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IF ONLY WE HAD LISTENED TO IKE AND GHW BUSH

April 21st, 2010
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Dwight D Eisenhower

Dwight Eisenhower’s presidency is probably better remembered less for what he did than for what he said while heading for the exit. In a nationally televised address on January 17, 1961, only four days before John F. Kennedy’s inaugural, Eisenhower warned of the dangers of “undue influence” exerted by the “military-industrial complex.” He cautioned that maintaining a large, permanent military establishment was “new in the American experience,” and suggested that an “engaged citizenry” offered the only effective defense against the “misplaced power” of the military-industrial lobby.

For much more click on:

AllBusiness.com/… and

http://www.h-net.org/… (the speech)

For Eisenhower videos click on:

google.com/search?q=eisenhower….

We don’t want an America that is closed to the world.

What we want is a world that is open to America.

George H. W. Bush

“Whose life would be on my hands as the commander-in-chief because I, unilaterally, went beyond the international law, went beyond the stated mission, and said we’re going to show our macho?
We’re going into Baghdad. We’re going to be an occupying power — America in an Arab land — with no allies at our side. It would have been disastrous. We don’t gain the size of our victory by how many innocent kids running away — even though they’re bad guys — that we can slaughter. … We’re American soldiers; we don’t do business that way.”

For much more click on: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush

“If We Don’t Learn Our History, We’re Doomed to Repeat It”

Why Americans Can’t Learn from History

Click on:
huffingtonpost.com/carol-smaldino/why….

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CAN EXTREME PROTESTERS MOTIVATE ANOTHER TIMOTHY MCVEIGH

April 19th, 2010
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With the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing approaching on Monday, former president Bill Clinton gave an eloquent speech this morning at the Center for American Progress.

Clinton compares the poisonous political climate that sent Timothy McVeigh to the Murrah building and the debates raging today. He warned political protesters that overheated language could lead to violence again–an admonition that is already being spun as an attempt to curtail dissent voiced by opponents of the Obama Administration.

(NB: NewsBusters is reacting not to the speech itself, but to an interview Clinton gave to the New York Times in which he covered much of the same ground.)

In fact, Clinton isn’t trying to smear or silence anybody. He notes in the speech that Tea Party groups can play a positive role as watchdogs monitoring runaway spending. His speech tries to contextualize their anger and encourages political debate. For my money, this is the key takeaway: “We can’t let the debate veer so far into hatred that we lose focus of our common humanity.” It’s a nice sentiment–and I suspect it will immediately be lost in a flurry of sniping.

For more click on:

http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/04/16/clintons-critique-of-overheated-rhetoric/

Life, USA

WHO ARE YOU FOLLOWING? WHO OR WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IN?

August 4th, 2009
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WHO ARE YOUR LEADERS? PREACHERS? TEACHERS? POLITICIANS? GURUS? DOCTORS?
 
WHAT IS THEIR MOTIVATION? IS IT PRIDE, IMPRESSING OTHERS, BEING ADMIRED, WANTING MORE POWER, AUTHORITY, MONEY?
 
WHAT DOES YOUR PREACHER WANT OF YOU?  To become a believer?  To trust him in what he/she says?  To believe in the Bible or to believe in God?  To at least bring your offering every week so his salary can be raised?  If you can’t, send it?  To build a large and prosperous church that he will be given credit for and gloat in?  Maybe have his own radio and television station?
 
OR COULD IT BE THAT HE WAS CALLED TO STUDY ALL THE ANCIENT SCRIPTURES, HUMAN NATURE, THE UNIVERSE, SCIENCE, AND SHARE WITH YOU HOW HE IS FINDING GOD SO THAT YOU CAN BE SHARING IT WITH OTHERS?  MORE THAN THAT; HE DOESN’T WANT TO BE THE MIDDLE MAN BETWEEN YOU AND GOD.  HE WANTS YOU TO BE AT ONE WITH GOD, NOT HIM.  HE DOESN’T WORRY ABOUT MONEY OR BUILDING A PHYSICAL CHURCH.  HE SEES IN YOU THE REAL CHURCH AND BY THE POWER OF HIS SPIRIT THAT WHEREVER YOU ARE GOD IS.
 
