Great Speech by Dr. Benjamin Carson

Great Speech by Dr. Ben Carson, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Pediatric Neurosurgery Division Director. Watch the whole speech, it is worth it!

National Prayer Breakfast 2013.

One Hour Special: Saving America With Dr. Benjamin Carson. Excellent! Watch it!

Portion of an interview with Dr. Ben Carson.

The full interview with Dr. Ben Carson.

Help Save the Dreams of a Great Nation

So many are hurting, losing employment, losing their businesses, helpless as their dreams, and lives, are crushed, as we slowly sink into another recession. Recovery!? More like permanent decline.

You are not helpless. You can end this misery and idiocy on November 6. Help save the dreams of a great nation. Rescue America 2012!

An Open Letter to President Obama

Presidential Performance Review

Obama: 'If You've Got a Business — You Didn't Build That. Somebody Else Made That Happen'

So insulting…that a president would demean success…the very people that pay taxes to keep his corrupt, government waste machine running. The government would not exist without them. Government services would not exist without taxpayers. Infrastructure would not exist without taxpayers. Taxpayers pay for and build infrastructure. A lot of it contracted out to private sector business.

Obviously we all have help, we are all in this together, but he has no idea how much work and long hours it can take to develop an idea, and start and build a business. Many dreamers fail a few times before they succeed. Others work a full time job and then work after hours to plan and build their idea. Once you have your business running it often takes long hours, including weekends, to keep it going. Often there are no vacations for you or your family. Sometimes after a small business has several employees, the owner may make less and be paid last. If there is not enough for payroll that week, they may have to put their paycheck aside until there is enough in the bank to cover it. It can be a real struggle to build a successful business. These days it is often not worth it. In fact, because of Obama's economic policies, more small businesses are going out of business than are being created. There will never be a recovery as long as this continues. Small businesses create the jobs that fuel a recovery and Obama's economic policies decimate small businesses.

Everyone who pays taxes is already paying for government services. They are also paying to fund the corrupt government waste machine. They pay for the good and the bad. They don’t owe anything more back to government. They’ve paid taxes and fees all their working lives. They will continue to pay taxes and fees until they die. Even after they die the government takes a sizable chunk of whatever they have. In 2013 the ‘death tax’ will jump to fifty percent. These days one has to overcome the hardships placed on them by government to become successful. Government has its hands out and takes at every level. Excessive regulations are hidden taxes, unnecessarily increasing the cost of doing business. Not only did the entrepreneur build their business, create jobs, wealth and prosperity for themselves and others, but they also pay for the roads, bridges, school teachers, fire fighters and everything else. This should be encouraged and celebrated not denigrated and punished.

Most people want to give back, so they fund charities and help in other ways including funding venture groups that help others start-up their businesses or venture capital firms that help failing businesses. It would be poor judgment, and a waste of your money to pay more to a government that would waste it. If you want to help others, give money or time to charity not government. Maybe start a charity or a foundation of your own. The free-market people of the United States of America spend their money a thousand times better and more efficiently than corrupt and incompetent politicians. Until they cut corruption, spending and balance the budget they don't deserve our money. Everyone must pay the least amount possible and whatever you do, never vote for a politician who would raise taxes on anyone. We must hold them accountable. One great benefit of cutting government spending and keeping taxes low is that the economy will actually grow and recover. This will drastically lower the number of people who 'need' government handouts. Why give your hard earned money to a government that not only hurts you and others but makes it more difficult for everyone to succeed?

Does Obama despise business, success, the American dream? This would explain why his policies are not helping you grow your business. In fact his policies are punishing individuals, entrepreneurs and businesses. Individuals, entrepreneurs and businesses are the job creators. They create the wealth that keeps America growing.

To all the young people out there just starting out, anyone out there toiling away, you may have an idea, a dream and you are ready to take the next step and turn it into a service, a business. Obama and this administration do not have your back! In fact, they are out there denigrating you, criticizing success. They are trying to make you a victim, held down, content to live off of whatever they think you deserve. Are they trying to make it a stigma to be a prosperous citizen, to turn the rest of America against you? Is it now heroic to be a victim, heroic to NOT be a contributing member of society? Is this the America we have become?

It is not too late! Rescue America 2012!

Excellent Must Read Articles Below.

Small Business Success without Government Help

Who else, Mr. President?

The dedication of small business owners. Must Read!

