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The Nobel Peace prize goes to:
BARACK OBAMA for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.
And I must add that this decorated and sacred banner of gold peace prize be bestowed on our President Barack Obama for (1) his long and hard fought quest for equal humanitarian treatment of human life; be it the Ambassador of healthcare reform for all, (2) for his tireless efforts for his outreach negotiations to keep the economy alive for the good of all the world and (3) for pressing for peaceful negotiations to try to end wars especially before they get started in Honduras or other countries.
Oh what an honorable, prestigious and great reward to be bestowed upon and presented to our President, Mr. Barack Hussein Obama from the Nobel Peace Prize Committee. Why didn’t we Citizens, fellow coworkers, brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers stop to assess and calculate all that our brother visionary, Barack Obama has done this past year or more?
We are too busy fighting his vision for change that’s why. We failed to realize and absorb from whence we came. And we all are guilty of pushing for our own individual causes and interests to change that we missed the real life all around the world change that President Obama traveled across seas to negotiate, the Economy, our Economy, and the world’s Economy before Japan, China and others call in their markers.
You Old School workers will not use our President Barack Obama without reward and recognition. Your old school mentality of use, abuse and discard will not re-occur here in this new decade and time. Here we go again with this arrogant American trying to dictate to other countries and to the world how to show their appreciation and gratitude for works well done. This arrogant American of the old school is stuck on stupid when it comes to afro-Americans and constantly contradicts himself. He wants his cake and eats it too. Mr. Barack Obama deserves this Nobel Peace Prize award recognition.
I don’t know about you but my workplace was full of white folk workers screaming Mr. Obama’s name during the entire past 2008 year of the Presidential election campaign saying and I quote “we need an African-American in the White House at this time and moment to calm the Muslim community.”
Once again, your old school mentality kicks in to use blacks and then throw us to the curb afterwards; No not in this day and time anymore. Mr. Barack Obama deserves this Nobel Peace Prize award all by himself. This arrogant American feels what’s good for the goose aint good for gander until he realizes that it will have an impact on his family and friends but then it’s too late.
Just as old school ex-Vice President Chaney was against Gay Rights before he realized it would impact his Gay daughter as well as the use of President’s pardons, just as the old school President was against allowing the Haitians into the country until that President realized it would impact his Hispanic family member and just as you argue against Healthcare Reform until it impacts one of your family members and friends. You Hiprocrit, you!
And now you have the nerve to open your lying mouth to suggest that our President Obama fork over or share his well deserved Nobel Peace Prize to fallen Veterans, poor people or anyone else but the President himself. Hell No. Just as any other worker would want his efforts and tireless works recognized and rewarded for going above and beyond the call to duty and extra-mile, so shall our President Barack Obama.
We workers have worked long hours, worked above and beyond the call of duty, worked outstanding depths, worked fearless against racism, skepticism, plagiarism and criticism and worked exceptionally outstanding for equal justice for all. Our President Barack Obama deserves this Nobel Peace Prize for all of his work and his coworkers work including the returning soldiers fallen or wounded. He deserves this Nobel Peace award all by himself.
We workers ask that our President Barack Obama be the proud recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize award just as Martin Luther King, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Costa Rica President Oscar Sanchez, President Jimmy Carter, Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger as well as a host of others. He is worthy of this Nobel Peace Prize and rightly belong in the company of these above noteworthy peace seekers whether his work was done jointly, through workers or preached or personally negotiated.
Congratulations, Mr. President, you deserve it for all of us hard workers. Please accept this honorable award with dignity and pride Mr. President for a job well done and for future challenging jobs to come. The Nobel Peace Prize.
Sincerely,Esther Mayberry
Secretary and
Office Management Worker
Lech Walesa, is a Nobel Peace Prize winner who judged another person who won this award for a reason that was no better than his own. President Obama, was accused of winning this reward to fast and that he has not done anything yet. To cite Mr. Walesa's own words he claimed, "So fast? Too fast-he hasn't had the time to do anything yet." (Times) I say it's a shame!
