I went out to Publix’s today as I was walking in I saw this bumper sticker.

“Liberals treat dogs like people. “

“Conservatives treat people like dogs.”

Next to that sticker was another one saying “Proud Democrat”.  I’m sorry but I couldn’t possible have that on my car even when I consider my self a democrat.  I know a lot of people that consider them selves Conservatives and are one of the more caring people out there.  I also know my fair share of Liberals that are the same way.

But would have to say this person that had this sticker was not the understanding or caring type.  I could be wrong about that.  But I doubt it to have a general statement “Conservative treat people like dogs” is generalizing everyone that is a Conservative .  I have no use for people that generalize a group of people.

I guess it takes all types of people…………

I went and did two test to see what political party I fall in.  One is The Political Compass it is one that is long, but doesn’t take long to do.  The other is World’s Smallest Political Quiz.  Over the last few years I have changed some of my feelings and opinions about current things.  I don’t put my self as a Democrat and can’t completely put my self as a Republican either.

So I decided to take both those tests which said I’m a Libertarian.

LIBERTARIAN

Supports maximum liberty in both personal and economic matters.  They advocate a much smaller government; one that is limited to protecting individuals from coercion and violence.  Libertarians tend to embrace individual responsibility, oppose government bureaucracy and taxes, promote private charity, tolerate diverse lifestyles, support the free market, and defend civil liberties.

I went to The Libertarian Party of Florida website.  I liked their Q&A page. Here is a list of those Q&A’s below.  I like their way of thinking.

1. What is libertarianism?
Libertarians want a win-win world of peace and plenty. And we believe
that the only way to get it is through self-government… NOT others-
government.

Self-government is the combination of personal responsibility and
tolerance. Responsibility means you govern yourself. Tolerance means
you don’t force your values on peaceful, honest people.

Today, however, others-government is giving us insecurity, conflict
and poverty. Let’s revitalize our heritage of self-government to
create a win-win world where everyone comes out ahead. [4] — Carole
Ann Rand

2. Are libertarians liberal or conservative?
You have a better choice than just left or right. The libertarian way
gives you more choices, in politics, in business, your personal life,
in every way. Libertarians advocate a high degree of both personal and
economic liberty. Today’s liberals like personal liberty but want
government to control your economic affairs. Conservatives reverse
that, advocating more economic freedom but wanting to clamp down on
your private life.

Libertarian positions on the issues are not “left” or “right” or a
combination of the two. Libertarians believe that, on every issue, you
have the right to decide for yourself what’s best for you and to act
on that belief so long as you respect the right of other people to do
the same and deal with them peacefully and honestly.

Today’s liberals and conservatives have rejected America’s heritage of
liberty and personal responsibility. They want to put us all in their
straitjacket. Americans built a great country without shackles. It’s
time to take them off again. Break free of the useless left right
spectrum. Think freedom on all issues. Think libertarian. [2]

3. How do libertarians approach the issues?
Libertarians use a caring, people centered approach to politics.
Politicians too frequently forget that their laws and regulations
affect real, live human beings. Libertarians never lose sight of that
fact. We see each individual as unique, with great potential. We want
a system which encourages all of us to discover the best within
ourselves and make the most of it. A system which encourages the
development of the most harmonious relationships among all people.

In dealing with political issues, libertarians focus on the people
involved. Who is having a problem? What is it? What is the government
doing already, if anything, and might that be the cause of the
problem?

Most importantly, Libertarians ask: is anyone violating another’s
rights? Is someone committing murder, rape, robbery, theft, fraud,
embezzlement, arson, trespass, etc.? If so, then it’s proper to call
on government to help the victim against the wrongdoer. But, if not,
the government should not get involved.

In most instances, people are better off if allowed to work out their
own problems through voluntary cooperation without introducing the
coercive tool of government. [3]

4. What is the libertarian position on the military draft?
History shows that free people can be counted on to defend their homes
and their country. But the draft is slavery, and slaves make lousy
defenders of freedom.

I like knowing I’m being protected by people who are in the military
because they want to be there, not because they were forced against
their will to be there.

A military focused on defending America instead of policing the globe
would reduce manpower needs and further eliminate any reason to have a
draft or draft registration.

