The Republicans, on the other hand, PRETEND to be the white hat wearing “good guys” coming to the aid of the small isolated American prairie town being beset and under siege by unwashed and unprincipled dark caped criminal types and when elected, do exactly as the villains would do.

3 Steps to stop the slide….
First…stop the current Democrats in their tracks next election by voting in large numbers of the lesser of two evils…the Republicans who will at least slow down the Marxist Express and oncoming Obamruptcy.

Second…Replace the Republicans with viable alternative 3rd party candidates the following election.

Third…Maintain the attrition of Democrats and Republicans from our government each election cycle, and then maintain a close watch on the then corruptible 3rd party candidates who have then had a taste of power and the “good life” of politics with all the “candy” being offered by interested outsiders.

Without a viable 3rd political party founded on verifiable maintained integrity and Constitutional foundations, we are undeniably finished as a nation in the not too distant future.

Unbridled and unchecked government compassion was a fashion.
It’s over as it’s time to get back to survival mode.

How about an amendment to forbid people from voting if they’re on the dole?… talk about a firestorm.

Many of us have been aware that the day when the ideological divide between self reliant free choice individuals and those seeking to make all of us subservient to a megalomaniacal group of people, who have nothing but their own self empowerment and self aggrandizement as their driving motive, would eventually come. With this new usurpation of rights and freedoms from individuals to “the state”, our government has ‘crossed the Rubicon’ where apathy must be overcome and all freedom loving individuals must step up to the plate and be resilient and righteously indignant of our own government going against the majority of the current sentiment amongst the American people.

The premise that government has the obligation and then right to impose it’s version of “compassion” on their citizens by forcefully taking from one member of that citizenry and giving it to another, that the government deems to be “needy”, is a false premise. What we have just witnessed with a minuscule majority of votes (some attained by “Chicago style political methods”)to gain favor with only 35% of the nation’s constituency is nothing less that a legislative coup d’etat of our entire political system.

I for one am increasingly suffering from a not yet officially designated ailment known as C.F.S. or Compassion Fatigue Syndrome due to my observations in life that many of the people who are failing to personally achieve prosperity and stability in life are usually their own worst enemies. It’s not their situation that needs to be addressed and amended but their attitude and their wrong belief that they are owed something to equalize their often self created plight, and can use their vote to have our government steal wealth, time, or services from someone else for the unearned benefit of another.

One of the underlying reasons we now have a major problem in our country with the empowerment of politicians promising the redistribution of wealth is due to the fact that people who do not work and who do not wish to work, have the right and power to vote. These voters by their own human nature are going to vote for politicians who promise to take wealth and assets from that society’s producers and then redistribute that wealth to that nation’s voting block who refuse to metaphorically stand on their own two feet and create their own prosperity by their own efforts and initiative and instead wish to simply vote to have the wealth and prosperity belonging to others given to them.

I am all for compassion and charity on a personal level and have given of my own wealth and possessions exceedingly over the last few years with no expectation of repayment or reciprocation to many friends, family, and even strangers in dire need. However I’ve learned the futility of trying to help people who refuse to change their dysfunctional ways and thus help themselves and now understand that the only way to help people is to let them suffer the consequences of their own poor judgments, laziness, and failure to work hard with self discipline while making mature and reasoned plans for the future.

There are many more factors involved in the present dissatisfaction that Americans have with the current health care system in this country. The medical profession and pharmaceutical industry have taken on too powerful a role in all our lives and there is reason to believe that their insidious influence has infiltrated the very pockets of many of our representatives and those associated with our government.

Those of us still respecting free choice, freedom, and
real compassion need to clean house over the next few elections and restore a lost sense of inherent integrity to a dysfunctional and rapidly failing system.

Look, I’m going to be blunt: We haven’t seen anything yet. Obamacare is neither the capstone nor the cornerstone of the collectivist metropolis, the great Utopian dream, that the Yes We Can Army is forcing the individualists/producers to be conscripted into building for the Kleptocracy (i.e. a government that rules be thievery and/or deception). What we now see is not the real Utopia, but just the hazy, surreal outline of what’s to come. It reminds me of how the polluted haze hanging over the city of Beijing distorts the view of reality, and on the most polluted days, the view is even distorted from one side of Tiananmen Square to the other. Metaphorically speaking, the average, every-day American cannot see beyond all the political haze to the life of serfdom that is waiting for them at the end of the road.

When Obama(aka You Know Whom or YKW) first sidled up to the ignorant, collectivist masses, few, very few indeed, understood the long range ramifications of what was about to happen. Mr. Ringer was one of the very few who understood YKW from the get-go. That’s why I’ve been both a faithful reader and a relentless contributor of/to this blog. This blog cuts right through the political haze in a very compassionate manner.

Mr. Ringer is a wise, old tortoise. He is an avuncular figure who is one of the few men left alive that is of the same calibre of Ayn Rand. I could never have the patience that Mr. Ringer displays in educating Mr. and Misses Average American, even if I possessed the skill to do so.

Frankly, I still firmly believe that the massive educational efforts put forth by Mr. Ringer, Glenn Beck, and others will ultimately fail to prevent F.A. Hayek’s nightmare from coming true. The nightmare will incrementally come true and YKW’s hazy, communitarian politics will herd Americans down “The Road To Serfdom” until, finally, the point is reached in which the entire system completely collapses—totally ruining the paper based currency, totally ruining the economy, and totally ruining any left-over civility. This, in turn, will create a chaotic vacuum in which a dictator will surely arise. That’s when the real fun begins. Everything that’s occurring now is just a warm up for the big show. Americans are going to be living in an emergency state, which is almost the same as a police state. And if you think that the Republican Party is going to save America, then I guess you didn’t learn very much from the Bush Era, did you? As Mr. Ringer so correctly points out, the republicans are defending medicare; And that SHOULD tell you everything that you need to know about them.

Some cultures execute individuals by inflicting a thousand little cuts on them and then letting them slowly bleed to death. So too, YKW’s Yes We Can Army is inflicting DEATH to America by a thousand cuts, or restated, DEATH TO AMERICA BY A THOUSAND ENTITLEMENTS!!!

If the republicans win back control of congress, then I say, so what? At best, the direction down “The Road To Serfdom” won’t change, it will only slow. Way back in 1960, F.A. Hayek pointed out that classical liberalism—which is the only real answer— opposes both progressivism and conservatism. Dr. Hayek cuts through all the political haze in his masterfully written book, The Constitution of Liberty. In the chapter, Why I Am Not A Conservative. Dr. Hayek adroitly points out why America will inevitably fail if conservatives run the country. The Bush Era unquestionably proved his theory. There is only one way in which the Republican Party could be instrumental in saving what’s left of Liberty; And that way is the Ron Paul way, because Ron Paul is not a conservative, he’s a libertarian; Therefore, if the Republican Party fundamentally transforms itself into a Libertarian Party, then progressivism could be properly challenged and defeated………well, good luck with that.

In closing, even if Senator McCain was elected President, this same health care bill (or one similar) was have also passed, but at a slower pace.