The Fix is In Really It Is, Trust Me…

November 20, 2013November 20, 2013Allen Frederick 7 Comments

Psalm 94:20 (HCSB)
²⁰ Can a corrupt throne— one that creates trouble by law— become Your ally?

ObamaCare Fix as Bad as ObamaCare Itself | FrontPage Magazine
Wed Nov 20 2013 18:36:07 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)

Last Thursday, to extricate himself from the political consequences of repeatedly and shamelessly lying to the American public, President Obama proposed a “fix” to ObamaCare. ”Insurers can extend current plans that otherwise would be canceled into 2014 and Americans whose plans have been canceled can choose to re-enroll in the same kind of plan,” the president said. ”This fix won’t solve every problem for every person, but it’s going to help a lot of people. Doing more would require work with Congress,” he added, again dismissing the legislative branch of government as an unnecessary impediment to implementing his agenda. Unfortunately for millions of Americans, the fix is as disastrous as ObamaCare itself.

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/obamacare-fix-as-bad-as-obamacare-itself/

Who can forget all the promises made by Obama while trying to enact the ObamaNoCare act which he wanted to fool the American citizens into embracing. If you have forgotten here is a recap of all the lies that were sold to the American people.

Democrats feel political heat despite ObamaCare ‘fix’ | Fox News
Wed Nov 20 2013 18:55:29 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)

President Obama’s fix to reverse millions of insurance cancellation notices may have eased slightly the pressure he faces, but Democrats at state level still face political trouble and fear what it may mean for the 2014 midterm elections.

One such Democrat is West Virginia Rep. Nick Rahall. The 19-term veteran, a perennial target in a GOP-shifting state, was one of many Democrats who recited to constituents Obama’s assurance that they could keep insurance coverage they liked under the 2010 health care overhaul.

This promise proved untrue and ignited an uproar that eventually forced Obama to reverse himself and on Thursday propose the fix that he claims will allow consumers to keep their plans. The debacle has sent many Democrats scrambling into political self-preservation mode ahead of the 2014 elections.

Rahall was among 39 Democrats who, despite a Obama veto threat, voted Friday for a Republican measure that would let insurers continue selling policies to individuals that fall short of the health care law’s requirements. It was approved 261-157.

“I’m concerned about my integrity with voters who have returned me here for 38 years. They know me enough to know I wouldn’t purposely mislead them,” Rahall said this past week. “They have that confidence in me, and I want them to continue to have that confidence in me.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/11/16/democrats-still-feeling-political-heat-despite-obamacare-fix/

We simply can not trust those who lied to us repeatedly to fix the mess they created. Are we really that gullible to expect these lying politicians to actually care about what is good and right after spending so much political capital to sell us on this huge FAIL? If they lied to us to implement this mess do you really think they intend to tell us the truth about fixing it?

All this talk about a ObamaNoCare fix is simply political posturing in hopes that ‘we the people’ will forget how we got this nightmare in the first place. The only thing these lying politicos want to fix is their own campaigns and political aspirations.

Instead of real solutions we are being bombarded with show trials, phony House bills, and a constant barrage of the airwaves with all the ills of ObamaNoCare while these same news outlets were complicit in the implementation of this disaster from day one. When someone actually did stand up and to shed some truth on this disaster the media shouted them down and berated their character.

Ezekiel 34:18-19 (GW)
¹⁸ Isn’t it enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you trample the rest of the pasture with your feet? You drink clean water. Must you muddy the rest of the water with your feet?
¹⁹ Must my sheep eat what your feet have trampled and drink what your feet have muddied?

As usual the ones who pass these laws make sure that they do not have to abide by them but make sure that the rest of us do. These politicians have theirs and then they trample all over the good grain so as not to leave anything behind for the rest of us. It is they who are causing all the ills in our society, and yet they wipe their mouths and say don’t look at me.

America we have bigger problems to contend with than just Obamacare. We must not forget about Solyndra, Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the IRS Scandal, and NSA snooping. The fact is if there wasn’t so much lawlessness happening on all levels of government a horror story like Obamacare would never have happened. But it did because of all the kick-backs. buy-backs, threats, and strong-armed tactics of those pushing for more and more power over individuals.

When most people think of tyranny, and totalitarian government, they think of rigid rules and harshly enforced laws. But what tyranny and big government really involves in the majority of cases is a lot of politically connected law breakers. Regulations offer opportunities for bribery or kickbacks in many ways. Laws can be selectively enforced so that some criminals get protection and offer an unofficial income stream to the ones responsible for enforcing the law. In a democracy, criminals can get the vote out in neighborhoods and then expect favors in return from the winning candidate.