Mr. Walesa was a man fighting for union rights when he won this reward. Obama has won the award for fighting for world peace. They both didn't do much before they were both rewarded.
Sure Walesa was detained many times and fought peacefully to win union rights. He even traveled to other countries as a business man. Sharing his ideas, keeping secrets, and kept his peace while he was under surveillance. He was the leader of many union strikes, but to point out he did not make it to his goal when he was rewarded the Nobel Peace prize.
President Obama, is fighting for world peace. He is fighting for world help. He is trying to make the world work in a better and more cleaner environment to help build a better economy not just for America, but for the world. He has traveled to many countries just like Mr. Walesa; clearly, also like Mr. Walesa, President Obama has yet to achieve his goal and has won the Nobel Peace Prize.
They both were rewarded when they both did not achieve their goals, but that is not the reason they were rewarded such an award. They were rewarded because of what they were doing and their reason for it. Not because they achieved it!
Mother Theresa was rewarded this award for her actions in making a better world, but she did not succeed. Sure she helped the world and she never gave up even in failure, but it was her trying that made the reward so special and not her success. Some people would argue that she succeeded and she did because she never gave up, but her goal was to end poverty; however, proverty still exist. It was her trying and actions; clearly not her success and failures.
I think people are offended because a very early popular man has won The Nobel Peace Prize in an unpopular situation. Another thing is that he has not been known to the world for a very long time and has already won the reward, but remember Mr. Walesa was only 40 years old when he won and that is not much older than President Obama.
Richard T. Seymour, from Baltimore, wrote an article; "Obama gives aid and comfort to the enemy." He explain in this article that Obama is giving comfort to our nation enemies, but greatly Mr. Seymour is mistaken. Mr. Seymour, feels that the Nobel Peace prize is going to make it worse. In his Article he goes off point to talk about American soldiers; however, I do not understand what his article is to mean.
Accepting the award is going to make things better because now the world has seen that he is trying and his trying has been rewarded. This will help others believe in him.
Mr. Seymour, also commented about soldiers having to retreat from civilians while under attack by the Taliban forces and he claims it is not right for them to do that, but I disagree because to me this is common sense.
It's for safety reasons. If soldiers are in contact with civilians during an attack then Taliban forces may target the civilians to help target American soldiers. Another reason for retreating is for safety reasons for the civilians. If the Taliban see civilians in contact with American soldiers they may kidnap them to torture them for information that may have been shared between the two.
Mr. Seymour, does not seem to try to understand why some rules are put in place. These rules help protect American soldiers and civilians. Mr. Seymour, has proven he would not make a very good military leader nor a President.
President Obama, believes in change and he acts to bring that change to us. Everyone else before him has talked about change, but no one has done the work to prove that he or she truly believes in this change. This is why I believe in him, but of course there were others who have done wonderful jobs in making wonderful changes, but he is the one doing it right now.
Everyone else is just finding something to complain about and they are saying that they have not see any changes. Well it is true, but change takes time and time takes couarge. President Obama is making changes that will save the economy and the world, but he is making changes that will fix and not break so easily. This is what happen with Bill Clinton economy plan. There was no back up plan! Obama is creating this along with saving our Health Care plan. This is why Health Care Reform is important. A cheaper plan that will help us save money to rebuild the economy is the very goal we want to achieve.
People say that President Obama cannot blame Ex President Bush for his mistake anymore, but they are greatly mistaken. I believe that Ex President Bush was a good President, but his mistakes have planted a seed thats has become a very big plant of mistakes and big mistake sometimes take years to heal themselves.
This is about President Obama being able to change and fix the Economy and he is able to do so, but we must believe in him along the way. Change takes time and big mistake take years to heal. Together we can make these things happen, but we must believe in someone who believes in us and President Obama has explined many times that he believes "in America and it's People."
