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It seems that Ebay has already removed the Birth Certificate. Shame on them. Did it violate their TOS to sell presidential memorabilia? Who knows, either way, the birth cert is gone.

SOURCE: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/HealthCare/Story?id=7919991&page=1

“They’re wrong,” the president said, arguing that in a Health Insurance Exchange the public plan would be “one option among multiple options.”

The concern, Gibson articulated, is that such a plan wouldn’t be offered on a level playing field.

The president rebuffed that, arguing that “we can set up a public option where they’re collecting premiums just like any private insurer and doctors can collect rates,” but because the public plan will have lower administrative costs “we can keep them [private insurance companies] honest.”

Obama said he didn’t understand those advocates of the free market who constantly say the private sector can do things better and are yet worried about this plan.

“If that’s the case, no one will chose the public option,” the president said. He also suggested, however, that the private sector might not necessarily be better, point out that users of Medicare and Veterans Administration hospitals constantly rate “pretty high satisfaction.”

First problem: unlike private companies, the federal government has no incentive for efficiency. They can do nasty little things, like taxing employer provided healthcare, raising taxes in general, printing off more money. It is impossible to compete with the referee when he controls the rules of the game AND participates in the game itself. When is he ever going to call himself out?

Second problem: When the government is the healthcare provider, who do you go to when you have problems, or lawsuits? Keeping services separate from government allows for a course of action for grievances.

Third problem: The government will have lower administrative costs? LOL LOL LOL LOL. I am surprised he was able to keep a straight face while spouting that whopper! What government program runs with low overhead? And how can the government “keep them honest” when the government lies just as much, (if not much more!) as any private company?

The president criticized the Congressional Budget Office, which recently analyzed the cost of two Democratic Senate draft bills as costing between $1 and $1.6 trillion.

Yeah, he did, because it made people realize how much more insolvent it will make this country!- and he whined because they didn’t include all of his “maybes” that would make the system (in theory) less expensive. I guess the CBO is now on Obama’s Domestic Terrorist Watch List.

About a third of the costs will come from new revenue,” the president said, pushing his proposal to raise taxes on those making more than $200,000 a year through a change in the itemized deduction in the tax code.

New revenue is a code word for your money. This is a prime example of redistributing wealth, taking more money from the people. And you know that the promise used to be 250,000. Watch it go down…down…down… like almost every promise he’s made to date.

Gail Wilensky, a senior fellow at Project HOPE who ran Medicare during the administration of President George H.W. Bush, pushed the president for more specifics on how he expects to pay for the plan.

“This is not an easy problem,” the president acknowledged. “And it’s especially not an easy problem when the economy is going through a difficult phase.”

But the president suggested the stars were aligning for reform, citing efforts being made such as the pharmaceutical industry’s recent pledge to help defray the costs of prescription drugs for seniors, and argued that now was the time for reform.

The stars are aligning for reform? Ooh, so now astrology is determining the direction the government will take? I suppose 3.99 a minute is less expensive than the typical Washington way. So much for specifics. Like the stimulus plan, we won’t find out how miserable and messy it is until he rams it through in the cover of some crises or another. Because you never let a good crises go to waste, right?

In an exclusive interview with ABC News’ Diane Sawyer that aired today on “Good Morning America,” Obama indicated that there was a breaking point in the balance sheets where he would say that the cost of reforming the system is too great for the federal government to handle, but he did not put a price tag on it.

The breaking point would be riots in the streets, the uptick in unemployment as the employees of private insurance companies are added to health care professionals from closed hospitals and other private sector employers. But really the only breaking point is how much money he can get the Federal Reserve to loan him. I would estimate the actual breaking point would be once the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of America has been spent to the 10^th or 11^th generation.

Here’s a nice one, either we tax your healthcare benefits, or we tax charities by killing deductions. Mr. President, you think that’s a good alternative, you’re sick!

One option being considered on Capitol Hill is taxing health care benefits, which are currently tax exempt.

Today, a key Democratic senator indicated that may be inevitable.

“It is hard for me to see how you have a package that is paid for that doesn’t include reducing the tax subsidy for health care,” said Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, who is regarded among Democrats as something of a deficit hawk.

Conrad sees the potential for a significant source of revenue.

“Tax subsidies for health care. They’re huge. Hundreds of billions of dollars a year,” he said.

