“We have hired our own executioner.” Now what?

The great question of the day is whether or not Americans will rally to the call, restore this country to greatness, and confront the terrible evils of our time, as did our forebears, over and over.

The election this November will be a tremendous turning point, for good or ill.

The most crippling reality we face is the vicious divisiveness we have brought upon ourselves.  Half the country believes America is fatally flawed, that our values and faith traditions are outmoded, that capitalism is the great evil, and intervention overseas is only cover for conquest.  The other half holds to traditionalism, fighting off waves of attacks on founding principles and civil liberties, so preoccupied with defense, mustering a strong offense is nearly impossible.

Combine all this with a collapsing economy, serial scandals, moral decay, multiple crises around the world, and little wonder people are outraged and fearful, even immobilized.   Our leaders are corrupt, ignorant, self-serving sellouts for the most part.  The pulpits are silent, or compromised.  False prophets rule.

We have a triple-minded egomaniac in the White House. He has no loyalties.  He bears no resemblance to the patriot.  He is a dishonest man, so weak and divisive he has made a mockery of the presidency and American influence.  Enemies laugh, thumb their noses, and attack, even as he tries buying them off sending money and weaponry.  He appears to enjoy watching America fall apart, doing the opposite of what is required for economic revival.  Many say he is exacting these destructive measures purposefully to accomplish his ‘fundamental transformation.’  We hired our own executioner, and the majority of people seem to be awakening to this fact if polls are accurate.

The majority does not trust government. We suspect elections are rigged. Sadly, too many have been persuaded to distrust our history or our guiding principles, and worse, we do not trust one another.  One writer recently reported a heartbreaking scene:  At a major league game, only half the crowd stood for the anthem.

What started 100 years ago has now borne fruit.  Systematic efforts to subvert and demoralize America by any number of communists, secularists, atheists and other control freaks has become largely successful.  It is a terrible thing, watching a once-great nation crumble before your eyes.  The enemy within has his hands around the throat of Lady Liberty, and he is literally squeezing the life out of her.

• Sharia is advancing: terrorism increases.
• The demoralization process accelerates: the country has become a rerun of Sodom and Gomorrah.
• Enemies physically invade the country without restraint, plotting atrocities.
• Government is bloated, useless, little more than a giant parasite stealing from one citizen to give to another.
• The military has been slashed and demoralized and compromised.
• We are bankrupt and headed for an unprecedented financial crash.
• Friends don’t trust us, enemies escalate plans against us.
• There is no good news, and little hope in many hearts.

We need a miracle.

Fortunately, the God of Love specializes in miracles.

In that light, the truly great question is whether or not Americans will seek His face, beg His forgiveness, and ask for that miracle.

[by Allan Erickson, writing for BARBWIRE.COM]

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One manufactured crisis after another…but who is really doing the manufacturing?

You can always count on Democrats to stick to the party leaders’ scripts. 

The party script today says Republicans have been busy manufacturing crisis after crisis to move forward their radical agenda, like shutting down the government and denying healthcare to the poor.

The irony here is total.

In the great “shutdown showdown” of late last year, Congressional Republicans proposed funding everything in the entire federal government…everything, that is, except the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare. As a desperate stopgap, the GOP was even willing to settle for just delaying the Obamacare individual mandate for a year.

No deal, said Obama and the Democrats. Give us a clean continuing resolution. Give us everything we want, authorize funding for the entire government, including the ACA, or we shut down the government and our allies in the media will blame you.

The Democrats got their way. The Obamacare program was launched, leading directly to the biggest manufactured crisis in modern American history. Tens of millions of tax-paying US citizens, possibly a hundred million in 2014 alone, will lose their health insurance coverage after being promised, over and over again, that they would be able to keep it.

Let this sink in: Republicans like Sen. Ted Cruz — for trying to prevent what everyone, including many Democrats, now openly admit is a gargantuan national healthcare crisis manufactured entirely by Democrats — are accused by Democrats of “manufacturing crises.”

Meanwhile, back at the White House, things are getting tougher for Mr. Obama.

The magic is over. Gone are the swooning crowds and fainting admirers of yesteryear. Gone is the childlike hope of millions that Obama’s “hope and change” mantra would really mean something. “Hope and change,” it turns out, was just a phrase which actually meant betrayal on a scale never before seen by an occupant of the Oval Office.

