creation," to paraphrase Dulles.

Posted November 2, 2009 at 2:03:08 PM

Howard Last

Under Patriot Headlines you have "GOP Set to Propose its Own Health Bill". I can't find that section of the Constitution that says, " A Health Bill Proposed by the Republican Party is acceptable." Maybe the Republican Leadership can tell us.

Posted November 2, 2009 at 2:07:55 PM

Beberoni

Why is it the left continue to think that raises taxes on business is successful? They do it, and thousand lose their jobs, business go under or move out of the country, then they raise taxes more. Why cannot they have the simple understanding that this does not work? Or dont they care about this country? That is the question. The answer is, they are either totally stupid, or they are totally un-American and dont care. Its one or the other. Whats it going to be lefty?

Posted November 2, 2009 at 2:09:19 PM

Lawrence Neumann

I have come to the realization that the so alled czars are in fact commissars as they had in the Soviet Union. We must stop the health bill as it is the direct attack on our God given ritght to live in a free society.

Posted November 2, 2009 at 2:31:13 PM

Craig Kinard

The Democratic health care plan isn't about health care; it's about creating the largest civil service bureaucracy in this country's history. Most people oppose the health care plan, now; after enough Americans become public sector employees, they WILL support the health care plan, and any other socialistic program that comes down the pike--and they'll be reliable Democratic Party voters. After all, isn't THAT what it's really all about?

Posted November 2, 2009 at 3:17:45 PM

gogetmgranny

Can we, as citizens that vote in these "representatives" (term used lightly), demand that no bill ever exceed in length The Constitution of the United States? No bill that will make sense and be relevant in a positive nature to the people would require any greater length. This step alone would solve a great portion of the problems we have with our "representatives".

Posted November 2, 2009 at 3:22:45 PM

Jerry

If anyone wants to see what a federal government run health care plan looks like, they should take a look at the federally run Indian Health Care system. You better get any helth problems taken care of before 1 June of each because that's when they run out of money. And they want to run a national health care system!!!!!

Posted November 2, 2009 at 3:27:04 PM

Frank J. DiStefano

It's all well and good to drum into our heads the treasonous activities of the Obama administration. BUT unless you identify those activities that are treasonous with the word TREASON, you and dozens of conservative sites (and the Republican party) are never going to take the offense. This has to be brought to a head NOW. Identify the Obama administration's activities as Marxist. Identify their agenda is the destruction of the USA. Show how their activities will bring about their agenda. Or else all you are doing is frustrating patriotic Americans. Stand up and use your bully pulpit to call this administration what it is. Wait much longer and he'll have gained the power to shut you and other sites like yours down.

Posted November 2, 2009 at 3:42:34 PM

Frank E. Waterstraat

11/02/09

To Patriots,Time has come to help save the GIFT

our founding fathers gave us.Our tresonous and

deceitful president and his Cohorts in the house

and senate who can ousted midterm,2010 elections

finish CLEANING OBAMA and his MEN OUT!!!!

Posted November 2, 2009 at 3:44:42 PM

Len Goldberg

Hooray for Ann Coulter!!!

Posted November 2, 2009 at 4:24:39 PM

Eric Hunter

Friday's issue of the Digest had a story on Senate Banking Comm Chris Dodd's (D-CT) legislation to freeze credit card rates and is due to be in effect Feb 2010. Of course, you reported that "banks were furiously raising their rates now". Well, after reading that, I opened my ground mail from the US Mule and lo and behold there's 3 letters from my credit card company on my 2 cards. One letter cancelled an acoount for low use and low balance-duh, i paid it off monthly. The second one REDUCED my credit limit value by $10,000 because I was deemed "with sufficient credit"! What? The third letter took my sweetheart deal of a Prime + 1.5% interest charge on the monthly balance I'd had since 1988 and bumped it up to Prime + 10%. I was shocked, shocked as the Patriot Post would lament. Thanks alot, Chris, your plan is working.

Mind you, these accounts were healthly: paid off in big chunks, always on time and with a large credit balance available on them - just what are they doing to the folks that just do pay the small monthly blalnce due?

Posted November 2, 2009 at 4:30:22 PM

rick

go to youtube, put "starznbarzphoto" into the search box, click on 9-12 dc... it honors our past patriots and shows the strength of our new ones. share it with someone who is not aware of the state of the republic.turn up your speakers.

Posted November 2, 2009 at 4:42:38 PM

Dolores Adams

I've always heard that the Democrats were the tax and spend party. It is really going that way in the worst way. I don't think that you can ever convince some of these Democrats to really listen to what the government is proposing and then contact their Senators and Congressmen to oppose the plans that they are proposing. I hope all the

Democrats get voted out of office.

