GentleGiant

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8.31.2009

Ted Kennedy

Ted Kennedy

I wonder if Ted Kennedy is now answering for the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, which he caused by driving off the bridge, which caused the accident that took her life. I wonder if he is answering for all the bad legislation he got passed. I also wonder if he is answering for his views on abortion. These items which are on the Ted Kennedy resume, is something I wouldn’t want on my resume.

When I die and have to give an account of my actions before God, I surely don’t want to have to explain the death of a fellow human being or why I felt that killing the innocent through abortion was okay. I don’t want to try and explain away the hardships I put people under, by getting ridicules and bad legislation passed into law, which the people of the United States had to live under, while I exempt myself from those laws.

I’m glad that Ted Kennedy is out of the Senate. I see that with all his power and influence he still died. I am sorry that he died but I’m not sorry that he is permanently out of the Senate. He can’t get any bills passed by his influence. Most of Ted Kennedy’s bills should never have seen the light of day, more less, being passed into law.

The illegal immigration problem we are now facing is a direct cause of the bill he got passed into law in 1965. When he got this bill passed into law, he assured the citizens of the United States that we wouldn’t have to worry about illegal immigrants, flooding our cities or taking our jobs away, that everything will be okay.

This is typical with liberals, they make promises but they never deliver on them. Then when they see the failure they created, they have the charisma to blame someone else for this bad legislation. They do get a little help from their lackeys, the state run news media but people are finally starting to wake up.

Another bad piece of legislation that Ted Kennedy got passed was the H.M.O. insurance bill. We see that fiasco every day we wake up. I’m sure he had his hands, in on the Medicare, Medicaid and no child left behind bills that became law.

These two bills that got passed into law, did they make him a bad Senator? No, what makes Ted Kennedy a bad Senator is all his legislation that he got passed, into law, which took money away from the people who worked. This money was then given to people who didn’t want to work.

This money that got confiscated, by laws that were enacted by our federal government, which allowed them to steal money from the working men and women of this country, hurt our economy. Once you take away disposable income, you take the buying power of the middle class away. In other words they don’t buy as much.

This situation creates a vicious cycle for the middle Class, in our society. This vicious cycle, starts to destroy the foundation of our society, which is our family structure. When the Father of the family has his deposable income taken away, by an empowered government, he has three choices. He can work longer hours to make up for the confiscation of his money. He can find a part time job. He can even ask his wife to find a job.

So how does this hurt the family? It hurts the family by taking the Mother’s and Father’s time away from their children. The less time the parents have with their children, the more time teachers have to indoctrinate them into their way of thinking.

How does this hurt the family? When children are being indoctrinated by our school teachers, the parents can’t counter this indoctrination, when there working longer hours to feed and put a roof over their children’s heads. The vicious cycle also takes away the nurturing of the mother and the discipline of the father.

So how does Ted Kennedy come into play here? If not all, then most of his legislation is what created this vicious cycle. I sometime wonder if this was done deliberately, so that they could influence the young and get them to believe in a big-blotted, slow moving, inefficient government that will satisfy all their needs. This also might have been done, to allow them, to put our children under the control of the federal government.

So I’m not sorry that Ted Kennedy has left the Senate after forty some years of him being in public office I’m surprised that we still have a country left. Does the Kennedy clan still pose a threat to the welfare of the United States and its people? Yes, when you have someone who feels guilty for the money they have inherited. They want to make up for these bad feeling.

Now, they don’t feel bad enough to give the money away. What they do is get laws passed, to confiscate money away from the working class, which they give to people who don’t want to work. This makes them feel better about themselves, at our expense.

People say that the torch has been passed to Barack Obama and that he will continue on with the hopes and dreams of Ted Kennedy. I would have to agree with this statement. Barack Obama’s stimulus bill hasn’t worked and won’t work because he has taken away the buying power of the private citizens.

Barack Obama next piece of legislation is the revamping of our health care system, which puts it under the control of the federal government. This will be a major fiasco for us and our country. It also doesn’t matter, to him, that 80% of us don’t want this revamping of our health care system to ocurr.

So yes, Barack Obama has taken the torch from Ted Kennedy and has had ridicules and bad legislation passed into law, plus ignoring the will of the citizenry of the United States, is a must for someone who has picked up the torch for Ted Kennedy.

