WHEN PENGUINS FLEW AND WATER BURNED This is the true memoir of one US Air Force navigator’s journey from the schoolhouses of Air Training Command to the nuclear alerts of the Cold War to combat in a 35-year-old anachronism called the B-52. It is a first-hand account of life during the last days of Strategic Air Command, the early days of Air Combat Command and the ensuing military drawdown of the 1990s. From peacetime training exercises across the globe to combat operations in Desert Storm, Jim Clonts takes the reader inside the cockpit where life and death are seconds apart. Often comical, sometimes heart-pounding, other times tragic, WHEN PENGUINS FLEW AND WATER BURNED takes you into the world of military aviation, a crucible where warriors learn the true nature of character, conscience and mortality.

Friends of Liberty VOL 22
by Jim Clonts, 2009

09/06/2009

Beware of the phrase "for the good of society." This and several other phrases like it are used by the Democrats to create "moral imperatives" for action on nearly all of their agenda. For the good of society rarely means for the good of the individual, in fact, it usually means for the good of the Government. Do you ever hear the Government say a new program will be good for the individual? Some would say that the term society is simply plural for the individual. Make no mistake, the Government does not view this nation as 300 million individuals. The Government's true measure of Society is what the Individual is expected to sacrifice for the collective good.

We hear there are millions of uninsured citizens, so for the good of society, we need Government health insurance. Why doesn't the government address the problems of those individuals and leave the rest of us alone? These people could be fully covered using a minute percentage of the stimulus bill. Why is taking me off my healthcare plan a moral imperative? How is my going on the Government plan going to help society or even those people who can't get insurance?

We hear that as a society we spend too much on healthcare. Do you really believe that if your employer drops your coverage and you go on the Government plan, the company will be allowed to realize larger profits? Do you believe Government won't tax them in some way to get that money? Do you really believe you'll get to keep the money you once paid in insurance premiums? Society will demand you sacrifice it.

Here is the simple truth to the question of why 100% of us must go on the Government plan to ensure 10% more of us get covered: Government wants control of the dollars in healthcare and control of our lives on a very basic level. We are expected to sacrifice. The individual must give up their healthcare and their money for the good of society as a whole, otherwise called the collective.

But President Obama says a Public Option will be a net zero impact on the budget. We won't have to raise taxes because the Government will save money over the Private Sector by increasing efficiency and reducing waste." Consider just how ludicrous this actually sounds. The Government is going to pay for a program that will replace one-sixth of our entire economy and that won't have an impact on the budget? Does it also mean that taking profit out of one-sixth of our economy will have no impact on Federal tax revenues? We won't have to raise taxes on the other five-sixths? The Private Sector, with hundreds of insurance companies in cut-throat competition with each other, are on the whole less efficient than our Federal Government?

Even if the Government takes all of the money previously paid to insurance companies by yourself and your employers, do you really believe it can provide the healthcare you presently enjoy, while expanding the insured population by 47 million people, all the while "putting the squeeze" on healthcare providers , as President Obama has said.

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, one of President Obama's medical advisors and brother of Chief of Staff Rohm Emanuel, understands what will be required of the individual to sacrifice for the good of Society:

"Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely 'lipstick' cost control, more for show and public relations than for true change."

"Savings will require changing how doctors think about their patients. Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others." (Journal of the American Medical Association, June 18, 2008).

Dr. Emanuel shows he understands the Obama Plan.

I always hear this question from enlightened liberals: why is the United States the only modern, industrialized nation without nationalized healthcare? The answer is simple: we are the only country that still respects the rights of the individual and believe those rights comes from God, not from Government. Are you ready to sacrifice your individuality for Society? Are you ready to become a liability for the Government, rather than a customer of the healthcare industry?

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