Mar 22, 2010

Health Care Reform ?

This past Sunday night Health Care Reform was finally voted in. Obama ran for presidency with reforming Health Care as his major platform. Sunday night he fulfilled that pledge.

The Declaration Of Independence States
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

In the US Constitution Preamble it states

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

To me this says
Welfare
welfare n. 1. health, happiness, or prosperity; well-being. [
Welfare in today's context also means organized efforts on the part of public or private organizations to benefit the poor, or simply public assistance

Posterity
posterity n. 1. Future generations. 2. All of a person's descendants. [posteritas.]

To me it is stating that it is our governments responsibility to provide for all citizens the equal rights to complete and proper health care. If I am being denied Health and Health Care I am also being denied my rights to Happiness, Prosperity and Well Being, Without the basic right to being a healthy person I am also being denied the ability to be a contributing part of the Union.
They are stating every citizen is equal regardless of age, wealth, race, sex, or health.

So - Yes I believe that my rights were upheld and this reform does follow under the rules of the US Constitution.
The only Freedoms that I have lost are the Freedoms of Corporations or Insurance Companies to force me into Bankruptcy in order to get health care, Or their Freedom to deny me treatment.

I think the reform could have been better. It should have included a single payer Option. But unfortunately the Special Interests still came in with 4525 Lobbyists with $1.2 Billion to promote that their interests not those of the citizens were protected. Until the corporate control and Lobby money is out of our government there is still a long way to go before full reform can be found and we have a government that truly represents the needs of its people.

It is apalling to hear the disgust at being required to have insurance to provide for health instead of death. Yet these same same arguments are not felt when Insurance is required to protect homes Autos or Property. Is not the Value of Life more than that of property? Is not the right to health more important than the right to bear arms?

We are on track to spend Over a Trillion dollars for the wars, A war that most of the world was against us going into. Yet there is the cry against domestically spending anything to protect the health and infrastructure of our own country for present and future generations. It is Ironic that our republican government produced a universal Health plan for Iraqs new government, yet they cannot build one for ours.

The USA, once the leader of all industrialized nations needs to regain that footing.
How can they be the leader of the modern world, Have the highest costing Health Care system in the world and still be rated 37th Overall in health Care. This is a step to show that the USA is a leader. How can we solve the problems of the world when we do nothing to accept or be reponsible for the problems at home.

This Reform is, like the past Civil rights battles a step in the right direction.

Jan 1, 2010

New Years Eve 2009


As a youth my family would take trips west to places such as Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks. We would often do short day hikes or longer multi- day backpacking trips into the mountains on some of these trips. On one such trip we backpacked out of Brooks Lake and finished in Turpen Meadows. The trail started in the Shoshone National Forest and ended in the Bridger / Teton National Forest and ran through the Absaroka Mountain Range in Wyoming. The photo in the header is Brooks Lake where the trail began. On one of the days we came across an area along side a stream, a small clearing and the rotting remains of an old settlers or fur trapper’s cabin. As we approached that area I had an uncanny or Déjà-vu type of familiarity with the area that I could not explain but I sensed there would be a cabin or something in that clearing. My brothers and sisters may remember this area as where we found those big agates and petrified rocks that we carried out. Those 2 rocks added an extra 20 pounds in the backpacks for another 10 miles or so. That memory of that cabin has stayed with me ever since though I rarely mention it and never shared it with my family.

Roll the clock forward some 40 years to New Years Eve 2009. We chose to have a psychic come for our New Years party. The first thing she asked me at the start of my reading was “Tell me about this shack” I could not explain a shack and went on to other topics. A bit later I returned to the shack and asked her to explain what she meant. She said it was where I once lived. I explained the story of the backpack trip and said it was in Wyoming. Later a name came up and she asked me what the name Jackson meant to me. I could not think of anyone named Jackson and stated that there was no one. She said no it is not a person it is a location. I stated then that this cabin or shack was in the Teton Wilderness just outside of Jackson Hole Wyoming.
She stated OMG that is where you lived in your past life and to take it even further she stated my wife Terri is my Venus connection and soul partner and lived in this shack with me in our past life. She demanded I take Terri back to the location. Very Bizarre!!!???
She brought up several other names of people named Jackie, Susan, Katie, Roxanne and Sandy. All were supposed to be names from my past or names of people who are trying to connect with me.
I knew too many Susan’s, I work with three and knew even more so we passed on that name. Sandy I could come up with 2. Sandy Higgins a friend and coworker and Sandra Davidson who I used to work with until she moved to Colorado years ago. She said” It was the blonde one; she had a major crush on you”. The blonde one is Sandra Davidson and back then I had suspected the same especially after someone had left a secret admirer card on my car. I always thought it was her writing.
She continued on to fill me in on my life’s purpose and roles and where I need to go or do to fulfill my destiny.
So that was my reading.
What happened in the other readings? Like in my reading names just came out of the blue in everyone’s readings. It was not a name that sounds like or starts with it was always the complete name. Who is Scott, Tell me about Shauna, Where is Ashley etc…Always a name of significance to the person and only that person who was being read.
In her reading, my wife Terri asked her about her son who died several years ago. She said “He is fine and he is with a Christopher and Pete and having a good time and at peace”.
Christopher was her sons’ good friend who died in the same way a year later, and Pete was his uncle who had died a short time before Terri’s son passed. She also stated Terri’s dog Shadow was another family member named Bob from somewhere in her ancestry.

Something happened here last night. All of us who received the reading experienced it in some level. For a few it was a very emotional and profound experience. We connected to something, It was real what we connected with and experienced. There were just too many coincidental connections in 10 separate readings to be anything that could be considered pure luck and made up hits. However you look at it, New Years Eve was a memorable start to 2010.

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