Do not look for any new postings until around the 15th to the 20th of August as we will be traveling about in places we have never been before and I doubt that I will have access to the Internet.
EVERYONE (even us retired folks) NEEDS A VACATION NOW AND THEN!
It is all about money. The Military Retirement Healthcare System just changed contracts for no other reason than the currant providers were UNDERBID by those who gat the new contracts – not that they could provide better or even the same level of quality, but that they CLAIMED that they could do it CHEAPER! And that, my friends, is SOCIALIZED NATIONAL HEALTHCARE REALITY!
It is not the best possible care for your money, but what ever the government can get for the cheapest cost!
Don’t believe me? Then click on the link below and read it for yourself!
These things have been in the news as of late;
Farmers in India have asked their unmarried daughters to plow their fields in the nude in order that the rain gods would see them and be enticed to make it rain so that they may have a bumper crop this year . . . I just wonder what kind of a “crop” those farmers are looking for!?
There’s this guy in Ohio who transformed an old church into a workout center that he has named “Faith Gym” . . . However he has the main workout area designed in a Superman motif. Oh yeah.
Forty years after receiving his c-ration pound cake, a retiring Army Colonel opened the can and began consuming it. He said it tasted just as good as it did forty years ago . . . Now THAT’S something these so-called modern day soldiers can’t brag about with their tasty new MRE’s!
In Tokyo Japan the railroad workers who have to deal with the public MUST pass the “Smile Test” each and every day before they are allowed to go to their jobs . . . Now that’s something that I would like to see here in the States!
The recent visit of the Oscar Mayer Weiner Mobile to the State of Hawaii was not a good thing, according to one group of law watchdogs . . . It seems that vehicular advertising is not allowed in the Aloha State.
This is a long one, almost two hours long, but I believe that it is worth taking the time to watch!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6223232123104914517
I do not consider myself a conspiracy theory advocate, however, this video brings some actions of our currant and past Presidents into a glaring new light.
But then, there are other parts of this video that make you want to go hmmmm?
I suggest that you set a couple of hours aside from your busy day and watch this in its entirety and decide for yourself.
During the entire two years that Barack Hussein Obama campaigned for the U. S. Presidency he had been touting that there was a health care crisis in this country.
That was and still is an outright lie.
This country has almost 300 million people in its population and well over three quarters of the population is covered by some kind of health care plan. That is well over 250 million people out of 300 million, which leaves much less that 50 million uncovered by any health care plan. I don’t know about you, but that does not look like any kind of a crisis to me.
However, at the rate of the “stimulus” bailout and cap-&-trade caused job losses we just may be heading for much more of the population losing their health care coverage than we would have if government would have kept their hands out of private businesses. But that is an item for future articles.
Here is the ugly truth about “Obamacare” in all its glory . . . ;
First you all MUST understand one very important thing about any government – BEFORE GOVERNMENT CAN GIVE ANYONE ANYTHING GOVERNMENT HAS NO CHOICE BUT TO TAKE SOMETHING AWAY FROM SOMEONE ELSE!
Do you understand that?
NOTHING THAT GOVERNMENT GIVES YOU IS FREE!
Someone has to pay for it. Pure and simple. Someone has to pay for your so-called “free” healthcare. Nothing that government gives you is free because government has taken something from someone else to pay for what government has given you.
I really do hope that you understand that. It is extremely important that you understand that. As a matter of fact your very life depends on you understanding that.
Here’s why: The great majority of this country’s population just happens to be the so-called “Baby-Boomer” generation. That means that we were born just after or during WW2. We are rapidly becoming the Senior Citizens of America – in other words we are now retiring at an ever increasing rapid rate, which means that our income tax contributions are dwindling and our Medicare costs are rising along with our increasing Social Security payments.
Do you get that? We “Baby-Boomers” are no longer paying for Social Security – Social Security is now starting to pay US!
So just who do you think is going to pay for “Obamacare”?
Have you heard the talk about how Obamacare is going to be distributed? Did you know that in Obamacare life isn’t going to be so precious anymore once you get past a certain age? That is right, folks, only our wonderful Obamacare bureaucrats have not yet figured out at just what age that might be. I hear that the age of 70 or maybe 75 just might be the age at which “free” Obamacare will be cut off. If you don’t believe that, then just do some little research on your own and google the speech that Obama made fairly recently in which he stated that the elderly will just have to admit that all the aches and pains of growing old will just have to be tolerated without a doctor tending to them.
