Thanks to Shirley Dye for submitting this article.
Obama’s purpose from the beginning of his presidency has always been to "fundamentally transform America." Part of that transformation is to destroy the free market system of health care in America, and turn it into a single payer, government run system. The failure of Obamacare is supposed to lead to just that. When enough Americans scream about losing their health care coverage, or having to pay providers for their deductibles, they will turn to Big Government to take care of them.
According to John Cochrane, the Republicans had better have a better solution. In his article "What to do When ObamaCare Unravels," he identifies a good start.
Some excerpts:
"There is an alternative. A much freer market in health care and health insurance can work, can deliver high quality, technically innovative care at much lower cost, and solve the pathologies of the pre-existing system.
"The U.S. health-care market is dysfunctional. Obscure prices and $500 Band-Aids are legendary. The reason is simple: Health care and health insurance are strongly protected from competition. There are explicit barriers to entry, for example the laws in many states that require a "certificate of need" before one can build a new hospital. Regulatory compliance costs, approvals, nonprofit status, restrictions on foreign doctors and nurses, limits on medical residencies, and many more barriers keep prices up and competitors out. Hospitals whose main clients are uncompetitive insurers and the government cannot innovate and provide efficient cash service.
"Only deregulation can unleash competition. And only disruptive competition, where new businesses drive out old ones, will bring efficiency, lower costs and innovation.
Leftists
Message to Obama: We are NOT Subjects!
In case you missed it, Laura Hollis has written an excellent article about Obama’s imperial administration, focused primarily on Obamacare. Ms. Hollis is an attorney and teaches entrepreneurship and business law at the University of Notre Dame.
The article, titled "We are not SUBJECTS (and other Observations about Obamacare)" recently appeared in Townhall.
It begins:
"The unveiling of the dictatorial debacle that is Obamacare absolutely flabbergasts me. It is stunning on so many levels, but the most shocking aspect of it for me is watching millions of free Americans stand idly by while this man, his minions in Congress and his cheerleaders in the press systematically dismantle our Constitution, steal our money, and crush our freedoms.
The President, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid (with no small help from Justice John Roberts) take away our health care, and we allow it. They take away our insurance, and we allow it. They take away our doctors, and we allow it. They charge us thousands of dollars more a year, and we allow it. They make legal products illegal, and we allow it. They cripple our businesses, and we allow it. They announce by fiat that we must ignore our most deeply held beliefs – and we allow it.
Where is your spine, America"?
Good question.
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True Purpose of Wolf Reintroduction: Get Ranchers off Public Land, Permanently and Forever.
Take a look at this article, and then if you and your family ever expect to enjoy the Tonto National Forest again, send your objections to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service about this city-environmentalist driven plan. 1) The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services plans to reintroduce wolves to Gila, Coconino, Navajo, and Graham counties. Comment HERE. 2) The USFWS also intends to retain the "endangered" status of Mexican gray wolves. This means you could be fined $500 if you shoot one, even while its ripping the hindquarters and intestines out of your dog, or chewing off your cat’s head…right before your children’s eyes. Comment HERE.
Deadline for comments is 12/17/2013. Two public meetings have been set for 12/3/2013 in Pinetop. Click HERE for information.
Here are some excerpts from a Nov. 7, 2013 Tucson Weekly article:.
Dean Warren has a story to tell about how Mexican Gray wolves stole one of the best parts of his life.He was on horseback on a mountain trail south of Rose Peak, in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, when four wolves attacked him and his six blue tick hounds, setting off a ferocious struggle.
“Picture 10 animals in a dogfight under your horse, and you know what I’m talking about,” says Warren, then a rancher and range deputy for the Greenlee County Sheriff’s Office.
“I’m being attacked by wolves!” he hollered into his police radio. “I need help!”
He yelled and fired shots into the air, but the wolves kept coming. The desperate brawl lasted two hours. Warren’s fighting retreat brought him to Sawmill Cabin, where he closed himself inside a barn, the animals pacing and howling outside.
Something–probably the arrival of rescuers–caused them to quit, and Warren, 62 years old at the time and a crack outdoorsman, headed home, considering himself lucky. If his horse hadn’t been accustomed to dogs, he says he could’ve been thrown to the ground and injured or killed.
But the funny part, the tragic part, the unbelievable part, is the idea of a cowboy, alone, in a death struggle with vicious animals–and what’s running through his mind, apart from not turning into wolf kibble?
Lawyers.
“I definitely felt threatened, but I knew that if I shot those wolves, I could pay a huge fine and maybe get years in jail,” says Warren. “Hiring a lawyer would break me. I don’t have that kind of money in my hip pocket.”
