Quote of the Day: “I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule—and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.)” — Friedrich Nietzsche
This is why Congressional leaders are in such a rush to pass the bill. They know things will only get worse for their dreams of government controlled health care. We have to keep pushing to stop a rushed vote, and the latest news indicates we may be succeeding.
If we can win this victory now the prospects for true health care reform in a free market direction will become much better.
Today, we can continue to say no to government controlled health care by saying yes to two bills introduced by Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX). . .
When he ran for office President Obama promised us he would oppose any legal requirement that Americans would have to buy health insurance. He’s broken his promise (along with so many others). Such a mandate would represent a huge tax increase on the American people, especially since government regulations make health insurance more expensive than it would be in a free market.
You can say “No” to President Obama’s health insurance mandate/tax by saying yes to HR 2629.
You can also say “No” to plans for the federal government to control your health care decisions through electronic medial records, by saying yes to HR 2630, the “Protect Patients and Physicians Privacy Act.” This bill would . . .
* Allow you to opt out of any federal scheme for electronic medical records.
* Repeal the Secretary of Health and Human Services’ authority to create a unique health identifier number.
* Prohibit the use of federal funds to support, encourage, or otherwise promote the use of a standard unique health identifier for any federal, state or private health care plan.
* Require informed consent for the sharing of any personal medical information created pursuant to any federal scheme for electronic medical records.
* Prohibit your health information from being included in any federal database without your consent.
* Prohibit the federal government from requiring health care providers to participate in any federal scheme for electronic medical records
* Prohibit sanctions against health care providers who refuse to participate in the federal scheme for electronic medical records.
This time use your personal comments to say the following (you can cut and paste if you want) . . .
Please protect my health care by supporting HR 2629, the “Coercion Is Not Health Care Act,” and HR 2630, the “Protect Patients and Physicians Privacy Act.”
Ron Paul appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Meeting” earlier today. The discussion was about auditing the Federal Reserve. Paul points out that if HR1207 were brought to a vote no lawmaker in their right mind would vote against it.
Yet there is still a great many powerful people speaking out against an audit. This was another great interview giving more exposure to the shenanigans of the Federal Reserve.
Ron Paul seemed to be everywhere yesterday. Here is his appearance on CNBC with Larry Kudlow. This may be the best of the lot. They go into more detail regarding the ability of any Fed Chairman to properly control inflation/deflation and they discuss Ron Paul’s HR1207 bill to audit the Fed.
Note that Paul doesn’t have a lot of confidence in his specific bill passing even with the current 275 cosponsors in the House and the 17 in the Senate. He believes something will get done, but it likely won’t be “what we need”.
I ask my Congressman why he insists on giving taxpayer money to foreign nations while we are in foreign debt.
by Jake Towne, the Champion of the Constitution
Originally published on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at http://www.nolanchart.com/article6649.html
“Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.” – Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address as President of the United States, 1801-1809
“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.” – James Madison
“I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.” – Ziggy Marley
The following is a letter sent to my local Congressman today. Although I happen to be running against him in the 2010 election, I am obviously writing as a concerned citizen. I have sent this note to his office and also called his office to state my opinion, which was courteously received.
Ron Paul appeared on Fox Business yesterday with Neil Cavuto discussing his questioning of Ben Bernanke earlier in the day. He once again makes the argument that Bernanke was one of the ones who didn’t see the economic crisis coming yet we are supposed to believe he can help us?
During the hearing we’ve been following today Bill Posey used his time to continue the same line of questioning that Ron Paul began with Bernanke.
He begins by discussing the definition of inflation and then elaborates more on an audit of the Federal Reserve. Bernanke continues his decidedly illogical argument that knowing what the Fed is doing is the same as directing the Fed on monetary policy.
Of note is that Posey uses Judge Napolitano’s quote repeated on Freedom Watch over the past few weeks: “We know more about what the CIA is doing than the Fed”.
Alan Grayson, a Florida Democrat who has been very critical in the past of Fed actions takes it to Bernanke today regarding foreign central bank lending. If the 90 or so Democratic cosponsors of Ron Paul’s HR1207 bill doesn’t convince you that Fed transparency is bipartisan then Grayson’s grilling of Bernanke should.
What I find especially horrid about this is that the U.S. is bankrupt and the Fed is not only printing money and handing it out to U.S. financial institutions, but is handing it out to foreign central banks so they can hand it out to their own financial institutions. Meanwhile the value of the dollar takes more of a hit exacerbating the “hidden” inflation tax on every person in the world who holds dollars.
For far too long those with a liberal/progressive agenda have successfully turned the debate around so that more and more things have become every citizen’s “right” and they are therefore correct to feel entitled to them (and demand them from their government). The subject of health care insurance is a huge one. Ron Paul correctly points out in his weekly Texas Straight Talk column that there’s a big difference between rights and “goods” (despite the level of need):
Political philosopher Richard Weaver famously and correctly stated that ideas have consequences. Take for example ideas about rights versus goods. Natural law states that people have rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. A good is something you work for and earn. It might be a need, like food, but more “goods” seem to be becoming “rights” in our culture, and this has troubling consequences. It might seem harmless enough to decide that people have a right to things like education, employment, housing or healthcare. But if we look a little further into the consequences, we can see that the workings of the community and economy are thrown wildly off balance when people accept those ideas.
First of all, other people must pay for things like healthcare. Those people have bills to pay and families to support, just as you do. If there is a “right” to healthcare, you must force the providers of those goods, or others, to serve you.
Here is Ron Paul’s quickly delivered opening statement during the Federal Reserve hearing today. Chairman Barney Frank told him he had 2 1/2 minutes, but ended up giving him three.
Paul hammers home the idea that if we use non-government statistics for determining unemployment the rate is around 20% not the already high 9.5% the government would have us believe. He also talks about the skyrocketing debt.
“Net U.S. debt is now 372% of GDP. In the crisis of the 1930’s it peaked at 301%.”
Today Ron Paul had the opportunity to question Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Capitol Hill.
Paul starts off by quoting Bernanke and asking him to clarify his quotes regarding transparency and HR1207. Then he asks Bernanke about inflation and whether it is a rise in prices or an increase in the monetary supply.
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