By Padmini Arhant
Nobel Peace Prize
Dear Mr. President,
Heartfelt Congratulations! On this noble honor to you and our nation.
I hope that the nuclear free, peaceful world is a possibility in the near future.
Best Wishes and Good Luck to you in all your peaceful endeavors.
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Thank you.
Sincerely,
Padmini Arhant
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Well Saturday's September 26th event turned out to the largest LA COUNTY Townhall meeting to date since the Congressman Adam Schiff’s event in San Gabriel Valley. McKeon and his staff were busy pleasing themselves over the 800 RSVP’s. I watched them giving one another high fives.
Someone had left a visible unlabeled box under the stairwell and the sheriff department responded cautiously to its contents. After one bold sheriff realized that it wasn't ticking, he opened it. And all disgustingly shook their heads to find La Rouche magazines with Obama w/a Hitler mustache on the cover . . . They reclosed the box and shoved it back but out of view, I agreed with their disgust, but this is a country of Free Speech, exhibit #1. There were close to 1,500 people there. Of course, the repubs say that it was 2,000. The initial anxious and alert crowd snaked around the building well before 8:15AM. One event planner was giving the others high fives in relaying “we have up to 2,000 RSVP's”. They had done their job. NOT. For it to be a healthcare meeting, the elevator didn't work for the physically impaired. Although, later in the morning, I heard the janitor exclaim to the sheriffs “it was working on Tuesday, I checked it myself”. Funny, there was little signage to let the public know that the elevator was even there.
I heard the janitor explain to the sheriff officers that the spring wasn't leveling as it should, hence it wasn’t usable. One officer offered that it was a safety violation and should be fixed quickly. I watched the janitor huffing up the stairs. I thought to myself, he’s in relatively good shape, not lean, but if he is huffing up the stairs and stopping at the first landing, what did he expect from moms with a child in a stroller? Some wheelchair bound and motor cart attendees looked dejected when they saw the final set of stairs. There was no signage telling them to keep going up the 20 degree hill to the side entrance of the gym. Some turned around expressing angry others called up asking for assistance.
I saw one young woman run down the stairs and offer to walk the man around the building. The person concerned, but not sure responded, “if you will take me all the way”. The guest obliged him.
She asked me if I knew where the side door would be, I told her it was my first time there also, “I don’t know”. I thought if democrats were in charge, we would have known to facilitate the handicapped and physically challenged. It is a requirement to holding a democratic event.
Eventually a guy in a white Boys and Girl’s Club polo called on a phone and a man came up with a golf cart. The cart man wheeled around to help the gentleman on the canes. I watched Good Samaritans grabbed the front of baby strollers to assist several mothers and a father. I saw audience members descend the stairs to aid physically exhausted elderly men and women, who were measuring their steps to ascend the stairs. One lady I ran down to help pulled her arm away. “I can help myself thank you, ” she was feisty but physically unstable. I retreated. Another man who had seen her too, came down behind me and she allowed him to help her up the last landing. “Thank you sweetie”, I heard her smile and say to him, as she turned around and sneared at me. He and I bodily shrugged at the same time and simultaneously shook our heads . Another form of Free Speech, I thought.
If the planners were concerned about healthcare wouldn’t they have had a plan for this situation I thought. But maybe that was the ultimate message “everybody for themselves”, because they have pulled themselves up by their boot straps why worry about anyone else? No one ever considers that someone made those boots. We can’t get there by ourselves, it takes all of us to make a village and I was taught this years before Hillary Clinton ever wrote the book! (to be continued)
I have been listening to supremely obtuse political pundits talk about the President squandering political capital regarding the Olympic bid. This is absurd because the Republicans have tried, at every turn to condemn President Obama in whatsoever he does. The old adage, “Damned if you do; damned if you don’t” is the position that the Republicans have attempted to hold the Administration in. Just how much political capital will the Republicans retain when the season of the “loon” has passed, and a viable candidate for the GOP appears on the scene in a bid for the Presidency in 2012?