Let’s let free people defend freedom. [3]

5. Should the government regulate radio, TV, or the press?
America’s free press is envied by freedom-starved people everywhere.
Dictators use a controlled press to silence opposition and to feed
lies to their citizens.

Americans would not like it if the government here owned or controlled
the newspapers. Why should we like government control of TV and radio
any better? As with printed words, broadcast words can and should be
regulated by the free market.

Americans should be able to freely choose what they will watch or
listen to, without Big Brother making those decisions for them. [3]

6. Why do libertarians want to repeal regulations on sex by consenting adults?
Nothing is more personal than the way people chose to shape their
sexual relationships. Government has no business intruding into
people’s bedrooms.

This doesn’t mean we must personally approve of the sexual behaviors
of others. It simply means that as long as the participants are
consenting adults, no one has the right to use the force of government
laws to try to stop or punish them.

There is no justification for throwing peaceful Americans in jail
because of their sexual choices. Let’s respect people’s right to
control their own bodies. [3]

6a. Does this apply to prostitution also?
Every day millions of adult Americans agree to make love. There is no
justification for throwing them in jail. These are peaceful voluntary
agreements between consenting adults. A tiny fraction of these involve
money.

Criminal penalties do not stop prostitution. They just create real
problems. One study showed it costs taxpayers two thousand dollars
every time a prostitute is arrested. Let’s respect people’s right to
control their own bodies.

Decriminalize sex, and let it be a private affair. [3]

7. Does libertarian support of personal liberty extend to drug use?
Alcohol prohibition tore America apart once. Now it is the war on
drugs. Harsh laws and the threat of jail and fines will not stop drug
use. All they do is make it harder to help people. And just as
Prohibition created organized crime, today’s drug laws keep organized
crime alive — with all the violence and corruption that goes along
with it.

Before drugs were illegal, Americans handled them with few problems.
Let’s respect the right of people to control their own bodies.

Decriminalize drugs, help those who need it, and let the police spend
their time protecting us from real crime. [3]

7a. But if drugs were legalized, wouldn’t there be millions more drug addicts?
I, too, want to live in a society where people are healthy and
productive, not destroying their lives with addictive drugs.

All of the hard drugs were legal before 1914, and there were few
addicts. Studies show that even addicts can be productive, and also
that they do not engage in crime when they can get their drugs
inexpensively.

We have addicts today despite drug criminalization. We also have the
violence that is caused by drugs being illegal. Let’s decriminalize
drugs so we stop the violence and get help to those who need it. [3]

8. Do libertarians support gun ownership as a personal liberty?
Libertarians,, like other Americans, want to be able to walk city
streets safely and be secure in their homes. We also want our
Constitutional rights protected, to guard against the erosion of civil
liberties. In particular, Libertarians want to see all people treated
equally under the law, as our Constitution requires. America’s
millions of gun owners are people too.

Law-abiding, responsible citizens do not and should not need to ask
anyone’s permission or approval to engage in a peaceful activity. Gun
ownership, by itself, harms no other person and cannot morally justify
criminal penalties.

A responsible, well-armed and trained citizenry is the best protection
against domestic crime and the threat of foreign invasion. America’s
founders knew that. It is still true today.

9. How do libertarians want to handle immigration?
People have the right to travel anywhere, and to take any job offered
them, so long as they do it at their own expense and without violating
the rights of others.

A way to help the poor is to let them go where the work is, regardless
of borders. Studies show that immigrants don’t take jobs from others,
they add to the economy and help create more jobs.

America was built by immigrants who came here seeking nothing but
opportunity and freedom — and created the greatest, most productive
society ever.

Respect for human rights and compassion for the world’s poor require
that we relax immigration restrictions. [3]

10. What position do libertarians have on subsidies for farm and business?
All business people, including farmers, should be able to offer their
products in a free market without being subsidized by others. The way
to help both producers and consumers is to remove government programs
and restrictions which have damaged America’s free enterprise system.

Subsidies are harmful and unfair. Why should some businesses be taxed
to give handouts to others? Why should you pay higher prices to
support government favored businesses?

Let’s stop this nonsense. Then business could operate in a free market
and all of us could be better fed, clothed and housed at lower cost.
[3]

11. Are people better off with free trade than with tariffs?
Free trade provides consumers with better goods at lower prices. Trade
restrictions produce the opposite: shoddy goods and higher prices.

