From Wikipedia :

The decline began after Tom Mboya’s assassination in 1969. Obama Sr. was fired from his job by Jomo Kenyatta, was blacklisted in Kenya, and began to drink . He had a serious car accident, spent almost a year in the hospital, and by the time he visited his son in Hawaii in late 1971, he already had a bad leg. (Dreams from My Father, pp. 64–71, 212-219). Obama Sr.’s life fell into drinking and poverty, from which he never recovered. His friend, Kenyan journalist Philip Ochieng, has described Obama Sr.’s difficult personality and drinking problems in the Kenya newspaper The Daily Nation.[17] Obama Sr. later lost both legs in another automobile collision, and subsequently lost his job. He died in 1982, at the age of 46, in a third car crash in Nairobi.

If diseases are hereditary, and alcoholism is a disease, perhaps it is time for Hussein the Usurper to quite drinking and smoking altogether?

God help us!

-Crippy

In September of 2008, then Illinois senator, Barack Hussein Obama, attacked John McCain for creating a commission to study the nation’s debt. Here are Hussein the Usurper’s own words:

Just today, Senator McCain offered up the oldest Washington stunt in the book – you pass the buck to a commission to study the problem. But here’s the thing – this isn’t 9/11. We know how we got into this mess. What we need now is leadership that gets us out. I’ll provide it, John McCain won’t, and that’s the choice for the American people in this election.

On February 18, 2010, president and Marxist in Charge, Barack Hussein “the Usurper” Obama, announced he is using “the oldest Washington stunt in the book”.

President Barack Obama signed an executive order creating an 18-member bipartisan panel to suggest steps to reduce the federal government’s record debt and deficits that he said threaten to “hobble our economy.”

Nobody should be surprised.  America elected an International Marxist and America is getting more International Marxism.  Marxism is a lie, so it follows, Marxists lie.

America, you wanted it; you got it.  Now the rest of us will pay.

God help us!

The video is based on the speech Henry gave in 1775 at Saint John’s Church in Richmond Virginia.

“You are not to inquire how your trade may be increased. Nor how you will become a great and powerful people. But how your liberties can be secured. For liberty ought to be the direct end of your government. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.” -Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry was a staunch advocate of the American Revolution and considered at the time a radical.  He was the first governor of Virginia and a leader of the anti-federalists.  The anti-federalists were opposed to replacing the Articles of Confederation with the Constitution.

The video is about 3 minutes long.  I found it to be fabulous.  I hope you enjoy it as well and I hope you check out the Mike Church show.

Mike Church can be heard from 9:00 am to noon on Sirrius Satellite Radio channel 144.  A replay of the show can be heard on XM Channel 166 from midnight to 3:00 am.  Click here to check out his website.

God help us!

-Crippy

The Massachusetts special, senatorial election is no exception.  Writing today at Boston.com, former Boston Globe columnist, Brian McGrory tells his readers:

Scott Brown may not share the political values of most of the state and may lack the experience for the US Senate. And, let’s be honest, his nights probably aren’t tied up with Mensa meetings.

Scott Brown won’t be tied up with Mensa meetings?  Are we to assume that the blithering idiot running on the Marxist ticket, Marcia Coakley will?

This school of thought is the same that exults the mental prowess of such political pygmies and economic illiterates as Jimmy Carter, John Kerry, Hussein the Usurper and the Marxist wizard of smart Al Gore.

During the run up to the 2000 election I remember the Marxist media repeatedly asking, “is Al Gore too smart to be president?”.

As recently as June 1, 2007 the ministry of propaganda was still exclaiming the brilliance of the father of the man-made, global warming truther movement.  In a op-ed piece in the Boston Globe, Eugene Robinson wrote:

Al Gore has been in town launching his new book, “The Assault on Reason,” and you could have predicted the buzz: Is he about to jump into the race? What you probably wouldn’t have predicted is the counter-buzz that Gore, poor fellow, is just too ostentatiously smart to be elected president.

