A Discussion of The President's Saturday Morning
Radio Address
Notes and Summary of the President's Weekly
Radio Address:
Fair Pay for Doctors
The
White House Press Office: – In this week’s
address, President Barack Obama called on Senate Republicans to stop
blocking a vote to prevent a 21 percent pay cut for doctors who see
Medicare patients – a pay cut that will hurt America’s seniors and
their doctors. Since 2003, Congress, under Republican and Democratic
leadership, has deferred these cuts in Medicare reimbursements from
going into effect. The President is committed to finding a
responsible, long term solution to this problem, but it is not
acceptable to punish America’s seniors or the physicians who treat
them. If Congress does not act, then doctors will start receiving
lower Medicare reimbursements next week, which could lead to seniors
losing their doctors. (continued below)
What is a REAL
American?
Someone who believes in (or accepts) LIBERTY
UNDER GOD
Liberty: A Real
American wants to live safely under his own Vine
& Fig Tree. A real American opposes tyranny.
Strategy: The willingness to take
up muskets and kill tyrants is only one strategy for opposing
tyranny. This one particular strategy is not essential for being
a REAL American.
Freedom: America grants the
freedom for those who oppose liberty and religion to speak out
in favor of tyranny and atheism. This freedom is granted by true
Americans to false Americans.
How the President Differs from
the American vision of "Liberty Under
God":
The federal government only has the powers granted to it --
"enumerated" -- in the
Constitution.
The "General Welfare" clause is no
exception to this principle.
"States Rights" --
most government should be carried out on a local level.
The Constitution created a federal government with
very limited powers, bound down by
the "chains of the constitution."
The Bush-Obama Regime believes it has vast, unlimited powers to
cure all diseases, fund all causes, and bring salvation.
These are the reasons given by Osama bin Laden for declaring a
"fatwah" (holy war) against the U.S.
All of these accusations are true.
All of these government actions are contrary to the
Constitution.
The biggest cause of terrorism --
and the most dangerous threat to the personal safety and
security of ordinary Americans like you and me -- is the Federal
Government of the United States.
America's Founders envisioned the American people, acting as
businessmen, humanitarians, and missionaries, engaging in
commercial and charitable activities around the world, bringing
peace and receiving the admiration of the world.
"The great rule of conduct for us, in
regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial
relations to have with them as little political
connection as possible."
— Washington, Farewell Address (1796) [Washington’s
emphasis]
"I deem [one of] the essential
principles of our government, and consequently [one] which
ought to shape its administration,…peace, commerce, and
honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances
with none."
— Jefferson, First Inaugural Address (1801)
Bush's unconstitutional military invasion
of Iraq has destroyed Christianity in that country.
Under Saddam Hussein's secular government, Christians in
Iraq had greater freedom than in most other Arab nations,
and one of the largest Christian populations in the Muslim
world was in Iraq.
Iraq is now an Islamic theocracy under Sharia law. The
Christian population has been destroyed. Christian Churches
are burned and terrorized with impunity.
Obama is following in Bush's unconstitutional, anti-Christian
footsteps.
But most Americans are apathetic slaves.
They "oppose" 9 out of 10 congressional bills,
but the one they support puts a small government benefit
in their pocket. They accept this bribe and are enslaved
by the other 9 bills.
This money-creation system is immoral and unconstitutional.
It steals from the poor and elderly.
America's Founding Fathers would conclude that The First
Amendment had been repealed
There is no freedom of religion: the U.S. is officially atheistic.
There is no freedom of the press: the media is the lapdog of
"the Establishment."
Everyone who signed the Constitution, if they were here today,
would urge the repeal of the Constitution and the abolition
of the government created by that document.
More than a decade ago, Congress
set up a formula that governs how doctors get paid by the Medicare
program. The intent was to slow the growth of Medicare
costs, but the result was a formula that has proposed cutting
payments for America’s doctors year after year after year.
These are cuts that would not only jeopardize our physicians’
pay, but our seniors’ health care.
Since 2003, Congress has acted to
prevent these pay cuts from going into effect. These votes
were largely bipartisan, and they succeeded when Democrats ran
Congress and when Republicans ran Congress – which was most of
the time.
