Chick Chat: Shunned Religion, America's Youth and the Danger of Our Entitlement

When get a fwd message I usually take a glance at it, have a good laugh if its particularly funny. Read it if its particularly interesting or discard it if its none of the above. I find that it rare to come across a forward that really makes me ponder something. When I received the message below I couldn't stop thinking about it. It is simple, and cheesy but it really made me start to wonder about the repercussions of excluding religion from so much of our society.

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Message:

Dear God:

Why didn't you save the school children at...

Virginia Tech 4/16/07
Amish Country, PA 10/2/06
Columbine High School 4/20/99
El Cajon, California 3/22/01
Santee, California 3/ 5/01
Fort Gibson, Oklahoma 12/6/99
Deming, New Mexico 11/19/99
Conyers, Georgia 5/20/99
Taber, Alberta, Canada 5/28/99
Littleton, Colorado 4/20/99
Richmond, Virginia 6/15/98
Fayetteville, Tennessee 5/19/98
Springfield, Oregon 5/21/98
Edinboro, Pennsylvania 4/24/98
Jonesboro, Arkansas 3/24/98
Stam P, Arkansas 12/15/97
West Paducah, Kentucky 12/1/97
Pearl, Mississippi 10/1/97
Bethel, Alaska 2/19/97
Moses Lake, Washington 2/2/96

Sincerely,
Concerned Student

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Reply:
Dear Concerned Student:

I am not allowed in schools.

Sincerely,

God

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The forward goes on to cite Madeline Murray O'Hare, Dr. Benjamin Spock, the entertainment industry and parental compliance as definte contributers to this lack of religion in schools and moral inadequacies of our youth.

I was fortunate enough to go to Christian school my whole life and had parents that were strict in the sense that I was raised not watching excessively violent, sexually promiscuous movies or similar music. But how much of my generation was raised in such an environment? The answer is not much...and I agree with the assumption that some of that violent, sexually promiscuous drug culture has resulted in atrocious and horrific deaths of Americans.

I am one of the thousands of people in this country that has been directly affected by one of those deaths. When I was a mere freshmen in college I ran in the same circles as a young man who we lost at the Virginia Tech tragedy.

I refuse to believe that this was a single incident (proof we also see in the list above that) by one deranged young man. Would all these young people who commit these crimes have acted in such manners if they had had different influences in life? This we'll never know! But what we do know it that violence in schools has become significantly more prevalent in the past couple decades. After God was banned from our conversations and after children were being raised in these "no-discipline-kum-bay-yah-everything-is-yours" households.

I've mentioned before my generation's sense of entitlement and I think this fits right into the picture. We've always been entitled to watch what we want, listen to what we want, play with what we want. own what we want, and in general get anything and everything we want. Everything from the new version of Halo to "getting rid" of those that bully us in high school.

My generation has a lot to learn...about compassion, about consequences, about love and about hate, about violence, sex, and drugs, and about right and wrong.

Chick Chat: The View Makes Me Question the African-American Community

With all this talk of racism I feel like I"m going to be attacked by at least some one for the things I am about to discuss/say. Yet, I have to admit that I don't care, they are my thoughts on a matter that should be open to discussion. By keeping race, racism in this don't ask, don't tell, lock down, taboo container we are only hurting and perpetuatin the issue.

On YouTube there is a video of Sherri Shepherd on The View discussing the election of Barack Obama. She get's very emotional and starts to talk about her son. Here is the basic idea of what she said...."I sat by my sons bed, and we've always been, people of color, we've always had these limitation on us....to look at my son and say, no limitation on you, its an extraordinary day for me to be able to tell my son..."

What Sherri said, I feel like I've heard the same thing from many others in the African-American community. I totally respect and can appreciate the historic nature of this election but I am just sincerely confused about this whole situation. I had a few questions come to mind...

Why is it that so much of this "we can do anything now" attitude is just now coming to light in the Africa American community?
Why is this election the "turning point" for black advancement?
Why hasn't the black community been able to rally this "success IS possible regardless of color" attitude before?

I just don't understand why the African American community wasn't able to do these thing before. To me it seems like they have held onto these prejudices as almost a safety blanket and perpetuated that to each generation, instead of trying to eradicate this "woe is me" attitude.