Al Gore “too ostentatiously smart”?  Is he referring to the same Al Gore that flunked out of divinity school?  Conniving, nefarious, and underhanded, come to mind before “too ostentatiously smart”.  Let’s be honest Mr. Robinson, if Al Gore is too smart for you to understand perhaps it is because his mindless prattle is incomprehensible to anybody with a room temperature IQ.  Or perhaps your statement is more telling of your mental capacity than his.

“Is Al Gore too smart to be president”?

God help us!

-Crippy

Elections have consequences and such is the price America will pay for electing the most nefarious Fifth columnist in the history of the Republic and giving him a super majority in both houses of congress.

Once ObamaCare is passed it will be challenged in the corrupt federal court system and finally make its way to the Supreme Court. In the Supreme Court, justices Ginsberg, Breyer, Stevens and Sotomayor will come down on the side of their international Marxist allies in the White House and Congress. Justices, Thomas, Scalia, Roberts, and Alito will decide in favor of the Constitution, the Republic, the People, and liberty.

The deciding vote will lie in the hands of Anthony Kennedy. Justice Kennedy will hold in his hands the future direction of representative government and the animating contest of freedom. If he aligns himself with the international Marxists one of three outcomes may occur.

First, individual states will attempt to nullify ObamCare. Second, solvent, independent defenders of state’s rights may attempt secession. This could ultimately lead to America’s second “Civil” War, a war of Federal Aggression.

The third and most likely outcome, if history is any indicator, will be that spineless governors and state legislatures will abandon any further notion of state’s rights and a republican government and cast their citizens into the abyss of international Marxism.

Make no mistake, ObamaCare is not just the annexation of 1/6 of the nation’s economy, it is the complete takeover over of individual rights. ObamaCare is the antithesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Once the international Marxists take control of health care, Washington D.C. will control every aspect of human behavior; what we eat, what we drink, what we wear, what we drive etc.

How much safer would the rights of the states and the citizens of the last best hope of mankind be, if instead of Anthony Kennedy, the final vote was in the hands of Robert Bork?

Choose wisely Justice Kennedy, the fate of liberty and future of the Republic may very well rest in your hands.

God help us!

-Crippy

]]> http://www.redstate.com/crippy/2010/01/18/anthony-kennedy-may-decide-the-fate-of-obamacare-america-liberty/ On the Friday before Martin Luther King Jr Day, the Commonwealth of Virginia celebrates the memories of two of its greatest heroes, General Robert Edward Lee and General Thomas Jonathan Jackson.

Today, Friday January 15th, 2010 is Lee-Jackson day.

Generals Lee and Jackson were not only great men and generals in the history of the Old Dominion, they are considered two of the finest generals in America’s history.

General Robert Edward Lee	General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson

Both men served the Old Dominion well and defended their homeland from the Union invaders during the War of Northern Aggression.  Jackson was the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia’s Second Corps.  Based on Jackson’s success in the face of overwhelming odds, had he survived the war, the outcome may have been drastically different.

At the outbreak of the war Jackson said, “I do not expect to live to see the end of this war. Nor can I say that without victory I would desire to do so.”.  His words now seem prescient.  General Jackson was mortally wounded by friendly fire at the end of the Battle of Chancellorsville which was a route of the Union Army.

Take some time and reflect today.  Bow your head and think of Generals Lee and Jackson and the way things might have been.

Had the Confederate States prevailed in the war perhaps slavery would have ended in a more peaceful and harmonious manner.  Perhaps the rights of States would have been preserved.  And maybe, the germs of international Marxism, which infect our government and country today, would not have found fertile soil in this last, best hope of mankind.

God help us!

-Crippy

]]> http://www.redstate.com/crippy/2010/01/15/a-holiday-in-viginia/ My interest in Switzerland was spurred around 7 years ago after reading a book, The Seven Myths of Gun Control.   The author argued that America was originally founded on the republican form of Swiss governance.

My how we have strayed from the Swiss, and original American model.

Additionally, I have always admired Switzerland’s unwavering foreign policy of not meddling in foreign entanglements and until recently, their banking and monetary policies.

