Saturday, February 9, 2013
The Most Equal Comrade is captured on video having to sit still and listen to the plain truth about the free market and health care
He gets an earful from Dr. Benjamin Carson at the National Prayer Breakfast. This is glorious. Of course, the MEC is sitting there seething, truth-and-freedom-hater that he is. He is pursuing the exact opposite of what Dr. Carson so elegantly proposes.
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Not an appropriate forum for carping about a law that is already passed through Congress and the Supreme Court. Don't sign up for the health exchanges if you don't like it. Me, I'm signing up. I will let you know if I save any money. Just holding on for Medicare in 23 months. Moo! You gonna turn it down when you get there youngin? The likes of Paul Ryan better keep their mitts off our coverage too. By the way, insurance companies have made money on me for over 40 years and now want to charge me nearly $800.00 a month for coverage. That is a nice chunck of change that could easily get me a condo in a warm clime. Moo!
ReplyDeleteSure is appropriate. The law is perhaps the most ruinous to America in our country's history and was passed under the sleaziest of circumstances.
ReplyDeleteYou don't directly address Dr. Carson's proposal because you know it's the right way to address health care but admitting so would mean publicly repudiating the ideology you have always embraced.
I'll bet if you check around there are many, probably including Obama himself that do not think a National Prayer Breakfast is an appropriate forum to air political views. Dr. Carson simplistically references tithing and then simplistically references a medical savings account. Where does that leave the insurance carriers? Part of the huge problem with this FIBARRed law is that the insurance carriers had to be appeased and to retain the freedom loving aspects (vs. a freedom hating universal plan), employers (who offer many a caddilac plan of sorts, how great they art!) We are simply working out a social insurance program here that has not even become effective yet. Most other countries who have universal plans, although they are not perfect, are working to improve them and there is no way their cattle (as you so often derisively refer to those not exactly with you) will not brook their repeal.
ReplyDeleteAgain, I ask, what is wrong with what Dr. Carson proposed (personal medical accounts that are completely one's own, into which one can put as much as one likes and do what one wishes with it when drawing up a will)?
ReplyDeleteIt leaves the insurance carriers largely out of the picture. My understanding is that you would applaud that.
ReplyDeleteI've long ceased to give a rat's posterior what the MEC thinks is appropriate. He thinks it's appropriate to dismantle Western civilization.
ReplyDeleteHe is a very good speaker though, must admit. And the video has gone viral and most of the comments there are supportive of him.
ReplyDeleteDr. Carson, I mean.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I am out of it, but at one time wasn't this prayer breakfast supposed to be apolitical, likely impossible with so many politicos in attendance, but I thought this would have at one time been considered poor taste. But I suppose they've given the likes of Al & Jesse the bully pulpit there too.
ReplyDeleteEach year several guest speakers visit the various events connected with the National Prayer Breakfast. However, the main event, the Thursday morning breakfast, typically has two special guest speakers: the President of the United States and a guest whose identity is kept confidential until that morning. Every U.S. president since Dwight D. Eisenhower has participated in the breakfast. Past keynote speakers include:
ReplyDelete1973 Senator Mark Hatfield (R-OR)
1977 (25th Annual NPB) U.S. House Majority Leader James Wright (D-TX)
1987 Elizabeth Dole, United States Secretary of Transportation
1994 (42nd Annual NPB) Mother Teresa[3] of Calcutta
2005 (53rd Annual NPB) Ambassador Tony P. Hall, U.S. Representative to the U.N. Agencies for Food and Agriculture
2006 (54th Annual NPB) Bono,[4] Irish singer/songwriter and humanitarian
2007 (55th Annual NPB) Dr. Francis S. Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute
2008 (56th Annual NPB) Ward Brehm,[5] a Minnesotan who chairs the U.S.-African Development Foundation
2009 (57th Annual NPB) Tony Blair,[6] former Prime Minister of the UK
2010 (58th Annual NPB) José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero,[7] Prime Minister of Spain
2011 (59th Annual NPB) Randall Wallace,[8] Academy Award-Winning Motion Picture Producer/Writer/Director
2012 (60th Annual NPB) Eric Metaxas,[9] author
2013 (61st Annual NPB) Dr. Ben Carson,[10] author, neurosurgeon and the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital
Many of the past addresses by U.S. Presidents to the National Prayer Breakfast are available online.
per Wiki
The original intent for the meeting was to pray for the president, his family, and other leaders. Guess like everything else it's degenerated.
ReplyDeleteIn 1953, members of the Senate and House of Representatives, along with President Dwight D. Eisenhower, established the first Presidential Prayer Breakfast. Today, this breakfast has become an annual event in our nation's life. Since that first session, the whole motive and purpose of the National Prayer Breakfast was not to be a national religious meeting, but rather a time when the Congress met to support, pray, and care for the President, his family and other leaders in our nation who carry great burdens. What started as a simple idea of men and women meeting together for mutual encouragement and fellowship in order to find "the better way" has spread to nearly 200 countries from every continent. This call to spiritual mobilization is essential, not in terms of labels, or in terms of any particular institutions or organizations alone, but truly in terms of what Christ can do in the lives of men and women, in the lives of cities, in the lives of states and in the lives of nations. Every year a Washington State delegation of civic, business and student leaders are invited to attend this event.
http://www.waleadership.com/national-prayer-breakfast
Bono
ReplyDeleteKeynote Address at the 54th National Prayer Breakfast delivered 2 February 2006, The Hilton Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/bononationalprayerbreakfast.htm
Like so many things about what we used to know as America, electing and re-electing the MEC ruined the original intent of the Prayer Breakfast. When he shows up anywhere, that place becomes a battlefield in the struggle for the nation's soul.
ReplyDeleteAnd Bono needs to go away and leave the human race alone.
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