Response to Letter to Editor at Chronicleonline.com

Suzan Franks is a typical politician in the sense that they complain about high prices in the private sector but have no problem with out federal Government increasing (taxes) rates.
The letter to the editor (09/20/09) talked about how progress energy wants to impose a tax on it's rate payers.
Is Mrs. Franks now so against imposing a tax rate increase that she will speak out against the cap and trade? Which is on a rate increase on even the most indigent of energy consumers.
Will her organizations "Citizens for Rate Payer Rights" that is 10,000 strong, send someone to the white house to complain?
She must be aware of how the President ignores the millions of people who are speaking out against his policies of increase rates. Is she a typical politicians or will she cross party lines like so many of the others in support of the Tea Party who speak out against the cap and trade rate increase or will she only speak out against Republicans? This is your chance Mrs. Franks to prove your letter to the editor wasn't just a political hit on still another Republican and your really against rate increases. Be it Federal, State or Other. If not I say in Mrs. Franks own words "shame on you".

Univeral healthcare, not what we need!

You see the Government is currently telling you that millions of people are in crisis because they don’t have healthcare. Yet how many more millions are in crisis because they can’t get to work in a reliable care? An individual without a reliable car has an increased chance of losing their jobs, costing them and the economy more than can be estimated by my humble means. But if they had a new car (say from a government owned car company), they could make it to work and have a better chance of succeeding at their jobs and the bosses would lose less money. This would also put more money into the pocket of the individual and allow them to pay for that healthcare that they so easily claim is a human right.
The truth is I don’t think the government should give anyone a car or universal healthcare.
I think that government should stop being so wasteful with our tax dollars that they have to take more, claiming that because people can’t afford health insurance they will pay for it with yet still more taxes. The problem is that it is a vicious cycle of government taking more of the individual’s money through taxes, then offering help because of the lack of money due to over taxation.
If you turn on the light it’s them in your house, look at every bill and you will see that government has its hands deep in your pockets, we are overburdened with taxes preventing success, and they are in your way.
What does this government do? It over taxes but offers more entitlements yet because of this people can’t afford things in their life like healthinsurance.
What is the answer? Well there is a big movement called the Tea Party or you can work at your own level by writing you elected officials. Tell them this simple message, stay out of our homes, stay out of our pocket and stay out of our way. We will fix America!

Am I my brothers keeper?

In all my life I have been taught that team work is important to success, be it sports or work. We are taught this from the very beginning of our life and we teach it to our children as soon as they can, why is it then that we punish the individual and not the whole team when someone does wrong.
This shows the fault of the collective or team mentality, why in the long run it won’t work.
It is the individual who makes things happen, when each individual achieves or strives to achieve their best the team or collective is then rewarded, but because you can not force those who wish to put less effort into things to perform their best the team or collective concept cannot be forced to work. No individual has ever failed who put forth their best effort, regardless of the results, because of this philosophy we cannot be our brother’s keeper, because when we choose as an individual to let the actions of others take control of us, the choice to give our best for ourselves is pointless and watered down.
If and when I make the conscience choice to help I do it because I benefit in some way. Helping kids in the community helps me in that there is a better chance of lower crime rate. Yet giving my money or food to others out of charity doesn’t help me as an individual at all. People will say but how can you stand by and does nothing as others fail? I say easy, I am giving them the motivation to do something to succeed because as long as they can take from me they have no need to succeed on their own.
More will say, but what about the infirm or those who are of a mental defect that doesn’t allow them to succeed. This is the most difficult point for an individual with a heart, yet I think that if someone is infirm and tries to do their best then it will benefit me to help because we can both get something from each other.
Yet if they are infirm and sit home and say feed me, help me, or do for me, I say turn a blind eye!
The only ones who should be assisted are the mentally ill that can do nothing what so ever, to those I say you will have my assistance. Because you truly have no choice to help, this brother I will keep.
It is the individual not the team, it is the individual not my brother, it is the individual not my country that must be first to succeed. And when we realize it’s because of the individual, then my brother, team, country and all can be great.

A please and thank you mob.

