Government Dependency Will End in Chaos by Ron Paul

http://lewrockwell.com/paul/paul825.html

The media insists on characterizing statements about dependency on government handouts as controversial, but in truth such statements are absolutely correct. It's not that nearly half of Americans are dependent on government; it's actually more than half. If one includes not just people on food stamps and welfare, but also seniors on Medicare, Social Security and people employed by the government directly, the number is more like 165 million out of 308 million, which is 53%.

Some argue that Social Security and Medicare benefits are a right because people pay into these programs their whole lives, or that we need a government safety net in place for people who fall on hard times. However, this all becomes a moot point when the funds people depend on become worthless due to government default or rampant inflation.

This is less an issue of dignity or dependence on government, and more about the deceitfulness of government promises.

The Fed recently announced that it plans to keep interest rates near zero and keep buying near worthless assets from banks indefinitely. This enables Congress to spend without having to take deficits or the debt seriously and there is every indication they intend to spend with impunity until the system collapses. There are no brakes on the runaway train. The federal debt ceiling law does nothing to limit spending. The ceiling will have to be raised yet again perhaps before the year is out. What is happening in Greece with austerity measures and riots in the street will happen here within a decade according to some realistic estimates if we do not find some way to fiscally restrain our government.

There is little point in a debate about being entitled to healthcare or food or shelter from fellow taxpayers if the whole system has collapsed. And, with the way our politicians have taken over and mismanaged vast amounts of resources, collapse seems almost unavoidable. Yet the number of Americans who have significant dependency on government is dangerously high, and I honestly fear for them.

Worse, corporate welfare is also at an all-time high with no signs of diminishing. Though it is hard to quantify, Tad Dehaven at Cato has estimated that the government spends nearly twice as much on corporate welfare than on social welfare. Both parties are equally guilty. More and more, the business sector is learning to rely on taxpayer largesse in one form or another. They used to be solely concerned with providing a better product to the consumer at a better price. Now, success on Wall Street depends entirely too much on having the best lobbyists on K Street. If one includes the employees of "private" businesses who depend on government contracts, grants or bailouts, there are even more people dependent on government in some way.
Government does not create resources when it taxes people and prints money; it merely redistributes the wealth, while supporting a massive, wasteful bureaucracy along the way. Government is a giant, blood-sucking parasite on our otherwise healthy economy. For too long we have entrusted too much economic power and influence to irresponsible politicians in Washington. It's the chaos that ensues after they run the system into the ground that will be so painful for so many people. But realigning our economy with the free market and away from government mandates and handouts must happen in order for it to thrive again.
The answer is not to keep asking government to do more. The answer is to extricate our economy and ourselves from the grasp of Washington DC as much as possible now, before our dependency becomes our downfall.

Obama administration to criminalize teens working on their own family farms

This among other intrusive government measures just boils my blood.
Government control is bad enough but I see the most morally bankrupt (actually this is questionable. I did go to a public high school and it was disgusting over 30 years ago.), the laziest, and not to mention the most overweight kids today than I did in the past generation.
Children need to learn a work ethic at the earliest possible age.
It starts with picking up their toys.
That is not child abuse.
Child abuse is when you leave a child to their own whims and self destructive behavior.
When a child has chores to do, it enforces self discipline and self control.
And to the over sentimentalising parent who thinks that the poor kid needs more play time;
They still have plenty of play time and as a matter of fact, the work can be enjoyable and even fun, especially when there are others working along side. You can ask my kids. All 8 of them.
Besides that if a child plays outside (verses sitting in front of a TV or computer game), that play can be more strenuous than farm work.
Other than the obvious ploy to dumb down and control the populace by corrupt politicians, a lot of parents have gotten wimpy, thinking that they want their children to have more than they did growing up and not have such a "hard life".
Hard life? They are falling into the trap of the entitlement mentality. Give me what I won't work for.
A hard life is when you wake up and realize that there's no such thing as a free lunch.

Ronald Knew

I don't 'worship' Ronald Reagan, but he did do some things right.

This is an enlightening video.

OH! COME ON!

