First of all, who really stands to gain if we enforce insurance legislation on every company in America and offer government regulated options? How do we find money in our government for their suggestions when it simply doesn't exist? We, as a nation, really believe medicare is unnecessary? We really expect small business to be able to afford health insurance? Why, because government says so, or else?

Are you kidding me?

Every so-called 'solution' being discussed calls for us finding a way to afford health care. Guess what? It can't be done! Nor should it be. Hear me out.

I've called it 'financial fiction' for several reasons. Besides the obvious 'there isn't any money anywhere, in the government, in the homes, or in the companies potentially being forced to comply,' argument, someone needs to throw a fit about the pharmaceutical companies' hand in this.

From medication costs to the costs of medically necessary devices, to the actual diagnoses' themselves, we are being handed a load of crap from the only industry that stands to fill it's coffers. THOSE are the costs that are far too high for EVERYONE! The only ones who stand to gain are the companies supplying the stuff they have convinced us all that we need. Its crap from the beginning to the end of this story.

It makes sense, doesn't it? All through every news segment on every channel, piped through the loudspeakers at the grocery store, and even on the radio these days is the message that every discomfort is a medically necessary and pharmaceutically treatable ailment. If you listen long enough you can even hear them tell you that the side effects are problematic. They don't mind, of course, because they can sell you something for the side effects, too.

Where do doctors get their information regarding drugs to prescribe? Oh, yeah, pharmaceutical sales people that come to their office and offer free samples. We don't even realize, when handed those samples, that often we're part of a study.

Doctors will tell you that one of the reasons that antibiotics are over-prescribed is because when people come to the office with an ailment, they don't believe they've been taken care of adequately unless they've been given a prescription. They can't afford for you not to return, and if you get a side effect or the symptoms remain, there's the opportunity to charge you again. The ultimate in salesmanship, if you ask me.

People. Take the blinders off. Surely we don't want to hinder our aging population's right to good medical care, or our children's right to actually afford to live. The national debt is out of control and it puts us all at risk of being subject to other nations. Lets pare down the only aspect of this problem that makes sense to pare down. We DON'T need most of that garbage we're being sold. Many times once a medication is started, it can't be removed from routine without needing another. Pharmaceutical companies have found a way to snowball our needs from young ages, until we are on a mountain of medication in our elder years. Generations previous to ours led long, healthy lives. Other countries get proper diet and exercise and practice homeopathic means to overcome suffering on a much larger scale. Why do we believe the medical news journalists and advertisements and our very own doctors when they want to over-medicate us?

Rights aren't taken away, they're given away through ignorance. We don't vote, we don't get informed, and we believe everything we're told by sharks. If this keeps up, our kids' children will be half-nuts with anger issues, deformed, or maladjusted physically, emotionally, and socially.

Anyone look around lately at our youth?

Heads up, they're going to be in charge of the world when you're in a nursing home, and if you don't like it, they can give you something to shut you up.

By: Susan H
Susan Hamilton is a freelance commercial copywriter in the Dallas, TX area. Susan has a passion to see the small business survive during economic hardship through better marketing practices, and teaches home-based businesses how to compete inside their market. Read more at http://ZeroToSixtyMarketing.com

Everybody knows, or they should note that both General Motors and Chrysler failed because of the unions. The unions made demands that the company could not afford and they produced lackluster work ethics and made it nearly impossible for the company to compete. The unions blame the executives of the company for mismanagement.

However, if you really study the history of these two companies you can understand that the status quo, and the stodginess of these companies was their downfall. Most of the decisions they made were not based on the profit motive, but rather appeasing the unions. Each time the companies had a great year of profits and needed to expand or upgrade their facilities, the unions took the money for themselves or they would go on strike killing future profits of the company.

Eventually this created such a stranglehold on the companies that they could not compete anymore and the Japanese came in and were able to sell cars cheaper. The Japanese also built better cars, and whereas, the American unions claimed that they have the best quality, we find that isn't true. We also find that all the lobbying done by the unions caused increased regulations from the government.

Today, unions are getting stronger both politically and in numbers. In fact, government unions are huge, and much of the inefficiency of government is caused by the unions of government workers. In California the budget deficit is $26 billion and much of this is because of the teachers union, the prison workers union, and the sheriff and fire unions.

It's not that these public servants do not deserve to make a fair amount of money, it is that they have such a stranglehold on the politics that they run the State of California and ran it out of money. Will entrenched politics kill America, like they did GM and Chrysler?

Unfortunately, the answer is yes and we only have to look at California to prove that's the path we are on. With Democrats in Congress and also controlling the Senate, and with the executive branch run by Democrats as they stack the Supreme Court you can expect the same thing that happened to Government Motors to happen to the United States Federal Government. Please consider all this.

By: Lance Winslow
Lance Winslow is a retired franchisor - Lance Winslow's Bio. Lance Winslow is formerly the CEO of WashGuys family of franchises for instance one of Lance Winslow's favorite companies on the team; http://www.windowwashguys.com/links.shtml.