People often forget, either due to distractions, blinding cynicism or a lack of education, how unique this country really is. The United States of America is a nation forged and grounded in a rich tradition of protest and persistent refusal to accept the status quo. In many ways this tradition has been in hibernation--recent decades will never be known as the years of particularly impressive citizen participation in government and policy. Indeed, the American people have become increasingly apathetic and stupid, but I believe that the spirit has remained alive--in fact, I predict that the drive to change our most negative aspects of society is building momentum; isn't it obvious?Take the town halls on health care, for instance. Though CNN, FOX and MSNBC only cover the crazies, there is some remarkable dialogue going on--and not just by the supporters of health care. When it comes to the Public Option, there is a genuine philosophical debate to be had. Remember that the whole point of the American Revolution was to establish independence from an abusive and invasive government that taxed excessively and unfairly. We have come a long way since then, and have perhaps gone full-circle in many ways. I share many Libertarian concerns of the expansion of the U.S. government, excessive spending and the limitations placed upon civil liberties; not to mention our often tyrannical foreign policies. Indeed, the United States became the very empire its citizens died to defeat. People think I'm a big gov liberal, but the fact of the matter is that the federal government IS WAY TOO BIG! The War on Drugs is a fiscal and societal disaster, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are squandering our treasure. The IRS ought to be torn down and replaced with a simpler tax code, and the Patriot Act ought to make every single American extremely wary of what leaders know about our personal lives. Not to mention the militarization of government that has seeped into the media and saturated our culture. So when people say to me: "I just don't believe the federal government should expand! It's already too massive" I agree! The problem is that in this modern world, there are modern problems that require state intervention. Spying on Americans is not one of these exceptions. Drug abuse isn't either. Nor is Saddam Hussein or Ho Chi Minh! But to the people who believe the Public Option is some kind of government takeover and the onset of communism: should we not fight to end the excessive federal policies that actually hurtpeople? The War on Drugs fuels a culture of crime in the inner-cities. At least a million Iraqi citizens are dead because of the current conflict--not to mention the 4,339 dead American soldiers. But now you oppose a public health plan? A plan that will help your fellow citizens get the care they need? A report by the Institute of Medicine suggests that as many as 22,000 American citizens die annually due to the lack of an insurance policy--one that either could not be afforded or was cut by employers!And let us not forget that the Public Option is an OPTION! While the true Left wing of this USA would really like a single-payer system, it is simply not going to happen with this legislation. Big Insurance is the most powerful lobby in Washington, and certainly has great influence on the bill--in other words, the argument that people will be forced to take the government plan is bullshit. The truth of the matter is that most people will keep their private plans; plans, by the way, made more consumer-friendly due to other reforms that will be in the final legislation (including the preexisting condition issue and the ability to choose your own doctors).Though this is an expansion of government services, I want to tell you how the Public Plan is actually more economical and sustainable than the current system. You see, being private enterprise, Big Insurance seeks to charge as much as possible while providing as little as possible. I have no problem with capitalism (I am a Capitalist), but this is the reality of the basic operations of a firm. While this is perfectly acceptable in most sectors, health care is an entirely different beast. Since 2000, insurance premiums have nearly doubled! In 2007, the U.S. spent about $2.2 trillion on health care,* which comes out to approximately 16.2% of GDP--nearly twice the amount of the rest of the developed world! ** If you aren't worried yet, then you have read these numbers: by 2025, costs are expected to rise 25%; by 2082, 49% ! *** Oh, and did you realize that every GM vehicle is $1,525 more expensive because of employer-based health care coverage? Insurance is by far GM's biggest expenditure--even more than steel! ****And the numbers go on and on. This is the financial argument, and it is all tied to the Big Insurance practice of driving up costs for higher profit margins, and making up for their clunky and inefficient administrative costs. Medicare costs are skyrocketing because they are subsidizing these inflating premiums, and this must be replaced. The Public Option must establish a much simpler and transparent system that injects competition into this stale and unsustainable market. It is fiscally sensical and it is moral.But just any Public Option will not do. Next week I will tackle the question of "what must a Public Option look like in order to drive competition and cut costs?"Absorb it, discuss it, and hopefully support it. Leave your comments below.