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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (144641)	10/1/2012 10:11:32 PM
From: lorne	Respond to of 224777

Obama adviser admits: 'We need death panels' Makes shocking admission about Obamacare, advocates rationing for elderly by Aaron Klein Monday, October 01, 2012 A top Democrat strategist and donor who served as President Obama’s lead auto-industry adviser recently conceded that the rationing of heath services under Obamacare is “inevitable.” Steven Rattner advocated that such rationing should target elderly patients, while stating, “We need death panels.” Rattner serves on the board the New America Foundation, or NAF, a George Soros-funded think tank that was instrumental in supporting Obamacare in 2010. Soros’ son, financier Jonathan Soros, is also a member of the foundation’s board. Rattner was the so-called “car czar,” the lead auto adviser to the Treasury Department under Obama. Last month, Rattner penned an opinion piece in the New York Times titled “Beyond Obamacare” in which he proclaimed “We need death panels” and argued rationing must be instructed to sustain Obama’s health-care plan. His comments have been virtually ignored by traditional media as the president campaign’s for a second term. “We need death panels,” began Rattner. “Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health-care resources more prudently – rationing, by its proper name – the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the federal budget.” Read all about the idea of “Medical Murder” and find out what Barack Obama would do in a second term, in “Fool Me Twice.” Continued Rattner: “But in the pantheon of toxic issues – the famous ‘third rail’ of American politics – none stands taller than overtly acknowledging that elderly Americans are not entitled to every conceivable medical procedure or pharmaceutical.” Rattner lamented how Obama’s Affordable Care Act “regrettably includes severe restrictions on any reduction in Medicare services or increase in fees to beneficiaries.” Rattner said the numbers don’t add up unless Obamacare utilizes rationing. “If his Independent Payment Advisory Board comes up with savings, Congress must accept either them or vote for an equivalent package,” stated Rattner. “The problem is, the advisory board can’t propose reducing benefits (a k a rationing) or raising fees (another form of rationing), without which the spending target looms impossibly large.” Rattner singled out elderly patients for benefit cuts. He wrote: “No one wants to lose an aging parent. And with price out of the equation, it’s natural for patients and their families to try every treatment, regardless of expense or efficacy. But that imposes an enormous societal cost that few other nations have been willing to bear. Many countries whose health care systems are regularly extolled – including Canada, Australia and New Zealand – have systems for rationing care.” He concluded, “At the least, the Independent Payment Advisory Board should be allowed to offer changes in services and costs.” “We may shrink from such stomach-wrenching choices, but they are inescapable.” Rattner serves on the NAF’s 22-person board of directors alongside Jonathan Soros, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria and Google’s Eric Schmidt. Soros’ Open Society Foundation is a primary donor to the NAF. Other major donors include the Ben & Jerry’s Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Google Inc. and the Rockefeller Foundation. Another donor is Free Press, a group that advocates for more government control of the airwaves and Internet. Free Press is also funded by Soros. Free Press was founded by Robert W. McChesney, an avowed Marxist who has recommended capitalism be dismantled “brick by brick.” The NAF, meanwhile, bills itself as bipartisan and “the radical center.” NAF fellow Michael Lind wrote, “Our goal [is] not to repeal the New Deal [of Franklin Roosevelt] but to adapt it to the circumstances of the 21st century.” Discover The Networks notes how the NAF approved of Obamacare because it would “offer a new image” of how Americans view dying; and it would help “patients and their families to recognize” that, “[S]ometimes ‘doing everything’ results in more burden than benefit. High-tech medicine can prolong life, but for some patients, it merely draws out the process of dying.”

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (144641)	10/2/2012 7:44:09 AM
From: lorne	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224777

Liberals Send Election Intimidation Letter to 60,000 Pastors by Steven Ertelt Washington, DC LifeNews.com 10/1/12 lifenews.com A pro-abortion group is sending letters to 60,000 churches in an attempt to intimidate them in the upcoming elections. With churches holding voter registration drives, with pastors talking about the importance of pro-life and religious issues in the election and with churches allowing pro-lifers to distribute literature based on their First Amendment rights, the threats could adversely effect pro-life election efforts. Mathew Staver, chairman of the Liberty Counsel, a pro-life legal group, talked about the letters. “In a national mass mailing, the left-wing organization Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AU) has advised the leadership of 60,000 targeted churches across the nation not to become involved in “partisan politicking,” he said. “Their true goal, unwritten but hidden between the lines: To SILENCE the truth from being spoken in American pulpits and to MUZZLE people of faith on the vital issues that will be decided in the 2012 elections.” “AU sent a letter to churches just weeks before the 2012 national elections, which I believe is the most pivotal in our generation and among the most critical in our nation’s history,” he added. Liberty Counsel is fighting back and has sent about 25,000 churches its “Silence is Not an Option” Action Pack informing them of their legal rights this election. More are on the way. “We must counter this overt attack in the few remaining days before Election Day 2012,” Staver said. “Here is our plan: We are stepping out in faith and have resolved to distribute the entire remaining inventory (almost 70,000 Handbooks) of our powerful new resource, the Patriot’s Handbook of Political Action for Pastors and Churches, to churches and pastors in the next two weeks.” “This is the largest such single distribution we have ever attempted, and it’s not going to be easily accomplished. But we MUST do everything possible to STOP the silencing of pastors and churches at this crucial hour,” Staver said. “Because of the lateness of the hour and the enormity of the challenge, we have already begun this vital and necessary effort to counter the disinformation and bullying of leftist organizations like Americans United. This is no time to shrink back and leave the intentional misinformation of our adversaries unanswered.” So what can churches and pastors do during election season? “I want to remove the muzzle that secularists want to put on pastors and replace it with a megaphone. Pastors can preach on biblical issues, can educate people about where the candidates stand on these biblical issues, and can urge the people to vote for biblical values. Churches can help people register to vote, and much more,” Staver explains. “A pastor can preach on the sanctity of human life and then educate the people about where the candidates stand on this issue. We face the most important election of our life time. Silence is not an option.” And Staver says no church has ever faced consequences for acting on its rights. “Not one church has ever lost its tax exemption for political activity. Not one! The letters from this secularist group is merely a scare tactic to silence pastors,” he said. “It was the sermons of pastors that provided the fuel for the American Revolution. Now, more than ever, we need pastors to speak biblical truth. The future of America and Western Civilization is at stake,” he concluded. “In November, we are challenged to change the course of our country and, indeed, history itself – but we must first confront the attempts to muzzle our ministry leaders.”