"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." ~ Samuel Adams
“And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christthe Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”
Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,
“Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests.”~ Luke 2: 8-14
“For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.” ~ John 3: 17-18
Rand Paul appears on the Glen Beck show with Judge Napolitano on December 20th. Great interview with Rand stressing his desire to enforce term limits within Congress. Let’s hope he wins the Senate seat in Kentucky!
Nice article on newsmax.com that openly represents Dr. Rand Paul’s views on the Obamacare disaster that could soon be passed in the Senate. It is obvious to anyone who understands the effects of government health care that our health care system will digress and most certainly health procedures will be rationed if this bill is passed.
Of course this health care bill is not about helping those without health insurance…. (You don’t need a 2,000 page bill to provide health insurance to 15 million people)… It is about advancing socialism and increasing the size and scope of the federal government. Unfortunately, the end result of socialism is not equality – but the decimation of the middle & upper class with the people left poor and dependent on the political elite in government.
A lot of common sense in Dr. Paul’s responses. If only we had more of this common sense from our politicians…
By: Dan C. Weil
Rand Paul, son of Texas Congressman Ron Paul and a Republican candidate for Senate in Kentucky, says Democratic healthcare reform will lead to the rationing of care.
Paul, an ophthalmologist, cited the example of Canada, which has government-run healthcare.
“There are 1 million people waiting for any kind of elective surgery in Canada at any one time,” he told Newsmax.TV’s Ashley Martella. “Canada is so bad that they have a lottery. … You can sometimes wait one and a half years to see a doctor.”
President Obama’s Saturday radio address was almost mystifying in its arrogance and hypocrisy. His own words underscore the need for the Read the Bills Act.
President Obama’s Saturday radio address claims that because a “clear majority” in the Senate favors the latest slapped-together healthcare bill, that the opposition should just give up. http://tinyurl.com/ybnyoly
Should Congress ignore the will of the people? If the people are split on a bill that will reduce their liberties and transform the economy, is it wise for you to blindly move forward on a 2,000 page bill you won’t actually read?
Obama goes further to say that anyone who criticizes insurance regulations “simply hasn’t read the bills.”
In the continually harsh public discourse over the President’s proposals for federally-managed healthcare, the Big Government progressives in both the Democratic and the Republican parties have been trying to trick us. These folks, who really want the government to care for us from cradle to grave, have been promoting the idea that health care is a right. In promoting that false premise, they have succeeded in moving the debate from WHETHER the feds should micro-manage health care to HOW the feds should micro-manage health care. This is a false premise, and we should reject it. Health care is not a right; it is a good, like food, like shelter, and like clothing.
What is a right? A right is a gift from God that extends from our humanity. Thinkers from St. Thomas Aquinas, to Thomas Jefferson, to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to Pope John Paul II have all argued that our rights are a natural part of our humanity.
Congressional leaders were planning on raising the national debt limit by a whopping $1.8 trillion.
Luckily, the end-of-year legislative logjam has prevented them from doing so. They are likely to pass a short-term increase to keep the government running for a few months.
But after the New Year, Congress will be back with a spending agenda which, if not stopped, will raise the national debt so that it will soon be the size of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product!
Ron Paul appeared on Cavuto yesterday discussing Ben Bernanke and his selection as the ‘man of the year’ by Time magazine. It appears that Time magazine loves the idea of destroying the money supply and looting the general public through debasing the currency. How butch of them…
Probably one of the greatest misconceptions that is pitched to the public by those in power is that Government can somehow create jobs or lower the unemployment rate. Government cannot create jobs, because it does not create wealth. It can only transfer wealth from the private sector (individuals/corporations) to government, thus consuming it – not creating it. In this process it does not create a job, but instead transfers wealth that would be used to create productive employment and more potential wealth.
First: Let’s clear up a misconception: Government does not create jobs because it does not create wealth. Government is a consumer of wealth, not a producer.
As my colleague and noted economist Thomas Sowell writes: “What does it take to create a job? It takes wealth to pay someone who is hired, not to mention additional wealth to buy the material that person will use. But government creates no wealth. Ignoring that plain and simple fact enables politicians to claim to be able to do all sorts of miraculous things that they cannot do in fact. Without creating wealth, how can they create jobs? By taking wealth from others, whether through taxation, selling bonds or imposing mandates. However it is done, transferring wealth is not creating wealth. When government uses transferred wealth to hire people, it is essentially transferring jobs from the private sector, not adding to the net number of jobs in the economy.”
As Heritage Foundation’s Conn Carroll notes, “every dollar Congress ‘injects’ into the economy must first be taxed or borrowed out of the economy.”
And, to add insult to injury, government is an extremely inefficient consumer of wealth, with up to 70 percent of income-transfer program (a.k.a., welfare program) budgets going to bureaucratic overhead.
"A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government." ~ Thomas Jefferson
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Jason
managed healthcare, the Big Government progressives in both the Democratic and the Republican parties have been trying to trick us. These folks, who really want the government to care for us from cradle to grave, have been promoting the idea that health care is a right. In promoting that false premise, they have succeeded in moving the debate from WHETHER the feds should micro-manage health care to HOW the feds should micro-manage health care. This is a false premise, and we should reject it. Health care is not a right; it is a good, like food, like shelter, and like clothing.
