Professor Laura Hollis of Notre Dame On Obamacare

"The unveiling of the dictatorial debacle that is Obama care 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?

Yes, I know people are complaining. I read the news on the internet. I read blogs. I have a Twitter feed. So what? People in the Soviet Union complained. People in Cuba complain. People in China complain (quietly). Complaining isn’t the same thing as doing anything about it. In fact, much of the complaining that we hear sounds like resignation: Wow. This sucks. Oh well, this is the way things are. Too bad.

Perhaps you need reminding of a few important facts. Here goes:  

1. The President is not a king. Barack Obama does not behave like a President, an elected official, someone who realizes that he works for us. He behaves like a king, a dictator – someone who believes that his own pronouncements have the force of law, and who thinks he can dispense with the law’s enforcement when he deigns to do so. And those of us who object? How dare we? Racists!

And while he moves steadily “forward” with his plans to “fundamentally transform” the greatest country in human history, he distracts people with cheap, meaningless trivialities, like “free birth control pills”! (In fact, let’s face it: this administration’s odd obsession with sex in general – Birth control! Abortion! Sterilization! Gay guys who play basketball! — is just plain weird. Since when did the leader of the free world care so much about how people have sex, who they have it with, and what meds they use when they have it? Does he have nothing more important to concern himself with?)  

2. It isn’t just a failed software program; it is a failed philosophy. People are marveling that Healthcare.gov was such a spectacular failure. Well, if one is only interested in it as a product launch, I’ve explained some of the reasons for that here. But the larger point is that it isn’t a software failure, or even a product failure; it is a philosophy failure.

I have said this before: Obama is not a centrist; he is a central planner. And this – all of it: the disastrous computer program, the hundreds of millions of dollars wasted, the lies, the manipulation of public opinion, the theft of the public’s money and property, and freedom (read insurance, and premiums, and doctors) — IS what central planning looks like.

The central premise of central planning is that a handful of wunderkinds with your best interests at heart (yeah, right) know better than you what’s good for you. The failure of such a premise and the misery it causes have been clear from the dawn of humanity. Kings and congressmen, dictators and Dear Leaders, potentates, princes and presidents can all fall prey to the same imperial impulses: “we know what is good the ‘the people.’ And they are always wrong.

There is a reason that the only times communism has really been tried have been after wars, revolutions, or coups d’état. You have to have complete chaos for people to be willing to accept the garbage that centralized planning produces. Take the Soviet Union, for example. After two wars, famine, and the collapse of the Romanov dynasty, why wouldn’t people wait in line for hours to buy size 10 shoes? Or settle for the gray matter that passed for meat in the grocery stores? But communism’s watered-down cousin, socialism, isn’t much better. Ask the Venezuelans who cannot get toilet paper. Toilet paper. ¡Viva la Revolución!

Contrary to what so many who believe in a “living Constitution” say, the Founding Fathers absolutely understood this. That is why the Constitution was set up to limit government power. (Memo to the President: the drafters of the Constitution deliberately didn’t say “what government had to do on your behalf.”) They understood that that was the path to folly, fear, and famine.)  

3. Obama is deceitful. Just as the collapse of the computer program should not surprise anyone, neither should we be shocked that the President lied about his healthcare plan. Have any of you been paying attention over the past few years? Obama has made no secret of his motivations or his methods. The philosophies which inspire him espouse deceit and other vicious tactics. (Don’t take my word for it: read Saul Alinsky.) Obama infamously told reporter Richard Wolffe, “You know, I actually believe my own bullshit.” He has refused to be forthcoming about his past (where are his academic records?). His own pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, told author Ed Klein, that Obama said to him, “You know what your problem is? You have to tell the truth.”

Did Obama lie when he said dozens of times, “If you like you plan, you can keep it. Period!”?   Of course he did. That’s what he does.  

4. The media is responsible. And had the media been doing their jobs, we would have known a lot of this much, much earlier.  The press is charged with the sacred responsibility of protecting the people from the excesses of government. Our press has been complicit, incompetent, or corrupt. Had they vetted this man in 2008, as they would have a Republican candidate, we would have known far more about him than we do, even now. Had they pressed for more details about Obamacare, Congress’ feet would have been held to the fire. Had they done their jobs about Eric Holder, Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the IRS scandal, NSA spying – or any of the other myriad betrayals of the public trust that this administration has committed, Obama would likely have lost his 2012 reelection campaign. (A fact that even The Washington Post has tacitly acknowledged. Well done, fellas! Happy now?)