With free trade, consumers pay lower prices for products and thereby
have more money left to spend on other goods, domestic as well as
foreign.

Free trade also helps the cause of world peace. In the 1920’s and
30’s, trade barriers went up everywhere, directly contributing to the
outbreak of World War II. If goods don’t cross borders, armies will.

Let’s end all trade restrictions and free the world’s resources to be
allocated in the most efficient and productive manner. [3]

12. What position do libertarians take on minimum wage laws?
Skilled, experienced workers make high wages because employers compete
to hire them. Poorly educated, inexperienced young people can’t get
work because minimum wage laws make them too expensive to hire as
trainees. Repeal of the minimum wage would allow many young, minority
and poor people to work.

It must be asked, if the minimum wage is such a good idea, why not
raise it to $200 an hour? Even the most die-hard minimum wage advocate
can see there’s something wrong with that proposal.

The only “fair” or “correct” wage is what an employer and employee
voluntarily agree upon. We should repeal minimum wage now. [3]

13. What about the poor?
I want to break the chains of poverty and help the disabled. First
remove laws that prevent work. Second, privatize welfare.

Permits, licensing, zoning, labor laws. They all stop people who want
to work, especially minorities. Repeal those laws. Private charity is
more compassionate and delivers the goods better than the government
welfare plantation.

We can’t make a perfect world. We can do more for the poor by
replacing inefficient government programs with effective voluntary
assistance. [1] — David Bergland

14. Don’t we need affirmative action to keep bigoted employers from refusing to
hire minorities and women?
Libertarians want to see people of all types working in the most
harmonious relationships. “Affirmative action” refers to laws which
force people into relationships whether they want them or not. Not too
many years ago, there were laws in many states which prevented people
of different races from doing a variety of things together, working,
eating, marriage, etc. Libertarians oppose all such laws because the
people involved have the right to decide for themselves whether or not
to enter a relationship or association.

An old saying states: “it takes two to tango.” Relationships or
associations require at least two people. We cannot justify using
force to keep people out of voluntary relationships and we cannot
justify forcing private citizens into relationships against their
will.

Government employment is a different case. The only criteria for
employment or advancement in government work should be merit. The
Constitution requires that we all be given equal treatment under the
law. Since governments are created by law, they are Constitutionally
required to be absolutely even handed. Private citizens or companies
on the other hand have the right to be stupid and suffer the
consequences.

Attempts to correct bigotry with affirmative action haven’t worked
very well. Such laws are easy for bigots to circumvent and people tend
to think minority employees did not earn their positions on merit even
if they did. They also make it possible for bigots to harass
minorities by demanding employment at minority owned businesses. [2]

15. How do libertarians feel about taxes?
Americans already obtain a host of services from private providers.
There is every reason to think that other services, from postal
delivery to education to road building and maintenance, could be
provided more efficiently and at lower cost by the private sector.

We should support all moves to reduce and repeal taxes because taxes
are obtained immorally, by force. The income tax is particularly evil,
since it penalizes productivity and forces all of us to expose our
private affairs to government snoopers.

We had no income tax before 1914 and America prospered. Replacing the
income tax with voluntary methods for financing services should be our
goal, and we should begin right now. [3]

15a. I’m for cutting taxes, but as a practical matter, how do we do it?
Think of government as a conglomerate of service businesses. The
providers of those services do not have to be government employees,
and the services do not have to be paid for with tax dollars. Whether
it is education, security, transportation, charity, energy, or
whatever, the private sector is already doing it for less. To cut
taxes, we must allow private service providers to replace inefficient
bureaucracy. Market competition will give us better service at lower
cost, and put the consumers in control. [3]

16. Aren’t you going too far?
I want you to be able to govern yourself. The libertarian way lets you
decide how much independence is good for you and lets others decide
for themselves.

Replacing political controls with self-government will only go as far
as you let it. So let’s experiment. Cut foreign aid. Deregulate
transportation. Repeal one drug law. Cut farm subsidies. Cut taxes.