Today, polls continue to show that once-enthusiastic Obama supporters are dismayed at having been deliberately and repeatedly lied to. Not only can they not keep their health insurance, they also cannot keep their doctor, their preferred hospital, or often even their medicine! Democrats now admit that government “death panels” (by whatever name) were always understood by the Obamacare creators as an absolutely essential component of the ACA program.

Obama and his team of like-minded liars have been exposed as having relied on massive lies, bribery, and fraud in engineering the intentional destruction of the greatest healthcare delivery system in the world.

Other Obama scandals continue to litter the Washington political landscape like a freeway pileup.

According to top retired generals and other senior officers, Obama is waging a war of sorts against the US military. His attack includes the firing of close to 200 senior officers during his first five years in office, nine generals in 2013 alone. Some of our departing generals are openly calling it a “purge.” In addition, Obama has made sure that homosexuals in the military have been promoted, sent women to front-line combat, developed suicidal rules of engagement along with unwinnable counterinsurgency strategies, and to top it all, has made sure that God and Christianity are pushed as far toward the military’s rear guard as possible. All of this was done by Obama and his Democrat pals to — you guessed it — deliver another manufactured crisis to the American people to help divert our attention from the Obamacare monstrosity in particular and the miserable job of leading that we see coming from the Oval Office in general.

Consider: America has no coherent foreign policy, which has resulted in our country’s precipitous loss of power, respect, and influence around the world. Our economy is being so abused by government borrowing and ill-considered Federal Reserve intervention that the world is moving rapidly toward abandoning the dollar as its reserve currency — a huge loss to America with grave consequences to come. Many government agencies are trying to tread water through scandals of their own — the Justice Department, the IRS, the NSA, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, to name just a few.

America’s would-be monarch is, thankfully, now seen as he really is, an immature, narcissistic, and shockingly deceitful far-left agitator whose “smoke and mirrors” hope-and-change mantra has produced lots of change, alright, but not the kind any of us were looking for. If people continue to be confused, intimidated, and upset over constant crises and the accompanying demonizing of conservatives — as we’ve seen for the last five years — Mr. Obama could make it through the remainder of his second term handily, with all or most of his “hope and change” policies intact. Or, if his popularity continues to evaporate, he will just recede into the protective bubble of the Oval Office and rule his kingdom with executive orders.

[from an article in the current issue of Whistleblower magazine, written by David Kupelian]

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Member of Congress on Obamacare: “Remember, we were lied to by the president. He told us abortion will not be funded. It is. We were told sterilizations, contraceptives, all that, we were told wouldn’t be part of the bill. It is. So, almost every promise the president has made has turned out to be false.”

Pulling no punches, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., told WND exactly why she thinks President Obama and Democrats are unwilling to negotiate with the GOP over Obamacare’s well-documented problems.

“I think the reason is because President Obama can’t wait to get Americans addicted to the crack cocaine of dependency on more government health care.”

“Because, once they enroll millions of more individual Americans, it will be virtually impossible for us to pull these benefits back from people,” the congresswoman explained.

“All they want to do is buy love from people by giving them massive government subsidies,” Bachmann summed up.

That’s why she wants lawmakers to do whatever they can to stop Obamacare, now.

“If it means delaying it, rather than repealing it. I’m for it. We have to do what we can do.”

Warning they are “making it up as they go along,” Bachmann predicted disaster if Obamacare goes ahead, because, “They’re trying to fly a plane they haven’t even built yet.”

In her interview with WND, Bachmann was blunt, but described with surgical precision all the reasons she opposes the implementation of Obamacare.

Her observations included:

• Almost every one of his promises about Obamacare has turned out to be false.
• The president lied about abortion not being funded under Obamacare.
• No one should hand over any private information to the health care exchanges and the federal data hub.
• The HHS admits there is no way to prevent Obamcare fraud.
• People don’t trust the government after the NSA abuse of private information.
• People don’t trust the government can’t be hacked.
• The government isn’t even trying to secure Americans’ private information.
• You can’t trust the people running the heathcare exchanges.
• The people running the healthcare exchanges obviously are not trained.
• The people running Obamacare are completely unprepared to go forward.
• They’re making the decision to move forward based upon politics.
• The president, arrogantly, is more concerned with saving face than keeping healthcare data secure.

