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Illegal immigrants should be proud. Citizens of Vegas are pulling a Houdini and getting the heck out of town. The reason is obvious. To play, you have to pay. People have less disposable income as more jobs are lost and the economy continues to implode. Folks are not spending their money in Vegas. According to the news reports, the financial evacuation of Vegas would be higher were it not for people unable to sell their properties. Vegas has suffered greatly from an upside down real estate market, too.

While people make up their own minds about vacations, the President’s bad talk about Vegas in the past does not inspire confidence. Confident Americans spend money when they know they can recover or re-earn the money they have spent. If Americans think their earning potential is lowered, they will save and not spend.

Don’t count on Generation X Americans being comfortable in spending greatly. They saw the implosion of 2008 shrink their 401K security blanket. Gen X will have to save considerably more as the dollar contracts in value. Baby boomers will hold on to their pennies, too. They have healthcare on the brain and know that if ObamaCare survives, medical tourism will be the only way to keep them alive. Generation Y didn’t have a pot-to-pee in anyway, so they don’t matter. Generation Y will become Generation whY? as they see what little they earn gobbled by ObamaCare taxes and suppressed wages from a stagnant economy. No one wants to spend anymore.

Only our government acts as if it has any money. After all, only the government can print money. The government is increasing our national debt to the point that within five years, we will be paying more on interest payments for debt without paying principle. No family could survive on a budget formula like that and would more than likely end up filing bankruptcy. If this is true, then why is our country not bankrupt? It is. Debt is not wealth, it is bondage. America is in bondage.

The only thing keeping things afloat is the illusion that the American dollar is like gold and has intrinsic value. The game played is as more money is printed, more money is in play. That sounds alto like a game of Monopoly where the actual value of money is subject to the rules of the game. Sounds like a game that people in Vegas would play, doesn’t it? Washington and Vegas are both gambling towns. Obviously there is only room enough for one gambling addict at the table.

It seems the only way that Vegas can survive is if Washington can convince enough Americans that their Monopoly money (US Dollar) is worth the game.

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This chart outlining ObamaCare really hurts the eyes. What are people like us to do with such a thing? After all, we are obviously not as brilliant as those who gave us this work of art.

Let me break it down for you.

You get your annual checkup. Suddenly, the doctor creeps toward you with a large syringe and declares: “You will find out what is in this injection after it is given to you.”

Who in their right mind is going to allow that sort of thing to happen to them? Most of us would scream in protest declaring we have rights against such maltreatment.

So, why are we going to put up with the same thing from government?

“…we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Pelosi had the syringe in your face and you let her inject it without a fight. You even asked for it without even knowing what was in that needle.

For you Obama voters out there, what happened to your declaration of rights? What made you just lay down and submit to people who simply FORCE their will upon you? When did you start allowing your doctor to do anything they want to you? What made you surrender your trust, your healthcare, and your life to people in Washington?

I don’t think you have surrendered, people. It is totally against everything you have fought for. It makes no sense to fight for rights to healthcare and then surrender those same rights to someone else.

Like the rest of us against ObamaCare, you know this healthcare plan is a form of slavery. Help us reverse this invasion of our civil rights. Lets do this before we really find out what is in that syringe.

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Governor Sarah Palin has endorsed Renee Ellmers, the Republican who will battle Bobby Etheridge for the NC 2nd Congressional District in November. This attaboy from the former Alaska Governor will give the “commonsense conservative agenda” of Ellmers a boost of name-recognition. In-effect, Palin is asking Etheridge, “Who are You?”

As a Registered Nurse, Ellmers has a level of real-world healthcare experience that is needed in Washington. She knows that ObamaCare is not the best solution and is dedicated in repealing it. Being involved in a healthcare business, she also understands the need to have fiscal responsibility. This business knowledge will keep her grounded in fiscal reality instead of pursuing debt and waste of taxpayer funds.

This November, voters will crowd to the polls to answer big Bobby’s “Who are you?” question. We will respond, “Not voting for you, punk.”

Its been ten years since the human genome project produced its first genetic “map.” At the time, genetic diagnosis of disease was projected to occur by 2010. Well, we are here in 2010 and those zealous ambitions are not fully realized. The reason for this is simple. Drawing a map is easier than actually getting to a destination. It is one matter to create a genome map and another entirely to to diagnose, treat and eradicate diseases. Herein rests the problem for the genome project; it runs the risk of becoming the next area of science full of fabricated data.

