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Pope Francis, Dorothy Day, and the Redistribution Delusion.
by Mona Charen, September 24, 2015
 
Pope that mentions Dorothy Day is a pope that rocks,” tweeted Neera Tanden of the left-leaning Center for American Progress. Tanden might have wished to reel back that praise if she had known that Day, though a prominent pacifist and socialist, was also a fervent opponent of abortion, birth control, Social Security, and the sexual revolution.
 
It’s fitting that Pope Francis should have invoked Dorothy Day among his pantheon of great Americans — she’s a symbol of where leftists always go wrong. This pope is going wrong in the same way. The Left’s delusions of “social justice” seem indomitable — impervious to evidence.
 
The pope lauded Day for “her social activism, her passion for justice, and for the cause of the oppressed, [which] were inspired by the gospel, her faith, and the example of the saints.”
 
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Sometimes when you blog, it feels like you’re sitting at your desk beating an old dead horse to death.  It seems that even though one wants to talk about the new news of the day, we get bogged down on the same ole, same ole.  That is exactly the way my day feels for I’m back on the Obamacare kick.

A quick run - down of the obvious problems, millions have lost their healthcare, their doctors, their hospitals and their Government.  They’ve been lied to, cheated and been treated like second rate citizens by Obama and his gophers.  But it only gets worse as the days go on…

For days, even months they tried to get on the Obamacare website, but to no avail - they couldn’t even get signed in let alone signed up for healthcare.  Finally after a numerous amount of quick fixes and band aids they were able to sign in, sign up and choose a plan that offered benefits they didn’t want or need, high co pay, higher deductibles and a costly monthly insurance premium. 

After all of these difficulties they find that the website is very vulnerable full of security flaws and not protected against hackers.  Insurers add fuel to the fire informing them they can’t confirm their coverage or show proof of insurance.  The consumer isn’t stupid - they know someone has their vital statistics and their money.  Just when you think it couldn’t get any worse check some of the State Obamacare sites are in deep “doo doo” too.

Many of the State Obamacare sites are coughing, sputtering, chewing up information and sending consumers to unknown places that has nothing to do with healthcare.  Residents in Maryland who tried to access a help desk were routed to a pottery supply store in Seattle.  Exchanges in other States aren’t functioning correctly and in the meantime there are many people who no longer have insurance due to the Obamacare tragedy.

Most remember Obama saying, “You’re not going to have anybody getting in between you and your doctor in your decision making.”  Now that just so happens to be one more lie from this Nations Dictator. 

Section 1311(h)(1)(B) of the health law gives the secretary of Health and Human Services blanket authority to dictate how doctors treat patients. This includes people who are paying for their own healthcare plan and as we speak “they” (whoever the heck they are) are writing the rules for how physicians will care for their patients. 

So let’s get this straight now, we had our insurance and physicians stolen from us and forced to get a Government healthcare plan whether we like it or not and some “A- - hole” in Health and Human Services is dictating what a physician can or can’t do when offering  healthcare to us.

Let’s not forget the IRS “death panel” who will decide if we are eligible for treatment, how we will be treated and when we will be treated.  Right now IRS is begging for some training – they don’t understand medical terminology, nor do they know specifically what they were hired to do for Obama and Sebelius.  Guess IRS could get a few pointers from Rahm Emanuel’s brother, Ezekiel Emanuel– the Doctor creep that helped create this healthcare monster.   

Sounds like Socialized medicine to me folks – plan and simple the Dictator did it to us again.  He stole our stimulus money, our jobs, our healthcare, our freedoms, millions probably on the verge of billions to create a healthcare law that we didn’t want from the “gecko.”

But the clincher is this as Charles Krauthammer explains – hidden in the deep dark pages of Obamacare is a neat little guarantee written for insurers.  Charles said, “that buried deep in the Affordable Care Act is a “large government bailout” to cover up to 80 percent as insurance company losses.”  Redistribution just crossed our empty plates again Americans. 

 As Always,

Little Tboca 

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"It's Redistribution, Stupid" Says OBAMA

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Redistribution - Stealing From the Taxpayers

Obama’s “Promise Zones” – Election Year Wealth Redistribution Scheme

http://freepatriot.org/2014/01/10/watch-obamas-promise-zones-election-year-wealth-redistribution-scheme/

The big question for Americans – how do we stop the bloody spending by Obama, Democrats and Republicans?  Here’s a brief preview of the past five years and a glimpse of the future. 

So much for our daily dose of lies from Obama, his administration and the Liberal News media – as a Nation we the people deserve some respect, honesty and solutions for major problems.  While we sit here suffering the headlines today tout that half of Congressional Lawmakers are millionaires, some actually acquired their money legitimately via investments or personal businesses. 