Warren’s fight happened three years ago, and the news traveled quickly along the straw-hat grapevine. The facts put a chill in everybody’s day, especially the part about one wolf jumping up to put its paws on the horse’s flanks, snapping and growling.
“That scared all of us,” says Dan Groebner, supervisor of Arizona Game and Fish’s wolf field team. “Wolves aren’t supposed to behave that way.”
Dramatic as they were, the details never traveled far beyond ranch country, and probably wouldn’t have been heard if they did. For city environmentalists, the thought of the lobo howling in the wild again–the deep emotion of that concept, the romantic resonance of it–has the power to deafen, even though most probably couldn’t distinguish a wolf call from Sting.
Dean Warren was eventually driven off his land.
"The stress they caused is enormous," says Warren. "I’d be out working fences or laying pipe, and I always had that old yellow eye looking down on me. It became impossible to live ther. If it wasn’t for the major holdings people have, it’d just be picknickers and retirees left out there."
Like most ranchers, he believes that was the true purpose of wolf reintroduction–getting ranchers off public land, permanently and forever.
Adios cowboy. "That’s it partner. That’s the whole deal right there."
Wolf Hearings
Wolf Hearings
December 03, 2013
Special panel presentation and documentary viewing
Sponsored by: David Spady Film Veritas Research
and Americans for Prosperity
McNary Community Center/Library, Hwy 260 (aka Pine St.), McNary, AZ 12:00-2:30 pm
Come hear specialists, scientists, leaders, land stewards and other expert testimony concerning the impacts of the reintroduction of the Mexican Gray Wolf. Also, enjoy a free viewing of the documentary,
“Wolves In Government Clothing”.
Film maker and AFP-California State Director David Spady
Endangered Species Act Consultant Doyel Shamley
Rancher Wink Crigler
University of Alaska Geneticist Dr. Matt Cronin
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Public Information Meeting
Hon-Dah Conference Center
777 Highway 260, Pinetop, AZ
3:30-5:00 pm
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Public Hearing
Hon-Dah Conference Center
777 Highway 260, Pinetop, AZ
6:00-8:30 pm
Common Core Math: UGH!!!
Did you learn math this way? A 5-minute video is worth a thousand words. STOP Common Core in Arizona. Go to Arizonans Against Common Core.
Read moreI Knew, and They Knew
by Jane Evans,
Payson, AZ
Shortly after the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) was signed into law by President Obama on March 23, 2010, I knew, as an insurance agent, that any health insurance plan written after that date would be subject to cancellation in 2014. Furthermore, if my customers made any changes to their plans after that date, they would no longer be considered “grandfathered,” and their plans could also be cancelled.
I knew, the insurance companies knew, and it is inconceivable that President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid didn’t know. They were the ones who wrote the Bill! Every time I heard President Obama or Nancy Pelosi say that “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan, PERIOD,” I knew it wasn’t true. They are now trying to qualify what they promised over and over again, but words do mean something and the word “period” means “period.”
The vulnerable Democrats in Congress are trying to distance themselves from this disastrous law like rats fleeing a sinking ship, but they voted for this bill in 2010, and they have continued to support it until now. Remember, every Republican voted against the Affordable Care Act. This bill was written by, and passed by a Democratic Congress, and no matter how they try to spin the facts, the record stands.
Former Gilbert Schools Board Member tells Police Officer: Don’t Wear your Uniform and Scary Gun when Picking up Your Daughter from School
Have you ever noticed that, whenever these Educrats get caught red-handed being heavy handed, they always say, "I’m sorry that Mr. So and So ‘took it the wrong way.’" He got it right, Helen. You didn’t need much "pressure" from a Leftist parent with whom you agree. You were glad to side with your Administrator who told this police officer, "Don’t wear your uniform, and especially don’t sport your gun on my campus!" Helen Hollands was one of the previous Gilbert School Board members who consistently rubber stamped whatever Administration told her.
For the full article, see The Unbelievable Reason this Police Officer Dad was Told Not to Visit his Daughter’s School While in Uniform.
Every Parent Needs to Watch this! You Need to Find out What your Child is Learning at School.
Thanks to the East Valley Education Network for posting this.
Read moreHitler’s Health Insurance is Cancelled
If you think it’s bad now, wait for the sequel. That’s when the Leftist Progressives declare ObamaCare a failure and cry out for Government-Controlled Socialized Medicine. See ObamaCare: The plan is to Transition to Single Payer Socialized Medicine.
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