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5 Key Principles that Unite Populist Progressives and Tea-Party Libertarians
"Rise like Lions after slumber; In unvanquishable number; Shake your chains to earth like dew; Which in sleep had fallen on you; Ye are many; They are few." -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The establishment must do everything it can to suppress unity among the growing herd of angry citizens. However, victory for the people is within our grasp. In a dangerous scenario for the establishment, populists from the left and the right are increasingly finding common ground. A recent Mother Jones article titled "Tea Party or Pot Party?" revealed to progressives that they can actually agree with Tea Party libertarians on issues such as legalizing marijuana. With an honest look at each other's principles we may find that what unites Populists is far more powerful than what divides us.
First, we must be cognizant that the establishment seeks to divide us by using such vile tactics as labeling progressives as "evil communists" and the Tea Party libertarians as "racists." Naturally, old-school civil rights liberals hate racists, and free-market conservative purists hate communists. Can we not see that the establishment knows precisely what buttons to push to keep us from uniting? These false labels are irrelevant in our current struggle with a tyrannical Corporate State.
It is clear that we the people are all suffering in similar ways under the current system. We grasp for someone to blame for this manufactured suffering, and the establishment is all too eager to provide a culprit to misdirect our anger. Progressives have been conditioned to blame big evil corporations, while conservatives have been conditioned to blame big evil government. But now, both are finally realizing that corporate cartels and the government have merged into a most evil monster that cares not for them, or the health of America for that matter. Even Michael Moore is waking up to the fact that Obama is a mere puppet of the corporate masters.
The people have been fooled and divided for long enough. Now, we must go beyond phony labels that the establishment has carefully crafted for us, and join our fellow populists to unite around our common human principles.
Here are five co-dependent principles that unite populist progressives and tea party libertarians:
1. Peace - Ending Foreign Wars
Peace seems to be our natural human condition until the corporate controllers disrupt it for their tactical gain. Wars are sold through division, driven by military-industrial complex profits and the desire for power over resources -- period. Those are not good enough reasons to kill, maim, displace and torture millions of human beings. Real humans, if desperate enough, may kill for resources but are not inclined to simply kill for power -- and will engage in neither if they are reasonably comfortable. The good news is, the elite sub-humans who use human pawns for war to increase gluttonous fortunes will eventually be toppled, because the true natural order of peace will always ultimately manifest. Acts of war are always immoral crimes against humanity, as war is hell and we must become the devil to win.
Libertarians and progressives have been consistently unified against the immoral, interventionist wars and the resulting atrocities on liberty. Complacent progressives must forget about what party is in power and continue to fight for what is right. It's not okay to excuse the wars, the torture, and the illegal wiretapping simply because the current Democratic president was presented with a Nobel Peace Prize. If anything, that alone should prove to you the left-right paradigm is bogus. And if pocketbook conservatives desire authenticity about reducing spending, then we must start with defense cuts across the board -- including ending the wars. Christian conservatives and liberal Jews must adopt the peaceful message of their religions, and realize that the real threat to their freedom and safety is far more dangerous than the engineered Muslim threat sold to them by the corrupt establishment. And those who still support military-industrial complex-owned neocons, God help you.
Common Ground: As Gandhi said, "There is no path to peace, peace is the path". Ending the wars is the only moral and pragmatic policy to rescue our country.
2. Restoring Economic Justice and Fiscal Sanity
Economic fairness and fiscal sanity begins and ends with reforming our monetary system. The primary reason Americans should be angry about their economic situation is the fact that the Federal Reserve is a privately-owned entity. It functions outside the jurisdiction of all branches of elected government and it owns the SEC and Treasury, which gives this private group immeasurable power to turn us and our government into debt slaves for their own gain. The fractional reserve system for money creation inherently causes inflation that will always require more taxes from the public. In fact, the United States never had an income tax until the year after the Federal Reserve Act was passed in 1913. The Fed, who continues to loot America, is also the engine that drives the ongoing global financial crisis. To reclaim America it is imperative that the criminal banking cartel be abolished and sound money must be restored to the people.
We must learn from Woodrow Wilson who said: "Our great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of our nation, therefore, and all of our activities are in the hands of a few men . . . who necessarily, by very reason of their limitations, chill and check and destroy economic freedom."
This topic is so obviously beyond the false left-right debate that anyone who opposes it would appear to be a shill for the criminal banking system. If Tea Party activists wonder who is to blame for their climbing taxes, they need to point their finger at the monetary system that encourages big government to keep spending, thus resulting in inflation. There is already encouraging bipartisan cooperation in regards to investigating the Fed which has brought great awareness of their true nature to the public.
