IS AMERICA TOO YOUNG TO DIE?

By Betty Freauf
January 23, 2010
NewsWithViews.com

On January 17, 2010 in our local Statesman Journal newspaper the headline read, Measures 66 and 67 pits business against labor. On January 26 Oregonians will vote on a referendum to overturn huge tax increases implemented by the Democrat-controlled Oregon legislature in 2009 and which the Democrat Governor was more than happy to sign. The article was illustrating how the respective groups were raising money. But the headline was deceiving because if the truth was told, it is business against government union workers with vested interest in the passage of these two initiatives.

On the morning of January 19th conservative talk radio pundits were talking about the Massachusetts Special Election to replace former Senator Edward Kennedy and how the suburban tea-baggers were coming out of their comfortable homes waiting in long lines in miserably cold weather to cast their ballots and how signs were up all over those areas for Massachusetts Republican legislator Scott Brown. The Democrats considered Attorney General, Martha Coakley a sure winner. So sure, in fact, she went on vacation to the Caribbean at the height of the campaign and that is when Scott Brown made his move.

On that particular morning of the Massachusetts Special Election, it was 8:30 a.m. in Oregon and we had a furnace repairman at our home. It was 11:30 a.m. in Massachusetts. I brought up the exciting Massachusetts election and the first thing he said was that the Republicans were for the rich and those nasty corporations while the Democrats were for the poor. Noticing he was wearing a jacket with a corporate logo on it, I reminded him this nasty corporation and his employer were giving him a job while so many others are not working. He seemed completely oblivious that President Obama and his Chicago thugs have been nationalizing many industries this past year by creating monopolies for their friends that could eventually put his job in jeopardy.

Can you imagine what will happen to the competition between health insurance companies if Universal Health passes and jobs lost at these insurance companies will be at the mercy of Obama and AARP’s insurance company? There will be no competition and health insurance premiums will soar. Unemployed insurance workers will look to Barack for work and all will be forced to become unionized like Barack is hoping to do with the workers at the Transportation Security Agency (TSA), a subsidiary of Homeland Security, created under Republican President George W. Bush. This doesn’t just apply to the insurance industry, it applies to all industries that Barack is nationalizing, controlling and unionizing. The latest I heard was his desire to nationalize the Student Loan program and in our current cash strapped economy the Obama Administration has succeeded in dangling billions of our tax dollars in front of state and private sector businesses seducing them to submit to federal management of local and educational affairs.

My service man finally said the two-parties are meant to get us fighting against each other. I replied, “Bingo!â€