We the snoozing people over the years have been led to believe that progressives, also known as higher education academia, liberals, politicians called democrats (and many republicans too), and socialists were the experts continually providing us the people with all that expert advice on how we needed to live our lives.   They’ve said they had our best interests in mind.   Now we’ve learned that there really is a brotherhood of journolisters conspiring behind the scenes.   Independent news broadcasters?   Yeah sure, we bought that line.

You’ve seen the news broadcasts over the years telling us that the “experts” have discovered . . . . blah blah blah, and that . . . . blah blah blah was good for us.   It continues as daily soundbites.   Repeating something over and over will finally sink in and soon the “we the people” have become sheeple.  The progressive expert scientists have told us the world began with a big bang, but how can nothing make a bang?   From that we have had blah, blah, and more blah about how removing the Ten Commandments was about separating church and state and that it was really really good for us.  We were told that banning DDT would save the earth, but then millions died from malaria.  The progressive experts told us melting icebergs will flood our lands unless we abandon our vehicles and comfy lifestyles, but fill a glass with ice and water to the top and it don’t run over as the ice melts.  How many melted ice bergs will it take to raise 71% of the earth’s surface 2 feet?   Are the experts secretly building an ark somewhere?  Now, even a Christian denomination has accepted the . . . blah blah blah and are allowing gay priests to be sexually active. 

Experts?  Scientific studies?  How can a government funded scientific study be seriously taken as truthful?

So now the experts have a plan to provide health insurance for everyone, and it would save our health care system and . . . it will really be affordable for everyone, of course.  So say the experts.  It will revolutionize American health care.  No one will be without insurance.   You will no longer have to worry about a health emergency wiping out the bank account.   Children will be covered for all their growing up accidents, even gang members.  The ones with previously existing conditions will be covered removing the anxiety and decisions of paying the high cost of insurance or feeding the family.  Yes, it all sounds so morally right.  It all sounds so caring, so charitable, so timely.

Fast forward to 2042 and the headlines might read: American system of Health Care starts privatizing . 

The story will be similar to what is happening right now to the British system.

Practical details of the plan are still sketchy. But its aim is clear: to shift control of England’s $160 billion annual health budget from a centralized bureaucracy to doctors at the local level. Under the plan, $100 billion to $125 billion a year would be meted out to general practitioners, who would use the money to buy services from hospitals and other health care providers.

The plan would also shrink the bureaucratic apparatus, in keeping with the government’s goal to effect $30 billion in “efficiency savings” in the health budget by 2014 and to reduce administrative costs by 45 percent. Tens of thousands of jobs would be lost because layers of bureaucracy would be abolished.   Read it all. . .

How long will it take our leaders, our experts to learn from others?  How long will it take we the people to insist that politicians adhere to the constitution?

The country does not need to create another federal agency when the federal debt is over the $13 trillion mark and climbing at the rate of over 3 million dollars a minute.  That’s $4.3 billion added per day.  Your share of the federal government debt is $42,800 and climbing by the minute.  Not a small sum in my neck of the woods.

Can it be paid off?   Ain’t no way.  Only once in our history has the US been debt free.   So what’s all the fuss about.  It’s natural for the federal government to operate in the hole.  Right?   We’ve all taken it for granted that it must assume debt because of the unexpected that will happen just around the corner.   Things like a war, or a hurricane wiping out a community, a tornado tearing up towns, or a flood like Katrina devastating millions.  Then the feds must act to alleviate the suffering of the people, which causes a drain on resources.   And we expect them to do their best protecting we the people.  

But this debt is not because of natural disasters, and just a small part of it is because of wars.   It’s the daily spending and expansionary programs that hurts.

We can and should hold the elected people accountable for this humongous debt.  But do we?   No, we just keep on putting them back into office election after election. 

 

So, we the people are responsible for this.  Huh?  You say.  Yes, we are.  We the people keep re-electing the ones who have added to this debt by piling on one pork barrel project after another, expanding the reach of federal power way beyond any common sense reading of the constitution.   What do we do?  We’ve applauded these people when they bring home the money for some “worthy” project in the home district.  The local news broadcast these projects as good news for the community, good for the local economy, long waiting for this and needed for that.  And then we the people send them back to Washington to get us more tax funded projects.  