Heartwarming thought, isn’t it?
Your Messiah really does care about you, well, at least until you are “no longer a productive member of society” at which point you might as well die.
Soylent Green, anyone?
Or, you just might Google “Logan’s Run” . . .
Does anyone remember that little fubar about having our wounded veterans find their own secondary insurance a short while back? Did you really believe that he was actually serious about that? I didn’t. I knew that it was just a trial balloon to see what we all thought of our veterans getting healthcare benefits for life for serving our country for 20 or 30 years and surviving any wars that just happened to be around during our tenure of service. I just happened to remember another Democrat President by the name of Jimmy Carter that declared that all military retirees who lived long enough to draw Social Security and any other retirement benefits were “Double Dipping” and shouldn’t get either their Social Security or military retirement checks, even though they had actually EARNED them! I think that Obama is starting to sneak that sort of thing into his Obamacare Plan that is now up for discussion and will be up for a vote pretty darn soon – maybe during the Sotomayor confirmation hearings that all the news media will be concentrating on very loudly in order that “We The People” will not be paying attention to what they are doing behind our backs right under our collective noses!
Remember what I said about government taking from someone else before it can give anything to anyone?
We Baby-Boomers have been paying for every social program that the government has instituted ever since we began entering the workforce way back in the 1960’s. Even those of us who have never served in the military have been paying.
Now we are going to pay for the younger generations Obamacare. How? With diminished and denied Medicare and Social Security. How do I know this?
BEFORE GOVERNMENT CAN GIVE ANYTHING TO ANYONE, GOVERNMENT MUST FIRST TAKE SOMETHING FROM SOMEONE ELSE!
Oh, and here’s a thought for you younger generations . . . Who will pay for Obamacare after all of us WW2 Baby-Boomers are gone?
Times are hard, folks, and during hard times we all must make some pretty tough decisions. Nothing comes easy, especially during hard times.
We are just going to have to make the tough decision that we do not want all those social programs that the Messiah promised during his two year campaign for the Presidency.
If we take the easy way out, we are going to have a train wreck like the world has never seen before. If you think times are hard now, just you wait till Obama gets all of his wishes and we all are on the government dole, begging each and every month for our little portion of his brand of “Soylent Green” . . . . .
Or lining up to enter the arena to watch the end flight of blazing glory for all those who have finally reached the age of no longer being productive members of society . . .
Isn’t the thought of Obamacare just wonderful?
Lets start with entertainers. Entertainers, by virtue of the extraordinary talent that allows them to do whatever it is that they do, have no choice but to be eccentric extroverts. In a nutshell, that explains why the late Michael Jackson was the way he was – “Wacko Jacko”.
That eccentricity is what made him such a good entertainer, and such a horrible role model for the average kid to want to follow. I believe that, like most other entertainers, Jackson was hooked on something, either prescription drugs or something else that has not come to the light of day as yet, but something nonetheless.
Look at other entertainers that have been idolized in the past;
Jimmie Hendrix – died as a result of an overdose of drugs.
Marylyn Monroe - died from an overdose of prescription drugs.
Elvis Presley – Same as Marylyn Monroe.
Mama Cass Elliot – death due to drug overdose.
Kurt Kobain – committed suicide while high on drugs.
Janis Joplin – death due to drug overdose.
That is just a few of the more famous ones out there. The gutters are lined with the wasted bodies of those who never made it to the big time, but got caught up in the drug craze of their so-called idols.
Certain sports figures also come to mind, like;
Michael Vick – convicted of running a dog fighting arena.
Steve McNair – murdered by his mistress while cheating on his wife.
I could go on with the other sports figures that have taken performance enhancing drugs in order to set records in their respective sports, who have been caught cheating on their wives, gambling against their own teams then doing their best to make that team lose for their own monetary gain, and acting like complete idiotic fools in public just to be the center of attention.
Let us not forget the political figures who have sought to be idolized while secretly doing drugs (Marion Barry – the DC Mayor), cheating on their wives (Bill Clinton – our President) and many other political figures that have committed various sundry and notorious things.
Why do we Americans insist on putting these people on a pedestal? Do we secretly wish to be as despicable as they are? Do we want our children to grow up to live in such a disgusting world as that of the drug addict? You know something? I really do not believe that is what we want to be like or our children to be like, I really don’t.
All we have to do is look around us for the real role models. They are everywhere;
Policemen who put their lives on the line for the average run-of-the-mill person on a daily basis.
