Obamacare Enrolls 7.1 Million?

Obamacare Enrolls 7.1 Million?

by Leon Howard

The question mark is there for a reason … Just two days before, March 29^th, we were being told two things: (1) They had lowered the bar for enrollment to 6 million and they were about there, and (2) they were allowing extensions to anybody who attempted to enroll, but couldn’t, until … No date given.

So we are supposed to believe over 1 million people enrolled in less than 2 days when the website crashed for hours on the last day of enrollment? The question mark grows even larger!

64% of the people of Oklahoma, my home state, have refused to enroll or have anything to do with Obamacare. The question mark grows larger. Oregon state’s website crashed and Oregon took it off line and, as far as I know, it’s still down and not expected to ever come back! And the question mark grows even larger.

35 State’s have refused to set up a State Exchange, telling Obama, “It’s your law, you set up the exchanges!” We have Obamacare “Navigators” working in the Mexican Consulates (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/03/27/Obamacare-Navigators-Help-Enroll-At-Mexican-Consulates ) …. Maybe they signed up a million Mexican nationals in Obamacare; those would be Mexicans here on visas or illegally! The question mark is now huge!

To me, it has never really been a question mark – They are lying! And when the real numbers come out, this administration will try and put a positive spin on it … They’ve “spun” this so much, my head is spinning! This 2700 page “law” was flawed from the start and was destined to fail and, I believe, meant to fail by this administration!

The following sums up what our government has done to us:

"It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess what it will be tomorrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?"


·      James Madison
(1751-1836), Father of our Constitution, 4th US President
 Source: Federalist Papers 62

By any measure of success, Obamacare is a dismal failure and cannot be “fixed”! As the comedian, Ron Wite, says, “Ya cain’t fix stupid!” Stupid pretty much sums up Obamacare! If they got 7.1 million to sign up, that still leaves over 40 million uninsured … We started out with 37 million (their numbers), so we’re at least 3 million less insured when they started. Of this, supposed, 7.1 million, how many were insured when they started and are now buying through the exchange? How many have paid their premiums? How many are the healthy young? How many of this 7.1 million signed up for Medicaid, which is free to them? According to this administration, they don’t have the answer to these questions – Huh? If our health exchange in Washington state is any indicator, 87% signed up for Medicaid! “Success”? What a bunch of cow cookies!

The only “fix” for this “law” is its repeal! Constitutionally, there isn’t much the federal government can do; it is a State issue. It would seem to me the only Constitutional thing the Congress could do, with the power of the commerce clause, is to allow the people to purchase their health insurance from one of the 1800 companies that sell it – You will see premium costs reduced by substantial amounts. The other issues the people seem to like is the young being able to stay on their parent’s policy until they’re 26 and eliminating the insurance companies ability to refuse people with pre-existing conditions – These, again, are State issues and each state needs to hear from the people what they want.

This ill-conceived, poorly written, voluminous, and overreaching “law” has so angered the people, the pretender to the White House has taken it upon himself to re-write the “law” over 30 times! It is now more confusing and convoluted than before. Not only is he not smart enough to “fix” it, he’s violating the Constitution every time he tries!

I admit, I’m angry that this government … A government that has become so destructive to our way of life … would pass such a law; I am even angrier that the “loyal opposition” has not impeached him! It wouldn’t matter that Harry “Bullet Train” Reid would stop the impeachment process, the fact that the House attempted to impeach him would allow all of the unconstitutional missteps of this man to be aired to the American “sheeple” so some of them might come out of their Kool Aid induced coma and see the man for what he is! But the “loyal opposition” is remaining loyal to the D.C. power structure and the American people be damned!

It is time to get angry and tell D.C., not just “NO” but “HELL NO!!”

Give Me Liberty!

Give Me Liberty!

by Leon Howard

"Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop,
 free to work, free to trade where I choose,
 free to choose my own teachers, 
free to follow the religion of my fathers,
 free to talk, think and act for myself --
and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty."


·      Chief Joseph
(1840-1904) Chief of the Wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa) band of Nez Perce Indians
Source: Lincoln Hall Speech, Washington, DC (January 14, 1879)

A man feared by the U.S. Cavalry; feared because he wanted his people to live free and this nation could not allow that! He didn’t want to fight because he knew he couldn’t win; he wanted for his people to live free and was trying to escape to Canada.