Delay instead of defund

The House of Representatives passed a bill de-funding Obamacare, but on Friday, the Senate restored the funding. Over the weekend, the House responded by sending the Senate a spending bill that would keep the government running past the Sept. 30 deadline, but would also delay implementing Obamacare by a year.

Some Republicans think that is the wrong move — they believe the health care law should be implemented immediately because it will be such a disaster, voters will make Democrats pay for it at the polls in the 2014 elections.

But Bachmann, like her fellow Republican and staunch Obamacare opponent, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, does not think it is fair to the American people who she says will be hurt if the law goes into effect in its present state.

“Whatever we can do to relieve the suffering of this economy and the American people,” is what is most important, said the Minnesota congresswoman.

“On every possible level, this is a government program that is clearly not ready for prime time,” she reflected, adding, “The administration is very defensive about this program because it’s bad on so many levels.”

Scams and con artists

WND has documented 52 reasons Obamcare is not ready for implementation, and among those reasons is what California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones said: “We can have a real disaster on our hands.”

The Democrat warned of the dangers of putting personal and financial information into the hands of some of the more than 21,000 enrollment counselors who, by his own admission, are not being adequately screened and monitored. Making matters worse, Jones said the exchange does not even have a plan for investigating complaints.

Another looming disaster is con artists.

Consumer experts have warned that Obamcare creates a huge opportunity for swindling people by stealing their money and their sensitive personal information.

They saw the problem getting only worse as we approach Oct. 1, when millions of Americans can begin shopping for coverage on health insurance exchanges set up by their states or the federal government.

“There are fake exchanges already up and running on the Internet,” warned Montana’s Commissioner of Securities and Insurance, back in August.

Administration worried

The potential for disaster is so bad the Obama administration called a hasty, but not much publicized, emergency meeting on Sept 18, warning that Obamacare users could face massive fraud.

The administration’s biggest concern is apparently identity theft, because Obamacare users will have to provide their personal, financial and health information.

In fact, the administration plans to create a whole new bureaucracy just to handle Obamacare complaints.

These reasons, and many more, are why Bachmann says Obamacare is not ready and should at least be delayed, if not stopped entirely.

WND asked if she heard concern from constituents over turning health and financial information over to the government.

“Oh, yes. People are extrmely nervous, especially after all of the NSA issues earlier this year.”

“People don’t trust government, at all,” she added. “They don’t trust government’s ability not to be hacked, but they also look at a federal government that would intentionally misuse their data.”

Personal information endangered

Bachmann said they had experienced “a perfect example” illustrating those concerns in Minnesota, just a few weeks ago.

“An employee who works for the state health exchange mistakenly sent the personal information and data of more than 2,400 people to an insurance agent.”

They all happened to be insurance agents and the information included their names, their businesses, their business license numbers and social security numbers, and, the congresswoman said,” the person who received the information was floored.”

“He said the information wasn’t even encrypted. So he got information that wasn’t encrypted, it wasn’t secured and it was on an Excel spreadsheet. So, this Minnesota health care exchange was using outdated technology and outdated software to send information.”

“On every possible level, there was no protection, at all,” she oberved.

That is why, Bachmann insisted, “At this point, no one should hand over any private information to these health care exchanges and the federal data hub, because, we know now, based upon this email that went out, you can’t trust the people who are (running) the exchanges. They are obviously not trained.”

Obamacare exchanges ‘untrustworthy’

Even worse, she continued, “They don’t even have an ability to secure the data. They aren’t even attempting to secure the data.”

WND asked if she had any faith the in the government to either stop scams or prevent the leaking of private information. “Nope. In Minnesota, they’ve already proved they are untrustowrthy. They haven’t beta-tested security systems. They are completely unprepared to go forward.”

She said that showed “They aren’t moving forward based upon proof of technical capability. They’re making the decision to move forward based upon politics.”

Why would they do that, WND asked?

“Because, the president wants to keep his name and his credibility.

“That’s an extremely arrogant move because it has more to do with the president saving face than it has to do with the government being concerned about preserving integrity of its citizens’ data.”