Although there is no proposed legislation to fundamentally change the function of the Fed, we saw a progressive Alan Grayson (D-Fla) co-sponsor the "Audit the Fed" bill, drafted by ultra-conservative Ron Paul (R-TX), with another ultra-progressive Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introducing the Senate version. Furthermore, it is also encouraging to see a flurry of candidates from various states and political philosophies proposing citizen-owned state banks as part of the economic solution. This nonpartisan issue is absolutely vital for all Americans to support if we hope to be free human beings.
Common Ground: Thomas Jefferson said: "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered . . . I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies . . . The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." End the private Federal Reserve and establish sound money for the benefit of all Americans.
3. Limiting Government for the Restoration of Individual Liberty
Very simply, more personal liberty comes only by limiting the size of government. As Americans, we all must hold dear our Bill of Rights which is clearly under assault. Conservative libertarians have long been known as the defenders of liberty, while progressive civil rights leaders in the 60s knew they had truth on their side when they declared that equality would ultimately prevail. Since the civil rights victory, progressives grew to believe that government intervention works for social matters, and that well-funded regulatory agencies are necessary and good because they are looking out for our safety.
However, the last decade has conclusively proved that all major regulators like the FDA, USDA, CDC, SEC, and DHS have become arms of the elite corporate cartels who use regulation to squeeze small businesses to further consolidate their industry empires. These utterly corrupt and bloated agencies continue to sell "safety" to the public to justify their budget and jurisdiction expansions, where they limit our freedoms through over-regulation at the behest of their corporate controllers.
Despite being the strongest voice against the Patriot Act at the time, progressives are only now experiencing the personal ramifications of increased government regulation by the massive "Big Brother" surveillance-industrial complex -- and it is happening, ironically, under our supposedly "liberal" president. They have witnessed an assault on their freedoms with the recent tyrannical raids on peaceful antiwar protesters, private organic food cooperatives, legal natural health choices like medical marijuana, and illegal surveillance of environmentalist anti-fracture gas drilling groups. In every case, big business is directing big government to crush our freedoms. Big government and big cartel business feed off each other in a self-perpetuating system that must be broken.
Common Ground: Liberty is a natural order that unites us and will prevail. As John Adams wrote: "Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty." Restore the Bill of Rights by ending the prohibition of drugs; and by reducing, or eliminating, regulatory agencies who impose fees, taxes, and statutes that threaten our freedoms.
4. Consumer Freedom and Free Markets
No form of government has been able to stop free markets in the history of mankind. Even under totalitarian communism, barter systems or black markets thrive because free markets are yet another natural order for humanity. The failed war on drugs is the most glaring example in America. The more tyrannical our government becomes toward limiting consumers' choices, the more we are seeing the rise of local organic cooperatives, many of which utilize barter systems.
For too long progressives and conservatives have confused what constitutes a free market economy. Again, this confusion and division has been deliberately manufactured Conservatives who advocate for free market capitalism must admit that we haven't had that model since before the original Robber Barons, because Rockefeller and other elites live by the mantra "competition is a sin" -- thus cartels formed to create a form of corporate communism. While progressives like Michael Moore, director of Capitalism, must acknowledge that it is was not "free market capitalism" that caused the financial meltdown -- but rather it was the corrupt banking system and the utter lack of free market competition to blame.
The general public is beginning to realize that anti-competition cartels use government regulatory agencies to further consolidate market share which erodes the free market as well as personal choices. Food is the most obvious example of an industry that is run by near monopolies, while the FDA continues to suppress healthy choices for local food and natural health alternatives. Progressives and conservatives must unite with no fear of being called anti-business, and fight to break up the cartels if we're to have genuinely free and fair markets.
Common Ground: "The difference between free-market capitalism and state capitalism is precisely the difference between, on the one hand, peaceful, voluntary exchange, and on the other, violent expropriation."Murray N. Rothbard. End the monopoly cartels and the prohibition of drugs; demand true free markets with the liberty of choice, not the illusion of choice.
5. Respecting and Protecting our Ecosystem
Obviously a polluted ecosystem does not discriminate against political affiliations. Humanity requires a healthy environment above all other concerns; as clean water, air, and healthy soil are essential to our survival. That we can all agree on. However, the modern environmental movement seems to have been hijacked by the elite who show no desire to protect the water, air, and soil. Environmentalists have been made to believe that CO2 is the most dangerous element responsible for "Global Warming", and despite the establishment's constant betrayal of facts, many still put faith in the elite's proposed solutions that do nothing to reduce real pollutants.
