The Army Is Ready; Where Are The Generals?

While taking my daily walk listening to Rush Limbaugh I found myself wanting to cheer on a caller who was extraordinary in her ability to express the outrage everyday ordinary Americans are feeling towards the dunderheads in Congress. As a mother of seven she articulated with great passion her desire to get our country back in order to save it for her kids. As a father myself, I understand exactly how she feels. She was almost begging for direction, searching for the appropriate steps to take to be heard.

Somewhere in the conversation between Rush and this caller the point was made that there is an army of like minded people ready and willing to take the fight to those who would tear down this Republic, who would shred the Constitution to gain power, we just need leaders in the Republican party to get a hint and stand up and join in the outrage. How blind must the Republican leadership in Congress be to simply overlook the opportunity at hand?

Just yesterday I watched coverage of the Senate committee vote on a public option to health care and was amazed at how politically correct and measured every utterance is from Republicans concerning this debate. When will Republican leadership stand up and say what needs to be said? Charles Grassley rebuked the public option amendment by saying something to effect that it was a path to government take over of health care. Really? What a shock.

When will Republican leadership in Congress stand up and ask their Democratic counterparts these very simple questions:

1. At what point did the Democratic majority determine the American People should trade Capitalism for Socialism.
2. At what point did the Democrati majority determine the American people should trade away our individual liberties guaranteed by the Constitution for some Marxist, Fascist collectivism.
3. At what point did the Democratic majority determine the American People should trade away our common sense for some far left belief that a government run institution of any type not reliant on profits to flourish, rather subsidies from tax payers will bring competition and "fairness: to the health care industry much less any other industry. I mean, do they really think we are stupid? Will some Republican leader please stand up and ask that one simple question?
   

Beyond these questions, when will Republicans insist on free market remedies to health care costs? When will Republicans insist taxes be lowered, when will Republicans insist that all bills are read before being voted on, when will Republicans insist all bills pass muster with the Constitution before being voted on, and when will Republicans in Congress stand as one with the majority of the American People and say NO MORE!

Special Treatment Must Go!

Here is a perfect example of why we need the Fair Tax and how politicians use their power over your tax dollars to reward one group of tax payers at the expense of another. This specific example has to do with the Health Care Bill. Wake Up People! Personally, I don't care if the politician is Democrat, Republican, Or Independent; using the tax code or earmarks to curry favor is the basis of all CORRUPTION in our government today that must stop! Check out this article by of all news papers the New York Times.

Whomever the Politicians are, no matter the party, if they take part in these type of actions, their constituents must take the appropriate action and vote new blood into office.

You don't have to wait for the next election to take action. Contact your Congressman and Senators today about the Fair Tax. If they are not currently a co-sponsor of the Fair Tax, ask them why. Is it because they want to keep their power over you and your tax dollars, or are they just ignorant when it comes to the Fair Tax and the positive impact it will have on our economy, or both?

The Fair Tax: A Bold Idea For Bold Times

Republicans that value and demonstrate conservative ideals stand before a huge opportunity to gain control of Congress in 2010. All they have to do is get back to their conservative roots, challenge the status-quo, and support reform targeted to end corruption in Washington D.C.

I know that is a tall order, but one that is more than past due. The more the American people are exposed to ACORN, the SEIU, the Apollo Alliance, Health Care Reform, Cap and Trade, the unsustainable spending going on in our Capitol, how they may all be tied together, the corruption, and potential corruption within each, the more their eyes are opened. What better time than now to support a bold idea that will cut the heart from the rot that infests Washington today. The Fair Tax is such a Bold Idea.

I felt this would be a good place to insert a quote on corruption by by Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, or Benjamin Franklin, but then I came across The following quote by John F. Kennedy:

"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both".

How prophetic is that? So there you go, a fair and balanced approach through using the quote of a Democrat. But back to the point; ending corruption, or at least cutting off the life blood that feeds corruption. First, one has to ask what feeds corruption in Washington? Power? Money? Both? My answer would be Power over Money.

Today our government has the power to tax one individual at the expense of another or to relieve the tax burden of one group at the expense of another. Our government should not possess such power over the people. Is it not the responsibility of government to treat all citizens the same? How is it that the government can wield such power? I would suggest that it is through the Federal Tax Code. The Federal Income Tax Code gives our government power over the people it should not possess.

I am not advocating that the people of our country pay no taxes, only that we all pay our fair share through the Fair Tax. I hear talk all the time of a Flat Tax, but that simply will not do. The Tax Reform Act of 1986 was in essence an attempt to consolidate some 15 levels of tax into 4, or a Flat-er Tax. However, the Tax Reform Act of 1986 has been amended literally thousands of times. Why you might ask? Because special interest groups influence politicians to reward their groups through the Tax Code. Not all of these changes are malicious, but they can all lead to corruption. It is a simple fact that each and every one enable politicians to curry favor through the expense of tax payers like you and I.

