Jail me, I’m uninsured

Ready for the cuffs?!

Hitler put the unemployed ‘asocial’ in camps..the first one being Dachau. He was hailed for his economic ‘recovery’. Suddenly the unemployed couldn’t be found. His party began gaining seats in government.

Flash Forward to 2009.

The number of unemployed goes up and down, now looking at 10.2%… The House of Representatives and the President agree it’s a good idea to jail those people who don’t comply with buying into a government program.

Already the unemployed and under-employed are forced to undergo testing and mandatory classes.

‘Re-education’, they call it.

Socialism, I call it.

Challengers to Souder are on the wrong side

Indiana’s Mark Souder’s next 6 months just got muddier at the expense of the Republican name. At a time when the party should be trying to unseat Democrats, rogue wing-nuts are targeting the wrong side.

Two candidates for the Third District have filed to challenge Souder in the Spring primary: Phil Troyer and Rachel Grubb. They bring nothing to the party, except controversy and distraction.

I would think challengers to an incumbent Republican would have major issues with the sitting Representative, but instead they seek glory for themselves with little footing.

Troyer,  a leftover from a failed run from the 4th district in 1992, works as an attorney in an investment firm. He has aligned himself with candidates from other failed runs and ultra-religious fringe groups with the likes of Hawks, Kelty-ites, and Ron Paulies–purely non-cohesive splinter groups with the goal of controversy, not progress.

Troyer has come out complaining about Mr. Souder’s voting record of spending…If you look closer at most of Troyer’s complaints (Troyer said Souder has voted to increase spending 50 times in the past three years?) , they surround votes encouraging funding for business incubators and supporting small businesses.  So, Mr. Troyer, you wouldn’t support those goals? Ya, that’s the kind of Republican we want in Congress.

Grubb, who admits she spent most of her life in Hicksville, Ohio, lacks any experience by her own admission and only is running to upset an incumbent.

Troyer and Grubb are misguided in their efforts. If they seriously wanted to help change the course of the country they would be aiming for the Democratic Congress and Senate who have shoved everyone off the cliff in the name of Socialism.

Taking down the Republican incumbent in any district where a solid Conservative record has legitimate footing is the wrong direction.

Congressional Quarterly reports Souder is among four House Republicans likely to face primary opponents drawing strength from the “tea party” movement and its fervent opposition to anything that might trigger higher taxes or bigger government. Just whose side are the challengers on?

Honor Life, Not Kennedy

The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein challenges the American public to honor the late Sen. Kennedy’s life by passing the outrageous healthcare plan.

That’s rather ironic, seeing as how the bill and Ted Kennedy didn’t honor the very basis of life by promoting tax-payer funded abortions and legalizing slaughter.

Klein writes:

“.. he belonged to the party of Medicare and Medicaid, the Americans With Disabilities Act and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, the Civil Rights Act and immigration reform. He belonged to the party that sought to advance the conditions and opportunities of the least among us. He was, as columnist Harold Meyerson says, “the senior senator from Massachusetts and for all the excluded in American life.”

What about the life of the unborn child? He and the Democrats have worked tirelessly to dishonor life and have abortion not only legalized but praised.

Klein further writes we should pass the Obamacare bill because it would honor Kennedy:

“Those who would use Kennedy’s absence to explain their failure do terrible injury to his legacy. The cause of Kennedy’s life was not, after all, praise or compliments. It was, as he said, to “guarantee that every American … will have decent, quality health care as a fundamental right and not just a privilege.” That dream will never die. But by being realized, it can finally rest in peace.

Why does the world need to worry about him resting in peace? That was his job, to live his life and face his maker. We can not possibly do anything to help him.

The Vatican, yesterday, reminded the world of his stance:

“The liberal senator “was constantly in the front line battles such as the protection of immigrants, gun control, (and) minimum wage for the poorest.”

“But unfortunately there were positions in his part in favour of abortion,”

(report in the Vatican’s offical newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano)

Good for you, supporters of Ted Kennedy because you have some emotion to propel you for a few weeks. BUT….If you are going to honor life, honor all of life.