8.26.2009

Liberals Are Calling Us Names Again

Liberals Are Calling Us Names Again

Will liberals ever explain their position instead of calling someone names that happens to disagree with them? I for one am getting tired of being called names when I have a legitimate concern about liberal legislation that will revamp our health care system. Especially considering that nationalizing it, will make it worst instead of better.

The Government of the United States has a bad track recorded when it comes to social programs. Our Social Security System is almost bankrupt, Medicare for the elderly is almost bankrupt and Medicaid for the poor is almost bankrupt. Welfare became a new form of slavery.

Now they want to take our privately run health care system, which 80% of the people living in the United States are happy with and nationalize it. I see that they are using one of their favorite ploys, which is underestimating the cost of the program and overestimating the people that are in need of it.

They say that it will cost the tax payers one trillion dollars for their health care plan. If they make an acknowledgement to that, then you can be sure that the cost is probably double, of what they say it is. They say that 47 million Americans are uninsured. I believe, that there are 47 million Americans uninsured but you have to understand this statement Mexicans and Canadians are Americans. We all live on the continent of North America.

How many citizens of the United States are uninsured, I believe the true number is 9 million. Now these people if they want insurance should be able to get it, even if they have to go on an inefficient government program such as Medicaid. I don’t believe that we need to ruin our current health care system by nationalizing it.

Now, Instead of Barack Obama insulting us by calling us, people that wet our beds, why doesn’t he explain his health care plan to the concern people of the United States? We the people have the right to express our concerns to our representatives that we send to Washington, D.C. This has been granted to us by the first amendment of the constitution of the United States.

Is Barack Obama calling us names because he doesn’t have a bill that he can point to and say on page 432 it says this. Is Barack Obama calling us names because he can’t say what his true legislation will be, for the government run health care system he wants to enact. Is Barack Obama calling us names because he can’t be trusted? His word is worthless.

Name calling is something I would expect from a first grader not a college graduate. So, the question that needs to be asked is, why is Barack Obama calling us people that wet our beds. People that have a legitimate concern for the legislation he wants to force upon us. The bill that the House of Representatives are working on is 1200 pages long, most, if not all of them haven’t read this bill.

So maybe we should demand that they read the bill before they vote on the bill. Better yet, let’s make them read the bill while they are in session. Then we can tune into their session on TV and hear for ourselves what's in the bill. This will stop the so called misleading information liberals are complaining about. After we hear what’s in the bill we can call our representatives and voice our objections and concerns about the bill or our acceptance of the bill.

If this utopian government run health care system is so great, why are our representatives exempting themselves and their families from this government run health care system? Why are we allowing them to do so? We should be saying if you enact this system of health care then you must use the system as well.

8.17.2009

Government run Health Care

Government Run Health Care

I don’t believe that most of the people living in the United States are afraid of our federal government. I believe they’re afraid of the liberal (socialist) Democratic Party who uses a bait and switch tactic, on every piece of legislation they try to get passed into law.

This bait and switch tactic was used in Bill Clinton’s presidential election, when he said he was going to give us a tax cut. He baited us with promises of tax cuts but then turns around and raised our taxes when he got voted into office.

The only liberal that was honest with the people of the United States, in the last twenty five years was Walter Mondale. His honesty cost him the 1984 presidential election. Liberals have learned from this. They realized that they couldn’t be honest with the people living in the United States. So they use their bait and switch tactics.

The bait and switch tactics of Barack Obama is his gimmick of hope and change, which is the same old worn out liberal agenda, which they have been using for the last fifty years. Through their bait and switch tactics, they have passed legislation, which has slowly put us into huge debt, and has slowly taken our God given freedoms away.

Now their bait and switch tactics are focused on our health care system. So it doesn’t surprise me when the people of the United States start to question the so called health care plan set forth by Barack Obama. His bait and switch tactics on the government run health care system is that there won’t be any rationing.

Another Barack Obama’s bait and switch tactic is that you can keep your private care if you like it. You don’t have to go on the government health care system. I believe that this is the father thing from his mind, for he has stated many times in the past that he is for a single payer system.

One thing to remember is that our elected officials have said that our current health care system is bad that we need to get rid of it. The health care costs are devastating, to the families living in the United States. They say we have to do something.

