Townhall Wrap-Up

Here are a series of videos displaying some of the more powerful statements from constituents at recent town hall meetings. It will be interesting to see what happens in the upcoming weeks now that congress will be back in session. Will they listen to the American people? OR Will they ram through any health care they want?

Take the time to watch each of these videos if you have not seen them yet. They are all worth the watch.

The Health Care Ad ABC & NBC Won't Show You

Here is the current ad that speaks out against Obama's health care that NBC and ABC are refusing to air. Did you have any doubts left that ABC & especially NBC were in the tank for the Obama White House?

Howard Dean in a Moment of Honesty

It's not too often that I agree with Howard Dean. However, at a recent town hall he told the crowd why tort reform was not a part of the current health care bill. His response, they did not had to choose their battles and did not want to fight the lawyers. Listen for yourself.

An Unconstitutional Health Care Bill?

Is the current health care plans being proposed Constitutional? David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey have produced a very interesting article in the Washington Times that says no. Here are a few of the more interesting quotes:

In short, no. The Constitution assigns only limited, enumerated powers to Congress and none, including the power to regulate interstate commerce or to impose taxes, would support a federal mandate requiring anyone who is otherwise without health insurance to buy it.

Therefore, as it currently stands, congress cannot force American citizens to purchase medical insurance, at least not if they want to uphold the constitution.  So, what does that mean about funding the health care bill?

Of course, these constitutional impediments can be avoided if Congress is willing to raise corporate and/or income taxes enough to fund fully a new national health system. Absent this politically dangerous -- and therefore unlikely -- scenario, advocates of universal health coverage must accept that Congress's power, like that of the other branches, has limits.

 Would congress and Obama be willing to take the political heat by raising taxes?  Unlikely, but would the sacrifice of a future election be worth passing their holy grail of policy issues?

Is Affordable and Available Health Care Possible?

Is real, genuine, and affordable health care reform possible? With common sense and the American citizens will it is. Today, during his town hall, John McCain outlined what many other conservatives have proposed to fix our "health care problem" in this country. These include:

1. Insurance reform to get those with preexisting conditions
   
2. Reform Medical malpractice
3. Tax reforms and incentives to purchase insurance. 
1. To me, this is the best and most important change we could make.  Included in this would be the ability for customers to purchase health insurance over state lines just like we do with car and home owners insurance.  This one thing alone would drive down cost because of the increased competition.  
   
4. Wellness and safety (uses Safeway as an example)/reward people for good practice
1. This idea has possibilities.   If the "rewards" are in the form of tax breaks I would accept it.  Another possibility for this could be the development of a system similar to how car insurance companies give good driver discounts to drivers to have avoided accidents and/or tickets.  This would be the best option in my opinion.  However, the next issue would be how is this measred?

Overall, these four reforms would save Americans thousands of dollars and create a even better health care system than we have.  Take a look at the full seven minute video from John McCain's town hall.

Obama, Abortion, & Health Care

Thanks to Allah at Hot Air for this video of Obama talking to Plan Parenthood. Also keep in mind Obama said prior to running for office and during his campaign that one of his first priorities would be to pass the "Freedom of Choice Act." This is something all pro-life Americans need to keep a very close eye on as different health care bills are drafted over the next few months. Many Democrats will try to put in coverage for abortions, which would mean that all Americans would be forced to pay for "government funded" murder. Also, if either of these were to become law, would would happen to our private Christian/Catholic hospitles. They would now be forced to perform abortions against their will or close up shop.

Obama's Approval 45%

Eight months ago, America was captivated by this guy called Obama. Americans overwhelming supported him while turning a blind eye to his policy positions and what he actually said throughout his campaign. Now only eight months later we have a President who is only winning the approval of 45% of American's according to the latest Zogby poll.

American citizens have now come around and are seeing that when Obama talked about "change" he really meant bringing about a new socialist America. Every policy Obama and the Democrats in congress have tried to push through this year have been socialist in nature. To start Merrian-Webster defines socialism as "any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods."

Lets look at the two big pocilies Obama has tried to get passed, first Cap-and-Trade. Under Cap-and-Trade, the government would set limits on the amount of emissions a bussiness would be allowed to emit. If the company went beyond their limit they would have to pay another person for their "share" of emissions. This is an example of government administering the distribution of wealth as large companies would be forced to pay others for a larger emission amount. Obama however forgets to tell the American people that these companies WILL pass on the price to their consumers.

Obama's second big policy is health care. Under Obama's plan, the government again would administer the distribution of health care by forcing those "rich" pay for the uninsured. We have all seen how well this has gone over with the American public.

