The irony of the tax increase

This video goes on and on about spending, before the part I want you to see. So, sit tight and watch it anyway. I have written about this before. When taxes go up, revenue goes down. It's the great lie of the liberal. They want to take from the rich to help the poor, but the increase in taxes functionally hurts both the rich and the poor. This is historically proven, so we have to wonder, what is their goal?

I'm not wondering. While on the campaign trial, Obama was asked about this fact. He said, "I would tax the rich as a matter of fairness." Since this is not elevating the poor, he simply wants to punish the rich. It destroys wealth and hurts everyone. It's the destruction of the American economy. Poor people don't create jobs, either by consumption or industry. Still, they try to spread the poverty around.

Congress shall make no law...

I’ve been very interested in the things happening in our political world the last few weeks. I simply felt that there wasn’t much I could add to the discussion. I rejoiced in the people of Massachusetts deciding to attempt to restore the balance of power. I was pleased to see that we were provided with an opportunity to show that we would not be ignored.

Today I want to address that balance of power. There were two things in the President’s State of the Union speech that caught my attention. These two things caused me to take a few minutes to stare at my children and wonder what I could do to protect them. Here is a quote:

“Now, yesterday, the Senate blocked a bill that would have created this commission. So I'll issue an executive order that will allow us to go forward, because I refuse to pass this problem on to another generation of Americans.”

Doesn’t it make your breath catch? It should. Scott Brown has not been seated. This means that the President’s party still has a super majority in the senate. But when they disagree with what he wants, he simply goes around them. They wouldn’t pass cap and trade, so he had the EPA declare the gas exhaled by all animals is a poison. He wanted the power to regulate. He is trying to destroy the system of checks and balances that prevents tyranny within our country.

The other thing that froze me to the core in his speech was a complaint about the recent Supreme Court decision that struck down laws preventing companies from contributing to political campaigns. President Obama said, "With all due deference to the separation of powers the court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests -- including foreign corporations -- to spend without limit in our elections."

President Obama, what does “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech” mean to you? Who, you may ask, would determine whether a book should be banned in the name of silencing those companies before an election? THE GOVERNMENT. So, basically, the Supreme Court decided to take the power to silence corporations away from a sitting government during an election.

My gosh. What are they trying to do? Does anyone read the constitution any more?

The Supreme Court does.

Pray for Haiti

The quandary of health care costs

A lot of people fundamentally misunderstand the health care debate. Last month, my husband overheard a nurse bemoaning the horrible fact that Texas has a high rate of uninsured. It’s so sad that we have been so overwhelmed by the “common sense” argument that this is somehow an atrocious thing that we didn’t stop to consider the reality.

In fact, if we are truly regretting the high price of medical care, the answer is to get rid of insurance altogether. I am not suggesting that we do this. I believe in the free market and if people find it worthwhile to purchase health care for their families, they should be allowed to. But the fact remains that the idea of more coverage lowering costs is ludicrous.

Consider this: A woman walked into my husband’s ER last month. She claimed to be having abdominal pain. He examined her, did the necessary tests and discovered that she was in good health. So, he asked her if there was anything else he needed to know. She responded, “I had unprotected sex last weekend and I want you to test me for STD’s.”

Nate answered, “I can do that, but it’s very expensive in the emergency room. If you go to a clinic, it will save you a lot of money.”

She replied, “I don’t care about that. I’m on Medicaid. Do the tests here.”

We have, in essence, a woman who came to the emergency room to get tested for STD’s. Why? Because of insurance.

I get so angry when I hear people saying, “We need universal coverage because people neglect to get primary care and then they end up in the ER and it costs a lot more.” My local congressman had the gall to send this ludicrous argument in a tax-payer funded news letter.

Listen very carefully…When the state of Massachusetts implemented mandatory medical insurance, emergency room visits went UP. This is because people with insurance become more demanding, wanting tests they don’t need. They also don’t care what you’re charging them. They take less responsibility for their own health because the healthcare coverage means they don’t have to. They are fine with name brand drugs. They refuse to see nurse practitioners. They don’t care what it costs. Would you bother shopping for discounts at the grocery store if you had food insurance that only required a co pay on your part? You would probably fill the cart as full as it could go, whether you needed it or not.

If you want health care costs to go down, more insurance is the opposite of what we need. If you want the cost of ANYTHING to go down, more government is, likewise, the opposite of what we need.

When are we going to figure out the simplest fact of all (the one our grandparents knew all too well): The solution to almost every problem is personal responsibility.

Bad Choices=Good Outcome

Anyone who knows me at all has heard me say that the real problem with the society we’re creating is that it destroys the God-created system of choice and accountability. The natural law is very simple: “If you do something dumb, bad things happen. If you do something good, good things happen.” All of a sudden, however, we are rewarding people for bad choices. Our version of morality isn’t something we made up. It was as simple as your decisions determining the outcome. We were able to see clearly that the good things we did lead to positive outcomes. That is now being destroyed.

This concept is also being played out in the heath care debacle. I read an article today that showed how, in both the Senate and House bills, the cost of insurance will increase the moment a couple gets married. Nice. Our government is giving yet another incentive for people to destroy the sacred family.

Please read this article. Every American needs to understand that by giving our liberty to the government, we are not only destroying accountability, but we are depleting morality.

Dumb things people say to amuse me: Margaret Sanger

This special, historical edition is dedicated to the largest abortion center in the United States being opened in Houston on January 18th. This quote is from Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood (who sponsored the new center).

"As an advocate of Birth Control, I wish to take advantage of the present opportunity to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the "unfit" and the "fit", admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes. In this matter, the example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken classes, should not be held up for emulation to the mentally and physically fit though less fertile parents of the educated and well-to-do classes. On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective."

What a mission statement! Ms. Sanger, of course, saw herself as fit to procreate.