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		<title>Finally Someone Reports on The Vast Differences Between Romneycare and Obamacare!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 20:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spencer Iacono</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note: This is a cross post from RebelRoss at MittRomneyCentral.com with permission. &#160; Gov. Romney is spending the day with his family and has released a brief statement for Memorial Day. I can’t remember a day Gov. Romney has received this much positive press coverage from this many different places in the same day. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p><strong>Editor&#8217;s Note:</strong> This is a cross post from RebelRoss at <a href="http://mittromneycentral.com/2011/05/30/what-a-memorial-day-for-gov-mitt-romney-positive-press-coverage-from-everywhere/" target="_blank">MittRomneyCentral.com</a> with permission.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Gov. Romney is spending the day with his family and has <a href="http://mittromneycentral.com/2011/05/28/memorial-day-reflections-from-mitt-romney-central/">released a brief statement for Memorial Day</a>.</p>
<p>I can’t remember a day Gov. Romney has received this much positive  press coverage from this many different places in the same day.  If you  know of any other articles released about Gov. Romney today, please put  the link(s) in the comments.  The only way I knew about the great  Detroit Free Press article was because I live off 8 Mile – 30 minutes  away from Detroit.</p>
<p>That said, let’s start with the front page of today’s Detroit Free Press.  <a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20110530/NEWS15/105300359/Romney-seems-one-beat-GOP-race?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE">The article</a> starts off like this:</p>
<blockquote><p>The political blogs and the pundits’ pronouncements make  it sound as though anyone else has a better shot than Mitt Romney does  to become the Republican nominee for president next year.</p>
<p>Don’t believe it: Mitt’s the man to beat in the 2012 GOP race.</p></blockquote>
<p>The article also makes a point that I completely agree with – that  the majority of people in our country may have heard the name Mitt  Romney, but Mitt still has a chance to make sure people think of jobs  and the economy when they think about Mitt Romney.  Most people don’t  know enough about Gov. Romney yet, and can easily change their minds  about him if presented with compelling evidence.</p>
<p>Next, the New Yorker has released <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/06/06/110606fa_fact_lizza">one of the main articles</a> to be released in their June 6th edition.  When comparing Obamacare and  Romneycare, The New Yorker suggests that “the two laws differ in  important ways.”, states that “Although some influential liberals  condemned Romney, most conservatives praised the plan.”, and notes that  President Obama is the one who has flip-flopped on healthcare while Gov.  Romney is the one with actual knowledge on the subject.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/health/articles/2011/05/30/romney_and_health_care_in_the_thick_of_history/?page=full">Boston Globe has the most publicized piece</a> of the day.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/health/articles/2011/05/30/mass_health_bill_history/"><img title="Romneycare timeline" src="http://mittromneycentral.com/uploads/health_bill__1306746338_5393-1024x353.gif" alt="" width="1024" height="353" /></a>click to enlarge</p>
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<p>This Boston Globe piece has been called a <strong>must read</strong> by a bunch of people.  You’re going to want to get this in front of as  many people as possible.  It’s a long and thorough article and it’s only  the first in a series on Mitt Romney and the Massachusetts health care  overhaul.</p>
<p>Finally, the <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/05/30/the-case-for-mitt-romney/">Daily Caller has published an opinion piece endorsing Gov. Romney for 2012</a>!</p>
<blockquote><p>As many in the GOP scramble to find a candidate, there  have been calls for anyone but Romney. Efforts are already underway to  brand Romney as a RINO. Such a label is profoundly inaccurate and hurts  the Republican Party’s best chance at recapturing the White House in  2012.</p>
<p>Romney’s acumen as an executive stands out in any field of candidates  and this one in particular. From his extraordinary success in the  private sector, Romney can speak credibly about the economy and job  creation. His fiscal conservatism reaches beyond balanced budgets in the  short-term. As governor of Massachusetts, Romney not only balanced the  budget every year without raising taxes but also rescued the  Commonwealth’s Stabilization Fund, also known as the “rainy day fund.”  By the time Romney left office in 2007, the fund held $2.3 billion.</p></blockquote>
<p>There’s a lot more at each of the links I posted, so please check  them out.  If you’re spending time with family today, that’s great.  You  can catch up on all of these articles tomorrow.  <strong>Happy Memorial Day everyone!</strong></p>
<p>UPDATE: A tweet from Governor Romney… Don’t forget to read his <a href="http://mittromneycentral.com/2011/05/28/memorial-day-reflections-from-mitt-romney-central/">full statement</a>.</p>
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<p>Please take a moment today to remember those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms.<a title="Mon May 30 13:05:25 +0000 2011" href="http://twitter.com/#%21/MittRomney/status/75186047461490690">less than a minute ago</a> via web <a href="http://twitter.com/intent/favorite?tweet_id=75186047461490690"><img src="http://si0.twimg.com/images/dev/cms/intents/icons/favorite.png" alt="" /> Favorite</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/intent/retweet?tweet_id=75186047461490690"><img src="http://si0.twimg.com/images/dev/cms/intents/icons/retweet.png" alt="" /> Retweet</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?in_reply_to=75186047461490690"><img src="http://si0.twimg.com/images/dev/cms/intents/icons/reply.png" alt="" /> Reply</a><a href="http://twitter.com/MittRomney"><img src="http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/1308196723/twittermr_normal.jpg" alt="" /></a><strong><a href="http://twitter.com/MittRomney">Mitt Romney</a></strong><br />
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<p><strong>UPDATE 2</strong> by Jayde – TwitPic from Gov Romney: <strong>“Busy week ahead. Great weekend in New Hampshire with Ann and the family.”</strong> (May 30, 2011)</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">(Click on photo to enlarge.)<br />