If Obama keeps up with his current push towards socialism his approval ratings will drop as low as that of Cogress.

Say They're Sorry

This is a great video from Dailymotion.com. The best statement in the video comes at about 1:10. This is a must see video. Enjoy

Its Hard for Congressmen to Apologize
by loveusa73

“Obama’s Mother of All Political Lies.”

I'm finally back from vacation and wow how things have intensified in the health care debate in the two weeks I was gone. No plan was passed as we expected prior to the August recess but now the Democrats are running around calling all of us who oppose socialized health care UnAmerican and even Nazis. I believe this is only the beginning of an uprising of American citizens that began with the Tea Party's. American citizens are fed up with politicians thinking they are better than us, that they don't answer to their constituents, and that those who disagree are dumb, racists, UnAmerican, etc.

Visualizations of Obama Policies

If you have ever struggled visualizing large sums of money and/or any other of Obama's policies, I think you will greatly appreciate each of these videos. They are simple, easy to follow videos that make it easy to understand the policies of the Obama administration. These videos were produced by the people at Political Math. Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend!!!

Week In Review

The newest feature here at God, Family, America is a week in review. This will be an area to discuss opinions about the week. I will post what I see at the top five stories of the week. So, here we go.

The winners of the week of July 19-24 are:

• 5. CBO begins downfall of Universal Health care - With the CBO coming out and announcing how much spending was involved in the health care bill we saw support drasticlly begin to decrease. As the numbers spread, both Blue Dog Democrats and American citizens really started to understand just what was involved in these bills. This will go down a the beginning of the end for any current form of health care reform.
• 4. 40th Anniversary of Moon Landing - For one day, the anniversary of the Appollo 11 landing and then the walk on the moon dominated the news. This story has brought up many discussions of the future of space exploration. When will we go back to the moon? Will man walk on Mars? No matter your view of our space program, the discussion that arises is interesting and provides good discussion.
  
• 3. Blue Dogs Halt Health Care - While Obama tries to claim it is the Republicans that have caused a delay in health care legislation, the real story is that the Blue Dog Democrats have been the biggest force behind the stalling of the bill. While Republicans have been forcefull at bringing out many of the details of the bill, we all know that if the Blue Dogs gave support to the bill, it would easily pass.
  
• 2. Obama says cops act "stupidly" - This story was created by Obama himself. Without knowledge of the situation, Obama decided to defend his friend and attack cops serving their society. Even the Obama friendly media has come out saying that he made a huge mistake with this comment. Will this comment hurt Obama much in the long run, probably not but it does clearly show his stance on racial issues for those who doubted.
• 1. Obama Approval Ratings Drop - The number 1 story of the week is the approval ratings of Obama have dropped to below 50% for the first time in his Presidency. Because of Obama's inability to sell the public on his health care plan, we have witnessed Obama's approval ratings drop in every poll. Americans are beginning to understand what they signed up for when they put Obama into office. They are seeing his socialist policies and the majority of Americans still believe in smaller government.
  

How Quickly a Night Changes Things

Wasn't it just this week that Obama was stating he wanted a health care bill before the summer recess? Well after his worst press conference yet he now says it is okay for it not to pass yet. His new deadline is now the fall. What will it be after that? Will Obama ever get off the campaign trail and begin to govern instead of running for President?

Obama Says He'll Now Tax Middle Class Families

Obama is not ruling out taxing middle class families to pay for his health care plan. Thanks to those at Hot Air for this video you will see Obama say that he will not sign a bill that is primarily funded by middle class. Therefore he is leaving open the possibility taxing middle class families. Isn't this exactly what he said would NEVER happen if elected? We knew he wouldn't keep this promise. I am somewhat surprised at how fast he has backpedaled on this promise...but again should I be?

"Can I guarantee...no changes in...health care delivery. NO!!!

If you missed the Presidential "News Conference" tonight here is a video of what I believe is the most significant line of the night. In it you will here Obama say that he will not rule out government intervention in health care delivery. Listen carefully from about 1:30 in the video. This is very telling about Obama's belief system when it comes to health care. He believes that bureaucrats can make better health care decisions than a patient and a doctor.

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Presidential News Conference

What was talked about:

1. Introduction - Say's recovery act has saved jobs. Where? The unemployment act has increased to 9.5% when the President said it would not top 8% with the recovery act. Reform health care = Socialized Health Care. We will get to keep our own health care...that is unless you want to change even one thing then you MUST join the government plan.