This year, a majority of Congress
is willing to prevent a pay cut of 21% -- a pay cut that would
undoubtedly force some doctors to stop seeing Medicare patients
altogether. But this time, some Senate Republicans may even
block a vote on this issue. After years of voting to defer
these cuts, the other party is now willing to walk away from the
needs of our doctors and our seniors.
Now, I realize that simply
kicking these cuts down the road another year is not a long-term
solution to this problem. For years, I have said that a
system where doctors are left to wonder if they’ll get fairly
reimbursed makes absolutely no sense. And I am committed to
permanently reforming this Medicare formula in a way that balances
fiscal responsibility with the responsibility we have to doctors
and seniors. In addition, we’re already taking significant
steps to slow the growth of Medicare costs through health
insurance reform – not by targeting doctors and seniors, but by
eliminating 50% of the waste, fraud, and abuse in the system by
2012. This not only strengthens Medicare, it saves taxpayer
dollars.
"By
2012" means 50% of the waste, fraud, and abuse in the system
will be eliminated in the next 18 months. Anyone who knows
anything about the widespread fraud in the Medicare system knows
that this estimate is absolutely ludicrous.
Harvard University's Malcolm Sparrow, a specialist in
health-care fraud, recently testified to Congress that official
estimates are "lacking in rigor," are "comfortingly
low and quite misleading," and exclude many kinds of fraud
and abuse. He thinks that as much as 20 percent of the federal
health-care budget is consumed by fraud, which would be $85
billion a year for Medicare.
Medicaid rip-offs top $60 billion a year nationwide.
Obama will have no more success cleaning up Medicare in 2011
than he is having cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico.
These programs were unconstitutional
and wasteful on the very first day they went into effect. They
should be abolished completely.
I’m absolutely willing to take
the difficult steps necessary to lower the cost of Medicare and
put our budget on a more fiscally sustainable path. But I’m
not willing to do that by punishing hard-working physicians or the
millions of Americans who count on Medicare. That’s just
wrong. And that’s why in the short-term, Congress must act
to prevent this pay cut to doctors.
If they don’t act, doctors will
see a 21% cut in their Medicare payments this week. This
week, doctors will start receiving these lower reimbursements from
the Medicare program. That could lead them to stop
participating in the Medicare program. And that could lead
seniors to lose their doctors.
We cannot allow this to
happen. We have to fix this problem so that our doctors can
get paid for the life-saving services they provide and keep their
doors open. We have to fix this problem to keep the promise
of Medicare for our seniors so that they get the health care they
deserve. So I urge Republicans in the Senate to at least
allow a majority of Senators and Congressmen to stop this pay
cut. I urge them to stand with America’s seniors and
America’s doctors.
The program was a
"problem" while it was still on the drawing board.
“Why
Americans Should
Celebrate Christmas
365 Days
a Year”
The word "Christ" means "King." The Message
of Christmas and the Principles set forth by the Christ (the
Messiah) who came that first Christmas are the real solution to
America's problems. The Federal Government is at war with Christmas
and "The
Way of Peace" announced by the Prince
of Peace. The Government should be on His
shoulders (Isaiah
9:6-7). Abolishing a Messianic State
is the only appropriate way to honor the Messiah. Otherwise
Christmas becomes mass hypocrisy.
The Word became flesh. The Creator of the universe
becomes a human being. He came to His own, but His own did
not receive Him, preferring darkness rather than light.
John the Baptist prepares the way for the Messiah, as
prophesied of Elijah.
As you read the
Gospel accounts, ask yourself how you would react if you knew
these accounts were really true. Not just true in some
"religious" sense, but reported in the New York
Times, proven in a court of law, or acknowledged by your
personal hero. (How do you know something
is true? Do you even have any "heroes?") How should
you change your life if your Creator became a human being? How
should Washington D.C. react if this human being claimed to be
the true Ruler?
The Prophet Micah predicted
that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem. Jesus'
parents lived in Nazereth. Therefore God predestined
Caesar to issue a decree (probably relating to taxes) that
would bring Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem before Jesus was
born.