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		<title>Mitt Romney&#8217;s Speech on Health Care Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 19:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spencer Iacono</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Mitt Romney delivered a major speech on Health Care.  He detailed the differences between Obamacare and what he was able to accomplish in the state of Massachusetts, as well as detailing why Obamacare is bad for the country.  You can view the powerpoint by clicking on the image below.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>Today Mitt Romney delivered a major speech on Health Care.  He detailed the differences between Obamacare and what he was able to accomplish in the state of Massachusetts, as well as detailing why Obamacare is bad for the country.  You can view the powerpoint by clicking on the image below.</p>
<p><a title="Romney Powerpoint" rel="http://global.nationalreview.com/dest/2011/05/12/05_12_11_rfp_hc_ppt_final_final.pdf" href="http://global.nationalreview.com/dest/2011/05/12/05_12_11_rfp_hc_ppt_final_final.pdf" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2651" title="Mitt-Romney-Health-Care" src="http://thecompetentconservative.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/ScreenShot006.jpg" alt="Romneycare" width="600" height="341" /></a></p>
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		<title>Romney to Obama on Health Care: “Why Didn’t You Call Me?”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 19:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spencer Iacono</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, during a question and answer session with the Republican Jewish Coalition, Romney was asked how he would debate differences in the Massachusetts health care plan and Obamacare.  President Obama frequently showers sardonic praise on Mitt Romney for the health care law he signed in Massachusetts, calling it a model for the national plan. On [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://thecompetentconservative.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/romney-republican-jews.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2305" title="-romney-republican-jews" src="http://thecompetentconservative.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/romney-republican-jews.jpg" alt="Mitt Romney republican jewish coalition" width="636" height="250" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Yesterday, during a question and answer session with the Republican Jewish Coalition, Romney was asked how he would debate differences in the Massachusetts health care plan and Obamacare.  President Obama frequently showers sardonic praise on <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/mitt-romney.htm#r_src=ramp">Mitt Romney</a> for the health care law he signed in Massachusetts, calling it a model  for the national plan. On Saturday, Mr. Romney offered a new retort,  saying: &#8220;If that&#8217;s the case, why didn&#8217;t you call me?&#8221;(<a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/02/romney-to-obama-why-didnt-you-call-me/?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss" target="_blank">More here</a>)</p>
<div>Good point!  If the President was so impressed with what Mitt Romney did in Massachusetts,  why didn&#8217;t he give Romney a call to find out what works and what doesn&#8217;t.   If he was so inspired by Mitt Romney, then why didn&#8217;t he seek inspiration on this issue directly from his own hand??</div>
<div>Read more here: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/02/romney-to-obama-why-didnt-you-call-me/?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss</div>
<div>Tommy Winder at MittRomneyCentral.com said this:</div>
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<blockquote><p>Secondly, the pragmatic, solution-oriented turnaround expert would  have told them flat out — as he has all along — that the notion of a  one-size-fits-all plan is not only an <a href="http://mittromneycentral.com/op-eds/mitt-romney-obamas-unconscionable-abuse-of-power/">unconscionable abuse of power</a>, it’s flat out unconstitutional.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://mittromneycentral.com/2010/12/20/mitt-romneys-supposed-health-care-straddle-is-he-trying-to-have-it-both-ways/">Thirdly:</a></strong></p>
<p>They knew that the basis and overall intent of their plan was so  immensely different from Romney’s that, essentially, they would have  been talking to Henry Ford about how to erect a flying saucer. Their  plan, rooted in big government principles, was to force private  providers out of the market and rely on a sole government provider.  Their plan was not paid for. Their plan raises taxes and cuts Medicare.  Their plan was not viewed favorably by the people it would have effect  on (all Americans). Their plan was not introduced after previously  balancing the budget. Their plan was jammed through the house, unread.</p>
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<p>You can watch the entire speech below.</p>
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		<title>Video/Song: This Will Be The Day Obamacare Dies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spencer Iacono</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch and enjoy.  It is amazing to see how much in denial Barack Obama is in the fact that his nationalized health care plan went down the drain, especially after all the absolute promises he made to people that it would pass&#8230;by the end of 2009!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>Watch and enjoy.  It is amazing to see how much in denial Barack Obama is in the fact that his nationalized health care plan went down the drain, especially after all the <a title="Obama's Lies" href="http://thecompetentconservative.com/2010/01/23/false-prophet-obamas-failed-prophecy-health-care-by-the-end-of-2009/" target="_blank">absolute promises</a> he made to people that it would pass&#8230;by the end of 2009!</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently watched a movie called &#8220;Into the Storm&#8221; which followed Sir Winston through the years before the war through the end of the war.  Towards the end of the movie, Churchill gave a speech on the radio about the perils of Socialism that I found very interesting.  Here is the text of the actual [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>I recently watched a movie called &#8220;Into the Storm&#8221; which followed Sir Winston through the years before the war through the end of the war.  Towards the end of the movie, Churchill gave a speech on the radio about the perils of Socialism that I found very interesting.  Here is the text of the actual speech:</p>