Private Businessman Responds to Obama Re: Creating Business

New York City small-business owners take exception to President Obama's statement that they didn't make it on their own

Small Businesses Slam Obama For 'You Didn't Build That' Comment

Small Businesses, Big Sacrifices

You didn't build it, Mr. President, but you can destroy it

Government Plays Big Role in Business, Just Not How Obama Meant It

Obama to American business: You're welcome

Must Read! Also, Barry Kearns, Bill Huber and Niall made excellent comments to this article. Read Them.

'You Didn't Build That!'...Oh Yeah?

...the federal government did everything it could to prevent the Golden Gate from being built. ...the personal wealth of A.P. Giannini — came to the rescue. Must Read!

Presiding over a Nation with No 'Class'

...outrage rippled through the nation as middle class business owners suddenly realized they are 'the rich'.

Business Owners Hit Back at Obama in 'I Built This' Video

72% Believe Small Business Owners Primarily Responsible for Their Own Success

'Oh Yes We Did': 3 of 4 Americans Believe Small Business Owners Did It Themselves--Rasmussen

If It's So Easy to Run a Business on Leftist Principles, Why Don't Leftists Do It?

Who Really Invented the Internet?

Refuting Obama: The Story of Henry Ford

Obama 'Didn't Build That': Hawaii Residents Were Forced to Build Their Own Road in 2009

Deconstructing the American Dream

Obama shows he's clueless about small business

You Didn't Sweat, He Did

More Big Government Shilling in Obama's 'You Didn't Build That' Speech

Obama Obliterates The American Dream

Obama - 'If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen'

Obama: "If you've got a business — you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."

President Obama: 'If You've Got a Business — You Didn't Build That. Somebody Else Made That Happen'

Krauthammer on Obama's Political Philosophy

'He Is Mocking People': Krauthammer Takes on the 'You Didn't Build That' Philosophy

Obama: Banks Must Be Regulated Because They Make Profits

Obama channels Elizabeth Warren

'You Didn’t Build It' Illustrates the Liberal Collective's Dreams and Tactics

Obama - 'If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen'

Big Networks/CNN Finally Notice Obama's 'You Didn't Build That' Remarks

Explaining Obama's Ressentiment

New Romney Web Ad: Whose Hands Built These Companies?

New Romney Web Video Highlights Small Business in Swing State

Obama Ad Knocks Romney For Accurately Quoting Obama

Obama Ad Accuses Romney of 'Launching a False Attack' for Quoting Obama

Incredible New Obama Ad Tries to Prove Romney Misquoted Obama...by Playing the Exact Quote Romney Used

You Didn't Build That

This blog is full of resources that show how this has worked throughout history and resources that explain these economic principles.
A comprehensive list of Must Read Articles on Unemployment
A comprehensive list of Must Read Articles on Economics
A comprehensive list of Must Read Articles on Taxes

The Obama Administration and the Left Demonstrate Why Obamacare Must Be Repealed

The statists of the left and the Obama administration are demonstrating why Obamacare is unconstitutional and must be repealed. This must be done to protect the American people from their and other’s power hungry tyranny.

It is absurd that someone would even have the thought process that others (taxpayers) need to pay for their birth control. It is absurd that anyone would ask American taxpayers to pay to provide for their sexual activities. It is absurd that someone would go bankrupt because they are having so much sex. Please! If that is true, then they need financial management classes and they need to learn personal responsibility. Most people have the ability and common sense to change their personal behavior in order to avoid bankruptcy.

Representative Pelosi and others that exhibit laughably ridiculous behavior do not deserve to serve the people. Keep it up. Keep showing us who you really are. You will not be in office much longer. You will be laughed right out of office. You are denigrating and using women for political gain.

Why does the ‘left’ keep injecting us into their bedrooms? We do not want to be there! Stop screwing the taxpayer! Take responsibility for your own lives! Taxpayers should not have anything to do with others’ private lives. They are asking us to take away their freedom! They are asking government to control their lives! This is sad and pathetic.

This is a made up 'crisis' to divert attention from President Obama's economy and to subvert the constitution. No one seeks to or is denying anyone access to birth control. There are programs available to provide birth control without a federal mandate. The only entity seeking to give the federal government and the President the power to dictate or ban anything is the left. Obamacare gives the federal government and the President this power. The federal government and any future president will have the power to dictate or ban contraceptives or anything else, for that matter, once they have successfully usurped the constitution. Do we want the federal government or a president in our homes and bodies? I say, definitely not!

