There is no reason to let those who are most vulnerable in our society suffer over politics. Therefore I implore the President and Senator Harry Reid to vote on the mini spending bills that will sent by the house tonight on areas such as the National Institute of Health (Cancer Research) and Veterans Affairs. Please this is not a partisan issue but a human issue. I ask you to spread the word and tell your Senators that enough is enough!
Today, the House of Representatives is proposing to send bills to the Senate to fund parts of the government that they both agree on, but the Senate leaders say they will automatically reject those bills. If these are areas that they both agree on why would they automatically reject such a proposal? It is because they are looking at winning by dividing their opponent. A strategy that has been successfully used by the secularist against people of faith. The secularist have been so successful in this strategy that they have subdivided even groups of the same faith (ex Orthodox Jews vs Conservative Jews), while they push their agenda through the public square. Those that would normally fight against such an agenda are instead fighting themselves. Steps can be to conquer those who look to divide us (see below).
(1) Agree to disagree. It’s okay to see the world in a different light as long as we understand that there is light or in other words we have more in common then what divides us.
(2) Respect- Although we might disagree with those areas we should respect the differing opinion, to the point where we could argue their point. Or in other words name and yelling is childish and she be frowned on by both sides.
(3) Stick to your values but find a way for all to win. For example the New Jersey Plan was the way the House of Representatives and Senate were formed today.
(4) Most importantly make sure that you’re not doing more harm with your division then you would be by uniting. If the Senate and House agreed to fund the parts of government they both agreed on wouldn’t it truly be better for their employer (the citizens).
The government spends 34 billion dollars a year for their prison system. 67% of inmates return to prisons while this statistic is even higher for more serious crimes. Prisoners are trained on how to commit more crimes when their behind bars instead of getting the mental health treatment they need. Therefore the current prison system is failing the taxpayer, those in prison and most importantly previous victims of crime as well as G-D forbid future victims. We are wasting monies and destroying lives. Something must be done!
In order to save costs and reduce the rate of return of prisoners we must have a system where inmates dread going back to this system, yet develop the skills and values so they won’t feel compelled to return. All future convicts will not go through the current prison system but a new system (see below). To further reduce costs those already convicted of non-violent offenses will be given a reduction of their sentence, if they are willing to go through the new system as well.
(1) Private fenced in secure tent like structures run by private organizations (ex religious organizations, drug rehab centers) will house new and non violent prisoners. Those who run these facilities will receive funds for holding the prisoners that is at least 10% less the current fee in prisons. The prisoners will have to grow at least some of the food they need and learn to be more independent. There will be different tent like structures for different types of prisoners (drug problems, Christian based, military based, petty crimes etc) but they will all have to provide the following services to the prisoners.
A. Psychological and group counselor
B. Empathy training and understanding of what their crimes did to society.
C. Job training and values training
D. Drug Rehabilitation
E. A letter of repentance to the crime victim (sent without the victims address being revealed)
The toughness of these prisons (no T.V, no gym etc) plus the services (counselor, drug rehab, faith training) they provide will incentivize most not to want to return to their previous life of crime. Yet to further insure that this rate goes down those that leave prison will have to pay their victim (anonymously) a small token fee for the crime they’ve committed. This fee will continue to decline over-time till it’s nothing, unless they commit another crime.
Everyday we waste hours upon hours on governmental roads with no private option and as result add to pollution,make us more dependent on foreign fuels, lessen work productivity etc etc. Yet we now are going to trust this same government to run our health care system. In case I haven’t proved my point please see (below).
GO CRUZ GO!!!!!
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their cards right. In other words there have to show through action that if the government is closed that it is the Democratic led Senate and President that are to blame not them. This will be accomplished by showing that the House is ready to offer many offers quickly instead of one and ready to negotiate as opposed to the President and Senate who just say no but don’t offer an alternative. Here’ s how this can work (below).
(1) Once the Senate rejects the House’s offer to fund the government without Obama Care a new piece of legislation must be ready to be voted on by the house. (see # 2)
(2) This legislation will agree to fund the government and a tax cut for the middle class if Obama Care mandate for individuals is delayed by a year.
(3) Once the Senate rejects this offer then the House must be ready to vote on another continuing resolution to fund the government.
(4) This legislation will agree to fund the government and even Obamacare for the first year if individuals with religious objections are given a waiver to participate for this program. They also must agree that a non-paritisian group (set up an equal number of Republicans & Democrats) be set up to determine if the legislature meets the parameters set up by the Obama Admininstration (ex cost for insurance will go down, people will be able to keep the insurance they want, people will not be denied care etc..) If those parameters are not met after the first year this legislation(Obama-Care) will automatically be nullified
(5) If the Senate rejects this legislation then Congress must be ready for additional votes. These votes will be break up the budget in several sections (in order military, Social Security, Parks etc) and each piece will be sent to the Senate for their approval . If the Senate rejects this offer then the blame will squarely be on their side.