No matter what your belief or faith, religion or no religion; if you sense the presence of the ultimate cause of you and the entire universe and, out of your gratitude to that Spirit, you assume and want to take care of all that this Spirit (humans and nature) created, YOU ARE ON THE HIGHEST PLANE OF LIFE AND WILL SURVIVE AND OVERCOME ALL YOUR PROBLEMS AND LIVE FOREVER WITH THAT SPIRIT.
 
USING THIS SAME STANDARD, EVALUATE THOSE YOU BELIEVE IN AND FOLLOW, OK?  GOD WANTS TO BE WITH YOU PERSONALLY (this Spirit is already with you, you just have to be aware); NOT THROUGH A MIDDLE MAN.
 
I heard of an old farmer who for years had difficulty leading his hogs from the pin to the slaughter house.  One day he came up with the idea, “Hey, they loved sweet corn.  If I throw the corn out gradually from the pin to the slaughter house they will still think I love and am nourishing them, eat along the way without realizing it end up in the slaughter house.”
 
It worked.
“Search to know the Truth
And the Truth will set You Free.”
(my aim is not to convince, but to share what I have found for your consideration. – mackie)
 

 

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8 MYTHS ABOUT HEALTH CARE REFORM AND WHY WE CAN’T AFFORD TO BELIEVE THEM ANY MORE FROM AARP…

August 4th, 2009
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AARP HAS A BIG DOG IN THIS HUNT BECAUSE IF THE TELL US WRONG THEY LOSE THEIR REPUTATION WITH US MATURE CITIZENS AND ALL THE COMPANIES THEY SUPPORT.  WHO ARE YOU GOING TO BELIEVE?-mackie

 

8 Myths About Health Care Reform

By Karen Cheney, July & August 2009

And why we can’t afford to believe them anymore

 Americans spend more on health care every year than we do educating our children, building roads, even feeding ourselves—an estimated $2.6 trillion in 2009, or around $8,300 per person. Forty-five million Americans have no health insurance whatsoever. These staggering figures are at the heart of the current debate over health care reform: the need to control costs while providing coverage for all. As John Lumpkin, M.D., M.P.H., director of the Health Care Group for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, says, “There is enough evidence that it is now time to do something and to do the right thing.” The key is to focus on the facts—and to dispel, once and for all, the myths that block our progress.

Myth 1: “Health reform won’t benefit people like me, who have insurance.”
Just because you have health insurance today doesn’t mean you’ll have it tomorrow. According to the National Coalition on Healthcare, nearly 266,000 companies dropped their employees’ health care coverage from 2000 to 2005. “People with insurance have a tremendous stake, because their insurance is at risk,” says Judy Feder, a professor of public policy at Georgetown University and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. What’s more, in recent years the average employee health insurance premium rose nearly eight times faster than income. “Everyone is paying for health increases in some way, and it’s unsustainable for everyone,” says Stephanie Cathcart, spokesperson for the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB). “Reform will benefit everyone as long as it addresses costs.”

“There are many ways to tackle our health care problem, but we will come up with a uniquely American solution.”

Myth 2: “The boomers will bankrupt Medicare.”
If you’re looking to blame the rise in health care costs on an aging population, you’ll have to look elsewhere. The growing ranks of the elderly are projected to account for just 0.4 percent of the future growth in health care costs, says Paul Ginsburg, president of the Center for Studying Health System Change. So why are health care costs skyrocketing? Ginsburg and others point to all those fancy medical technologies we now rely on (think MRIs and CT scans), as well as our fee-for-service payment system, in which doctors are paid by how many patients they see and how many treatments they prescribe, rather than by the quality of care they provide. Some experts say this fee-for-service payment system encourages overtreatment (see “Why Does Health Care Cost So Much?” from the July-August 2008 issue of AARP The Magazine).