*Office of the Actuary, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, National Health Expenditure Data for 2007. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, available at: http://www.cms. hhs.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/02_NationalHealthAccountsHistorical.asp#TopOfPage**Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. OECD Health Data 2008.***P.R. Orszag, Growth in Health Care Costs: Statement Before the Committee on the Budget, United States Senate, (Washington, DC: Congressional Budget Office, Jan 31 2008), available at http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=8948****R. Wagoner, Testimony before the House Financial Services Committee, December 5, 2008.http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/05/gm-health-care-reform/my blog: http://www.theskyewire.com
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*Office of the Actuary, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, National Health Expenditure Data for 2007. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, available at: http://www.cms. hhs.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/02_NationalHealthAccountsHistorical.asp#TopOfPage **Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. OECD Health Data 2008. ***P.R. Orszag, Growth in Health Care Costs: Statement Before the Committee on the Budget, United States Senate, (Washington, DC: Congressional Budget Office, Jan 31 2008), available at http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=8948 ****R. Wagoner, Testimony before the House Financial Services Committee, December 5, 2008. http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/05/gm-health-care-reform/
The President’s address, September 9, 2009 on the Health Care Reform laid out the components to clarify the doubts and confusions surrounding the bill. Despite the vehement opposition from some quarters in their loyalty to the sponsors, the ‘Special Interests’ representing the Health Insurance and the Health Care industry, the President reached out to them to be his ally rather than the adversary.
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Second of all, surely we all agree that this is a positive message and one that our students desperately need to hear. Is anyone suggesting our kids should not do well in school or that they should drop out?
I think his critics need to get a grip on themselves quickly because it is now becoming a question of either intelligence or hatred. At this point, it is hard to tell if they are ignorant when it comes to the facts or if their hatred has simply blinded them to the truth. It has been said that ignorance is bliss but that is not the case. Ignorance is simply ignorance. Bliss requires knowledge of and appreciation for your circumstances thereby ruling out ignorance. FYI, ignorance is not a good look.
According to a news article, the President’s critics seem to have a problem with the questions on the study guide that has been provided to assist in a discussion session to follow his speech. Questions such as “What do you think the President is trying to say to you?” Where is the offense? If the President is the one who gave the speech, isn't it legitimate to ask, “What is the President trying to say”? This is simply getting ridiculous. Instead of making intelligent points, they are grasping at straws and making themselves look less than intelligent. Much less.
Our country is falling behind other countries and our children need encouragement from every quarter and President Obama’s critics want to play politics! You know what? President Obama is not perfect. If he makes a mistake, he should be called on it but this petty straw grasping does not reflect well on his critics at all.
I do, however, have to give our President credit for his incredible ability to stay above the mess. I hope in a similar situation I could react the same but as agitated as I feel now on the sidelines, I don’t think I would handle it as brilliantly as he does.
I should not continue to be surprised at the low level tactics of his critics, yet I am. I am disappointed as well. See, having been born post slavery, it has always baffled my mind that this great country I live in could have such a period of shame in its history. Yet, as each day passes and the hatred becomes more blatant, my mind becomes less baffled.
A speech on the importance of education is now a BAD thing? The President is being criticized for sending out questions to get students thinking about the speech he just made? Not comments, mind you, but questions? So, the students should listen to his speech and then what? Not discuss, not think about it ever again? Not question the message they just heard? I think it is a sign of strength that President Obama didn't just expect to give a speech and have students mindlessly swallow it whole. Instead he chose to spark discussion with the students about the value of education and the wisdom of staying in school. He chose to get them thinking and talking.
