Showing posts with label ObamaCare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ObamaCare. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Monday, December 28, 2009
Investors.com - Memo To Foes Of Health Reform: Repudiate The Morality Of Need
The message is clear: If you have a need, you are entitled to have it fulfilled at others' expense.The reason we continue to move toward socialized medicine is that everyone — including the opponents of socialized medicine — grants its basic moral premise: that need generates an entitlement.So long as that principle goes unchallenged, government intervention in medicine will continue growing, as each new pressure group asserts its need and lobbies for its entitlement, until finally the government takes responsibility for fulfilling everyone's medical needs by socializing the health care system outright.Some believe you can stop this process midstream: The government will intervene only to help those in dire circumstances while otherwise leaving people responsible for their own health care. But that's an illusion. If need entitles one to the wealth and effort of others, then there is no logical reason why the government should restrict help to some small subset of the "needy," and refuse to help the rest.Investors.com - Memo To Foes Of Health Reform: Repudiate The Morality Of Need
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Friday, December 25, 2009
What we should do next to fight Obamacare
So now that the Senate has passed the bill where do we go from here.
What's more,where does the bill,or rather,the bills,go from here.
Some of the people who are reading this may be newcomers to all of this
,& even some of those who have been following this may not know how the
the process works,so I want to fill them in.
Now that The House & The Senate have each passed their respective bills,the 2 bills must be reconciled. This is normally done through a House-Senate Conference,but as Fox News explains:
“Reid had wanted to assign conferees to meet with House negotiators on a compromise between the two versions of the bill. Democrats had hoped to begin negotiations as early as next week, though the House doesn't return officially until Jan. 12 and the Senate until Jan. 19.
But Reid's effort was dashed by Republicans who put the leader on notice that they would object to the appointment of conferees, and that would have delayed the Senate's recess, something no one wanted on Christmas eve.
House and Senate Democrats do have parliamentary avenues to get around the objection. The House and Senate can play ping-pong with the bill, where the Senate pings the bill over to the House and it makes changes and then the House pongs it back over to the Senate for another round.
This congressional table tennis continues until both bodies have adopted the same piece of legislation. That, however, could take longer than the administration had hoped.”
Republicans Look for Mechanisms to Halt Health Insurance bill 12-24-09
This is part of a plan conceived by Dan Perrin, & which he presented in detail in his article:
The Extraordinary Measures Needed to Kill the Bill — Updated with Vote Numbers
And followed up with:
The Best Christmas Present Ever: Senator DeMint Objects to the Appointment of the Conferees
In essence he argues for using procedural maneuvers,(already being done,see above),to make it as difficult as possible to reconcile the bills,while working w/ Leftists in the House to insert “poison pill” provisions into the House bill.
As He explains it:
“So, first, conservatives force two votes in the House, by preventing the appointment of the conferees,and therefore, preventing a House-Senate Conference.
Second, the left will focus on three separate issues to kill the bill in the House. The object of these issues is not to support these policies per say, but to add items to the House bill that will be so objectionable that when the bill goes back over to the Senate, that the Dems lose one or more of their 60 votes.”
The three issues are:
The Public Option
Killing the Nebraska & Vermont sweetheart deals,(& I would add the Louisiana Purchase that bought off Landrieu).
And Abortion:(Both Pro-Choice & Pro-Life Congressmen reject the Ben Nelson compromise reached in the Senate bill)
Perrin again:
“Pro-Life and Pro-Abortion Forces: In short, have at it. Given the Stupak amendment majority in the House, the pro-lifers must stick Stupak back on the bill, so that when it is sent back to the Senate, the pro-abortion majority can pull Stupak back off. When the bill goes back to the Senate, the pro-abortion forces can remove Stupak, just as they did a couple of weeks ago. Once Stupak is pulled again from the Senate it must go back to the House to be amended, or die there.”
The idea of a temporary alliance of convenience with the Left has also been put forward by Robert Trancinski in “ Letter to a Sincere Leftist: Let's Smash the State Power of the Corporations “
What we must now do if this bill is to stopped:
1.If you know any Liberals urge them to pursue this strategy.
2.Do everything you can to discredit the thesis, put forward by the Obama Administration that failure to pass this bill will do more harm to the Democratic Party then passing it will.This is the argument that they have been using to sell the bill in spite of the obvious,overwhelming public opposition to the bill. Further:"opposition to the bill will subside once people get to know what's in it”.Indeed Sen.Chuck Schumer cheerfully boasted that: “Mitch Mcconnell said on the floor that we're going to go home & hear our constituents rail against this bill, I don't believe that,I believe that the negativity that leader Mcconnell & others have continually displayed on the floor has peaked...”1.