As you gain self government, you will probably want more. That’s for
you to decide. No one can force you to be free. [1] — David Bergland

17. Won’t these ideas work only if everybody is good?
You don’t have to believe people are always good for freedom to work.
Most people, most of the time, deal with each other on the libertarian
premise of respect for the rights of others. You don’t want to be
pushed around or to push your neighbors around. You don’t steal, cheat
or mug people. Very few among us commit all the crime. Society would
collapse if most people were evil most of the time.

If people are basically evil, the last thing you’d want is a big
government staffed by those evil folks exercising control over you.
[1] — David Bergland

18. In a libertarian society, wouldn’t polluters get away with destroying
the environment?
“Today, the biggest polluter of all — the U.S. military — gets away
with murder — literally. When courts found the military liable for
illness and death after careless nuclear testing in Utah, the
government claimed sovereign immunity and refused to pay damages. In a
libertarian society, no one would be immune from the consequences of
their actions — especially not a government charged with protecting us.”

“Libertarians believe that people and governments should right their
wrongs by restoring, as much as possible, what they’ve damaged. Today,
instead of making polluters pay, our government makes the taxpayers
shoulder the burden. Sometimes it requires whoever buys a polluted
property to bear the cost of the clean-up. If polluters don’t pay for
the damage they do, why should they stop polluting?”

“Since government is the biggest polluter of all, putting government in
charge of stopping pollution is like putting the fox in charge of the
hen house.” [5] — Mary Ruwart

19. Where would a libertarian fall with respect to laws outlawing
smoking in bars?
“In a libertarian society, the smoking policy would be set by the bar
or restaurant owner. Customers would patronize the establishments
that had the policy they preferred, much as they do today. For
example, I avoid places that are smoke-filled, and opt for restaurants
that are smoke-free or have separate accommodations for smokers and
non-smokers. As a customer, I have no right to dictate smoking policy
any more than I have a right to dictate the color schemes for clothing
manufacturers. However, I let both know my preferences by voting with
my dollars to do business with them or their competitors.” [5] — Mary
Ruwart

20. Isn’t any destruction of the earth a direct threat to the existence,
– and thus, the rights — of future human beings?
“The best way to protect the earth is to honor property rights of
individuals. People care for things they own and can sell later, but
are not so careful about things they rent. If you go out West and
compare grazing land owned by individuals with that administered by
government, the benefit of individual ownership becomes apparent.

“When I was a member of the Kalamazoo Rain Forest Action Committee,
environmentalists recognized that helping the native people defend
their property rights was the best protection the rain forests could
have. The government is the biggest polluter and despoiler of our
lands, yet we’ve been fooled into letting this fox guard our hen
house.” [5] — Mary Ruwart

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The book “1984″ and “Atlas Shrugged” are starting to come true. I have herd of Atlas Shrugged and I am reading it now.  I also plan to read 1984 which I have seen the movie.  Both those books are about government control over peoples lives.  Also they are about very few people producing “things” and a lot of people asking for hand outs.  When you have more people taking from those that produce then you have problems.  A society can not lasted long that way.

There are groups our there that are working to get our “liberties” back.  Campaign for Liberty is one.  This is their mission……  You also can find out more information about them by going to Campaign for Liberty website.

Campaign For Liberty’s Mission

• Our mission is to promote and defend the great American principles of individual liberty, constitutional government, sound money, free markets, and a noninterventionist foreign policy, by means of educational and political activity.

Statement of Principles

Americans inherit from our ancestors a glorious tradition of freedom and resistance to oppression.  Our country has long been admired by the rest of the world for her great example of liberty and prosperity—a light shining in the darkness of tyranny.

But many Americans today are frustrated.  The political choices they are offered give them no real choice at all.  For all their talk of “change,” neither major political party as presently constituted challenges the status quo in any serious way.  Neither treats the Constitution with anything but contempt.  Neither offers any kind of change in monetary policy.  Neither wants to make the reductions in government that our crushing debt burden demands.  Neither talks about bringing American troops home not just from Iraq but from around the world.  Our country is going bankrupt, and none of these sensible proposals are even on the table.

This destructive bipartisan consensus has suffocated American political life for many years.  Anyone who tries to ask fundamental questions instead of cosmetic ones is ridiculed or ignored.

That is why the Campaign for Liberty was established: to highlight the neglected but common-sense principles we champion and reinsert them into the American political conversation.