Posted November 2, 2009 at 6:01:22 PM

Frank Weir

I continue to read critiques of what Obama and his health plans. I do not see any attempt to offer ideas about alternatives. Is it that none of you have anything to offer? I think you do but are not willing to be criticized. I have made several suggestions to this paper concerning this but see no effort toward making a positive contribution.

Posted November 2, 2009 at 6:01:54 PM

John Yang

Dear Mr. Alexander,

Many many thanks are due to you and too all of the Patriot Post Staff for your research and your un-biased analysis of all govt. administrations, not just our present administration.

It is most disconcerting to see our beloved United States quickly following down the populist path of Germany in the begining of the last century. In that generation some of the population wanted a "Messiah", and a man (A. Hitler) quickly stepped in and gave them what they wanted instead of providing the ways and means for them to do for themselves.

The correlation to draw here is that we as American citizens have slowly been drawn into a new paradigm of thinking, albeit incorrect, that instead of one getting what one works for, the Govt. should provide everything one desires.

Again, socialist in thought, word and deed. I am extremely concerned that we too as conservative "normal" patriots have been branded enemies of the state only because we wish and act on our true convictions based on "All men are created equal" and on our great constitution.

Germany's great messiah overode all safety mechanisms only to produce despair, great suffering and tragic loss of life with it's egregious offenses.

What will our "messiah" do? I fear that the course of history will again be repeated only this time not in Germany but here in the USA. With the likes of BHO and Pelosi at the helm of our great democracy (the greatest in the history of the world) I can see no good outcome unless we patriots again grasp a needed drastic learning curve and ascertain what the Constituion of the USA actually indicates, and in doing so we must act instead of blog, protest our "true" Constitutional rights instead of lie down indifferently and take back what our forefathers shed their blood to give us instead of complain.

Liberty is not without cost, and loss of liberty has even greater costs to all future generations. God help us in this Divine Task to reclaim that which the left has slowly taken away from us bit by bit. My question is where are the heroes now?

Please press forward in this call and duty.

JY

Posted November 2, 2009 at 8:10:39 PM

Bob Hendricks

Alternatives to the smelly b.o. plan abound. How about tort reform? Lawyers get 10% instead of 40-50%? Lift state mandates. States are requiring all sorts of coverage on even the most basic of policies. CA is prime example. Only 6 of the 1000+ ins companies sell health ins in this state because of all of the mandates - chiropractic, shrinks, hair plugs. All have their use, but are they an absolute necessity? No. I can't buy a policy that will cover only accidents, cancers and other catastrophic illnesses. Offer true cafeteria-style plans. Open up interstate commerce. I can buy my car insurance anywhere, but health ins only in my home state. The Republicans have been offering these solutions and more but the speaker won't even allow them to come to the floor for debate... It's the way of the jackass or no way at all. Talk about the party of "NO"

Posted November 2, 2009 at 8:14:54 PM

Steve Coraggio

Opinion in Brief, Monday Nov 2, 2009

As a reader of this fine online paper I am disheartened like many Americans on how OUR COUNTRY is being turned into a SOCIALISTIC/

COMMUNIST COUNTRY, by our elected officials.

Yes what they are doing with health care is unconstitutional as are many other things they

are doing. They in DC should all be tried for treason for what they are doing and we must hold them extremely accountable. Eliminate the lawyers from the political process, nothing in the Constitution or running for the US Senate /Congress requires someone to be a lawyer. Mostly the pols in DC have been out of touch with normal folks and their concerns. Voting themout isn't enough we have these CZAR's under O'bama's administration they get up and bellow out their garvage while degrading this country.We should take a strong stand against these CZAR's if socialism/communism is so good why don't they leave the GOOD OLD USA (renounce their citizenship) and do not under any circumstances return to this country They can live in places lke Cuba, Venezuela and other leftist communist countries if that way of life is so great.

These people should be investigated for their ties to radical organizations and how aer they able to hold high posts in the administration. WE as citizens have to stop these people they are teh Enemy from within and extremely dangerous.

Steve Coraggio

Posted November 2, 2009 at 9:01:20 PM

William Christopherson

Most certainly we now have a Feral Government, rather than Federal Government. Call the Vet before it's too late.

Posted November 2, 2009 at 9:34:02 PM

Billie Nelson

Your publication should be read in all churches. I love your absolute honesty and try to pay my fair share (even as I cannot afford much) for you to get this info to all who will take their time to read it.

God has blessed your PatriotPost. Mark, THANK YOU FOR ASSURING US THAT THERE ARE HONEST, GOOD PEOPLE LIKE YOU & YOURS, & WE HAVE TO KNOW THAT GOD IS IN CONTROL EVEN WHEN HE SEEMS TO BE ABSENT!

Posted November 2, 2009 at 9:48:38 PM

Bill

It's interesting to read of the plethora of negatives in the proposed health care destruction bill, but the simplest common denominator demanding its demise is that if its not good enough for the members of Congress it shouldn't be mandated against the citizenry.