The climate change debate has become the only environmental topic discussed in the mainstream and appears to be yet another example of manufactured political division. Environmentally-conscious progressives know they have been repeatedly lied to by the establishment left about everything from free-trade agreements to GMO foods, yet they seem to have a very difficult time questioning the man-made "global warming" theory and the elite's proposed solutions.
At the very least, eyebrows should be raised since “hacked” emails exposed that the science data had been manipulated to fit the theory. Alarm bells should go off when we learn that, as Vice President, Gore designed the proposed Cap and Trade system with Enron’s criminal CEO Ken “Kenny Boy” Lay years before the global warming propaganda had begun. A full blown revolt should take place knowing that the scandalous international Banksters and Big Oil (including BP) have shaped Cap and Trade to line their pockets. Finally, many of the proposed provisions appear to tax personal choices while major corporate polluters are exempt. Regardless of what we believe, it certainly appears that climate change fits the establishment's problem-reaction-solution model of social engineering and we should all beware.
Additionally, the global-warming-is-a-hoax crowd must concede that fossil fuels are still dirty and have a major impact on the environment regardless of whether they effect climate change. The environmentalists who recently opposed fracture drilling in Pennsylvania did so because the practice contaminates ground water, not because natural gas effects climate change. These protesters were nonpartisan Americans. We must unite against practices that provably damage our health and the health of our ecosystem. These include oil spills and subsequent chemical spraying, industrial agriculture and factory farms, dirty coal and depleted uranium energy plants, deliberate poisoning of public water with sodium fluoride, and the production, promotion, and disposal of dangerous pharmaceuticals to name a few.
Common Ground: True pollution is obvious. "Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not seem to require so much an active energy, as a passive aptitude of the soul in order to encounter it. But error is endlessly diversified; it has no reality, but is the pure and simple creation of the mind that invents it." - Ben Franklin. We must unite to confront the provable threats to human health and the integrity of our environment, and we must do it rather quickly.
These principles should naturally unite angry citizens who have been relentlessly abused by the corporate state. Sure, many will remain close-minded and submit to the manufactured division, but as we reach this crucial tipping point for free humanity, it is now imperative that we join in common purpose - FREEDOM. Let us know what you think!
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The establishment must do everything it can to suppress unity among the growing herd of angry citizens. However, victory for the people is within our grasp. In a dangerous scenario for the establishment, populists from the left and the right are increasingly finding common ground. A recent Mother Jones article titled "Tea Party or Pot Party?" revealed to progressives that they can actually agree with Tea Party libertarians on issues such as legalizing marijuana. With an honest look at each other's principles we may find that what unites Populists is far more powerful than what divides us.
First, we must be cognizant that the establishment seeks to divide us by using such vile tactics as labeling progressives as "evil communists" and the Tea Party libertarians as "racists." Naturally, old-school civil rights liberals hate racists, and free-market conservative purists hate communists. Can we not see that the establishment knows precisely what buttons to push to keep us from uniting? These false labels are irrelevant in our current struggle with a tyrannical Corporate State.
It is clear that we the people are all suffering in similar ways under the current system. We grasp for someone to blame for this manufactured suffering, and the establishment is all too eager to provide a culprit to misdirect our anger. Progressives have been conditioned to blame big evil corporations, while conservatives have been conditioned to blame big evil government. But now, both are finally realizing that corporate cartels and the government have merged into a most evil monster that cares not for them, or the health of America for that matter. Even Michael Moore is waking up to the fact that Obama is a mere puppet of the corporate masters.
The people have been fooled and divided for long enough. Now, we must go beyond phony labels that the establishment has carefully crafted for us, and join our fellow populists to unite around our common human principles.
Here are five co-dependent principles that unite populist progressives and tea party libertarians:
1. Peace - Ending Foreign Wars
Peace seems to be our natural human condition until the corporate controllers disrupt it for their tactical gain. Wars are sold through division, driven by military-industrial complex profits and the desire for power over resources -- period. Those are not good enough reasons to kill, maim, displace and torture millions of human beings. Real humans, if desperate enough, may kill for resources but are not inclined to simply kill for power -- and will engage in neither if they are reasonably comfortable. The good news is, the elite sub-humans who use human pawns for war to increase gluttonous fortunes will eventually be toppled, because the true natural order of peace will always ultimately manifest. Acts of war are always immoral crimes against humanity, as war is hell and we must become the devil to win.
