16. July 2009 by Satire V.

The brain trust over at DFA has come up with a series of questions they want their thralls to pass on to their Senators regarding the health care reform debate.

1. Do you support a public healthcare option as part of reform?
2. Do you support a public healthcare option that is ready on day one?
3. Do you support a public healthcare option that is national, available everywhere, and accountable to our government?
4. Do you support a public healthcare option that has the clout to establish rates with providers and big drug companies?

(Thank you to the friend that forwarded the email.)

There are obvious problems with the thinking (or lack of) that went into this group of questions.
Number one; the repeated reference to a “public option.”. This is a knowingly dishonest description. I will use the more common term “lie” from here on. This is not an option. We will not have a checkbox on our W4s asking whether it is OK with us to take some additional money from our paychecks to fund this monstrosity. Therefore, our only options are whether to pay for government health care alone or whether to pay for government health care for others and an additional amount out of pocket for actual health care.
Even the word “public” in that description should be considered a lie.  There is very little that is public regarding this Congress and Presidential administration.  BO thinks things as trivial as his birth certificate are worth spending hundreds of thousands to keep secret, and that the people don’t have any right to know how much he spends on a date to Broadway.
Number two; the following clause is loaded with more lies: “national, available everywhere, and accountable to our government.”  “National,” in this case means that States rights will be trampled or ignored.  “Available everywhere” is missing the implied words “and to everyone” ensuring that benefits won’t be limited to only the legal residents of this country, and perhaps the most telling “accountable to our government.”  The DFA shows their Socialist pedigree with this one. Perhaps they need to be reminded that the government is supposed to be accountable to the people of this Country, not another arm of the government.  We the people are supposed to be the arbiters of what is acceptable from any government entity or program.

In light of the useless nature of the questions suggested by DFA, I decided it would be more productive to ask the following instead:

As a constituent, I have a few questions I’d like you to answer. I’m looking for answers to these questions specifically so I can understand clearly your position.

Do you support substantive tort reform (limitations) as part of healthcare reform?

Will you pledge to stop using the misleading term public “option” as regards the current health care bill to ensure integrity of the legislative process? If ANY tax dollars are used to pay for a program, it ceases to be an option for any taxpayer.

Will you pledge to use ONLY the government program under this bill for yourself AND your family if you vote for this legislation and it passes? This question is crucial. Your answer to this will reveal how strongly you believe that massive government involvement will improve health care.

As a constituent, I would really like to know the answers to these questions. Please respond to these questions in writing via email.

Thank you.

In particular I believe that we should all be asking our Senators and Representatives the last question.  Please take the time to ask questions of yours regarding this issue.

Satire V

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12. July 2009 by Satire V.

The Obamination displayed his worrisome level of all things America again in his recent CNN interview while in Ghana, reported by Fox News here.   Linking America’s past slavery issues with the genocide happening in Darfur and the Congo is only possible for someone completely unfamiliar with the facts of the institution in this country, or a person with a conspiracy theorist level of paranoia and logic mangling.

America gave up slavery a long time ago, due in some part to a civil war but largely due to the earnest efforts of dedicated people that recognized how evil it was (the Republican Party).   That period of our history has no connection to the atrocities that are being committed in these distant countries.   The horrors that are happening there are all about political power.  Murders, rapes, beatings, burnings, and many other terrible things are not being done because people were held in cruel bondage here hundreds of years ago.  These acts are committed for the purpose of gaining and maintaining political power.

The only common thread tying these events together is the willingness of people to harm those who are most like themselves.
Many of the slaves that were brought to America were members of African tribes captured by other rival African tribes and sold to slave traders.  The idea that white European slavers went into the jungle to capture blacks is not inaccurate, but is certainly not the whole story.  Often, they simply went shopping on the beach and were brought captured enemies by the capturing tribes.
Today, the genocidal activities in these African countries consists almost entirely of blacks killing, maiming, and raping other blacks based on tribal, political, and religious affiliations.  This time, white European involvement is even less significant.

It isn’t clear from the story who Obama believes needs the lesson in slavery as it relates to these other events.  It is my guess that he thinks this is needed for our schools.  American schools already dedicate a significant portion of available time to slavery in our Country.  I saw the entire Roots miniseries in class in 1977 or 1978.  Spending more time trying to make a tenuous and inaccurate connection to these other tragedies is neither helpful nor educational.

The ignoramus in chief has shown that regarding slavery, the Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he lacks experience or credibility.

Just like in everything else.

Satire V

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