“Barack Obama is on track to have the most spectacularly failed presidency since Woodrow Wilson.”

I must agree Obama is going down in flames.  Four years from now when his ignorance on so much has stood the test of time he will be voted out.  History will hold him in a dark light indeed as a pawn of the far left bent on moving America to a socialist, transnationalist country that operates on standards of moral relativism.  As he is holding the Bush legacy to the fire on interrogations we as a nation should hold him to the fire for his traitorous views of this country when he deems to stab us in the back verbably with his foreign policy or steals our jobs and money for his and his parties power hungry elite.  The American Thinker puts it right when they say…

“It’s not so much that he’s a phony, knows nothing about economics, is historically illiterate, and woefully small minded for the size of the task– all contributory of course.  It’s that he’s not one of us. And whatever he is, his profile is fuzzy and devoid of content, like a cardboard cutout made from delaminated corrugated paper. Moreover, he doesn’t command our respect and is unable to appeal to our own common sense. His notions of right and wrong are repugnant and how things work just don’t add up. They are not existential. His descriptions of the world we live in don’t make sense and don’t correspond with our experience.”

Again, let me say the truth there is no health care debate.  It’s all fictional.  Like the spoon in the movie the Matrix.  It is a straw man meant to grab our attention while the true fight lays behind the scenes.

The health care debate is two sides fighting over maintaining their entrenched status quo’s.  It is a power struggle that has nothing to do about costs, health care, insurance, taxes or anything remotely resembling what the American people actually would and should care about.

Democrats are arguing to expand the Medicare/caid status quo and further entrench this with other public pay or “co-op” options.  It’s nothing new it’s been around it is wasteful money sucking, completely insolvent and nearly bankrupt power harness on the American people.

Republican’s are arguing to “contain” costs with various deregulation schemes/tort reform/etc.  Which is really again just more of the same a mix of somewhat less regulated insurance companies and lower malpratice claims meaning more money for insurance companies and less for lawyers.  (i.e. the government still picks and chooses the winners and lossers)

Neither of these choices are change the GOP or the Dems are both selling snake oil and laughing all the way to the bank.  These are just power grabbing rockstar babies fighting over the territory of the average American taxpayer.

I KNOW a thing or two about TRUE leaders.  My father and grandfather are and were both TRUE leaders, I’ve study leaders, my second business mentor wrote books on leadership, and HISTORY is full of true leaders.   A true leader is one that is willing to give away their power. Look at Washington, Ghandi, Christ, King, etc. when offered power, money, fame, and thrones they gave it up. True change would be doing away with power Washington turned down the thrown to America.   The opposite of our modern day politicians who on both sides are SEEKING power.

Deregulating an industry 50% controlled by government is meaningless. Tort reform is something that can ebb a flow with swaying legislation and is meaningless.  These are temporary band-aids for an entrenched system of opperations.  It’s like a band-aid for a man with cancer.  While the Democrats are are calling for blood-letting by bleeding the already dying system.  Both sides are fighting for their own political and corrupted power.

So, what is the answer.  If the system is broken or dying what would a true leader do?  True reform will be ending the idiocy of Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security to name a few.  Cancel these systems tell the American people to solve their own problems government is not the savior of mankind.  It is time for the children of the elderaly to step up and care for their parents.  It’s time for the baby-boomers to wake-up and realize there isn’t going to be a free lunch.  And it’s time for American’s to demonstrate responsibility, earning ones way, and hardwork to younger generations.  I am not alone in my call for true reform and am not alone in seeking true leadership – as this article points out.  Although, along with that article I feel that I’m deeply in the minority.     The American people and for that matter the world are wading through a sea of lies, power hungry, egoists seldom seen in the course of human history.

Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.

via The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Today we know by basic common sense that non of these things are rights.  The concept that everybody should be given as a right a standard of living is of course completely illogical.  And that this standard of living should provide us with health and well-being is purely an excercise in make-believe.   Human beings recognize that they are responsible for their own health and well-being.  One would not try to argue from an intellectual standpoint that entertainment which can help one unwind and have a sense of fun and well-being is right and therefore, they have a right to cable TV, the latest video game, or a movie ticket.  Or that they enjoy a sip alcohol after a hard days work because it helps their well-being (Ben Franklin said that alcohol was proof God wanted us to be happy); therefore, all working American’s should be given a government stipend for alcohol purchases.  It is understood that our self-esteem/well-being and health are dictated by the choices that one makes in life. 

Furthermore, those situations addressed by the UN are not beyond our control they are ALL under are control because we can plan for every single one of them.  We ALL know we will one day get sick, be unemployed, disabled, widowed, and grow old.  We control how these things happen to us and what happens when they happen.  They are predicatable and therefore controlable.  They are not avoidable of course but control and inevitability are of course two different things.  In fact the very nature of something being inevitable increases it’s controlability to our lives.  For example, if you know that today you will die your day would suddenly become VERY controlled.  You’d treat your love ones differently, you probably wouldn’t go to work, you may even do a few extra deeds, and probably visit your church. 

