We credit our founding fathers for their very unusual wisdom and intelligence when they formed this nation of ours.  It cannot be disputed that by their wisdom America grew and became the greatest nation on the face of the earth.  Their wisdom created a federal government that was obliged to the states and those inhabitants, a federal government limited in power as documented in a brief constitution.  But now 233 years later, that same constitution is neglected as old time useless words that has served its purpose, but now in our progressive educated above our intellect age, it’s considered nothing more than a living piece of prose.

If Thomas Jefferson were around now, would his instinct guide him any differently than when he penned this piece about welfare?

Be it enacted by the General Assembly, that the Aldermen of every county wherein such provision, as is herein after required for setting the poor of the county to work, shall not have been made, shall, so soon as conveniently may be, purchase the inheritance, or procure a lease, of one hundred acres of land, or any less quantity that is sufficient for the purpose intended, in the county, and thereon cause a house to be built, if a proper one be not there already, and kept in repair, and shall cause all persons in their county, who are maintained thereby, or who seek relief therefrom, to be put into such house, to be there maintained and employed in such work as they shall be able to perform; and may also, by their warrant, apprehend and send to the same place all persons found wandering and begging alms, in the county… and shall put such beggar to work for any time not exceeding twenty days.

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…All able bodied persons not having wherewithal to maintain themselves, who shall waste their time in idle and dissolute courses, or shall loiter or wander abroad, refusing to work for reasonable wages, or to betake themselves to some honest and lawful calling, or who shall desert wives or children, without so providing for them as that they shall not become chargeable to a county, shall be deemed vagabonds, and shall be sent, by order of an Alderman, to the poor house, there to be kept to labor during such time as shall be limited by the order, not exceeding thirty days; …unless, …the vagabond shall give surety for his good behavior, and that he shall betake himself to some honest and lawful calling for twelve months; from which order the party thereby condemned may appeal to the county court, who, if the order be affirmed, shall award him to pay the costs.  Read the rest.

What’s changed?   Has the make up of people changed?    Has government changed?  

Yep, watch it now if you happen to see a crime being committed and you feel you should call 911 and report the incident so that the police can come and protect the innocent from harm, theft or brutality.  

Lucia Whalen who called 911 when she saw two men breaking into the home of Henry Gates Jr. in Cambridge, Mass has been called a racist for making that call to 911 as a concerned citizen.

She “said she lived in fear during the immediate aftermath of the arrest when she was dogged for comment and maligned based on the information attributed to her in the police report.  The criticism at first was so painful I was frankly afraid to say anything. People called me racist. Some even said threatening things that made me fear for my safety," said Whalen, whose husband, Paul, put his hand on her shoulder in comfort her as she spoke. "I knew the truth, but I didn’t speak up right away because I did not want to add to the controversy."  More. . .

You know the story as it has made international news and has been the topic of everything this past week.  Come on now America, this innocent person now feels she needs to have an attorney to protect her.   What the heck is going on here?  

The bottom line is the ramifications upon the rest of us is to just walk away and let the crime happen.  Forget it.   Not me.  I’m not going to call 911.  It’s their problem.   Let them handle the aftermath.  No way am I going to get involved and have to go through the barrage of the media hounding me, being called a racist, having to get an attorney, and being fearful of my life and property being a target.  No way. 

So, if you see a crime being committed by a white person, it’s still OK to call 911 and get involved.   You might even get thanked by the victim and be appreciated for your self-sacrificing involvement.   And the media wouldn’t care as it does not “bleed.”

Obama has made the matter into an international crisis requiring an immediate response of three beers in the park that will settle the situation.  Yea, right.  

If I was officer Crowley, I think I would have told Obama to kiss off, I’m going back to work protecting innocent civilians. 

When I was growing up there was an insane asylum not far from home.   There were also detention camps which held the Japanese citizens during that war.   My memory is fuzzy but I think there was barbed wire around both of those facilities.   I also heard about poor farms.    All part of the past.   The Japanese were released after the war and those internment camps were torn down, and now the insane are in hospitals for the mentally challenged.  There are VA hospitals for our veterans, Cancer Hospitals, Heart Hospitals, Children’s Hospitals, Teaching Hospitals, Community Hospitals, Mental Health Hospitals, Long term and Short term care, emergency clinics, and just plain ordinary general Hospitals, and the country has thousands of nursing homes which care for the elderly in their latter days.

As part of the new improved health care reformation, buried in the details is this little gem about a “medical home pilot program” for the elderly and disabled Americans.

