One World Order?
October 8th 2008 20:02
I know I’ve been gone for a while. I haven’t posted as I’ve watched what’s happening with the bailout and the election. My day job has also kept me quite busy.
I’ve thought a lot about what’s going on, read a lot and listened to wise people. Some people, like Glenn Beck, talk about what’s happening without really recognizing what he’s saying.
I need to explain some end times prophecy, as many theologians see them, and what it will take to see them come to fruition.
Economic
One of the key events of the time of tribulation before the return of Christ is the taking of the mark of the beast. Along with that, you will not be able to buy anything, at least outside of the black market, without the mark. The mark is used by the Antichrist to identify who follows him, and who doesn’t, Christians or otherwise.
How could the Antichrist enforce this worldwide? Three things have to happen:
- All transactions would have to be electronic. How many people use cash consistently today? I even buy most drive-thru fast food with a check card now. There was even an IBM commercial several years ago of a man in a trench coat leaving a store through an arch that read a bio-chip and chips in the goods stuffed in his coat and automatically charged his account. PayPass also makes us closer to this.
- There would need to be a one-world currency. Last night many of the worlds’ central banks reduced their interest rate, and even more, including ours, called for a central central bank, a world bank shared by all. This is the first step to that currency. It doesn’t have to take a physical form, as point one shows. It can just be an electronic, automatic exchange currency that can easily be one currency during the tribulation.
- Private banks would need to be nationalized and consolidated. Oh, there will still be smaller independent banks, but the US government is about to nationalize over a trillion dollars in US bank holdings and take equity stakes in them. Other nations around the world affected by this are doing the same. Not only that, the treasury secretary has been authorized to help foreign banks as well. The treasury secretary of the US is, arguably, about to be the most powerful person in the country, because he will control the country’s financial systems with very little limit on who and how many people he hires.
All this will make it possible for the rules of the mark to work.
Israel
One of the events recorded in the Old Testament regarding the signs of the end times is Iran and Russia (Gog and Magog) attacking Israel and Israel coming out unharmed in any way though miraculous protection.
Russia is an ally of Iran.
Europe and the U.S. have, so far, been unable to stop Iran from developing the capability to have a nuclear bomb.
Israel has demonstrated that it will not hold back from taking out the nuclear capabilities of its enemies, and has shown it has the ability to reach Iran to do so.
An economic crisis worldwide will reduce oil consumption. America finally drilling for its own oil will increase supply. Both of these will push down the price of a barrel of oil, maybe as low as $30 again, or less.
Iran and Russia both have economies heavily tied and dependent on oil being high priced. One way to push up oil prices is world instability, especially around the Middle East.
At some time in the future, Iran will get close enough to a nuclear weapon to draw a preemptive strike by Israel. This will be all the excuse Iran, Syria and Russia, as well as possibly others, need to launch an attack on Israel and prophecy will be set in motion.
One world government
There is a lot of talk on the left, not just from Obama, about the importance of all nations getting along. I think that’s important at a diplomatic level, where if nations are not killing their civilians in genocide and not threatening their neighbors, they should be allowed to have their own sovereignty.
However, more and more we are seeing a leaning toward trying to make every nation have the same philosophy. Last year the U.S. Supreme Court majority used world opinion in deciding whether the death penalty could be applied in cases of child rape where the child lived. Wherever you fall on the death penalty, you should be very afraid of the Supreme Court saying that we have to look to Europe’s opinion on it to help decide whether it is right to have here.
One constant refrain is that George Bush has made us less liked around the world. So what, if it is because we are doing what is right? Again, regardless of what you think about Iraq, should we be restrained about what we do based on what other countries think about us? If you see an old woman being beaten, would you not help her because certain people might have a bad opinion of you?
Barack Obama criticized the US in Germany and called himself “a citizen of the world.” I’m sorry, I want a president that is a citizen of the USA, and wants to promote freedom in the world regardless of the socialist, isolationist policies of the rest of the world. I won’t get into my defense of the Iraq war here, but only say we should not have a president that won’t let the opinion of anti-American socialist nations stop him from doing what’s right.