<blockquote><p><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span>M</span>y friends, I must tell you that a Socialist policy is abhorrent to the British ideas of freedom.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> Although it is now put forward in the main by people who have a good grounding in the Liberalism and Radicalism of the early part of this century, there can be no doubt that Socialism is inseparably interwoven with Totalitarianism and the abject worship of the State. It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of Socialism.</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Look how even to-day they hunger for controls of every kind, as if these were delectable foods instead of war-time inflictions and monstrosities. There is to be one State to which all are to be obedient in every act of their lives. This State is to be the arch-employer, the arch-planner, the arch-administrator and ruler, and the archcaucus boss.</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">How is an ordinary citizen or subject of the King to stand up against this formidable machine, which, once it is in power, will prescribe for every one of them where they are to work; what they are to work at; where they may go and what they may say; what views they are to hold and within what limits they may express them; where their wives are to go to queue-up for the State ration; and what education their children are to receive to mould their views of human liberty and conduct in the future?</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">A Socialist State once thoroughly completed in all its details and its aspects &#8211; and that is what I am speaking of &#8211; could not afford to suffer opposition. Here in old England, in Great Britain, of which old England forms no inconspicuous part, in this glorious Island, the cradle and citadel of free democracy throughout the world, we do not like to be regimented and ordered about and have every action of our lives prescribed for us. In fact we punish criminals by sending them to Wormwood Scrubs and Dartmoor, where they get full employment, and whatever board and lodging is appointed by the Home Secretary.</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Socialism is, in its essence, an attack not only upon British enterprise, but upon the right of the ordinary man or woman to breathe freely without having a harsh, clumsy, tyrannical hand clapped across their mouths and nostrils. A Free Parliament &#8211; look at that &#8211; a Free Parliament is odious to the Socialist doctrinaire. Have we not heard Mr. Herbert Morrison descant upon his plans to curtail Parliamentary procedure and pass laws simply by resolutions of broad principle in the House of Commons, afterwards to be left by Parliament to the executive and to the bureaucrats to elaborate and enforce by departmental regulations? As for Sir Stafford Cripps on &#8220;Parliament in the Socialist State,&#8221; I have not time to read you what he said, but perhaps it will meet the public eye during the election campaign.</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">But I will go farther. I declare to you, from the bottom of my heart, that no Socialist system can be established without a political police. Many of those who are advocating Socialism or voting Socialist to-day will be horrified at this idea. That is because they are short-sighted, that is because they do not see where their theories are leading them.</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance. And this would nip opinion in the bud; it would stop criticism as it reared its head, and it would gather all the power to the supreme party and the party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of Civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil. And where would the ordinary simple folk &#8211; the common people, as they like to call them in America &#8211; where would they be, once this mighty organism had got them in its grip?</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">I stand for the sovereign freedom of the individual within the laws which freely elected Parliaments have freely passed. I stand for the rights of the ordinary man to say what he thinks of the Government of the day, however powerful, and to turn them out, neck and crop, if he thinks he can better his temper or his home thereby, and if he can persuade enough others to vote with him.</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">But, you will say, look at what has been done in the war. Have not many of those evils which you have depicted been the constant companions of our daily life? It is quite true that the horrors of war do not end with the fighting-line. They spread far away to the base and the homeland, and everywhere people give up their rights and liberties for the common cause. But this is because the life of their country is in mortal peril, or for the sake of the cause of freedom in some other land. They give them freely as a sacrifice. It is quite true that the conditions of Socialism play a great part in war-time. We all submit to being ordered about to save our country. But when the war is over and the imminent danger to our existence is removed, we cast off these shackles and burdens which we imposed upon ourselves in times of dire and mortal peril, and quit the gloomy caverns of war and march out into the breezy fields, where the sun is shining and where all may walk joyfully in its warm and golden rays.</span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Winston CHURCHILL, The First Conservative Election Broadcast, 4 June 1945. Quoted in CAPET, CHARLOT &amp; HILL, p. 201-2</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">During the war, the US and Great Britain implemented government controls over many sectors of their respective economies as a war-time measure.  After the war, the US repealed most of those restrictions.  However, in England, the Left successfully convinced the British public to embrace these restrictions.  In 1951, Conservatives regained control of the government but did not undo the Welfare State Labor had established because the British had come to accept and demand government control of their lives. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">In reading Sir Winston&#8217;s speech, I was struck with just how prescient his criticisms were.  And given the recent flap about Rush Limbaugh and the St. Louis Rams plus the President&#8217;s declaration of war against Fox News, I was particularly struck by Churchill&#8217;s statement::<br />