In his article Why Switzerland is Still Free and America Is Not, posted at Lew Rockwell dot com, Ron Holland highlights reasons to admire the Swiss and look to their model for answers to solving our dire political problems.

In Switzerland, the people still rule and have the ultimate right to decide decisions above the government or parliament. Through the right of referendum they can cancel legislation and with the initiative they can pass or create legislative action on issues parliament refuses to act upon.

The bias and closed statist views shown in the article is business as usual for the US media elites out to protect the American political establishment and are so evident in this headline and article. It isn’t the question they asked but rather the question they didn’t dare ask is the “700-lb gorilla in the room.”

Quoting from the article, “Critics say the SVP, the largest party in Switzerland’s coalition government, has taken advantage of the country’s unique brand of direct democracy to push its populist, anti-immigrant agenda on the Swiss electorate. Citizens have the right to propose new laws in Switzerland – the only thing they need to force a nationwide vote on an initiative is a petition of 100,000 signatures.”

Mr. Holland goes on to wonder how America could benefit from Switzerland’s style of direct democracy.

How America would be different if we had Swiss-style political rights to restrain government where the people rule instead of the special interests. Imagine an America where the billions in graft and political influence that control Congress could still buy legislation but not ultimate control if we as a people could overrule their actions.

What if the will of the people still ultimately controlled the political system and direction with true limited government at the federal, state and local level? Imagine the American electorate overriding Congress and demanding a strong dollar backed by real gold reserves, an audit of the Federal Reserve, a rollback of the bailouts, a declaration of war for foreign military intervention, the abolishment of the Patriot Act and a return to banking privacy.

Yes, a Swiss political party (The Swiss Peoples Party) promotes a nationalist agenda to the Swiss voters and they will ultimately decide in referendum yes or no on the issue. This is currently impossible in the United States but Swiss direct democracy and limited confederation government have worked in Switzerland for hundreds of years.

This is far superior to the two-party monopoly in America where the elites controlling both parties can push their self-serving agendas without restraint. Currently, short of the Tenth Amendment movement, state nullification or outright state secession, there is no real effective way to push back against Washington.

The supposedly enlightened elite in America are constantly prattling about the need to look to Europe for political guidance, how about Switzerland?

God help us!

-Crippy

Here are the guidelines for eligibility from ClickOnDetroit dot com:

Application Guidelines

To qualify, a person must have been a resident of Detroit for more than six months, must be homeless or facing eviction and must be able to maintain housing after receiving assistance.

Also, a resident must make 50 percent less than the median area income, which would be less than $24,850 for single Detroit residents and less than $35,500 for a family of four.

No mortgage assistance will be available through this program.

Once applications are reviewed, only applicants eligible for funding assistance will receive notification from a service provider.

Earlier in the day, WJR’s (a local radio station) Ken Rogulski, interviewed one of the people in line. H/T Maha Rushie

ROGULSKI: Did you get an application to fill out yet?

WOMAN: I sure did. And I filled it out, and I am waiting to see what the results are going to be.

ROGULSKI: Will you know today how much money you’re getting?

WOMAN: No, I won’t, but I’m waiting for a phone call.

ROGULSKI: Where’s the money coming from?

WOMAN: I believe it’s coming from the City of Detroit or the state.

ROGULSKI: Where did they get it from?

WOMAN: Some funds that was forgiven (sic) by Obama.

ROGULSKI: And where did Obama get the funds?

WOMAN: Obama getting the funds from… Ummm, I have no idea, to tell you the truth. He’s the president.

ROGULSKI: In downtown Detroit, Ken Rogulski, WJR News.

“Some funds that was forgiven (sic) by Obama.”

God help us!

-Crippy

Interestingly, Obama’s boycott comes a little over a year after he, and now secretary of state and then democrat party opponent Hillary Clinton, called on president George W. Bush to boycott the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony.

That was then and this is now.

From telegraph.co.uk:

Mr Obama has changed his position on Tibet since his election campaign.

In April 2008, he was joined by Hillary Clinton, then his rival for the Democratic nomination and now his Secretary of State, in calling on George W Bush to boycott the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony in protest at the bloody repression of a popular uprising in Tibet.

