Posted on 03/20/2010 1:41:05 PM PDT by Bob Eimiller
This massively unpopular Health Care Monstrosity is being slammed through Congress for one reason... and the reason is not compassion for the poor. This bloodless "attack" is the major offensive in an obvious ideological war to force the American people into irreversable socialism.
The will of the people be damned. The Obama Doctrine is as Barack Obama has stated during his presidential campaign... to transform America. We are witnessing the overthrow of our political system and the destruction of our 234 year way of life.
Our country has fought numerous wars to protect our liberty. Virtual "rivers" of blood have been shed for over two centuries by American Patriots willing to sacrifice their lives for our freedom. The Memorial Day holiday was instituted specifically to honor those who made the supreme sacrifice for our protection... Future Memorial Days will ring hollow after Sunday if this odious bill is jammed through and shoved down our throats.
I truly believe America is again at war and the Democrat Party is the enemy. A democratic republic means specifically that the will of the people is paramount. Totalitarianism deems a central and all powerful federal government dictates to the people.
I believe Sunday is the tipping point. Are we going to be free? Or are we going to do what may be necessary. Patrick Henry said it best... Read your history books... the few that are left and haven't been rewritten.
how come in these formulations it's always us who do the dying?
I cried for my country today.
This administration has violated first amendment rights by withholding water from a district as punishment for electing a republican.
This congress is attempting to push through a bill that they have not read and from which they have exempted themselves.
That in itself tells the story that it’s not about the bill itself but it’s passage.
We’re on the brink, and my country is dying. The blood of our fathers can not be allowed to be rendered a waste by these people who offer mealy mouthed service to our constitution as an abstract, but disrespect the reality of it and those who have defended it.
This is little more than a modern day Morrill Tariff, (in effect), with the specific intent to leave our constitution in rags.
Pray is something we do every day if you're a Christian... DO is something we MUST consider unless we consider ourselves sheep.
The Progressive Promise
Fairness For All
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The Congressional Progressive Caucus offers the Progressive Promise for all. We believe in government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Our fairness plan is rooted in our core principles. It also embodies national priorities that are consistent with the values, needs, and hopes of all our people, not just the powerful and the privileged. We pledge our unwavering commitment to these legislative priorities and we will not rest until they become law.
1. Fighting for Economic Justice and Security in the U.S. and Global Economies
» To uphold the right to universal access to affordable, high quality healthcare for all.
» To preserve guaranteed Social Security benefits for all Americans, protect private pensions, and require corporate accountability.
» To invest in America and create new jobs in the U.S. by building more affordable housing, re-building America’s schools and physical infrastructure, cleaning up our environment, and improving homeland security.
» To export more American products and not more American jobs and demand fair trade.
» To reaffirm freedom of association and enforce the right to organize.
» To ensure working families can live above the poverty line and with dignity by raising and indexing the minimum wage.
2. Protecting and Preserving Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
» To sunset expiring provisions of the Patriot Act and bring remaining provisions into line with the U. S. Constitution.
» To protect the personal privacy of all Americans from unbridled police powers and unchecked government intrusion.
» To extend the Voting Rights Act and reform our electoral processes.
» To fight corporate consolidation of the media and ensure opportunity for all voices to be heard.
» To ensure enforcement of all legal rights in the workplace.
» To eliminate all forms of discrimination based upon color, race, religion, gender, creed, disability, or sexual orientation.
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» To honor and help our overburdened international public servants – both military and civilian.
» To bring U. S. troops home from Iraq as soon as possible.
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» To free ourselves and our economy from dependence upon imported oil and shift to growing reliance upon renewable energy supplies and technologies, thus creating at least three million new jobs, cleansing our environment, and enhancing our nation’s security.
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» To change incentives in federal tax, procurement, and appropriation policies to:
(A) Speed commercialization of solar, biomass, and wind power generation, while encouraging state and local policy innovation to link clean energy and job creation;
(B) Convert domestic assembly lines to manufacture highly efficient vehicles, enhance global competitiveness of U.S. auto industry, and expand consumer choice;
(C) Increase investment in construction of “green buildings” and more energy-efficient homes and workplaces;
(D) Link higher energy efficiency standards in appliances to consumer and manufacturing incentives that increase demand for new durable goods and increase investment in U.S. factories;
» To eliminate environmental threat posed by global warming and ensuring that America does our part to advance an effective global problem-solving approach.
» To expand energy-efficient transportation choices by increasing investment in synthesized networks, including bicycle, local bus and rail transit, regional high-speed rail and magnetic levitation rail projects.
» To preserve prudent public interest regulations that encourage sustainable growth and investment, ensure energy diversity and system reliability, protect workers and the environment, reward consumer conservation, and support an expanding marketplace that rewards the commercialization of energy-efficient technologies.
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Every anti-individual collectivist/statist has declared war on Americans. Witness them. Identify them.
Some should be allowed to resign and go back to their families.
Others...
Excellent... Thanks
I think a lot of cried for our country today. We’re watching and attempted coup d’etat unfold.
I am working diligently to pay off every debt and learn a new skill set as a back up income so I can go underground if need be
In my current position there is no way to fall the radar
The Republic is dead we just don’t have guts to admit it
SCOTUS too!
Ther’s four on there that have never read the constitution or at least don’t know how to apply it.
Tis America today!
Tommorow will probably get a lot louder.
It is not socialism to force people to purchase a product from a state controlled entity. It’s FASCISM.
I wish commentators would get the term correct.
Socialism is government controlling a program paid into by every citizen to ‘level the playing field.’ THIS monstrosity is the government taking over an industry by regulation and then forcing it’s citizens to support it corporately. THAT is fascism.
If the republic is dead, then states have to break away if there is a hope for liberty to remain.
This could be the demise of the “human experiment”.
You say the Republic is dead... I say the spirit will never die... unless we let it.
They don’t have George Bush to kick around. We are the next target.
WE have 7 months to EDUCATE the American Public about what is going on in this country.
7 months till the next election where we must vote the Rats out of office and neutralize them.
The world is watching. Never forget.
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Refuse to pay taxes like Geitner. Go cash so they can’t touch your accounts. I’m thinking of going recluse. Buy a small cabin in PA and drop out of the system until the marxist tide blows over.
Splitting hairs... Socialism comes first.. then Fascism. What has happened in the last year? Socialism, redistribution... Fascism is on the horizon. The remedy and the tenor of my statement is to stop it BEFORE it become Fascism.
Why.... Let others dig you out of your self imposed exile?
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