Instead, they turned a blind eye, even when they knew he was lying, abusing power, disregarding the limits of the Constitution. It was only when he began to spy on them, and when the lies were so blatant that the lowest of low-information voters could figure it out that they realized they had to report on it. (Even in the face of blatant, deliberate and repeated lies, The New York Times has the audacity to tell us that the President “misspoke.”) They have betrayed us, abandoned us, and deceived us.  

5. Ted Cruz was right. So was Sarah Palin. The computer program is a disaster. The insurance exchanges are a disaster. What’s left? The healthcare system itself. And this, of necessity, will be a disaster, too.  Millions of people have lost their individual insurance plans. In 2015, millions more will lose their employer-provided coverage (a fact which the Obama administration also knew, and admitted elsewhere).  The exorbitant additional costs that Obamacare has foisted on unsuspecting Americans are all part of a plan of wealth confiscation and redistribution. That is bad enough. But it will not end there. 

When the numbers of people into the system and the corresponding demand for care vastly exceed the cost projections (and they will, make no mistake), then the rationing will start. Not only choice at that point, but quality and care itself will go down the tubes. And then will come the decisions made by the Independent Payment Advisory Board about what care will be covered (read “paid for”) and what will not.

That’s just a death panel, put politely. In fact, progressives are already greasing the wheels for acceptance of that miserable reality as well. They’re spreading the lie that it will be about the ability of the dying to refuse unwanted or unhelpful care. Don’t fall for that one, either. It will be about the deaths that inevitably result from decisions made by people other than the patients, their families, and their physicians. (Perhaps it’s helpful to think of their assurances this way: “If you like your end-of-life care, you can keep your end-of-life-care.”)  

6. We are not SUBJECTS. (or, Nice Try, the Tea Party Isn’t Going Away). We have tolerated these incursions into our lives and livelihoods too long already. There is no end to the insatiable demand “progressives” have to remake us in their image. Today it is our insurance, our businesses, our doctors, our health care. Tomorrow some new crusade will be announced that enables them to take over other aspects of our formerly free lives.

I will say it again: WE ARE NOT SUBJECTS. Not only is the Tea Party right on the fiscal issues, but it appears that they are more relevant than ever. We fought a war once to prove we did not want to be the subjects of a king, and the Boston Tea Party was just a taste of the larger conflict to come. If some people missed that lesson in history class, we can give them a refresher."

From the blog: My Underwood Typewriter

Some Notable Firsts For A Fraud

Quite a lot could be said in pointing out Barry Soetoro's/AKA Barack Hussein Obama II's violations of the Constitution of the United States of America, subversions of the the letter and spirit of the laws and principles of the United States of America, presentation of speeches which resonate with the wants of the masses; however, divide people and bring out the worst in human behavior, disregards laws he doesn't like and writes executive orders that deprive others of rights guaranteed under the United States Constitution.

Barry Soetoro/AKA Barack Hussein Obama II was fraudulently elected to the Office of Senator of the United States of America through his actions and the actions of others.

Barry Soetoro/AKA Barack Hussein Obama II was fraudulently elected to the Office of President of the United States of America through his actions and the actions of others.

First Person to assume the Office of President of the United States of America of Muslim Faith.

First Person to assume the Office of President of the United States of America as a member of the Communist Party of the United States of America.

First Person to assume the Office of President of the United States of America using a false identity through his actions and the actions of others.

First Person to assume the Office of President of the United States of America illegally through his actions and the actions of others.

First foreign citizen (Dual – Indonesian Citizen/British Subject) to fraudulently assume the offices of Senator of the United States of America, and fraudulently assume the office of President of the United States of America through his actions and the actions of others.

Barry Soetoro/AKA Barack Hussein Obama II is now the first indicted and convicted criminal facing ten years in prison while in a fraudulently assumed office of the United States of America.

Barry Soetoro/AKA Barack Hussein Obama II is now a Fugitive at large, a criminal wanted for carrying out as the principle co-conspirator in fraud against the People of the United States of America through his actions and the actions of others.

Barry Soetoro/AKA Barack Hussein Obama II is now a Fugitive at large, a criminal wanted for carrying out as the principle co-conspirator in fraud against the People of the State of Florida through his actions and the actions of others.