Revelation 11
In Revelation 11, the middle of the Tribulation, God’s prophets are killed “in front of the whole world.”
Never before this time has the ability existed to broadcast video of happenings to the entire world with only the delay of light travelling around the world. Via web cameras and CNN and other worldwide TV, there is the ability to see this in fulfillment of this prophecy.
Conclusion
Why am I writing this on politics realm? Because there are decisions being made by politicians today that take show we are closer to the end times. I don’t know if that road is 1 year long or 20 or 200 years long. I can tell you to be ready. Know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. If you don’t, remember what I wrote after your Christian acquaintances disappear in one instant.
And vote for John McCain. He can’t stop this from happening, but if we do get a one-world government and economy, he is the more likely of the two to keep us separate, if he’s here. He’s the most likely to lead a potentially split nation between the liberal elites in New York, where the UN would likely be the head of this one-world order, and those who value America’s independence from the world.
We live in a world folks, where a man can lead a terrorist organization for thirty years, negotiate a treaty while continuing to lead a terrorist group, and win the Nobel Peace Prize (Yassar Arafat).
We live in a world where a man that had a communist party leader as his “black mentor” while growing up in Hawaii (“Uncle Frank” in one of his books), spent two years as roommate to a radical Pakistani, worked to radicalize Chicago’s schools with an unrepentant terrorist, attended a church for 20 years led by an anti-American pastor that is friends with anti-Semitic Louis Farrakhan, sued banks to provide sub-prime mortgages to people who couldn’t afford it on behalf of ACORN, and trained ACORN activists, is leading the race to be President. The work he did in Chicago as a community organizer was under the rules of the book Rules for Radicals, in which the author, Saul Alinsky, dedicates the book to Satan?
This election is about a lot more than health care folks.
I’ve thought a lot about what’s going on, read a lot and listened to wise people. Some people, like Glenn Beck, talk about what’s happening without really recognizing what he’s saying.
I need to explain some end times prophecy, as many theologians see them, and what it will take to see them come to fruition.
Economic
One of the key events of the time of tribulation before the return of Christ is the taking of the mark of the beast. Along with that, you will not be able to buy anything, at least outside of the black market, without the mark. The mark is used by the Antichrist to identify who follows him, and who doesn’t, Christians or otherwise.
How could the Antichrist enforce this worldwide? Three things have to happen:
- All transactions would have to be electronic. How many people use cash consistently today? I even buy most drive-thru fast food with a check card now. There was even an IBM commercial several years ago of a man in a trench coat leaving a store through an arch that read a bio-chip and chips in the goods stuffed in his coat and automatically charged his account. PayPass also makes us closer to this.
- There would need to be a one-world currency. Last night many of the worlds’ central banks reduced their interest rate, and even more, including ours, called for a central central bank, a world bank shared by all. This is the first step to that currency. It doesn’t have to take a physical form, as point one shows. It can just be an electronic, automatic exchange currency that can easily be one currency during the tribulation.
All this will make it possible for the rules of the mark to work.
Israel
One of the events recorded in the Old Testament regarding the signs of the end times is Iran and Russia (Gog and Magog) attacking Israel and Israel coming out unharmed in any way though miraculous protection.
Russia is an ally of Iran.
Europe and the U.S. have, so far, been unable to stop Iran from developing the capability to have a nuclear bomb.
Israel has demonstrated that it will not hold back from taking out the nuclear capabilities of its enemies, and has shown it has the ability to reach Iran to do so.
An economic crisis worldwide will reduce oil consumption. America finally drilling for its own oil will increase supply. Both of these will push down the price of a barrel of oil, maybe as low as $30 again, or less.
Iran and Russia both have economies heavily tied and dependent on oil being high priced. One way to push up oil prices is world instability, especially around the Middle East.