Bush claims the same global
power of confiscation and migration as Caesar did. Thousands
of Christians have been forced to move out of Iraq to make way
for Bush's Islamic Theocracy.
An army of angels announces the birth of the Messiah,
saying,
“Glory to God in the highest,
And on earth peace to
those with whom He is pleased!”
Man's chief
end is to glorify God and live in
peace. The Bush Administration's chief end is to erect a
"wall of separation"
between God and government so that the State gives no glory to
God, and to wage war, thereby "stimulating the
economy."
“Now when they had seen Him, they made widely
known the saying which was told them concerning this
Child. And all those who heard it marveled at those things
which were told them by the shepherds.”
When Herod got word of the birth of a rival king, he
behaved in a perfectly logical way (for someone who wants
to protect his power): he massacred all male babies
the age of Jesus. Herod recognized that Jesus was a threat
to Herod's power.
Every day in America 4,000
unborn babies are murdered. These babies must threaten
something.
Millions of Americans who call themselves Christians, on
the other hand, are no threat to tyranny.
None of them are being killed. Bush has killed a thousand
times more human beings than Herod did, and confiscated a
billion times more wealth than Herod did.
Herod's son Antipas played a small role in the execution
of Jesus Christ. But Jesus rose from the dead, was
enthroned on the throne of David at the right hand of God,
and assumed the rightful role of King over all nations.
"Beginning today and
culminating on Sunday morning, Christians will celebrate with
their families the resurrection of Christ, His victory over
death. We will remember that He gave His body and His blood—washing
clean the faults and the shortcomings of
the world. In our rejoicing we will renew the hope that is
ours through the risenLord." Ronald
Reagan: Statement on the Celebration of Passover and Easter
Listeners' Questions
Orange, Calif: So many Christian commentators today
make the claim that virtually all founding fathers were really
members of anti-Christian secret societies, e.g., Masonic orders.
Your approach to the history of the founding period of our nation is
that the Founding fathers were Christian and by implication that the
intent behind the Constitution was overwhelmingly Christian. Could
you comment on the difference between these perspectives?
"In recent
years, Freemasonry and its links to the Founding Fathers has
been a focal point of controversy. This new work explores the
truth behind this connection and corrects the numerous myths
about Freemasonry and the Founders. Primary sources reveal
both the Founders' limited involvement with Freemasonry as
well as the dramatic changes that Masonry has undergone since
the time of the Founders. This work provides an insightful
history of the secret society and offers convincing proof of
its relatively small influence on America's foundations." WallBuilders.com:
The Question of Freemasonry and the Founding Fathers
"No political
order can be religiously neutral, and the modern political
order in the United States and other Western nations, called
"pluralism," is in reality polytheism. As in the
ancient world, polytheists are offended at those who claim
that there is only one God, and this is why orthodox
Christianity is increasingly under assault in the United
States and throughout the Western world. In this book, Gary
North brings his many years of theological and historical
research to bear on the question of how this polytheistic
state of affairs came about, and what must be done about it.
In a powerful argument, sure to be controversial, North points
a finger at the framers of the Constitution of the United
States, who self-consciously broke with 1000 + years of
Western heritage by not referring to the Trinity and to Christ
as King. This was the hole in the dike, North contends,
through which modern secularism has poured. No one concerned
about the state of the American nations can afford to ignore
this book." Free
online
"The question
of where ultimacy lies should be central to the Christian. It
is easy to see the social implications of allowing priority to
fall to either the one or the many. This volume examines
in-depth the Christian solution to the problem of the one and
the many — the Trinitarian God. Only in the Godhead is this
dilemma resolved. Only in the Trinity does there reside an
equal ultimacy of unity and plurality. Rushdoony examines the
history of Western thought from the standpoint of the one and
the many and demonstrates clearly that the most astute
thinkers were unable to resolve this philosophical conflict.
What is needed now is a complete return to the Trinitarian
view of God and its implications for a Christian social
order."
Every American could be born with a comfortable
inheritance for education, a first home, or medical care; instead,
every American is born in great debt.
Washington D.C. central planning increases debt, does not create
the "Vine &
Fig Tree" life.
Hello – I’m John Boehner.