Libertarians and progressives have been consistently unified against the immoral, interventionist wars and the resulting atrocities on liberty. Complacent progressives must forget about what party is in power and continue to fight for what is right. It's not okay to excuse the wars, the torture, and the illegal wiretapping simply because the current Democratic president was presented with a Nobel Peace Prize. If anything, that alone should prove to you the left-right paradigm is bogus. And if pocketbook conservatives desire authenticity about reducing spending, then we must start with defense cuts across the board -- including ending the wars. Christian conservatives and liberal Jews must adopt the peaceful message of their religions, and realize that the real threat to their freedom and safety is far more dangerous than the engineered Muslim threat sold to them by the corrupt establishment. And those who still support military-industrial complex-owned neocons, God help you.
Common Ground: As Gandhi said, "There is no path to peace, peace is the path". Ending the wars is the only moral and pragmatic policy to rescue our country.
2. Restoring Economic Justice and Fiscal Sanity
Economic fairness and fiscal sanity begins and ends with reforming our monetary system. The primary reason Americans should be angry about their economic situation is the fact that the Federal Reserve is a privately-owned entity. It functions outside the jurisdiction of all branches of elected government and it owns the SEC and Treasury, which gives this private group immeasurable power to turn us and our government into debt slaves for their own gain. The fractional reserve system for money creation inherently causes inflation that will always require more taxes from the public. In fact, the United States never had an income tax until the year after the Federal Reserve Act was passed in 1913. The Fed, who continues to loot America, is also the engine that drives the ongoing global financial crisis. To reclaim America it is imperative that the criminal banking cartel be abolished and sound money must be restored to the people.
We must learn from Woodrow Wilson who said: "Our great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of our nation, therefore, and all of our activities are in the hands of a few men . . . who necessarily, by very reason of their limitations, chill and check and destroy economic freedom."
This topic is so obviously beyond the false left-right debate that anyone who opposes it would appear to be a shill for the criminal banking system. If Tea Party activists wonder who is to blame for their climbing taxes, they need to point their finger at the monetary system that encourages big government to keep spending, thus resulting in inflation. There is already encouraging bipartisan cooperation in regards to investigating the Fed which has brought great awareness of their true nature to the public.
Although there is no proposed legislation to fundamentally change the function of the Fed, we saw a progressive Alan Grayson (D-Fla) co-sponsor the "Audit the Fed" bill, drafted by ultra-conservative Ron Paul (R-TX), with another ultra-progressive Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introducing the Senate version. Furthermore, it is also encouraging to see a flurry of candidates from various states and political philosophies proposing citizen-owned state banks as part of the economic solution. This nonpartisan issue is absolutely vital for all Americans to support if we hope to be free human beings.
Common Ground: Thomas Jefferson said: "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered . . . I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies . . . The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." End the private Federal Reserve and establish sound money for the benefit of all Americans.
3. Limiting Government for the Restoration of Individual Liberty
Very simply, more personal liberty comes only by limiting the size of government. As Americans, we all must hold dear our Bill of Rights which is clearly under assault. Conservative libertarians have long been known as the defenders of liberty, while progressive civil rights leaders in the 60s knew they had truth on their side when they declared that equality would ultimately prevail. Since the civil rights victory, progressives grew to believe that government intervention works for social matters, and that well-funded regulatory agencies are necessary and good because they are looking out for our safety.
However, the last decade has conclusively proved that all major regulators like the FDA, USDA, CDC, SEC, and DHS have become arms of the elite corporate cartels who use regulation to squeeze small businesses to further consolidate their industry empires. These utterly corrupt and bloated agencies continue to sell "safety" to the public to justify their budget and jurisdiction expansions, where they limit our freedoms through over-regulation at the behest of their corporate controllers.
Despite being the strongest voice against the Patriot Act at the time, progressives are only now experiencing the personal ramifications of increased government regulation by the massive "Big Brother" surveillance-industrial complex -- and it is happening, ironically, under our supposedly "liberal" president. They have witnessed an assault on their freedoms with the recent tyrannical raids on peaceful antiwar protesters, private organic food cooperatives, legal natural health choices like medical marijuana, and illegal surveillance of environmentalist anti-fracture gas drilling groups. In every case, big business is directing big government to crush our freedoms. Big government and big cartel business feed off each other in a self-perpetuating system that must be broken.
Common Ground: Liberty is a natural order that unites us and will prevail. As John Adams wrote: "Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty." Restore the Bill of Rights by ending the prohibition of drugs; and by reducing, or eliminating, regulatory agencies who impose fees, taxes, and statutes that threaten our freedoms.
4. Consumer Freedom and Free Markets
No form of government has been able to stop free markets in the history of mankind. Even under totalitarian communism, barter systems or black markets thrive because free markets are yet another natural order for humanity. The failed war on drugs is the most glaring example in America. The more tyrannical our government becomes toward limiting consumers' choices, the more we are seeing the rise of local organic cooperatives, many of which utilize barter systems.
