OBAMACARE: THE 'LIE' OF THE LAND, OR IS IT, ONLY TIME WILL TELL!

By Jonathan E.P. Moore, and Friends of America!
OBAMACARE: THE 'LIE' OF THE LAND, OR IS IT, ONLY TIME WILL TELL!

I don’t know if the first version of the bill to repeal and replace Obamacare is going to pass, and to be honest with you, I hope it doesn’t. It’s time to go back to the drawing board and lock Ryan and Paul, along with the powers to be, in a room to hammer out a bill that won’t have anything to do, except for the couple of things that make common sense, with Obamacare and its fiscal failures, financial burden, and stress its caused to the American people!

To do the repeal and replace half ass, and ram the bill through the house, is not living up to the promises of the campaign, and to come back with a version of Obamacare that, as Rand Paul calls it, ‘Obamacare lite,’ is not acceptable, and should be put on the back burner while moving on to tax reform. The committee will keep on working on it, like all the other promises are being worked on, and they’ll come back to it after the kinks are worked out and accepted by the American people, and the American peoples elected officials. If I were a Democrat and elected by my constituents to work for the people, I would be shitting bricks, and not to remember that you’re not getting paid to sit on your hands and not defend and protect the people and citizens of America, but then again, maybe your are, and again, only time will tell! 

What’s going on with repealing and replacing Obamacare, a.k.a. Affordable Healthcare Act, does not justify the criticism that President Trump is getting! It’s not the NCAA’s ‘March Madness’ college basketball tournament where it’s ‘One and Done,’ but that’s how the ‘Paid to Report’ Media and it’s ‘agenda journalist’ agents want you to believe! If they bothered to do their homework, which you know is not on their top 10 list, they would know that it’s the beginning of the process of having a bill become law, and not the Coup d'état that Agenda Journalist’s hope would spell the end of President Trump, and President Trump’s to make America great again agenda!

A thumb up vote on the American Health Care Act would be considered a positive, psychologically, and a thumb down vote just means back to the drawing board, but what’s more important to know here is that it’s the first time, in basically 8 years, that the American people can actually witness the political process in action, and how government is supposed to work. Under Obama, Harry Reid tabled some 360+ bipartisan and partisan House passed bills, but decided not to move them forward in the Senate, which is the reason why Obama declared Congress “the do-nothing Congress,” which gave him the excuse to use his famous ‘Pen and Phone’ to help him bypass the Constitution and rule of law!

Obamacare is broken and crumbling, and the GOP are working the process to get something done through debate and negotiation while the left just sits on their hands unwilling to join in on the legislative process, and if you ask me, that logic doesn’t make any sense and completely miss guided, and flawed, and here’s why. Their failed Obamacare was forced down the throats of Americans through chicanery and deception, and  hurting American citizens and members of their own base, and to sit back and do nothing would show me, if I were part of that base, that my soon to be ex-party doesn’t give a shit or care about me or my children’s future, and in a time where the ‘Will’ of the American people gave congress a 17% approval rating, is not a  time or place or attitude that either party can afford to be exhibiting in these questionable times!

THE CRITICS OF POLITICS LACK THE UNDERSTANDING of CIVICS, BUT COULD CARE LESS!

I truly believe that the problem in America today is the lack of education when it comes to the political process, and understanding what makes this great country tick! Why don’t Americans know the basic facts about the workings of our government, why can’t they answer simple question about who’s was the first President, the 16^th President, how many members are there in the Senate, or even the 3 branches of our congress?  I think there should be mandatory Civics courses to educate, like the 9 states that do already, and like ‘School House Rock’ did for me back in the good old days

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I was a child of the 50’s for elementary school, the 60’s for junior and senior high school, and early 70’s for college, and back then we had the option to, or not to, take a course in ‘civics,’ and like many other of my fellow students, opted out only to learn later on in life that that was a ‘huuuge’ mistake. I decided back in 2007/2008, when I saw then congressman Barack Obama considering running for President of the United States of America, and observed him on TV hanging out with Rev. Wright (the God Dam America Rev.) and Bill Ayres (the ‘Weather Underground bomber’ of my early 70’s generation days), I knew something wasn’t right!

What happened in America is that we all got complacent, and for years over indulged in assumed constitutional rights, got fat and spoiled on the liberties and freedoms, and felt like we didn't need to pay attention because the Constitution, and the rights that go with it would always be there to protect our backs! No American ever thought that our rights ‘bubble’ would ever burst because our elected officials, possibly intentionally, dropped the ball, and failed to recognize the increasing outside interests who wanted to control the richest country in the world’s ‘purse strings,’ and use those funds to support and finance their globalization and ‘new’ world order agenda. It just seems to me that our elected officials gave up and stopped defending our constitution and rule of law, and more than ever content with just surrendering to the tide of 3^rd world Socialism that is taking over the world!

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Civic education in a democratic society most assuredly needs to be concerned with promoting understanding of the ideals of democracy and a reasoned commitment to the values and principles of democracy. That does not mean, however, that democracy should be presented as utopia. Democracy is not utopian, and citizens need to understand that lest they become cynical, apathetic, or simply withdraw from political life when their unrealistic expectations are not met. To be effective civic education must be realistic; it must address the central truths about political life. The American Political Science Association (APSA) recently formed a Task Force on Civic Education. Its statement of purpose calls for more realistic teaching about the nature of political life and a better understanding of "the complex elements of 'the art of the possible'." The APSA report faults existing civic education because all too often it seems unable to counter the belief that, in politics, one either wins or loses, and to win means getting everything at once, now! The sense that politics can always bring another day, another chance to be heard, to persuade and perhaps to gain part of what one wants, is lost. Political education today seems unable to teach the lessons of our political history: Persistent civic engagement-the slow, patient building of first coalitions and then majorities-can generate social change. (Carter and Elshtain, 1997.)