PEOPLE, ya need to wake up!
This is ridiculous!

Government Wants Your Individual Obesity Rating By 2014

All Americans, by 2014 will be required to have an individual obesity rating electronically recorded. It has been determined that under the new health stimulus law passed by President Barack Obama recently, that all Americans, by 2014, will be required to have electronic health records which will include their height, weight and body mass index(BMI).

Read the rest of the article here: http://patriotupdate.com/stories/read/4354/Government-Wants-Your-Individual-Obesity-Rating-By-2014

Assembly-Line Medicine By Chuck Baldwin

July 16, 2010


This column is archived at
http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?p=1882


It is no hyperbole to say that the consequences of the recently passed
"Obamacare" bills by the Congress will be horrific. In fact, I'm not even
sure that the English language contains a word sufficiently suitable to
describe exactly how dreadful the consequences of this new national health
care monstrosity will actually be.

With all its faults, America's health care system is the finest in the
world. Why else would rich people in Canada, Australia, Great Britain, and
elsewhere come to the US when the medical chips are really down? Socialized
medicine doesn't work for them and it won't work for the United States.

The negative effects of Obamacare are already starting to take effect.
Across the country, tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of
physicians are making preparations to retire. I would be willing to predict
that the vast majority of physicians who are financially able to retire will
do so before 2014 (the year Obamacare officially takes full effect). And who
can blame them? Not me.

Think of it: under Obamacare, physicians will be told to increase their
patient load by at least one-third, or maybe even half. Imagine a physician
with a government-mandated patient load of maybe 5,000 or 6,000 people (or
even more than that). Imagine some federal bureaucrat demanding that the
physician spend not more than, say, 4 minutes with each patient. Imagine
that physician being told what he or she will not be allowed to prescribe or
what they will not be allowed to treat. Imagine the health care Nazis
micromanaging not only patient care and treatment, but also wages and
pricing. If you think insurance companies have too much control over medical
care now, just wait until government-mandated (and controlled) medical care
is implemented. In other words, you ain't seen nothin' yet! How could any
self-respecting, conscientious physician practice medicine in an environment
such as that? They couldn't--and they won't. And this will create a shortage
of physicians like you won't believe, which only serves to push the patient
load per doctor and quality of care per patient to unsustainable levels. In
other words, prepare for assembly-line, one-size-fits-all medical care!

And don't expect any relief from the courts over inferior medical treatment,
either. With the federal government in charge of medical care, the patient's
right to recover damages from malpractice will be substantially limited.
After all, when is the last time anyone you know was able to successfully
sue the federal government for anything? The feds are immune, Brother. And
that means any federally-mandated and controlled health care will be largely
immune from any claim of malpractice--or at least that damages will be
strictly limited.

Plus, placing your medical care in the lap of the federal government allows
the feds to "share" even more of your personal information with hundreds of
its alphabet police agencies. Will your medical information be shared with
the BATFE, for example? If so, could some of that information be used to
deny your right to lawfully purchase a firearm? You can count on it! Good
grief! Guess which agency has been chosen to implement and enforce Obama's
national health care program? The IRS! If that doesn't send goose bumps up
your spine, you don't have one!

I cannot say it forcefully enough: the newly created Obamacare bills are
among the most evil and most reprehensible laws ever passed in Congress, the
result of which will destroy quality health care (except for the rich and
powerful); create perhaps the largest federal bureaucracy (complete with
ubiquitous government enforcers) ever seen; increase the size and scope of
the IRS to harass, seize, and imprison; and drive up health care costs,
federal spending, federal deficits, and, yes, taxes.

To make matters worse, the Obamacare bills are already being used to force
US taxpayers to fund abortions. According to LifeNews.com, "The Obama
administration has officially approved the first instance of taxpayer funded
abortions under the new national government-run health care program. This is
the kind of abortion funding the pro-life movement warned about when
Congress considered the bill."

See the report at:

http://lifenews.com/nat6531.html

So, what can we do?