Myth 3: “Reforming our health care system will cost us more.”
Think of health care reform as if it’s an Energy Star appliance. Yes, it costs more to replace your old energy-guzzling refrigerator with a new one, but over time the savings can be substantial. The Commonwealth Fund, a New York City-based foundation that supports research on health care practice and policy, estimates that health care reform will cost roughly $600 billion to implement but by 2020 could save us approximately $3 trillion.

 For the rest of the myths click on:

 http://www.aarpmagazine.org/health/8_myths_about_health_care_reform.html

 

 

“Search to know the Truth
And the Truth will set You Free.”
(my aim is not to convince, but to share what I have found for your consideration. – mackie)
 

 

 

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THE GREATEST CITIZENS BEING MISLED?

July 29th, 2009
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THANKS RON,
 
You are so right.  When the gov. allowed anyone to say anything on all media published to the public without the right of those who disagree to respond we lost our freedom of speech.
 
When one person or organization has spent a lot or money to get their point accross FREEDOM OF SPEECH DEMANDS THAT AN OPPOSING INDIVIDUAL CAN RESPOND ON THE SAME MEDIAN WITHOUT COST.
 
ALL CITIZENS WITHOUT THIS FREEDOM WILL BE CONTROLLED AND PUNISHED BY THOSE THAT DO.
 
THERE ARE MANY EXAMPLES; I CITE ONLY ONE: IRAN.
 
EVERY PROBLEM WE HAVE IN AMERICA HAS COME FROM ALLOWING THE RICH AND POWERFUL TO LIMIT THE FREEDOM OF THOSE WHO DISAGREE AND HAVE THE RIGHT TO RESPOND IN THE SAME MEDIAM WITHOUT COST.
 
WE HAVE TO GET BACK TO THE LOCAL COMMUNITY, BARTERING AND SUPPORTING THOSE WE KNOW THAT WE CAN TRUST TO PROVIDE A SAFE PRODUCT FOR US TO CONSUME.
 
ONCE GREED TOOK OVER WITH THE IDEA THAT WE COULD LET THE POOR IN OTHER COUNTRIES CREATE THE PRODUCTS WE WANTED AND SELL THEM BACK TO US AT A CHEAPER PRICE (with a disregard of inspection of these products as to our safety) WE BEGAN TO DESTROY OUR LOCAL NEIGHBORS AND THEIR TRADE BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT COMPETE.
 
EVEN MORE DRASTIC, WE ALLOWED OUR CORPORATIONS TO MOVE JOBS OVERSEAS WITH NO TAX OBLIGATIONS AND ALLOWED OUR OWN, GOOD, PRODUCTIVE CITIZENS (with high regulation on producing safe products) to become unemployed.
 
DO YOU REMEMBER THE LYING LINE FROM OUR GOVERNMENT AND CORPORATE LEADERS?: “WE ARE BECOMING AN INFORMATIONAL SYSTEM OF WHICH THE WORLD WILL DEPEND ON US.”
 
FOR EVERY STEP WE MOVE FROM PRODUCING OUR OWN PRODUCTS WE ALLOW SNAKE OIL EXECUTIVES TO MAKE MORE MONEY BY CONTROLLING OUR MEDIA AND BUYING OFF OUR POLITICIANS TO MAKE MORE LAWS FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO MAKE MORE MONEY OFF OF HONEST WORKERS AND THEIR ASSETS, HEALTH CARE, INVESTMENTS, ETC.
 
More later.  Can you see this grand scam of all institutions, including the religious and the rich?
 
 
 
“Search to know the Truth
And the Truth will set You Free.”
(my aim is not to convince, but to share what I have found for your consideration. – mackie)
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