Sunshine, Lollipops & Poetic Social Justice

Sunshine, Lollipops & Poetic Social Justice
Kevin Bryant

Brothers and Sisters, today is it my honor and my privilege to welcome Brother Barack to the pulpit. May glory and graciousness be bestowed upon our Brother.

(Obama emerges on stage singing)

Zip-a-dee-doo-dah! Zip-a-dee-ay!
My, oh my, what a wonderful day!
Plenty of sunshine heading my way.
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah! Zip-a-dee-ay!

With Nancy and Harry on my shoulder.
It's the truth, its actual.
And my healthcare bill is satisfactual.

Zip-a-dee-doo-dah! Zip-a-dee-ay!
Wonderful feeling. Wonderful day.

Come on everybody its a doo dah day!
Come on everybody have fun this day!

Zip-a-dee-doo-dah! Zip-a-dee-ay!
My, oh my, it's an Obama kinda day!
Theres plenty of good times heading my way.
Zip Zip-a-dee-doo-dah! Zip-a-dee-ay!

They said it couldn’t be done, but I said “Yes We Can”.
They said Oh No, not here in America, but I did it.
They said the American people won’t stand for it, but I got it done.

Total transformation. We are on our way and no one can stop us now.

They said, Barack, social justice will never happen in America. We have tried it and we have failed every time. But you know me; I like it when the odds are against me. Sunny days are finally here to stay.

Yes, healthcare took longer than I thought to happen, but we have taken one giant step towards a single payer system, and nothing is going to stop us from reaching our goal of having everyone in America getting their health care provided at no cost to them by the government.

80 percent, 80 percent control of the U.S. economy. That is my goal. Only when we get there will I be satisfied. Only when we get there can we have real reform in this country. Only at 80 percent will we finally be able to bring forth true social justice for the people. Today we stand at 52 percent. Nancy has already done her job with Cap & Trade. Now all we need is Harry and my GOP inside man, Lindsey Graham to bring home the bacon on Cap & Trade and we can add 10 percent to that total.

Now those teabaggers, those teabaggers are shouting “What about the constitution”. I say “What about it”? It has long since served its purpose and it is time for it to be put to pasture. It had its time. Now is Obama time. It’s our time to take what rightfully should have been ours long before I ever came into office…………………

(Obama fades out and real time sets in)

With the exception of Obama actually singing, this is more real than what any of us want to believe.

Obama wants everyone to believe that the more the government can control our lives, the more sunshine and lollipop days we will have in this country. We will want for nothing because government will provide it. Social Justice will prevail when the majority of the wealthy in this country lose their wealth and it is distributed as government sees fit.

No one including me wants to make the claim that Obama was elected president because he got 96 percent of the black vote in America. Though that is the largest percentage in history of any voting block to go for a single candidate, it was not what elected him to office. It was those in college and the under thirty crowd who believed in him and the progressive agenda he represents that put him over the top. He promised them a world without worry. He promised a world where everyone is equal. He promised them the impossible. Now you and I know that there is no such thing as social equality. There are always the haves and the have nots. There are those who chose to work hard and those who choice to be a victim of some fictional injustice. There are those who have spirit, drive and ambition and we have those who chose to do little or nothing to better themselves.

Too many of the young people in this country want everything handed to them. They want the government to provide them a free college education because they believe it is their right. They want government to provide them with a job because they are entitled to one. They want to be given a nice home and a nice car because others have them, but forget the fact that those that do have them had to work and obtained these things over time, not all at once and not without great cost. Soon, many will be graduating from college with their B.A. degrees and will be demanding that an employer give them a six figure salary job because they believe they are entitled to one.

The young of this country who supported and voted for Obama, many are not even working. They are living day to day on welfare. Those that do have jobs, many are part time jobs in small businesses or minimum wage jobs. Starting with July 2009 (in my opinion) the state of the economy no longer belonged to George Bush or the GOP, Obama took ownership of it. Since July of last year, many of those who supported and believed in Obama have lost their jobs because their employers had to close up shop, but that didn’t stop them from still believing. Now with the passage of the democrat healthcare bill, many more small businesses will be forced to close up shop because they will not be able to afford healthcare for all their full and part time employers. Larger businesses will be less likely to hire those entering the workforce because the economy has stalled again yet the tax burdens of these companies has increased, thus offsetting any gains they have made over the past year.

America’s young adults, you got the president you wanted. You got the healthcare bill you demanded to have but you do not know what price you had to pay to get it, but you will soon learn. It’s poetic social justice that the same young Americans who supported Obama are the first ones losing their jobs because of Obama’s policies and his handling of the economy. Never a more true example of the old saying, “you reap what you sew”.

This isn’t about Healthcare

This isn’t about Healthcare
Al Ritter

For the last year and a half we have not been dealing with individual mandates that the liberal progressives want, we have been dealing with ideologies. To the liberals, ideology means everything. To Obama one successful campaign after another is all his Presidency will ever be about, because he lacks the leadership skills to transfer his campaign skills into managerial skills. Obama leaves the “details” to people like Emanuel and Axlerod, which make the glaringly obvious contradictions all that more apparent.

To understand the left you need to understand the intent. They intend to transform America from what it started as in 1776 to yet another country that looks, acts, and smells like any other country in the European Union. They seek to even out the economic playing field among their citizens, but at the same time exclude themselves, and the special interests that put them into a position of power, from said policies.

