"I’m in this race not just to hold an office, but to gather with you to transform a nation."
Barack Obama February 10, 2007 Presidential announcement.

"The welfare of the people, in particular, has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience."
Albert Camus

By what constitutional allowance does the the United States federal government propose to tell every US citizen that they must buy an insurance policy or be fined thousands of dollars? And yet our President arrogantly lectures us about our moral obligation to support his economy destroying health insurance plan. He is proposing to set up a Federal system that operates without a constitutionally enumerated authority. If our federal government is not bound by the constitution, then by what will they be bound? Our congressional leaders are amazed by and fail to understand the vehement anger that has been exhibited at the town hall meetings. They refuse to recognize a realistic fear among us "common folk", that if the legislature is not bound by the constitution, then they have no bounds. If they are not submitted to the rule of constitutional law they are de facto tyrants. The president wants us to trust his goodwill and compassion. Compassionate tyranny is no less tyranny. If Washington does not willingly submit to the boundaries of our constitution then it seems we, the electorate, must hold them accountable.

James Madison explained in Federalist No. 45, "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce. … The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties and properties of the people; and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State."

Roger Pilon of the Cato Institute stated well the problem for our current administration and congress. "The people and the states no longer trust Washington . . . because Washington has assumed a vast array of regulatory and redistributive powers that were never its to assume--not, that is, if we take the Constitution seriously." We the people must use all legal and moral means to remove from office any senator or representative that supports the expansion of a bloated and fetid federal government.

The nagging problem with our President's ill defined push for "change" is that his vision seems totally seperate by the conventions of our country's founding. The begged question then is; "By what does he set the boundaries of his governance?" He has repeatedly stated that he wishes to "fundamentally" change our government. What form of government does he wish to "fundamentally" change to? He is dodgy when discussing his programs. His design feels like trapping water with cheese cloth. Why can we not know what rule informs his, and his supporters in congress, decision making? Our safety from the tyranny of our government is in the commitment to the rule of law. The law that arrests Federal Tyranny is the constitution of the United states.

President Obama recently lectured a talk show host who pressured the President to admit that the current overhaul of healthcare is effectively a tax on the middle class. The President lectured about the "responsibility" of a good citizen to buy health insurance. His plan is to compel us to spend our money how he demands. We are on the fast track to a tyranny of a "compassionate" federal government. By compelling us to spend our money based on his designs, he continues to erode the liberties that allow us to exercise our own liberty. This path to tyranny is not new, we have been sprinting down this lane since Candidate George W Bush popularized the term "compassionate conservative". (Read a thought provoking clip by Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during President Reagan’s first term, at http://vdare.com/roberts/compassion.htm ) The Republican opposition is not different from President Obama and his Democrat machine. That is why we, the people of the States in America, must remove from office any politician who does not advocate the shrinking and constitutional limiting of the federal government. Certainly vote them out, but also spend your money, time and energy is electing representatives who will arrest Washington's financial tyranny.

In the interest of keeping you informed, here are some quotes from sitting politicians and former politicians. I think you should be aware and talk about these with everyone you know.


"I cannot undertake to lay my finger
on that article of the Constitution
which granted a right to Congress of expending,
on the objects of benevolence,
the money of their constituents."

: James Madison
(1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President. Spoken in 1792, in disapproval of Congress appropriating $15,000 to assist some French refugees

"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
We must make our election between economy and liberty
or profusion and servitude.
If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and
in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and
our amusements, for our calling and our creeds...
[we will] have no time to think,
no means of calling our miss-managers to account
but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves
to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers...
And this is the tendency of all human governments.
A departure from principle in one instance
becomes a precedent for [another ]...
till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery...
And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt.
Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression."

Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
Source: Letter to Samuel Kercheval, Monticello, July 12, 1816



"The welfare of the people in particular has always been
the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage
of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience."

Quote by: Albert Camus


"I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody."

President Barack Obama, speaking as someone who has the power to spread the weath via mandate.


"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen."

Barack Obama

"I’m in this race not just to hold an office, but to gather with you to transform a nation."

President Barack obama February 10, 2007 Presidential announcement.

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Our Hopeful and Change oriented President once again orates passionate demagogic and false comparisons. Recently at a speech in Grand Junction the President resorted to a common tactic - false comparisons.

"Obama Criticizes 'Scare Tactics' of Health Care Reform Critics
Aug 15, 2009 6:35 PM EDT

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- President Obama on Saturday criticized what he termed as the "scare tactics" of opponents to health care reform. He told a town hall meeting "what is truly scary is if we do nothing" to solve the nation's health care problems.
Obama said Americans no longer should be "held hostage by health insurance companies" that deny coverage for various reasons.
And he attempted to deflect some of the sharpest criticism of the health care bill before Congress from those who say it would mean government control over health care system.
"I don't want government bureaucrats meddling in our health care - but the point is I don't want insurance companies' bureaucrats meddling in our health care either," Obama declared, unleashing a cheer from the audience."

