Obama and Pals Ignoring the Will of the People: Domestic War Crimes in the Making?

President Barack Obama

President Barack Obama

Headlines are suggesting that Obama & Pals are determined to push through a health care bill regardless of what the majority of the American people want. So it isn’t about the people then? It isn’t about “change” that will restore the peoples’ voice and trust in government? It is, instead, about what Obama & Pals want and think is best for the rest of us?

The government can’t even effectively and successfully run the VA hospitals under its care, yet the American people are suppose to jump on board with a government run health program that is an even bigger project involving about everyone, rather than just the limited number of military personnel?

If the VA hospitals aren’t enough to cause worry, one needs to look at all the other medical related programs that the government rushes to offer as its answer to saving the world, only to then be cut or reduced without true warning and/or recourse. The carrot and promise dangling that is often abruptly jerked away with no apology and merely the attitude that we are to accept whatever decision someone else has made in the person’s behalf. It was, after all, a gift to the needy — not a contract required to be abided by — right?

Insurance companies may be out of control with their premiums and authority to deny payment, and therefore, care and meds, but so are the government programs. Private and government both get to say in effect, “Sorry, but we aren’t paying for whatever, because in our opinion you either don’t need it or aren’t worth it.”

Yes, things are broken and something needs to happen, but that something isn’t what has been happening to lead us to now.

Rather than RUSH some program through — that in “theory” might sound good but really doesn’t work in the “real world” — our elected officials should be listening to “the people” and the experiences of “the people and the opinions of “the people” to find out what worked and didn’t work and why it might not have worked as thought it would. Why aren’t they? What is the hurry? Why not take the time to figure out what is the “real” problem before jumping in with something that might only add to the entire mess we are facing?

But, with the media reports that Obama is determined to push his plan ahead in spite of the opposition, one should to ask…

Did Obama & Pals think so little of the American opinion when he needed them to get elected to office? Or, is it just that he no longer needs the American people to get what he wants?

Carrie Hutchens is a former law enforcement officer and a freelance writer who is active in fighting against the death culture movement and the injustices within the judicial and law enforcement systems.

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  • chvietvet
    Because the VA medical system was mentioned, I have a few comments to make. I served two tours of duty in Vietnam, received an honorable discharge from the Air Force in 1968, and have been denied employment in the United States for 41 years for serving in an "unpopular war." For most of my life, I worked in foreign countries because of employment discrimination against veterans, which is a direct result of U.S. Department of Labor malfeasance in enforcing the laws protecting veterans' employment rights. Because it owes us benefits, the government wants us dead.
    Because I have been fighting employment discrimination appeals and lawsuits since 1999, I have lived in the United States for several years well below the poverty level and must rely on medical treatment at Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) facilities. To implement the final solution to the veteran problem, one method has been to deny veterans all dental care. I believe denial of dental treatment began during the Reagan Administration. For several years after I returned to the United States in 1998, I could only watch my fillings, crowns, and inlays fall out one after another until I could hardly chew enough to eat breakfast cereal. I can thank one VA doctor for keeping the abscesses from killing me with antibiotics. However, the DVA had strict rules so that no government dentist could even look at one of my teeth. Private dentists demand lots of money, which I did not have while my employment discrimination appeals against the Departments of Agriculture and Interior continued before criminally biased administrative agencies.
    The solution to my problem was to borrow a relatively small amount of money and fly to Southeast Asia, where I received excellent treatment of more than 20 teeth for less than it would have cost for 2 in the United States. Meanwhile, the few DVA dentists have little work to do, which seems confined to certifying that any dental problems veterans complain about are not service connected so they do not have to be treated. That means that a veteran with a small cavity can only wait until the tooth become abscessed, transmits some of its bacteria to the heart, and causes problems serious infections requiring the vet to have a heart operation. In other words, the DVA's method is to refuse treatment for a cavity but approve heart surgery after the untreated cavity causes major health problems.
    This might seem stupid to some people, but if we assume that the DVA is trying to get rid of as many veterans as possible as fast as possible to save the government money, then it makes sense.
    The DVA is now circulating forms to implement a "living will," which can be used to get rid of veterans even faster. If we assume that the DVA is an example of government health care, then the life of the next generation of Americans can be summed up very simply. Work and pay a large percentage of the salary to the government for health care while young and productive; then pick up your medical-assisted suicide shot when you reach retirement age or develop a disability.
  • Carrie_K_Hutchens
    While I can't speak specifically to your situation, I do know for a fact that the VA hospital and system has indeed failed many a veteran! How the government thinks it can do better serving many than it did with serving a few -- I have no idea!
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