Their aim is to tax the upper class even more than it’s taxed now, and inflict an inequitable structure to divide the classes. This move clearly shows that they intend to start inter-class wars, and to vilify the business world and those who work cleverly enough or smart enough to make money.

America became world leaders during the Industrial Revolution, when the cleverest of entrepreneurs designed and built the machinery to bring us into the next century. It is amazing to think that our meteoric rise to world leadership has happened in a relatively short period of 230 years. Our patent offices were the very basis of rewarding the best thinkers in our country.

Policies of this administration will reverse that capitalistic advantage that the United States has always enjoyed. Research and technological advances will become things of the past because the government will deem them unnecessary, and needless money wasters. Under the new healthcare laws, the privacy of your medical history will become a thing of the past, medical insurance fraud will flourish, and the government bureaucracy will have to double to handle the load. Doctors are already being told what they can earn through the “doc fix” which is sort of ironic, because it has fixed nothing, only kicked the ball farther down the road for someone else to fix. Student loans have been taken over by the government now, added to the other monopolies the government owns.

Publicly owned companies have become the targets of government. It used to be they were only answerable to their shareholders, but according to this administration, the government can place salary caps on management, placed by some third rate bureaucrat. Who will be next? You silently watch while the new policies don’t affect you, but you can bet they will eventually. Will you voice your opinion then?

It’s funny how the government sees Corporations as the bad guys, and patents as holding the monopolies of this country, but in actuality the private sector knows how to make the money, but the government only knows how to take the money from the golden goose and distribute it to the people THEY see as fit recipients. To give a glaring example of government greed isn’t difficult. Let’s look at the oil companies, they make billions of dollars a year, but they sell billions of gallons a year and their profit margin is tight, some say as little as 3 cents a gallon. The government retrieves more in taxes than the oils companies make in profit on the products. Add that to the fact that the government invests nothing in the way of cost to reap their benefits, no research, no refineries, no employees…….NOTHING. Who is the bigger thief here?

It all boils down to one question. Do you think that government should participate in the social programs and agenda to make one person pay for benefits of another, or do you believe that every person should be responsible for themselves?
Everyone needs to pick a side on this debate, there can be no middle of the road here, and citizens who wander in the middle of the road get hit by traffic.

Letter to the President

Pictured below is a young physician by the name of Dr. Starner Jones. His short two-paragraph letter to the White House accurately puts the blame on a "Culture Crisis" instead of a "Health Care Crisis". It's worth a quick read:


Dear Mr. President:
During my shift in the Emergency Room last night, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient whose smile revealed an expensive shiny gold tooth, whose body was adorned with a wide assortment of elaborate and costly tattoos, who wore a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and who chatted on a new cellular telephone equipped with a popular R&B ringtone.

While glancing over her patient chart, I happened to notice that her payer status was listed as "Medicaid"! During my examination of her, the patient informed me that she smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day and somehow still has money to buy pretzels and beer.

And, you and our Congress expect me to pay for this woman's health care? I contend that our nation's "health care crisis" is not the result of a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. Rather, it is the result of a "crisis of culture", a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on luxuries and vices while refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance. It is a culture based in the irresponsible credo that "I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me".
Once you fix this "culture crisis" that rewards irresponsibility and dependency, you'll be amazed at how quickly our nation's health care difficulties will disappear.
Respectfully,
STARNER JONES, MD

Why has the AARP sold out its members on healthcare?

Why has the AARP sold out its members on Healthcare?
Al Ritter


I wondered why the self declared non-partisan group AARP would support a government run healthcare system, so I did some investigation, and found the answer glaringly simple. MONEY! It’s the main driving force of any business, and AARP is no exception.



I assumed they made most of their money from memberships, a glance at the 2008 AARP financial statement, changed my mind on that! The group received nearly $653 million in royalties from private insurance companies that sold products referred by AARP in 2008, while taking in $249 million in membership dues. Wondering what products they are getting commissions on I dove in a little deeper.



Seniors have basically two choices for Medicare supplemental insurance, the first one is a government run supplement called “Medicare Advantage,” the second one is called “Medigap” insurance and is sold by private insurance companies. This medigap is what the AARP endorses, and gets royalties on. Section 1161 of the House bill would slash payments to Medicare Advantage health plans used by 20 percent of seniors and cause them to lose some benefits, including vision and dental coverage, thus forcing them into the private insurance supplements such as AARP offers.



AARP is a non-profit 501 (c)(4) organization which doesn’t allow them to take money from the government, but alas they have figured a way around all that. AARP FOUNDATION is a separate and distinct organization, they are housed in the same building as AARP, have a completely separate Board of Directors, but they have one major distinction, they are listed as a 501 (c)(3) organization that not only CAN take government money, they actively sought out federal grants. The Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Labor, were all sources of the second largest income of the $90 million 2008 income.





The AARP FOUNDATION can engage in fundraising activities to advance its particular public policy agenda. However, the foundation works so closely with AARP that the two entities are barely indistinguishable. Is this combination of organizations reminiscent of another group?



House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, blasted AARP in an interview with the Hill just days ago."AARP is one of the most liberal organizations in Washington, D.C.," Boehner said. "Obviously, most seniors aren't aware of that."



As Paul Harvey used to say……….now you know the rest of the story!

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