Bachmann suggested we won’t know what’s in Obamacare until it is implemented “because the government is writing the rules for Obamacare as we speak.”

Flying plane they haven’t built

That’s when she observed, “They’re trying to fly a plane they haven’t even built yet.”

Bachmann then referred to a report on the Obamacare enrollment program released by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which made these key findings:

• The Administration created the Assisters program without congressional approval.
• Top HHS officials have admitted that the enrollment outreach programs are prime targets for fraud.
• Consumers have no way to verify that someone taking their application or encouraging enrollment is actually a Navigator or Assister.
• HHS officials were concerned about security risks, but did not look into whether or not they could require background checks.
• HHS has criticized direct phone calls, door-to-door solicitation, but has not banned them.
• In some states, Navigators and Assisters are paid based on the number of persons they enroll, creating a conflict of interest.

Bachmann noted, “[W]ithout any congressional authorization whatsoever, the federal government spent hundreds of millions of dollars training new assisters, because different states wouldn’t allow money to be spent on navigators, because even the HHS person in charge of implementing the day-to-day work of Obamacare said there is no way to prevent fraud in signing people up for Obamacare.”

Obamacare and ACORN

The congresswoman told WND she had learned during a briefing that the navigators, or assisters, who will be signing up people for Obamacare “will be getting something like $59 a head for the people that they sign up. ACORN did that.”

“ACORN signed up Donald Duck and Minnie Mouse,” just making up names, “so people could make money. It was meant to be a scam.”

ACORN, the community organizing and voter-registration organization that Obama worked for in the 1990′s was disbanded after massive allegations of voter law violations and at least 54 ACORN employees and individuals associated with ACORN were convicted of voter fraud.

“We know people will get signed up in a fraudulent way. That’s why President Obama has already waived or deleted 19 different areas for Obamcare. Because they make it up as they go along.”

Bachamann insisited it is “unconstitutional for the executive to rewrite laws at will and spend money that Congress doens’t authorize. That’s competely unconstitutional.”

‘It’s already falling apart’

WND asked if the administration’s hastily called security summit was a sign Obama might be panicking because of the severity of problems with his health care plan?

“Yes, it’s already fallen apart. It’s proven it will go way over budget beyond what the president said. We already know that it’s killing jobs. So yes, I think they are in a panic.”

And that’s when the congresswoman said there’s another reason “Harry Reid and the president fight back so hard against any attempt to mitigate the negative impact of Obamacare, whether it’s in the funding of government through the continuing resolution, or in tying raising the debt ceiling to delaying Obamacare.”

‘Crack cocaine’ of dependency on government

“I think the reason is because President Obama can’t wait to get Americans addicted to the crack cocaine of dependency on more government health care.  Because, once they enroll millions of more individual Americans it will be virtually impossible for for us to pull these benefits back from people.”

Again, she insisted, if Obamacare can not be stopped immediately, Congress should try to slow it down.

“On every possible level, this is a government program that is clearly not ready for prime time. The administration is very defensive about this program because it’s bad on so many levels.”

And that’s when she observed, “All they want to do is buy love from people by giving them massive government subsidies.”

“People are looking at getting, I’m not kidding, $18,000 a year worth of benefits. You buy a lot of love for $18,000 a year, and you know you are also going to be getting illegal aliens who are going to be getting access to these benefits. You know it.”

‘Lied to by the president’

Bachmann then referred to the so-called “contraception mandate” opposed by the Catholic Church and other religious groups who feel they should not have to provide coverage that violates their beliefs.

“Remember, we were lied to by the president. He told us abortion will not be funded. It is. We were told sterilizations, contraceptives, all that, we were told wouldn’t be part of the bill. It is. So, almost every promise the president has made has turned out to be false.”

The tea party rock star declared, “Now is the time to put it out of its misery.”

“I am the author of the bill to repeal Obamcare, we’ve done that (the House has passed it) several times. We have to do what we can do. Whether that means de-funding it instead of repealing it, I’m for it. If it means delaying it, rather than repealing it, I’m for it.”

“Whatever we can do to relieve the suffering of this economy and the American people, we must do.”

[by Garth Kant, writing for WND.com]

 

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