Jefferson Meets America's Modern Day Rulers

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Operation Health Freedom - Judge Andrew Napolitano

Judge Andrew Napolitano looks at health care and a justified use of Congress' interstate commerce regulation power. Americans should be free to buy insurance across state lines.

Anti-choice and Anti-competition = Unnatural and Unconstitutional

Remember, Remember The 5th Of November

"Remember, Remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason Should ever be forgot.


When the government fears the people there is liberty; when the people fear the government there is tyranny.- Thomas Jefferson

Don't Copy Europe's Mistakes In Healthcare

Yeah - what she said.

In this Center for Freedom and Prosperity video, Eline van den Broek explains that government interference is driving up healthcare costs in America and warns that European style health "reform" will make the situation even worse. Based on what has happened in Europe, she explains that universal health coverage is not the same as universal healthcare, that insurance mandates mean more government control, and that price controls simply do not work.

By the way...

Nancy Pelosi's goal is for this bill to receive as little attention and scrutiny as possible before the vote, so please be aware that once this bill goes to the floor, it will move fast. We need you to continue sounding the alarm and urging opposition to this 2,000-page monstrosity of massive new bureaucracy, redistribution of wealth, and rationed medical care.

Nancy Pelosi's H.R. 3962 contains the following provisions:
* "Grandfathers" out of existence individual health insurance coverage.
* Permits federal taxpayer funding of abortion services, above and beyond the status quo of current law.
* Provides for a "health care czar" called the Health Choices Commissioner, who could forcibly enroll individuals in government-run insurance and whose tasks include requiring random compliance audits on Americans' health benefits plans.
* Allows for "community organizations" like ACORN and Planned Parenthood to assist the Health Choices Commissioner in enrolling individuals in the Health Insurance Exchange.
* Encourages identity fraud for illegal immigrants seeking to gain taxpayer-subsidized health benefits through inadequate citizenship and legal status verification standards.
* Retains the "death panels" by providing for bureaucrats working for a new comparative effectiveness institute funded by a tax on health benefits.
* Retains both the individual and employer mandates to purchase health insurance or else face a financial penalty, and compliance to this mandate will be enforced by the IRS.
* Imposes a 2.5% tax on an individual's modified adjusted gross income if they fail to purchase "acceptable" health care coverage.
* Fails to hold Members of Congress to the same health care system requirements that Americans will have to live by under the public health insurance option.
* Mandates that all health insurance companies accept all applicants, that they cannot deny anyone for pre-existing conditions, and that they cannot increase the monthly premiums for less healthy, more costly consumers.
* Slashes Medicare payments to providers by more than $400 billion.
* Creates dozens of new bureaucracies (111 to be exact) including the Health Benefits Advisory Committee and the Health Choices Administration.
* Encourages people to drop their insurance in favor of the public option as it provides for underpaying medical providers, who will in turn jack up their rates for those patients who have private insurance, driving more people to the cheaper, government plan.
* Institutes $729.5 billion in job-killing tax increases on all Americans, fines those who can't afford to purchase government-forced insurance, and cripples businesses by taxing health benefits.

You stopped Congress from steamrolling forward on this legislation last summer, so it's time to do it again this week!

Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121


(H/T Al P. and Jim A.)

Thursday March On DC - Making A House Call Against The Healthcare Bill

Make a House Call on Washington - Hands Off Our Healthcare!
Thousands will join Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann on Thursday, November 5th at 12:00 Noon, to deliver letters to Congress protesting the proposed government takeover of healthcare.

Lawmakers are calling on Americans to storm the Capitol on Thursday in an “Emergency House Call on Congress” to stop the House from passing the Democrats’ health-care bill this week.

A group of legislators led by Reps. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., and Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., will be holding an emergency town-hall meeting outside the Capitol at 12 p.m. to protest the health-care bill set to hit the House floor. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has indicated that a vote on the bill could take place as soon as Thursday.

Bachmann told WND she is urging citizens to come to Washington and “pay an emergency House call to Congress.”

“This is the most effective way we have to kill socialized medicine and to do it this week,” she said. “Nothing is more effective at reaching a congressman than having a citizen come to Washington, D.C. – not asking for a handout, not asking for tax money, not asking to take some liberty away from somebody else, but just asking for freedom.”