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<blockquote><p><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">&#8220;No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance. And this would nip opinion in the bud; it would stop criticism as it reared its head, and it would gather all the power to the supreme party and the party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of Civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil. And where would the ordinary simple folk &#8211; the common people, as they like to call them in America &#8211; where would they be, once this mighty organism had got them in its grip?&#8221;</span></em></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">How else could we describe the efforts of the Left in this country to label any and all criticism as &#8220;racist&#8221;, &#8220;sexist&#8221;, &#8220;homophobic&#8221; and &#8220;domestic terrorism?&#8221;  The Hate Crimes legislation that recently passed establishes the category of &#8220;thought crimes&#8221; where people are punished for their politically incorrect opinions.  There are already ominous precedents for how the Left will wield this new law.  The Left gleefully crushed Carrie Prejean, Miss California, for honestly answering a question a leftist judge asked of her when he didn&#8217;t like what she had to say.  As mentioned earlier, Rush Limbaugh was libeled with false accusations of racism based upon fabricated quotes all because he had the unmitigated gall to want to invest some money in an NFL team.  And even after the quotations were identified as fabrications, members of the Left and their friends in the media simply stated, in effect, &#8220;well, we know Limbaugh has those thoughts so, they&#8217;re still true.&#8221;  Members of the Duke LaCross team were tried and convicted of raping a black woman before any trial was ever held by left-wing professors and a Democrat prosecutor who was up for re-election.  The accused players were white and from affluent families and the victim was black so, they were guilty, no evidence needed. And here to, when the players were exonerated of wrong doing, Leftists insisted that even though these particular young men didn&#8217;t actually do anything wrong, they were still guilty because of all the crimes whites and society have perpetrated on blacks over the years.  Is this not precisely what Winston Churchill was warning of in 1945?<br />
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<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Sir Winston also once said, <em>&#8220;</em></span><span class="huge"><em>The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.&#8221;</em> He is/was absolutely right.  Socialism does not seek to build up but to tear down.  Where there are poor, their solution is not to give the poor the tools and ability to improve their situation but to make the rich suffer for the crime of being successful.  It is, as Churchill said in his speech, <em>&#8220;</em></span><span class="huge"><em>a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy&#8230;&#8221;</em>.  It denigrates the human soul by forcing it to accept it&#8217;s surroundings and the notion that only an exterior force can improve his or her life. </span></p>
<p><span class="huge">Consider this parallel as well:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><em>&#8230;</em></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><em>a Free Parliament is odious to the Socialist doctrinaire. </em></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><em>Have we not heard Mr. Herbert Morrison descant upon his plans to curtail Parliamentary procedure and pass laws simply by resolutions of broad principle in the House of Commons, afterwards to be left by Parliament to the executive and to the bureaucrats to elaborate and enforce by departmental regulations?</em></span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Democrats in Congress have hit upon the very same idea to pass healthcare legislation.  Max Baucus&#8217;s bill is an outline and nothing more.  Once passed, details of the legislation will be filled in. And how about his comment about &#8220;the abject worship of the State&#8221;?  Today, the Left doesn&#8217;t just worship the state but many </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">have </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">literally proclaimed Obama to be their &#8220;Messiah.&#8221;    This is not a change to a new, better path as Mr. Obama has claimed.  His idea of &#8220;hope and change&#8221;  is the very same threat Mr. Churchill warned us of 64 years ago and if we do not stop it, it will be very difficult to remove from our nation&#8217;s character.<br />
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<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Churchill was right.<br />
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<p><strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span>M</span>y friends, I must tell you that a Socialist policy is abhorrent to the British ideas of freedom.</span></strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> <em>Although it is now put forward in the main by people who have a good grounding in the Liberalism and Radicalism of the early part of this century, </em><strong>there can be no doubt that Socialism is inseparably interwoven with Totalitarianism and the abject worship of the State. It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of Socialism.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>Look how even to-day they hunger for controls of every kind, as if these were delectable foods instead of war-time inflictions and monstrosities.</strong> There is to be one State to which all are to be obedient in every act of their lives.<em> This State is to be the arch-employer, the arch-planner, the arch-administrator and ruler, and the archcaucus boss.</em></span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">How is an ordinary citizen or subject of the King to stand up against this formidable machine, which, once it is in power, will prescribe for every one of them where they are to work; what they are to work at; where they may go and what they may say; what views they are to hold and within what limits they may express them; where their wives are to go to queue-up for the State ration; and what education their children are to receive to mould their views of human liberty and conduct in the future?