For too long progressives and conservatives have confused what constitutes a free market economy. Again, this confusion and division has been deliberately manufactured Conservatives who advocate for free market capitalism must admit that we haven't had that model since before the original Robber Barons, because Rockefeller and other elites live by the mantra "competition is a sin" -- thus cartels formed to create a form of corporate communism. While progressives like Michael Moore, director of Capitalism, must acknowledge that it is was not "free market capitalism" that caused the financial meltdown -- but rather it was the corrupt banking system and the utter lack of free market competition to blame.
The general public is beginning to realize that anti-competition cartels use government regulatory agencies to further consolidate market share which erodes the free market as well as personal choices. Food is the most obvious example of an industry that is run by near monopolies, while the FDA continues to suppress healthy choices for local food and natural health alternatives. Progressives and conservatives must unite with no fear of being called anti-business, and fight to break up the cartels if we're to have genuinely free and fair markets.
Common Ground: "The difference between free-market capitalism and state capitalism is precisely the difference between, on the one hand, peaceful, voluntary exchange, and on the other, violent expropriation."Murray N. Rothbard. End the monopoly cartels and the prohibition of drugs; demand true free markets with the liberty of choice, not the illusion of choice.
5. Respecting and Protecting our Ecosystem
Obviously a polluted ecosystem does not discriminate against political affiliations. Humanity requires a healthy environment above all other concerns; as clean water, air, and healthy soil are essential to our survival. That we can all agree on. However, the modern environmental movement seems to have been hijacked by the elite who show no desire to protect the water, air, and soil. Environmentalists have been made to believe that CO2 is the most dangerous element responsible for "Global Warming", and despite the establishment's constant betrayal of facts, many still put faith in the elite's proposed solutions that do nothing to reduce real pollutants.
The climate change debate has become the only environmental topic discussed in the mainstream and appears to be yet another example of manufactured political division. Environmentally-conscious progressives know they have been repeatedly lied to by the establishment left about everything from free-trade agreements to GMO foods, yet they seem to have a very difficult time questioning the man-made "global warming" theory and the elite's proposed solutions.
At the very least, eyebrows should be raised since “hacked” emails exposed that the science data had been manipulated to fit the theory. Alarm bells should go off when we learn that, as Vice President, Gore designed the proposed Cap and Trade system with Enron’s criminal CEO Ken “Kenny Boy” Lay years before the global warming propaganda had begun. A full blown revolt should take place knowing that the scandalous international Banksters and Big Oil (including BP) have shaped Cap and Trade to line their pockets. Finally, many of the proposed provisions appear to tax personal choices while major corporate polluters are exempt. Regardless of what we believe, it certainly appears that climate change fits the establishment's problem-reaction-solution model of social engineering and we should all beware.
Additionally, the global-warming-is-a-hoax crowd must concede that fossil fuels are still dirty and have a major impact on the environment regardless of whether they effect climate change. The environmentalists who recently opposed fracture drilling in Pennsylvania did so because the practice contaminates ground water, not because natural gas effects climate change. These protesters were nonpartisan Americans. We must unite against practices that provably damage our health and the health of our ecosystem. These include oil spills and subsequent chemical spraying, industrial agriculture and factory farms, dirty coal and depleted uranium energy plants, deliberate poisoning of public water with sodium fluoride, and the production, promotion, and disposal of dangerous pharmaceuticals to name a few.
Common Ground: True pollution is obvious. "Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not seem to require so much an active energy, as a passive aptitude of the soul in order to encounter it. But error is endlessly diversified; it has no reality, but is the pure and simple creation of the mind that invents it." - Ben Franklin. We must unite to confront the provable threats to human health and the integrity of our environment, and we must do it rather quickly.
These principles should naturally unite angry citizens who have been relentlessly abused by the corporate state. Sure, many will remain close-minded and submit to the manufactured division, but as we reach this crucial tipping point for free humanity, it is now imperative that we join in common purpose - FREEDOM. Let us know what you think!
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Saturday, October 2, 2010
A Liberal’s Awakening to the Reality of ObamaCare
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On December 24, 2009, H.R. 3590 -- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law. Liberals around the world rose up in appreciation that Health Care Reform was finally coming to America. The Bill was touted as a major victory for Americans without health care coverage and was ushered through the legal process in an expeditious way. As the Bill now moves into action, many peripheral Bills and Executive Orders are being issued to emphasize the underlying methodology of the Bill. One action in particular -- the regulation of organic foods and supplements, is coming to the forefront, awakening many Liberals to the realities of this Bill’s damaging course.