• Does he do anything other than campaign. How about we act instead of talk. He acts if he doesn't play politics...I have not seen him do anything other than play politics for the last six months
  

1. Question 1 - AP - Which ideas on how to pay for health care are you willing to share? Immediately he switches the question without answering. Back to his talking points. Limit deductions on "wealthy" - who will be "wealthy" under this plan? Aren't the "wealthy" Americans eventually going to run out of money to tax if we keep making them pay for every socialized program the President wants to implement?
2. Question 2 - Why the rush on passing health care? - Good questions. Will he actually answer? Says without deadline it won't get done...In other words if I don't set a deadline I will have lost American support because my numbers are sinking fast. He won't sign a bill that he doesn't think will "work." Again, in other words if it is not a socialized system that will lead to a single payer system then it won't meet his standards.
   
3. Question 3 - Explain how bill will expand coverage. Wants to cover everybody. There he goes. Without SINGLE PAYER SYSTEM we will not cover everyone. So, he will push for that single payer system but won't directly say that. Where does our Constitution say that the government should be "designing" health care?
   
4. Question 4 - Do you admit that American's will have to sacrifice for this bill? American's will be sacrificing by waiting in long line...why won't he talk about this? Again he goes to his talking points and doesn't really answer the question of what American's will have to sacrifice. And now he decides to answer a question that was not asked. Why not just give a speech if you are not going to answer the questions? So now he is saying he has actually cut spending for the Bush years by trillions of dollar.
   
5. Question 5 - What type of cuts will be made to medicare? Says it won't reduce medicare benefits. Not much said here.
   
6. Question 6 - Are you fulfilling your promise of transparency? Good lead in to question outlining multiple areas of lack of transparency. Trying to defend his administration. Again not much.
7. Question 7 - Does your administration need to take a harder line on Wall Street? Says steps taken have been the right steps. Says his steps are working and that financial system has bounced back. Says we need to pass financial regulatory reform because banks will go back to the same way they were before.
   
8. Question 8 - Can you guarantee that the government will never deny any coverage? Second, will you and congress abide by the public option? Public plan will "largely" meet the congress plan. Therefore, he won't answer the question so if you are old or a high risk they will give your treatment to a younger person. HE WILL NOT GUARANTEE THAT GOVERNMENT WILL NOT BE INVOLVED IN DECISION. Congress will have say in what type of care doctors can give their patients
9. Question 9 - What do you expect to achieve by going to Cleavland clinic? Missed answer
   
10. Question 10 - Something about race relations? Missed beginning of question

Reflection - Not much answered.

Biggest statement - HE WILL NOT GUARANTEE THAT GOVERNMENT WILL NOT BE INVOLVED IN DECISION. This should be alarming to everyone. If government has the right to determine what type of care you can get you can count of a destruction of quality care.

Obama & CBO Chief Meet at WH

This story is still emerging, but Hot Air reported yesterday that Obama CBO to meet him at the White House. This should be concerning to all citizens as the CBO is supposed to be an independent office that answers to congress NOT the President. Yet here we have Obama taking his powers to another branch of government. It seems that Obama will do anything to force through this health care bill, just as he is with Cap-and-Trade, the bailouts, and stimulus. Fox news picked up on this story this morning. Take a look here at RealClearPolitics.com. Special Report will also be reporting on this story as well.

Reforma - New RNC Health Care Ad

The newest RNC ad against the Presidents health care reform does a good job at making its point. Take a look.

Bobby Jindal on Health Care

In today's Wall Street Journal, Bobby Jindal outlines a 7 step plan to a health care plan that would be much improved over any plan currently being discussed in congress. Jindal's seven steps include:

1. Consumer choice guided by transparency
2. Aligned consumer interests
3. Medical lawsuit reform
4. Insurance reform
5. Pooling for small businesses, the self-employed, and others
6. Pay for performance, not activity
7. Refundable tax credits

I highly recommend you check this article out and give it some thought.

Patients United Now - "Survived"

Shona TV Spot - "Survived" - kewego
TV spot from Patients United Now highlighting Shona's Story.

Keywords: health care shona

Video from aforp

Democrats Vote Against Health Care Amendment

Watching Fox News and I hear that panel Democrats voted against a health care amendment that stated no one from the government could tell a doctor how to do their job (rough translation). Not a single Democrat voted for this amendment. If the government has the ability to tell doctors the type of treatment they must give, we can say goodbye to thousands of doctors. Furthermore, what will happen to the thousands of Catholic hospitals across this country. Are they now going to be forced to give abortion on-demand? As of now, Democrats wont put a provision in the bill for doctors to object based on religious beliefs. Some conservative Democrats are standing up for language excludes abortion from any government ran health care. They are saying they:

cannot support any health care reform proposal unless it explicitly excludes abortion from the scope of any government-defined or subsidized health insurance plan.