To Become More Like Her

It has occurred to me that my raging against the political machine only serves to add fuel to the fire—a fire that burns out of control. Though I will not pretend to be unaffected by power-mongering politicians, I will not add to the fire of inequality that they keep fueling. Therefore I will say but one last thing on the subject of politics and trust that you will have the courage to challenge you own beliefs on the matter: The Messiah has not yet returned to the earth. That being said, communism or socialism does not stand as governments that are of the people, by the people, and for the people. They serve only one group and that is the elitist politician and his or her friends.

One might argue that communism or socialism would not be much different that what we have now. That person would be correct, but only because WE AS CITIZENS of this amazing country have allowed our leaders—From President Wilson to President Obama—to push a “New World Order” agenda on us without our true consent. I say true consent, because BOTH parties have worked in unison to bring about this dreadful change, misrepresenting themselves as being opposed to each other. Yet Republicans and Democrats are but different images on the same coin. Whenever you flip it the outcome is always the same: Heads they win; Tails you lose!

It is time that we put people in office who will work in cooperation, not for a “New World Order” but for a greater America—the America that shines its light on distant shores inspiring the governments there to rise to the challenge of becoming as our nation once was: A Place of Freedom and Liberty for all who are within their borders. Let not America change to fit some foreign notion of what She should be. Let the other nations of the world change to become more like Her.


      "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not traitor, he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared." - Cicero, 42 B.C.

Healthcare Reform: Drilling Holes for the Future

I am a Tri-Care recipient. Granted I only pay $115.00 per quarter for this healthcare insurance, but I am not able to choose which doctor I see. I am assigned to a team of doctors who actually never stay in the place I live for very long. I am only able to be seen on military installations, and need a referral to be seen by a specialist. Getting the referral is a beaurocratic affair in that they are reluctant to let you see a specialist who might charge more than what they are willing to cover for you.

The government already has its healthcare insurance. It’s called Medicaid. Have you ever been on Medicaid? You don’t want to be there. The places that will take Medicaid are your county health departments, located in typified buildings of a time when Franklin D. Roosevelt was President of the United States. If hospitals are bad enough, these places are typically worse. Some wouldn’t pass public health codes, yet they treat the sick and infirm? That is what social medicine looks like.

Even if the Health Department actually were able to get the manpower to do its job and inspect these places of social medicine, the situation would not be much better. Do you know of anyone who will go to Africa to get a critical procedure done? What about Russia? Cuba? OK, let’s be fair. Do you ever hear of anyone famous in the U.S.A going to Germany to get Lasik? Or have cataracts removed from their eyes? They don’t go to Great Brittan either. Why? All of these countries have one form of social medicine or another. You would think that someone like Barbara Streisand would jump at the opportunity to go to Russia to get Lasik done, if she needed it. She won’t though. Let's face it, even she doesn't really want government healthcare for herself, because she can afford the best surgeon money can buy. She, and the rest of congress, who have six figure incomes, want this program for all you poor individuals who are less fortunate than they are. At least Barbra earned her millions. The congressmen in government merely take it from you in the guise of taxes.

Let’s face it; doctors in the United States of America aspire to be the best because if they aren’t, then they do NOT GET PAID. If you know that you have to work without any form of compensation to feed your family do you work as hard? Would you work at all? Some would, but they are few and far between. Now here is the rub. You have great doctors and surgeons who will do everything they can to help their patients but can’t because someone with a business degree, with no medical background, is telling the doctor that they will not authorize the use of a CAT scan when the patient, their paying client, could have cancer. You would think that an insurance company, who is receiving a monthly check from you, would want to keep the money coming. The only way to do that is if you are alive. Dead clients don’t pay insurance! They’re dead because the insurance company would not insure the treatment. Does that make sense?

Yet here you have an insurance company that is in business, not to insure their clients for medical expenses but rather to make money, telling a doctor, who spent his money learning how to treat you for medical problems you might have, that he cannot treat you because it doesn’t want to lose money. However, we keep paying these insurance companies to do essentially nothing but fight with us as to whether a procedure was necessary in our treatment. If the Federal Government were to get involved you would have the biggest “Insurance Company”, without medical degrees, doing essentially the same thing. We already pay taxes to this government to do essentially nothing but fight with us as to whether we should be allowed to keep our Constitutional rights. Do you really want to fight with them over the matter of whether you should live or die?