There are many, in Congress who use their position merely to pad their pockets, enjoy the Government perks and live high on the hog off of taxpayer’s money and draw a sizeable lifetime retirement.  They’re not worth their salt and definitely are a detriment to Americans and America. I refer to them as “Leeches,” the ones who just go along for a free ride on taxpayer’s money.

Look at Obama, Pelosi, Reid and the Liberals – they’re the perfect “Stereotypes of Socialism” for a Government gone bad.  They don’t give a “d---“about their Country – in fact they don’t give a “damn” about the poverty stricken, African Americans who are struggling or the Hispanics.  

They all have one and only one goal in mind – they want to dominate, control and dictate via “Big Government.”  They manipulate the news, prepare the canned speeches for the Liberal News Media and give us a dose of the poison tonic called Socialism every day since 2009. 

Here are a few examples of their devious techniques and lies that have harmed our children, grandchildren, adult children and all Americans.

  1. They stole 787 billion dollars from taxpayers and literally had a spending frenzy with this money while we were sleeping.
  2. They frivolously spent our money on parties, lavish vacations, secret meetings and personal celebrations like the IRS who gobbled up over 50 million plus for parties & conferences and videos from 2010 to 2012. 
  3. Obama with his blessing encouraged the IRS to attack the tea parties and lied about Benghazi to insure his re-election in 2012.
  4. Obama and his Administration have not only allowed guns to walk – they sneaked billions out the back door to fund the Muslim Brotherhood enhancing their Military capabilities. 
  5. Obama used millions of our stimulus money for the “Green Scams,” specifically created for his big bundlers. This had nothing to do with job creation as Obama would like you to believe.

*** This only highlights a few of Obama’s insidious behaviors. Below are a few statistics on some of his future plans.

Let’s look at Obama’s new budget presented in April of 2014 – it’s important to realize this budget is an attack on the middle class (the working class.) Although, the budget didn’t pass it gives you a bird’s eye view of Obama and his favorite pet “redistribution.”

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He Lied, LIed & Lied Some More

Although he lied about his budget saying, more than $2 in spending cuts for every $1 of new revenue – what a crock. If passed it would have been a huge tax increase – it would increase the deficit a trillion dollars over 10 years. The majority of revenue in his budget would come from increasing the death tax, capping deductions and select exemptions from those making higher incomes along with capping retirement funds.

Although his budget didn’t pass formally it gives Americans an idea of what will happen in the next three years. This is “redistribution” folks any way you slice it. The minimum wage increase is already on the front burner and there’s more to come…

There’s much more, but just a thought about our Government cooking the books.  Our actual unemployment figure is between 11 to15 plus % - not even close to the 6.7% Obama and Democrats are crowing about today. 

There’s nothing real about the unemployment figures – yet millions of Americans believe it. This just gives a broken down President a trumped up talking point the he and his Democratic friends will beat to death.  It includes those who are only working part-time jobs, which happens to be close to 8 million – in fact according to Huff Post 75% of all jobs in 2013 were part time jobs. It doesn’t include those who’ve dropped off and no longer looking for employment.

So when you hear Obama and the Democrats raving over the unemployment figure – you know they lie through their teeth.  Figure for yourself only 74,000 new jobs in December meaning approximately 55,000 were part time and probably seasonal jobs also. Obama’s first term was nothing more than destruct, destroy and redistribute.

Take the unbridled spending by Obama since 2009, the stringent EPA regulations which closed businesses down and restricted job growth, the huge increase in the entitlement society, the illegals making themselves comfortable utilizing all of our resources, the hanky-panky with the Muslim Brotherhood (Which is costly) and the greatest leech of all Obamacare.

Obamacare, nothing is free – someone has to pay for it (taxpayers.)  It won’t save families 2500 a year in premium cost, some premiums have doubled or even tripled in cost along with higher co – payments and deductions.  Can’t keep your doctor, specialist or medical team and can’t keep your insurer. It’s a costly scam that will eliminate jobs and be devastating to consumers.

*** This is just a glimpse of 5 years of Redistribution increasing the National Deficit over 17 trillion dollars add another 3 years of Redistribution and in all likelihood our Nation will be on the verge of crumpling. Current predictions are by 2016 our National Debt will surpass 20 trillion dollars.  Republicans are in control of our money need I say more? 