Barry Soetoro/AKA Barack Hussein Obama II is now a Fugitive at large, a criminal wanted for carrying out as the principle co-conspirator in fraud against the United States of America through his actions and the actions of others.

Barry Soetoro/AKA Barack Hussein Obama II is now a Fugitive at large, a criminal wanted for carrying out as the principle co-conspirator in fraud against the State of Florida through his actions and the actions of others.

Barry Soetoro/AKA Barack Hussein Obama II is now the first Indicted and Convicted Criminal Illegal Immigrant to fraudulently assume the Office of President of the United States of America that without question should be held and charged with TREASON against the People and the Republic of the United States of America.

A few of the other paraphrased firsts follow:

Fraudulent PRESIDENT OBAMA'S LIST OF HISTORIC FIRSTS
BY Dan Asmussen


• First fraudulent President to be:

• First to preside over a cut to the credit rating of the United States government

• First to violate Article 1 Section 9 of the Constitution by sitting as Chairman of the UN Security Counsel (a foreign post)

• First to violate the Logan Act by sending his Secretary of Defense to attend the Bilderberg meeting

• First to orchestrate the sale of murder weapons to Mexican drug cartels

• First to issue unlawful “Recess  Appointments” over a long weekend — while the U.S. Senate remained in session (against the advice of his own Justice Department)

• First to be Held in Contempt of Court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico

• First to intentionally disable credit card security measures in order to allow over-the-limit donations, foreign contributions and other illegal fund-raising measures.

• First to defy a Federal Judge’s court order to cease implementing the ‘Health Care Reform’ Law

• First to halt deportations of illegal aliens and grant them work permits, a form of stealth amnesty roughly equivalent to “The DREAM Act”, which could not pass Congress

• First to sign a law requiring all Americans to purchase a product from a third party

• First to spend a Trillion dollars on ‘Shovel-Ready’ jobs — and later admit there was no such thing as Shovel-Ready jobs

• First to sue states for requiring valid IDs to vote, even though the same administration requires valid IDs to travel by air

• First to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters

• First to sign into law a bill that permits the government to “hold anyone suspected of being associated with terrorism indefinitely, without any form of due process. No indictment. No judge or jury. No evidence. No trial. Just an indefinite jail sentence.”

• First to bypass Congress and implement the DREAM Act through Executive Fiat

• First to threaten insurance companies after they publicly spoke out on how Obamacare helped cause their rate increases

• First to openly defy a Congressional Order not to share sensitive nuclear defense secrets with the Russian Government

• First to threaten an auto company (Ford) after it publicly mocked bailouts of GM and Chrysler

• First to terminate America’s ability to put a man into space

• First to encourage racial discrimination and intimidation at polling places

• First to have a law signed by an ‘Auto-pen’ without being “Present”

• First to send $200 million to a terrorist organization (Hamas) after Congress had explicitly frozen the money for fear it would fund attacks against civilians

• First to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it (Defense of Marriage Act)

• First to tell a major manufacturing company in which State they are allowed to locate a factory

• First to file lawsuits against the States he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN, etc.)

• First to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago

• First to fire an Inspector General of Americorps for catching one of his (Obama)  friends in a corruption case

• First to propose an Executive Order demanding companies disclose their political contributions to bid on government contracts

• First to preside over America’s loss of its status as the world’s largest economy

• First to allow Mexican police to conduct law enforcement activities on American soil

• First to propose budgets so unreasonable that not a single representative from either party would cast a vote in favor (“Senate unanimously rejected President Obama’s budget last year in 0-97 vote”, Politico,“House Votes 414-0 to Reject Obama’s Budget Plan”)

• First to play golf 90 or more times in his first three years in office

• First to authorize the use of surveillance/attack drones on American citizens

• First to authorize the use of deadly force against American citizens with no proof of wrongdoing, no criminal evidence, and no due process

• First to violate the War Powers Act (Unilaterally executing American military operations in Libya without informing Congress in the required time period)

• First to triple the number of warrant-less wiretaps of U.S. Citizens

• First to refuse to tell the public what he did for eight (8) hours after being informed that a U.S. Ambassador was facing imminent death during a terror attack

