Sick Care

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Sick Care

On a trip to Yugoslavia, I was sitting in a restaurant in Dubrovnik, which I still believe is the most beautiful city in the world. Textbook communist at the time, under the reign of Tito, an elderly woman came over and sat down across from me and asked me if I were an American. She said, “Until people have lost their freedom, they do not know what it is like to have it”. Slowly but surely Americans daily lose their freedom, and like the frog in the pot of heated water, they will not realize it until their liberty is completely gone. I can tell you now, having visited every communist country except North Korea, we are under as much collectivist, totalitarian control as any communist country. We still have the right to pay taxes on the house in which we live (you do not own your house, you only pay taxes to live in it, you do not own your car, you only pay taxes to drive it, you do not own anything, you are already enslaved by regulations, permits, licenses in every action).

The last great freedom of an American involved in security and privacy is your freedom regarding your sick care. I say “sick care” because nothing in the monster 2,000 page legislation now before the Congress pertains to wellness, preventative care, supplements. In fact, your ability to buy supplements, even such vitamins as the A,B,C and D vitamins, will be strictly prohibited to RX drugstore physician activity. You think sick care is costly now, with the new legislation, a couple making $100,000 combined income will pay $20,000 a year for this government care. You think bankrupt Medicare and Medicaid are problems now, go to a VA hospital and see war torn and worn veterans take a number and just sit for hours waiting for the most callous care one can imagine. Over the years, in any visit to a civilian doctor, I always ask my assistant, “How many people are here? What age are they?”. They are always old people there because the government will pay for it. If the government were not paying for it, most of these people would use home remedies. Most of these people would be more careful about their food intake, their exercise, their addictions.
50% of all Americans now are obese and most are diabetic.

50% of suicides are alcohol connected. 10% of all drivers on the highways are alcohol impaired. Alcohol for older citizens, like designer drugs for young people, are addictive because most are looking for escape, escape from the harsh realities which daily bombard us from every direction.

The new sick care legislation has nothing to do with insurance or government providing compassion for people. It is not health but a transfer of power, a loss of your freedom to choose. The government wants to take over this one-fifth of the country's economy with bankrupt systems involving every government agency, with entitlements and other debt (interest only debt). Your children and grandchildren are facing a $50 trillion national debt. A trillion dollars, in simple terms, would be the equivalent of spending one dollar per second for 32,000 years. Already, with a $12 trillion debt, every man, woman and child in America owes $250,000 dollars. A baby born out at the hospital this very morning, so cute, so innocent, owes the government $250,000.

Goldman Sachs is making $100 million a day from the fact that the dollar is so near worthless. This American company, with all it's bailouts, like the Saudis, like the local banks with their bailouts, are spending almost worthless fiat currency to push up the stock market. Would it not be terrible for this nation to have enemies?

Iceland, preceding the American experience, allowed their banks to make frivolous loans to bank officers, employees, and others closely connected to the banks without having any standards with which to back up the practices. The entire nation, from financial incredulity and the Marxist system of welfare, is entirely broke. Reportedly, in such dire financial trouble, they have nowhere to go. So much financial corruption, they have had trouble finding anyone to clean it up. They reportedly appointed an innocuous police chief from a remote town. As I heard of the futility of the Iceland financial system, I could not help but think of the thousands of fish I saw on racks, in Iceland, drying in the sun. Like the dried fish, like any mammal when all internal consciousness has been removed (Americans are about to be gutted and put out to dry), we face the certainty of desolation. There is much criticism in Iceland from the media about the dire circumstances of the country. Iceland, with it's state controlled media, could not see the desolation coming. Do you think for one minute the state controlled media in America has investigated the consequences of proposed sick care or any of the other Obama surge to communism? The media proclaims that there must be change. The very ones in government, politicians and bureaucrats, who have concocted this cauldron of legislation are the very ones who could have corrected the many warts and fallacies in the present insurance and care systems (health insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, VA).

The philosopher, Alexander Pope, said , “A new beatitude I give you, “Blessed is the man who expects nothing for he will never be disappointed”. “ Have your elected politicians done anything good for you lately? Are you disappointed?