The U.S. Constitution is at the heart of what the Campaign for Liberty stands for, since the very least we can demand of our government is fidelity to its own governing document.  Claims that our Constitution was meant to be a “living document” that judges may interpret as they please are fraudulent, incompatible with republican government, and without foundation in the constitutional text or the thinking of the Framers.  Thomas Jefferson spoke of binding our rulers down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution, and we are proud to follow in his distinguished lineage.

With our Founding Fathers, we also believe in a noninterventionist foreign policy.  Inspired by the old Robert Taft wing of the Republican Party, we are convinced that the American people cannot remain free and prosperous with 700 military bases around the world, troops in 130 countries, and a steady diet of war propaganda.  Our military overstretch is undermining our national defense and bankrupting our country.

We believe that the free market, reviled by people who do not understand it, is the most just and humane economic system and the greatest engine of prosperity the world has ever known.

We believe with Ludwig von Mises, Henry Hazlitt, and F.A. Hayek that central banking distorts economic decision making and misleads entrepreneurs into making unsound investments.  Hayek won the Nobel Prize for showing how central banks’ interference with interest rates sets the stage for economic downturns.  And the central bank’s ability to create money out of thin air transfers wealth from the most vulnerable to those with political pull, since it is the latter who receive the new money before the price increases it brings in its wake have yet occurred.  For economic and moral reasons, therefore, we join the great twentieth-century economists in opposing the Federal Reserve System, which has reduced the value of the dollar by 95 percent since it began in 1913.

We oppose the dehumanizing assumption that all issues that divide us must be settled at the federal level and forced on every American community, whether by activist judges, a power-hungry executive, or a meddling Congress.  We believe in the humane alternative of local self-government, as called for in our Constitution.

We oppose the transfer of American sovereignty to supranational organizations in which the American people possess no elected representatives.  Such compromises of our country’s independence run counter to the principles of the American Revolution, which was fought on behalf of self-government and local control.  Most of these organizations have a terrible track record even on their own terms: how much poverty have the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund actually alleviated, for example?  The peoples of the world can interact with each other just fine in the absence of bureaucratic intermediaries that undermine their sovereignty.

We believe that freedom is an indivisible whole, and that it includes not only economic liberty but civil liberties and privacy rights as well, all of which are historic rights that our civilization has cherished from time immemorial.

Our stances on other issues can be deduced from these general principles.

Our country is ailing.  That is the bad news.  The good news is that the remedy is so simple and attractive: a return to the principles our Founders taught us.  Respect for the Constitution, the rule of law, individual liberty, sound money, and a noninterventionist foreign policy constitute the foundation of the Campaign for Liberty.

Will you join us? Click here to sign up!

Helping groups like this will get our FREEDOMS back…

I decided to post the Bill of Rights.

Amendments

• First Amendment – Establishment Clause, Free Exercise Clause; freedom of speech, of the press, Freedom of Religion, and of assembly; right to petition,

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

• Second Amendment – Militia (United States), Sovereign state, Right to keep and bear arms.

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. ^[5][6]

• Third Amendment – Protection from quartering of troops.

No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

• Fourth Amendment – Protection from unreasonable search and seizure.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

• Fifth Amendment – due process, double jeopardy, self-incrimination, eminent domain.

No person shall be held to answer for any capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

• Sixth Amendment – Trial by jury and rights of the accused; Confrontation Clause, speedy trial, public trial, right to counsel

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district where in the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.

• Seventh Amendment – Civil trial by jury.

In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

• Eighth Amendment – Prohibition of excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment.

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

• Ninth Amendment – Protection of rights not specifically enumerated in the Bill of Rights.

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

• Tenth Amendment – Powers of States and people.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

I was talking to my mother when she told me about this bill.  So I went and looked it up on the internet.  I guess I’m not surprised that no ONE herd about it.  But I am surprised that it was passed.  Talk about taking parent rights away from them.  This is scary stuff.  This is what the bill is.

S.1858 and H.R. 3825, the House version of the bill, will:

• Establish a national list of genetic conditions for which newborns and children are to be tested.
• Establish protocols for the linking and sharing of genetic test results nationwide.
• Build surveillance systems for tracking the health status and health outcomes of individuals diagnosed at birth with a genetic defect or trait.
• Use the newborn screening program as an opportunity for government agencies to identify, list, and study “secondary conditions” of individuals and their families.
• Subject citizens to genetic research without their knowledge or consent.