I'm Hispanic, there had obviously never been a Hispanic president, but I still feel that I can accomplish anything. When I was going to college in Pennsylvania, at a predominantly Anglo school, I didn't find myself ever thinking, "Oh, I don't think I'll do this because I'm different from them." I never look at things and say, oh I'm a different color or ethnicity and people will look/judge/accept me differently so I'm not going to do it.

I'm sincerely curious and confused about this continuous self perpetuated glass ceiling. I do understand that there is a degree of difficulty for the black community that doesn't exist for others. But in the past 40, almost 50 years of equality, why hasn't one generation stood up and taken that basic idea of "We are not going to be defined by the color of our skin", and added to that, "we are not going to rely on that defiance as an explanation, good or bad, for our status. My failure or success' aren't based on the color of my skin but on me, my work ethic and my persistence."

Is this the generation that will come to that realization?
Did it really take a half white black man getting all the way to the White House to get an entire community to realize that the American Dream is possible?
How many black communities are plagued with teenage pregnancy, single parent households, abuse, poverty, drug and alcohol problems, both selling and using?

There was a point in history where the black man was completley judged on the color of his skin. But is that really the case anymore? When will the African American community see that the girl getting pregnant, the woman raising her child by herself, the man emotionally or physically hurting a woman, the welfare checks instead of paycheck, the buying and selling of illegal substances, is not the "white man" fault anymore...when will they accept responsibility for their community instead of using these things as an crutch??

I am in no way trying to antagonize any group or be labeled a racist in any measure. I'm just trying to understand the logic, reasoning behind this generationally perpetuated glass ceiling.

Around 1:20 Sherri's portion begins:

11 Ways Baucus Plan Is Just New Path to Government Takeover of Health Care

From Jim DeMint's (R-SC) website:

The chairman’s health care proposal (known as the "chairman's mark") that was released by Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) in advance of next week’s Finance Committee Markup is just more of the same big government policies that have been proposed by this Congress and this administration for months. The chairman’s rehashed proposal does nothing to increase Americans’ access to affordable health care coverage. In fact, the Baucus plan includes several devastating provisions that hurt the ability of millions of Americans to keep the coverage they currently have (and like).

Moreover, the combination of tax increases, penalties, new government health care programs, increased fees on private health care entities, and destruction of current health care coverage products will force this nation into the grip of a government-run health care system.

Chairman Baucus’ proposal:

1. Creates FANNIE MED Health Insurance Entities That Will Lead to Government Takeover: This bill uses taxpayer dollars to subsidize cooperative health insurance agreements that will be overseen and regulated by federal bureaucrats and, overtime, could be bailed out by taxpayers. As Majority Leader Reid has said himself, this is simply the “public option” by another name, and is nothing more than a new path to a government takeover of health care. Like the public option, taxpayer-subsidized co-ops will force millions of Americans out of their current plans and into government-regulated care. This nation has seen a similar model in our government-run mortgage market and America has spoken out on this issue: no Fannie Med.
   
   
2. Could DOUBLE Health Insurance Premiums for Millions of Americans: The chairman’s mark will effectively raise premiums for millions of Americans who purchase health insurance in the individual health marketplace. In fact, the Council for Affordable Health Insurance has indicated that the proposed combination of risk adjusted premiums, individual mandates, and guaranteed issue coverage could raise premiums as much as 95 percent in the individual market, impacting millions of Americans who purchase health insurance outside of their employer or as small business owners. This proposal not only destroys the ability of Americans to purchase health insurance they can afford, own and keep, but also violates the President’s campaign promise that every American would be able to “keep their health plan.”
   
   
3. Regulates EVERY Americans’ Health Coverage, by PENALIZING Anyone Without a Government Approved Plan: The chairman’s mark will mandate that every American get health care coverage and, moreover, will define what benefits individuals must get to avoid government penalties on their income (as high as $3,800 per family) -- again, violating the president’s commitment to the American people to not raise taxes on Americans making below $250,000 per year.
   
   
4. Does Little to Improve Competition Across State Lines: This bill does nothing to create a competitive national market in which uninsured Americans can choose from hundreds of health insurance plans in any state in the nation. Rather, the chairman’s mark allows states to build compacts for interstate purchasing -- an idea that does little to eliminate the big insurance industry’s hold on insurance commissioners who for years have blocked consumer-friendly, interstate competition.
   