Them days should be ending right now, this year, this November and then again two years from now, and repeated every two years from now on out.

How can the debt be kept from increasing?   Duh.  Stop spending more than taxes bring in.  Economics 101 calls it a balanced budget.

So, to get matters under control, a balanced budget amendment to the constitution would be a good place to start.

Second, stop creating new offices and new agencies.  Stop it immediately.  No new offices should be created under any other federal agency.  Put a freeze on new hires for new positions.   No new positions in any agency.  Just stop expanding the federal government.   Why should our federal government get away with creating a budget deficit so huge it’s unimaginable?   So huge, it is pushed off as impossible to do anything about.

We got to start somewhere.  Start with stopping the newest expansion.

“In June 2009, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) joined together to form the Partnership for Sustainable Communities, an unprecedented agreement to coordinate federal housing, transportation, and environmental investments; protect public health and the environment; promote equitable development; and help address the challenges of climate change.”   White House Blog.

A new bill ( S-1619 Livable Communities Act of 2009) was just passed out of committee that would create a New Office (the Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities (OSHC) under the current Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).   Introduced and sponsored by Chris Dodd (member of congress since 1974).

The purposes of this Act are–

(1) to facilitate and improve the coordination of housing, community

development, transportation, energy, and environmental policy in the

United States; 

(2) to coordinate Federal policies and investments to promote

sustainable development;

And 7 other purposes.  Read the PDF

This one must be stopped.  Read the bill and keep in mind that when any federal office or agency is created, it never goes away, it just keeps getting larger and larger with increased far reaching powers.   The Fedzilla gets bigger with more control.  It would be a good prognosis that 20 years from now this new office will have thousands of federal workers shuffling papers and telling local communities where and how to expand the city, even reaching out to the small 300 people bergs all across America.  The local mayor and council will have to get approval from the feds to zone land for building a new housing development.  Why, those homes must be energy efficient, they must be in a sustainable affordable planned community with bicycle trails, mass transit availability, schools within walking distance, shopping within a bike ride, parks for recreation meeting the goals of “healthy, safe, and walkable neighborhoods—rural, urban, or suburban”

 

They are the experts after all.  What do we know about building people friendly sustainable communities?  

 

We the people must put a stop to the spending habits of congress and the executive branch as well.  No new agencies.  Incumbents must be put on notice and sent back to civilian life ASAP.

 

Over the years, we the people have been led to believe that progressives, also known as higher education academia, liberals, politicians called democrats (and many republicans too), and socialists/Marxists were the experts continually providing Americans with all that expert advice on how we needed to live our lives.   They’ve insisted they had our best interests in mind.   They’ve insisted they had the evidence.  Just as we’ve seen in the UNIPCC temperature data to manufacture the GW agenda, the evidence was tampered with.  Now we’ve learned that there really is a brotherhood of journolisters conspiring behind the scenes.   Independent news broadcasters?   Yeah sure, we bought that line.   You’ve seen the news broadcasts over the years telling us that the “experts” have discovered . . . . blah blah blah, and that . . . . blah blah blah was good for us.   It continues on for weeks as daily sound bites.   Repeating something over and over will finally sink in and soon the “we the people” will fall in line and behave as sheep.

The progressive expert scientists have told us the world began with a big bang, but how can nothing make a bang?   From that we have had blah, blah, and more blah about how removing the Ten Commandments from schools was about separating church and state and that it was really really good for us to be quiet as there are those who might get offended.  We were told that banning DDT would save the earth, but the fall out of not killing mosquitoes was killing millions of people. The progressive science experts told us melting icebergs will flood our lands unless we abandon our vehicles and comfy lifestyles, but suspend a glass with ice and water in a bathtub and it won’t flood over the tub.  How many melted ice bergs will it take to raise 71% of the earth’s surface to flood stage?  Blah blah blah.   Are those experts secretly building an ark somewhere?  Now, even a Christian denomination has accepted the . . . blah blah blah and are allowing celibate homosexual priests to be sexually active.   Huh?  Scientific studies said they have an abnormal gene and can’t help it?  Experts?  How can a government funded scientific study be seriously taken as seriously scientific?