The title of the bill seems like it would help people decide the “right” care for their new born child.  But that wouldn’t happen as it does not give the parents any choice in the matter.

Here are some other sites that talk about this bill that was passed.

A Critical Analysis of the Implications for Genetic Privacy and Consent Rights in Congress’ Proposed ‘Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007’

This is a article done on www.blogtalkradio.com

S.1858: THE BILL NOBODY KNOWS ABOUT: NATIONAL DNA DATABANK

The Bill Nobody Noticed: National DNA Databank

Patty Donovan
Natural News
December 20, 2008

(NaturalNews) In April of 2008, President Bush signed into law S.1858 which allows the federal government to screen the DNA of all newborn babies in the U.S. This was to be implemented within 6 months meaning that this collection is now being carried out. Congressman Ron Paul states that this bill is the first step towards the establishment of a national DNA database.

S.1858, known as The Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007, is justified as a “national contingency plan” in that it represents preparation for any sort of public health emergency. The bill states that the federal government should “continue to carry out, coordinate, and expand research in newborn screening” and “maintain a central clearinghouse of current information on newborn screening… ensuring that the clearinghouse is available on the Internet and is updated at least quarterly”. Sections of the bill also make it clear that DNA may be used in genetic experiments and tests. Read the full bill: http://www.govtrack.us/

Twila Brase, president of the Citizens’ Council on Health Care warns that this new law represents the beginning of nationwide genetic testing. Brase states that S.1858 and H.R. 3825, the House version of the bill, will:
• Establish a national list of genetic conditions for which newborns and children are to be tested.
• Establish protocols for the linking and sharing of genetic test results nationwide.
• Build surveillance systems for tracking the health status and health outcomes of individuals diagnosed at birth with a genetic defect or trait.
• Use the newborn screening program as an opportunity for government agencies to identify, list, and study “secondary conditions” of individuals and their families.
• Subject citizens to genetic research without their knowledge or consent.
Read her entire analysis of the implications of this bill here: http://www.cchconline.org/pdf/S_1858_NB…

Brase states that under this bill, “The DNA taken at birth from every citizen is essentially owned by the government, and every citizen becomes a potential subject of government-sponsored genetic research.” All 50 states are now routinely providing results of genetic screenings to the Department of Homeland Security and this bill will establish the legality of that practice plus include DNA.

Ron Paul has also vigorously argued against this bill making the following comments before the US House of Representatives:

“I cannot support legislation…that exceeds the Constitutional limitations on federal power or in any way threatens the liberty of the American people. I must oppose it.”

“S. 1858 gives the federal bureaucracy the authority to develop a model newborn screening program. Madame Speaker, the federal government lacks both the constitutional authority and the competence to develop a newborn screening program adequate for a nation as large and diverse as the United States. …”

“Those of us in the medical profession should be particularly concerned about policies allowing government officials and state-favored interests to access our medical records without our consent … My review of S. 1858 indicates the drafters of the legislation made no effort to ensure these newborn screening programs do not violate the privacy rights of parents and children, in fact, by directing federal bureaucrats to create a contingency plan for newborn screening in the event of a ‘public health’ disaster, this bill may lead to further erosions of medical privacy. As recent history so eloquently illustrates, politicians are more than willing to take, and people are more than willing to cede, liberty during times of ‘emergency.”

My husband tweeted this out.  It’s about the new health care bill trying to go through congress.  We need to change the health care in the U.S.  But I don’t think this is the way to do it.  We need to start writting congress to let them know this is not the right way to go.

Interested in the current Health Bill? Here are several key points. Pass on if interested.

posted moments ago on Twitter.

While the Health Care System really needs reform, the current bill is not the right thing to do — it is an expensive catastrophe in the making. Please take the time to look at a few of the cited points below.

This is Brave, New World stuff — a not good for your health, your health insurance, or the health of our country, if you conceive freedom of choice and liberty,  to be a hallmark of living in the USA.

Let’s get it right the first time. Please get in contact with your Congressional representatives and US senators to let them know how you feel.

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt

More on the health plan… from a quick inventory by familysecuritymatters.org

Pg 22 of the HC Bill mandates the Government will audit books of all employers that self insure.