At some time in the future, Iran will get close enough to a nuclear weapon to draw a preemptive strike by Israel. This will be all the excuse Iran, Syria and Russia, as well as possibly others, need to launch an attack on Israel and prophecy will be set in motion.
One world government
There is a lot of talk on the left, not just from Obama, about the importance of all nations getting along. I think that’s important at a diplomatic level, where if nations are not killing their civilians in genocide and not threatening their neighbors, they should be allowed to have their own sovereignty.
However, more and more we are seeing a leaning toward trying to make every nation have the same philosophy. Last year the U.S. Supreme Court majority used world opinion in deciding whether the death penalty could be applied in cases of child rape where the child lived. Wherever you fall on the death penalty, you should be very afraid of the Supreme Court saying that we have to look to Europe’s opinion on it to help decide whether it is right to have here.
One constant refrain is that George Bush has made us less liked around the world. So what, if it is because we are doing what is right? Again, regardless of what you think about Iraq, should we be restrained about what we do based on what other countries think about us? If you see an old woman being beaten, would you not help her because certain people might have a bad opinion of you?
Barack Obama criticized the US in Germany and called himself “a citizen of the world.” I’m sorry, I want a president that is a citizen of the USA, and wants to promote freedom in the world regardless of the socialist, isolationist policies of the rest of the world. I won’t get into my defense of the Iraq war here, but only say we should not have a president that won’t let the opinion of anti-American socialist nations stop him from doing what’s right.
Revelation 11
In Revelation 11, the middle of the Tribulation, God’s prophets are killed “in front of the whole world.”
Never before this time has the ability existed to broadcast video of happenings to the entire world with only the delay of light travelling around the world. Via web cameras and CNN and other worldwide TV, there is the ability to see this in fulfillment of this prophecy.
Conclusion
Why am I writing this on politics realm? Because there are decisions being made by politicians today that take show we are closer to the end times. I don’t know if that road is 1 year long or 20 or 200 years long. I can tell you to be ready. Know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. If you don’t, remember what I wrote after your Christian acquaintances disappear in one instant.
And vote for John McCain. He can’t stop this from happening, but if we do get a one-world government and economy, he is the more likely of the two to keep us separate, if he’s here. He’s the most likely to lead a potentially split nation between the liberal elites in New York, where the UN would likely be the head of this one-world order, and those who value America’s independence from the world.
We live in a world folks, where a man can lead a terrorist organization for thirty years, negotiate a treaty while continuing to lead a terrorist group, and win the Nobel Peace Prize (Yassar Arafat).
We live in a world where a man that had a communist party leader as his “black mentor” while growing up in Hawaii (“Uncle Frank” in one of his books), spent two years as roommate to a radical Pakistani, worked to radicalize Chicago’s schools with an unrepentant terrorist, attended a church for 20 years led by an anti-American pastor that is friends with anti-Semitic Louis Farrakhan, sued banks to provide sub-prime mortgages to people who couldn’t afford it on behalf of ACORN, and trained ACORN activists, is leading the race to be President. The work he did in Chicago as a community organizer was under the rules of the book Rules for Radicals, in which the author, Saul Alinsky, dedicates the book to Satan?
This election is about a lot more than health care folks.
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Comment by S.L.
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Comment by JoshZ
get and read a book called "Anarchy and Christianity" by a guy named Jacques Ellul. You can get it for free (well, you can get the text for free) at the Jesus Manifesto.
Interesting argument, but I think that Luther put it fairly well. "God's will is unstoppable, and His council is perfect." - Bondage of the will. Somewhere at the front.
Honestly, I like Obama more than I like McCain, but that could be because he's more charismatic, and I'll admit that.
JZ
Comment by Andrew Biviano
I do wonder why you even bother with this blog and political activism. As your commenters said, if you hold the belief that "God's will is unstoppable" and "that this is prophecy fulfilled and we can do nothing," why worry about rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic? It seems akin to me staying with your family for a week and spending the entire time time trying to change the way you decorate your house and raise your kids. What business is it of mine and why would I bother, if I know that it will have no effect other than annoy you and if I 'm going to be gone soon anyway? Did you get heavily involved in Fresno city politics right before you moved away?