So now the experts have a plan to provide health care and insurance for everyone, and it would dramatically improve our health care system, and . . . it will really be affordable for everyone, of course.  So say the experts.  It will revolutionize American health care.  No one will be without insurance.   You will no longer have to worry about a health emergency wiping out the bank account.  Children will be covered for all their growing up wheezes and accidents, and gang members can get treatments too.  The ones with previously existing conditions will be covered removing the anxiety and decisions of paying the high cost of insurance or feeding the family.  Yes, it all sounds so morally right.  It all sounds so caring, so charitable, so timely.  How could anyone stand against such a utopia?   No worries from here on out.  The experts will take care of Grandma too.  Trust them.  The congressional committee “studies” confirm the experts.  

The story will be similar to what is happening right now to the British system started in 1948.

Practical details of the plan are still sketchy. But its aim is clear: to shift control of England’s $160 billion annual health budget from a centralized bureaucracy to doctors at the local level. Under the plan, $100 billion to $125 billion a year would be meted out to general practitioners, who would use the money to buy services from hospitals and other health care providers.

The plan would also shrink the bureaucratic apparatus, in keeping with the government’s goal to effect $30 billion in “efficiency savings” in the health budget by 2014 and to reduce administrative costs by 45 percent. Tens of thousands of jobs would be lost because layers of bureaucracy would be abolished.   Read it all. . .

How long will it take our leaders, our experts to learn from historical accounts of what’s been tried before by previous “experts”?

Included in the economic stimulus bill of 2009 was this little gem: tracking your BMI, or to put it in more obtuse terms, your just plain obesity fat rating.

Last week, the effect of a little-noticed subsection of the 2009 Economic Stimulus Bill was revealed by Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Under section 3001 of the Stimulus Bill (on page 116 of 407), a new HHS Department was created called the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (HIT). The Stimulus Bill specifically gives the recently appointed head of this department, Dr. David Blumenthal, the objective of “utilization of an electronic health record for each person in the United States by 2014.”  Read on. . .

Seeing the opportunity to seize more power for her department, Secretary Sebelius, working with Dr. Blumenthal, released their “Standards and Certification final rule,” an expansive 228-page declaration of authority where, on page 61, they expound on their power to monitor every American’s body mass index, or BMI — a measure to estimate healthy body weight. 

Ah, so what?

I’m from the government and I’m here to help you maintain your ideal weight situation, so from now on we’ll be monitoring you, as the CDC experts have determined that your weight is just too much for your body frame, so we recommend you enroll in one of our sponsored weight reduction programs, free of course.  We’ll be in touch again next month to see how this is progressing.  Your doctor will process this information on your medical records also.  We are only here to help.  We do this to insure that all Americans are served fairly and equally without regard to race, sex, ethnic, religious, gender identification or legal status.   By the way, which group do you identify with?  Just for our records, of course, to insure there is no discrimination based on the previously mentioned groups, and to inform you that certain groups can get government assistance for fitness center memberships, and for adjustments to BMI index calculations based on race, gender, or sexual identification, because the experts have determined that certain racial groups have different ideal BMI’s.

The new regulations of the new national health care overhaul, part of which was included in the economic stimulus bill of 2009, includes what they call incentives to doctors and hospitals to get with the program of nationalizing our health care records.

The regulations, developed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and issued by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, are the first concrete step for the government as it pursues the goal – first outlined in the 2009 economic stimulus law – of making all health care providers use the electronic record systems by 2014.

If doctors or hospitals do not comply and insist on using the traditional paper record-keeping systems, the federal government will penalize them by docking their Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements, making it harder for them to stay in business.
If they choose to comply with the government’s plan, doctors and hospitals can receive generous federal subsidies – as much as $64,000 per doctor and millions of dollars for hospitals – as an incentive for installing the systems.  CNSNews…

Let’s be straight forward and just call those subsidies BRIBES.

Do you really think your doctor will pass up that $64,000 “incentive”?

Would you pass up a opportunity like that?

Will the hospitals have the integrity to let those millions go by the wayside to maintain our privacy?

It’s bribery plain and simple.   Another freedom of privacy goes down the proverbial drain pipe of big government mandates.

Where do they get the constitutional authority?