It is a false choice to say that rejection of his healthcare plan "...is truly scary is if we do nothing". You should reject Obama Care because it is a a experiment that will result in poorer health and economic destruction. The alternative is not to "... do nothing." It is to have a free market reform that removes both insurance control and government control. We do not have to trade a corporate task master for a government task master. Trust the people to make their own health decisions. Insist that Congress get the govenment out of Health Care. (See my last blog)

The second false choice in President Obama's speech is that to stop the "...insurance company bureaucrats meddling..." your only choice is to give that that over to a federal government regulator. A real alternative is to take control from the insurance companies and give control back to the patient.

Please save our health care system by rejecting false alternatives and insisting on real reform. Call your representative now. Ask them to stop Obama Care and help with real reform.

Most importantly PLEASE do not stop until we have a meaningful reform that will not destroy our ecomony.

I am encouraged that many of us in the United States are Hopeful that we will Change our health care system, in order to improve it. The current system proposed by the Obama administration and the Congress is the polar opposite direction that we need to go. We should all work hard (calling and writing our representatives) to defeat this disastrous experimental take over of health care and our economic system. Once defeated we should push for real, helpful change. We have the best medical care in the world. We have an overly expensive system. We have a system that is becoming less and less responsive to the patient each passing day. Lets all agree to use the current debate to help improve and fix the current problems. Now a peaceful picture and my suggestions are below the picture.




Here are the general principles to improving access, service and cost control.

1) You can not have both inexpensive and unlimited quantity of resources. You have to either limit the access to resources or pay increased amount. We need an honest and open public discussion of this principle. The current administration fabricates an unrealistic fairy tale when they insist that they can lower cost and still provide unlimited access for all your health needs. Only self deceptive wishful thinking allows you to believe that. If the administration is not a lying to us, they are it is unbelievably naive. I am not sure which is more dangerous, when they are talking about a take over of 20% of our economy.

2) To improve care and cost, the consumer (the patient) must have final and ultimate control their medical care . They must also have financial responsibility for that care. The free market works to improve quality and reduce cost when the educated consumer makes the decisions about how to spend their own money.

3) To decrease cost, there needs to be meaningful tort reform (change the laws that make suing less likely and less costly). Every physician considers whether or not they will be sued when making recommendations to patients. It is a sad but true fact. When a Professional injures a patient due to negligence, they should suffer a suit and lose that suit. When a patient has an adverse outcome, through fault of the disease or through fault of their own decisions, the physician should not have to pay. Currently the system too often results in a physician losing, simply because something bad happened. We need meaningful reform to cap awards and to better decide negligence. When a patient has a bad outcome due to their own choice or due to the process of a disease, the physician should not be held liable. In order for the free market to work, the patient needs to accept responsibility for their own choice. In order for the medical care to maintain quality, the professional must be held accountable for their negligence not the patients decision or the outcome of disease.

Here are more specific recommendations. We should have medical insurance for catastrophic illness or injury only. That means an expansion of the high deductible health insurance program already in place. We should do away with managed care. Managed care takes the choice away from the patient. The insurers should not be allowed to contract for prices or services. Physicians and Other health care providers should be required to publish costs, like restaurants advertise their menu. Consumers (patients) should be free to shop around and choose where to have medical care. Insurance should not have “networks” of providers where costs are fixed by the insurance and coverage is either “allowed” or “denied”. Medical providers should compete for patients by providing a better cost or a better service, like other business. Real competition in the free market results in lower cost and improved service. Let patients decide whom they wish to see and for how much. Some of us choose to go to McDonald's because its quick and inexpensive. Others of us choose to only eat at PF Changs, because environment, taste or service are more important. When its our dollar we pay, we make better choices.

For those who can not afford even McDonald's (ie too poor for any any medical care), I would use tax credits or rebates to offset medical costs, based on income guidelines. I would also dismantle Medicare and Medicaid. The government can provide vouchers for medical insurance purchase by the consumer, who are currently on Medicare and Medicaid. The government could also provide savings accounts to be spent on medical care within the Deductible. This would be a new savings account for persons currently on Medicare or Medicaid. Any money not spent on medical care could be carried over into the next year. If an individual saves more than their deductible, that money can be used for education or other life expenses.

All of this would have to be offset with tort reform. Without reform of the legal systems and rampant lawsuits, none of the above free market will work. Physicians and patients can not make healthy decisions without rational litigation. We should make losing lawyers and litigants pay court cost and damages for suits that are not won. There should even be allowance for counter suit for frivolous lawsuits. The lawyer would then be held accountable to not bring large harassment type lawsuits, because there would be a penalty. There also needs to be a cap on “emotional” or “punitive” damage awards for lawsuits. Damages awarded in lawsuits should be limited to actual financial loss. Perhaps if the court wishes that punitive damages be awarded the lawyers should not be able to benefit from those awards or those awards should go to charity or research. (I have not thought that one out yet.).

If we let the free market work, we can still have great quality health care. We can still maintain our safety net for senior citizens and the poor. We can hold physicians more accountable for the service and care that they provide. We can keep from further government and corporate interference in our health decisions. My suggestion is that we all work hard to defeat the current Obama planned health care initiative. Then take the momentum and lets get some meaningful reform that will not kill our economy.