If you are going to be leaving the world to the rest of us soon, why are you meddling in our affairs? Why do you care whether we have a "socialist" economy if the entire economy will be destroyed? More to the point, if you are looking forward to the End Times and Jesus' return, why aren't you supprting the policies that you say will hasten it? It seems like politics would be as unimportant to you as a sporting event and you would spend all your energy helping other true believers prepare for the rapture instead of worrying about such pedestrian and temporary trivialities like tax rates and gay people. It's all very confusing.
So disregard my previous questions. Obviously our disagreements are on completely different planes. We clearly both have better things to do.
Comment by Jonathan Biviano
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People suggested the same things at the time of the Great Depression.
I must live as if it's going to be 2000 more years before the end, but know that it may only be 2000 more days.
I'm only making people aware of what Biblical prophecy says about the end times and suggesting these MAY be them. None of us, including me, can know the WHEN for sure.
I'm hoping that if the world does start looking like Daniel, Ezekiel, Matthew and Revelation, those that have read this will understand what's happening and turn to the Bible for answers.
I'd rather be warned a building may be on fire, than find out as the flames lick my body. Note that I wrote:
Comment by Jonathan Biviano
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I do understand, however, that I live in a world (evangelical Christianity) that is completely foreign to you. You do know I'm too smart to be brainwashed. I came to Christianity as a huge skeptic. The physical, historical and spiritual evidence is overwhelming, but you have to open your heart and mind to seeing it. I'm very glad I did over eighteen years ago.
I will pray that if I'm right, and every other Bible prophecy other than end times has happened, you will remember this when things go crazy and seek somebody to help you and your family understand it as well. If I'm wrong, well then I'll either see you in heaven eventually or turn to dust: Either way I won't care that you feel the way you do now.
After my experience at Willamette I know today's universities pound it into students' heads that people who incorporate faith into their world view to the extent we do are crazy and brainwashed. However, long before the "scientific community" admitted the world was round, the Jews taught that it was. The difference: the Jews weren't arrogant enough to put themselves at the center of the universe. Scientists have been wrong on "settled facts" so many times it's a wonder anybody trusts them anymore. The average temperature of the earth has cooled consistently for the last 9 years, but Al Gore and others say "the science is settled, there will be no more debate." The polar ice caps have been larger in winter compared to the previous year every year for several years now, yet we are to just swallow the science.
Yet the Bible has been consistently upheld by archaelogy and history where it can be proved. Where it can't there is as much evidence as the counter theories. Yet the one fact I know is that I've seen the power of God in the lives of people that psychiatry, medicine and science had no effect on. So I choose to live by faith.
Comment by Andrew Biviano
And I'm glad that you recognize this as faith and not fact and allow for the possibility of being wrong. You don't have to necessarily be right in order for faith to have a positive influence on your life. So many religions claim to have found the one and only Truth, implying that 99% of the people who have lived on Earth have been clueless. I find the arrogance staggering.
My hope for you is that you maintain the humility to be careful to not allow your faith to do harm to others. Certainty can be a very dangerous thing. Everyone on the 9/11 planes felt certain that they knew the one and only Truth and were doing God's work. The same is true for the torture and murder that Christians have committed in the Inquisition, Crusades, etc. You claimed earlier that every atheist society has committed genocide (disputable based on how closely one looks across all of history, as well as how one defines "atheist") but keep in mind the huge number of religious societies that have done so as well. People don't usually want to admit it, but their certainty in God's will is a critical trait that they share with suicide bombers and inquisitors. There are great differences in degree of course, but the trait needs to be constantly monitored.