Most Liberals have in the past hoped for health care reform. In particular, Edward Moore “Ted” Kennedy had a dream of decent, quality health care as a fundamental right and not a privilege. He campaigned vehemently on a platform to create an America that cares for its own without having income as a barrier to quality of life. Unfortunately, he died before seeing Obama’s Health Care Bill passed in Congress. As it is now popularly known, ObamaCare was billed as the fulfillment of Kennedy’s dream but, in reality, even if the great Senator had been alive when it was ratified, he still would not have seen his dream come to fruition. The reality is that ObamaCare stands as an example of what happens when politics and blind ambition mix in a solution of two parts deception and one part ignorance.
In the flurry of debate on the value of ObamaCare, many opinions and statements were given by both the Right and the Left side of the aisle. The Right stated that the plan is an expansion of big government with too much control, and the long term cost will be crippling to the country’s economy. The Left has stuck to quoting the statistics of 45,000 people dying prematurely in America each year because they can't afford proper care -- and touting Kennedy’s name to garner the support of their base. Both sides have fueled the fight with their version of the facts in an attempt to propel the American public to see the “realities” of ObamaCare, but only one was actually telling us the truth.
On December 24, 2009, H.R. 3590 -- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law. Liberals around the world rose up in appreciation that Health Care Reform was finally coming to America. The Bill was touted as a major victory for Americans without health care coverage and was ushered through the legal process in an expeditious way. As the Bill now moves into action, many peripheral Bills and Executive Orders are being issued to emphasize the underlying methodology of the Bill. One action in particular -- the regulation of organic foods and supplements, is coming to the forefront, awakening many Liberals to the realities of this Bill’s damaging course.
Most Liberals have in the past hoped for health care reform. In particular, Edward Moore “Ted” Kennedy had a dream of decent, quality health care as a fundamental right and not a privilege. He campaigned vehemently on a platform to create an America that cares for its own without having income as a barrier to quality of life. Unfortunately, he died before seeing Obama’s Health Care Bill passed in Congress. As it is now popularly known, ObamaCare was billed as the fulfillment of Kennedy’s dream but, in reality, even if the great Senator had been alive when it was ratified, he still would not have seen his dream come to fruition. The reality is that ObamaCare stands as an example of what happens when politics and blind ambition mix in a solution of two parts deception and one part ignorance.
In the flurry of debate on the value of ObamaCare, many opinions and statements were given by both the Right and the Left side of the aisle. The Right stated that the plan is an expansion of big government with too much control, and the long term cost will be crippling to the country’s economy. The Left has stuck to quoting the statistics of 45,000 people dying prematurely in America each year because they can't afford proper care -- and touting Kennedy’s name to garner the support of their base. Both sides have fueled the fight with their version of the facts in an attempt to propel the American public to see the “realities” of ObamaCare, but only one was actually telling us the truth.
Republicans relentlessly argued that the plan would saddle the nation with unaffordable levels of debt; leave states with expensive new obligations; weaken Medicare; and give the government a huge new role in the healthcare system. The Left said that affordability and the covering of pre-existing conditions were the important factors involved, and this plan was a step toward achieving care for uninsured Americans.
As the media circus grew around this legislation, and accusatory fingers pointed toward both sides of the aisle, it seemed that no one had actually read the Bill. This became clear when Nancy Pelosi, the Leader of the Left, made the statement: "Congress has to pass the bill so you can find out what's in it, away from the fog of controversy." She was advocating the passing of this Economic Giant of a Bill without even taking the time to read it. This was my first realization that something was very wrong beneath the streets of Obama Land.
Given this obvious attempt to pass this Historic Bill and advocating ignorance as the driving force for its acceptance, I decided to read the Bill to find the answers myself. The opening sections outline a beautiful system for providing Americans with health care that is not only affordable, but complete in order to achieve the purpose of, “building on what works in today’s health care system, while repairing the aspects that are broken.” In section (1) of the Bill, it states: "The purpose of this division is to provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending." This, I believe, is as far as most people decided to read, if they read it at all. After digesting the complexities of this Bill and after some serious self-reflection and swallowing of my Liberal pride, I came to a disturbing conclusion: The Republicans were right.
The Bill’s foreword (a simplified version of what is supposedly in the Bill) painted a picture of the very hope I had been expecting. The real purpose to the Bill, however, is quite different than that cryptically outlined in the foreword. The reality is that this Bill gives the President the freedom to set up Health Care Commissions to oversee the Health and Welfare of the People. The plan unfolding, generated by overzealous propaganda by the Left and now touted as the greatest health care reform of our time, is well beyond the imagination of even the most twisted, Marxist mind. The Health Care Reform outlined in the text is a collection of the most controlling, government expanding piece of legislation I have ever read.
