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What’s the Problem, Republicans? 0 (0)

What’s the Problem, Republicans?- “Turn it around. Repeal ObamaCare now…”

by Bill Lockwood

According to The Washington Post, Republicans have voted a total of 54 times to repeal, revoke, or tweak the ObamaCare (Affordable Care Act) law during President Obama’s tenure in office. Voters continually heard the whining from Republicans that they, at first, did not have enough votes to repeal it completely. Then we gave them both houses of Congress. Whimpering from Republicans took on a new form: “President Obama will just veto our bills.” Now Republicans have both houses of Congress as well as the Oval Office. But, according to multiple media reports, a plan by Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) will simply “repair” it. This is deception.

According to Ken Cuccinelli, the president of Senate Conservatives Action, the plan written by the House includes advanceable, refundable tax credits to buy insurance—a costly new entitlement. More empowering of the IRS to write checks to people who pay no taxes is not what the Trump Revolution is about!

Ryan’s plan also includes retaining portions of ObamaCare, including Medicaid expansion. Growth of government. Senator Majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), another leading Neo-Con, is poised to accuse the opposition to RyanCare of “blocking repeal”, when in point of fact they are betraying the American Voter.

This reminds me of what President Reagan used to lament: government programs are the nearest thing to eternal life found on this planet. Especially is this the case when Republicans have not the backbone, will, fortitude, or desire to roll back government expansion that citizens might enjoy God-given liberty.

Former Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), who now heads the Heritage Foundation, says it just right: “We must and we can repeal ObamaCare now… They should send that same bill to President Trump right now.” I suggest that conservatives take the position of the much criticized Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). She said, “Let’s pass it [ObamaCare] to find out what’s in it.” Turn it around. REPEAL ObamaCare now—then we will worry about what are the effects and what to do about them tomorrow.

Democrats complain that up to 18 million insured will lose their coverage. This argument illustrates that the Democrats are always playing fast-pitch hardball and the Republicans are playing slow-pitch softball. What did Obama “care” that millions would lose their current coverage; pay higher premiums; pay huge deductibles; have inferior plans; be forced to purchase coverages that they did not need; be forced into poorer care?

Costs of coverage under ObamaCare in Arizona have sky-rocketed over 100%. In Oklahoma it is the same as well as numerous other states. Jonathan Gruber, the chief architect of ObamaCare, admitted that they had to LIE to the American people in order to get it passed, which Obama was nimble enough with a compliant media to do. Democrats knew full-well that all of this turmoil would ensue after cramming through mandated medicine. They were simply elated to push us into a more socialized state.

If Republicans cannot get as excited to return to a more limited government by negating the most unpopular expansion of government since the time of FDR—Repeal ObamaCare Now—they will ensure that Donald Trump will be a one-term president.

Tom Deweese: The Solution to Healthcare Reform 0 (0)

The Solution to Healthcare Reform – Let the insurance companies create policies to fit the market’s needs.”

by Tom DeWeese

As the Republicans in Congress struggle to present a workable replacement to Obamacare, the solution is staring them in the face. It’s called free enterprise.

The only reason we need massive insurance programs today is because of government meddling in healthcare. It started with Medicare in which government dictated percentages it would pay for services. Insurance companies followed suit. Therefore, forcing doctors and hospitals to raise prices to make more money from those established percentages. To prove that fact, simply go to a hospital as an uninsured patient and observe how much they deduct from your final bill. Insurance would have had to pay the higher price.

Then, with the intrusion of government came the inevitable paperwork. Lots of it. Today, under the Affordable Care Act doctors and hospitals need full time staffs just to fill out the paperwork. That costs money. Eliminate it.

Now there are rules and regulations on who must be treated and what procedures must be used. Of course, like all things government, these rules and regulations haven’t been written by doctors, but by bureaucrats serving various special interests who stand to gain financially. Eliminate them.

Read 
Tom DeWeese’s book, “Erase: A Political Thriller”

What’s the solution? It’s simple. Get government completely out of the healthcare industry where they don’t belong. Don’t try to write whole new policies. Let the insurance companies create policies to fit the market’s needs. Let them advertise for customers. Let them fight it out among themselves in the market place and let the customers choose which company has the policy that fits their needs.

Repeal Obamacare with no government replacement and watch how fast and creatively these insurance companies rush to the solution, just like every industry, including car insurance.

Oh, but wait. You can’t do that, say the liberals with great compassion. We have these poor who can’t afford to pay for insurance. Well, there is a solution and it’s full of compassion. In the America of the past we had a great legacy of charity. Americans are a generous people. We used to have community funds, service clubs and churches dedicated to helping the less fortunate. What happened to them?

Nearly everyone has been replaced by a government program. Instead of people helping voluntarily according to their ability and interest, they have been ruthlessly and unrelentingly taxed to the point of suffocation. As a result, they have stopped giving to charities which subsequently have disappeared.

Yet, there is still a fantastic example of human generosity, concern and caring that exists today, even in the socialist world of control. Organizations like St. Jude Children Center and the Shriners Hospital collect money from private donations and provide services free to families in need. Imagine how such programs would soar and fulfill the needs of every American if we were all simply allowed to make our own choices with our own money.

Congress, just repeal Obamacare and let the free market work for everyone. Now, let’s get on with draining the rest of the swamp!