According to the thousands of University research projects being funded with the Recovery Act and Reinvestment Act funds, humans should expect in a few years to see an upbeat in the overall health of everyone that abides near and far.   The National Institutes of Health (NIH), part of the Dept of Health and Human Services (HHS) agency, has received $21.5 billion of the $787 billion ARRA funds, which is being funneled to our University health research projects.   The labs will be busy.

You’ve got to give the agency credit for at least detailing the funding breakdowns so that average Americans like me can actually see where some of our tax monies are being spent in the name of stimulating the economy.  The $21 billion is going to Universities for research by professors, scientists and students looking to possibly discover a new cure for ADHD, and a host of other ideas the scientists have come up with.

For those who might be interested in the details, NIH has developed a clickable map with each states list of pork barrel funding projects along with the dedicated democrat researcher getting the funds and how much, the name of the project and purpose.    Just for curiosity, I clicked on my state, Oklahoma which has 79 different grants, compared to New York, which has 1571, North Dakota 20 ($2,674,788), but the winner is California ($917,499,705) with 2275 different research projects.   California just must be the center of health research.  These scientists must be thrilled to see all that money flowing out to their particular University, their particular lab.   These are the “shovel ready” projects for the reinvestment act that each state, each school put together that the governors, the city mayors, and University heads put together and had ready to hand to the Obama staff.

Here are a few samples:

U.S. Gives Yale Researcher $3.9-Million in Tax Dollars to Develop ‘Avatar’ Sex-Ed Video Game for Kids

U.S. Spent $2 Million on Study Promoting Condom Use Among Intravenous Drug Users in Kazakhstan

U.S. taxpayers are spending $12.2 Million getting University scientists to facebook with each other.

Taxpayers are spending $27 Million in Recovery Act Funds to Enhance Scientist and Resource Networking.

US taxpayers will spend $146,093 on A PROGRAM TO INCREASE LIVING DONATIONS IN AFRICAN AMERICANS.

Now here’s a goodie.

(CNSNews.com) –The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $181,406 this year to a researcher at the University of Kentucky to study how cocaine enhances the sex drive of Japanese quail.
“NIH’s two-year infusion of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds will empower the nation’s best scientists to discover new cures, advance technology, and solve some of our greatest health challenges.”

The scientists receiving these grant monies are already employed, so the jobs part of the stimulus rhetoric does not apply here.   I guess we are supposed to be excited about how much the government cares for you and me by sending scientists into spiffy clean labs to find cures to all sorts of medical problems that are causing us all great strife.  Somewhat like today in Oklahoma where the temperature is hovering around 90.  Hot, yes.  But not really hot.  Humid, yes.  Very humid.  Listening to the radio news, the announcer keeps telling us that the heat index is 115.  Are we the people considered so stupid that we don’t know when to come in out of the heat?  Cold?  Rain?  Snow?  Thunderstorm?  Hey, I’ve got a health related study some scientists should undertake - - - How does the media news shape our physical/emotional well-being?

How did we manage to live, progress and invent all of our current technology back in the days when when we did not depend on the broadcast news to tell us how to navigate through our daily activities.   The federal government has enough to worry about in protecting me from foreign invasions than to pay scientists to research the daily sex drive of Japanese quail.

“Citing his commitment to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), President Obama on Friday issued a proclamation declaring June 2010 “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month.”  CNS News

Whoopee.  This ought to solve something.  These people (those who classify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender) should be proud.  Proud of what?   They are proud of the “diabolical, systematic agenda the gay community has meticulously carried out over the past thirty years.”

Obama is proud of those achievements too.  The LBGT folks are proud of their achievements of pulling the wool over the world, of getting government psychologists declaring gayness as a gene problem that these people can’t do anything about.  They were born that way.  They were born to commit sodomy.  They were born a male when they should have been born a female.  They can’t help themselves and that’s why they dress up in those weird costumes flaunting their sick behavior in public during those politically sanctioned parades of pride.

Along with sanctioning deviant behavior, Obama also wants to end the military DADT policies, which will promote open deviant behavior in the barracks, the showers and on the field of battle for all military personnel.   That’s an order private.

As your precious little girl needs to visit the rest room in the mall in Gainesville, Florida, she may encounter a male stud occupying the next stall or entering or leaving the ladies room at the same time.  You’re standing watch outside, you see a guy enter, you gasp and run inside to protect your daughter.  If you dare say anything to that person, you may be cited for a hate crime.  The law says it’s preventing discrimination.

