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If you like your insurance, you can keep it — 5 Comments

1. “Isn’t it fun strolling down memory lane?”

   Not so much, sometimes… 🙁

2. I wonder how many gullible people really believed that statement the first time they heard it? Call me a cynical conservative, but it is simply naive to hold out hope that we are not on the road to a full fledged single payer and single provider system not too far down the road if the socialists have their way. Emulating the Canadian and UK systems is a not very well concealed goal. Community clinics staffed by people with subsidized education anyone? Obviously commercial health insurance companies will be an early casualty, then the private hospitals and doctors will virtually disappear. I believe that the technique is called “bait and switch”.

3. Somewhat off topic, yet on.
   Here’s something that perhaps is worth your consideration. I don’t agree with every word, my wife is a lawyer, but hey, evaluate it for yourself…

   Merry Christmas!

   “I don’t know the name of the author or if this is ancient internet history, but I still thought you might find the piece worthwhile. I haven’t bothered to fact check the writer’s assertions, so don’t start screaming at me if you spot a mistake.

   The Democratic Party has become The Lawyer’s Party

   Barack Obama is a lawyer.

   Michelle Obama is a lawyer.

   Hillary Clinton is a lawyer.

   Bill Clinton is a lawyer.

   John Edwards is a lawyer.

   Elizabeth Edwards is a lawyer.

   Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to Law school (although Gore did not graduate).

   Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school

   Look at leaders of the Democrat Party in Congress:

   Harry Reid is a lawyer.

   Nancy Pelosi is a lawyer.

   The Republican Party is different.

   President Bush is a businessman.

   Vice President Cheney is a businessman.

   The leaders of the Republican Revolution:

   Newt Gingrich was a history professor.

   Tom Delay was an exterminator.

   Dick Armey Was an economist.

   House Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic Manufacturer.

   The former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist Is a heart surgeon.

   Who was the last Republican president who was a lawyer? Gerald Ford, who left office 31 years ago and who barely won the Republican nomination as a sitting president, running against Ronald Reagan in 1976. The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work, who are often the targets of lawyers.

   The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers. Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Bush and Cheney, or who heal the sick, like First, or who immerse themselves in history, like Gingrich.

   The Lawyers’ Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and services that people want, as the enemies of America . And, so we have seen the procession of official Enemies, in the eyes of the Lawyers’ Party, grow.

   Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail? Pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food restaurant chains, large retail businesses, bankers, and anyone producing anything of value in our nation.

   This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through the eyes of lawyers. Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing their clients, in this case the American People. Lawyers seek to have new laws passed, they seek to win lawsuits, they press appellate courts to overturn precedent, and lawyers always parse language to favor their side.

   Confined to the narrow practice of law, that Is fine. But it is an awful way to govern a great nation. When Politicians as lawyers begin to view some Americans as clients and Other Americans as opposing parties, then the role of the legal system in our life becomes all-consuming. Some Americans become “adverse parties” of our very government. We are not all litigants in some vast social class-action suit. We are citizens of a republic that promises us a great deal of freedom from laws, from courts, and from lawyers.

   Today, we are drowning in laws; we are contorted by judicial decisions; we are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in all parts of our once private lives. America has a place for laws and lawyers, but that place is modest and reasonable, not vast and unchecked. When the most important decision for our next president is whom he will appoint to the Supreme Court, the role of lawyers and the law in America is too big. When lawyers use criminal prosecution as a continuation of politics by other means, as happened in the lynching of Scooter Libby and Tom Delay, then the power of lawyers in America is too great. When House Democrats sue America in order to hamstring our efforts to learn what our enemies Are planning to do to us, then the role of litigation in America has become crushing.

   We cannot expect the Lawyers’ Party to Provide real change, real reform or real hope in America Most Americans know that a republic in which every major government action must be blessed by nine unelected judges is not what Washington intended in 1789. Most Americans grasp that we cannot fight a war when ACLU lawsuits snap at the heels of our defenders. Most Americans Intuit that more lawyers and judges will not restore declining moral values or spark the spirit of enterprise in our economy..

   Perhaps Americans will understand that change cannot be brought to our nation by those lawyers who already largely dictate American society and business. Perhaps Americans will see that hope does not come from the mouths of lawyers but from personal dreams nourished by hard work. Perhaps Americans will embrace the truth that more lawyers with more power will only make our problems worse.

   The United States has 5% of the world’s population and 66% of the world’s lawyers! Tort (Legal) reform legislation has been introduced in congress several times in the last several years to limit punitive damages in ridiculous lawsuits such as spilling hot coffee on yourself and suing the establishment that sold it to you” and also to limit punitive damages in huge medical malpractice lawsuits. This legislation has continually been blocked from even being voted on by the Democrat Party. When you see that 97% of the political contributions from the American Trial Lawyers Association go to the Democrat Party, then you realize who is responsible for our medical and product costs being so high!”

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5. I really hope Obamacare becomes a millstone around the neck of the Democrats the way TARP, Porkulus, and Cap and Trade does. The Dums must be delusional if they think their poll numbers will rise from this despicable play. A law forced against the public will and good will not be forgotten or forgiven. I speak more often now about politics than ever before. I feel almost empowered to say more and challenge any lib I see. I may be the first in my family and friends but I suspect I won’t alone for long…

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