“If the Chinese do not take steps to help stop the genocide in Darfur and to respect the dignity, security, and human rights of the Tibetan people, then the President should boycott the opening ceremonies,” they said.

The presidential snub of the Tibetan, exiled leader, is seen by some as caving in to the communist regime in China.

Sophie Richardson, an Asian advocate for Human Rights Watch said:

“This idea that if you are nice to the Chinese Communist Party up front you can cash in later is just wrong. If you lower the bar on human rights they will just move it lower and lower.”

Sadly Ms. Richardson only one U.S. President has had the fortitude to stand up against communism.

May President Reagan rest in peace.

God help us!

-Crippy

In July, Jada was taken to the world renown M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.  She was given chemotherapy and radiation which began to shrink the tumor but the little girl was given only 18 months to live.  Unfortunately, three weeks ago, part of her brain was killed when she had a seizure and slipped into a coma.  She is currently unable to breath without the use of a ventilator.

From Harrison Daily Times:

The child’s grandmother said medical experts at M. D. Anderson’s recently gave Jada’s parents a choice: to give her further radiation, which might buy her six months — “They said she could stay here, and let her lay here and let us keep her alive for maybe six more months. Or — you could take her home and give her three months.”

Wanda said Savannah and Jason “couldn’t bear to think about her lying there in that hospital for six more months. They decided to take her home to her family, to everyone who loves her. Everybody is here.”

To bring Jada home to Arkansas to spend her final days with her family and loved ones would require transport by air ambulance.  The cost of an air ambulance would be $10,000 – $15,000.

Enter the greedy, capitalist, pigs at Federal Express.

Tiffany Gilliam, a close friend of Savannah’s (Jada’s Mother), kept updating Andrea Martin, Green Forest Elementary principal, with what was going on with Jada. Andrea called someone she knew at FedEx to see if they could help. She called the right person when she called Kelly Madewell, who is flight operations specialist at FedEx Freight in Harrison.

“This all took place on Thursday,” Wanda said. “The next thing we knew, Savannah called us from Houston, and she was crying and crying. She said they had called her to tell her that FedEx had a flight coming to pick her and Jada up and bring them home.”

God help Jada and her family.

God help us all!

-Crippy

From Townhall dot com:

Another month, and another attempt by the Obama Administration to take over a successful portion of the private sector. Banks, cars, and now student loans. I’m beginning to see a trend here.

Today, the House will complete consideration of the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009, otherwise known as the public option for higher education (not to be confused with the public option for health care — but the similarities can’t be overlooked). Advocates like the President maintain that if passed, this bill will bring a "level playing field"  between government and private options. Sound familiar?

Apparently it passed the house easily.

I wonder what this means for colleges like Hillsdale?  Will this force them out of business?

God help us!
-Crippy

but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?" – Job 38:11 (KJV)

Below is a great sign from the D.C. Tea Party over the weekend.

The sign reads "Get out of my life" with Job 38:11, a reference to the Bible passage above, at the bottom.

Well said, Patriot!

God help us!

-Crippy

Not this time.

The line is drawn here.

This far. NO FURTHER.

Obama, not only are you a liar, you are an abject liar.  I will not apologize.  The apologizing should be done by you.

Unlike FDR, who sold the greatest Ponzi Scheme in history by telling the American people one thing and the supreme court another, we will fight you, tooth and nail, until the end.

While you lament the real-time dissemination of information, the shortened "news" cycle, it serves your victims well.

You say HR3200 doesn’t say what it says, prove it.  Illegals won’t be allowed to rape the system?  Where’s the mechanism for proving eligibility?

There are no "Death Panels"?  What do you call a group of bureaucrats deciding whether someone is worthy of care or not?

Private insurance companies won’t be put out of business?  How can a company stay in business when it can’t take on new customers?

Care won’t be rationed? Really? Go back to school you economic illiterate.  Anything that does not exist in an infinite supply is rationed.  The free market is the rationing mechanism of liberty.