Such a medical home would not require a physician to be on the staff, and therefore could be run solely by nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Medical homes also would practice “evidence-based” medicine, which advocates only the use of medical treatments that are supported by effectiveness research.  CNSNEWS.com

So what’s this all about?   The country already has nursing homes for the elderly who cannot take care of themselves.  The country already has hospitals where anyone, regardless of age, regardless of disability or lack of disability, regardless of income status, can get medical treatment.  There are doctors of all stripes with various degrees and specialties on staff directing the treatments everyone and anyone can get.  The equipment is the latest and best technology has produced.

Why does the country now need Medical Homes for the elderly?

And what the heck is “evidence-based” medicine?

What the heck is “effectiveness research”?

Read the rest of the article for those devilish details.   But one of the questions I have about the new and improved government run health care reform proposals is: what’s wrong with our currently private run nursing home health care for the elderly?   What’s wrong with the services that provide in-home care to the elderly who wish to remain at home?   Yes, there are good ones and there are bad ones, and lawmakers and concerned officials only bring up the bad ones as examples are to why the entire system needs to be taken over by the government, run by officials who have had the required government approved training in government approved facilities and passed the government approved psychological and diversity testing to insure that the elderly get the government approved and sanctioned evidenced-based medical treatment as determined by effectiveness research, in facilities which have been constructed using the government approved building materials and are environmentally safe of contaminants as determined by the CDC, the HHS, the other federal agencies in charge of everything else, along with being constructed by government approved union workers in accordance with current codes so that the government sanctioned and proportionally diverse workers can feel safe using government approved and maintained equipment, while working to take care of the sick and tired of government interference.

Read my lips, Medical Homes for the elderly is all about euthanasia.

You see, there could be too many babies who turn into human beings, and that’s bad.  Yea that could be the end.   Too many people living on this earth is bad news.   Too many people in all the wrong places.  The earth is not big enough.   The earth is falling apart because of humans.  The earth is collapsing under the weight.  All right that last remark was over the top, but according to Obama’s appointed science advisor, one John Holdren  co-authored with Paul Ehrlich, in the 1973 book "Human Ecology," argued that humanity would face environmental calamity if population growth was not curbed.  And also, the two of them wrote about the need for De-Development of the US, the science of “bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation."

He’s a very smart dude, that John Holdren guy.

“Those who oppose abortion often raise the argument that a decision is being made for an unborn person who ‘has no say,’” write the authors. “But unthinking actions of the very same people help to commit future unheard generations to misery and early death on an overcrowded planet.”

So, Obama’s top dog science advisor is an atheist who believes that too many humans are ruining the planet for future generations.  Who determines how many is too many?  Who determines who should go and who should stay to get population under control?  Who determines what development should be curtailed?   Who determines where the over-development is located and should be reduced?   Who?   Who is this all-knowing person?   Who should we the people appoint to such a responsible position as to hold life and death in their hands?   Freedom or slavery in their hands?   Who?  A committee of the esteemed will do it?

No, it’s the intellectuals at places of higher learning, they know, they can do it, they are the ones, because of all of their studies of nirvana (not the rock band).   Let’s hold hands and sing as that pregnant lady standing next to you is going to have her baby snuffed away because her DNA is not good enough.  Let’s hold hands and sing as that business you’re running is too big, that house you have is too big, that car you drive is too big, that family you have is too big, you’re getting up there in age and that income you make is too big and must be re-distributed to those in the smaller homes, with the smaller cars, to those who are younger . . . to those who vote democrat.

Utopia?   Educated idiots. . .

The blue dogs are fighting the entrenched dogs over the health care reformatory proposals.

The Blue Dogs had presented committee chairman Rep. Henry Waxman a list of 10 items that they wanted changed in health care reform proposals. Neither side revealed what the 10 items were.  CNNPolitics.com

What do you men those representatives of the people will not or refuse to release the information the two groups are fighting over?  Who do they think they are?  They are elected officials.  That’s all.  Just ordinary people who got elected to office.  That’s all they are.    They did not take on immortality when entering the capital building for the first time.   They are not above the rest of us.   They pee in the same way the rest of us do.   They are responsible to the people of the country and all that goes on in Washington is supposed to be out front so the people can read and see what the heck they are planning, saying and even discussing in private.

They can all be dis-elected too.  Sent home to private life to live under the rules they have imposed on the rest of us.

And it’s time that they were.

The mood of the country right now is that November 2010 will see a dramatic change in Washington.   Change that we can believe in.  Bring it on.