As Always,

Little Tboca

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British Health Care System Verging on Collapse
“A month of nights, a year of days
Octobers drifting into Mays
I set my sail as the tide comes in
Then I cast** my fate to the wind”
All’s superwell in God’s Heaven. ‘Tis indeed a wonderful world, especially when we can just let go because all the nasty irrelevancies are out of our way. Under those conditions, your health is everything, and just owning good health is the key to Eden . . . uh-oh those damn irrelevancies again . . . .
The love of Obamacare Czar Donald Berwich’s life may be near death and so he might need to find another lover. Berwick, who launches into rapture everytime he speaks of the British National Health System that Obamacare was modeled upon has gone so far as to say, “I just love the British health system,” and to talk of ‘her’ as a “seductress.” Unfortunately, the Brits are now talking about the potential for their National Health System to totally collapse. The Brit program, like Obamacare, has turned out to be everything a FOX News commentator named Glenn Beck said it was. Besides its numerous other faults discussed in detail at:
Obamacare has been openly called “redistributional” by Berwick on at least three separate occasions; and Berwick has said that “It’s not a question of ‘IF’ rationing takes place but of ‘HOW’ rationing takes place.” Since we’re talking about Obamacare being modelled upon the British example that would mean the biggest rationing would be for infants and children under three years of age; and for citizens over 60 years of age. From age 3 to age 60, the British system is probably not all that bad . . . well, then again . . . .
The British base their system on a value of a human life of $45,000 and getting more than $45,000 worth of care for a toddler or for a senior or for others in iffy medical straits is not in the cards usually. What exactly Obama and Berwick and the Progressive Left see to admire in the British system and in Obamacare really is a shocking concept.
A. First and foremost they presumably like that the first two Obamacare outlets set up in the country in New Mexico and Pennsylvania have set up abortion payments, (Sorry Bart Stupak, but Barack was just funning you when he promised abortions wouldn’t be funded!)
B. That $45,000 price tag that doesn’t amount to a “death panel” now does it. Oh, wait, the talk is that the price tag for Obamacare will be $150,000, well that’s a lot better, huh?
C. Perhaps it’s the rosy statistics on chronic diseases like cancer, heart disease and stroke? Britain’s cancer survival rate ranges between 40.2 percent and 48.1 percent for men and between 48 percent and 54.1 percent for women, compared with 66 percent for U.S. men and 63 percent for U.S. women. The story behind that rate differential in the British System would take several pages, it’s ugly. But suffice it to say that top cancer survival rates of 48.1% for men and 54.1% for women are abysmal.
D. About 6-7% of British patients are rich enough to pay for medical insurance and avoid needing to brave NHS, but choice of treatment is virtually impossible for the rest of the populace.
E. And, of course within the British model there are some “rogue doctors” who work privately outside the system – which is where those who can afford it go rather than risk their life within socialized medicine . . . so the poorest treatment is mostly foisted off on the poorest people – that’s OK, right?
Well, in any case, if the British National Health Care System goes under as it seems it might, that might really steam the 60% of Americans now already calling for the repeal of Obamacare . . . might even add a few more voices to the outcry . . . .
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
** Cast Your Fate to the Wind lyrics by David Benoit was a very popular song but the instrumental was ultra-popular and had three or four revivals. Not sure who composed the melody. The rendition by bent-note artist Floyd Cramer of “The Last Date” fame is Rajjpuut’s favorite. When Ol' Rajjpuut gets stressed music like that or Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" usually do the trick.

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DO YOU KNOW WHO IS REPRESENTING YOU?

How many members of the U.S. Congress are also members of the DSA?

How many of the DSA members sit on the Judiciary Committee?

How Many Members Of The U.S. Congress
Are Self-Declared Socialists?

Updated for the 111th Congress

The following FAQ will help clarify a few facts:

Q: What is the Socialist International?

A: It is the worldwide organization of socialist, social democratic and labor parties. It currently brings together 131 political parties and organizations from all continents. Its origins go back to the early international organizations of the labor movement of the last century.* It has existed in its present form since 1951, when it was re-established at the Frankfurt Congress. They are now headquartered in London, England.

* In 1864, representatives of English and French industrial workers founded the International Workingmen's Association in London. Karl Marx, who was living in London at the time, became the First International's dominant figure. Marx's doctrines were revived in the 20th century by Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilich Lenin, who developed and applied them – and we all know that what was started as a labor movement ended up as the biggest totalitarian/communist state, i.e., the USSR.

Q: What is the Democratic Socialists of America [DSA]?

A: It is the largest socialist organization in the United States, and the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International. Their website is http://www.dsausa.org/dsa.html

Q: What are seven principles behind what the DSA's calls it's "Progressive Challenge?"

Dignified Work
Environmental Justice
Economic Redistribution
Democratic Participation
Community Empowerment
Global Non-Violence
Social Justice.