</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">A Socialist State once thoroughly completed in all its details and its aspects &#8211; and that is what I am speaking of &#8211; could not afford to suffer opposition. Here in old England, in Great Britain, of which old England forms no inconspicuous part, in this glorious Island, the cradle and citadel of free democracy throughout the world, we do not like to be regimented and ordered about and have every action of our lives prescribed for us. In fact we punish criminals by sending them to Wormwood Scrubs and Dartmoor, where they get full employment, and whatever board and lodging is appointed by the Home Secretary.</span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>Socialism is, in its essence, an attack not only upon British enterprise, but upon the right of the ordinary man or woman to breathe freely without having a harsh, clumsy, tyrannical hand clapped across their mouths and nostrils.</strong> <em>A Free Parliament &#8211; look at that &#8211; a Free Parliament is odious to the Socialist doctrinaire. Have we not heard Mr. Herbert Morrison descant upon his plans to curtail Parliamentary procedure and pass laws simply by resolutions of broad principle in the House of Commons, afterwards to be left by Parliament to the executive and to the bureaucrats to elaborate and enforce by departmental regulations? As for Sir Stafford Cripps on &#8220;Parliament in the Socialist State,&#8221; I have not time to read you what he said, but perhaps it will meet the public eye during the election campaign.</em></span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">But I will go farther. I declare to you, from the bottom of my heart, that no Socialist system can be established without a political police. Many of those who are advocating Socialism or voting Socialist to-day will be horrified at this idea. That is because they are short-sighted, that is because they do not see where their theories are leading them.</span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><strong>No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance.</strong><em> And this would nip opinion in the bud; it would stop criticism as it reared its head, and it would gather all the power to the supreme party and the party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of Civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil. And where would the ordinary simple folk &#8211; the common people, as they like to call them in America &#8211; where would they be, once this mighty organism had got them in its grip?</em></span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">I stand for the sovereign freedom of the individual within the laws which freely elected Parliaments have freely passed. I stand for the rights of the ordinary man to say what he thinks of the Government of the day, however powerful, and to turn them out, neck and crop, if he thinks he can better his temper or his home thereby, and if he can persuade enough others to vote with him.</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">But, you will say, look at what has been done in the war. Have not many of those evils which you have depicted been the constant companions of our daily life? It is quite true that the horrors of war do not end with the fighting-line. They spread far away to the base and the homeland, and everywhere people give up their rights and liberties for the common cause. But this is because the life of their country is in mortal peril, or for the sake of the cause of freedom in some other land. They give them freely as a sacrifice. It is quite true that the conditions of Socialism play a great part in war-time. We all submit to being ordered about to save our country. But when the war is over and the imminent danger to our existence is removed, we cast off these shackles and burdens which we imposed upon ourselves in times of dire and mortal peril, and quit the gloomy caverns of war and march out into the breezy fields, where the sun is shining and where all may walk joyfully in its warm and golden rays.</span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Winston CHURCHILL, The First Conservative Election Broadcast, 4 June 1945. Quoted in CAPET, CHARLOT &amp; HILL, p. 201-2</span></div>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>The Heritage Foundation reports that Congressional leaders, desperate to pass Mr. Obama&#8217;s Health Care plans, have come up with an idea on how to get it passed with the minimum of scrutiny and debate.  Don&#8217;t put it in writing before the vote.  Instead, they have put forward a &#8220;shell&#8221; of the legislation which is nothing more than a theoretical concept of what they want to do.  No details.  No actual legislation.  Just an outline.  And they want to attach it to an unrelated bill to get it through.</p>
<p>From the Heritage Foundation&#8217;s article:</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; text-align: left;"> </span></p>
<p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1.2em; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; line-height: 21px;"><strong style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">STEP ONE:</strong> The Senate Finance Committee will finish work on the marking up of Senator Max Baucus’ (D-MT) conceptual framework for legislation by this Friday. Baucus has not unveiled final legislation and, according to the Associated Press, he added some new language to the mark up today. AP reports that “under pressure from fellow Democrats, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee decided to commit an additional $50 billion over a decade toward making insurance more affordable for working class families.”</p>
<p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1.2em; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; line-height: 21px;">Senators have not been provided any real legislation and are offering amendments this week to Baucus’ 200+ page outline. It is expected that at the end of the process the Senate Finance Committee may produce a bill longer than the 1,000 page House bill that proved so controversial over the August recess. Many Senators are upset that they don’t have final language for a bill, yet still they sit in a Committee Hearing Room this week marking up a draft document that is not in the form of legislative language. The plan is to have this document voted out of the Senate Finance Committee by Friday.</p>
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<p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1.2em; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; line-height: 21px;"><strong style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">STEP THREE:</strong> Senator Reid will then move to proceed to H.R. 1586, a bill to impose a tax on bonuses received by certain TARP recipients. This bill was the bill passed by the House in the wake of the AIG bonus controversy and is currently sitting on the Senate Legislative Calendar. Reid will move to proceed, and he will need 60 votes to act on this bill.  After the motion is approved, he will then offer a complete substitute bill purportedly including the combined Senate HELP and Finance Committee products.  This means that the entire health care reform effort will be included as an amendment to a TARP bill that has been collecting dust in the Senate for months.</p>