In these tough economic times, American families have done their
level best to stay afloat – spending less and working more
while trying to map out a financially sound future. They deserve
that same degree of discipline and vigilance from their
government.
But instead of bringing fiscal
sanity to Washington like he promised, President Obama has spent
taxpayer dollars with reckless abandon, refusing to make tough
choices and pushing the burden on to future generations. No
price tag has been too high for Washington Democrats, and now we’re
all paying the price.
Unemployment is still close to
10 percent. The private sector is at a near-standstill. Our
small businesses are still gasping for air. And having run a
small business, I can tell you that the new health care law,
with its burdensome mandates and tax increases, is already
stalling these engines of our economy.
A new report from the Treasury
Department shows that our fiscal situation is much worse than we
thought. Our record national debt – which now tops $13
trillion – is on pace to exceed the size of our entire economy
by the middle of this decade. Economists say that at these
levels, our debt is draining enough resources from our country
to cost us nearly one million jobs.
We cannot go on like this.
Real economic growth requires
creating jobs in the private sector, and to do that we need to
start reining in Washington’s out-of-control spending spree.
Less spending, more jobs – it’s that simple.
Economists agree, and this
week, I gave President Obama a statement signed by more than 100
of them urging both parties to take immediate, decisive action
to cut federal spending.
Unfortunately, Democrats in
Congress are busy making backroom deals so that they don’t
have to pass a budget this year.
They’d rather keep on
spending than seize this critical opportunity to create jobs and
boost our economy. But every family knows that in tough times,
passing a budget is more important – not less important.
Just as troubling is the fact
that President Obama hasn’t uttered a word in protest of
Congressional Democrats’ failure to produce a
budget.
Even after being presented with
these economists’ pleas for fiscal discipline, he still won’t
press leaders in his own party to fulfill their responsibility
to the American people.
This is a stunning failure of
leadership – the kind of leadership President Obama promised
to provide.
Too many in Washington forget
that we work for the people, not the other way around.
Taxpayers are just fed up, and they want us to stop spending
their hard-earned money.
That’s why, through the
America Speaking Out project, Republicans are providing
Americans with a megaphone to make their voices heard and help
build a better, more responsive government. If you have an idea
to cut wasteful Washington spending, log on to AmericaSpeakingOut.com
right now and start a discussion about it.
Another interactive Republican
initiative – YouCut – gives Americans a chance to vote on
specific spending cuts that you want to see Congress implement.
And looking forward, Republicans have proposed common-sense
solutions to reform the way Washington spends taxpayer dollars,
starting with strict budget caps to limit federal spending on an
annual basis.
Waiting and hoping for the best
is no longer an option, not when 43 cents of every dollar we
spend this year is borrowed from our kids and grandkids.
Our posterity shouldn’t have to foot the bill because
Washington Democrats can’t do what they were elected to do or
summon the courage to say no to special interests with their
hand out.
So while I hope President Obama
will work with us to stop this spending spree, if he won’t
hold Congressional Democrats accountable, then the American
people will.
Thank you for listening.
If you take nothing else with you from
today's "Virtual Town Hall," remember this:
The men who threw tea into the Boston Harbor over a tax of 3 pence
per pound would not be happy with a tax ten times greater on
every gallon of gas. Those who took up muskets over a total tax burden
of less than 3% would not be happy with
the fact that the federal government now takes more
than half of everything you earn.
Today it is illegal for public school teachers to teach their
students that the Declaration of Independence is really true (and not
just an outdated historical document). The federal government is
clearly at war with everything the Founding Fathers stood for.
America's greatest Americans would abolish
today's federal government.
Muskets are Not an Option
There are two reasons why we should not take up arms to pull off
the violent overthrow of the federal
government, even if America's Founders would surely do so. First, the
feds have nukes. Second, violent revolution is unChristian and
unBiblical. We must beat our swords into
plowshares and use persuasion to
abolish tyranny. This is time for a
revolution of ideas.