Firefighters who enter into burning buildings to save people they do not even know.
Doctors who perform hour upon hour of meticulous surgical procedures just to make someone feel a little better or remove a cancerous tumor.
Paramedics are another type of hero that most of us take for granted.
Even the grocery clerk and stock person who see to it that we have everything we need to sustain our lives right at our fingertips.
All we have to do is open our eyes to the everyday world around us to see those who make our lives possible, tolerable, and livable. They do their thing day in and day out without any fanfare at all, and most of us do not even appreciate their effort at all – let alone notice that they are there.
Yet when someone can sing, dance, play a musical instrument, act, or play a game we idolize them and put them on a pedestal just like we do some politicians – and just like most politicians, a good number of these entertainers do nothing more than let us down in the end . . . and we still idolize them.
Yet we ignore the real everyday heroes who are out there doing what they do each and every day without fail.
We even ignore our military men and women who put themselves in harms way – just like firefighters and police officers – so that we may have a better and safe life to be lived in relative freedom.
Yet we idolize the politician and entertainer who would be most delighted if we Americans gave up our freedom to live in poverty and tyranny while they lived high on their pseudo ivory pedestals.
I know that it is puzzling, to say the least. But that is what we do, we Americans, we just continue to make the destructive political and entertaining lifestyle our role models, idols and icons.
And that is the entire problem out of its nutshell.
They could be writing about what is happening today, right now, right here, to us.
“Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood; it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances; what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?” - Alexis de Tocqueville
“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. Their very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be ‘cured’ against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level with those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.” – C. S. Lewis
There are many others who wrote of the tyranny of the past, but these two seem to be speaking to us from their graves decrying what is taking place under our noses in a ghostly warning that is eerie at best, foreboding at worst. It is almost like they were seeing into the future, but we know better – IT IS HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF!
Did you know that the war for our independence was brought about by nothing but the King of England trying to raise certain taxes in the colonies in order to pay for the French & Indian war that was fought by British soldiers on the colonies behalf? The King did not ask the colonies permission to raise their taxes – just like Barack Hussein Obama’s “Cap & Trade” bill that has so many hidden new taxes in it that if they were removed it most likely would only be ten pages long . . . Well, maybe not that extreme, but extreme nonetheless!
And what do we do about it? We gush out our love for the Messiah Obama and his little Obamatrons in the House and Senate, that's what.
If you are not going to pay any attention to what I have to say, then at least pay attention to what Alexis de Tocqueville and C. S. Lewis had to say about the tyranny of the past, and compare that to what is happening right now, right here, to us.
Ask any cop.
They have seen it more often than not. When called to the scene of a domestic dispute, separating the arguing couple and figuring out who is the one doing the assaulting, then being lambasted by the other spouse for taking away her/his lover.
It happens all the time.
More often than not, the battered spouse returns to the batterer, refuses to testify against the one who beat the living daylights out of them, all the while professing their love for the batterer with the accompanying statement that he/she just can’t live without the batterer whom they love without end.
The abuse continues to escalate over time.
Until, in the end, one of them kills the other.
This scenario does not change, has not changed in thousands of years.
It always ends the same.
One kills the other.
Always, without fail.
Unless, of course, the battered one realizes that this really isn’t love. Unless the battered one understands that love really was not meant to be painful, that real love is joyful, wonderful, and pain free.
When the battered one leaves for good, never to return, then the scenario changes and much for the better. But that rarely ever happens, because the battered spouse syndrome is usually a suicidal/homicidal affliction.
As I watch the daily News reports on what the currant group of politicians that reside up in Washington DC are up to, I observe the faces of the News reporters. I see the classic symptoms, I see the almost imperceptible winces of pain as they report on the Cap And Trade Bill, the stimulus bailouts, the now mandatory national health care plan, the government takeover of private businesses.
And still they profess their undying love to the Messiah like the dutiful little Obamatrons they are, carrying with them the majority of those who voted for him happily deeper into this escalating abusive “love affair”.
They do not realize that the abuses will continue to escalate, increasing in size and power until either this bunch of political elitists kill the United States of America, or the American people will arise and put an end to the continued abuses.
Remember, the scenario NEVER changes.
EITHER THE ABUSER KILLS THE ABUSED, OR THE ABUSED KILLS THE ABUSER!
UNLESS THE ABUSED LEAVES THE RELATIONSHIP PERMANANTLY AND NEVER RETURNS!
What will it be, America . . . What will it be???!