“Drilling holes in his head is not the answer. The artery needs to be repaired,” explains Dr. McCoy, who would probably say the same of our healthcare system. It needs a rework, not a hole to relieve the pressure. The hole this proposed Federal Healthcare would cost us would actually be in your grand-children’s wallets. They and your grand-children’s grandchildren will be paying off this 3 Trillion dollar program and would never really see the supposed benefits because they’d all be waiting in an endless sea of people who want to see an overworked underpaid doctor. They would be standing in this line because they are too poor from being over-taxed to pay for the 3 Trillion dollar ball and chain, our Government calls a Healthcare Reform Plan, they will clamp on their collective necks if WE allow such a plan to be implimented.

Would Ted Kennedy have stayed in office so long if he were required to participate in the Social Security Program? Really, would any “Public Servant” stay in office or pass bad legislation if they were required to live by the laws they make? Would any Judge feel the need to legislate from the bench if they were required to abide by their own ruling? The Federal Government doesn’t pay into Social Security. They do not receive Social Security when they retire. Our taxes continue to pay for their pension plans, yet they have no problem stripping Ford and GM of their plans. This Healthcare Plan of theirs looks like a screen for the real problem: they need a recession-proof way of paying for all their pensions, which come with a Secret Service detail by the way, when they retire. Honestly, Federal Government involvement in healthcare would only bleed out the American economy. As if the economy could take another hit.

“What are you making in there for us, Mr. Franklin?” someone asked when the Constitution and Governmental System was being written and formed.

“A Republic, if you can keep it,” he replied.

Wake up, America! If doctors were required to take business courses they would not have to rely on insurance companies, the real ones are playing God with our lives. Let the doctors see and treat everyone. If the patient cannot pay, the doctors can merely file this in their taxes and have Uncle Sam part with a percentage of OUR hard earned money. The doctors would then have the reimbursement of out of pocket expenses. In reality, there would be no need for insurance, and no need for government involvement. Unpaid expenses would be paid by the doctor and then reimbursed by the government in a tax return. That is not government involvement. That is the way things ought to be.

Topics for discussion: Are Russia and the USA changing places when it comes to Healthcare?

Why is social medicine so important? Is it really?

What is the true nature of Medicare and Medicaid? Isn't that already a form of

Federal Insurance?

The Title of Liberty

This e-mail was sent to me from a dear friend who remains anonymous.

"Well done video. Expresses the frustration of many at this time. Accurately condemns the American people for our pathetic, weak-kneed response to all of this.

“Thomas Payne” does not advocate an open rebellion. He believes that, if we get our elected officials’ collective attention, things will change. I hope he’s right."

This was sent to him:

"This guy's video on YouTube has been so popular that Obama called him personally. He said that he was very disturbed with the video and invited him to the White House. Obama also said he wanted the White House to handle the Press and not to talk about the video or the White House visit. That's interesting.Watch it now. This may be the best six minutes invested in your future You may have to turn your Sound Control up some."

Perhaps it is worth a look here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeYscnFpEyA

I am not opposed to defending the constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic. I took an oath to do so. Let us do as my Namesake of old did. "And it came to pass that he [Captain Moroni] rent his coat; and he took a piece thereof, and wrote upon it—In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children—and he fastened it upon the end of a pole. And he fastened on his head-plate, and his breastplate, and his shields, and girded on his armor about his loins; and he took the pole, which had on the end thereof his rent coat, (and he called it the Title of Liberty) and he bowed himself to the earth, and he prayed mightily unto his God for the blessings of liberty to rest upon his brethren, so long as there should a band of Christians remain to possess the land— "

Let the Title of Liberty stand again! Let it be flown in the hearts of all who delight in the freedoms America once championed. Let our tea bags be the first shot in our counterattack against the tyranny that is picking up where FDR left off. Their war against American Values has a Marxist/ Politburo ring to them. If they succeed in electing Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, gone will be the days wherein the press can inform the public of their governments treachery against them. Gone will be the day wherein you will be able to protest against such atrocities. Gone will be the days wherein you are allowed to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of your own conscience. Gone will be the day where our Armed forces will have something worth fighting for. Instead, we will have something to truly fight against.