• First to lie about the reason for an Ambassador’s death, blaming it on an Internet Video rather than what he knew to be the case: the Al Qaeda-linked Terror Group Ansar al-Sharia

• First to have an innocent filmmaker thrown in jail after lying about the cause for a deadly attack on U.S. Diplomats, using the filmmaker as a scapegoat

• First to use the IRS to “Unfairly Target Political Enemies” as well as Jewish groups

• First to unlawfully seize telephone records of more than 100 reporters to intimidate and/or bully them

• First to witness a single cabinet Secretary commit multiple Hatch Act violations without acting, speaking out, disciplining or firing that person

• First to have his Attorney General held in criminal contempt of Congress for his efforts to cover up Operation Fast and Furious, that killed over 300 individuals

• First to claim Executive Privilege to shield a sitting Attorney General from a Contempt of Congress finding for perjury and withholding evidence from lawful subpoenas

• First to sue States for enforcing voter ID requirements, which were previously ruled legal by the U.S. Supreme Court

• First to increase surveillance of American Citizens under the Patriot Act by 1,000 percent in four years

• First to demand a company hand over $20 Billion to one of his political appointees (BP Oil Spill Relief Fund)

• First to publicly announce an enemies list (consisting of his opponents campaign contributors; and to use the instrumentality of government to punish those on the list)

• First to attempt to block legally-required 60-day layoff notices by Government contractors due to his own cuts to defense spending — because the notices would occur before the election

• First to send 80 percent of a $16 billion program (green energy) to his campaign bundlers and contributors, leaving only 20% to those who did not contribute

• First to issue an Executive Order implementing a “Racial Justice System”, a system that tries to achieve “racially equivalent outcomes” for crimes

• First to leak confidential IRS tax records to groups aligned politically with him for partisan advantage

• First to use the EPA to punish political enemies and reward political allies

• First to send millions in taxpayer dollars to his wife’s former employer

• First to have his administration fund an organization tied to the cop-killing terrorist group, the Weather Underground

• First to move America past the dependency tipping point, in which 51% of households now pay no income taxes

• First to increase Food Stamp spending by more than 100% in less than four years

• First whose economic policies have the number of Americans on disability exceed the population of New York

• First to sue states for enforcing immigration laws passed by Congress

• First to redistribute $26.5 billion of the taxpayers’ funds to his union supporters in the UAW

• First to endanger the stability of the electric grid by shutting down hundreds of Coal-Fired plants without adequate replacement technologies

• First to have his EPA repudiated by a Federal Judge for “Overstepping Its Powers” when they attempted to shut down coal operations in Appalachia

• First to lie repeatedly to the American people about the murder of a U.S. Ambassador and three other diplomatic personnel for purely political reasons, rewriting a “Talking Points” Memo no fewer than a dozen times to avoid referencing a pre-planned terror attack

• First to Leak Highly Classified Military and Intelligence Secrets to Hollywood In Order to Promote a Movie That Could Help His Reelection Campaign

• First to Insert Himself into White House biographies of past Presidents

• First to Golf 122 or More Times in His First Four-and-a-half Years in Office

• First to be born in a foreign country (Kenya)

• First to fraudulently obtain and use the social security number of a dead person

• First to add more to the National Debt than ALL the previous President’s before him combined

Links to earlier posts:

What If
http://fixamerica-fredmars.blogspot.com/2012/03/what-if.html

The Means
http://fixamerica-fredmars.blogspot.com/2012/03/means.html

The Uneplained Dark Picture or An Image Unclearly Seen
http://fixamerica-fredmars.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-unexplained-dark-picture-or-image.html

Fear Rules America, or A Land of Cowards and Slaves

Anyone who has examined the facts surrounding various recent Incidents now realizes that groups within the US government have carried out PSYOPS and false flag operations on US soil against US Citizens. From Ruby Ridge to Waco, from the Oklahoma City bombing to the World Trade Center, these operations were carried out to cover up, misdirect public attention, and steal gold and securities. All of these operations were effected without any concern for human life and in one of the incidences the operation was meant to kill essentially everyone who could have provided the evidence against those involved in planning and carrying out the operation.



Specifically, with the election of W.J. Clinton, G.H.W. Bush, G.W. Bush, and the illegal election of B. Soetoro/B.H. Obama II, the principles this nation was founded on have been decimated and the destruction continues.