I spoke at the Crystal River Tea Party (9-12-09) and have to say I was so pleased by the type of people that showed.
People of all ages showed, people of all financial status showed (O.K. Bill Gates never made it), the one thing about this group that would be called a mob by is that everyone said please and thank you.
This group of Tea Party supporters is indicative of the average American. Food was brought to the event by individuals in support of individuals in need, support by individuals not the government is what many of the Tea Party thinks and wants.
They stayed in the rain to hear people speak, they never booed or complained. None of the speakers or supporters asked for the government to give them anything. Unlike those in opposition who showed up holding signs (very nice mass produced signs, wonder who is getting support and who is the grassroots) that asked for big business to pay their fair share. The opposition who wants the government to use its ability to take from us, by making it sound like big business will just pay more in taxes, when the truth is that business’ just get more out of our pocket and pass it to government.
The people at the Tea Party stand for freedom and they support the individual as the answer, not the collective of government.
The Tea Party supporters know that many have sat still too long, while our freedoms are slowly being suppressed. The average American who makes up the Tea Party are now awake and ready to step up and be heard, the march on Washington was a call to end the expansion of government. This march was a protest march that was in a size not seen before and even thought they packed the streets you don’t hear stories about rowdy protesters, passionate statements but no violence. See what happens when a pro-America, freedom loving mob gets together, it becomes a please and thank you mob!
A special thanks to Edna, great job!

The truth about our government being oppressive

Oppression by charity and benevolence

Oppression

Unjust or cruel exercise of authority or power; A sense of being weighed down in body or mind.

Charity

Generosity and helpfulness especially towards the needy or suffering; also :aid given to those in need.

Benevolence

Marked by or disposed to doing good ; organized for the purpose of doing good.

In our modern society it has gotten to be clear that our Government has started to become oppressive to those they have sworn to protect and defend. By over taxation, imposition of fees and penalties and establishment of regulation our Government stifles the pursuit of happiness by those I call the "doers", in a free society. Because of this there are many more people who lose the spirit to strive for success and happiness. The result is a need to do something about those that made a deliberate choice to put as little energy into their lives as others. In the past people like that fell by the wayside, today they are pandered to by a politician who wants the votes. They start programs of entitlement that are basically a type of government charity.
This charity is abused at so many levels, between looter classes that pass on the secrets of how to bilk the system. To the administrators who are as liable for the fraud for giving approval for entitlements to obvious looters. All in the name of being charitable to what many call the needy, when it's obvious that it is too easy to be charitable with other people’s money. We are oppressing the doers by taking from them, putting weight on them to produce and be profitable so that their success can be shared with the looters in the name of charity. To the doers our government says now that you have done well and produced a profit you will pay that to the looters who don't make profit for themselves or others. This is oppression!!! People in the government and many in the populous say, but we are in support of this because it's only being done in the name of helping others and this shows how benevolent the government is. Yet how can this government be benevolent and oppressive?
It is wrong for the government to say if you are profitable we will take your money from you and give it to those they choose.
Is this government benevolent? I say no, it is the obvious contradiction to benevolence because to take from one to give to others without the choice is oppressive. Your law abiding doer understands that, government taxes to be able maintain infrastructure as well as defend the populous. It is not even part of the equation it is part of the oldest agreement in the country. After that for the government to come and take from you to do charity to others in the name of benevolence, is oppression.

Important

Don't forget the Tea Party in Crystal river on the 12th of September

My suggestion for healthcare changes

How about instead of a government plan (call it what you want it is still run by the government), why not really fix the problem of people loosing it all because of the cost of healthcare. Establish a fund that will provide a tax free and interest free fund to loan money to people who are in a situation where they can't afford to pay for their care. They could pay it back as able, when their position in life inproves the amount would have to be increased. For those who are living alone (elderly) they could pay back their care in a asset sale after their passing. For those who can't afford any means of paying back the government, you would not provide the child tax credit.
Next there needs to be a cost reduction, Tort reform would be essential in reducing cost increases. Set a cost cap for rewards (covering current and future medical care as well as cost of living changes), any punitive fees would go in to the above stated fund.
Allow federal lands to be used by those who want to start up medical facilities in the most needy communities, this would be on a cost free basis as long as that medical facility was used for medicine (not transferable to non-medical business). For those who have disabilities and get government care, allow them to earn what they want while increasing the investigation of fraud.
Pass a law that requires insurance companies to keep any patient who has a change of status unless fraud can be proven (as an example if someone gets cancer the insurance company must keep them during and after). If a insurance company has a client who is found to have had a preexisting condition that is not grounds for dropping them, a new company must take a person with preexisting conditions at the same rate as the previous company but only if the individual left the other comany because of no fault of their own (closure of the previous company).