Obama said he opposes that approach, instead wanting to pay for the bill partly by reducing the tax deductions wealthier people can take when donating to charity.

Isn’t that reassuring. Tax donations, and you hurt charities, which means you hurt the poor, old and young. Tax health care, and you hurt middle America. Sick and twisted. He can call them tax subsidies, since of course the government’s right to tax everything is the supreme Law. What about foodstuffs?

Warning: Another flip-flop ahead, (Just like his “outrage” about McCain suggesting taxing health care benefits, which now the president has suggested).

As a candidate, then-Sen. Obama bashed his rival for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton, for proposing that Americans be mandated to have health insurance.

“She’d have the government force you to buy health insurance,” he said Feb. 23, 2008. “I disagree with that approach. I believe that the reason Americans don’t have health care isn’t because no one’s forced them to buy it, it’s because no one’s made it affordable.”

But now the president is acknowledging that his thinking on the issue has “evolved” and he could support a law mandating that individuals purchase health care coverage, with fines for those who do not.

Obama stressed that there must be some kind of waiver for those who are simply unable to afford it.

“People have made some pretty compelling arguments to me that if we want to have a system that drives down costs for everybody, then we’ve got to have healthier people not opt out of the system,” the president told ABC News.

If they can’t opt out of it, then you are forcing them into something they do not want!  (You just want them in because they won’t use it). Hypocrite! Whatever happened to being “pro-choice”? The only choice you like is the one allowing people to slaughter babies for fun and profit, as your 100% NARAL rating attests too. Bet you wait awhile for the “Freedom of Choice” Act though.

With the health care debate ramping up, with Republicans assailing Democrats for the high price tag and a public option plan, Obama’s ratings on the subject slipped slightly in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll.

Only 53 percent of Americans approve of Obama’s handling of health care while 39 percent disapprove of it, up from 29 percent who disapproved in April, according to the poll.

Concluding the health care forum, Obama expressed optimism that reform is possible.

“If the American people get behind this, this is going to happen,” the president said.

And here we are, blaming republicans for Americans’ disapproval of Obamacare. No rational thinking person could honestly believe the government will “lower costs” and provide “quality care” and preserve “freedom of choice” while taxing private plans and charities and herding people onto Uncle Sam’s healthcare plantation. It doesn’t matter if the American peopple aren’t behind him. As he said to some congressman earlier:

“I won, I’ll trump you on that.”

Barack Obama presented soaring rhetoric about race. It sounded nice. He invited a preacher to give his benediction which implied whites always do wrong…

Obama’s historic election was heralded as a climax to the racial struggle, a minority elected to the most powerful office in the world (not withstanding 2 Black Supreme Court justices and UN Secretary General Kofi Anin). That perhaps now we could all embrace 1 human race and move forward together. It was my one hope in Obama’s election, and he has been doing his hardest to undermine and destroy that hope, by injecting racialization and radicalism into every appointment he makes (the appointments made to neutralize political opponents excluded).

His Supreme Court appointee is all about race:

I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.

Sonia Sotomayor also sees nothing wrong with denying a pay raise based on a non-discriminatory written test because only whites and a Hispanic scored high enough to earn the raise. Obviously she puts priority on skin color and national origin. This is what we can expect from her should she succeed in being confirmed as the next Supreme Court Justice.

Further, according to the American Bar Association, she is a member of La Raza (National Council of La Raza, or NCLR).

Check here for an article on La Raza http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=13863

If La Raza was going “the people” as it claims here: http://www.nclr.org/section/translation/ It would have chosen “gentes.” The semantics about race and ethnicity do not change the fact that the group is supportive of race/ethnicity based causes like this:

Enter “la raza” into babelfish, an online translation service powered by the excellent Systran software and you get “the race.”

Try it: http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt (Be sure to choose “Spanish to English”)

While they officially denounce separatist/racialist groups, they are more than willing to join forces with them for “common goals” like “education” as they state here:

http://www.nclr.org/section/separatist/

Sonia Sotomayor is wrong for America.

Find your senators here: www.senate.gov and urge them to oppose the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor as Supreme Court Justice.

I have been searching for the elusive conservative organization that stirs racist ideologies in with conservatism. I have found it in the form of the Council of Conservative Citizens.