3..We must show them,by direct,but peaceful confrontation,by continually calling faxing & e-mailing them,that they are wrong. While no individual call will make a difference,showing them that we will not go away,will belie their spin. Equally important,is the fact that any slackening off will be taken as vindication of their fantasies.Indeed we must turn UP the pressure.We must find out who their largest campaign donors are,& stage boycotts of them. Protest at every,fundraiser,townhall,& speech that they give. Protest at every public relations event .Contact your local teaparty group,Republican Party meeting,even the anti-bill Liberals. But you argue,the Liberals just want to put the Public Option back in?True,they hope to get the Public Option put back in,but even if they cannot,they believe that no bill is better than this bill.(They believe the bill is a giveaway to the Insurance Companies,since it requires people to buy private insurance).
4.Finally & most importantly,keep spreading the ideas of Freedom,Individual Rights,& the value of Free-Market Economics,to your friends,neighbors,co-workers,to everyone,everywhere,where appropriate,so as to make a principled opposition to Socialized Medicine.
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Sunday, November 8, 2009
My response to the despair over the passage of Obamacare by the House,Stop whining & act like Men,(& Women)
Reading Facebook's comment threads I have become very annoyed by this whining,sniveling drivel,"We're doomed","It's the end of America",as if our Nation could be destroyed by these flys.
To paraphrase Churchill,this is not the beginning of the end, it is not even the end of the beginning.
The bill now goes to the Senate, where we must fight it w/ all our strength.
If it passes the Senate it must then be reconciled w/the House & passed by both chambers.
At every step along the way we have the opportunity to stop it,or slow it down.All the while we should offer those who voted for the bill the opportunity to "see the light",& change their vote.
What if the bill is passed,you ask?Then we go to work on the 2010 and 2012 elections.
We identify their weaknesses.We target businesses large & small who give money to their campaigns for boycotts.
We work to weaken or defeat them at every stage from the primary on.
We identify their strengths & weaken them.We take their weaknesses & exploit them,(where appropriate through stings of the kind that exposed Acorn).
If we cannot defeat someone in 2010 then we drag their numbers down as much as possible for the next election.
Do not waste your time on Pelosi,or other fanatics in far left districts.
Our goal is not revenge.Our goal is to defeat the bill.And if that fails,repeal it.
Why do you despair?Because the bill has passed the House?If you despair because this bill is a violation of rights & you fear it's passage,then the solution,the only solution, is to work for its defeat,& if it passes,to repeal it.
To despair,to give up & to give in,to say all is lost,is hypocrisy.
If you genuinely believe something is evil, then a defeat is not a reason to crawl away and despair.To the degree that something is wrong,that is all the more reason for not surrendering to it.
Victory can never be guaranteed.
The only thing that can be guaranteed is that surrender leads to defeat.
If you believe that the bill is evil,then you must fight it.Not because victory is certain,but because surrendering to evil,is itself evil.
(On a lighter note see this video above, & man up,(or woman up,(or Transgender up for that matter) as the case may be).
My response to the despair over the passage of Obamacare by the House,Stop whining & act like Men,(& Women) by Robert Reed Daly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://theneointellectual.blogspot.com/.
To paraphrase Churchill,this is not the beginning of the end, it is not even the end of the beginning.
The bill now goes to the Senate, where we must fight it w/ all our strength.
If it passes the Senate it must then be reconciled w/the House & passed by both chambers.
At every step along the way we have the opportunity to stop it,or slow it down.All the while we should offer those who voted for the bill the opportunity to "see the light",& change their vote.
What if the bill is passed,you ask?Then we go to work on the 2010 and 2012 elections.
We identify their weaknesses.We target businesses large & small who give money to their campaigns for boycotts.
We work to weaken or defeat them at every stage from the primary on.
We identify their strengths & weaken them.We take their weaknesses & exploit them,(where appropriate through stings of the kind that exposed Acorn).
If we cannot defeat someone in 2010 then we drag their numbers down as much as possible for the next election.
Do not waste your time on Pelosi,or other fanatics in far left districts.
Our goal is not revenge.Our goal is to defeat the bill.And if that fails,repeal it.
Why do you despair?Because the bill has passed the House?If you despair because this bill is a violation of rights & you fear it's passage,then the solution,the only solution, is to work for its defeat,& if it passes,to repeal it.
To despair,to give up & to give in,to say all is lost,is hypocrisy.
If you genuinely believe something is evil, then a defeat is not a reason to crawl away and despair.To the degree that something is wrong,that is all the more reason for not surrendering to it.
Victory can never be guaranteed.
The only thing that can be guaranteed is that surrender leads to defeat.
If you believe that the bill is evil,then you must fight it.Not because victory is certain,but because surrendering to evil,is itself evil.
(On a lighter note see this video above, & man up,(or woman up,(or Transgender up for that matter) as the case may be).
My response to the despair over the passage of Obamacare by the House,Stop whining & act like Men,(& Women) by Robert Reed Daly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://theneointellectual.blogspot.com/.
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