   
5. Expands a Broken, Bankrupt Entitlement Program: For the past several years, we have heard from states on the impact of Medicaid costs on state budgets. In fact, just this year, the federal government bailed states out in passing billions for Medicaid in the stimulus package to pay off states’ debt. Aside from the daunting fiscal impact on states, such an expansion would be a mistake because Medicaid does not provide high-quality health care. Yet, Sen. Baucus and his Democrat colleagues believe that adding millions more Americans to Medicaid should be considered health care “reform.”
   
   
6. Taxes Health Care Benefits for Millions of Middle-Income Americans: The Baucus plan proposes to further tax health savings accounts and caps the benefits of flexible spending accounts -- impacting nearly 20 million Americans in the coming years. In addition, the Baucus plan proposes to tax comprehensive health insurance benefits that are valued at more than $8000 for the individual or $21,000 for families. Such a proposal will impact thousands of working Americans -- again, violating the president’s promise to not tax individuals making less than $250,000 per year.
   
   
7. Increases Taxes on Small Businesses: The chairman’s mark places an annual penalty (per employee) if health coverage is not offered by an employer. Such a provision could deteriorate the employer market over time -- forcing individuals into a government run health care program -- as many employers might see the penalty as an opportunity to drop employees’ health care coverage since such a penalty is less than the average cost of employer-provided health benefits.
   
   
8. Creates a New Government ‘Institute’ Similar to Bureaucracies in Other Nations Used to RATION Care: The chairman’s mark creates a new institute for comparative effectiveness research that could, ultimately, contribute to the denial of coverage for certain health care services. The chairman’s mark is careful in clarifying that, “prohibited from denying coverage based solely on a study conducted by the Institute,” however, it is never made clear that such denials could be made in consideration of the Institute’s research and conclusions. A similar bureaucracy in the United Kingdom has been used to ration health care.
   
   
9. Contains NO Tort Reform, Protecting Trial Lawyers While Costing Patients Hundreds of Billions Each Year: The chairman‘s mark expresses the “Sense of the Senate” that health care reform “presents an opportunity” to address medical malpractice reform -- however, the proposal does nothing to truly curb the devastating impact defensive medicine has had on our nation’s health care system. Independent analysts have estimated that defensive medicine used as a result of frivolous lawsuits adds more than $200 billion in unnecessary expenses to the cost of health care each year.
   
   
10. Negatively Impacts Seniors’ Ability to Access Medicare Advantage Programs: The Baucus plan makes adjustments to how Medicare Advantage plans are paid -- consequently impacting the current Medicare Advantage market and potentially shifting beneficiaries from their current plans. Again, this is a violation of the president’s campaign promise to not impact Americans’ current coverage.
    
    
11. Creates New Government Bureaucracy to Oversee Medicare Reimbursements: The Baucus plan would establish a politically-appointed Medicare Commission that would develop and submit proposals to Congress that “would reduce Medicare spending.” While the chairman’s mark does make an attempt to limit the commission’s autonomy, it is important to note that the commission will act very much like a “Super MedPac” and will ultimately have the ability to impact provider reimbursements and appropriate category of services approved under Medicare.

A Cuban-American's History Lesson for Diane Watson:

Castro must have given Watson some Materva (aka Cuban Kool-Aid) because she has a terribly distorted view of Cuban history. The beginning of this audio has Watson talking about our "philosophical leader" Rush and how people are trying sabotage the first president we've had "that looks like me [Waston]". Then she goes on to talk about what a brilliant leader Fidel Castro is! (1 min, 49 sec) Contrary to Watson's comment, Fidel did have plenty of blood on his hands before and after he took control of Cuba. She has no idea about the real history of Cuba...after the video, I'll go ahead and give you some juicy information.

On a personal note, both my parent's were born in Cuba. All my grandparent were active aware citizens during the Cuban Revolution and their lives were greatly affected by the communist dictator, Fidel Castro. Here is the way that the Cuban Revolution went down according to the things that I know, learned and heard around the dining room table.