So when you are making decision or speeches about issues that affect others, I ask that you be careful to separate what you believe from what you know. It's like the hippocratic oath: First Do No Harm. You acknowledged that you could be wrong, in which case we'll meet in heaven or turn to dust. But if we do meet in heaven and you find out you were wrong, will you have regrets? Of course you will have no regrets about faith guiding your values and passing them on to your children, but what about if you look back on a trail of doing harm to others based on what you thought was true? I'm talking about the effect that righteous holy condemnation has on gay people, poor, or other "sinful" people, who might turn out to be just fine in God's eyes. Or the effect of spewing righteous slurs and perjoratives at liberals, democrats, or public servants, because you are so certain that their views are devoid of any legitimacy or good intent. More generally, the effect of engaging in a cultural war, in disregard of Jesus' command to love and care for everyone, even the sinful, without preconditions.
In short, I only hope that you err on the side of caution, restraint, and love. I hope that you find ways to give people the benefit of the doubt, that you consider the possibility that the people who disagree with you might be just as holy, just as intelligent, and hold none of the ill motives you perceive. I hope that as a follower of Christ you adopt the same priorities he followed in his life: feeding and clothing the poor, curing the sick and loving the sinner, without seeking personal credit, without condemning, without condition. Only after this is done, if ever, should we turn to whether we approve of someone's sex life.
Perhaps you are this generous on a personal level, but your rants against redistribution, which is exactly what charity is and what Jesus commanded, are the opposite. I have a hard time believing that Jesus would be against the government attempting to end wars, provide health care to all and end poverty. I have a harder time believing that he would put gay marriage at the top of his political agenda, above ending poverty, as you and so many others have done. Of course there are legitimate policy differences with the current government's proposed means of caring for the sick and poor, but your critiques (without alternatives or even recognition of the importance of the goals) make you, and Christianity itself, look mean, petty, greedy and spiteful -- like the type of people who take glee and comfort in the thought of being whisked away to heaven while everyone else suffers for all eternity.
If you really want to change others, you should look at how others see you. It determines whether and how your message will be received. The choir appears to like your sermons. How's it going with everyone else?
Comment by Jonathan Biviano
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This is why Jesus didn't come to overthrow the Roman oppressors - he came to reach us on a PERSONAL level. We are to be personally charitable, generously so, but on a voluntary basis. Forced charity does neither the giver nor the receiver any good because it builds no community through relationships.
I pointed out in my comments on a different post, Americans, as individuals not including what the government gives, but just individuals to qualifying non-profits, are the most generous people on earth.
When government takes it over and confiscates wealth to hand out to THEIR winners and losers, not to the people we choose to help with OUR money that God has loaned to us, then it becomes about government power and control over those people. They can then run their elections on keeping the flow of that money to people.
Jesus never once said governments must take care of the poor and the widows. He said we as individuals must do it.
Yet Obama has in his budget a cut in the amount people can deduct for charitable giving. Why would you want to cut the tax benefits of charitable giving at a time when it is down anyways due to the economy? So that charities are more dependent on the government, and if they receive government money then they have to follow things like the "Freedom of Choice Act" and card check and whatever other rules the government wants to place on them to get the money.
The problem in America right now is not a lack of charity, it's that certain people in government resent individuals making those choices. I even had a discussion with a family member objecting to people being able to choose who they give their money to.
If you need any more evidence that the current liberal push is to control our lives, look at the control of the Catholic church that Connecticutt tried to put in before an uproar crushed it. The fact that they desired to do it and thought they had the votes to pass it is scary enough.
Comment by Andrew Biviano
This is an odd statement, and can't really be what you meant. If you are saying that the government should not serve the will of Jesus unless Jesus specifically assigned the job to government, than almost all of your other faith-based arguments fall down. Jesus also never said government should prevent abortion or civil gay marriage. He didn't even talk about those issues at all. We could all just as easily leave those choices to personal conscience, as you suggest we do with his command to care for the least among us.