Now, in of itself, it’s admirable that the government desires that people  live a healthier lifestyle, and that includes losing all those extra pounds that 2/3 of Americans seem to have acquired, and that also includes improving the environment in which people live, work and play, and go to school.  Obama is interested in passing that gigantic health care reform proposal for that purpose.   The government is aware of how many, and so far have counted the 200 million+ Americans who are sick and tired of carrying around all of that extra blubber, and the feds want to help.    You see, each of us has an ideal BMI that we should meet.  The feds see the need to help.   The feds care about them.  The feds have a plan.   The feds want the blubber butts to join the plan.  The feds will insure everyone, overweight or not, since it could happen to the other 100 million, so the prevention plans hope to prevent that.   The feds will see that all health insurance plans cover weight prevention programs.   The feds will cover the cost of counseling on diets, healthy eating instruction and physical exercise programs.  The feds will see that the doctor prescribes a fitness center.  The feds are wanting local communities to make “farmer market” produce cheaper so everyone can afford the healthier foods.  The feds are wanting grocers to locate in minority neighborhoods and offer healthier foods because minorities have a higher rate of obesity. 

But that’s not all, the CDC sees that the environmental climate changes has a great deal to do with obesity.  They do not want one stone unturned so experts are working on that angle. “As the nation’s public health agency, CDC is using its prevention expertise to address climate change and is preparing for the possibility of health effects related to climate change in the same way it prepares for the possibilities of bioterrorism and pandemic influenza. As part of these efforts, experts are making use of the knowledge and experience gained from previous natural disasters and disease outbreaks.”   CDC.gov/climatechange.

Read Health and Human Service Secretary Kathleen Sebelius comments to the CDC Weight of the Nation conference taking place right now (7/27 thru 7/29) in Washington.

• The first thing is that if the government wants people to start eating healthy food, we need to start serving it.  That means offering more nutritious meals not just in public schools but also in child care centers, recreation centers, senior centers, and other government buildings.
• The second thing we need to do is give people more healthy options in their own neighborhoods.  Many rural Americans and urban Americans have the same problem: they don’t have any supermarkets that sell fresh produce where they live.
• There’s a whole lot more we can do.

Yea, there’s a whole lot more that can be done.   Get out of the way, remove the restrictions on children at school recess and let them run, run, play tag and informal games that kids organize on their own.  Remove school cafeterias and let the kids carry lunch boxes prepared by parents.  In those unsafe neighborhoods plant police patrols and let the kids enjoy freedom to roam the area after school and on week-ends without parents feeling fearful.   It’s actually more fun to be outside than it is to be sitting in front of a TV all afternoon.   Give the kids their freedom.

Obama’s health care reform is more like a reformatory. 

I was initially surprised when I came across this headline this morning on CNN Money online.   Surprised, because it was CNN.  Surprised, because the Obama, Pelosi and Reid health care plan is beginning to get lots of mainstream media attention now also, and it’s not the attention that those liberal idealists occupying Washington seats of power were hoping for.

5 freedoms you’d lose in health care reform

If you read the fine print in the Congressional plans, you’ll find that a lot of cherished aspects of the current system would disappear.

1. Freedom to choose what’s in your plan

2. Freedom to be rewarded for healthy living, or pay your real costs

3. Freedom to choose high-deductible coverage

4. Freedom to keep your existing plan

5. Freedom to choose your doctors

Read the details.

“Distracting the audience’s attention is one of the ways magicians pull off some of their tricks. President Barack Obama’s televised news conference on medical care shows that he is something of a magician when it comes to politics.”

“The big trick for the president is to convince the public that he can add tens of millions of people to his government medical care plan without raising the costs.”  Thomas Sowell.  7/26/09

As the Obama administration is pushing real hard on the passage of a massive new reform of the health care industry, the rest of the country is learning that reform is most needed in Washington.   The state of the nation is unhealthy mainly because of the mental health of elected and appointed officials in and around the beltway.  Progressive Liberal Idealism is a mental disorder.

When the president of the United States verbally enters into a local civil matter involving two citizens, it illustrates to the world just how this president views the people of the country and how he views his job as the president to be the manager over the affairs of individuals.   He recently went off on a tilt against one of his subjects without fully knowing the facts, and as his words were televised nationally, the rest of the country hung their heads and chose sides.  He himself lacks the discipline he wishes his subjects would use in their personal lives.   How much better it would have been to just let the locals handle the matter.   But in Washington, meddling is their business.

When the president and his party of liberal democrats wish to re-write how the individual people of the country handle their own physical health, it illustrates that he views himself as some kind of a father figure who was given authority over 300 million babies to raise, discipline and take care of.   And he’s not happy with the way we’re doing it.   He’s appointed very smart people to regulate how much doctors can be paid, which is like a business owner setting the wages for his staff.   His very smart and all-knowing czars know how 300 million people should manage their personal health.   How much better we’d all be if he mandated the government to live under the same rules as imposed on the people.   But in Washington, different rules apply for those very special know it alls.

When the president and his party of czars, along with hundreds of fellow believers wish to invade every aspect of individual lives by regulating how much energy each individual can personally consume, and taxing the excesses, it demonstrates how this president and his fellow congress views his job as the chief disciplinarian of 300 million kiddies who need to be kept on a tight rope, less they stray off his approved path.  How much better off the people would be if he managed the government to live within their means to avoid bankrupting us all.