She said the American people spoke loud and clear this summer, telling Congress they don’t want “cradle-to-grave takeover of health care.” According to Rasmussen Reports, a full 54 percent of voters are now opposed to the House version of health-care reform. Only 23 percent of all voters strongly support the plan while nearly twice as many, or 44 percent, expressed strong opposition.

“We saw tea parties. We saw the 9/12 movement where literally hundreds of thousands of Americans, if not more, all converged on the Capitol on a Saturday. People did this to get the attention of their members of Congress,” Bachmann said. “This is the week when the decision will be made about whether we will choose liberty or tyranny, whether we will choose socialized medicine or a free market.”

In CT there is a BUS to DC AVAILABLE!!!!!

There is a 55 passenger bus leaving out of the Danbury area for Thursday.
Here is the info:

Let's fill a bus leaving from Danbury CT from the commuter parking lot on Mill Plain Road via Peter Pan Bus lines.
From Danbury to the Capitol
Leave at 4:00 am - arrive approx. 10:30 am
The bus would return at 7:00 pm (with time for folks to have dinner) and you'd get back to Danbury around 12:00 midnight

The Bus holds 54 passengers.
Cost is approx. $50 per person

Contact Pamela Kurtz
Roepamela (at) aol (dot) com
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"It appears they plan to push it through, and unless the American people push back, unless they take the extraordinary step of coming to Washington at noon on Thursday, this bill will go through. We Republicans can't stop the passage. But with resistance from the American people, I am fully confident it can be defeated." ~ Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.

Republicans Win Big Across CT

Governor races in New Jersey and Virginia were won by Republicans, and here too in CT Republicans triumphed in municipal races.

Here's a partial list:

Tim Herbst in Trumbull
Mike Pavia in Stamford
David Campbell in Darien
Lisa Pellegrini in Somers
Noel Bishop in Westbrook
State Rep. John Harkins in Stratford
Joe Mazza in Guilford
Former State Rep. Peter Nystrom in Norwich
Fillmore McPherson in Madison
Anthony Candalora in North Branford.
Dick Moccia in Norwalk
Ryan Bingham in Torrington
Jeff Wright in Newington
Jason McCoy in Vernon
Sebastian Giuliano in Middletown
Mark Boughton in Danbury
Peter Tesei in Greenwich
William Dickerson in Wallingford
Lou Spadaccini in Manchester
Marc Lauretti in Shelton
Tony Staffieri in Derby
Jim Richetelli in Milford
Patricia Murphy in New Milford
Tim Stewart in New Britain

Wethersfield Town Council, and Canton and Glastonbury Boards of selectmen have a Republican majority.
Marlborough had a clean sweep by Republicans.

Looks like it was a good day for the GOP in CT.
Perhaps it is some foreshadowing of what is yet to come in 2010?

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CIT Files For Bankruptcy - It's PPT Time

It was bound to happen.
The government bailout of CIT just couldn't keep it together.
And with commercial real estate in crisis... well it really was bound to happen - and this comes on the heels of 9 more bank closures.
I wonder how MSNBC and other Obama media will spin this to somehow show more "green shoots".

From Zerohedge's post:

For more than 100 years, CIT has provided much needed capital to small business and middle market customers. These two sectors play a vital role in the U.S. economy and in overall employment and job creation, representing more than 90 million employees. CIT is the leading provider of financing to the retail sector and to women-, minority- and veteran-owned small businesses. Over one million customers depend on CIT to provide the financing needed to run their businesses. In addition to being one of the largest independent leasing companies in the U.S., CIT maintains the following leadership positions among others:

* #1 factoring company in the U.S.;
* 3rd largest railcar lessor in the U.S.; and
* 3rd largest aircraft lessor in the world.

This Yahoo report says:

The Chapter 11 filing is one of the biggest in U.S. corporate history, following Lehman Brothers, Washington Mutual, WorldCom and General Motors. CIT's bankruptcy filing shows $71 billion in finance and leasing assets against total debt of $64.9 billion.

A prepackaged bankruptcy, which has the support of major bondholders, speeds up the process of restructuring CIT's debt and could allow it to exit court protection by the end of the year. In addition to reducing its debt, CIT said the plan cuts cash needs over the next three years, which should help it return to profitability more quickly....

