Let’s talk about money for a minute here. In 1913 your dollar was worth a dollar. You could take it to a bank, and you could get a dollar’s worth of gold for it. Try that today. Try it. Your dollar has now been deflated, devalued, destroyed, and is worth four cents of what it was worth in 1913. This has taken place and is arbitrarily foisted upon the people every year through this thing called “controlled inflation.” “Why, the Fed’s got it,come on, get with it, everybody’s a monetarist these days, right?” Not everybody. The conservative position has always been that there should be sound money. Where are the conservatives other than Congressman Paul that think that there should be sound money these days? Where are the conservatives that want to start stockpiling gold? It’s worth something. Why are the Chinese and the Indians buying $10 billion of gold at a time? Conservatism and sound money have taken another ass-whipping. Chalk that one up for the progressives.
Government, Our Constitution is no longer vibrant. It is no longer applicable. It is a dead letter. The assault on it began in 1915 or 1917, and the assault has never ended, and there has not been a solitary conservative victory since the 1930`s Since the Schechter case, I would argue with you that, although the court may have made the right decisions from time to time, they have done so for reasons that have expanded their power and have expanded the power of other guys in black robes. We have an entire society that was convened in the 1970s, conservatives concede to this, called the Federalist Society. My friend Andy McCarthy’s a member of the Federalist Society. The purpose of the Federalist Society was to reverse this, was to put judges in office here that would stop this.
I’m not sure of the exact creation of the Federalist Society. 38 years later, federal judges are still running amok. We have federal judges deciding whether or not a kid can wear a T-shirt to school in Alaska. We have federal judges deciding whether or not something is edible in a school lunch, for crying out loud. We have federal judges intervening in disputes between neighbors. We have federal judges assuming and claiming they have authority and power over the waterways that crisscross your state right now. Another unmitigated defeat for conservatives. An ass-whipping. An absolute bloody battlefield.
Shall I go on? How about the size of government? Show me the agency that has any, any deference whatsoever to a constitutional edict. Show me an agency that is carrying out an enumerated power. Show it to me. Show me an agency that has absolute deference and respect for the Tenth Amendment and recognizes that the states are the ones that need to be implementing most policies, most laws. Show it to me. We have armies of bureaucrats out there, sent out there, swarms of bureaucrats to harass our people. What is the conservative response? Well, we need to manage them better. The government has grown to a station and to a place in its existence where it is the largest amalgam of government in the history of earth. The communists and Russia didn’t have as many bureaucrats as we have. We are number one in bureaucracy. No nation on earth, no republic on earth has ever amassed the payroll that this monster that we created has amassed. Conservatism, again, is defeated. We don’t win much of anything, do we.
In 1965 a shocking 37 percent of all born African American Negro black children were born out of wedlock. 37 percent. This was a shocking number. Shocking. Today it is 70 percent. 70 percent. You know what happened along the way? 40 percent of other children – white children, Hispanic, you name it – are now born out of wedlock. Conservatism bailed on the popular culture, lost every single solitary culture war and is still losing them today as I speak. You think Ward and June Cleaver would be the number one show on CBS if it were to be refilmed and aired as it was written in 1957? Think again. It wouldn’t last a second. Hell, in the pitch session the guy who pitched it would probably be beaten over the head. They would throw him out like the Three Stooges used to get thrown out on the streets in their comedy shorts. And the list can go on and on and on.
In short, my friends, ladies and gentlemen, you, thinking you were minding your own business, playing by the rules, doing what you thought was right for 97 years, have been part of one of the greatest social injustices and shifts in social ideas and shifts in the form of government the world has ever seen. The once great, free and proud American people are now serfs, just as Hayek predicted. He said in 1938 we are on the road to serfdom. We’re on the superhighway in serfdom now. We’re not on the road to it. We live in it. And yet we wonder whether or not Ms. Pelosi will have the votes on Sunday. She will. And yet we wonder whether or not the IRS will actually hire another 17,000 bureaucrats and send them hither to harass – and send swarms of them hither, as Patrick Henry said, to harass our people. They will. And yet we wonder whether or not our states will be victorious in federal court in trying to nullify ObamaCare. They won’t.