Show me the downside! It’s wrong? Really?
I’ll tell you what’s wrong. What's wrong is that it is 2009 and this conversation is historic in that it has never been done quite this way.
When graduation rates dropped, this should have been done!
When the achievement gap widened, this should have been done!
When other countries began to surpass us, this should have been done!
If you want to point fingers, let’s at least point them in the right direction!
I am more than ready for people to stop politicking, roll up their sleeves and get to work! Let’s get to the hard work of getting us back on track! Our situation is entirely too serious for us to still be playing politics! Let’s get to the hard work of getting our kids to see the value of education, what it means for their future and for the future of our country.
It’s time for some people to wake up! Instead of worrying about us drinking the Kool-Aid, I sincerely wish they would start smelling the coffee!!
Having listened to news reports about the Tea Party Express, this group of people who use such a patrioctic reference for their name are nothing more than closet bigots because of President Obama's racial heritage. This is the true driving force behind this movement. Nobody wants to be labeled a bigot—one who discriminates against others for no valid reason—because there are legal implications. So they hide behind false fronts.
From the moment that Medicare became a very popular government-run program and accepted by Americans, the Tea Party Expresss argument of government intervention and government-run health care is debunked. Quite frankly, in my opinion, this group of white hypocrits is the shame of the nation that knows nothing about this country, and has very sketchy notions of American Revolutionary History.
I hope my president will eat this group alive. I hope he will unmask this group for the frauds they truly are. The American people deserve to know. No matter what President Obama does, this group will ridicule him. The Tea Party Express needs to be put in its place of dishonor for the bigoted frauds they truly are..
What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility -- a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character than giving our all to a difficult task.
Folks, If you have not noticed....NO President has ever worked this hard for our country. Many wonder, does he ever sleep??
Please let us form a powerful prayer chain around our President and his family and ask God to secure it with love, protection, mercy and grace.
Please join in this prayer...Lord,We pray for optimum health, mental clarity and politicalprosperity for President Barack Obama. We pray thatwhat he may lack in political 'experience' you make up forwith supernatural wisdom and power.We pray that any and all enemies that may come upon him will stumble and fall. We pray mightily for his and his family's protection. We reverentlyask you to dispatch legions of angels to protect them fromall hurt, harm and danger . We pray that Your love will fill President Barack Obama's heart to the end that "Your will" will be done through him.
We thank you and praise you for answering our sincere prayer.AMENAll you are asked to do is keep this circulatingif you are so inclined.
May God bless and keep you...
Ever since the health care debate started, the main objective among the visible opponents has been to fictionalize the various contents of the bill. The health care bill principles – costs, quality and affordability extensively discussed per blogpost ‘Health Care Reform’ July 11, 2009 on this website.
Several testimonials by citizens from all walks of life through various mediums confirmed the urgency for health care reform. The partisan politics continues to disparage the millions of people deprived of proper health care during the public discourse.
A sensitive national matter turned into a controversial subject by the special interests’ agents. The health care bill described as voluminous, inadequate and far-fetched in reference to the government plan or public option. On the other hand, the noise amazingly disappeared with the White House statement on the possible elimination of the government plan from the competition.
Hence, the overview of the health care funding and the actual role of government plan in the health care legislation vital for true perspective.
How is the government health care funded?
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Health Care reform without public option is maintaining the status quo.
All those Americans who consider themselves in the human category, with deep love and compassion for themselves and their loved ones must rise against the ‘opposition’ tidal wave and stop this shenanigan now.
This will be just the beginning for the special interests and the political opponents to reign in on the national progress and achieve their dubious plan to continue with the profiteering racket at the expense of all those they consider weak and vulnerable.
America cannot give up on this unique opportunity to do what is right for the millions of people anxiously hoping for their release from the shackles of the Insurance and health care industry that has always prioritized profits over the health of the people.