Read Tom Deweese’s Biography

The Abject Hypocrisy of the Left 5 (1)

The Abject Hypocrisy of the Left-“Through the past decades, liberalism shamed conservatives to give it a place at the table. ”

by Bill Lockwood

Liberalism is a dangerous cancerous disease that erodes one’s common-sense. It brags on inclusion; but lacks inclusion for conservative values. It boasts “multi-cultural” standards, but despises the American limited government under God standard enshrined in our Constitution. Liberals major in ferreting out “hate speech” from schools while they are exploding with hateful rhetoric against Trump across the country. Liberals have replaced traditional education with “anti-bullying” education while their leading mayors like Rahm Emanuel or Bill De Blasio are trumpeting lawless bullying tactics before our eyes on television.

As we knew all along, anti-bullying, hate speech, “ inclusion” standards  and a hundred other progressive mantras have been nothing more than slates by which to further the liberal agenda. That agenda is to move us away from liberty into socialism. Through the past decades, liberalism shamed conservatives to give it a place at the table. Now there is only one item on the menu—liberal unconstitutional immoral nonsense.

Then came the election of Donald Trump. Honest Americans who were being edged out of their cherished God-given freedoms have been overjoyed. Tired of seeing our nation forcibly taken from them by soft-shell Republican and Democrat-controlled Illegal Immigration, Americans heard Trump promise to enforce our immigration laws.

Sickened by the erosion of our national sovereignty via international “trade” agreements, Trump recognized that America’s economy should work for Americans first. Laboring under increasing tax burdens which siphons off hard-earned wealth, citizens long for the tax relief upon which Trump campaigned. Irritated by Marxist and socialistic indoctrination taught via Common Core, Americans across the nation heard Trump promise to “give back” education to the parents. Government, per Barack Obama, does not know best how to train our children.

Frightened more by socialized medicine than supposed Global Warming, liberty lovers have been anticipating a Donald Trump to repeal ObamaCare and push government off of the backs of producers and job-creators. People are weary of being lied to about The Environment so that more socialized control can be levied. War-weary Americans who have been puzzled as to why our tax dollars should be utilized to police the world have felt fresh air when Trump resolves to put an end to endless military commitments.

Thoughtful Americans are worn-out being lectured by liberal intelligentsia that Islam is a “religion of peace” while they watch the followers of Mohammed explode with violence throughout the Middle East and Europe while quoting the Koran. Tired of being slammed for suggesting a vetting process for Muslims entering the country, conservatives are relieved that at least one man, Donald Trump, seems to understand that Islam is not a religion of peace.

Energy producing states which have been hammered by Obama’s regulatory crush are seeing some light with president-elect Trump. Allowing people to labor without demonizing the Coal Industry, for example, is a welcome boon to our livelihood.

Reaching Across the Aisle? With Trump’s victory, we hear Democrats chattering about “reaching across the aisle.” There is that inclusion talk again. The message: Trump will only be successful if he includes Democrat-socialists in his plans. Where was that inclusion speech during the ObamaCare debates? What impertinence! What abject unabashed hypocrisy! Reach across the aisle to the party that gave us socialistic nightmares and continues at this moment to threaten even our freedom of speech?

For more hypocrisy, consider that we are told Hillary won “popular” election (no, she did not gain more than 50% of popular vote). Therefore, Trump’s presidency is “illegitimate.” What do Democrats care about the majority? ObamaCare (socialized medicine) always has had more than 50% disapproval rating. Yet, Obama pompously informed America that “elections have consequences” and it was full steam ahead as they crammed it down our throats. Obama is going to have to take his own “medicine” though we may have to hold his nose for him to swallow it!

Today, liberals are threatening disruption of the entire country if ObamaCare is repealed. Where is your “anti-bullying” campaign now, Barack Obama? Where was the anti-bullying exemplified from the liberal ignorant actors of “Hamilton” who blind-sided a “captive” audience about the dangers of Trump?

Trump is “not my president!” screams The Marxist Left. When Obama was elected it was the left which was incensed that conservatives simply did not “celebrate” his inauguration. I was one of those that did not rejoice. I did not march or threaten, but as most of my fellow Constitutionalists, I simply mourned and prayed. No marches. No riots. No threats. No weeping episodes on U-Tube. Just a deep lament that America was thumbing its nose at the conservative values that made America great.

For my non-celebratory attitude I was harangued continually by Democrats who walk in the darkness. They were “offended” that Constitutionalists showed alarm that a Marxist-trained community-organizer began occupying the White House. They were absolutely indignant that we did not celebrate. It must have been because I was “racist” they said. Where are you Democrats now?

Brandon V. Dixon, the ‘Hamilton’ star who lectured Mike Pence and America and who declares he has “nothing to apologize for” must have been motivated by racism against a white president. Is that what we are to conclude? When conservatives rightly recognized the Marxist label that describes Barack Obama, liberals lectured that “He is your president!” They wanted absolutely no examination of Obama’s credentials or lack thereof. Now that Trump is president-elect, it is open season on mocking and openly challenging what is the anticipated agenda. Where is that “He is your president!” talk now?

The Whoopi Goldberg’s of the world have lost their right to be heard. The hypocrisy is disgusting. By the way, wasn’t she to leave the country? 

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