Revolution Won't Come in a Day
John Adams once wrote that the American
Revolution began in 1761, when Massachusetts attorney James Otis
began legal challenges to the Writs
of Assistance. He lost the case, but "American
independence," Adams wrote, "was
then and there born." Now do the math. That means it took 15
years to convince the rest of America to declare Independence
(1776). Then another seven years of war was required before a
Peace Treaty was signed (1783), and then six years before the
Constitution was finally ratified (1789). That's almost 30 years. (And
Jefferson said we shouldn't go 20
years without another rebellion!) How can we hope to convince
Americans to fight for principles they were never taught in government
schools? We need to be in this battle for the long term. "Eternal
Vigilance is the Price of Liberty."
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Help End the Mexican Civil
War
Black-market profits caused by drug prohibition fund a civil
war in Mexico that's threatening to spill over our borders.
Drug profits also fuel the terrorists who are killing U.S.
soldiers in Afghanistan. It's time to dry up the black-market
profits. It's time to end drug prohibition.
Make
Congress Read Their Bills Before Voting
Make Congress read every word of every bill they create before
they vote on it.
Urge your Representative and your Senators to sponsor
DownsizeDC.org's “Read the Bills Act” (RTBA).
End
the FED
The Federal Reserve System constantly inflates and deflates the
supply of money and credit, causing booms and busts. It's time
to get off this roller-coaster. It's time to end the Fed.
No
Bailouts!
No government money, whether borrowed or taxed, should ever be
used to bailout private financial interests. If you agree,
please send Congress a message telling them so.
TWIC
- A Backdoor Real ID Card
Real ID is dying. But the Department of Homeland Security has a
new plan to subject every American to a national ID card anyway.
They plan to pick off one occupational field at a time, starting
with the maritime industry. One man is fighting back. Meet him,
and help stop this backdoor Real ID plan.
Stop
the Killer Horse Hormones
The FDA "outlawed" the use of Estriol, an estrogen
medication that's bio-identical to human estrogen. Doctors must
now prescribe animal-derived estrogen instead. Are bio-identical
hormones dangerous, while animal-derived hormones are safe? No.
The practice of medicine is moving to chemically identical to
human hormones and away from animal hormones. Learn why the FDA
decided to endanger women's health in this way, and take action.
End
Asset Forfeiture
If the government suspects you used your house or car in a
crime, they can take it and sell it at auction. They don't even
have to prove your guilt. They call this practice civil asset
forfeiture, but it's really theft. It violates the 4th, 5th,
6th, 8th, 9th and 14th Amendments. It also encourages law
enforcement to put profits before justice. Tell Congress to end
civil asset forfeiture.
Support
an Iraq Referendum
Americans keep debating when, how, or if to leave Iraq. Maybe
we should ask the Iraqi people what they want. After all, it's
their country. Tell Congress to request that the Iraqi
government hold a public referendum on the U.S. occupation. Learn
more »
Make Congress read every word of
every bill they create before they vote on it.
Urge your Representative and your Senators to sponsor
DownsizeDC.org's “Read the Bills Act” (RTBA).
Unelected bureaucrats create
tens-of-thousands of new dictates each year. Making rules is
the job of Congress, not bureaucrats.
DownsizeDC.org has drafted the “Write the Laws Act” to
end bureaucratic “legislation without representation.”
Click here . . .
"Cap
and Trade" is not the way
The politicians seem to be unifying around "cap and
trade" as a way to cut CO2 emissions. If they take this
step it may be the largest increase in the size, scope, and
intrusiveness of government since the creation of Medicare.
Worse still, it may not even achieve its purpose. Please
tell Congress to oppose "cap and trade." Learn
more »
Iraq
Waste
Big government prospers through failure. Each new failure is
used to justify more spending and new powers. Wasteful spending
in Iraq is the latest example. One way to change this is to hold
government accountable. A new bill in Congress seeks to provide
some of the needed accountability. Please support it. Learn
more »
Stop
the War for Terror U.S. policy has inflamed the Middle East. It has made
terrorism more likely rather than less. We seem to be fighting
a war for terror, rather than on
terror. This policy must stop. The place to start stopping is
with Iran. We must not attack Iran. War with Iran
would devastate our economy, disrupt world oil supplies, and
recruit more terrorists. Click
here to stop this war before it starts.
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