From American Solutions

5 Facts About ObamaCare

By Tim Cameron on March 11, 2010 5:57 PM

Here are five key facts about ObamaCare that you should know. If you want to get active and start doing meaningful things to stop this bill make sure to include them in letters-to-the-editor, calls to talk radio, and conversations with your Congressman and his/her staff.

1.) Nearly half of a trillion dollars in Medicare cuts. This is a program that will be broke in six years, yet the Senate bill does nothing to put it on firm financial footing

2.) Dramatic expansion of government. The Senate bill creates 159 new offices, agencies, and programs. What will these new agencies, commissions, and programs do? They will regulate, they will dictate, they will spend.

3.) Raises taxes by more than $500 billion by raising payroll taxes, fines to businesses, new investment taxes, fees on medical technology companies

4.) Corrupt backroom deals to buy votes, like the Cornhusker Kickback, Louisiana Purchase, and exemptions for certain states and companies so they avoid new regulations or cuts that others will bear

5.) Taxpayer funded abortion coverage. Individuals can use federal subsidies to help pay for insurance that covers abortion, and they buy abortion coverage through an insurance exchange that the federal government creates, funds, and administers. Thus the federal government will be actively promoting and facilitating the purchase of abortion coverage.

Also make sure to check out the Doctors 4 Patient Care video showing actual doctors warning that ObamaCare will be a disaster for patients.    

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Author's Comments


So what are you doing about this? Sitting back, forwarding e-mails and blogging will do NOTHING to stop this!

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing” - Edmund Burke

It's never the wrong time to do the right thing! Please contact your Congressmen NOW! Your voice makes a difference!

Activist Judge Restores ACORN Funding

U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon has issued her ruling that the cutoff of funding to ACORN was unconstitutional. She ordered all federal agencies to put the word out about it.

To refresh your memory, ACORN workers were caught in undercover stings offering questionable to unlawful advice to individuals posing as various applicants for funding. In one instance a couple posing as boy/girlfriend was given advice on how to run a prostitution ring and disguise it as a massage parlor. And that wasn't the worst part - they offered advice on how to launder the money so it would not look as profitable! Two crimes were committed yet Brooklyn prosecutors said the ACORN employees did not commit a crime.

The U.S. Department of Justice, several Congressional offices, conservative organizations and countless citizens filed briefs, placed calls and made their opinions known. Gershon would hear none of it. In her ruling "Nutty Nina" (as she is sometimes referred to) stated that Congress was attempting to punish ACORN without following a systematic process outlined in the Code of Federal Regulations requiring hearings and other steps before permanently stopping the funding.

How ridiculous is this? In its simplest form it's like the ACLU getting bail for a bank robber who was caught in the act of commiting an armed holdup. The argument could be made that, "If he's not free to rob, how can he feed his family?"

Wait, it gets worse! ACORN is in line for MORE funding if the pending overhaul of our health care system is passed into law. Wait, it gets even worse! ACORN is a "community activist" group with strong ties to President Obama. ACORN has been involved in countless acts of voter registration violations and mass fraud.

ACORN worker with dual identities flashes camera and documentation on how ACORN aids in illegal voter registrations

President Obama's ties to ACORN

CNN Exposes How ACORN Steals Votes For Democrats

CNN - Obama's relationship to ACORN

Are you sick yet? I am. What are you doing about it? Reading blogs or getting involved in activism yourself?

Letter to Senator Specter on Immigration

March 5, 2010

Senator Specter:

I heard that President Obama will now focus his attention on something that will have an immediate, dramatic impact on our country's finances and budget so please help me understand if my thought process is correct or if I am missing something here . . .

IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET 12 YEARS HARD LABOR.

IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU ARE DETAINED INDEFINITELY.

IF YOU CROSS THE AFGHAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU GET SHOT.

IF YOU CROSS THE SAUDI ARABIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE JAILED.

IF YOU CROSS THE CHINESE BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU MAY NEVER BE HEARD FROM AGAIN.