This article will discuss the Council’s statement of principles, which like the most famous of deceits uttered in the garden of Eden, contains truth, albeit, mixed with several drops of arsenic, which, if propagated, will marginalize, racialize, and subvert true American beliefs and values. Each number in the following article corresponds to the number of the principle being discussed.

1. Partially true. The US was indeed founded on Christian principles. Religious tests for office are illegal, while it would be ideal, and indeed essential for the long term survival of a republic for all politicians to rule based on Christian values,  it would be impossible and illegal to demand that everyone adhere to the faith. That said, even the few Deists among the founding fathers stressed the value of Christian moral virtues.

2. Completely false. The United States became the United States by breaking from the European powers. While the founding fathers were Europeans, the succeeding generations of Americans are not, save those immigrants who continue to immigrate here. Europe is well advanced in its secularism and political correctness, and this is an anathema to many Americans. Contrary to their professed horror, for most of America’s history, we have had a non-European majority. Anyone born on this soil is American, not European, not African, not Asian, not South American. The continuation of such hyphenization is one of the main confusions of liberalism, and it will have the same affect on conservatism if it ever becomes accepted there. It is groups like this that seek the creation of racist policies under the guise of fighting illegal immigration. They would have no immigrants. The threat to America is *NOT* a “non-white” majority, but rather a proliferation of ignorance, moral relativism, socialism, and apathy.

3. True. Any lover of freedom will oppose the socialist utopia and anti-freedom agenda of groups like the United Nations.

4, 5. True. A limited, constitutional government is essential to freedom, and to ensure that the wages of hard work belong to the people who are doing the work, and not to support a massive bureaucracy.

6.  Some really strong truth mixed with a hell-inspired doctrine. Preserving the traditional family, opposing sexual perversions, opposing pornography, and preserving parental authority are very good and worthy goals. However, especially for a group claiming Christian heritage, there is absolutely no biblical (or scientific basis) for the separation of the “races.”

God’s Word says:  [God] hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation (Acts 17-:26)

God defends Moses against racial antagonists (who’s racism was merely a mask for their animosity towards Moses): And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman. And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it.

(Numbers 12:1-2)And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed. And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous. And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.
(Numbers 12:9-11)

7.True, with one notable exception: if this nation continues to have welfare programs, then those programs should be available to those who are here legally, regardless of whether or not they are natural born, or naturalized.

8. 2/3 true. Given that there is only one race (human), racial “integrity” makes no sense. The values and culture of America have been perpetuated by men and women from every corner of the world, who came here and embraced her. Likewise, people born here, and people of European descent have done much to destroy the culture and values of this country. To denigrate, or deny the American identity to a patriot because of skin color is sick and perverted, and contrary to the proposition that “all men are created equal”.

9. Mostly true. Foreign aid could be best conducted by private organizations that have a vested interest in, and love for, the peoples of the world. Government aid programs, usually funneled through the slow moving and bureaucracy-expense laiden United Nations, are wasted and distributed to and by the local tyrannical government, thereby helping a minimum of people. By allowing private/religious groups to engage in foreign aid, more efficient channels of distrubution can be found, and the cause of liberty can be strengthened worldwide.

10. Mostly true (see above about effective foreign aid). Also, this point contains a provision specifically designed to eliminate the special relationship between the USA and Israel. There are nations who’s security is in the best interest of Freedom, and Israel is one of those.

11. True, any nation should protect its interests and its people.

12. True, in most parts. Traditional education centering around reading, writing, arithmetic, the government and Constitution should form the basis of education. The study of current events, world history, and other languages and cultures should be available. No government funded school should be race-based. The Declaration of independence, and the Constitution’s rights and freedoms should be celebrated by all Americans, for it was these documents that sowed the seeds of the end of state-mandated racism, which was a gross violation of those founding principles.

13. Mostly true, however rehabilitation does have a place, and should be administered by private organizations. Not every criminal is hardened, and while justice should never be denied for dubious reasons, there is a place for mercy.

14. No arguments here.

Its amazing how a ‘little’ bit of racism can spoil a whole organization. What is even sadder is if this toxin is attributed to the Christian community or Conservative community at large. To do so is as much of a moral ill as the propagation of racism or any other sin.

“thou shalt not bear false witness”

-GOD