The reality is that H.R. 3590 sets up a system of governmental oversight and control that boggles the mind. The numbers of panels and departments under the general cloak of this Bill are astounding. Commissioners, Administrators, Ombudsmen and Committees of all shapes and sizes are enacted to oversee the implementation and continuation of this Act. This Bill doesn’t just redefine Health Care; it completely redefines the structure of it. The Bill translates into a system that allows the creation and proliferation of programs like what is outlined in H.R. 875 and the Food Safety Administration. It is the very thing that I have heard a flurry of frustration about from the Left: control over organic supplements and foods without their first being checked and labeled by a government agency. H.R. 875 essentially sets up a system where people will not be subjected to foods or supplements that could pose a threat to their health.
Similarly, Senate Bill 425: Food Safety and Tracking Improvement Act, performs the same control over our choices of foods. This particular Bill plans to: “Amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide for the establishment of a traceability system for food, to amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspections Act, the Egg Products Inspection Act, and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide for improved public health and food safety through enhanced enforcement, and for other purposes." It is essentially the control and inevitable destruction of free organics in America, courtesy of the Lobbyists for corporations like Monsanto. The irony is that these same people standing against organics are allowing genetic, antibiotic, and steroidal manipulation of our food without even a second thought.
The recent Bills and Executive Orders being implemented in the after-hours workings of the Obama Regime are all interconnected, purposeful moves to control the “health” of the population. Our entire food system, and thus our health choices, are being decided without public knowledge in a land called Democratic; our vote has not been counted. Unbeknownst to most Americans, H.R. 3590 specifically requires a committee to list the priorities for "lifestyle behavior modification" that the government will pursue. This translates into control of our choices of diet. Is this what Liberals were thinking of when we all together stood symbolically with Obama to bring Health Care to America? Is this what we foresaw as the solution to our collective Health Care dilemma? Control over choices?
According to Karl Marx, a defining characteristic of Capitalism is that it alienates man from himself, from the true nature of work, and from others. This alienation may be partially moderated by consumption; by accepting the dominant ideas of what is the ‘good life.' This philosophy is represented in the fabric of the Obama Plan. Each day, he takes us one more step from freedom of choice toward a controlled environment. In a 'pure' Marxist society, the State is a democratic system that manages all aspects of production -- essentially making the State the head of all industry. The sad part of this is that we are allowing it to happen.
I am proud to call myself a Liberal, and I have to say that when the Right first started their campaign against Obama, calling him a Marxist and attempting to defeat every plan of action introduced by him, I was deeply frustrated. I couldn’t understand the hate and messages that seemed to drip with racism and ignorance. Today, though, it is a different perspective and a different emotion I am feeling. Today, I stand deeply hurt and disappointed by the deception of this man. Obama stood in front of us all with silver tongue and pearly smile promising Change to America. He has brought change all right, but it is a kind of change that will leave deep scars on the backs of this great nation. It is the kind of change that has set us in turmoil and split the sides of the aisle with a seemingly irreconcilable divide.
In the past few years, I have read and researched constantly in an effort to defend our President, trying to argue that he is good for this country. In the recent months, however, I have realized how very wrong I was to do so. After many months of sailing aboard the USS Obama, I am clamoring to find the lifeboats. With my Awakening to the Reality of Obama Care, and so many more of his initiatives of “Change,” I have decided to abandon this ship sailing into the fog of deception and take my chances on the open political ocean with windblown waters in the desperate hope that eventually my little boat will once again find the free, teeming shores of America.
Other Articles by S. Paul Forrest
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Where Has Journalism Gone?
Society's "Bubble" Syndrome
Death of the American Dream
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As the media circus grew around this legislation, and accusatory fingers pointed toward both sides of the aisle, it seemed that no one had actually read the Bill. This became clear when Nancy Pelosi, the Leader of the Left, made the statement: "Congress has to pass the bill so you can find out what's in it, away from the fog of controversy." She was advocating the passing of this Economic Giant of a Bill without even taking the time to read it. This was my first realization that something was very wrong beneath the streets of Obama Land.