Here we go again. Another reason for Americans to be afraid of this administration and do anything peacefully necessary to get this President and all the far left followers he has out of office. Or to at least begin to listen to the American people. The 22nd. Amendment to the US Constitution which limits the amount of time one person can serve as President to two terms or a maximum of ten years. In 1951 a bill was passed putting the 22nd. Amendment into law, limiting terms in office to two, four year terms plus two years if you were put into office by means other than a vote such as the case with Gerald Ford when President Nixon was impeached.

What would this mean and how could Obama make this happen? Right now, President Obama has another issue he is dealing with. That issue is illegal immigration. How could he use this to his advantage? Just think of the gratitude the immigrant community would have for the President if all of a sudden he rewarded them for coming here illegally by automatically giving them all citizenship.

The President would have a huge benefit to his Presidency by having all illegal immigrants so grateful, they would use their new found freedom to vote and cast that vote in favor of Obama. Not only would he get that vote, he would also get the vote of all the family members associated with their once illegal relatives.

This is another issue we Americans need to pay close attention to. You will see fraudulent groups out there spending yours and my tax dollars to get this passed anyway they can in order to keep Obama in office so they can continue their illegal operations without any consequences for squandering our tax dollars for their personal agenda. We cannot let that happen. This President is destroying this country at a rapid rate, far more excelled with spending our money than any other President in US history.

Has anyone noticed how many issues have been on the table with this administration? Foreign affairs,(Speeches apologizing for the US), Economy which includes auto, housing, banks etc... Health care,Global Warming, Illegal Aliens, Iraq, Iran, N.Korea,Russia to name a few. I could go on but I will be here all night long listing the things Obama is dealing with. The biggest problem is that he seems to want to do everything all at the same time. Why? His agenda is socialism. He can't afford to wait for people to realize how bad his plans are for this great country, and that it is destroying the country right in front of our eyes.

It is crucial that we start to understand just how urgent it is for us to do something about it right now. Plan now to get the word out that those we voted for to represent us, have sold out and do not represent our best interests any longer and it is time for them to go.

As I have mentioned in the past,The President has a habit of showing urgency to push one of his policies through to the point of not giving enough time to read these enormous bills with thousands of pages. The President is again trying to push two bills through.The Health Care plan and the Cap and Trade. These may not be on the table to be set in stone yet, even with the Cap and Trade passing through the House, It still needs to go through the Senate and if those Politicians want to continue their careers, it would be wise for them to vote no.

These are what we need to pay attention to. President Obama has been in office just over five months now and look at what he has done so far. It is ludicrous what is happening in Washington. The President continues to defend his policies, but his approval is declining. That shows that Americans strongly want to see a shift in the policies of this administration.

One reason this country has been able to remain strong over the years is the ability to ensure a new President within a reasonable amount of time so we don't get stuck in a situation that is going on with other politicians such as the Kennedy's, Barney Frank to bring up a couple names from the State I grew up in. It's this kind of politics that breed corruption, and we cannot let this continue or get worse, by allowing a President to manipulate the system in his favor.

So in conclusion, we Americans need to make sure we preserve the 22nd. Amendment as it is written, to keep our government from becoming a dictatorship. It's scary, but this concept is not too far off base the way things are going. Don't let the 22nd. Amendments demise happen and destroy this countries tradition.

By: Michael Pomper
An American Citizen concerned for the very freedoms we have enjoyed for over 230 years and counting...
http://www.michaelpomper.com

We have a very young, naive, and yes, a very ambitious president here in the United States, he is somewhat of an anomaly indeed. He has been in office less than six months, and he has already spent over $1 trillion in deficit for the federal government's fiscal year. This is an all-time record in government spending, and indeed it is also a wake-up call for all Americans.

Apparently, this administration is not wasting a single crisis; using each crisis as a reason to spend more money. Now President Obama is going to do something that no one else has ever been able to do; pass off a socialized health care program in America. This is very dangerous and it will be extremely costly for the US's future economic security.

The Obama administration is pushing for a very fast signing of the health care bill, and perhaps they hope no one will read it. Unfortunately, what has been read looks very damaging to the future economic strength of America. Just paying for this health care plan will cost nearly $4 Trillion over a 10 year period. Everyone, will be required to either buy healthcare insurance, opt into the government program or accept free health care insurance.

Of course, the legislative branch has to find a way to pay for it all, and that means raising taxes, it also means cutting the military budget to bare bones. The government's number one job is to protect the people, and that means a strong military; it doesn't mean socialized medicine. So, please consider all this.

By: Lance Winslow
Lance Winslow is a retired franchisor - Lance Winslow's Bio. Lance Winslow is formerly the CEO of WashGuys family of franchises for instance one of Lance Winslow's favorite companies on the team; http://www.windowwashguys.com/links.shtml.