<p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1.2em; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; line-height: 21px;"><strong style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">STEP FOUR:</strong> For this strategy to work, the proponents would need to hold together the liberal caucus of 57 Democrats, 2 Independents (Senators Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Bernie Sanders of Vermont), and a potential new member replacing the late Senator Kennedy. This scenario would most likely be implemented after the Massachusetts state legislature gives Governor Deval Patrick the power to appoint a new Senator and that Senator is seated by the Senate. According to CQ, the state legislature may pass a bill and present it to Governor Patrick by next week.</p>
<p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 14px; outline-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1.2em; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000000; line-height: 21px;">Once the Senate passes a bill and sends it to the House, all the House would have to do is pass the bill, without changes, and President Obama will be presented with his health care reform measure thereby transforming within a few weeks 1/6th of the US economy. If this plan does not work, the Senate and House Leadership may consider using reconciliation to pass the legislation.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patients with terminal illnesses are being made to die prematurely under an NHS scheme to help end their lives, leading doctors warn today. By Kate Devlin, Medical Correspondent Published: 10:00PM BST 02 Sep 2009 In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, a group of experts who care for the terminally ill claim that some patients [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><h3>Patients with terminal illnesses are being made to die prematurely under an    NHS scheme to help end their lives, leading doctors warn today.</h3>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #000000;">By <a title="Kate Devlin" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/kate-devlin/">Kate Devlin</a>, Medical Correspondent<br />
Published: 10:00PM BST 02 Sep 2009</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, a group of experts who care for the    terminally ill claim that some patients are being wrongly judged as close to    death.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Under NHS guidance introduced across England to help doctors and medical staff    deal with dying patients, they can then have fluid and drugs withdrawn and    many are put on continuous sedation until they pass away.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">But this approach can also mask the signs that their condition is improving,    the experts warn.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">As a result the scheme is causing a “national crisis” in patient care, the    letter states. It has been signed palliative care experts including    Professor Peter Millard, Emeritus Professor of Geriatrics, University of    London, Dr Peter Hargreaves, a consultant in Palliative Medicine at St    Luke’s cancer centre in Guildford, and four others.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">“Forecasting death is an inexact science,”they say. Patients are being    diagnosed as being close to death “without regard to the fact that the    diagnosis could be wrong.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">“As a result a national wave of discontent is building up, as family and    friends witness the denial of fluids and food to patients.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">The warning comes just a week after a report by the Patients Association    estimated that up to one million patients had received poor or cruel care on    the NHS.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">The scheme, called the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP), was designed to reduce    patient suffering in their final hours.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Developed by Marie Curie, the cancer charity, in a Liverpool hospice it was    initially developed for cancer patients but now includes other life    threatening conditions.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">It was recommended as a model by the National Institute for Health and    Clinical Excellence (Nice), the Government’s health scrutiny body, in 2004.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">It has been gradually adopted nationwide and more than 300 hospitals, 130    hospices and 560 care homes in England currently use the system.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Under the guidelines the decision to diagnose that a patient is close to death    is made by the entire medical team treating them, including a senior doctor.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">They look for signs that a patient is approaching their final hours, which can    include if patients have lost consciousness or whether they are having    difficulty swallowing medication.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">However, doctors warn that these signs can point to other medical problems.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Patients can become semi-conscious and confused as a side effect of    pain-killing drugs such as morphine if they are also dehydrated, for    instance.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">When a decision has been made to place a patient on the pathway doctors are    then recommended to consider removing medication or invasive procedures,    such as intravenous drips, which are no longer of benefit.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">If a patient is judged to still be able to eat or drink food and water will    still be offered to them, as this is considered nursing care rather than    medical intervention.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Dr Hargreaves said that this depended, however, on constant assessment of a    patient’s condition.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">He added that some patients were being “wrongly” put on the pathway, which    created a “self-fulfilling prophecy” that they would die.</span><br />