Given this obvious attempt to pass this Historic Bill and advocating ignorance as the driving force for its acceptance, I decided to read the Bill to find the answers myself. The opening sections outline a beautiful system for providing Americans with health care that is not only affordable, but complete in order to achieve the purpose of, “building on what works in today’s health care system, while repairing the aspects that are broken.” In section (1) of the Bill, it states: "The purpose of this division is to provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending." This, I believe, is as far as most people decided to read, if they read it at all. After digesting the complexities of this Bill and after some serious self-reflection and swallowing of my Liberal pride, I came to a disturbing conclusion: The Republicans were right.
The Bill’s foreword (a simplified version of what is supposedly in the Bill) painted a picture of the very hope I had been expecting. The real purpose to the Bill, however, is quite different than that cryptically outlined in the foreword. The reality is that this Bill gives the President the freedom to set up Health Care Commissions to oversee the Health and Welfare of the People. The plan unfolding, generated by overzealous propaganda by the Left and now touted as the greatest health care reform of our time, is well beyond the imagination of even the most twisted, Marxist mind. The Health Care Reform outlined in the text is a collection of the most controlling, government expanding piece of legislation I have ever read.
The reality is that H.R. 3590 sets up a system of governmental oversight and control that boggles the mind. The numbers of panels and departments under the general cloak of this Bill are astounding. Commissioners, Administrators, Ombudsmen and Committees of all shapes and sizes are enacted to oversee the implementation and continuation of this Act. This Bill doesn’t just redefine Health Care; it completely redefines the structure of it. The Bill translates into a system that allows the creation and proliferation of programs like what is outlined in H.R. 875 and the Food Safety Administration. It is the very thing that I have heard a flurry of frustration about from the Left: control over organic supplements and foods without their first being checked and labeled by a government agency. H.R. 875 essentially sets up a system where people will not be subjected to foods or supplements that could pose a threat to their health.
Similarly, Senate Bill 425: Food Safety and Tracking Improvement Act, performs the same control over our choices of foods. This particular Bill plans to: “Amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide for the establishment of a traceability system for food, to amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspections Act, the Egg Products Inspection Act, and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide for improved public health and food safety through enhanced enforcement, and for other purposes." It is essentially the control and inevitable destruction of free organics in America, courtesy of the Lobbyists for corporations like Monsanto. The irony is that these same people standing against organics are allowing genetic, antibiotic, and steroidal manipulation of our food without even a second thought.
The recent Bills and Executive Orders being implemented in the after-hours workings of the Obama Regime are all interconnected, purposeful moves to control the “health” of the population. Our entire food system, and thus our health choices, are being decided without public knowledge in a land called Democratic; our vote has not been counted. Unbeknownst to most Americans, H.R. 3590 specifically requires a committee to list the priorities for "lifestyle behavior modification" that the government will pursue. This translates into control of our choices of diet. Is this what Liberals were thinking of when we all together stood symbolically with Obama to bring Health Care to America? Is this what we foresaw as the solution to our collective Health Care dilemma? Control over choices?
According to Karl Marx, a defining characteristic of Capitalism is that it alienates man from himself, from the true nature of work, and from others. This alienation may be partially moderated by consumption; by accepting the dominant ideas of what is the ‘good life.' This philosophy is represented in the fabric of the Obama Plan. Each day, he takes us one more step from freedom of choice toward a controlled environment. In a 'pure' Marxist society, the State is a democratic system that manages all aspects of production -- essentially making the State the head of all industry. The sad part of this is that we are allowing it to happen.
I am proud to call myself a Liberal, and I have to say that when the Right first started their campaign against Obama, calling him a Marxist and attempting to defeat every plan of action introduced by him, I was deeply frustrated. I couldn’t understand the hate and messages that seemed to drip with racism and ignorance. Today, though, it is a different perspective and a different emotion I am feeling. Today, I stand deeply hurt and disappointed by the deception of this man. Obama stood in front of us all with silver tongue and pearly smile promising Change to America. He has brought change all right, but it is a kind of change that will leave deep scars on the backs of this great nation. It is the kind of change that has set us in turmoil and split the sides of the aisle with a seemingly irreconcilable divide.
In the past few years, I have read and researched constantly in an effort to defend our President, trying to argue that he is good for this country. In the recent months, however, I have realized how very wrong I was to do so. After many months of sailing aboard the USS Obama, I am clamoring to find the lifeboats. With my Awakening to the Reality of Obama Care, and so many more of his initiatives of “Change,” I have decided to abandon this ship sailing into the fog of deception and take my chances on the open political ocean with windblown waters in the desperate hope that eventually my little boat will once again find the free, teeming shores of America.
Other Articles by S. Paul Forrest
Hope Lost
Where Has Journalism Gone?
Society's "Bubble" Syndrome
Death of the American Dream
RELATED ARTICLE:
America's Health Care Insanity
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