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So watching the Democrat National Convention, I do see how and why it’s very en vogue to be a liberal democrat.  It brings me back to my childhood, believing, without a shadow of a doubt that I could and would save the world.  The liberal talking points are quite dramatic and easy to “believe” in.  The call for change, especially in a rough economic environment is a very catchy and easy to buy into.  They want to save the world from global warming.  They want EVERYONE to have health care.  They want to protect the rights of every person and give everyone a fair shot at everything America has to offer.  They want to produce clean and safe energy that will create jobs and save the environment.

And while in and of themselves, all these things are great ideas, they extremely difficult, if not impossible to truly accomplish.  They live in the world of fairy tales and learned from an education system teaching to the lowest common denominator.    They see their causes through utopian eyes without the lens of reality highlighting the flaws and cracks within their plans.  And while I am fairly confident that many of the potential issues with their policies have been carefully studied and  analyzed by the leaders of the liberal movement, I don’t think that they everyday bleeding-heart liberal, let alone moderates and conservatives, would agree with these policies if they really considered the potential ramifications.

So in the true American Education spirit, I will spoon feed you “the rest of the story”.  This is part one of a multipart series continued throughout the 2008 presidential election.

Universal Healthcare
Universal Healthcare is the issue at the heart of Barack Obama’s presidential platform, and even more of a part of Hillary Clinton’s failed agenda.  This is one of the most widely accepted, mainstream talking points for the democrats.  The cost of health care is on the minds of American’s from all walks of life and from all races, classes, and geographic locations.  I don’t think anyone who isn’t directly profiting from the current system would disagree that something needs to be done.

One thing we always have to consider:  We are in a crisis for a reason.  We didn’t just decide one day that hospitals were going to start charging thousands and thousands of dollars for procedures.  We don’t have our best and brightest students in America spending 8 years at the finest higher-education institutions learning the art of medicine because they love making a difference in people’s life.   If so, there wouldn’t be a shortage of teachers and a gluttony of lawyers.

If you’re wondering what a government funded healthcare system might look like, for your next surgical procedure, check into your local VA hospital.  And this isn’t meant to knock VA hospitals or the great men and women who work there, as they are working with limited resources, limited funds, and are handicapped by their limitations.

If you think emergency rooms are painfully slow now, wait till you have another 47,000,000 Americans can start using the services without worrying about a hefty bill coming the next month.

And consider this.  Right now, the government is paying very little in terms of healthcare.  There are over 202,000,000 Americans who HAVE private health care.  Meaning 202 MILLION Americans are either paying for health care or their companies are paying for health care.  And the reason the other 47 MILLION American’s don’t have it is because a.) they don’t have a job that provides it and b.) they can’t (or choose not to) afford it.  So it’s going to be a huge stretch to think that if Universal Healthcare is achieved that the people who would be benefiting most from it would be footing the bill.  Those 47 million new healthcare recipients must be paid for somehow.  There’s really only two ways to do it:  Raise taxes or lower the cost of healthcare.  Neither of those options are beneficial to the 202 Million American’s who have worked hard to ensure they have their families covered.

Universal Healthcare is made out to benefit the growing middle class, giving hard working people who can’t get health insurance a chance to be happy and healthy.  And while there is a fraction of the hard working middle class that Universal Healthcare would make you believe would undoubtedly benefit, yet no one is considering that this middle class that can’t take an additional $400 a month out of their check for health insurance won’t be able to pay the additional taxes that would accompany paying for the 250,000,000 additional American’s to the government’s tab!

So is Universal Healthcare really the best option for your circumstance?  Universal Healthcare is just a vehicle to get a highly lucrative industry under the control of the government.  What liberals fail to understand is if there was a better alternative to the insurance companies, someone would be doing it privately.

And there are hundreds of alternatives to Universal Healthcare that would a.) keep the medical field out of the control of the government (because they have a fairly poor record of doing ANYTHING right… see education, public) and b.) give American’s OPTIONS!  Nothing in this world is free. We are free to prioritize in whatever way we desire.  There are (failed) programs in place to give medical care to the poor, children, and the elderly.

There is a system already in place that is designed to help those who need medical care to have it provided.  Why aren’t we focusing on revamping and fixing these obviously broken programs?  Why aren’t we redefining who needs help rather than using old formulas and outdated services?  Mostly because they were designed and implemented by the same group of people who are now charged with “fixing” the greatest medical community in the world.  I just pray they don’t get the chance.

“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.”

I am pretty sure old Thomas Jefferson is rolling over in his grave right now. His words are some of the most famous in American History and the foundation of a new country, a country where everyone (well, almost everyone) had opportunities.

Yet these opportunities are being blown by narrow-minded followers who are more worried about getting the SAME opportunities than pursuing happiness or creating equality. Being the same is not equal. And having opportunities doesn’t mean you have to take the path that everyone else is taking.

I’ve never understood the movement to take women out of the homes and into the corporate world. It’s not that I don’t think they should have the opportunities, because I think they should. And I don’t think women should be soly responsible for taking care of their children. My point isn’t to say what anyone should or should not do.

But right now, this country is in a crisis. Family is becoming a misnomer. Divorce rate is at an all time high, education at an all time low, and the idea of a family is falling apart at the core. Much of the reason for this stems from the movement to take women out of the house and into the workplace.

The problem is NO ONE is taking care of the children. When you have two parents who work full time jobs, there are kids who are being raised by babysitters and daycares. Why aren’t schools taking a more proactive approach to combating this move to multi-working parent households. Why isn’t there a pre-kindergarten education system in place that fills the needs of this new society?