Pg 30 Sec 123 of HC bill — a Government committee will decide what treatments/benefits a person may receive.

Pg 29 lines 4-16 in the HC bill — YOUR HEALTHCARE WILL BE RATIONED!

Pg 42 of HC Bill — The Health Choices Commissioner will choose your HC Benefits for you.

PG 50 Section 152 in HC bill — HC will be provided to ALL non US citizens, illegal or otherwise.

Pg 58 HC Bill — Government will have real-time access to individual’s finances and a National ID Healthcard will be issued!

Pg 59 HC Bill lines 21-24 Government will have direct access to your bank accts for election funds transfer.

PG 65 Sec 164 is a payoff subsidized plan for retirees and their families in Unions & community organizations

Pg 72 Lines 8-14 Government will create an HC Exchange to bring private HC plans under Government control.

PG 91 Lines 4-7 HC Bill — Government mandates linguistic appropriate services. Example — Translation for illegal aliens.

Pg 95 HC Bill Lines 8-18 The Government will use groups, i.e. ACORN & Americorps, to sign up individuals for Government HC plan.

PG 85 Line 7 HC Bill — Specifics of Benefit Levels for Plans. AARP members — your Health care WILL be rationed.

PG 102 Lines 12-18 HC Bill — Medicaid Eligible Individuals will be automatically enrolled in Medicaid. No choice.

pg 124 lines 24-25 HC No company can sue Government on price fixing. No “judicial review” against Government Monopoly.

pg 127 Lines 1-16 HC Bill — Doctors/ AMA — The Government will tell YOU what you can earn.

Pg 145 Line 15-17 An Employer MUST auto enroll employees into public option plan. NO CHOICE.

Pg 126 Lines 22-25 Employers MUST pay for HC for part time employees AND their families.

Pg 170 Lines 1-3 HC Bill Any NONRESIDENT Alien is exempt from individual taxes. (Americans will pay.)

Pg 195 HC Bill -officers & employees of HC Admin (the GOVERNMENT) will have access to ALL Americans’ finances and personal records.

PG 203 Line 14-15 HC — “The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax” Yes, it says that.

Pg 239 Line 14-24 HC Bill Government will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors, low income, poor affected.

Pg 241 Line 6-8 HC Bill — Doctors — doesn’t matter what specialty — will all be paid the same.

PG 253 Line 10-18 Government sets value of Doctor’s time, professional judgment, etc. Literally, value of humans.

PG 265 Sec 1131 Government mandates & controls productivity for private HC industries.

Pg 317 L 13-20 OMG!! PROHIBITION on ownership/investment. Government tells Doctors what/how much they can own.

Pg 317-318 lines 21-25,1-3 PROHIBITION on expansion — Government will mandate hospitals cannot expand.

Pg 354 Sec 1177 — Government will RESTRICT enrollment of Special needs people!

PG 425 Lines 4-12 Government mandates Advance Care Planning Consultations. Think Senior Citizens end of life prodding.

PG 425 Lines 22-25, 426 Lines 1-3 Government provides approved list of end of life resources, guiding you in how to die.

PG 427 Lines 15-24 Government mandates program for orders for end of life. The Government has a say in how your life ends.

PG 429 Lines 10-12 “advanced care consultation” may include an ORDER for end of life plans. AN ORDER from the Government to end a life!

Page 472 Lines 14-17 PAYMENT TO COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATION. 1 monthly payment to a community-based organization. (Like ACORN?)

This bill would drive unemployment, taxes, and the deficit through the stratosphere. It would turn hospitals into the DMV, dramatically reduce our access to healthcare, let bureaucratic slime decide when it’s time for us to die, and guarantee that no one in his right mind goes to medical school. As for the damage this would do to individual liberty, well you decide.

I got to thinking that not many people have read this document. This would be me included. I have gone my whole life not thinking about it. Then I realized that people that are voting don’t even know who the Vice-Presidents are that are running. Its a scary thought.  It’s an important decision on who will be running this country for the next four years. Weather you are a Democrat or Republican you should know the basics of how the government works. So I plan on educating my self on the workings of our government.

So I have posted the Declaration of Independence.

In Congress, July 4, 1776

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

— John Hancock

New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton