I find myself horrified and amazed at the state of our so called “community”. We are almost a decade into the new millennium; we have elected a President based on nothing more than the ability to sway the masses; our Constitutionally guaranteed LIMITED government has grown more in the last eight months than in the last three decades combined; now we’re throwing the Constitution out of the window by allowing Congress to legislate Healthcare and private Insurance Companies when they have NO RIGHT to do so.
We are willing to let so called “community activists” lead us around by the nose, telling us that we need to be putting all of our efforts into fighting for our ”equal rights” by doing something as childlike as voting for a candidate based on their views on SAME SEX MARRIAGE?! (BTW, Obama is against it!)
Hope and Change! Hope for what? Change at what cost? And at what price?
We are a diverse group of AMERICANS who have claimed ourselves a “community” with our only COMMON identifying factor being our sexual practices . Are we willing to give up the freedoms we share as Americans so that we can force the Federal government to legislate something they have no business or right to legislate.
We are supporting an unconstitutional government takeover of healthcare in the misguided, emotional, “feel good” idea that it’s only fair that everyone in the country have Health Insurance. What a noble concept. The reality is somewhat different. What good does it do to insure every American if we only wind up denying services.
Please stop listening to the activists, politicians and political pundits and begin by questioning the “facts” and “statistics” that are thrown at you by ALL of them. The letter that follows their name (R,D or I) does not tell you anything about the things we should be concerning ourselves with as to their ability or even their willingness to stand up and fight for the Constitution.
For those of you that are not only HIV+ but also in the “public” healthcare system as I am, please, think for yourselves.
We have allowed the Federal government to bailout a banking system that was on the verge of bankruptcy; having been forced there by government involvement in the “feel good” push to make mortgages available to citizens who would otherwise not be able to get one (usually because they couldn’t afford one, or had poor credit history; imagine that), which caused the housing market to grow out of control, artificially driving home prices sky high. Thank you fellow Queer, Barney Frank.The bubble burst. Please don’t feign surprise.
We then allowed the President to make the best use of a crisis to rush through a spending bill (also called a “stimulus” package) that without which “our unemployment rate would reach or exceed 9.5%”. Guess what? The national average is above that now. In some areas it exceeds 20%. The retail industry is experiencing the worst back to school sales in history and in some areas are already starting Christmas sales!
We Nationalized the Auto Industry (which was being destroyed by the legacy costs and associated Union extortions) while the U.S. Postal Service has lost $7 billion each year for two years in a row and we owe Medicaid/Medicare well over $1 trillion.
We are now on the verge of allowing the Whitehouse and Congress to trample on the Constitution by usurping powers specifically denied them by the Constitution (you will hear about the Interstate Commerce Clause as an excuse which is nothing more than a ruse), to legislate Healthcare and the Healthcare Insurance industry to the tune of at least $1.3 trillion.
How will we pay for this? So far the only explanation given is, cost cutting in Medicaid/Medicare. Keep in mind that we have now increased the National Debt to several trillion dollars (that does not include the monies we already owe Medicaid/Medicare). We are printing money that we do not have gold enough to back (Nixon did away with the Gold Standard), which means that each dollar in your wallet is worth less with each dollar printed. The head of the I.R.S. (who couldn’t manage to pay his own taxes and was forgiven the penalties and interest!) just asked Congress to increase the Debt Ceiling (without specifying a cap).
The Obama administration is quick to jump on the bandwagon that the worst is over for the economy (because the claims for unemployment were lower than expected). The worst is yet to come and if this healthcare debacle is passed it will only exacerbate the entire situation. The commercial real estate market is ready to tank, the only employment sector growing is the Federal Government (giving tens of thousands the incredible lifetime benefits, and increasing the deficit), foreclosures are increasing, property values continue to drop (while property taxes are climbing), bankruptcy applications are at their highest levels ever, the cost of living is increasing just as fast as inflation is yet Inflation hasn’t even begun to peak. Last years’ gas prices will be a fond memory in the next couple of years. If Cap and Tax passes in any form, the cost to each of us will be unreal (although we will create a whole new group of billionaires through the new trading market that will result. Just look at Europe; since they instituted Cap and Trade, carbon emissions have not been reduced, the cost of energy for Europeans has skyrocketed and a whole new set of investors have made a fortune trading credits).
We have heard a lot about the idea of rationing of Healthcare for senior citizens. When asked about the possibility of that happening, the Administration and Congress say that there is no way they would support rationing of healthcare. Yet how can we continue to give the care we are used to for everyone that is now insured (whether they purchase it themselves, it’s paid for by their employer or by the state or Federal government) and everyone that is uninsured (by choice or circumstance (illegal alien)), the Canadians’ and other legal aliens and pay for the tens of thousands of government workers needed to implement this new monster of beaurocracy without it? As our economy continues to plummet, as more people need more, as fewer citizens have income to tax (federal tax revenues have dropped dramatically in the last year), as our government keeps rushing to take care of everyone that needs it, our debt continues to mount; services will have to be rationed. We have a shortage of doctors’ and nurses’ now. If we add 47 million (there’s a lot of problems with that figure also) more people to the already over stretched system, how will we keep from rationing? The reforms that would actually make a difference for the good are not being talked about. Torte reform, allowing the free market to work without government interference, health savings accounts (before Brazil decided to turn Communist and seized the health saving accounts, they saw a huge increase in the number of millionaires), only carrying catastrophic health insurance while paying for non-emergent care out of our pockets (which would increase competition, drive down costs and increase the quality of care;when the money comes out of your own pocket, you aren’t willing to put up with as much incompetence or waste).
The President has surrounded himself with some interesting advisors (czars!). Some of the ideas that are subscribed to by some of these advisors scare the hell out of me. Sterilization of the masses through the public drinking supply to control population. Children are not considered viable until they reach the age of self awareness(just think, you’ll be able to abort a baby after it’s been born). Cost of care for an individual needs to by weighed by the ability of that person to once again be a productive citizen. Persons between the ages of 15 and 50 should be given the largest share of the pie at the expense of those that are of an age that they are not or will not be productive. Our Secretary of Health and Human Services fought for the right of twelve year olds’ to have an abortion without parental notification, let alone parental consent (and what about the person who RAPED that CHILD?).
Is it really such a stretch to see us denying care to people at the end of their life? Think it will only happen to senior citizen? What about when your viral load drops below 200? Maybe your third hospitalization? Your fifth? Your twentieth? How long should you be able to have Hospice care to let you die at home?
“Those who ignore the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Stop being sheep and be AMERICANS!!! Stop allowing the “leaders” of our “community” to keep us in the mindset of victims (why should it be less of a crime for someone to kill me for no reason then if they killed me because of my choice of sexual partner? What difference is it going to make to my partner if the person who killed me hated me or not?) and separate from our fellow AMERICANS over the right to same sex marriage when the government has no business in sanctioning any marriage let alone same sex marriage . The more we marginalize ourselves, the weaker we are and the bigger the target on our backs.
Let’s unite with our fellow citizens’ and take part in the fight to protect our Constitution and get Washington to understand that we will not allow any more social engineering. Stop voting based on the candidates party affiliation.
If we allow the government to take our rights to insure our security, we will wind up with neither.
There’s still enough fabric and dye to make millions more pink triangles!!!

Just question for yourselves,

Rick Parker
HIV+, and Queer

UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Illegal under the Constitution.
Neither Congress nor the Senate nor the President are granted the power to legislate a National Health Care Bill!!!
As long as Civics is taught by far- left leaning Ideologues, our nation is doomed to reading statements such as Sara Bellums’ and voting in politicians that swear to protect and uphold the Constitution when they have no idea what the Constitution says.