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The problem is that the healthcare industry spends billions lobbying for laws that allow them to do this. Charge astronomical fees for life-saving medications. No other industry in America gets away with this.
There's a reason neither side addresses this because someone's getting paid to pass these laws.
It seems to me the solution is just to adopt government subsidized healthcare like the rest of the civilized world, but America will flip out about "socialism" while continuing to let the healthcare industry rob us blind
There's a reason neither side addresses this because someone's getting paid to pass these laws.
It seems to me the solution is just to adopt government subsidized healthcare like the rest of the civilized world, but America will flip out about "socialism" while continuing to let the healthcare industry rob us blind
Political Wisdom
-If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. -- Mark Twain
-Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress .... But then I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain
-I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. ---Winston Churchill
-A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw
-A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.--- G Gordon Liddy
-Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. -- James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
-Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. -- Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University
-Giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. -- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
-Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. -- Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
-The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. -- Ronald Reagan (1986)
-I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. -- Will Rogers
-If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! -- P.J. O'Rourke
-In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. -- Voltaire (1764)
-Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you! -- Pericles (430 B.C.)
-No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. -- Mark Twain (1866)
-Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it. -- Unknown
-The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan
-The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. -- Winston Churchill
-The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. -- Mark Twain
-The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. -- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
-There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress. -- Mark Twain
-What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. -- Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)
-A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have. -- Thomas Jefferson
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THE UNITED STATES ONE-DOLLAR BILLA Patriot's Reminder
Take out a one-dollar bill, and look at it. The one-dollar bill you're looking at first came off the presses in 1957 in its present design. This so-called paper money is in fact a cotton and linen blend, with red and blue minute silk fibers running through it. It is actually material. We've all washed it without it falling apart. A special blend of ink is used, the contents we will never know. It is overprinted with symbols and then it is starched to make it water resistant and pressed to give it that nice crisp look.
Note that this is a Federal Reserve Note, a debt note of the United States to the Federal Reserve, not a United States Treasury note, nor is it backed as Constitutionally required by gold or silver. The Federal Reserve is a privately held central banking establishment, which releases to the public and controls the market value of all currency of the United States. It is in fact not Constitutional money at all, but fiat money having no basis of value whatever except the debt that the Government and the public have created through over-spending and credit. See Who Is Running America? Or go to your library and check out "Secrets of the Temple - How the Federal Reserve Runs The Country" by William Greider... it is a long read, 766 pages, but every citizen should know about it.
Nonetheless, the symbology relating to our nation, as we look on the front of the bill we see "The United States of America" to remind us of the Great Nation in which we live, and the portrait of George Washington, our commander-in-chief during the War for Independence, in which so many dedicated men gained our freedoms and liberty for us and our posterity. He was the first president under the Constitution of the United States, the Supreme Law of The Land, which establishes and limits our form of government and protects our rights as Free Sovereign Citizens. We also see the United States Treasury Seal. On the top of the seal, we see the balanced scales representing justice and equality among all our citizens. In the center is a chevron with 13 stars representing the 13 original colonies. Underneath is a key used as a symbol of authority. That's all pretty easy to figure out, but that which is on the back of the dollar bill is something every citizen should know.
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As we turn the bill over, we see two circles. Both circles, together, comprise the Great Seal of the United States. Late on the afternoon of July 4, 1776, before the Declaration of Independence was signed, the Continental Congress appointed Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams, three of the five men who had drafted the Declaration of Independence, to "bring in a device for a seal for the United States of America." They and two additional committees, a total of 14 men, submitted many suggested designs over a period of six years from July 4, 1776, to June 20, 1782, when Congress approved the final design. The history of the Creation of the Great Seal of the United States and many of the images submitted by the 3 committees is presented on the Great Seal domain, http://www.greatseal.com/committees/
If we look at the left-hand circle, we see a Pyramid. Notice the face is lighted, and the western side is dark. This country was just beginning. We had just begun to explore the West. We did not yet know what we could do for Western Civilization. The Pyramid is uncapped, signifying that the work of our nation is not finished. Above, in a capstone not yet in place, we have the all-seeing eye, an ancient symbol for divinity. It was Franklin's belief that one man couldn't do it alone, but a group of men, with the help of God, could do anything. The Latin above the pyramid, ANNUIT COEPTIS, means, "It (The Eye of Providence) has favored our undertakings" The Latin below the pyramid, NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM, means, "A New Order for the Ages." At the base of the pyramid is the Roman Numeral MDCCLXXVI, 1776, the year our independence was declared.
"IN GOD WE TRUST" is centered above the ONE dollar denomination of this bill, ever reminding us of the "ONENESS", the UNITY of All Mankind under GOD.
If we look at the right-hand circle, we see the Great Seal of the United States. It is on every Federal Office Building and National Cemetery in the United States. It is the centerpiece of most hero's monuments. Prior to 1945, modified with the Eagle looking to its left toward the arrows, it was the seal of the President of the United States, as commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces. Since the change ordered by President Harry Truman in 1945, the Eagle always looked to the right toward the olive branch. The presidential seal is always visible whenever he speaks, yet very few people know what the symbols mean. Here are the obverse (front) and reverse (back) of the Great Seal in color.
The Founding Fathers made an appropriate choice when they selected the American Bald Eagle as the emblem of the nation. The fierce beauty and proud independence of this great bird aptly symbolize the strength and freedom of America. Secondly, he wears no material crown. We had just broken from the King of England and all ties to any form of "nobility." Also, notice the shield is unsupported. This country now stands on its own. At the top of the shield, we have a blue field, representing Congress, a unifying factor. The colors are taken from the American flag and officially, the red represents hardiness and valor, the white represents purity and innocence, and the blue, vigilance, perseverance, and justice. We were coming together as one nation. On the ribbon in the Eagle's beak, we read, "E PLURIBUS UNUM," meaning, "Out of Many, One." We see that the eagle holds an olive branch in its right talon and a cluster of arrows in its left. The official meaning is that the olive branch and the arrows "denote the power of peace and of war."
The voice of the Living God spoke to a teacher of God many years ago. He was on his knees praying for his people. He was questioning
God on why so many of the people were ill and infirm, for among his people there was always someone praying for healing.
The Voice said to him. "Go to the Law."
For the sake of brevity, the problem lay in human nature and how it influenced the human body. Think of these ten words as ten drugs secreted into our anatomy whenever we activate one of these human drives. These drives may be said to be for:
1. Preeminence
2. Idolatry
3. Clannishness
4. Activity
5. Rebellion
6. Murder
7. Adultery
8. Stealing
9. Lying
10. Covetousness
These are the factors of the sum total of human activity. Everything that evil (error) can do can be seen in these words. Every time one of these drives is activated, it causes a different hormone to be secreted into the bloodstream. After years of bearing the bombardment, the body finally succumbs to permanent disease, then death. Three scores and ten, and by strength four scores are allotted.
God on why so many of the people were ill and infirm, for among his people there was always someone praying for healing.
The Voice said to him. "Go to the Law."
For the sake of brevity, the problem lay in human nature and how it influenced the human body. Think of these ten words as ten drugs secreted into our anatomy whenever we activate one of these human drives. These drives may be said to be for:
1. Preeminence
2. Idolatry
3. Clannishness
4. Activity
5. Rebellion
6. Murder
7. Adultery
8. Stealing
9. Lying
10. Covetousness
These are the factors of the sum total of human activity. Everything that evil (error) can do can be seen in these words. Every time one of these drives is activated, it causes a different hormone to be secreted into the bloodstream. After years of bearing the bombardment, the body finally succumbs to permanent disease, then death. Three scores and ten, and by strength four scores are allotted.