to get sucked in...

"In the days before Medicare and Medicaid, the poor and elderly were admitted to hospitals at the same rate they are now, and received good care. Before those programs came into existence, every physician understood that he or she had a responsibility towards the less fortunate and free medical care was the norm. Hardly anyone is aware of this today, since it doesn’t fit into the typical, by the script story of government rescuing us from a predatory private sector."

-The Revolution: A Manifesto, by Ron Paul, p. 84 Apr 1, 2008


Honestly, you don't have a choice anymore.

The government demands I give them an unorthodox and unconstitutional percentage of my income.

The government demands that incredibly unhealthy people be given health insurance, therefore creating more dependency on the government and drying up the idea of charity.

The government, and law suit fattened Americans, have driven the cost of health care through the roof.

I can't afford insurance and I can't afford $280 doctor visits every couple of weeks while with child.

I have succumbed and enrolled in AIM, a California state program to help middle-income women with the cost of child birth. I don't want to partake, it goes against all of my beliefs; where are my options?

I looked for a doctor that charged reasonable fees I could just pay for. If they existed that would not solve the dilemma of the actual delivery. My last labor resulted in a bill of $19,000.

The government, in trying to mother me, has stunted my ability to care for myself. I am one of the few with the actual desire.

Can I please get back to the country who's slogan was, "Land of the FREE and home of the BRAVE"?

There is a very logical reason why those qualities depend on each other. Freedom is unquestionably dangerous. When you fall there isn't a net unless you've built it. But boy is it a lot more fun.

to be fooled

Bailout? Rescue plan? Please.
How long will America take to realize the people who got us into this mess are not the ones to be trusted with getting us out.

I read a great quote today, "The only thing we learn from history, I am afraid, is that we do not learn from history." Congressman Ron Paul.

Can the folks in Washington open their dusty history books and read a paragraph about the great depression? It was only last century, I'm pretty sure McCain was alive through it. Propping up mortgages and wall street behemoths that are failing because of federal intervention with MORE federal intervention (aka magically minted money with rapidly diminishing value) will only leave them, and the rest of us unwittingly tied to their kamikaze attempt to make EVERYONE happy, further to fall before we hit bottom.

Blaming the American people would be like blaming a spoiled child when they cry for more, faster, better. Isn't it the fault of the parents for giving in in the first place? Even still, giving the child what they scream for doesn't fix the problem. They have to eventually realize the corner they have backed themselves into; there will be an embarrassing meltdown before any progress is made. The sooner the meltdown occurs the quicker the rehabilitation can begin.

America should protest together. Refuse to pay taxes. Refuse the government the right to steal from you in order to dig themselves deeper into debt, wars and lies. Either that or I suggest everyone buy some Euros and grow a garden.