Batista (who served 1 term as president of Cuba in the 1940's) was in office when Fidel took over. In 1952 Batista staged a military coup and took over the government 2 months before the democratic election took place. Under Batista's rule Cuba started to delve into gambling and prostitution, but there were still most of the freedoms we have here in the U.S. today. Fidel would come to 'liberated Cuba' from an unelected leader, but who was going to think that the liberator would be a cruel, paranoid communist.

Fidel, a young lawyer from a wealthy family, led an attack on some barracks near Santiago de Cuba in 1953. It failed miserably and Castro ended up going to jail for only 3 of his 15 year sentence. In 1956 he was released and went into exile in Mexico, which is where Ernesto 'Che' Guevara came into the picture. Now Che is not the hero that so many make him out to be. He doesn't deserve to be on any t-shirt or poster because he is not a man to be idealized. He was a Marxist revolutionary, but he was also a rapist, murder, a thief. A common thug elevated to a God-like status among idealistic youths.

While in Mexico, Fidel organized the Movimiento 26, de Julio (26th of July Movement) where a group of men sailed over to Cuba to overthrow Batista. (Sidenote: I found out later in life that July 26th was my original due date and my grandfather told my mom to hold her legs together if she went into labor that day, fortunately I was late) Not surprisingly, most of the men were killed. Yet Che, Fidel and a dozen or so men escaped to Sierra Maestra mountains where they hid out for years, collecting disenfranchised men into an eager militia. For the next two years, Fidel was idolized by many Cubans. Many people believed in his cause because he claimed to want to restore Cuba to the old democracy.Many people were hopeful that Fidel would bring about the change they needed. Sound familiar??

Another sidenote, specifically my maternal grandfather was not blinded by Fidel's "change". He was very vocal about his disapproval of "la revolucion" and beyond being very vocal , he wrote a lot of commentaries that would later lead him to have to be flagged by the new regime. Eventually my grandparents had to sneak out of the country to avoid being torn apart by Fidel's purging of 'anti-revolutionary' minds. They didn't have internet in 1959, but does any of this sound remotely familiar?

Fidel and Che's guerrilla warfare grew exponentially in everything from attacks on Batista's men to advances like Radio Rebelde, a revolutionary radio station where Fidel first gave his addresses' to the people of Cuba. Fidel's had fewer men than the Cuban army but they were better trained and knew their surroundings, the mountains, remarkably well.

On December 31, 1958 the city of Santa Clara was captured by Fidel's men. Batista panicked and fled the country. I can hear my grandmother's voice now, "el primero de enero de ano 59, Fidel entro a la capital, y todavia no se ha ido." Fidel marched into Havana and seized power, sans oppositions on July 1, 1959. He was received like a Messiah. In reality he didn't arrive until the 8th but whose counting.

Since he didn't come right out and say that he was a communist, even appointing another man President for a while, most people were hopeful that Fidel would be the change they needed. But all too soon, Fidel took over and started to make changes pretty quickly.

Within just a couple years, life in Cuba had drastically changed. Here are some of the main changes he made to restrict freedom and competition: (I'm saying change a lot--I feel like Barry O!)

• Purged (aka killed) political opponents from the administration
• Groups such as labor unions were made illegal.
• Within the year all opposition newspapers had been closed down and all radio and television stations were in state control.
• Private Companies were confiscated
• Teachers and professors were purged.
• The Communist Party strengthened its one-party rule, with Castro as the supreme leader.
• Moderates were arrested.
• Neighborhood watch systems known as committees for the defense of the revolution (CDR) were created so on every block there was at least one resident that would "report fishy activity"...hmmmm
• The Communist party remains the only recognized political party in Cuba.
  
• Other parties, though not illegal, are unable to campaign or conduct any activities on the island that could be deemed counter-revolutionary.

No wonder there have been so many exodus' from Cuba! Things have only become worse over the years, including lack of parental choice when it comes to raising their own children. Around the age of 15 children are taken away to work in the sugar cane fields where many rapes and young pregnancies occur. Most recently the country has run out of toilet paper and won't be receiving another shipment until next year. Banana leaves?

Is this the kind of place that should be idolized? Would you want to visit a doctor in one of those hospitals?

