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Tag: Chains

The Whos Who Of Schizophrenia

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Fri Jun 14, 2013 at 11:52:04 AM EST
Tags: Michigan, Chains, ACA, Medicaid, Expansion Of Government, Federal Chains, Shackles, Contract, Dumb, Bolger, Callton, Crawford, Denby, Forlini, Foster, Gardon, Haveman, Hobbs, Jacobson, Kesto, Kowall, LaFontaine, Lori, Lyons, MacMaster, McCready, O'Brien, Pagel, Poleski, Price, Pscholka, Rogers, Schmidt, Shirkey, Stamas, Walsh, Yonker, Zorn (all tags)

I am not going to get out of the fight, but damn, I sure have felt like it recently.

The Democrat party has been lost for some time to the progressive freak show that carries a disconnect about its intent and actions. While griping about money in elections by big corporations, it calls out for bigger government that attracts such mechanisms. While it decries the high cost of insurance and medical care, it uses the tools of government to discourage entry into the field of medicine, thus raising the cost. While promising no mouth goes unfed, it has provided a trough that keeps the hands associated with those mouths idle and unproductive so they cannot feed themselves. Constantly the 'civil rights' violations, through our social compacts, are heralded as wrong, yet murdering of those who can least defend themselves is their rallying action. And at the same time that its activists want us out of their bedrooms, they put their genitalia in our faces and into our school programming.

Its a bizarro world.

Its a strange place and time, and I don't recognize my country or state any longer. When the lies become the truth, and the truth is decried as meaningless, and a (very unhealthy)gun is put to our heads, so that someone who has made poor choices with regard to their own health care might be made better.

But it didn't hurt so much until the last 2 decades, and the damage was somewhat limited until the Republicans allowed it to become mainstream.

More below the fold ~

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Declare It DOA

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Wed Nov 14, 2012 at 08:50:12 AM EST
Tags: Michigan, Health Care Exchange, Cronyism, Snyder's Friends, Tyranny, Unconstitutional, Weak Weak Weak Lawmakers, Tyrants, Chains, Slavery (all tags)

If the Snyder administration wishes to provide the BEST options for Michigan taxpayers and citizens, it should ask the legislature to defy the feds under the 10th amendment.

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."

Some lawmakers may not understand the power they wield. :

"I'm very pleased that we are continuing to have an ongoing discussion," said Haines, the chair of the House Health Policy Committee. "It has been very difficult. I don't think it's anybody's fault in Michigan. It's been very difficult to get answers out of Washington."
Details, including the requirements and the costs to taxpayers, need to be worked out, she said. Still, Haines said she was leaning toward a state-run exchange.
"We have until Friday," she said. "I've been here all day making phone calls and talking to people. We're all committed to doing what's best for Michigan."

Then do what is best, and tell the feds to take their mandate and send it back to Europe where it has provided inadequate health options for decades.

There is no authority given by the constitution to the federal government to force citizens to purchase a product.

Any product.

Period.

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