You Want THEM To Control Healthcare?
Among the scariest words ever heard are,
"We are from the
federal government, and we are here to help you."
Shiver me timbers, matey! When you hear those words,
pick up your peg leg and RUN, because you are about to
get hammered.
And that is exactly what is fixing to happen to the
American people when the new Obama national healthcare
law is fully implemented: we are going to get hammered.
Anyone who believes that the federal government can
manage anything efficiently is 8 years old, rationally
challenged, or in the business of profiting from the
federal government`s inefficiency. The only thing the
federal government can do with precision is destroy
things (and people). That is the one thing the feds can
do with complete and total proficiency.
Our first and greatest President, George Washington,
understood this reality. He said,
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire,
it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
Amen.
A recent AP report should serve as another illustration
as to the folly of trusting the federal government with
the supervision and care of anything beyond those
narrowly limited responsibilities defined in the US
Constitution. The July 27, 2010, report said:
"A U.S. audit has found that the Pentagon cannot account
for over 95 percent of $9.1 billion in Iraq
reconstruction money, spotlighting Iraqi complaints that
there is little to show for the massive funds pumped
into their cash-strapped, war-ravaged nation."
The report went on to say:
"The Pentagon has repeatedly come under fire for
apparent mismanagement of the reconstruction effort–as
have Iraqi officials themselves.
"Seven years after the U.S.-led invasion, electricity
service is spotty, with generation capacity falling far
short of demand. Fuel shortages are common and
unemployment remains high, a testament to the country`s
inability to create new jobs or attract foreign
investors.
"Complaints surfaced from the start of the war in 2003,
when soldiers failed to secure banks, armories and other
facilities against looters. Since then the allegations
have only multiplied, including investigations of fraud,
awarding of contracts without the required government
bidding process and allowing contractors to charge
exorbitant fees with little oversight, or oversight that
came too late."
See the report
here.
Did you get that?
"THE PENTAGON CANNOT ACCOUNT FOR OVER 95 PERCENT OF $9.1
BILLION IN IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION MONEY."
But this is the same federal government that says it can
manage America`s multibillion-dollar healthcare system
efficiently and with less cost.
GAG!
Another report that caught my eye was this one dated
August 12, 2010, and carried on My Way News. The report
said:
"The $700 billion U.S. bailout program launched in
response to the global economic meltdown had a far
greater impact overseas than other countries` financial
rescue plans did on the U.S., according to a new report
from a congressional watchdog.
"Billions of dollars in U.S. rescue funds wound up in
big banks in France, Germany and other nations. That was
probably inevitable because of the structure of the
Treasury Department`s program, the Congressional
Oversight Panel says in a new report issued Thursday.
"The U.S. program aimed to stabilize the financial
system by injecting money into as many banks as
possible, including those with substantial operations
overseas. Most other countries, by contrast, focused
their efforts more narrowly on banks in their nations
that usually lacked major U.S. operations."
I`m sure everyone is glad to hear this, Amen? Aren`t you
happy to learn that your hard-earned tax dollars
"had a far
greater impact overseas" than in the United States?
In other words, ladies and gentlemen, big foreign banks
(and internationally-owned banks) were the primary
beneficiaries of the taxpayer-funded Wall Street
bailouts.
The report went on to say:
"But the report says that if the U.S. had gotten more
data on which foreign banks would benefit the most, the
government might have been able to ask those countries
to share some of the cost.
"`There were no data about where this money was going,`
panel chair Elizabeth Warren said in a conference call
with reporters on Wednesday. `The American people have a
right to know where the money went.`"
Dear Reader, are you getting this?
"IF THE U.S. HAD
GOTTEN MORE DATA . . . THE GOVERNMENT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
ABLE TO ASK THOSE COUNTRIES TO SHARE SOME OF THE COST"?
Holy slimeballs, Batman! This is the same government
that is collecting nearly 2 billion pieces of electronic
correspondence (emails, text messages, cellular calls,
phone calls, etc.) EVERY DAY from virtually EVERY
CITIZEN in the country. This is the same government that
wants to electronically take our clothes off and look at
every square inch of our naked bodies every time we get
on a commercial airliner. But this same government was
not able to obtain the data necessary to determine which
foreign banks were going to receive billions of taxpayer
bailout dollars? And,
"There were NO
DATA ABOUT WHERE THIS MONEY WAS GOING"?
Ladies and gentlemen, I ask you, who are the morons
here? These government politicians and bureaucrats (who
are either the most inept, incompetent fools to ever
live, or the most deceptive, duplicitous con artists on
the planet), or We the People for putting up with these
nincompoops?
At this point, I invite readers to listen to this brief
archived audio sound bite from former President Ronald
Reagan (one of my favorite quotes)
here.
For those of you who are reading a hard copy of this
column and not an online edition, and, therefore, are
unable to link to the audio above, the file quotes
Reagan as saying,
"Government is not the solution to our problem;
government is the problem."
Do I hear an "Amen" out there?
How, in the name of common sense, can anyone (or any
State) be willing to forfeit to the federal government
one additional cent or even an ounce more authority
knowing that every dollar it grabs and every authority
it garners is used only to increase the size of the
shackles that it puts around our necks?
And you want THEM to manage healthcare?
Dr. Chuck Baldwin is the
pastor of Crossroad Baptist Church in Pensacola,
Florida. He hosts a
weekly radio show. His
website is
here.