How will you answer your daughters questions?

How do bisexuals classify their sex on drivers licenses?   On the census?  Passports?

Hey, you know what.  I don’t give a flip what you do in the privacy of your own home as that’s between you and the God who you will answer to some day, just as I will answer for my sins.  But when this activist group plans to change the moral fabric of the entire country, claiming a normalcy for gayness and a hate centered protest from us normal heterosexual Christians, then it’s going too far.   We don’t hate the sinner, we wish they would see a counselor who’d tell them the straight truth so they could get their life straightened out to overcome those deviant temptations.  Many former gays have gone straight and love it.

If you live in the central Illinois area, call upon a relative of mine, Kent Paris.   Kent has been counseling gays for over 30 years in Urbana, Il with connections to the Exodus Organization.

Kent has just released a book, “Means of Grace” centered on the counseling aspect for gays wishing to face the deviancy head on.   The book is available on Amazon.

No.  Say it ain’t so.  Not possible.  Not even being considered.  But yet it is, and that’s the way it works in our political climate.   A big, I mean really BIG backer of political candidates, the unions, are being considered for a bail-out package.  Why?  They need the money for their pension funds.  Why?  Because it’s been mismanaged.   Donations to politicians?  Hmm.  The UAW donated $13 million to the Obama campaign.   Could that money be used to help shore up their shortfall?  No doubt the state of the market has had a part in the devaluation of their reserves.  Well, so what?   The state of the market has hit every American’s investment portfolio, but is that body of representatives in Washington talking about bailing-out all of the private investments for everyone?   No.  But they are considering the unions.   Small businessman. . . Tough.  Private investor. . . They feel your pain.    

A Democratic senator is introducing legislation for a bailout of troubled union pension funds.  If passed, the bill could put another $165 billion in liabilities on the shoulders of American taxpayers.

So, this senator got a call from his union supporter.   “We sure could use some cash as our retiring employees may not get as much as promised because our pension fund reserve is collapsing.  And if you could find a way to help us out, we’d be more than grateful and would not be shy with our expression of our gratefulness.   Thanks, I’ll keep in touch.  Oh just another question.  How is your re-election campaign going?” 

One of our esteemed representatives, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), says that the reason Americans don’t understand the global warming mess is because it is being presented to them above their grade level.   That grade level is beginning middle school 6th grade. 

Hmm.

Missourians of the 5th congressional district, wake up.  He just called you all a bunch of dumbasses who can’t get it.

Put Cleaver on the list to join the ranks of previously employed representative of the people.

When you see insects eating away on a rose shrub, what do you do?  When your precious tomato plant is being devoured by insects, what do you do?

All gardeners know that a jar of insecticide must be kept handy to use against the varmints that suck the life out of your beautiful rose or tomato bush.  You’ve got to get those invaders once they start showing themselves.  They can be hand picked and stomped on.  But you won’t get them all, nor will you even see them all.  Better yet is a preventative program that puts up a shield of protection against the enemies; like a pre-mixed solution saturating the ground the plants send their roots into.  But once that’s been accomplished, a continual inspection of your roses and tomatoes for those insects that are still able to get through all of your previous techniques, is needed so that all your hard work will not be spoiled.  

It’s work to bring a tomato plant to harvest.  It diligent work to tend the roses so their beauty will manifest itself.  

Our congress and the federal agencies are full of insects who are sucking the life out of America and they need to be removed.   They can be hand picked and removed, but if that don’t work to revive America the Great, probably then the entire body will need to be sprayed. 

It’s a common practice to spray rose bushes every two weeks, so think of congress as needing to be made insect free every two years.

 

If you’re against using an insecticidal spray because of purest environmental reasons, then you’d better just forget about taking a salt shaker out to the garden, picking a nice juicy ripe home grown tomato, biting into it and savoring each chew, or enjoying the splendor, the aroma and beauty of a bush full of magnificent roses.  Ride your bike to the store and buy the tasteless canned tomatoes lacking the natural nutrients of a fresh vegetable.  Get a villa or a high rise apartment, stay out of the way, stay home and leave the ground work of building America to the millions of us who are willing, able and with diligence select and elect politicians who will hold the constitution of ours in high esteem with a return to federalism.