Mine and Yours

How much of your money is your money and how much of my money is my money? That is a question I had in mind when my twin was talking to our niece, we actually only posed to her the how much of your money is your money part. Yet that was enough to stop her in her tracks when she was talking about our president and what he wanted to do.
Milton Friedman brought up the fact that people don’t spend other people’s money very well, this I think is the core of why the Tea Party movement is building. When we see that our government is wasting billions and wants to start a new program that will insure that hundreds of billions is wasted. The same government that is currently loosing billions in the post office, Amtrak, social security, Medicare/Medicaid, veterans administration and so on. You see you are being pandered to in that the president is saying we are going to make the rich pay more and the savings from other programs is how we will pay for things. First is the falsehood that your taxes were lowered. Do you smoke? Your taxes went up. Do you eat? Your food cost went up. Do you have a house? Your power bill will go up with cap and trade. Yet you’re being told that only the rich will pay more. The only way that the rich pay more is through a increase in income tax, yet when you look at the percentage of the bill it come to you paying a higher percentage than the rich. I say don’t charge anyone more in taxes, find ways to cut the budget. Why do we come up with more programs when we have yet to have a successful one to date?
How much of your money is your money, well you will say it’s all mine. The truth is it doesn’t matter what you say, the government will tell you how much is yours and they even have a czar now to tell you how much you can earn if the government thinks it’s to much. How much of your money is your money? Just ask the government.

The government will control you, your kids will help!

• Control
  In the cash for clunkers there was a section where it would allow for the government to get access to our computers, they you have a bill being worked in the senate to give the white house the power to disconnect private sector computers from the internet. Then you here about the program they had to report people to the white house (flag@whitehouse.gov). Now you have the Government pushing your kids into service, there is a plan for Jan-March to tell your kids about the Census. They are going to get classes prior to the Census so the kids can help get out the information about it. The census is a constitutional requirement; It is in place for a good reason. It helps draw district lines and determines how many people are in the district so you can have proper representation. I just think that the government shouldn’t take advantage of our children. By being trapped in a classroom, they don’t get to see that it is not their job to work for the government. The will assume it is normal, then how much easier will it be to get them to be loyal sheep!
  Our government tells you how to live your life, what foods to eat, how much you can make, how much water you can use per flush and so on. Simply put the government wants to control access to you internet, your house, your kids and you.
  Our current government supported by the liberals want one thing, CONTROL!
  A warning to you by the blogger,
  Everydayconservative.blogspot.com

Cash for clunkers a good reason to stay away from healthcare

Cash for clunkers is a huge success in that it drove many to get something from the government, that being our tax dollars. So if it is such a success why does it scare the crap out of me? Simply put if many people will flock to a government program that gives them a discount, what will they do when the government takes over healthcare and gives it away for free (at tax payer expense of course). You see the people went to the dealers and got what they thought would be a good deal, they are now finding that the money they saved will be shown as income so they will have to pay taxes on it! The dealers are still trying to get through the huge amount of paper work and many may get stiffed, but hey you went further in debt and got the car you wanted.
Here is the healthcare angle; if the government is telling us that it will cost $1.5 Trillion dollars to insure everyone do you really think that is an accurate amount, when they couldn’t even budget for a billion dollar program.
Next don’t you think the looters of the world will take advantage of the health care and run the tab up? The mentality of getting something for nothing is so pervasive in our culture that it is guaranteed that people who don’t need it will get it just to have it, this of course will make supplies and providers scarce and drive up prices.
The example of what people do when you give them a discount is a great one to show healthcare won’t work, why not get to the root of the problem? Tort reform, that changes to a looser pays system and caps on rewards. Next support better funding for the systems that are already in place like the County Health department (note I have had people give bad reviews of service provided), last start bringing criminal charges against people who knowingly are perpetrating a fraud against the Medicare, Social security or any other agency (example: false disabilities).