A Flat Tax keeps politicians in charge of the tax code and therefore your income. The Fair Tax puts people in charge by eliminating special interest groups influence on politicians and politicians ability to change the tax code.

I have written about the Fair Tax many times, so check out what I've already written. I encourage everyone to go to www.fairtax.org read about the Fair Tax and educate yourself on how the Fair Tax works. Simply said, through eliminating the 16th amendment, the Fair Tax does away with all Federal income withholding taxes. (Social Security Withholding, Medicare, And Federal Withholding). For individuals and Corporations alike and replaces those taxes with a 23% national sales tax on all new products.

Four Things I Learned From MR. Obama's Health Care Oration.

Let's see, I didn't take notes and I'm sure that I blacked out at some point during anointed one's speech, but I do recall a few points.

1. Mr. Obama believes that one of the reasons health insurance premiums are so high is because of excessive overhead and PROFITS generated by those insidious insurance companies. What is Mr. Obama's fix for that? Well by gosh, they should compete with a government run NOT FOR PROFIT health insurance provider. You betcha, that will teach those evil insurance companies how to be efficient. Give me a break.
   
2. Mr. Obama believes in competition. He said so. He points out that in far too many states there are too few insurance companies to provide real competition. He believes the way to fix that is to install a a single government run health insurance provider to allow choice. But Mr. Obama is not for allowing the American people to buy health insurance across state lines! No way sir, he will not do that because it would instill real competition to bring down costs without increasing the reach of the Federal Government. Give Me a Break.
   
3. Mr. Obama believes the Federal Government which means you and I, your wife, your brothers and sisters, uncles, aunts, kids, and grand-kids can pay for insuring some 30 million people through eliminating waste in medicare and medicade. He actually believes that this can be done without increasing the debt. What? How? Like instilling the efficiency of the Post Office, or Am Track, or GM, or Chrysler, or Freddie and Fannie into his new health care take over government agency? Give me a break.
   
4. Mr. Obama really believes that WE THE PEOPLE are stupid. Well I have news for Mr. Obama; Stupid resides on the other side of the teleprompter.
   

Health Care Taker Over, Or Health Care Reform?

Personally I would prefer reform of our current system to allow true competition between both insurance companies and doctors. In other words let's put the free market to work along with tort reform to bring down costs for health care and health care insurance. We do not need to allow the big finger of government to impact the cost of health care anymore than it does today.

Because of current Government intervention we should all ask ourselves along with our Senators and Congressmen these simple questions:

1. Why is it that I can only buy insurance from companies operating in the state I live in?
2. Why don't doctors post their basic costs for basic services like a physical exam, or blood test, or to sew up a cut that requires 10 stitches or so?
   
3. Why can't one have a health savings account that grows like an IRA for medical needs in later years of life in addition to regular insurance if one so chooses?

These are thee very simple questions, but questions that must be answered. Do you really think that insurance companies choose not to sell their products outside the states they operate in, or do you believe there must be some federal or state regulation that keeps them from doing so? Have you ever looked at your insurance summary after a doctor visit where the doctor may charge $200.00 for a procedure but the insurance company only covered $105.00 plus your co-pay and wondered what that procedure is really worth? Do you believe that because insurance companies operate only in the states they are based in that they can dictate what they pay doctors? Do you believe that if we operated a true free market system with health care providers that they would not advertise or promote costs for basic straight forward procedures?

In most every case here, some form of government regulation has impeded the free market system and the rule of unintended (well, perhaps they are unintended) consequences comes into play. We do not need more government intervention, we need less!

All this talk of a single payer system is quite frankly; Stupid. In my opinion, anyone that thinks a single payer (the government public option) will bring down costs by forcing private companies to abide by the same rules and the government option is either naive, completely uneducated in economics, a fascist, or all of the above.

Let me ask this simple question: Has anyone out there ever made a choice to shop at Wal Mart before Wal Mart became a convenience? Probably so, and probably because they offered lower prices than their competitors. Pretty good reason. What if Wal Mart was never allowed to operate beyond the state lines of Arkansas, would they ever have had the same impact on the marketplace as today? Or think about this.; if Wal Mart had no competitors, in other words, there was only one option for your shopping pleasure; would their prices be as low as they are today? Would they respond to any of your product requests? Would their check out service be worse or better than it is today? Do you think they would worry about keeping the shelves stocked, or the floors clean?