Really, if our current health care system is so bad, then why is it that 80% of the people on this health care system want to stay on it? I would think that people would be running over each other to get to this so call utopian plan of health care set forth by Barack Obama.

A single payer plan will wipe out completion. When the completion is wipe out then rationing care will start. A death panel might be a pit much but what else would you call it when government bureaucrats deicide who gets care and who doesn’t.

How will they decide? How will they decide how the money in the budget gets divided up? What treatment will be paid for and what treatment will not be paid for. How will they decide, who gets treatment and who doesn’t.

If you think that our government won’t ration care, you need to get you head examined because a government program such as health care, will have a budget attached to it. If health care expanses exceed the budget, then rationing will have to start or tax increases will have to occur.

The one thing that amazes me is that these people, which are coming up with this health care government giveaway program are suppose to be the smartest people in the room and this is the best they can do. If this health care plan is so great, then why are they exempting themselves from this said plan?

I don’t see any of our elected officials saying that they will put themselves or their families on this plan. So if this health care plan is so great why aren’t they pushing over people to get their family members on this plan? It’s because they know that rationing will have to occur in this plans existence.

Why is that, has anyone seen any government giveaway program that has worked? Has anyone seen any foreign country health care plan that doesn’t ration treatment to its people, when it comes to doling out health care?

Prosperity Has Reached China

Prosperity Has Reached China

There are many way to see the prosperity or poverty of a nation. One can look at the country’s unemployment to see if there in a recession, another way is to look at the GNP of that nation. You can also check out the ratio of goods imported to goods exported, to see if there’s a tread deficit but the best way to see if a nation is being prosperous or not is to observe the life style of it people.

The life style of people will tell you a lot about the situation of the country they are living in. people that are in need of a job stop buying goods and services. People that are working buy goods and services, which keep the economy moving, which keeps the country’s tax revenue flowing to the government. The more disposable income a person has the more goods and services he/she will buy, which will increase employment.

By observing the life style of the Chinese people I would have to say that prosperity has reached China. Yes China has been hurt by the recklessness of the United States federal government but for China to maintain their prosperity all they would have to do, is to allow their people to buy some of the goods slated for export. The one thing, the Chinese government would have to watch is the import to export ratio. They would have to make sure that stayed in balance.

In my six visits to China over a ten year period of time, I have seen China’s middle class reemerge. I have seen the Chinese people’s buying power increase. So by this observation I can say, the prosperity of China is in full swing?

One observation I have made, is to see the purchases of high dollar SUV motor vehicles, such as Porsche, BMW, Lexis, Volvo and Mercedes Benz. Every car manufacture has at least one of their models sold in China. There are car manufactures in China that I forgot existed, such as Opel and Daewoo.

The observation of prosperity in China, is seen by their middle class being able to buy mid size cars, such as the Ford Focus and the Ford Taurus. This prosperity hit home, when I saw my cousin in-laws buying and driving mid size cars that I could not afford to buy.

The plush car markets that use to be in the United States are moving over to China. Business people will always find out where the money is or is going. The car manufactures of the world have realized that China is the place to be when it comes to emerging markets. So GM, which has the Buick line sold in China, made the correct decision by keeping the Buick line in production. This alone might turn GM around despite our federal government intrusions into our car manufacturing industries. GM also has the Chevrolet and Cadillac sold there.

Probably the most obvious sign of prosperity in China is when the trio of deception went to China to ask for aid to try and stimulate the world’s economy. The United States alone use to be able to simulate the world’s economy. Now we need help. I hope that The Chinese Government had someone like Zhuge Liang in these negotiations so they could see through the lies and deception generated by them.

I wonder if Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton and Timothy Geithner, the trio of deceivers, thought that they could work out a deal like Great Britain work out with China after the opium wars were over. One thing that is for sure is that the Chinese Government should think twice before entering into any agreement with this trio of deceivers.

The one thing that the United States should be worried about with China’s prosperity is the Middle East countries that hate America because as the Chinese people buy more and more cars their need for oil will increase. This will give the oil producing nations the opportunity to divert oil exports slated for the United States to China, causing an oil crisis in the United States, which will intensify our economic slowdown.