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Dinner at the White House - a parable

Once upon a time, I was invited to the White House for a private dinner with the President. I am a respected businessman, with a factory that produces memory chips for computers and portable electronics. There was some talk that my industry was being scrutinized by the administration, but I paid it no mind. I live in a free country. There's nothing that the government can do to me if I've broken no laws. My wealth was earned honestly, and an invitation to dinner with an American President is an honor.

...we are getting rights and money stripped from us everyday.

In fact, if there weren't so many whole sentences and words spelled correctly I'd think it was right out of the tea party manual.

If you took the corperate owner out and plugged in a comon person, or small business owner, we are getting rights and money stripped from us everyday.
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Is this really a free country ? Compared to others, yes, but are we headed in the right direction ?

I posted it because I thought it was a cool analagy, not to take shot's at Obama

To those who demonize the poor by equating “helping the poor” with “spreading the wealth” and “socialism”, I suggest you take the Socialist-Free Purity Pledge:

“I pledge to eliminate all government intervention in my life. I will abstain from the use of and participation in any socialist goods and services including but not limited to the following:

“Social Security – Medicare/Medicaid – State Children’s Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP) – Police, Fire, and Emergency Services – US Postal Service — Roads and Highways — Air Travel (regulated by the socialist FAA) — The US Railway System — Public Subways and Metro Systems –Public Bus and Light Rail Systems — Rest Areas on Highways — Sidewalks –All Government-Funded Local/State Projects — Public Water and Sewer Services (goodbye socialist toilet, shower, dishwasher, kitchen sink, outdoor hose!) — Public and State Universities and Colleges — Public Primary and Secondary Schools — Public Museums — Libraries –Public Parks and Beaches — State and National Parks — Public Zoos — Unemployment Insurance — Municipal Garbage and Recycling Services –Treatment at Any Hospital or Clinic That Ever Received Funding From Local, State or Federal Government (pretty much all of them) — Medical Services and Medications That Were Created or Derived From Any Government Grant or Research Funding (again, pretty much all of them) — Socialist Byproducts of Government Investment Such as Duct Tape and Velcro (Nazi-NASA Inventions) — Use of the Internets, email, and networked computers, as the DoD’s ARPANET was the basis for subsequent computer networking — Foodstuffs, Meats, Produce and Crops That Were Grown With, Fed With, Raised With or That Contain Inputs From Crops Grown With Government Subsidies — Clothing Made from Crops (e.g. cotton) That Were Grown With or That Contain Inputs From Government Subsidies — If a veteran of the government-run socialist US military, I will forgo my VA benefits and insist on paying for my own medical care.”

You complain that people try to demean your cause by denying the "average Joe" credentials of your "nurses, teachers, mechanics, stay-at-home-moms, bus drivers and small-business owners," but you, in turn, pretend that there are no nurses, stay-at-home moms, bus-drivers, or small-business owners who want or need health care reform. You imply that the nurses, mechanics and teachers (like me, or my mother, or my friends) who want health care reform do not "want to protect our freedom." You see yourself as a fresh wind blown here from 1773, but your methods -- the screaming, the bullying, the stigmatizing of elected officials who act other than as you wish -- do not to enrich the public discourse, they overwhelm it.

I am from Canada but I have to say this movement sounds very close to the Klu Klux Klan thing. Why do a lot of people down there get their collective shorts in a knot because a Pres. has a vision of helping Americans that can't get health insurance. Is it because the people doing the screaming the loudest have lined up with the Republican party of nut cases to screw over their own country men and women and children? Only in America would ordinary people try to run down people that cannot afford to pay the outrageous sums demanded by the overly rich insurance firms. From where I sit the people yelling the loudest and putting the spin on it that the government is taking over their lives are more that likely the ones that voted for Bush and his boys