Never mind their soothing-sounding leftist doublespeak like 'Environmental Justice' (whatever that is supposed to mean) or the soft & fuzzy 'Global Non-Violence' (a euphemism for unilateral disarmament) — the DSA's self-declared principle of 'Economic Redistribution' clearly shows where these folks are coming from and exactly where they plan to take America.

Q: How many members of the U.S. Congress are also members of the DSA?

A: Seventy!

Q: How many of the DSA members sit on the Judiciary Committee?

A: Eleven: John Conyers [Chairman of the Judiciary Committee], Tammy Baldwin, Jerrold Nadler, Luis Gutierrez, Melvin Watt, Maxine Waters, Hank Johnson, Steve Cohen, Barbara Lee, Robert Wexler, Linda Sanchez [there are 23 Democrats on the Judiciary Committee of which eleven, almost half, are now members of the DSA].

Q: Who are these members of Congress?

A: See the listing below





Co-Chairs
Hon. Raúl M. Grijalva (AZ-07)
Hon. Lynn Woolsey (CA-06)
Vice Chairs
Hon. Diane Watson (CA-33)
Hon. Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX-18)
Hon. Mazie Hirono (HI-02)
Hon. Dennis Kucinich (OH-10)
Senate Members
Hon. Bernie Sanders (VT)
House Members
Hon. Neil Abercrombie (HI-01)
Hon. Tammy Baldwin (WI-02)
Hon. Xavier Becerra (CA-31)
Hon. Madeleine Bordallo (GU-AL)
Hon. Robert Brady (PA-01)
Hon. Corrine Brown (FL-03)
Hon. Michael Capuano (MA-08)
Hon. André Carson (IN-07)
Hon. Donna Christensen (VI-AL)
Hon. Yvette Clarke (NY-11)
Hon. William “Lacy” Clay (MO-01)
Hon. Emanuel Cleaver (MO-05)
Hon. Steve Cohen (TN-09)
Hon. John Conyers (MI-14)
Hon. Elijah Cummings (MD-07)
Hon. Danny Davis (IL-07)
Hon. Peter DeFazio (OR-04)
Hon. Rosa DeLauro (CT-03)
Rep. Donna F. Edwards (MD-04)
Hon. Keith Ellison (MN-05)
Hon. Sam Farr (CA-17)
Hon. Chaka Fattah (PA-02)
Hon. Bob Filner (CA-51)
Hon. Barney Frank (MA-04)
Hon. Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11)
Hon. Alan Grayson (FL-08)
Hon. Luis Gutierrez (IL-04)
Hon. John Hall (NY-19)
Hon. Phil Hare (IL-17)
Hon. Maurice Hinchey (NY-22)
Hon. Michael Honda (CA-15)
Hon. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-02)
Hon. Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30)
Hon. Hank Johnson (GA-04)
Hon. Marcy Kaptur (OH-09)
Hon. Carolyn Kilpatrick (MI-13)
Hon. Barbara Lee (CA-09)
Hon. John Lewis (GA-05)
Hon. David Loebsack (IA-02)
Hon. Ben R. Lujan (NM-3)
Hon. Carolyn Maloney (NY-14)
Hon. Ed Markey (MA-07)
Hon. Jim McDermott (WA-07)
Hon. James McGovern (MA-03)
Hon. George Miller (CA-07)
Hon. Gwen Moore (WI-04)
Hon. Jerrold Nadler (NY-08)
Hon. Eleanor Holmes-Norton (DC-AL)
Hon. John Olver (MA-01)
Hon. Ed Pastor (AZ-04)
Hon. Donald Payne (NJ-10)
Hon. Chellie Pingree (ME-01)
Hon. Charles Rangel (NY-15)
Hon. Laura Richardson (CA-37)
Hon. Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34)
Hon. Bobby Rush (IL-01)
Hon. Linda Sánchez (CA-47)
Hon. Jan Schakowsky (IL-09)
Hon. José Serrano (NY-16)
Hon. Louise Slaughter (NY-28)
Hon. Pete Stark (CA-13)
Hon. Bennie Thompson (MS-02)
Hon. John Tierney (MA-06)
Hon. Nydia Velazquez (NY-12)
Hon. Maxine Waters (CA-35)
Hon. Mel Watt (NC-12)
Hon. Henry Waxman (CA-30)
Hon. Peter Welch (VT-AL)
Hon. Robert Wexler (FL-19)

Source: Congressional Progressive Caucus

DSA Members of Congress: http://bit.ly/96bzwc

What is the Democratic Socialists of America [DSA]? http://www.dsausa.org/dsa.html

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