IF YOU CROSS THE VENEZUELAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE BRANDED A SPY AND YOUR FATE WILL BE SEALED.

IF YOU CROSS THE CUBAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE THROWN INTO POLITICAL PRISON TO ROT.

IF YOU CROSS THE THAI BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU ARE IMMEDIATELY DEPORTED AFTER A SPELL IN THE MONKEY HOUSE.

IF YOU CROSS THE UNITED STATES BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET:

• A JOB
• A DRIVERS LICENSE
• SOCIAL INSURANCE CARD
• MONEY FROM SOCIAL SECURITY
• FOOD STAMPS
• CREDIT CARDS
• SUBSIDIZED RENT OR A LOAN TO BUY A HOUSE
• FREE EDUCATION
• FREE HEALTH CARE

So Senator, what sayest thou?

Steve Knepp
Pottstown PA

Entitlement Reform vs. Health Care Reform

When I received a copy of this letter at first I thought it might be bogus because of the reference to "tennis shoes". No one calls them that anymore right? This physician does, and after a quick Google search I found the letter to be very credible (although one e-mail version incorrectly referred to this as a letter to the President):

Dr. Roger Starner Jones 
Letter to the Editor
Clarion Ledger, Jackson MS
August 29, 2009
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Dear Sirs:

During my shift in the Emergency Room last night, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient whose smile revealed an expensive shiny gold tooth, whose body was adorned with a wide assortment of elaborate and costly tattoos, who wore a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and who chatted on a new cellular telephone equipped with a popular R&B ringtone.

While glancing over her patient chart, I happened to notice that her payer status was listed as "Medicaid"!  During my examination of her, the patient informed me that she smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day and somehow still has money to buy pretzels and beer.

And our Congress expects me to pay for this woman's health care?  I contend that our nation's "health care crisis" is not the result of a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. Rather, it is the result of a "crisis of culture," a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on luxuries and vices while refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance.  It is a   culture based in the irresponsible credo that "I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me."  Life is not really that hard. Most of us will reap what we sow. 
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Sources:
http://spotlight.vitals.com/2009/10/dr-roger-starner-jones-muses-crisis-culture
http://www.meetup.com/WeSurroundThemGathering/messages/boards/thread/7706531
http://activerain.com/blogsview/1374274/dr-starner-jones-md-racist-of-the-week (this one paints the Dr. as a racist!)

Whether you agree with the racist accusations is your decision, but in my opinion the Dr. is RIGHT ON with his "Crisis of Culture" statements. Our tax dollars paid for the grille, the tattoos, the cell phone, the ring tone, the sneakers, the smokes and the beer. Why? We cultivated, and then enabled this entitlement mentality for too long!

Able bodied welfare recipients (which are the vast majority) should work as they did since the inception of Welfare, not in the 1930's, 40's, 50's or later, but in the Old Testament book of Ruth! The concept of welfare is NOT a product of the 20th century. Wealthy farmers and business people felt compassion - and to a degree an obligation - to help those less fortunate, but handouts were never the solution. Work, in exchange for that assistance was the norm. The "gleaners" were permitted to follow the "reapers" through the fields to gather what may have been missed.

The concept of "Workfare" is completely foreign to many generations of recipients, and likewise to the politicians who exchange these handouts for votes. In my opinion health care reform is an important issue, but two issues far more pressing are Tort (lawsuit) reform and Welfare reform. Until we reform a handout system that requires nothing but breathing for a paycheck; and a system where people can sue for trivial issues and walk away with multi-million dollar settlements not much else will matter. But don't hold your breath on either. As I said it's those handouts that insure votes, and 43% of today's Congress and four of the past eight presidents are/were lawyers so don't expect any meaningful change on regulating the very industry that provides their paychecks.

Please, write your elected officials WEEKLY, not weakly to let them know your opinions! Don't ever forget that your elected officials work for you!