First of all, we should be demanding that our State governors and
legislators REFUSE TO PARTICIPATE in any national health care system. I am
saying it: individual states should tell the federal government in no
uncertain terms that their states will not participate in Obamacare. Period.
Furthermore, the states should stubbornly withhold any and all state monies
that would be used to underwrite national health care. Suing the federal
government is not enough. STATES MUST REFUSE TO PARTICIPATE! Are you
listening, Bill McCollum?

Furthermore, I encourage readers to immediately contact your US congressman
(woman) and demand that he or she support a discharge petition introduced by
Congressman Steve King of Iowa, which paves the way for Congress to repeal
H.R. 3590, the first national health care bill (there were actually two
separate national health care bills, which became law seven days apart). At
last count, the petition already has some 133 signatures. 218 are needed.

Obviously, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is doing everything she can to block
the discharge petition, but if 218 votes are gathered, she would not be able
to stop it. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the bill can still be overturned and
repealed.

I strongly urge everyone to learn the details of how many in Congress are
currently working to overturn this healthcare monstrosity by reading this
report in World Net Daily:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=176077

First, look to see if your House member has yet to sign the petition. If
not, do everything you can to put pressure on him or her to sign the
petition. Inform your relatives, friends, neighbors, fellow churchmen,
pastors, co-workers, etc., about the need to support Rep. King's discharge
petition and repeal Obamacare before it's too late.

The other thing our congressmen should do is support Rep. Ron Paul's (R-TX)
"Private Option Health Care Act" (H.R. 5444): "To amend the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986 to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and
the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 and to replace it
with provisions reforming the health care system by putting patients back in
charge of health care." This bill would repeal both H.R. 3590 and H.R. 4872
(the second national health care bill). But beyond that, Paul's bill would
actually provide commonsense, freedom-friendly alternatives to Obama's
socialized medicine.

Learn about Dr. Paul's bill here:

http://www.ronpaul.com/legislation/private-option-health-care-act/

Folks, this is not a partisan issue. The future of our children and
grandchildren's health care, our nation's overall economic well-being, and
even the freedom of our posterity is at stake. This cannot wait until the
November elections, either. We must insist that Congress act NOW to repeal
Obamacare. Even many Democrats now recognize that passing this abominable
legislation was a very serious mistake and are willing to reconsider their
support. Please contact your House member NOW! Here is a convenient web page
containing the contact information for all 435 US House members:

http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.shtml

Quotes

“ . . .Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, – That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter it or to abolish it . . . it is (not only) their right it is their duty . . .”

Thomas Jefferson, 1776
The Declaration of Independence

democracy is nothing more than mob rule where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the forty-nine.

Thomas Jefferson

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.

Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America

An interesting link: http://ltdgov.com/

THE AUDACITY!

My last post should have been titled, "THE AUDACITY" as well as these quotes:

(from lewrockwell.com)

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
~ Gen. William Westmoreland

What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
~ Adolf Hitler

In a recent commencement address, President Obama declared that "information becomes a distraction, a diversion" which puts "pressure on our country and on our democracy." Technological innovations – including the Internet – produces a "24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of arguments, some of which don’t always rank that high on the truth meter." He added that "with so many voices clamoring for attention on blogs, and on cable, on talk radio, it can be difficult, at times, to sift through it all – to know what to believe, to figure out who’s telling the truth and who’s not." Hillary Clinton expressed similar concerns a few years ago when she suggested that a "gatekeeper" be created for the Internet, to prevent just anyone from putting their opinions out into the public.

For full article go here: http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer216.html

BUT THIS SHOULD BE CALLED, YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV-DzuCPmXU&playnext_from=TL&videos=Do7LSHvQXzw&feature=rec-LGOUT-real_rn-1r-1-HM

YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID!

This is a quote from an article at World Net Daily:

"You are only 'allowed' to eat or drink what the FDA gives you permission to. There is no inherent right or God-given right to consume any foods from nature without the FDA's consent."

The Natural News report continued, "The state, in other words, may override your food decisions and deny you free access to the foods and beverages you wish to consume. And the state may do this for completely unscientific reasons – even just political reasons – all at their whim."

To read the full article got to:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=153133