When the president sends billions of dollars to an organization that promotes the killing of the unwanted, what kind of a message does it send to the people?  Even their health care reform czars have seniors in the crosshairs as being too expensive to treat, and normal people too dumb to choose health insurance for themselves.   Rather than meddling in the private lives of citizens, he ought to mandate restraint and responsibility on elected officials to hold their distance away from special interest groups.

When the president kisses off the majority of people who know that there are only two sexes in mankind, it is a sign of embracing the ideology of Darwinism, of an ungodly world where personal destructive behavior is overlooked as being the new thing, approving a new gender in the genes, and then spend billions to treat the disease.

When the president and his appointed ones apologize to the world for our previous behavior which enabled the US to become the most prosperous, the most powerful, the nation that honors the most individual freedoms, the nation others have looked to for protection, the nation that has been looked to as the best place to live by millions of peoples from all over the world, then those apologizing exhibit a need of mental healing from their learning disorder.  Apologize for that is insane.

It is unhealthy for the president and congress to consider themselves the ultimate manager of the personal affairs of 300 million subjects, and thus, the ones needing mental health care are those ruining the country.
Lawmakers are not good models of healthy living

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25400.html#ixzz0MTvpa4BQ

A vote against them is all the people have, whereas total power over the people is what they seek.  The cure for progressive liberal Idealism is a good kick in the butt, out of office and back home to retire.

As the older than dirt saying goes: “the devil is in the details,” so goes the new and too big to read nationalized health care proposal.   This time the devils have been writing the details, the liberal social engineering devils themselves, more commonly called the liberal democrats as headed by Obama, Pelosi and Reid and their staff of cohorts, more commonly called, in today’s language, czars. 

Cass Sustein, the newly appointed regulatory czar, is one of those social engineering devils. 

“The reason is Sunstein’s support for cost-benefit analysis, the practice of examining regulations to ensure that their benefit to society outweighs whatever costs they impose.”   Time online.

Now in itself, cost benefit analysis is not all that bad when it is used to analyze the benefits of going forward with the cap and trade legislation, or the benefits of a government take over of the auto industry, but to use cost benefit analysis to strike the best use of funds in medical rationing, then the procedure breaks down as benefitting a particular group or class of individuals, rather than the entire country at large.

It would be more costly in the long run to schedule a hip replacement for a person at age 67 than it would be for a person at age 57.   How about treating cancer?   How about treating allergies?  “Sorry my friend, but you’ll have to make the best of it, as the funds are not available for your surgery.”

America is beginning to wake up to the devilish details inside the government run health care reform proposal.   We’d better hope that this thing does not pass.

In a report by the Department of Bioethics, The Clinical Center, National
Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA the argument for health benefits going to the youngest first goes like this.

Allocation of scarce medical interventions is a perennial challenge. During the 1940s, an expert committee allocated—without public input—then-novel penicillin to American soldiers before civilians, using expected efficacy and speed of return to duty as criteria.

. . .

Prioritising the youngest gives priority to the worst-off —those who would otherwise die having had the fewest life-years—and is thus fundamentally different from favouritism towards adults or people who are well-off . Also, allocating preferentially to the young has an appeal that favouring other worst-off individuals such as women, poor people, or minorities lacks: “Because [all people] age, treating people of different ages diff- erently does not mean that we are treating persons unequally.

This seems to be the mindset of Cass Sustein, the person who may be Ok’d by the senate as the man in charge of regulating life and death decisions for the elderly.   A government run health care is a bad idea from the very start. . . there are just too many variables that cannot be put into law.  And why should our government even try, when the nations who have a government run system are slowly changing back to a market driven system?   

Power. 

If you’ve read the entire police report by the officer, Sgt. James Crowley, who responded to the 911 call by a concerned neighbor, then you’d know that this entire episode has been blown way out of proportion.   Blown way out of the usual happenings around every berg in America, every week, every day of the year. 

Sgt. Crowley was doing his job.   He did it well. 

If homeowner Henry Louis Gates had merely produced a photo identification with his address shown, the officer would have left and the entire world would not have known that Gates was a professor at Harvard and that he has a big mouth and grudge against white police officers.

If president Obama had kept his mouth shut and said something like “as the president, it’s not my place to comment on a local police matter,” then the entire world would not be commenting on how stupid the president was for calling the Cambridge police actions stupid.

But because Obama is president and 1/2 black man, and Gates is a black man and a professor at Harvard, the esteemed academy of superior learning in the superior state of Ted Kennedy, the opportunity for a racial crisis is not being missed.   And everyone knows by now that the liberals can’t let a crisis situation go to waste. 

And so the racial tensions and divide widens a bit more in America.

The police report can be read here.