In the early 1990's I had a great-aunt go to the doctor (in Cuba) and he found a lump in her breast. Do you think she got a mammogram? Nope! The only machine in Havana was broken. So without knowing if it was cancer or not, they doctor performed a mastectomy.

Now, she was already a little older, but the same things happen to women of all ages during that time. Can you imagine being in that situation? No ability to know if you have cancer or not. As a woman I can't imagine going through all the emotional and hormonal changes, still not knowing if they got all the cancer. Not knowing if I should still worry. You loose such a big part of yourself, but you loose a lot more than flesh.

My whole life I've heard about the atrocities of Cuban life not only from my family and friends but from my nail lady, from the hair dresser, from the doctor, the lawyer, the mayor. Cuba is such a little island compared to the United States and yet there are so many Cubans that live here. Do you think that is by chance?

The early Cubans that came over were the middle and upper classes. The ones that foresaw the pitfalls of communism, the ones that would not benefit from this new government 'handouts'. The intellectuals, the doctors the lawyers, they wouldn't be able to live their lives in Cuba anymore. Don't think those lawyers, engineers and doctors became lawyers engineers and doctors in the United States. They became truck drivers, janitors, construction and factory workers.

But I can say with great pride and total confidence that Cuban's have made more of the American dream than any other Hispanic group up to this date. First-, Second-Generation Cubans are now members of the same professions and economic status' of their fathers and grandfathers. Just look at me, I'm a first generation American and I have graduated college and am going to law school. I have aunts and cousins who have PhD. Friends who own their own successful companies.

To make my point, as many Communist countries do, Cuba has gone indoctrinating its citizens and so as generation after generation arrives here they are perpetually more lazy and more dependent upon the government. They expect the government to give them everything they need because that is all they've ever known. Sound a little familiar? But that is not the true Cuban mentality, it is a mentality that has been warped by 50 years of communism.

At the very core of a Cuban's heart is pride, in themselves, in their work and their country. Us Cuban-Americans are fiercely prideful of where we come from, but we are just as proud of where we are. The country that adopted the refugees, the saddened, the demoralized and gave them the opportunity to be intellectuals and professionals again. Gave them the opportunity to educate and improve thier lives tenfold.

Yet here we are standing next to so many other Americans' facing a time in our adopted countries history where people are hoping for change. Sound familiar? I know that so many of us worry that we the people have chosen the wrong kind of change. Sound familiar? Beware. I plead with Americans, don't let your desire for change lead you down a path to a place you no longer recognize.

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For a great look at what the Cuban Revolution looked like from inside,
check out a film by the name of The Lost City with Cuban-born actor Andy Garcia

Chick Chat: A Message to My Generation

The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr

Today I was with a friend of mine who is around my age. I asked her if she was going to the protest tomorrow and she told me that she would think about it if she knew what there was to protest about.

She used all the same excuses I've heard from the majority of young people I meet. I don't really care about politics. It doesn't interest or affect me that much if I'm informed or not. Well I have a message for you fellow Generation Y.

Wake up!

Wake up and take a look around you.

Stop saying it doesn't interest you.
Stop saying it doesn't affect you.

One day, not too far away, you will be very interested when it starts affecting you.

You will be interested the day you finally get to climb the corporate ladder, only to realize you are paying the majority to the government. The day you realize that you have no options about what you are paying for and who you are supporting with that money. You will be interested when you have to ration the things that you've never imagined going without. And no, I'm not talking about health care.

You will be interested when you get married and realize that the holy sacrament you've entered into is another way for the IRS to get a hefty contribution. You will be interested when you start a family some 5, 10, 15 years down the line and realize those precious little loved ones will still be paying your father debts when they have children.

You will be interested if, God forbid, some day you have a child born with a problem and they are denied the help you so desire for them. You will care when someone labels them a second class citizen.

You will be interested the day that you're children go to school and come back believing that our country isn't fundamentally good or founded on Judeo-Christian principles. You will care when they think that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry were evil corrupt men. You will take notice when a bad decision in your child's life can't be resolved because they've never had to take on personal responsibility.

You will care when your parents start to deteriorate and aren't provided with the care, comfort or compassion that they need and deserve.

You will care when you are no longer invincible to sickness, sadness, consequences...

Three things have happened at this point.