It’s time to challenge the Health Insurance, Health care industry and their paid agents as this battle has taken an ugly turn for the worst outcome only allowing the partisan politics and demagoguery to prevail against national progress.
More details on the way with questions directed at the mighty industry and their political representatives responsible for the unacceptable showdown in every town hall meeting that simply reflects the anti-American cause smothered in ignorance and recalcitrant behavior.
Please stand by for further presentation shortly.
Thank you for your patience.
After some 25 years of an acknowledged health care crisis Americans find themselves partnered with an administration committed to fixing or at the very least attempting to fix the health care system in the US. Yet even before the healing begins, fractions of those same Americans, duped by health industry tactics, assume the role of clown in a special-interest-created circus designed to disrupt & stall the very reform they seek.
An obscene strategy to be sure, one sacrificing dignity & pitting ordinary Americans against their own self-interests, but also one calling attention to the power & deceit of industry ringmasters determined to maintain the status quo & the protection of their own self-interests… even at the expense of the health & well-being of the American people.
The health care industry has successfully turned what should be a human issue into a political purpose benefiting their own agenda, & in the process making it abundantly clear, their interests lie not with you or your family but rather their own interests, a move leaving the American people behind in favor of profits.
Yet despite what you may believe or may have been led to believe the power is yours to decide… The Obama administration has effectively reinstated the notion of government by & for the people.
Health care is in crisis, but for industry insiders it is a crisis of conscience.
Come on America, you see thru this… don’t you?
.NYT article LINK
The New York Times reported today that the White House is quietly conceding that they are losing control of the Health Care Reform debate. So......in response......? A march? Rapid Fire TV ads? Formal debates moderated by NPR, PBS, ABC, NBC? Nope....a website.........That's it....a website..
The WH released a myth busters website.......What Obama should do is concede he needs a little help from his friends.....Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Howard Dean, Mike Bloomberg, Warren Buffet and other Business Leaders and even the Kennedys to get the word out and deal with the fires.
It is time for those that hate, not only healthcare reform, but also democracy and freedom, to stop inciting riots by spreading lies. The most despicable lie about the new health care bill regards a simple provision that a physician can be reimbursed if a patient wants to have a discussion about how they wish to be cared for if they become extremely ill.
That discussion could be that the patient wants to remain hooked to a machine that keeps them alive indefinitely, or the decision could be that the patient wishes to be unhooked from such a machine if they are brain dead, or the decision could be that the patients wants their spouse, parent or child to make such a decision. The common denominator is that this is a patient decision. The provision in the bill simply allows physicians to be reimbursed when they listen to patient’s decisions.
It’s a compassionate clause. It allows for us to have a conversation with our physician, as we do with our attorneys when we create our will. Lawyers get paid for making wills. This bill simply says that physicians will get paid for helping us during such difficult times. It’s about reimbursement, nothing more.
But horrific organizers against health care reform are causing people to wrongly believe that the bill somehow states that the government will kill you, that the government will mandate euthanasia. That is so preposterous that had I in advance seen that the strategies of these protestors would rely on such a nonsensical plan, I would have not even been concerned that such a far-fetched idea could have a chance of working, that anyone would ever believe such nonsense, such a distorted reversal of the actual facts. But incredibly, fear is a great lever. People actually believe that in the bill, there are provisions allowing the government to kill citizens through health care. And this lie is gaining traction, a lot of traction. The lie is working.
It’s time for intelligent people to say enough.
Enough fear mongering.
Enough distortion.
Enough bringing up Hitler and comparing that horrific individual to our President.
Enough.
President Obama, it’s time to make a significant speech about fear mongering, about the psychology of the lynch mob and why as a decent society we should abhor such insidious tactics. We cannot sit idly by and watch our society devolve into such horrors as we have seen in the past when lynch mobs, rather then the rule of law, governed our land.
President Obama, please bring your eloquence to the table of hatred and help stop this madness.