Jesus never said that government should get involved in anything, really, but he spoke to what kind of society he wanted to create. So we all try to shape a government that reflects out values, most of which are formed by faith in Him. You seem to believe this even stronger than I do, as you argued earlier that the separation of church and state is just a fabrication of the ACLU. So naturally you seek to prevent the government from recognizing gay marriage, based on your faith-based view of marriage. And, unlike the gay rights movement, your side actually would like the government to put people in jail based on your faith -- opposition to early abortions is based on a completely faith-based and scientifically unprovable belief on when a human soul begins.
I get it and I approve of it. We believe in our values because we think they are good, and naturally we think the whole world would be better if these values were strengthened. I do the same thing. So when you seek to prevent abortion or different teachings in school, I appreciate that you do so with a sincere and good intent. I'll never tell you to believe something different and will fight for your right to do your own thing in your own house. When our beliefs conflict in the public square, I hope we can have a respectful exchange of ideas, in spite of the fringe groups slugging it out.
Yet, when people take the same approach you do and seek to create a nation that conforms to their view of Jesus, perhaps following his most explicit instruction to care for the least among us (by far the most common topic in his teachings), you don't give these people the respect I would expect for fellow loving Christians. No, they are called loaded derogatory terms like socialist (the right's answer to the slur "fascist"). They are accused of stealing your money, of railroading people, of not being smart or caring for our country.
This redistribution is done in a democratic fahion, based on the outcomes of elections or referendums. It applies to broad groups of people and provides assistance for all Americans that need it, not based on religion or color. Yet, you call it "OUR money" and "THEIR winners and losers," as if there was a coup rather than an election. The same could be said about attempts to affect OUR bodies and OUR love lives based on YOUR values. Or how about if everyone who didn't vote for President Bush can opt out of paying taxes toward the wars he started, since it's OUR money and YOUR wars? For some reason my side seems to understand how democracy works.
And let's not forget the limits of individual charity. It is wonderful and irreplacable. I agree with you in criticizing President Obama's plan to remove tex deductions, becaese I too want to keep encouraging private giving. But private giving is not always done in a cohesive fashion so it leaves people out. Government assistance programs only spring up where there is need, where private giving leaves gaps. Even with private charity there were thousands of seniors living in absolute poverty and literally starving, so we collectively and democratically approved of creating social security. Private giving still oculdn't prevent kids and adults in certain communities from dying of easily treatable diseases like asthma and diabetes, so we democratically approved medicaid and SCHIP. We didn't take money just from you to give it to poor people, a majority decided that these were good investments in our people and good things to do morally.
So spare me the martyrdom and drama. I've got a good job and pay plenty of taxes too. I am being a good capitalist, democratic American when I support plans to use OUR tax money (mine and yours) to create universal health care, because it follows what I think Jesus wants me to do and because I think it would make our country stronger. The same is true when I vote to give people with less than me a tax break because I think it wil help them move up economically and then pay more taxes later. I didn't approve of how the last president spent some of OUR tax money on things I didn't think were good ideas. But it didn't have to be a culture war. No liberals had to even mention violent rebellion, we just worked harder politically and elected new leaders.
And it looks like we'll stay in power for a long time. You guys have such an opportunity to reach people who are scared and offer constructive alternative solutions. Instead you take the Limbaugh approach of just villianizing more and screaming louder. The Newsweek cover article about Limbaugh by David Frum is right on. Even with the red map you like to point to, you guys got your asses kicked by a political newcomer by following his divisive approach and mocking even the idea of hope and change. Limbaugh even mocks people with Parkinson's. The RNC chairman has to apologize to a radio host! We couldn't ask for a better opponent politically, but it is a loss that so manysmart people have opted out of respectful discussion, which could be a big help right now.
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Comment by Jonathan Biviano
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Andrew, can you name one country with national health care where it isn't going bankrupt, or denying services, or having the people that can afford it travelling to US for care they can't get, or all three? There isn't one. In Japan if your waist is over a certain size or you have other certain failings, you can't get certain care. In the U.K. because their costs are going so high they are banning happy hour hoping to reduce liver psoriasis.