There’s not a federal judge alive that’s going to side with the state of Virginia. Bob McDonnell knows it, Mr. Cuccinelli knows it, and I know it. There’s not a federal judge alive that’s going to side with the state of Idaho. Governor Otter knows it. And if he doesn’t, he’s a fool. And I know it. There’s not a federal judge alive out there that’s going to uphold any of these firearms acts in Tennessee, Wyoming, and Montana. Those governors and those state legislatures know it, and so do I. These are all indicators that our way of life that we so cherish and so love to talk about and so pine away for is over. That little “r” republicanism that our founders and our fathers once enjoyed is a pipedream. And we have been participating in every last one of these defeats. Instead of arguing ObamaCare and PelosiCare on the pure issue of liberty, as Mark Steyn has said – remember?
“How did the healthcare debate decay to the point where we think it entirely natural for the central government to fix a collective figure for what 300 million freeborn citizens ought to be spending on something as basic to individual liberty as their own bodies?” wrote Mark Steyn. “That’s the argument that needs to be won. And if you think I’m being frivolous in positing bureaucratic regulation of doughnuts and vacations, consider that under the all-purpose umbrellas of “health” and “the environment,” governments of supposedly free nations are increasing comfortable straying into areas of diet and leisure. Last year, a British bill attempted to ban Tony the Tiger, longtime pitchman for Frosted Flakes, from children’s TV because of his malign influence on young persons. Why not just ban F.F`s? Or permit it by prescription only? Or make kids stand outside on the sidewalk to eat it?
“It was also proposed – by the Conservative party, alas – that, in the interests of saving the planet, each citizen should be permitted to fly a certain number of miles a year, after which he would be subject to punitive eco-surtaxes. Isn’t restricting freedom of movement kind of, you know, totalitarian? Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks – drink too much, eat too much, buy unaffordable homes, fail to make prudent provision for healthcare, and much else. But the price of being relieved of all those tiresome choices by a benign paternal government is far too high.
“Government healthcare would be wrong even if it “controlled costs.” It’s a liberty issue. I’d rather be free to choose, even if I make the wrong choices.”
Do you hear any member of your precious Republican representation in Congress ever make that passionate, spot-on, far-out, solid, and right-on defense or offense against PelosiCare or ObamaCare? Name him, I challenge you sir or madam.....you cant, do you know why, because they dont believe in liberty or freedom, they believe in power, wealth, control.....dems and repubs alike except for a few.....
Thats why when you hear them start to squak about repealing obamacare, dont believe it, name one time newly elected officials repealed anything, NEVER, WONT HAPPEN....
The dems know that they are going to take a beating in nov, they dont care, this is the end game, they have been striving for this payoff for 60 years...
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10 Facts Every American Should Know About Speaker Pelosi's 1,990-Page Gov't Takeover of Health Care
Washington, Oct 29 -
Members of Congress and the American people are just beginning to look at Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) 1,990-page government takeover of health care, but it’s already becoming clear just how costly and unsustainable this proposal is. From higher taxes on middle-class families to job-killing mandates on small businesses to cuts in Medicare benefits for seniors, here are 10 facts every American should know about Speaker Pelosi’s 1,990-page government takeover of health care:
1. RAISES TAXES ON MIDDLE CLASS FAMILIES. Speaker Pelosi’s health care bill imposes a range of tax increases on families with income below $250,000, breaking a promise made by President Obama. Tax increases on middle class families include: an individual mandate tax of up to 2.5 percent of income for taxpayers earning as little as $9,350; repeal of a tax break on medicine purchased with funds from an HSA (health savings account); limits to tax relief through FSAs (flexible spending accounts); taxes on medical devices that will inevitably be passed on to consumers; and a new tax on all insurance policies.
2. MASSIVE CUTS TO MEDICARE BENEFITS FOR SENIORS. Despite grave warnings from CBO, FactCheck.org, and the independent Lewin Group that cuts to Medicare of the magnitude included in Speaker Pelosi’s bill would have a negative impact on seniors’ benefits and choices, Speaker Pelosi’s health care bill stays the course and cuts Medicare by hundreds of billions of dollars.
3. NO PROTECTIONS FOR SMALL BUSINESSES. Speaker Pelosi’s health care bill claims to exempt small businesses from the steep eight percent ‘pay or play’ employer mandate. The facts tell a different story. Using Census data compiled by the Small Business Administration, this so-called ‘exemption’ hammers small employers with only, on average, 17 or more employees to new taxes and mandates. The outfits affected employ 70 percent of all small business employees, or 42.3 million workers. Adding to the assault on small businesses, the bill does not index the small business “exemption” amounts, meaning more and more small businesses will be ensnared by this job-killing employer mandate each year.