Folks, this same government is trying to do to the rest of us what they did to the Native Americans and we have no place to escape to. Read this great leader’s words carefully; isn't this what every American wants?

Isn’t this the purpose of government to protect our inalienable rights? Then why won’t they honor their oath of office? Must we shed more patriots’ blood to re-establish the purpose of our Constitutional government? I pray to God, in the name of my Lord, Jesus, that we do not, but only He knows what the future holds for this nation of His creation and I yield to His purpose.

We must prepare for every possibility and pray for His guidance back to the freedom he has always desired for us. I encourage every member of the Tea Party to attend the Committee of Safety meetings; learn what you need to do to prepare for every eventuality. All of the training is free and it takes place with very knowledgeable folks … It’s also a lot of fun!

Plan on attending the Open Meeting, April 24^th, 6:30 pm at the Island View Worship Center because Karl and Barbara Anderson will be showing how to build the “Wonder Oven”; they will also be showing the Solar Oven and several other emergency cooking devices. These would be handy when you’re out camping or, in my case, out prospecting for gold.

Many scenarios are possible and some are inevitable because of this overreaching, over spending, and non-representing “government”, it is time for us to re-read Patrick Henry’s speech before the House of Burgess, March 23^rd, 1775; it’s all relevant today but a portion resonates with me and should resonate with every patriot: “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”

How Did States Become So Liberal?

How Did States Become So Liberal?

By Leon Howard

Why does the state of Washington have 49 State Senators with only 39 counties? It has been a pet peeve of mine and I couldn’t believe the counties would give up their only voice in the State Legislature. Since LBJ’s “War on Poverty” began, it seems the coastal states have become liberal meccas and I recently found out what happened. “Reynolds vs. Sims” challenged Alabama’s Constitution on representation (1 senator/county) as a violation of the “equal protection” portion of the 14^th Amendment.

This happened in 1964. The liberal Supreme Court ruled that both state legislative houses must be based on population in a case titled, “Reynolds vs. Sims” from Alabama … A clear violation of the 10^th Amendment!  Prior to this “ruling”, most states allowed one senator per county, which was the only protection the smaller populated counties had to check the abuses of the more densely populated counties, like King and Pierce Counties; these 2 counties control the state legislature. In essence, 2 counties dictate to the other 37 counties what state revenues are spent on.

This is pure theft! Those 2 counties have stolen the voice of 37 counties and, like good communists, those 2 counties are not going to give up that control until we rip it from their hands!

Oregon and California have the same problem Washington does: One or two counties control the state agenda! There are 24 representatives and 11 senators “representing” the City of Los Angeles; that’s more than all the representatives and senators in the counties north of Sacramento!

The counties have lost their only representation in the state and that means the Supreme Court robbed all states of their republican form of government! A major ‘check & balance’ of power is missing thus virtually destroying the protection of individual liberty!

The federal government does not have the authority to dictate to the states how they set up their legislative bodies and prior to this “ruling”, states had theirs set up pretty much like the U.S. government: Representatives represented the people and the Senators represented the states; state legislatures were set up with the representatives representing the people and the senators representing the counties. With Earl Warren’s “reasoning”, there is no need for 2 legislative bodies. Washington State’s first Constitution, the constitution approved by the U.S. Congress in 1878, was set up differently, so to right this problem, we would have to pass an amendment to the Constitution and I would love to be a member of the committee that drafted that amendment. 

Here is the original language: Article VI, Section 2. "The number of the members of the House of Representatives shall never be less than eighteen nor more than sixty. The Senate shall consist of one-third the number of members as the House of Representatives." 

Obviously, they have exceeded the maximum number of representatives and senators; we have 98 representatives and 49 senators. The number of senators far exceeds the “ … one-third the number of members of the House of Representatives.” … Which wasn’t to exceed 20 and we have one-half the number of senators as representatives!

One problem is the states accepted the court’s opinion as a “ruling” which has been a major factor in the destruction and disregard of the 10^th Amendment! The Supreme Court is not authorized to make “rulings”; they are authorized to offer opinions … Congress can accept that opinion and let the matter drop or they can rewrite the law to comply with the opinion. The states have the same option and in this case they could have invoked the 10^th Amendment and told the court they were violating the 10^th Amendment and told the court “thanks but no thanks” … They didn’t so here we are.