A message of importance, therefore, is that politics need not, indeed must not, be a zero-sum game. The idea that "winner takes all" has no place in a democracy, because if losers lose all they will opt out of the democratic game. Sharing is essential in a democratic society-the sharing of power, of resources, and of responsibilities. In a democratic society, the possibility of effecting social change is ever present, if citizens have the knowledge, the skills and the will to bring it about. That knowledge, those skills and the will or necessary traits of private and public character are the products of a good civic education.

Civic Knowledge

Civic knowledge is concerned with the content or what citizens ought to know; the subject matter, if you will. In both the National Standards and the Civics Framework for the 1998 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which currently is underway in schools across the United States, the knowledge component is embodied in the form of five significant and enduring questions. These are questions that have continued to engage not only political philosophers and politicians; they are questions that do-or should-engage every thoughtful citizen. The five questions are:

1. What are civic life, politics, and government?

2. What are the foundations of the American political system?

3. How does the government established by the Constitution embody the purposes, values, and principles of American democracy?

4. What is the relationship of the United States to other nations and to world affairs?

5. What are the roles of citizens in American democracy?

The choice of question format as a means of organizing the knowledge component was deliberate. Democracy is a dialogue, a discussion, a deliberative process in which citizens engage. The use of questions is intended to indicate that the process is never-ending, is an on-going marketplace of ideas, a search for new and better ways to realize democracy's ideals.

It is important that everyone has an opportunity to consider the essential questions about government and civil society that continue to challenge thoughtful people. Addressing the first organizing question "What are civic life, politics, and government?" helps citizens make informed judgments about the nature of civic life, politics, and government, and why politics and government are necessary; the purposes of government; the essential characteristics of limited and unlimited government; the nature and purposes of constitutions, and alternative ways of organizing constitutional governments. Consideration of this question should promote greater understanding of the nature and importance of civil society or the complex network of freely formed, voluntary political, social, and economic associations which is an essential component of a constitutional democracy. A vital civil society not only prevents the abuse or excessive concentration of power by government; the organizations of civil society serve as public laboratories in which citizens learn democracy by doing it.

The second organizing question "What are the foundations of the American political system?" entails an understanding of the historical, philosophical, and economic foundations of the American political system; the distinctive characteristics of American society and political culture; and the values and principles basic to American constitutional democracy, such as individual rights and responsibilities, concern for the public good, the rule of law, justice, equality, diversity, truth, patriotism, federalism, and the separation of powers. This question promotes examination of the values and principles expressed in such fundamental documents as the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, The Federalist Papers, and landmark Supreme Court decisions. Study of the nation's core documents now is mandated by several states including California, Ohio, South Carolina, Florida, and Kentucky. The United States Commission on Immigration Reform in its 1997 Report to Congress (U.S. Commission on Immigration, 1997), strongly recommended attention to the nation's founding documents saying:

Civic instruction in public schools should be rooted in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution-particularly the Preamble, the Bill of Rights, and the Fourteenth Amendment. Emphasizing the ideals in these documents is in no way a distortion of U.S. history. Instruction in the history of the United States, as a unique engine of human liberty notwithstanding its faults, is an indispensable foundation for solid civics training for all Americans.

Knowledge of the ideals, values, and principles set forth in the nation's core documents serves an additional and useful purpose. Those ideals, values, and principles are criteria which citizens can use to judge the means and ends of government, as well as the means and ends of the myriad groups that are part of civil society.

The third organizing question "How does the government established by the Constitution embody the purposes, values, and principles of American democracy?" helps citizens understand and evaluate the limited government they have ordained and established and the complex dispersal and sharing of powers it entails. Citizens who understand the justification for this system of limited, dispersed, and shared power and its design are better able to hold their governments-local, state, and national-accountable and to ensure that the rights of individuals are protected. They also will develop a considered appreciation of the place of law in the American political system, as well as of the unparalleled opportunities for choice and citizen participation that the system makes possible.

The fourth organizing question "What is the relationship of the United States to other nations and to world affairs?" is important because the United States does not exist in isolation; it is a part of an increasingly interconnected world. To make judgments about the role of the United States in the world today and about what course American foreign policy should take, citizens need to understand the major elements of international relations and how world affairs affect their own lives, and the security and wellbeing of their communities, state, and nation. Citizens also need to develop a better understanding of the roles of major international governmental and non-governmental organizations, because of the increasingly significant role that they are playing in the political, social, and economic realms.

The final organizing question "What are the roles of citizens in American democracy?" is of particular importance. Citizenship in a constitutional democracy means that each citizen is a full and equal member of a self-governing community and is endowed with fundamental rights and entrusted with responsibilities. Citizens should understand that through their involvement in political life and in civil society, they can help to improve the quality of life in their neighborhoods, communities, and nation. If they want their voices to be heard, they must become active participants in the political process. Although elections, campaigns, and voting are central to democratic institutions, citizens should learn that beyond electoral politics many participatory opportunities are open to them. Finally, they should come to understand that the attainment of individual goals and public goals tend to go hand in hand with participation in political life and civil society. They are more likely to achieve personal goals for themselves and their families, as well as the goals they desire for their communities, state, and nation, if they are informed, effective, and responsible citizens. ~~By Margaret Stimmann Branson, Associate Director, Center for Civic Education, and Friends of America!

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