You have stopped reading because you are completely apathetic to what I am talking about, in which case there is no hope for you. You have read this and think that I am completely insane, in which case there is hope for you, perhaps just in the future. Or you have read this and think that there might be something to this waking up thing, in which case there is hope... for our country and for you.

Some of the things I have talked about are already happening. Some of them are very close to becoming a reality and others are not that unbelievable if you look at the direction that we are heading as a country. I have to tell you again fellow Generation Y.

Wake Up!

You can't afford to be apathetic.

Maybe if I say it again you will listen.

You're life can't afford for you to be apathetic.

Stop excusing yourself from the conversation that is going on around you because you can't take a moment from the keggers, martinis or club mixes. Stop listening to pop media and believing that they are giving you facts.

Jon Stewart is not news.

Perez Hilton is not news.

Wake up!

You can't afford to be apathetic, but you also can't afford to be ignorant. You can't afford to be ignorant to the truth, especially now. You can't afford to be idealistic or politically correct. You can't afford to think with the the crowd.

George MacDonald once said,
"The two pillars of 'political correctness' are: a) willful ignorance b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth."

Face the truth Gen Y and become informed. We cannot afford to be a politically correct, idealistic generation any more.

Every generation fights the "man". Every generation has waves of idealistic thinking that infiltrate the ranks. Every generation has those that fight for the individual causes and beliefs, "advancement" for supposed "political correctness". While others simply accept the issues they are given and bathe in apathy.

If we were smart, the really advanced generation we would realize that every generation eventually becomes the "man". Willful ignorance and apathy are consent. We will have to live with the consequences of the "advancements" that we are in the midst of making. Inevitably, apathetic generation upon apathetic generation forms a very different America. An America we will not recognize nor control.

We are fighting against our future.

The future of our aging parents. The future of our brothers, sisters our friends.
The future of our children.

We can't afford to fight against ourselves; we must wake up from our idealistic trance and fight for ourselves.

Fox Flashback: Aug 11th (Glenn)

The Glenn Beck show

"Question with Boldness"

First on the show today Glenn made it perfectly clear that no on believes eugenics are coming with the Health Care Reform.

Video: History of Eugenics

• Not a new idea
• American and British Socialist and Progressives first started the movement
• These people thought that through prohibition and birth control they could cure the ills of modern society, such as poor public hygiene, rising pop in lower class and urban crowding
• In 1907, Indiana passed the first sterilization law
• In the next 30 yrs 29 other states followed suit, including Canada and Europe
  
• The leader of the new Liberalism movement, Herbert Croly wrote The Promise of American Life where he said "Interfere on behalf of the fittest"
• Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson; popular thought
• 1912 Wilson created a board of examiners for feeble minded, epileptics and other defectives, where the state could decide "where procreation was inadvisable like for criminals, poor kids and the ill defined and other defectives"
  
• Charles van Hise, Roosevelt's adviser, "He who thinks not of himself primarily, but of his race, and of its future, is the new patriot."
• Roosevelt endorsed The Passing of the Great Race by Madison Grant, a book Hitler later refereed to as his Bible.
• The year that Hitler joined the Nazi party, 1920m they had rounded up hundreds of thousands of disabled, elderly and mentally ill and exterminated them as "useless bread gobblers" or "life unworthy of life"
• In America, the Buck vs Bell case of 1927 Progressive Lawyers stood on a vaccination law in order to keep Carry Buck from reproducing. We know know she was retarded. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough."
  
• Seven years later Hilter wrote to the President of the American Eugenics Society to ask for a copy of his famous "Case for Sterilization" which called for full sterilization of some 10 million Americans.
• During that year, Nazi's sterilized some 50,000 "unfit" Germans. Which caused an American geneticist to complain, "The Germans are beating us at our own game."

If you can find this next part of the program (I will attempt to later) I recommend it because Glenn admits to the public that he has a daughter with cerebral palsy who wasn't expected to walk/talk yet eventually went to college. He gets very emotional because of a poster that reminded him of her.

It is a poster from Hitler Germany showing a mentally ill man. It says paraphrased, "its going to cost 60,000 marks to keep this man alive, hes a sweet guy and everything but his quality of life, its a shame, your time is up."