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<p><span style="color: #000000;">He said: “I have been practising palliative medicine for more than 20 years    and I am getting more concerned about this “death pathway” that is coming    in.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">“It is supposed to let people die with dignity but it can become a    self-fulfilling prophecy.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">“Patients who are allowed to become dehydrated and then become confused can be    wrongly put on this pathway.”</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">He added: “What they are trying to do is stop people being overtreated as they    are dying.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">“It is a very laudable idea. But the concern is that it is tick box medicine    that stops people thinking.”</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">He said that he had personally taken patients off the pathway who went on to    live for “significant” amounts of time and warned that many doctors were not    checking the progress of patients enough to notice improvement in their    condition.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Prof Millard said that it was “worrying” that patients were being “terminally”    sedated, using syringe drivers, which continually empty their contents into    a patient over the course of 24 hours.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">In 2007-08 16.5 per cent of deaths in Britain came about after continuous deep    sedation, according to researchers at the Barts and the London School of    Medicine and Dentistry, twice as many as in Belgium and the Netherlands.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">“If they are sedated it is much harder to see that a patient is getting    better,” Prof Millard said.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Katherine Murphy, director of the Patients Association, said: “Even the    tiniest things that happen towards the end of a patient’s life can have a    huge and lasting affect on patients and their families feelings about their    care.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">“Guidelines like the LCP can be very helpful but healthcare professionals    always need to keep in mind the individual needs of patients.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">“There is no one size fits all approach.”</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">A spokesman for Marie Curie said: “The letter highlights some complex issues    related to care of the dying.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">“The Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient was developed in response to    a societal need to transfer best practice of care of the dying from the    hospice to other care settings.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">“The LCP is not the answer to all the complex elements of this area of health    care but we believe it is a step in the right direction.”</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">The pathway also includes advice on the spiritual care of the patient and    their family both before and after the death.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">It has also been used in 800 instances outside care homes, hospices and    hospitals, including for people who have died in their own homes.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">The letter has also been signed by Dr Anthony Cole, the chairman of the    Medical Ethics Alliance, Dr David Hill, an anaesthetist, Dowager Lady    Salisbury, chairman of the Choose Life campaign and Dr Elizabeth Negus a    lecturer in English at Barking University.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">A spokesman for the Department of Health said: “People coming to the end of    their lives should have a right to high quality, compassionate and dignified    care.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">&#8220;The Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) is an established and recommended tool    that provides clinicians with an evidence-based framework to help delivery    of high quality care for people at the end of their lives.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">&#8220;Many people receive excellent care at the end of their lives. We are    investing £286 million over the two years to 2011 to support implementation    of the End of Life Care Strategy to help improve end of life care for all    adults, regardless of where they live.”</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><a class="alignleft" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6127514/Sentenced-to-death-on-the-NHS.html" target="_blank">Click here for direct link to source article.</a></span></p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Commence the posts about how this is all lies from a far-right, radical, bomb-throwing newspaper, doesn&#8217;t really happen anyway and even if it does, NHS is way better than the US system, so there!  (Insert rasberry sound here.)  Keep in mind, dear reader, that when its Anthropogenic Global Warming, we have to believe leading scientists.  I wonder if these leading scientists/doctors will be afforded the same reverence?  As the Brits themselves would put it:  &#8220;Not bloody likely.&#8221;</strong></p>
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		<title>Great Article: This Will Never Be A Euro-Socialist Country</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just came across an article from the American Thinker that I just had to pass on.  It&#8217;s too long to post here so here is the link: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/this_will_never_be_a_eurosocia.html Europe was a breeding ground for Socialism and Communism because they have a long, long history of the people being subject to the government.  They were/are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>I just came across an article from the American Thinker that I just had to pass on.  It&#8217;s too long to post here so here is the link:</p>
<p><a id="top" style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2327317/posts" target="_self">http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/this_will_never_be_a_eurosocia.html</a></p>
<p>Europe was a breeding ground for Socialism and Communism because they have a long, long history of the people being subject to the government.  They were/are more accepting of having the government run their lives because that is the historical precedent for them.  Serfs served kings and queens.  Germans and Italians willingly subjected themselves to Hitler and Mussolini.  Eastern Europeans suffered under Communism for decades after WWII, which they ultimately rejected but many became comfortable with it.  It was just the way things were.</p>
