Posts Tagged ‘medicare’

The Intersection Of The Global And US Debt Crises, And What They Foretell

May 30, 2010 (By Bud Burrell)

– From “Front and Center”, by Bud Burrell

Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s commentators Clark and Dawes did a great comedic explanation of the current debt crisis in Europe, incorporating factual debt numbers for some critical nations in the European Union. Their numbers pertaining to the actual debts were rather shocking, particularly when viewed through the prism of the United States Government. [entire post]

Gradual, Silent Encroachments Abridging Personal Freedoms Of US Citizens

January 29, 2010 (By Bud Burrell)

– From “Front and Center”, by C. Austin Burrell

“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” James Madison, in his speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788.

Since this country’s very inception, there has been a steady attack on the individual freedoms as delineated in the Bill of Rights, and of our Constitution as a foundational document. This attack has accelerated in the 20th Century, a period during which leftist radicals, greedy bankers, and revolutionary socialists have chipped away at the very core of our Constitution, to include wholesale infringements of the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 9th and 10th Amendments, among others. The objective of these infringements has been to dramatically expand the power of our Federal Government, while reducing and limiting not only individual rights, but also the rights and privileges of States.

Beginning with the concepts of Marx and Engels, our Country moved on to establish in 1913 a central bank with total control of our currency and banking, set up as a private entity/enterprise owned and controlled now by the World’s banks and investment banks, and US only secondarily. They also chose 1913 to institute a personal income tax in individual US citizens, an act so unconstitutional, there is today no legal affirmation of its right to be exacted.

Generally, those favoring a more powerful central government and many socialist agendas have moved very gradually, expanding their powers with under-handed dealing and misdirection. A simple example is the institution of the Social Security program in the 1930’s. Originally, the tax was to be imposed only at a rate of 1% of income up to $1400, and participation was strictly voluntary. [entire post]

The Left Efficiently Targets Ending Constitutional Republican Democracy And Capitalism In The US

December 17, 2009 (By Bud Burrell)

– From “Front and Center”, by Bud Burrell

Our Congressional majority, which is increasingly unbalanced, now seeks to impose an unconstitutional Health Care Reform Act that would be the first step towards Universal Health Care, which by any other name will be socialized medicine. With no evidence it works anywhere else, they are being maniacally driven to this goal, irrespective of the desires of the American people now standing at 60% opposed and 33% in favor of what has come to be called Obamacare. Indeed, the American people are being roundly ignored by those they chose to lead them.

The hard left now has a firm grip on this administration’s policies, having had its most extreme leaders penetrate the highest levels of control of core agencies and programs. Amorality rules this world, in which everything is in play, to include outright bribery and legislative corruption and manipulation. Anyone speaking out against the continuing attack on the Constitution’s very foundations is called a radical, a right wing wing-nut, irrational, prejudiced, greedy, and corrupt. [entire post]

The Consequences Of Political Centrism For US National Security

October 21, 2009 (By Bud Burrell)

From “Front and Center”, by Bud Burrell

– The harsh truth of reconciliation of the right and left by well-intended “Centrists”, who allege to seek the best balance of the arguments and positions of both sides is a never-ending movement to a socialist agenda. This should be no surprise to those who have studied historical socialist and communist theology. The fraud they perpetrate is one based on the ends justifying the means, and they view politics as class war by other means.

The United States has married itself to a two party system, chosen over a parliamentarian system of many parties seen in most Western nations. In these systems, government is run by vacillating assemblages of a number of parties who choose to come together to form a voting majority necessary for rule.

The core principals of republican democracy are aligned in this country by positions of opposing parties. One purportedly supports conservative values linked to individual liberties tied to States’ rights constituting a federalist system. The opposing party is linked to the concept of a controlling central government which provides for all of the needs of the people known as a compact theory of union, in exchange for the abrogation certain rights accorded when this country was formed.

This system only works when there is good faith on the parts of each party to preserve and protect the fundamental authority from which all central government authority is derived, the Constitution of the United States. It works only as long as both parties pay obeisance and pledge their loyalty to this highly logical and legal system of rights and obligations of citizens and politicians. [entire post]

Political Conditions’ Impact On U.S. National Security

October 5, 2009 (By Bud Burrell)

From “Front and Center”, by Bud Burrell

– Rational observers of the current environment of this country are watching as divisive policies championed by the Obama Administration have torn apart important opinions about what this country should stand for, how our Government should operate, what our Constitution and Bill of Rights mean, and much more. The citizenry is torn apart by who has primary responsibility for the education of their children first, how our healthcare systems should be paid for, what energy policies are rational in a period of extreme recession, who should be relied on to protect this country from its enemies, and much more.

The Obama Administration has for the first time in decades managed to wake the American people from their perennial political slumber, and they have chosen to do this while they try to sell an old standard of invasive big government, whose competency and integrity are both non-existent. They try to sell the American people the idea that they should trust the US Government, which has managed (or better, mismanaged) Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare with a ham-handedness that boggles the imagination, to handle now their national security, their healthcare, their access to affordable energy, the jobs creation process and more. [entire post]

Effective & Efficient: Two Words Our Government Has Demonstrated It Does Not Understand

September 27, 2009 (By Bud Burrell)

From “Front and Center”, by Bud Burrell

– We face impending legislative actions by our elected representatives that would potentially nationalize our health care systems, and a new taxation policy on energy being called euphemistically a “Cap and Trade” program, intended to have the US to try and unilaterally control Greenhouse Gases, while the rest of the World changes nothing. This comes on the heels of moves to effectively nationalize our banking system under the control of an entity which has never been audited or examined except “In Camera”, and a move to negate more than a century of property rights of bondholders as expressed in our bankruptcy laws by the national unionization of our automotive industry.

The expressed goals of any organization must ultimately be linked to operating effectively, meaning getting the job in front it done, and operating efficiently, meaning to operate in a manner that clearly treats all assets consumed in such activities as limited scarce resources which must be conserved with a conscience. Objective standards for measurement of the performance of any organization by necessity and practicality cannot come from within the organization in question, but must be based on third party, arms length research and review. This element is sorely lacking in our Government and its agencies today. [entire post]

Health Care At The Breaking Point

May 7, 2009 (By Dr. Joe Duarte)

From “Dr. Joe’s Market Diagnosis”, by Dr. Joe Duarte

Shares of Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ: GILD) may get a bounce as the markets look for way to make money from the swine flu outbreak. But the breakout of a new flu scare brings home a very significant point that goes beyond making money from a potential crisis.

As the swine flu hype kicks into high gear, and President Obama has instructed the Senate Majority to pass health care reform with 51 votes by invoking a complex procedure called reconciliation which blocks filibusters, consider this: fewer physicians, worsening demographics, and decreased reimbursement are coming to a head as the White House increases his focus on health care.

After nearly two decades of managed care, the U.S. health care system is about to lurch into a new degree of uncertainty, and the White House seems to be shocked at what has been obvious to physicians and patients for a few years now. The market has reached the point at which it can no longer bear the stresses put on it. So physicians are opting to opt out. [entire post]

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