The only threat to your freedom or your birth control pills or whatever else is the Obama administration and the ‘left’!

America, do not buy into their insanity! It is absurd! It is based on false premises and lies! People have a choice. We are not entitled. We must be responsible for our own actions and choices, not taxpayers. We should be proud to pay our own way and not take handouts from taxpayers. Taxpayers should not be forced to pay for the sexual activities of law students at Georgetown University or anyone else. There are cheap and even free contraceptives available. If a person is not able to find these options and resources than they have no business becoming a lawyer!

If you really cannot afford contraceptives then your best solution is to vote President Obama out of office in 2012. It’s Obamanomics, stupid! I would suspect most people have food and gas as a higher priority since most people have access to free contraceptives.

The solution to this faux "crisis" is to get the economy going. There are some steps the American people must take for this to happen. Fire the Obama administration in 2012, repeal Obamacare, cut government spending ‘across the board’, cut oppressive federal, state and local regulations and lower/simplify taxes. The economy will soon recover, jobs will come back, unemployment will drop, wages will increase, and people will find employment or make their own opportunities. You will then be able to afford contraceptives. More importantly you will be able to afford food, gas and a place to live. You will be able to control your own life.

There is also the First Amendment and the moral issue of the state forcing, against its or their will, a church or private citizens to pay and provide for something that is against its or their church doctrine or conscience.

There is also the moral issue of the state forcing taxpayers to pay or provide for something that increases the risk of breast cancer. These things should be left to the individual to choose what is right for them.

Your insurance should provide for ‘birth control’ prescribed for a medical condition by a doctor. Tax payers should not pay or be involved in health insurance. This should only be between the patient and doctor.

If this issue really burdens you then start and/or fund some charities or businesses to supply free contraceptives to all. Do this in the private sector where your idea can also create opportunities, jobs or wealth for others.

Why does almost every 'solution' from the Obama administration and the left make 'the problem' and everything worse? Why must the statists’ solutions to every 'problem' or ‘crisis’, made up or real, trample the constitution and take away our freedom? In the end, the statist's 'solutions' end up hurting everyone. Rescue America 2012!

The excellent sources below go into greater detail, some from those that have and do attend Georgetown University.
This blog is full of resources that show how this has worked throughout history and resources that explain these economic principles.

What a Fluke

The Five: Sandra Fluke vs. Chick-fil-A Employee

Overreach: Obamacare vs. the Constitution - Charles Krauthammer

WSJ: The Fluke Distraction - James Taranto

WSJ: The War on Fertility - James Taranto

WSJ: Limbaugh and Our Phony Contraception Debate - Cathy Ruse

Apology, Ashmology: Rush Is Still Right - AWR Hawkins

Sex-Crazed Co-Eds Going Broke Buying Birth Control, Student Tells Pelosi Hearing Touting Freebie Mandate - Craig Bannister

Sandra Fluke Does Not Speak for Me - Angela Morabito

IBT: Sandra Fluke is Wrong in Contraceptive Debacle - Kayleigh McEnany

Shocking Video! Contraceptives Obtained Without Federal Mandate! - Eric Scheiner

Sandra Fluke’s choices - Ekulf Ardnas

Sebelius: Decrease in Human Beings Will Cover Cost of Contraception Mandate - Fred Lucas

GOP: Dems 'played games' over Sandra Fluke - Byron York

Exposed: Sandra Fluke’s Appearance Is No Fluke

Sandra Fluke: A Fake Victim of Georgetown’s Policy on Contraceptives? - Metheos Holt

Sandra Fluke is not a “slut.” She’s a femme-agogue tool; DCCC, Emily’s list fund-raise off of Rush - Michelle Malkin

Freedom and Health Care Reform (Previous Post)
A comprehensive list of Must Read Articles on Health Care Reform

'Occupy' Government

It is really sad and tragic that after almost four years this still has to be said. That after almost four years many people still do not know the true story behind the financial crisis. Do you not see America? Do not be misled by the politicians, political folk and the media who continue to hide the truth about the financial crisis and the resulting recession.