The aftermath of these incidences, in each case, increased the feelings of deep distress caused by loss; depression, despair, grief, despondency, and regret experienced by Americans. These feelings allowed the manipulation of public opinion and acceptance of allowing such un-American measures as the Patriot Act, NDAA, NDRP, TSA, DHS.

Recently, Soetoro/Obama, a wanted fugitive criminal, appointed John Kerry to replace disgraced Hillary Rodham Clinton of Benghazi debacle fame, both long time CFR members and persons of questionable character, as Secretary of State he signed, on behalf of the American people, the UN Arms Trade Treaty, a regulation to restrict inter-country arms trade;  however, the underlying damage is to National Sovereignty because it subjects US Citizens to international laws. Further, the treaty, as the NRA has pointed out, would impose an "invasive registration scheme" by requiring importing countries to give exporting countries information on "end users." 

The Council on Foreign Relations, CFR, is considered to be the most influential policy Think Tank since its inception in 1921. As one of the few intermediaries between banking interests, oil industry, corporate endeavors and the US Government, the CFR wields tremendous influence. CFR members occupy key positions in government, the mass media, financial institutions, multinational corporations, the military and intelligence communities.

Every US Presidential Administration, Over the past 70 years, be it Republican or Democratic, has filled all cabinet positions with CFR Members almost to the exclusion of anyone else since 1940. Every US Secretary of State (with one exception) has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and/or its younger brother, the Trilateral Commission. Also since 1940, every Secretary of War and every Secretary of Defense has been a CFR member. During most of its existence, the CIA has been headed by CFR members and virtually every key US national security and foreign policy adviser has been a CFR member since World War II.

CFR meeting participants are forbidden 'to publish a speaker's statement in attributed form in any newspaper;  to repeat it on television or radio, or on a speaker's platform, or in a classroom;  or to go beyond a memo of limited circulation.' See:  Red Lines in the White House, or Stirring a Pot of Lies - Part 3

If a president should surround that position with extra-governmental policies held by a group with an unknown or hidden agenda, to whom is he most likely to listen?

Secretary Kerry related, "This is about keeping weapons out of the hands of terrorists and rogue actors. This is about reducing the risk of international transfers of conventional arms that will be used to carry out the world's worst crimes. This is about keeping Americans safe and keeping America strong," he said. "This treaty will not diminish anyone's freedom. In fact, the treaty recognizes the freedom of both individuals and states to obtain, possess, and use arms for legitimate purposes."  As the Esteemed Readers may remember, Mr. Holder's exceptionally poorly thought out criminal operation "Fast and Furious," the illegal Projects Gunrunner and the Gunwalker scandal to supply Mexican drug cartel members (terrorists) with weapons. Could this be a clear example of Kerry's terrorists and rogue actors?  A radio broadcast which covers the salient point follows.

The fear that Americans hold, allowed the passage of laws which reduced the liberties of American citizens and shifted more powers to the executive branch of the US government. Is America a land of cowards and Slaves?

The Abyss of Arrogance and Conceit

It's not about Treyvon Martin nor is it about racism. It's simply about Obama and what Obama thinks is best. It is about a pathological narcissistic liar who lets no tragedy go without exploitation for personal or political gain. The man who calls himself President always makes it about himself because it has to be about him to matter to him. He demonstrates that he cares about nothing outside of his own delusions of grandeur and has surrounded himself with a devoted supporting cast of corrupt characters to do his bidding and offer their blind devotion.

There are so many issues that are of crisis magnitude facing our country, especially our individual rights and sovereignty. And while the media is focused on the newborn British heir to the throne, America suffers bankruptcy in major cities, unemployment and high prices, a health care plan that is failing before it is implemented, and a corrupt administration that will divide the people further with false charges of racism to deflect focus away from their own criminal acts.

We still do not have an investigation into Fast and Furious gun running that was sanctioned by the BATF and DOJ. Like his boss in the Oval Office, Eric Holder needs to be held accountable.

And there is Benghazi and the unaccountable former Secretary of State and the Commander-in Chief who was missing in action during the whole attack that left Americans without any support ti be butchered.

And then we have the IRS scandal where political opponents were targeted for audits and delays in applications for non-profits status. But Obama didn't find out until it was on the news?

I can go on but what is the sense in that? Americans are still asleep in the back of the bus. As the Obama Regime steers us how much deeper is this abyss?