What about suppliers? Would there be any incentive to come up with as many new items if they could sell to only one distribution channel and that channel could dictate how much they would pay? Would there be an incentive to improve on the items produced today? What if the only option available to sell goods to could dictate what the profit structure of the supplier should be? What would that picture look like? Well, if you have not figure it out, I will tell you. It would look just like our health care system with a government take over.

Look, Wal Mart has achieved what it has because of our free market system; more power to them. But consumers can also thank our free market system for our shopping OPTIONS. We can still choose to shop at Whole Foods, Publix, Harris Teeter, Kroger, or any number of other supermarkets because we do have a choice, we have OPTIONS. And its because of our Free Market System that we have those choices, not in spite of it. Not only that, our free market system keeps each of those competitors on their toes!

We do not need a government take over of our health care. We need government to allow the free market to work in our heath care industry just like it does in retail or any other segment of our economy.

Communicate With Your Elected Officials NOW!

Thank Goodness for Conservative Talk Show hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glen Beck, and Neil Boortz among others. One has to wonder what has happened to our country when those that are the most articulate in defining conservative values are not our elected officials, but Radio and Television Talk Show Hosts.

Even with their voices shouting in unison as to what lay in wait if Mr. Obama were to be elected as President of our United States; the majority of the electorate chose not to listen to the warnings. Now we find ourselves in the fight of our lives to preserve and protect a way of life that our Founding Fathers fought for and thought they had guaranteed through the Constitution of The United States. We the people must make our voices heard, we must stand against tyranny and any move to turn our country into a Socialist State.

Over the last few weeks, Glen Beck has exposed Van Jones, Mr. Obama's Green Jobs adviser, as an avowed Communist, and Mr. William Lloyd, Mr. Obama's Chief Diversity Officer for the FCC as a sympathizer to Chavez and his takeover of privately held radio stations. These are people that advise the President. What does that say about Mr. Obama's intentions? Beyond that, why is it only talk show hosts like Glen Beck and Sean Hannity exposing these people for what and who they are? Where is the rest of the press? Where are your elected officials? Why aren't they speaking out?

You will find below communications that I recently sent to Senator's Shelby and Sessions, and Congressman Bachus, plus an email I just sent to the Minority Leader of the House asking him to take action with regard to Mr. Jones, and Mr. Lloyd. I urge you to do the same.

Letter to my Senators and Congressman:

Sir, I would like to bring to your attention if you are not already aware of two of President Obama’s Radical Advisers/Czars and then, ask what your office plans to do to expose these individuals for what they are.

First:

Mark Lloyd, Mr. Obama’s Chief Diversity Officer for the FCC. I actually saw a video of this person praising Caesar Chavez’s take over of the private radio industry in Venezuela! I then heard his plan to utilize localism, diversity, and some crazy scheme to tax private companies 100% of their operating costs and fork those taxes over to the FCC to support Public radio. If you are not aware of this individual and his radical agenda, you should do what you need to educate yourself and make a public statement as to what you plan to do to expose the impact such a person may have on our freedom of speech.

Second: Van Jones, Mr. Obama’s Green Jobs Advisor. This man is a self expressed radical Communist internal government community organizer. What is this man doing advising the President of The United States?

I urge you to do find out for yourself the radical nature of these two individuals and make public your plans to expose these people for who they are. I would think the people of Alabama, should expect no less. I would think that after your office does its job, there should be public questions to the President as to if he agrees with the views of his advisers, and if not why he appointed them.

Finally I would ask that your response to my inquiry be specific and not the typical political non answer. This Country needs our representatives in congress to start standing up and protecting our Constitutional rights!

Here is the letter just recently sent to Congressman Boehner:

I regularly receive your GOP Leader Alerts and they are great. However; along with the threats to our way of life that the Democrats proposed government takeover of our health care would impose are the political views of key Obama advisers like Van Jones, MR. Obama's Green Jobs Adviser, and William Lloyd, The Chief Diversity Officer for the FCC. Mr Jones is an avowed Communist and regularly voices his views, while Mr. Lloyd praises the Chavez takeover of private radio in Venezuela. I've written both of my Senators, Sessions and Shelby, along with my Congressman Spencer Bachus urging them to take their oath to protect the Constitution seriously and speak up on this matter. I urge you to do the same and protect Conservative Republican Values with the same passion the Progressive, Socialist, Communist, and Marxists in Mr. Obama's administration are pursuing their "change". We the people need you to use you Bully Pulpit to speak up and challenge the direction Mr. Obama and his ilk are trying to take this nation!

It's time we speak up!