Government and ill-conceived regulations caused the financial collapse and the resulting recession. Most mortgage lenders would never have taken this amount of risk if government had not taken that risk away. That is the reason why government became involved in the first place. Government not only lowered lending standards but they set the quotas via the 'Community Reinvestment Act', for giving bad loans. When lending institutions did not meet these quotas they lowered the lending standards even more through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Mortgage backed securities (MBS) were devised to satisfy the ever increasing demands of government. Government through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bought the bad debt from the lending institutions. They then bundled the bad debt into MBS to trade, thus spreading the toxicity throughout the system. Through its incompetence government took all the bad lending risk away. What is worse is that so called 'community organizers' went in and coerced many lending institutions to do this. The people they thought they were helping ended up losing their homes. Everyone is paying for this massive government incompetence and corruption. The tragic thing is many of the same people who were intimately involved in this giant scam, Barney Frank to name just one, are still in government. They should have been thrown out long ago. Many politicians were corrupt, they ignored the problems, they covered up the problems and they quieted the regulators that warned of impending problems.

What may be an even greater tragedy is that Chris Dodd and Barney Frank designed the financial bill that was supposed to fix this. It is ironic that the clueless and/or incompetent politicians passed a bill that is supposed to fix the problem they do not even think they created. The Dodd/Frank financial bill just institutionalizes the problems that created the financial crisis and 'too big to fail' which will ensure more bailouts. The little guy is already seeing the bad results of this bill. Debit cards are more expensive. It will get worse.

The government through the FHA, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, who by the way, we the taxpayer continue to bail out, are still giving out bad loans. Government continues the stupidity.

So yes, it is sad and unbelievable that this has to be said. The 'Occupy' protesters are occupying the wrong location. They should be occupying government. It is even more sad and tragic that those that know better are misleading the occupiers.

This will continue to happen until we all know the truth. Only then can we ensure this never happens again.

Unless your agenda is to destroy the system, the solution is not giving millions of people something they cannot afford thereby destroying the whole system and everyone in it. The solution is to ensure everyone has the opportunity and tools to be able to afford a home. They will also be able to create jobs and wealth for others to have the same opportunities they had.


The excellent resources below go into greater detail.

The Financial Crisis: Is Anyone Telling Us the Truth? (Previous Post)

Who Do You Really Believe?

Smoking-Gun Document Ties Govt Policy To Housing Crisis

Making Homes Affordable Makes Others Poor

Shocking YouTube Video showing Housing Scandal Cover-up That Led to our Economic Crisis

Barney Frank in 2005: What Housing Bubble?

Bush, McCain warned of Fannie & Freddie problems, tried to fix, Barney Frank helped block & cover up

A list of Must Read Articles on the Financial Crisis

If you want to understand the financial crisis, you must see this FNC Special Investigation: Saving Our Economy - What's Next? (Hulu)

Freedom and Health Care Reform

In a society founded on individual freedom, most of the health care plans currently in Congress should not even be an option. If we have a shred of decency, most of the bills being worked on in Congress will be tossed out and reforms based on the individual freedoms our country was founded on will be devised. Most of the bills in Congress will do exactly what they claim will happen if things are not fixed, except it will happen even faster. There are very few people who say nothing should be done. Do not buy into that straw man argument.

Many jobless Americans would rather have the economy be the number one priority. This does not diminish the health care problems. But first show you can help the economy or at least not make it worse. A growing, healthy economy will alleviate many health care problems. Believe me there are many people and small businesses that are sitting back waiting for fear that cap & trade, all the taxes being talked about to pay for ObamaCare, the health coverage penalty taxes, surtaxes and others will be enacted. This uncertainty will keep jobs from being created and keep the recovery from happening. Many businesses have done all the cuts they can do. Some still offer their employees health insurance, especially those that have found the high-deductible variety with an HSA. Cap & tax, other taxes and the current health care bills in congress, with their included massive tax increases, will cause layoffs and most likely put many out of business, even if they dump health care onto a public option. There are so many in this situation. Small business should be fueling the recovery. Instead they are struggling. This is a bad sign for a recovery.

Many have read the bills that are in Congress and they have deemed them to be disastrous. Yes, many of the claims are exaggerated, however, those writing the bills and those who advise the President have said publicly they want a single-payer system. Those who devised the public option admit publicly that it was designed as the first step to a government-run single-payer system, and even the President has publicly said several times in the past he is in favor of a single-payer system. These facts just make people uneasy and wary of what is in the bills. The ideas the President’s advisers espouse and the fact that he would surround himself with these advisers is troubling. These ideas may be watered down or taken out of the bills. But I believe they should not be advising on something this personal. The bills in Congress have many aspects i.e. taxes, employer taxes and penalty fees, surtaxes, coverage mandates in the exchange and many other things in HR 3200 that will cause many to be dumped onto a public option or co-op if it is available.