CIT's move will wipe out current holders of its common and preferred stock. That means the U.S. government will likely lose the $2.3 billion it sunk into CIT last year in return for preferred shares to prop up the ailing company. The government could have lost billions more, however, had it not declined to hand over more aid to the company earlier this year.

US Taxpayers gave this behemoth that was "too big to fail" a whopping $2.3 Billion and still it tanked.

But wait - a commenter on Zerohedge's website by the name of RobotTrader says this is the game plan for Monday Nov 2 and beyond:

Step 1: Futures down

Step 2: Investors "flee" into dollars and bonds

Step 3: 10-yr. yield plunges to 3.1% again, while the dollar rallies with a vengeance

Step 4: Turbo Timmy floats off $300 billion, of course its 400% oversubscribed

Step 5: Government creates another alphabet soup program to mop up CIT's bad loans

Step 6: Mop up completed, financed with near zero cost financing

Step 7: Goldman floats new IPO for CIT, billions are raised, Goldman scraps in huge dealmaking fees

How easy is that?

Yup.. that is what's most likely in the play book - then of course if the market tanks we also certainly see the PPT in action.. oh right, surely you recall the PPT:

Plunge Protection Team also known as the President's Working Group on financial markets which operates via Executive Order 12631 (signed by Reagan on March 18, 1988). The PPT name came from an article in the Washington Post in 1997.

For further edification on the issue please read these two pieces:

"Goldman Sachs and the Code of Gold"

"Effecting Success: Coordination On Cross-Cutting Issues" which says: The PWG is a forum for the coordination of Federal financial regulation across markets. It brings together the leaders of the Federal financial regulatory agencies, including the Secretary of the Treasury, who chairs the group, and the chairs of the Federal Reserve Board, the CFTC, and the SEC. In addition to the four primary financial regulators, regular staff meetings of the PWG also include staff members from the National Economic Council (NEC), the Council of Economic Advisors, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS).

They basically manipulate the market during a "crisis".

And do you remember Ron Paul and his question about PPT during the presidential debates? (Clearly McCain was clueless)



Well, all I can say is this week should be a very interesting week in the world of finance and the economy.

You might want to check this out too - 1929 and today - sobering parallels - because the parallels are truly sobering.

Fun Theory

Great study in human behavior.

Their website has a few videos with ideas on how to make it fun for people to recycle, walk the stairs or put trash in its place.

I wonder if they can make it fun for our Congress not to write moronic, verbose and unnecessary legislation?

Maybe they can make it fun to vote our current Congress out of office. Do you suppose they can put some sort of fun sound on the voting machines that you would hear when you vote for a Liberty Candidate?

Happy Halloween!

Mua-hah-hah!

1,990 Page House HealthCare Bill - Pricetag Is $1.055 Trillion

The House health care reform bill is about 400,000 words long.
Photo by AP

Read the text here for yourself.

Politico stated:

A print-out of the bill weighs more than 19 pounds and stands nearly nine inches tall. It's 1,990 pages long and about 400,000 words in total, and with Pelosi's estimated 10-year price tag of $894 billion, that comes out to about $2.24 million per word!

According to a preliminary Congressional Budget Office report the House Democrats' health care reform bill will actually cost taxpayers $1.055 trillion over the next decade and reduce the federal deficit overall by a mere $104 billion.

But regarding cost and savings ... it really depends who you are talking to.
When Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) released the bill to a hand-picked audience Thursday, she claimed that the bill will only cost $894 billion.

House Republicans said the $1.055 trillion cost is offset by $740 billion in new taxes and revenue and a net $426 billion in cuts in spending, largely in Medicare.

Bottomline:
What it really amounts to is a government takeover of healthcare.

They couldn't manage Katrina.
They couldn't manage cash for clunkers.
They have destroyed the dollar.
They have chased business overseas.
This bill will bankrupt us, and our children, and we will get poorer health care overall in the end with this legislation.

Read the Bill yourself.
Better yet ... tell your Congressman to read it!

There ARE better less costly solutions.

Interposition, Nullification and Secession on Freedom Watch

It looks like the State's are getting pretty tired of being dictated to by Washington, D.C.