Posted November 2, 2009 at 9:58:37 PM

Christopher Popham Smith

Your opening quotation from James Madison says it

all;...."violent and sudden usurpations" may be our only recourse, as day by day, Congress

and the Administration continue to drag this once

great nation down even further. There is a third

party movement abroad in America today.

The two major parties have been the sources of our

gradual demise for thirty years, and now with

totalitarianism at our doorstep, we had indeed better wake up before it's too late.

Though I do not own a weapon, my understanding is that manufacturers of bullets cannot keep up with

demand. My gun-owning friends around the country

tell me that they keep those firearms close at hand

as the 'situation' worsens.

The 21st Century American Revolution is at hand.

I'm not partial to violence, but as a third party

candidate for President 2007-8, I'm ready, willing and able to lead.

Respectfully.

Posted November 2, 2009 at 10:02:51 PM

L.Claudia Hanlon

I have not been able to understand why the Constitutionality of the Health Care Bill was not attacked immediately. No where under the articles of the Constitution can the government mandate that the entire country buy something that the government is selling!! This is the issue upon which the Clinton attempt to expand government control of health care broke down and was ultimately dropped. Where is the out rage? Or is there none because the officials that should be questioning these things are people that Obama put in office? Or what about honest investigative reporting? Where are the watch dogs of our freedoms?

Posted November 3, 2009 at 4:01:34 AM

Frank E. Waterstrsst

11/03/09

I've got to tell Mark Alexander and his"PATRIOT

staff members,How FORTUNATE Patriot readers are

for having such high Caliber People all in one

out of the ordinary amazing group of people.As

for our Federal Congress and senate,a different

story.To find poeple who would really work too

benefit the people and the country,NO MORE

CAREER politicians 2yr.maximum you would only get

those that care for the Country.

Posted November 3, 2009 at 1:09:06 PM

Connie Guest

I totally agree with Kurt. His comments are beautiful. Prayer is the best thing we can do for our beloved America. God will see us through!

Posted November 3, 2009 at 7:18:12 PM

Barb

I LOVED the sarcasm in this week's Patriot Humor edition! It was great to see you respect those sensitive folks out here!

Posted November 3, 2009 at 8:45:53 PM

Jason Earl

After a small percentage of Americans were able to speak out against Obama yesterday at the polls by issuing the Dems the "Burnt Biscuit Award"....I really hope the whole lot of them took a step back and said "wait a minute...let me see this Obamacare bill again"....I really hope that was just a drop in the bucket for the whipping the Dems are going to get in 2010 for their arrogance. True Conservatism will rise again out of this temporary "ant heap of totalitarianism", and return us back to that "Shining City on a Hill".....as long as we continue to fight for it.

Posted November 4, 2009 at 1:34:32 PM

Jason Earl

After a small percentage of Americans were able to speak out against Obama yesterday at the polls by issuing the Dems the "Burnt Biscuit Award"....I really hope the whole lot of them took a step back and said "wait a minute...let me see this Obamacare bill again"....I really hope that was just a drop in the bucket for the whipping the Dems are going to get in 2010 for their arrogance. True Conservatism will rise again out of this temporary "ant heap of totalitarianism", and return us back to that "Shining City on a Hill".....as long as we continue to fight for it.

Posted November 4, 2009 at 1:45:59 PM

Rick

It may be appropriate to begin thinking about what we Conservatives do after the extensive national Tea Party efforts. What is our next step, especially if the Tea Parties don't have the desired effect? I suggest we have a "Shot Heard 'Round the World" event.

Posted November 4, 2009 at 2:04:33 PM

Ken

When do we the people start talking the real truth in our situation - which I believe to be the cause of most of our problems from the economy to social issues - actually starts with the vast numbers and problems created from years and years of our Congress and Government ignoring the problems of unenforced laws against, and the unabated huge numbers of, illegal immigration into this Country - exacerbating the price we all pay for health care to social security as well as social continuity in every form? Obviously the Government is well aware of our (the people's) plight and the associated costs in money, security and chaos. But why do they continue to ignore and label anyone that speaks to the problem as a 'right wing wacko' to be shuffled off into a corner and silenced as quickly as possible -certainly not to have any national attention if at all possible. Haven't we all paid enough of a price for this illegal scraping of our rule of law long enough?! Can't we at least speak if not settle the core of the problems we have, rather than pretend and invent more band-aids?

Posted November 4, 2009 at 9:18:31 PM

Anne Cross

An email buddy forwarded one from a friend about a bumper sticker he and his wife saw in Pidgeon Forge, TN.

It read: PRAY FOR OBAMA: Psalm 109.8

The gentleman had his Bible on the dash, took it down, looked up Psalm 109.8 which read:

Let his days be few; and let another take his place of leadership. NIV

I am currently looking for this bumper sticker!

Posted November 12, 2009 at 1:25:49 PM

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