Mandates will just raise health care costs. These bills do not address high costs; they just build on the problems without fixing them. Even a deficit neutral ObamaCare plan would cost more. Higher taxes would only pay for part of the trillions in cost. Costs would skyrocket year after year, like Medicare, Medicaid and other government entitlements, because these plans do not address the high costs, they just build on these crumbling foundations. If you have to raise taxes to pay for health care, you are not saving any money; you are making it more costly. The plans in Congress spend trillions and raise taxes, yet they still leave 17-34 million uninsured. This is not a good investment, especially considering it will slow the economy and lower the quality of health care.

You cannot dismiss the plans that are in congress just because they are a work in progress. They are similar and they represent the direction those in congress wish to go. Do not allow yourself to be deceived. Do not dismiss anything until you have vetted it out. Just because you hear it on TV does not make it true. In fact, those pushing the reforms in Congress and sometimes even the President have made wild claims.

Don’t forget the original plan was to get a bill done before the August break. Which means a bill similar to the House HR 3200, Baucus or Kennedy plans would have been voted on with an included public option. One could say that is what they really want. This is far too important for that amount of speed and deception. The American people should have been included from the beginning. That has added to the distrust and related falling poll numbers of Congress, the President and the current health care plans. This has added to the frustration that is now being released at town hall meetings across the country.

The framework for a panel to curb costs and build guidelines for treatments for doctors to follow has already been set up in the stimulus bill and it is in HR 3200. In medicine there is no one size fits all. Everyone is different, everyone responds differently to various treatments. The same form of cancer, for instance, responds differently to the same treatment from patient to patient. Sometimes there has to be fine-tuning or a combination of treatments. If certain treatments are mandated and others are deemed too expensive or take too long to be certified, many patients will not receive the care they deserve. A centralized panel would lower the standard of care. A panel or bureaucracy making these decisions would by their nature arbitrarily discriminate against some, with no recourse for the patient. For those who think health care is a right, this would infringe on that right. In any case, with real reforms there is no need for a panel to curb costs.

Rationing already happens in Oregon, MA (just started because of costs) and the VA. The pharmaceutical companies often pay for drug treatments for cancer patients themselves when these states will not cover it.

There were amendments introduced to add to the bills that would prohibit rationing etc. These amendments would have put to rest those rumors once and for all. They were defeated.

I urge everyone to take more time to research material even if only to debunk it.

A centralized, government mandated and controlled health care system with a “public option” that will lead to single payer health care will lead to disaster. This statement taken on its own is a true statement. I do not make this claim, rather history and current systems around the globe show this. The health care plans in congress have to be studied to make sure they are not going in this direction.

Until there is a plan that is going in the direction of true reform, many Americans will continue to fight for rational reforms and against what currently is in Congress.

Links to Must Read information & resources.
A comprehensive list of Must Read Articles on Health Care Reform
What The Health Care Bill Actually Says
Physicians for Reform
Fix Health Care Policy Project
How To Fix the Health-Care 'Wedge'
Health Reform Requires Lawsuit Reform
Health Care - Heritage (Comprehensive Research)
The WSJ Guide to ObamaCare
Condition Critical: What Doctors Think About Health Reform, IBD Series
Health-Care Reform: How the Bills Stack Up
Hold The Mayo
The Whole Food Alternative to ObamaCare
We Don't Spend Enough on Health Care
Open Letter On Health Care
Deadly Doctors
CBO Expert Says Preventive Care Will Raise - Not Cut - Costs
FACT CHECK: Obama's health care claims adrift? -AP
Obama & the Practice of Medicine
Deception is at the Heart of Dems' Plans (Part 3) - Sowell
Whose Medical Decisions? (Part 2) - Sowell
Whose Medical Decisions? (Part 1) - Sowell
No Compromise On Health 'Reform'
A Federal Health Insurance Exchange Combined with a Public Plan: The House and Senate Bills
The Pelosi Jobs Tax
House Health-Care Reform Bill Oversteps on End-of-Life Issues
Europe’s free, state-run health care has drawbacks