What can we do? We’ll never get the 2 counties to agree to a state constitutional amendment that would take away their monopoly of power so what can we do?

The only recourse I can see would be a challenge to the Supreme Court ruling based on the 10^th Amendment. But I’m no expert; maybe this is a project for a legislative committee to work with a constitutional attorney to develop a strategy.

The original opinion was wrong because having 1 senator per county didn’t deny equal protection; it was part of the ‘checks & balances’ in a republic. It was just another nick in state sovereignty by a court appointed by FDR, one of liberty’s greatest enemies!

What Are Entitlements?

What Are “Entitlements”?

By Leon Howard

I think that’s a valid question; we have become an “entitlement society” in the last 50 years and we don’t even know how we got here. If you think about it, we do know how but are ashamed to admit why. We, the people, are the “why” but it’s tough to admit “We went to sleep at the wheel” and allowed the elitists, whose goal is the destruction of the United States, to speak emotional words, backed up by zero facts, to create the entitlement programs!

But they are calling Social Security, Veterans Retirements, and Veteran Disability Retirements “entitlements” and that I totally disagree with! They are not entitlements; entitlements are rewards given for doing nothing! Welfare is an entitlement! Medicaid is an entitlement! “Obamaphones” are an entitlement! Foreign aid is an entitlement and the most unfair of them all because the government is “buying” some hostile nation’s “friendship”.

Social Security, military retirements, and veteran disabilities are bought and paid for up-front; it is not a ‘something-for-nothing’ program like entitlements are. I cannot imagine a higher price being paid than serving in wars you did not declare, protecting your friends and family from harm, with the very likelihood, you will ‘pay the ultimate price’ of your life and, in many cases, losing your limbs or some other disabling injury. “Entitlement”? Absolutely not! Social Security, on the other hand, costs you and your employer money every paycheck; the government doesn’t pay one damned dime into the program but they have been extremely proficient at stealing the money from the Social Security “Trust Fund” over the years for their own little pet projects. They call it a “loan” but the workers putting the money in never approved a “loan” and we wouldn’t have, especially when we found out they wanted to “borrow” the funds at zero interest! I have heard figures of over $30 Trillion that the federal government owes the “Trust Fund” … That should have been our first indication it would be robbed by them … My father told me when I was 15 or 16, “Son, never trust the government.” “Trust Fund” to Congress spells “Piggy Bank” to an overspending Congress!

Medicare isn’t an entitlement either but I think it’s the biggest rip-off every perpetrated on seniors and healthcare providers! Seniors pay a Medicare Premium every month for coverage and then Congress steals as much as it can legislate from the healthcare providers. It isn’t a good deal for seniors healthcare because they dictate what can be covered and what cannot. They are exempted from federal laws but private insurance companies are not exempted. Example: Federal law states that all insurance companies shall pay for all treatments of any condition that is the result of breast cancer. Pretty cut-and-dried wouldn’t you say? My wife suffers from lymphedema, a condition resulting from a surgical mastectomy and radiation treatments for her breast cancer. As soon as she turned 65, her lymphatic massages were no longer covered; Medicare was exempted from complying with the law!

So, although Medicare isn’t an entitlement, it’s not something for the government to be proud of because of the rip-offs to seniors and healthcare providers. I had much better coverage before they forced me onto Medicare!

So when they cut Social Security benefits, Medicare benefits ($500 billion cut in Obamacare to help pay for the non-producers), and Veterans Pay, why didn’t we hear of similar cuts to Welfare and Medicaid? Why is it we never hear of cuts to the real entitlements? Why is it those who pay for benefits must suffer but the non-producers do not?

That’s what I find so amazing: Mr. Ryan touted this great budget deal with Patty, “I get the most pork for my state”, Murray and then it comes out that they didn’t know there was a cut in veterans pay … B--- S---! He wrote the damned thing and he didn’t know it was in there? “Smoke and Mirrors” – Again!

Not to worry though … All entitlements, Social Security, and veterans pay will be a thing of the past in a couple of years because the Congress is spending us into an economic collapse not seen since the Weimar Republic of Germany.