Consider the following:

• The US Government spent 3 billion on the Human Genome Project.
• The Pharmaceutical industry has also spent billions using the maps to create genetic tests and medications to treat diseases.
• The government takeover of healthcare will result in a passive takeover of the pharmaceutical industry. If drug makers plan to be reimbursed by the US Government, then they will comply with its mandates on treatments.
• The US Government will control what medications are researched, developed and distributed to people. Good treatments will most definitely be deferred if they are costly. Canada already does this.
• The ARRA of 2009 has pushed millions of dollars into the US Healthcare Industry to make an electronic medical record for all citizens by 2014.
• The US Government dictates what the EMRs (electronic medical records) must contain and how the data is communicated.
• The US Government keeps failing entities afloat by deeming them “too big to fail” and artificially propping them up with an infusion of debt.
• Death is cheaper than life.

The human genome map is akin to a flat map of the earth. The earth is round, and can never be accurately depicted as flat. The flat map still has distortions which cannot be avoided. Likewise, the genome map is flat and does not complete the full genetic picture of humanity. Variants have been found on the path to simply use the map to diagnose disease. It seems there are other factors out there that contribute to disease beyond the simple cut and dry evidence of a genetic marker. The number of variations already identified have some scientists worried that what they are seeing is nothing more than “statistical illusions.”

Where in this situation is there ANY motivation for science to be honest in its results? There is NO checks and balances to prevent data suppression and outright fraud. We have already seen a huge global push for the manipulation of climate data in support of an agenda. Is it too far to anticipate our government would purposely neglect or even fabricate data to keep heathcare costs down?

Patient data from clinical trials data can be manipulated in the same manner that climate data was changed. The success or failure of a drug or treatment could be manufactured to support the government’s agenda. Furthermore, the data could be hidden behind the veil of government secrecy, making it difficult for suspect situations to be investigated. The Feds could discourage research into their actions by making every request for information a prolonged FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) battle.

The only guarantee that our government can provide is that we can expect to die someday. The government’s goal will be to keep things cheap in our journey from the cradle to the grave.

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The newly passed “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010” guarantees that you will be afforded the protection to act as a patient. That does not mean you will actually be a patient. At least, that is according to President Obama’s nominee to head Medicare and Medicaid. As the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Donald Berwick,MD would be at a minimum, responsible for administrating and budgeting heathcare entitlements for millions of Americans. So, it may be of grave concern to these Americans that the potential administrator of their healthcare has said:

“The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision is whether we ration with our eyes open.”

As a long time admirer of European style healthcare, Berwick has been critical of the US Healthcare system saying it is run in the “darkness of private enterprise” needing a “politically accountable system.” For Berwick this accountability would be managed by elites such as himself. He does not believe that “…the individual health care consumer can enforce through choice the proper configurations of a system as massive and complex as health care. That is for leaders to do.”

Did you get that? No, read that last quotation again. It really does say that.

The CMS nominee is boasting that everyday Americans are too ignorant and incompetent to make their own healthcare choices. To him, consumer choice is the cause of a toxic and fragmented healthcare system in the US.

Even worse, the administration of healthcare would be a form of Obama’s wealth distribution plan. Berwick has said “Any health care funding plan that is just equitable civilized and humane must, must redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent health care is by definition re-distributional.” Therefore, the rich would pay the healthcare expenses of the poor. Such babble is pure socialism at its finest.

Being civilized and humane about healthcare translates to blindly allowing educational elites to be the gatekeepers of your life. As our Big Parent, the government would choose who lives and dies. One of our Inalienable rights is the right to life. Clearly, the US government has no such authority to give and take such life – unless Americans allow this to consume them.

As president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Berwick has outlined a method of implementing such a Utopian healthcare system. First, budget limitations and accountability would be designated for certain populations. The costs would be shared among people and any savings would be reabsorbed within the system itself, thereby eliminating a motivation for profit. Finally, a new method of regulating MD’s would keep them in check and compliant within the government mandates.

Statists may argue that healthcare rationing is not in the PPACA. But, we know the opposite is true because our eyes are open.

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