4. INCREASES THE COST OF HEALTH INSURANCE. Imposing a new $2 billion tax on insurance policies will be passed on to patients in the form of higher premiums. Changes to the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit will, according to estimates by CBO, will raise Medicare Part B premiums by $25 billion and Part D premiums by 20 percent. And imposing an unfunded mandate on the states to pay for the bill’s Medicaid expansion will shift the burden of this expansion on state taxpayers who may experience tax increases to cover the cost.
5. USES GIMMICKS TO HIDE BUDGET-BUSTING COST, PILES UP DEBT ON FUTURE GENERATIONS. Speaker Pelosi’s health care bill claims to be deficit neutral, but uses budget gimmickry to hide its massive total cost. Working families across America know they cannot simply decide that a bill they get in the mail doesn’t exist, but that’s exactly what congressional Democrats are doing. In order to meet the President’s ‘target’ spending total of $900 billion, Democrats have simply swept costly provisions under the rug, including the $245 billion ‘doc fix.’
6. IMPOSES JOB-KILLING EMPLOYER MANDATES. Additional taxes on employers and new government mandates that dictate acceptable insurance will place new and crushing burdens on employers. These are burdens that will ultimately fall squarely on the backs of workers in the form of reduced wages, fewer hours or lost employment. CBO agrees that "[e]mployees largely bear the cost of... play-or-pay fees in the form of lower wages." According to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), the nation’s largest small business association, an employer mandate of this magnitude will disproportionately impact small businesses, triggering up to 1.6 million lost jobs. Two-thirds of those jobs would be shed by small businesses.
7. TILTS THE PLAYING FIELD IN FAVOR OF THE GOVERNMENT-RUN INSURANCE COMPANY. Speaker Pelosi’s health care bill promises not to give the government-run plan advantages over private insurers in the market, but the opposite is true. The bill provides billions in start-up funding for the government-run plan, and while it requires the plan to repay the money over time it does not require the plan to pay interest on this “loan.” This interest-free, taxpayer-subsidized loan is potentially worth millions of dollars and tilts the playing field in favor of the government-run plan.
8. THREATENS CASH-STRAPPED STATES WITH UNFUNDED MANDATES. Speaker Pelosi’s health care bill swells the number of Americans on the government rolls by expanding Medicaid eligibility. Medicaid is financed through a federal-state partnership, but the bill dumps nearly ten percent of the mandated expansion included in the bill onto the states. States, already struggling with fiscal constraints, would be left on the hook for billions of dollars due to this unfunded mandate.
9. CREATES A NEW MONSTROSITY IN THE TAX CODE. Starting in 2011, Speaker Pelosi’s health care bill imposes a 5.4 percent tax on adjusted gross income above $500,000 for individuals and $1 million for married couples. Yet, the dollar amounts for which the tax kicks in are not indexed for inflation. We’ve seen this horror film before: the Alternative Minimum Tax, another Frankenstein’s monster of the tax code, also wasn’t indexed for inflation and now affects millions of middle class families with incomes below the Democrat’s surtax.
10. MISSES AN OPPORTUNITY TO CURTAIL JUNK LAWSUITS. Speaker Pelosi’s health care bill misses a critical opportunity to rein in junk lawsuits and costly defensive medicine. The bill includes only a voluntary grant program to deal with the medical liability crisis instead of including real reform, which would produce tens of billions of dollars in savings, improve efficiency in our health care system and reduce costs for patients and providers.
Republicans have offered better solutions to lower health care costs and expand access to quality, affordable coverage at a price our nation can afford. Learn more by visiting:
healthcare.gop.gov
Members of Congress and the American people are just beginning to look at Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) 1,990-page government takeover of health care, but it’s already becoming clear just how costly and unsustainable this proposal is. From higher taxes on middle-class families to job-killing mandates on small businesses to cuts in Medicare benefits for seniors, here are 10 facts every American should know about Speaker Pelosi’s 1,990-page government takeover of health care:
1. RAISES TAXES ON MIDDLE CLASS FAMILIES. Speaker Pelosi’s health care bill imposes a range of tax increases on families with income below $250,000, breaking a promise made by President Obama. Tax increases on middle class families include: an individual mandate tax of up to 2.5 percent of income for taxpayers earning as little as $9,350; repeal of a tax break on medicine purchased with funds from an HSA (health savings account); limits to tax relief through FSAs (flexible spending accounts); taxes on medical devices that will inevitably be passed on to consumers; and a new tax on all insurance policies.