<p>The United States was founded by people who rejected the notion of one man rule.  In it&#8217;s historical context and even today, The Declaration of Independence and US Constitution were/are radical documents.  The idea that man&#8217;s rights came from God and not man was a radical departure from most of the world&#8217;s concept of governance.  The founders stated that government&#8217;s role should be to make sure that we are free to exercise our God given rights.  This was, and still is in many cases, totally foreign to European tradition.</p>
<p>America was also founded on the concept of individualism.  Some say this is selfish.  This is not true.  The freedom to improve one&#8217;s self ultimately leads to that person becoming concerned not with self but with other people and their well-being.  If you can come to understand yourself you are better able to understand others.  With this understanding, instead of seeing only &#8220;what&#8217;s in it for me&#8221; you come to realize that others have needs as well. Understanding yourself makes you reach out to others in compassion because you know what they are going through.<br />
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Collectivism, on the other hand, says that its about helping the little guy but actually promotes greed and selfishness.  Leaders collect goods for themselves while telling everyone to sacrifice for the &#8220;common good.&#8221;  Soviet leaders had nice houses and never went without food or the nice things in life while their people waited in long lines for common items like toilet paper.  Soviet leaders had fancy cars while the average citizen, if they could afford it, would have to wait years to buy a poorly made Trabant.  European monarchies have/had a ruling class which lives entirely apart from the people they govern, surrounded by wealth and opulence.  Monarchies promote strict caste systems where upward mobility is determined by which family you were born to.  If you were born to a poor family, that was your lot in life.  Too bad.  This government enforced inequality creates a poverty mentality amongst the populace who, naturally go into survival mode.  In survival mode, you cannot think beyond your own needs thus fostering the traits of greed and selfishness.</p>
<p>The average person&#8217;s ability to better themselves is either severely limited or done away with entirely.  Without the hope of bettering their own condition, the average person will simply give up and look towards garnering what little he or she can for his or her self.  They become fatalistic.  &#8220;Whatever happens to me is beyond my control so I should just accept it.&#8221;  Fatalism is, from my own experiences in Chile, very much part of Hispanic culture. The expression &#8220;Si Dios quiere&#8221; (If God wills it) is an all too common expression.  For that reason, Spain and South America are also fertile grounds for Socialism and Communism.  In Arab countries, there is a similar phrase &#8220;Insha&#8217;Allah&#8221; or &#8220;God willing.&#8221;  Arab countries as well are fertile ground for collectivism albeit in the form of religious collectivism.</p>
<p>In the US, the American Dream says anyone can become anything they desire to be and this has attracted the masses from around the world for over 200 years.  And when someone comes to this country and makes of him or herself what they desire, legitimately, then the natural result of their success is a desire to extend that same chance to others.  That is the hope and change that we all want and have wanted since the founding of this country.  Not European Collectivism.  We have too long a tradition of being free to accept government control of our lives and the strong protests around the country against Obamacare, etc. are proof of that.  I agree and applaud the author of this article!  Well done and well said!</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a  thought: For years the Left has told us regarding abortion that women have the unassailable right to do with their body as they please.  &#8220;Our bodies, Our Choice,&#8221; right?  Now that the Left is demanding that the government be given control of our healthcare, does this mean that they no longer believe in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>Here&#8217;s a  thought:</p>
<p>For years the Left has told us regarding abortion that women have the unassailable right to do with their body as they please.  &#8220;Our bodies, Our Choice,&#8221; right?  Now that the Left is demanding that the government be given control of our healthcare, does this mean that they no longer believe in this supposed right?  If the government can tell us, as Mr. Obama himself suggested, to take pills instead of having an operation, doesn&#8217;t that violate this &#8220;sacred&#8221; right the Left has insisted on so vehemently?  If the medical procedure of abortion is a right, then why not grandma&#8217;s cancer surgery?  Surely grandma has a right to do with her body as she pleases regardless of the societal repercussions, right?</p>
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		<title>Obama Advisor:  &#8220;Doctors Take The Hippocratic Oath Too Seriously&#8230;&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of President Obama&#8217;s Health Care advisors believes that doctors shouldn&#8217;t take their Hippocratic Oath so seriously.  Listen to Rep. Michelle Bachman of Minnesota read his own words.  Another advisor believes that medical innovation should be &#8220;slowed down&#8221; as a cost savings measure.  View the incredible YouTube video: So much for Liberals being paragons of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>One of President Obama&#8217;s Health Care advisors believes that doctors shouldn&#8217;t take their Hippocratic Oath so seriously.  Listen to Rep. Michelle Bachman of Minnesota read his own words.  Another advisor believes that medical innovation should be &#8220;slowed down&#8221; as a cost savings measure.  View the incredible YouTube video:</p>
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<p>So much for Liberals being paragons of &#8220;compassion&#8221; and &#8220;understanding.&#8221;  Let the sick and infirm die to save money.  Isn&#8217;t that something that they used to accuse Conservatives of doing?  What&#8217;s next?  Eugenics?  Killing off the undesirable people to preserve the gene pool?  Why not?  Planned Parenthood was founded by a Eugenicist.  This is just frightening.<br />
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