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A doctor's letter to Obama

"Pictured below is a young physician by the name of Dr. Starner Jones. His short two-paragraph letter to the White House accurately puts the blame on a "Culture Crisis" instead of a "Health Care Crisis". It's worth a quick read: "

Dear Mr. President:

During my shift in the Emergency Room last night, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient whose smile revealed an expensive shiny gold tooth, whose body was adorned with a wide assortment of elaborate and costly tattoos, who wore a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and who chatted on a new cellular telephone equipped with a popular R&B ringtone. While glancing over her patient chart, I happened to notice that her payer status was listed as "Medicaid"! During my examination of her, the patient informed me that she smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day and somehow still has money to buy pretzels and beer.

And, you and our Congress expect me to pay for this woman's health care? I contend that our nation's "health care crisis" is not the result of a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. Rather, it is the result of a "crisis of culture", a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on luxuries and vices while refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance.
It is a culture based on the irresponsible credo that "I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me".
Once you fix this "culture crisis" that rewards irresponsibility and dependency, you'll be amazed at how quickly our nation's health care difficulties will disappear.
Respectfully,

STARNER JONES, MD

Hat tip to Lisa Winans Rhode, Nipomo, CA. I edited the letter only for form and paragraph structure correction. TD

What would Thomas Jefferson Think?

From American Thinker  "Inspired by the words of Thomas Paine, the new nation's leaders sought to resolve grievances with the government to allow the citizenry to live free from tyranny, while remaining true to the concepts of civil rights and individual liberty. "
 Jefferson published a list of grievances that included these two most significant ones:

"erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people" -- Obamacare provides for 16,000 new IRS agents to ensure our obedience. The president has appointed 43 "czars" of which 33 were not subject to Senate approval. The EPA is now used as a tool to punish enemies of the state such as Arch Coal, BP and Shell.

And:

..."excited domestic insurrections amongst us. -- Last year the Occupy Wall Street crowd , encouraged by Democrat leaders, such as Nancy Pelosi, or Democrat favoring organizations such as Moveon.org willfully interfered with the civil rights of others while committing hundreds of illegal acts throughout the country. In Oakland, California of 400 protestors arrested on a variety of charges such as resisting arrest, vandalism, public urination, theft, refusal to disperse, sexual assaults as well as others, yet only 8 faced charges while cases dropped against the others.

"It is imperative for the future of our nation that we decide now: Are we to be a nation based on the Constitution, or are we to be a nation based on forced largesse of the minority by an overreaching majority?A study of history would clearly indicate where Madison, Jefferson, Paine as well as the others would have stood. Unfortunately, history seems to not be part the curriculum."

The above was referred by The Mandate Amendment to the US Constitution   "Like King George, King Obama is imposing his rule upon us at every turn. Who knows what other mandates like Obamacare are on the horizon. "There were 28 principles which our Founding Fathers were guided by when they wrote the Constitution. These 28 principles were agreed on by all and these defined our nation. One of these principles is as follows:"

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