2. MASSIVE CUTS TO MEDICARE BENEFITS FOR SENIORS. Despite grave warnings from CBO, FactCheck.org, and the independent Lewin Group that cuts to Medicare of the magnitude included in Speaker Pelosi’s bill would have a negative impact on seniors’ benefits and choices, Speaker Pelosi’s health care bill stays the course and cuts Medicare by hundreds of billions of dollars.
3. NO PROTECTIONS FOR SMALL BUSINESSES. Speaker Pelosi’s health care bill claims to exempt small businesses from the steep eight percent ‘pay or play’ employer mandate. The facts tell a different story. Using Census data compiled by the Small Business Administration, this so-called ‘exemption’ hammers small employers with only, on average, 17 or more employees to new taxes and mandates. The outfits affected employ 70 percent of all small business employees, or 42.3 million workers. Adding to the assault on small businesses, the bill does not index the small business “exemption” amounts, meaning more and more small businesses will be ensnared by this job-killing employer mandate each year.
4. INCREASES THE COST OF HEALTH INSURANCE. Imposing a new $2 billion tax on insurance policies will be passed on to patients in the form of higher premiums. Changes to the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit will, according to estimates by CBO, will raise Medicare Part B premiums by $25 billion and Part D premiums by 20 percent. And imposing an unfunded mandate on the states to pay for the bill’s Medicaid expansion will shift the burden of this expansion on state taxpayers who may experience tax increases to cover the cost.
5. USES GIMMICKS TO HIDE BUDGET-BUSTING COST, PILES UP DEBT ON FUTURE GENERATIONS. Speaker Pelosi’s health care bill claims to be deficit neutral, but uses budget gimmickry to hide its massive total cost. Working families across America know they cannot simply decide that a bill they get in the mail doesn’t exist, but that’s exactly what congressional Democrats are doing. In order to meet the President’s ‘target’ spending total of $900 billion, Democrats have simply swept costly provisions under the rug, including the $245 billion ‘doc fix.’
6. IMPOSES JOB-KILLING EMPLOYER MANDATES. Additional taxes on employers and new government mandates that dictate acceptable insurance will place new and crushing burdens on employers. These are burdens that will ultimately fall squarely on the backs of workers in the form of reduced wages, fewer hours or lost employment. CBO agrees that "[e]mployees largely bear the cost of... play-or-pay fees in the form of lower wages." According to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), the nation’s largest small business association, an employer mandate of this magnitude will disproportionately impact small businesses, triggering up to 1.6 million lost jobs. Two-thirds of those jobs would be shed by small businesses.
7. TILTS THE PLAYING FIELD IN FAVOR OF THE GOVERNMENT-RUN INSURANCE COMPANY. Speaker Pelosi’s health care bill promises not to give the government-run plan advantages over private insurers in the market, but the opposite is true. The bill provides billions in start-up funding for the government-run plan, and while it requires the plan to repay the money over time it does not require the plan to pay interest on this “loan.” This interest-free, taxpayer-subsidized loan is potentially worth millions of dollars and tilts the playing field in favor of the government-run plan.
8. THREATENS CASH-STRAPPED STATES WITH UNFUNDED MANDATES. Speaker Pelosi’s health care bill swells the number of Americans on the government rolls by expanding Medicaid eligibility. Medicaid is financed through a federal-state partnership, but the bill dumps nearly ten percent of the mandated expansion included in the bill onto the states. States, already struggling with fiscal constraints, would be left on the hook for billions of dollars due to this unfunded mandate.
9. CREATES A NEW MONSTROSITY IN THE TAX CODE. Starting in 2011, Speaker Pelosi’s health care bill imposes a 5.4 percent tax on adjusted gross income above $500,000 for individuals and $1 million for married couples. Yet, the dollar amounts for which the tax kicks in are not indexed for inflation. We’ve seen this horror film before: the Alternative Minimum Tax, another Frankenstein’s monster of the tax code, also wasn’t indexed for inflation and now affects millions of middle class families with incomes below the Democrat’s surtax.
10. MISSES AN OPPORTUNITY TO CURTAIL JUNK LAWSUITS. Speaker Pelosi’s health care bill misses a critical opportunity to rein in junk lawsuits and costly defensive medicine. The bill includes only a voluntary grant program to deal with the medical liability crisis instead of including real reform, which would produce tens of billions of dollars in savings, improve efficiency in our health care system and reduce costs for patients and providers.
Republicans have offered better solutions to lower health care costs and expand access to quality, affordable coverage at a price our nation can afford. Learn more by visiting:
healthcare.gop.gov
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