So, where does the right for health care come from?  It comes from those that are followers repeating their leaders words. Those that lead today seek power and fame or the in the corporations greed.   It comes out of the corruption of what a right is - human, civic, or natural.  Read carefully TheRighttoHealthCare.org and how they define a right.  Notice they do not define a right instead saying that a right is undefined.  Read through the whole site and notice there is no philosophical, intellectual, or logical reason for health care as a right.  So, how then do they make the leap?  By saying that a right is ever changing and growing.  In other word there is no standard definition of a right. 

This is the root of the problem with the health care debate (and many other “debates”).

It seems that because somebody says, “Health care is a right” it becomes a right.  Just because I say, “The moon is made of cheese” does not make the moon actually made of cheese.  The only way way to make this “health care is a right” logical is to make a right anything and everything.  In other words if cheese could also mean dust and dirt and rock then I am right the moon is made of cheese.  This is what is being done. 

What does this mean to us as citizens and individuals?  What is something that is undefined? Something that is undefined has no meaning or value.  For example, 20 divided by zero is undefined it has no meaning and no value.  If we try to add something divided by zero to something it is meaningless.  This is of course mathmatical so let me simplify.  How much would you pay me (value) for something that I’m not going to tell you what it is (undefined)? If you’re smart it better not be much.

Those that are trying to make health care a right do not (cannot) understand the consquences of their actions and what is more they are devaluing the actual meaningful value of a right by not defininging it.

Both liberals and conservatives should take serious issue with our current politicians that are debating health care and treating it as a right. 

Liberal’s and liberalism’s defined core philosophies are supposed to center around human rights and individual freedom by definition.  The undefining of a right as evidenced in the health care debate makes by it’s nature human rights something of no value.

Conservatives by definition hold on to what is traditional and try to maintain old values.  The debate around health care is redefining rights and doing away with the traditional and old values to replace them with something undefined and of no value.

Both ideologies should be attacking this “health care” plan.  Instead the liberals are debating about the form it should be in and the conservatives are proposing alternatives.

“North Korea defied world powers and carried out an underground test Monday of a nuclear bomb Russian officials said was comparable to those that obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
     Associated Press, May 25, 2009.
     Hat tip: AmericanMissive.com

Today and tomorrow President Obama has an opportunity – deal strictly and harshly with North Korea. 

Liberals and peace loving democrats mount up!  North Korea is arming itself.  Nuclear proliferation is on the rise.  Michael Moore it’s time for another documentary this time on the evils of nuclear weapons and their proliferation! Jane Fonda it’s time to head overseas and protest the aggression of rogue nations! 

It is a time of opportunity.  Will North Korea be allowed to arm itself and proliferate nuclear weapons.  For decades the West has been disarming and dismantling nuclear weapons at the behest of peace and liberal ideology.  This aggression should not be allowed to stand.  Obama can use North Korea as an example of how liberal democratic ideals halt nuclear proliferation. 

None of what I mention above will happen.  I predict a lot of talk and some UN (meaningless) paper resolutions.  As the world looks on they (Iran, Syria, and others) will realize that nuclear proliferation treaties are meaningless and while Obama is head of the world police state the police are on a (4 to 8 year) donut break. 

No action will be taken.  We will see further increase in nuclear states.

Today is Obama’s opportunity.  But I fear the world has just gotten more dangerous.

He (Obama) has shifted the tax burden off the middle class and back onto the wealthiest of Americans who can certainly afford it.

Not much different then the slavers of old or the Nazi’s of more recent memory.   

It’s not socialist to try and bully business into doing the right thing by Americans.

Nope, but it is facist, especially when the bullying is meant to enable the oppression of a particular class of society.  Remember it is the rich today that are slowly being oppressed.  Remember they can afford to get up and leave when it get’s to bad.  Who will be the next group to be targeted for oppressions by the likes of these liberals?  Will he next choose a religious group that is ok to oppress, maybe an ethnic group, or maybe a new category?

Republican politicians often forget that conservatism is an argument, while liberalism is a promise. The conservative champions both the moral and practical superiority of liberty and individualism. The liberal promises tangible rewards in exchange for votes. The conservative argument will never be over, because any free-market system will always include a certain population who fare poorly. No matter how small that population is, or how much the overall wealth of society eases the burden of their poverty, they will always be extremely receptive to the seduction of collective politics: You’re not responsible for your lot in life. You were cheated. The wealth of others is unfair. Give us the “freedom” that wasn’t doing you any good anyway, and we will sharpen it into a weapon against those who took advantage of you. Give us your undying support, and you’ll never have to worry about feeling confused, guilty, or inadequate again. Voting for the Democrat ticket will fully discharge your moral and intellectual duty as a citizen – we’ll take it from there. In fact, we’ve got ACORN representatives standing by to fill that ballot out for you. You have a “right” to housing, a job, health care, a college education, easy credit, and a host of other benefits, and the liberal promises to provide all of these things, while making nameless rich people pick up the tab.

http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2009/05/05/the-other-side/

I think this is well said, and almost a certainty with government education that teaches people not to question their world and reality.  Unfortunatley I think it’s more of the Stupid American’s syndrome that is so pervasive throughout society.  What are we to do with all these idiots running around?