I do not support the "Ruling Parties" they are images on the same coin. It is time to find the Gold on which our Nation was established.

My Worst Gear, Anyway

Job hunting is such a drag! Gotta find one that is close to home, so "Jade" can stay at hers. Might have to go back to fast food. This is what writers do?! Yep, this is what struggling writers do: They do what is necessary to bring home a pay check. "Would you like fries with that?" My BSBA going to good work. Guess I should have never left Arby's. Truck driving was good. Truck stops are evil, though. I hate them. Driving trash trucks aren't much better.

If I were to try my hand at driving truck again, I'd do things differently. I'd get out and look every time I had to back up. Certainly cant think that you're all that and a bag of chips when you drive such a big vehicle. I didn't respect the truck as much as I should have. I certainly got what I deserved. However, IF I was able to redo the whole truck driving thing, I'd do it differently. I'd treat the truck like I would a horse. I'd make sure the truck's needs came before my own. Then my family's needs would be next. Last, my own. Granted my health would be important, but not to the point of where it would be first on my list.

Pray that I find a job quickly. Pray that I am able to get into UCCS to increase my education and marketablity. If life is what you make of it, then the mess I have made is gonna have to take a back seat. I'll mend bridges as I go, but I'm not gonna drive in reverse. It is my worst gear, anyway.

Summer Already?

The end of the Memorial Day Weekend has left me wanting just one more day to recover. I wasn't able to celebrate "Day of the Jedi" the way I'd have liked, but I guess playing Battlefront II with "Waxer" will have to be sufficient.

I got up this morning, and read my Facebook page, and learned that our family isn't the only ones who take that weekend to plant a garden, and clean house. Always good to know that you're not the only ones who are into physical punishment...(smile)

So it is officially summer...I know this because "Stix" is home with me, and I am getting absolutely nothing accomplished.

Bummer Deal

So, I got this call from my parents. Turns out they want to come see us this summer. Unfortunately, its not gonna work. Not this summer anyway. Bummer...

Turns out that I won't be able to take the family to see The Four Jedi in July either. "Princess" (my sister) if you read this before I tell you, I'm sorry. "Jade" has a seminar that she must attend that weekend. Bummer deal.

Just a short post today.

Wedge

The Home Stretch

So, "Waxer" had his last concert last night. It actually was really well performed! They're all sixth-graders, that's why it was so surprising. "Waxer" plays the flute. He will be learning to play the trombone this summer. He was nervous, but did well.

"Stix" gets out of school this Friday! Can't we just rewind the school year? What happened to year-round-school? Guess it will just have to be us for a while. "Waxer" and "Jade" don't get finished with their school year until next week.

"Jade" recieved a request from her boss to teach summer school in July. She has training in June, and more training near the beginning of July, so she is going to be busy this summer.

I am doing my best to force my way into UCCS this summer. I may have to get another bachelor's degree. I suppose that if I get it in English, I won't have to worry about the books. My wife has nearly all of them. I'm trying to find something that will enhance my story telling ability. I'm also looking at getting an MA degree in Communications. That should prove facinating.

Still trying to meet up with the Four Jedi in July. We're definately not going to be able to make it to the Family Reunion that is being planned for July as a birthday gift for my grandma. However, we'll do what we can to let her know that we love her, and wish we could see her.

"Wedge"

Getting Started

Twin Suns Squadron was formed on October 14, 1995. It consists of two wings: Me and my wife, and my son and daughter.

In the interest of privacy, I shall refer to us in these blogs by our call signs:
My call sign is: "Wedge"
My wife's call sign is: "Jade"
My son's call sign is: "Waxer"
and my daughter's call sign is: "Stix"

I shall refer to members of this squadron by their call signs. If you are mentioned it will be by a call sign that you choose, and you will be assigned to a squadron in the fleet, if you like. Sounds funny, but some want to share, while still remaining anonymous.

Wedge--Squadron Leader