Socialism has NEVER worked. Not if measured against the opportunity and wealth generated in this country when the private sector is allowed to perform. The poorest people in America are in the top 2% of wealth compared to the world.
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I've said it many times Andrew. Government health care is available in Oregon, and they told a lady that they wouldn't cover her cancer medication but they would cover her euthanasia. The government is about to try to pass a badly named law "The Freedom of Choice Act" that would force all doctors and hospitals to offer abortion, no matter what their own moral compasses.
When the government gets involved, people can no longer follow their religious and moral objections, can no longer participate in the system if those in power decide it's not "politically correct."
Two doctors in California, in Sacramento a big city with LOTS of doctors, were told by the court they couldn't refuse to inseminate a lesbian that came to them. The doctors objected on religious grounds and BOTH of them provided her a list of doctors that WOULD do it for her. But she sued and won.
Government takes away freedom. Period. The more you put them in charge of, the more they use that power to create constituencies to keep themselves in power.
The media likes to throw out the 47 Million uninsured number all the times. But numerous studies, using Census Bureau numbers, show that if you take away illegal aliens (who only pay taxes like sales tax), people who can afford health insurance but choose not to get it, and people who only temporarily don't have it because they are between jobs, it comes to 8 Million.
And the number one reason it's so expensive is lawyers. I know you are one, but tort reform would make a huge difference. A huge portion of operating expenses for doctors comes from liability insurance.
There are also rules against individuals buying insurance across state lines . . .
Anyways, I'd like it if you read all of my posts, made notes of which you want to comment on, and then make your arguments. Most of what you've argued in your comments so far are things I've thoroughly addressed previously, including why government health care is a mistake.
As a parting shot, can you name ONE government run program or agency that isn't wasteful, full of fraud, or both? Even a Constitutionally mandated agency like the Post Office has been losing money for years. Medicaid has 31% fraud. The military has massive cost overruns. Social Security is gutted and cannot possibly meet it's obligations in the near future.
And you want them to be responsible for your medical care? We have the best medical care in the world in the U.S. because it's private sector.
Anyways, read the other stuff I've written, much of with documentation. Remember though, it's a mix of opinion and facts, and where possible I link to the facts.
Comment by Jonathan Biviano
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Drugs banned because they cost too much. Nobody can get them because people on the government dole can't. . . even if you can afford them.
Had to fight to get a drug unbanned
I know your heart is in the right place, but the government has never done it right. Ever.
Read Tom Dashle's book, yes the man who was going to be HHS Secretary, where he says we'll have to surrender some of the care we expect now and old people will have to accept they won't be able to get all the care for all the things they get it for now.
Want to give that up? It's easy when you're young and healthy. What if the government decides epilepsy is too expensive to treat or that a new wonder drug for it is too expensive so they ban it? Do you want to have to fight that?
Comment by S.L.
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Comment by Jonathan Biviano
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How does giving over the care of those in need to the government meet that goal? If the government increases our taxes so we have less to give, takes away the tax breaks for giving, and takes over meeting EVERY physical need, why do those people need God? How many people will you win to Jesus because you paid taxes so HHS could provide their health care?
You change people's hearts one-on-one, reaching them through small local charitable efforts, not from some HHS bureaucrat with a mandate to hold down costs.
You may meet the physical needs Christ called for us to meet, but you will never meet the spiritual needs.
And then churches and other charities become the competition to the growth of the government agency, hiring more bureaucrats, etc. That is why Obama wants to reduce the tax credits for charitable deductions - start eliminating the competition.
When people were hungry or needed other financial help, they went to their local church. That church can then tend to other non-physical needs, from mental health to salvation. Now they get a pre-loaded card from some government agency with no other needs being met that could help them move beyond their current state.
Government agencies had their budget increased 8% in the last Omnibus Spending Bill. How many other people or businesses are increasing 8% right now? Who's going to pay for it? Government is only about getting bigger, not better or faster or more efficient. They don't need to, especially if they have the power.