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• Summary of what President said about death panels 'rumors': its a rumor, the intention of members of congress was to give people more information about end of life care, not forcing anyone to do anything
• Glenn makes it clear that he DOES NOT think Obamacare wants to unplug grandmothers but......What happened in Germany was that they couldn't afford to health care for all.
  
• "You see they devalued the marc, our dollar, so much...the government just started to print money. Does that sound familiar? This action forced Germany into an economic collapse"
  

Questions to ask yourself:

Is it possible for our economy to go into an emergency situation?
Could it collapse with the they way we are printing at will and spending?
Is it possible that our debt is so high that we can't pay it back?
Or we have to make hard decisions and ration health care?

The answer everyone will tell you is.... yes!

So *logically* the question you must ask is...

If we have a crisis, what will our President do?

In order to understand what would happen in a situation of crisi, we must look at the people the president has said he would look to for advise. "Whose voice will the President hear?

• Dr. Ezekial Emmanuel, Health Adviser, he said this in Jan 2009, "When implemented, the complete lives system produces a priority curve on which individual aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most change whereas the youngest and oldest people get changes that are attenuated."
• The Science Czar, John Holdren says, "The fetus, given the opportunity to develop properly before birth, and given the essential early socializing experience and sufficient nourishing food during the crucial early years after birth, will ultimately develop into a human being." He also wrote about putting sterilization in drinking water for population control.
  
• One of the leaders in such thoughts is a friends of the Regulatory Czar, Cass R. Sunstein.
  
• Cass Sunstein is the person who will take that big bill and make the regulations to point us in the right direction.
• One of Sunsteins good friends is Princeton professor Peter Singer, in July 2009, he wrote "Why we must ration health care" He wants to do it now. In the article he wrote "saving the life of one teenager is equivalent to saving the lives of FOURTEEN 85-year-olds."
• In Nov. 1996 Dr. Ezekial Emmanual said, "Conversely, services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed.

What can they be saying behind close doors if they say this to the public??

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Highlights from the Panel Discussion:

Ronald Pestritto: author of Woodrow Wilson Roots of Modern Liberalism
Carter Sneed: associate professor of law, Notre Dame, former general counsel to Bush's Council on Bioethics
John Hoff: former Health and Human Services official in Bush admin

Glenn: What is the connection to what I've been saying?

Sneed: Any system where the government allocates scarce resources to the population based on judgments of whose entitled to receive benfits and more importantly whose not entitled to receive benefits. There are serious questions about possible discrimination and injustices. Those are serious questions to raise and all the proposals floating in the public square raise those questions.

Glenn: I'm not saying these statements are inherently evil, its in the implementation where things go wrong.

According to an article the "complete lives system" basically says that we will value the young more than old. But not the very young because we haven't invested in them much, this isn't discrimination because the 65 yr old was once 25. It is premature to apply it to health care system.

Pestritto: We are talking about health care rationing ...the fact is when your extending benefits to so many you have to talk about reducing cost. It doesn't have to take an emergency, the government will be in charge of allocating scarce resources.

*If I can find a video with this conversation I will because they are saying very interesting things but it is extremely fast!!

• Basically they are talking about Emmanuel's and Singer's history of saying that children are disposable or not really human until they are conscious that there is a tomorrow.
  
• We as a society are now discussing the value of a child's life not before birth but even after birth.
• The bill explicitly says nothing about abortion. The way the law works when there is silence it is considered a medical procedure.
  
• There is nothing really in this bill. It has provision for a Benefits Advisory Committee appointed by President and GAO that will come up with what a benefit is and how to distribute it. (Hoff)
• The end of life conversations is 10 pages of the bill and whats worrysome is it could have been a couple lines. Whats it is is that the government is telling doctors what to the conversation with the patient can be. They have to give legal advice. Dr. gets paid for doing it but secondly the doctor gets judged on quality points on whether or not he has this conversation. (Hoff)

Glenn has a drawing on his chalkboard. Its basically a visual representation of the Obama advisers links to each other and radial thinkers.

He makes a point to say these people are in there own right to believe these things but that they are not mainstream thinkers...since there within that mix they believe in communism, don't believe babies are humans, animals deserve the same right and forced abortion.

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