History doesn’t need to repeat itself but that means we need to make a difference. The killings at the Naval Base in Washington D.C, Newton Connecticut and Aurora Colorado have one underlining thread, our treatment of the mentally ill is lacking. Those that are suffering from mental illness are suffering from an illness like anyone else but it is in their head instead of there heart or other parts of the body. When someone has a life threatening disease we in society use almost every means possible to treat, especially if it can hurt other but for some reason there is an exception made for those with mental health issues. There is a solution.
(1) Laws must be enacted so family Member, friends or even associates can have an individual evaluated even against their will if they deem that person a threat to themselves or others. Of course safeguards will be instituted so those that file false charges will face repercussions (including fines and/or evaluations themselves).
(2) Social workers, community volunteers must play an active part of a local community to reach out to those who might be alone and or suffering. They must have the resources and training to deal with these individuals as well.
(3) These evaluations must be conducted in a warm loving environment that seeks to help the individual.
(4) Those that are deemed to need treatment must receive treatment. Again safeguards will be instituted so those that are forced into treatment will have ample opportunity to appeal.
(5) Society needs to promote those individuals that seek treatment instead of stigmatize them or ostracize them.
(6) Police and security officials at facilities will be notified of individuals who are in treatment and be trained how to deal with individuals having a breakdown and at the same time not to stigmatize or isolate those under treatment.
(7) Those under treatment will be persuaded by mental health professionals to have a trusted individual hold their fire-arms, violent video games and or related items that might trigger them to have a violent episode until a steady regiment of treatment is established and instituted.
(8) Group therapy, friendship groups must be part of any therapy so the individual doesn’t feel isolated at anytime and so others can help if need be before any episode gets out of control.
Some of the side effects of Obamacare (see below) next they’ll be asking to put a camera in your bedroom to verify that you’re telling the truth. It’s for your good, right?
Courteous of the NY Post
Are you sexually active? If so, with one partner, multiple partners or same-sex partners?”
Be ready to answer those questions and more the next time you go to the doctor, whether it’s the dermatologist or the cardiologist and no matter if the questions are unrelated to why you’re seeking medical help. And you can thank the Obama health law.
“This is nasty business,” says New York cardiologist Dr. Adam Budzikowski. He called the sex questions “insensitive, stupid and very intrusive.” He couldn’t think of an occasion when a cardiologist would need such information — but he knows he’ll be pushed to ask for it.
The president’s “reforms” aim to turn doctors into government agents, pressuring them financially to ask questions they consider inappropriate and unnecessary, and to violate their Hippocratic Oath to keep patients’ records confidential.
Embarrassing though it may be, you confide things to a doctor you wouldn’t tell anyone else. But this is entirely different.
Doctors and hospitals who don’t comply with the federal government’s electronic-health-records requirements forgo incentive payments now; starting in 2015, they’ll face financial penalties from Medicare and Medicaid. The Department of Health and Human Services has already paid out over $12.7 billion for these incentives.
Dr. Richard Amerling, a nephrologist and associate professor at Albert Einstein Medical College, explains that your medical record should be “a story created by you and your doctor solely for your treatment and benefit.” But the new requirements are turning it “into an interrogation, and the data will not be confidential.”
Lack of confidentiality is what concerned the New York Civil Liberties Union in a 2012 report. Electronic medical records have enormous benefits, but with one click of a mouse, every piece of information in a patient’s record, including the social history, is transmitted, disclosing too much.
The social-history questions also include whether you’ve ever used drugs, including IV drugs. As the NYCLU cautioned, revealing a patient’s past drug problem, even if it was a decade ago, risks stigma.
On the other end of the political spectrum is the Goldwater Institute, a free-market think tank. It argues that by requiring everyone to have health insurance and then imposing penalties on insurers, doctors and hospitals who don’t use the one-click electronic system, the law is violating Americans’ medical privacy.
The administration is ignoring these protests from privacy advocates. On Jan. 17, HHS announced patients who want to keep something out of their electronic record should pay cash. That’s impractical for most people.
There’s one question they can’t ask: Thanks to the NRA, Section 2716 of the ObamaCare law bars the federal government from compelling doctors and hospitals to ask you if you own a firearm.
But that’s the only question they can’t be told to ask you.
Where are the women’s rights groups that went to the barricades in the 1980s and 1990s to prevent the federal government from accessing a woman’s health records? Hypocritically, they are silent now.
Patients need to defend their own privacy by refusing to answer the intrusive social-history questions. If you need to confide something pertaining to your treatment, ask your doctor about keeping two sets of books so that your secret stays in the office. Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath seriously and won’t be offended.
Are such precautions paranoid? Hardly. WikiLeaker Bradley Manning showed how incompetent the government is at keeping its own secrets; incidents where various agencies accidentally disclose personal data like Social Security numbers are legion. And that’s not to mention the ways in which commercial databases are prone to hacking and/or exploitation.
Be careful about sharing your medical secrets with Uncle Sam.
Betsy McCaughey is the author of “Beating ObamaCare.”
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The Blaze reports that 2 Colorado State Senators who fought against the will of the people by voting against their 2nd Amendment rights have been recalled. That’s right they have been kicked out.
If you decided to go to sleep instead here are the results from the Huffington Posts
Stringer – beat out the Spitzer for Controller
Debasio- appears to have the 40 % to avoid a runoff election in the Democratic Mayoral race