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Jan 9, 2015 13:54:20   #
Don G. Dinsdale Loc: El Cajon, CA (San Diego County)
 
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January 09, 2015

Want to Stop R****m? Don’t Participate In It

I was talking to a friend last week about her situation at work. She was miserable, mostly because of her co-workers. They were negative, she said, always choosing to complain about every little thing. It was bringing her down. What she didn’t realize, though, is that she was contributing to this negativity by participating in it. And her lesson is one almost anyone can learn. The quickest way to improve your surroundings is to start improving yourself.

2014 brought race relations in the United States to one of its lowest points in a generation. Convinced by the media that the police k*****gs in Ferguson and New York City were driven by r****m, thousands of protesters took to the streets to remind the world that “black l***s m****r.” What they don’t realize, apparently, is that they’re preaching a message everyone already believes in. Sure, there may be a small pocket of r****ts that still hold on to backwards beliefs, but those people will never be converted. These protesters want to change a “r****t” system, but their evidence for the existence of such a system is weak.

Stop the Conversation

If you want to eliminate r****m, you have to start by disavowing it yourself. Morgan Freeman once said that the only way to end r****m was to stop talking about it, and I’m starting to think he hit the nail on the head. Yes, America has a history of shameful behavior towards black people. Yes, s***ery was abominable. But no American alive today ever owned a black s***e. What good does it do to continually bring up the deplorable actions of people long dead?

I’m not suggesting we whitewash history or forget the past. But I am suggesting that the unfortunate realities of black America in 2015 are due more to liberal economic policies than the legacy of s***ery. Democrats won over black support with irresistible temptations of welfare, affirmative action, and other policies intended to help African-Americans get on equal ground. But those policies have had a trap-like effect, condemning generations of b***k A******ns to a cycle of poverty.

Want to stop police brutality? Stop giving cops a reason to use force. Want to clean up crime? Stop being a criminal. The problem is this shouldn’t be a black vs. white argument in the first place. There should be no “black community.” There should be no “black leaders.” This is the legacy of liberalism, which promotes ethnic solidarity and resentment instead of individualism and self-reliance. There is room for preserving culture and history, but those should come second to the culture of America. One nation, indivisible.

Democrats and race-baiters like Al Sharpton have a vested economic interest in seeing r****m continue. If they can’t find it, they’ll make it up. Until the people out there in the streets with “I can’t breathe” signs wake up and see how they’re pawns in this political game, the divisions will widen. Six years after America elected it’s first black president, that’s a real shame.

AND THEN...... From What I've been ably to gleam, is if you are a Liberal you pretty much like "O"care, about 85% to 95%... If you are a Conservative you are not happy with "O"care about the same numbers in reverse, so politics is 100% part of healthcare... Don D.

Obamacare’s True Colors Exposed in 2015

For millions of Americans, the question looms: “Is the Affordable Care Act really that bad?” They read liberal media reports that claim to debunk arguments against the law, drawing on numbers that show better insurance participation, a lack of impact on the economy, and a general hunky-dory effect on the American people.

But what goes unspoken – or at least underplayed – in these articles is that the worst of Obamacare’s effects haven’t even hit yet. Insofar that the law can be defended, it is being defended based on limited real-world deployment. It is not until this year that we will see the law’s true colors. If we get to 2016 (and Obamacare survives its legislative and judicial challenges) and things are still great, Obama’s defenders will have something to crow about. But that seems extraordinarily unlikely.

You really have to appreciate the political genius that went into designing Obamacare. The bill’s architects have already admitted that deception was a big part of putting it through, but the real genius was in putting off the law’s most poisonous pills until after Obama had secured re-e******n and had moved into his lame duck tenure. Those delayed provisions are ready to shine, though, and many who supported Obamacare are in for a rude awakening.

The Employer Mandate

On January 1st, the controversial employer mandate went into effect. This provision compels employers with 100 or more full-time employees to provide essential coverage to at least 70 percent of their workforce or face massive fines from the IRS. This will almost surely have a deleterious effect on premiums for those who get their insurance through work, and it has already had a weakening effect on employment. Deductibles and co-payments are rising, forcing many insured Americans to pay full price when they go to the doctor.

Medical Scarcity

If the employer mandate wasn’t bad enough, Americans may soon find it difficult to go to the doctor even if they want to. Primary care physicians everywhere are feeling the crunch, and they are drastically cutting back on their patient load. What a shock. You start introducing socialized medicine to America, and you start getting the results we see in countries with socialized medicine. Best of all, you still get to pay full price for the pleasure. It’s all the negative effects of universal healthcare with none of the benefits.

Rising Penalties

It was hard to get too upset about the first-year penalty imposed by the IRS. 95 bucks? No sweat. But now those penalties are rising, and there may be no end in sight. When Americans find themselves paying hundreds of dollars in fines to the IRS, they may take a different view of Obamacare’s individual mandate.

It remains to be seen what the future holds for Obamacare, but now at least the law will be judged on its true form. If Americans like what they see, bully for the president. If they don’t (and most v**ers already h**e it), then it will be up to Republicans to propose an alternative, sell it to the public, and get rid of this a*********n once and for all.

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