Obama, you are a liar.  And a Marxist; but I’ll save that for another time.

God help us!

-Crippy

Listen to this man’s arrogance.

Rangel-ing: Charlie Pays ‘Angels’ In Ethics Probe:

“I recognize that all of you have an obligation to ask questions knowing that there’s none of you smart enough to frame it in such a way that I’m going to respond,” Rangel said.

Apparently, Rangel feels confident that his “insurance policy” will guarantee that the House Ethics Committee will exonerate him.

Just what is Rangel’s insurance policy?

There may be a reason for Rangel’s arrogance. CBS 2 HD has discovered that since ethics probes began last year the 79-year-old congressman has given campaign donations to 119 members of Congress, including three of the five Democrats on the House Ethics Committee who are charged with investigating him.

Charlie’s “angels” on the committee include Congressmen Ben Chandler of Kentucky, G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina and Peter Welch of Vermont. All have received donations from Rangel.Unfortunately his faith in his insurance policy will probably prove to be well founded.

No man should be able to afford such arrogance.

God help us!

-Crippy

From Telegraph dot co dot uk: Sentenced to death on NHS

Under NHS guidance introduced across England to help doctors and medical staff deal with dying patients, they can then have fluid and drugs withdrawn and many are put on continuous sedation until they pass away .

Where have we heard that before?

But this approach can also mask the signs that their condition is improving, the experts warn.

As a result the scheme is causing a “national crisis” in patient care, the letter states. It has been signed palliative care experts including Professor Peter Millard, Emeritus Professor of Geriatrics, University of London, Dr Peter Hargreaves, a consultant in Palliative Medicine at St Luke’s cancer centre in Guildford, and four others.

The warning comes just a week after a report by the Patients Association estimated that up to one million patients had received poor or cruel care on the NHS.

Of course, the good intentions have to be considered.

The scheme, called the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP), was designed to reduce patient suffering in their final hours.

Dr Peter Hargreaves, a 20 year practitioner of “palliative medicine” (hospice like medicine?) is concerned that a “near death” diagnosis in Britain is becoming a self fulfilling prophecy.

He said: “I have been practising palliative medicine for more than 20 years and I am getting more concerned about this “death pathway” that is coming in.

“It is supposed to let people die with dignity but it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

“Patients who are allowed to become dehydrated and then become confused can be wrongly put on this pathway.”

He added: “What they are trying to do is stop people being overtreated as they are dying.

At least everyone in the U.K. has health insurance.

God help us
-Crippy

Obama and his minions continue their attack on capitalism. Scheming with the ACL-CIO, democrat politicians seek to impose a tax on investment firms that earn billions of dollars in profit through high-frequency trading.

From The Hill :

The nation’s largest labor union and some allied Democrats are pushing a new tax that would hit big investment firms such as Goldman Sachs reaping billions of dollars in profits while the rest of the economy sputters.

The AFL-CIO, one of the Democratic Party’s most powerful allies, would like to assess a small tax — about a tenth of a percent — on every stock transaction.

Small and medium-sized investors would hardly notice such a tax, but major trading firms, such as Goldman, which reported $3.44 billion in profits during the second quarter of 2009, may see this as a significant threat to their profits.

How, exactly, does imposing a tax on profitable Wall Street firms benefit AFL-CIO members? And why is a labor union involved in tax policy?

Thea Lee AFL-CIO policy director, says the tax would have two benefits.

“It would have two benefits, raise a lot of revenue and discourage speculative financial activity ,” said Thea Lee, policy director at the AFL-CIO.

What’s wrong with financial speculation? Isn’t capitalism and a free society based on speculation? What is an entrepreneur doing when they start a business and employ those who can offer only their labor, isn’t that speculation? There are no guarantees of success. The entrepreneur is at risk of losing their capital.

Liberals are furious that anybody, except the 100% profit government industry, is not being crushed by the recession they induced.

The proposal would hit especially hard those hedge funds and large banks earning hefty profits despite the shaky economy from a practice known as high-frequency trading. High-frequency traders use powerful computers to conduct hundreds of thousands of orders in mere seconds, taking advantage of slower traders.

Liberals are angry the company, which immersed itself in the frenzy of speculation leading to last year’s financial collapse, is now making huge profits after accepting (and repaying) $10 billion in government aid. Goldman employees are on track to earn an average of more than $700,000 this year.

If you didn’t want them to be profitable, why loan them the money? They should have been allowed to fail. That way liberals wouldn’t have to be angry and Goldman couldn’t earn their profits.

Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), chairman of the Highways and Transit Transportation Subcommittee, has a better idea. Let’s tax commodities speculators.

“The tax is simple; it imposes a small burden that penalizes short-term traders for speculating on the price of oil,” DeFazio said in a statement. “This legislation exempts legitimate hedgers from the transaction tax. Since the tax is on speculation only, it deters speculation and undermines much of the crude oil price bubble .”

Wrong congressman, if you want to prevent bubbles, first, take an economics course, second, cut spending and third, stop printing money.

“Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.”"they tie up heavy loads and put them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.”-Matthew 23:1-4

God help us!

-Crippy

“President Obama’s $787 billion stimulus bill has done more to help convicted criminals than it has to actually boost our economy and create jobs,”

The Boston Herald is reporting that as many as 4,000 criminally convicted individuals were sent federal stimulus checks with a cost to American tax payers of almost $1 million.

Twenty-Three inmates in Massachusetts received checks and among their ranks are a prisoner convicted of first-degree murder, three prisoners jailed for second-degree murder and five convicted rapists.

Not surprisingly, only five of the inmate recipients in Massachusetts have the money to pay back the improper payments.

The Inspector General of Social Security is now tracing the checks that were mailed to 3,900 prisoners at a cost of nearly $1 million after yesterday’s report in the Herald.

Social Security Administration spokesman Stephen Richardson said yesterday none of the prisoner recipients receive monthly Social Security benefits, meaning they should not qualify for a stimulus check. Such benefits are generally cut off to the incarcerated.

The IG also is investigating whether any improper payments were made to dead beneficiaries, felons on the run from the law, individuals living overseas and recipients no longer legally authorized to live in the United States, said IG spokesman George Penn.

Perhaps, in this case, crime does pay.

God help us!

-Crippy

The country’s economic output looks more bleak.  Our deficit approaches $9 trillion dollars, unemployment soars, the dollar plummets, the economy contracts, and nobody in the nation’s capital can figure out how to subtract.

White house projects bigger deficits, bigger debt

Republicans were ready to pounce."The alarm bells on our nation’s fiscal condition have now become a siren," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said. "If anyone had any doubts that this burden on future generations is unsustainable, they’re gone — spending, borrowing and debt are out of control."

Mr. McConnell, perhaps alarm bells should have gone off eight years ago when Republicans were in control of the White House, Senate, and House?

If not then, weren’t they ringing in the fall before the first "stimulus" bill was passed?

Alas, America and the rest of the world should be heartened, Obama has the solution. He has nominated one of the architects of the current recession, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, for another term.

Obama himself may have drowned out the rising deficit news with the announcement Tuesday that he intends to nominate Ben Bernanke to a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve. The Bernanke news could neutralize any disturbance in the financial markets caused by the high deficit projections.

We better make sure the printing presses are powered up.  Hopefully, D.C. will start powering them with Obama’s green energy.  That’s the only way they will be stopped.

Only in government can ineptitude be rewarded and looked to for salvation.

God help us!

-Crippy

God help us!
-Crippy

I have a few questions about the “Health Care” bill.

First, it appears that the president’s statement that Americans can keep their current health care coverage is a subterfuge at best and an abject lie at worst.

Please refer to page 16, section 102 which reads:

GRANDFATHERED HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE DEFINED.—Subject to the succeeding provisions of this section, for purposes of establishing acceptable coverage under this division, the term ‘‘grandfathered health insurance coverage’’ means individual health insurance coverage that is offered and in force and effect before the     first day of Y1 if the following conditions are met:

LIMITATION ON NEW ENROLLMENT.—IN GENERAL.
Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance
issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day of Y1.

DEPENDENT COVERAGE PERMITTED.—Subparagraph (A) shall not affect
the subsequent enrollment of a dependent of an individual who is covered as of such first day.

LIMITATION ON CHANGES IN TERMS OR CONDITIONS.
Subject to paragraph (3) and except as required by law, the issuer does not change any
of its terms or conditions, including benefits and cost-sharing, from those in effect as of the day before the first day of Y1.

The “Limitation On New Enrollment” appears to be saying that I can keep my current coverage as long as I have it before the health care bill goes into effect and stay in the same program.

However, the “Limitation on Changes In Terms or Conditions” says that any changes to my current coverage are not allowed.  I read this as if I change jobs or features or premiums in my current coverage that I will be forced to accept Obamacare.  I DON’T WANT YOUR HEALTH CARE.  I will pay for what I want.

Tell me where I’m wrong?

Further, how are private insurance companies supposed to stay in business if they are not allowed to enroll any new clients as outlined in the following sentence, “the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day of Y1”?

Next, refer to page 59, Section 103, lines 21-24, which read as follows:

21 ‘‘(C) enable electronic funds transfers, in
22 order to allow automated reconciliation with the
23 related health care payment and remittance ad
24 vice;

This text seems to giving the federal government access to MY BANK account to extract funds whenever it wants.  I don’t want the federal government, or anybody else, to have unfettered access to my bank account.

How is this not a violation of my rights under the IV amendment of the Constitution?

The IV Amendment reads:

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

How is federal, unauthorized, access to my bank account not a violation of my right to be secure in my papers and effects?

Next refer to page 167, Subtitle A-Shared Responsibility, Subpart A which references Section 59B of the Internal Revenue Service Code.  This section reads:

TAX IMPOSED.—In the case of any individual
who does not meet the requirements of subsection (d) at
any time during the taxable year, there is hereby imposed
a tax equal to 2.5 percent of the excess of—
the taxpayer’s modified adjusted gross income for the taxable year, over
the amount of gross income specified in section 6012(a)with respect to the taxpayer.

This section seems to be taxing subjecting me or any other American that chooses not to buy health insurance, or health insurance coverage not to the government’s liking, to a 2.5% of AGI fine.  Why should I be fined for not buying something I don’t want?

Finally, page 838, section 1904, seems to be allowing the state to invade my home and privacy.  Section 1904 reads in part:

GRANTS TO STATES FOR QUALITY HOME VISITATION PROGRAMS FOR FAMILIES WITH YOUNG
CHILDREN AND FAMILIES EXPECTING CHILDREN.
Part B of title IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 621–629i) is amended by adding at the end the
following:
‘‘Subpart 3—Support for Quality Home Visitation Programs
‘‘SEC. 440. HOME VISITATION PROGRAMS FOR FAMILIES
WITH YOUNG CHILDREN AND FAMILIES EX12
PECTING CHILDREN.
‘‘(a) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section is to im14
prove the well-being, health, and development of children
by enabling the establishment and expansion of high quality
programs providing voluntary home visitation for families
with young children and families expecting children.
‘‘(b) GRANT APPLICATION.—A State that desires to
receive a grant under this section shall submit to the
Secretary for approval, at such time and in such manner as
the Secretary may require, an application for the grant
that includes the following:
‘‘(1) DESCRIPTION OF HOME VISITATION PROGRAMS.
—A description of the high quality programs
of home visitation for families with young children
and families expecting children that will be supported
by a grant made to the State under this section,
the outcomes the programs are intended to
achieve, and the evidence supporting the effectiveness
of the programs.

I read this section as any state that accepts funding is given the right to “Visit” my home, against my wishes, to council me and my family on how to raise and educate my family.

Again, this appears to be another infringement of my rights under the IV amendment, “to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures”.

The president and congress keep telling us that what we read in the bill is not true.  If this is the case, please provide answers to my questions and a better explanation of the sections of the bill outlined above.

Respectfully,

-Crippy

God help us!