And the corporate world and the schools have totally different schedules. WHY? With a workforce that’s nearly doubled over the past 50 years, why are we working longer hours with longer commutes? There are some companies that take amazing steps to ensure their employees families are taken care of. From onsite daycares where parents can go eat lunch, to 37.5 hour work weeks to get people home earlier there are ways for companies to allow their employees to be both workers and parents. Yet most companies stick with status quo.

The trickle-down affect of reducing the standard work day even to just 7.5 hours would be amazing. If people were getting off work at 4:30 rather than 5 every day, stores and restaurants wouldn’t have to stay open as late. In some cases it could mean more jobs, as companies would save 2.5 hours of pay on every employee, allowing a larger budget to hire more employees. It also would allow more companies to afford health insurance with the saved income.

It just seems that our countries first and foremost goal should be to raise our children and it’s not happening right now. We need to begin a dialog and find a plan to help this huge problem. Whether it’s getting more parents back into the house, creating a more well rounded and accessible pre-school education system, changing school hours to meet the needs of the corporate world, or have a movement to trim back wasteful time spent in the office, something needs to be done. If not, the Pursuit of Happiness is going to be a much harder road for our children.

America is under attack. And while the focus is on the attacks from the Middle East and from terrorists around the world, a more covert operation has been matriculating from the inside of this great nation. An attack of our values. An attack on our morals. An attack on our education. An attack on our future. An attack on our children. It is an all out barrage on the American Way of Life and it is winning handily.

Like many wars, it is rooted in a noble cause, which is why it has recruited so many soldiers. Rhetoric and propaganda have convinced many smart, educated people to take up the fight against the foundation of America. Like any well planned crusade, those fighting this war are recruited and persuaded with grand ideas and convinced that what they are doing is noble and just. Each individual movement, in and of itself, seems to have significance and the good of it seems self evident. Yet when seen from a birds eye view how each and every battle coincides with the others and the affect they bring as a whole, it becomes painfully obvious that many good causes have begun unwinding the fabric of this great country.

There is a well formulated plan that has allowed this to happen, seemingly unnoticed. A dysfunctional education system has paved the way for a society that will accept and believe what it is taught. Rather than a focus on learning, exploring, creating, and innovating, our American Education System is set on teaching, memorizing, and standardizing education. We have become so hell-bent on equality that the bar is being set at a point where all students can maintain and achieve. Every student in America is learning the same stories, the same history, reading the same books, and solving the same problems. Education is a complete misnomer… Schools aren’t educating. They are programming.

In the past 50 years there have been numerous movements for equality. Equal rights for minorities and women are the most obvious examples. They are wonderful, noble fights that needed to be taken on and won. All humans should have the opportunities that everyone else possesses and the color of your skin or gender should have no bearing on what opportunities you should possess.

Yet, the main component of this movement has been lost somewhere along the way. Civil and Women’s Rights Movements are no longer about equal right and opportunities. Just like in education, they are about being the same. Rather than working to create an environment and a country that allows everyone opportunities, laws are passed to force the issue of equality, which in turn just perpetuates inequality. It is now to the point that civil rights and feminism rhetoric is now much more about promoting their own agenda than creating a society that promotes equal opportunities.

The fallout from the new opportunities is most apparent in the family crisis this country is facing. With divorce rates skyrocketing and single parent families at an all time high, this new found freedom is killing the American Family. This is not a call for women to quit their jobs and go back to be stay at home moms and being housewives. Rather, it’s totally unconceivable how a movement that takes mothers out of the home hasn’t come up with a plan to ensure that doesn’t ruin their families. There are no new and innovative solutions for child care. We have the same over-run, over-crowded, understaffed daycares that have been the norm for years. In an ever-changing society, there has been one major change in the structure of education, adding full day kindergarten as a fairly standard practice. At this point, there should have been many others.

Continuing the theme of equality, in an attempt to “take care” of our society, we have created an over-populated, under-performing welfare system that gives no incentives to work. It is at a point where it cannot be fixed because it has created a sub-culture of society that has no skills, no education, and who are totally dependent on the system. The people who it was formulated to help are the ones who aren’t getting the benefits they need. Rather than promoting getting jobs and getting education, it promotes the status quo. It’s just another grand idea that has gone horribly wrong in the hands of people who don’t care about the foundation of this country.

If you haven’t figured it out yet, all these misguided programs, ideas, and movements are the brainchild of the Left Wing Liberal Movement. There are many reasons these things have failed and numerous other examples that will be examined by this blog. The reasons they fail are numerous, but the most prevalent reason: They Hate America. Where you will read stories of this great nation’s triumphs and get filled with pride for living in this great nation, they feel sorry for those we have triumphed against feel we should be punished. Where you see the America Dream with 2 kids and a white picket fence, they see 4 individual people fenced in to a reality they don’t understand. Where you see a well rounded, church going person with morals and convictions, they see someone who can’t be trusted because they don’t follow the doctrine exactly and still sin.

They have waged a war against the America Way of Life. Many will be lost in this battle, but it is not over. It still can be won. But education and perseverance is the only way we can win. We will do our part to educate you and to show you the land minds and how to overcome them. This is a very important time for America’s Future. Don’t be a minion worker perpetuating these lies. There are many ways we can make this country better. But destroying its foundation is not the way. And it must be stopped NOW!