This is political life as usual especially in urban areas where unions make sure that ‘their man or woman’ gets elected to keep up their grip on the purse strings of the well-connected. These racketeers pay off politicians to receive favorable laws or regulations that punish their competition and rewards them with graft and kick-backs, in return they fill the coffers of the politicians and the cycle starts all over again.

We really ought not to be surprised by any of this since this is how things work in D.C.

Yes my friends all is not well in America, and to remedy our ills we need to swallow the painful pill of truth. Washington is not the cure to what ails us it is the cause. And those who made the mess are not qualified to clean up the mess since they really like muddying things up.

This is a view from the nest. And that’s the way I see it, what say you?

But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness. _{Isaiah 40:31 (BBE)}

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Bait and Switch: In Pursuit of YOUR Happiness

November 10, 2013March 30, 2014Allen Frederick 1 Comment

Health Care for All! L1190421 (Photo credit: erlin1)

noun

: a selling method in which a customer is attracted by the advertisement of a low-priced product but then is encouraged to buy a more expensive one

: a sales tactic in which a customer is attracted by the advertisement of a low-priced item but is then encouraged to buy a higher-priced one

2 : the ploy of offering a person something desirable to gain favor (as political support) then thwarting expectations with something less desirable

“If your child asks you for bread, would any of you give him a stone? ¹⁰ Or if your child asks for a fish, would you give him a snake? ¹¹ Even though you’re evil, you know how to give good gifts to your children. So how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him? Matthew 7:9-11 (GW)

“Bait and switch” is a well-known deception used by con artists who promise a non-existent good deal and then switch to what they call a better deal that is neither needed nor desired by their “mark.”

Our health care political hucksters are the latest to try this shameful stunt. They told us, repeatedly, “You can keep your plan and your doctor if you like them, I promise, period!”

But with the new law being implemented we find that, all along, it was written in such a way that possibly millions will have no alternative but to switch to different government-mandated, undesired plans.

In response, some ranking politicians say it’s all for our own good, which reminds us of their end game — to implement a “single payer system” managed by the federal government. It will then be obvious that there is no escape from the government-mandated plan whether you like your plan or not.

They promise freedom, but they themselves are slaves of sin and corruption. For you are a slave to whatever controls you. 2 Peter 2:19 (NLT)

This is not the first time nor will it be the last time that “big government” will promise some grand idea that is supposed to make life better for those who are forced to take part. There is a long list of broken promises and “bait and switch” programs that have proven to be “not as advertised”.

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ObamaScare’s House of Horrors

November 2, 2013April 14, 2014Allen Frederick Leave a comment

Just when you thought it was safe, after having been lulled to sleep, the nightmares are about to begin.

Something wicked this way comes hiding deep inside the belly of the beast we know as ObamaScare. Whether or not the website problems get fixed there is no escape from this horror show coming to your house. This nightmare will have you missing sleep for many days to come.

By now almost everyone has heard the horror stories since the roll-out of ObamaScares sign-up began. Well fasten your seat-belts because the horror show has just started and there are many more scarey stories to come. If you have not been sufficiently scared off by the initial phase of the ObamaScare road show, brace yourself for even greater horrors to come.

First up huge deductibles:When consumers finally do get onto the Healthcare.gov website, they are in for a new kind of sticker shock. Avik Roy of the Manhattan Institute has exposed the high cost of Obamacare premiums — the next price shock will be the whopping cost of the deductibles.A Chicago Tribune analysis showed that 21 of the 22 lowest-priced plans offered for Cook County residents on the Illinois exchange have annual deductibles of more than $4,000 for an individual and $8,000 for family coverage.(Deductibles are the money consumers must spend on health care before most insurance benefits kick in.)

The huge deductibles along with the hefty premiums turns what once was a health insurance plan into a self-insurance plan. When you add up the premiums you must pay, and then add in the huge deductible, plus the additional out-of-pocket expense to pay the co-pay in any given year it maybe cheaper to simply pay for your health expenses as they occur and put the premiums you would have paid into a HSA (health savings account) for future expenses. But since Obamascare is now a MANDATE and you MUST buy a policy you are being forced to part with your money to essentially get absolutely nothing in return.Why are these premiums so high, this policy design is a direct result of the law’s instructions about the percentage of average health costs that insurance must cover (60 percent for Bronze, up to 90 percent for Platinum plans).

ObamaScare #2 Will people pay?

The Congressional Budget Office expects 7 million people to enroll in health insurance through the exchanges by 2014, and it needs about 2.7 million of them to be “young healthies” who will enroll, and pay premiums that are higher than their age or health status would warrant because of the law’s regulations. Enough Americans may enroll, but will they keep up with their premiums month after month?

The first month of the new health law’s rollout reveals an unexpected pattern in several states: a crush of people applying for an expansion of Medicaid and a trickle of sign-ups for private insurance.

This early imbalance — in some places, nine out of 10 enrollees are in Medicaid — has taken some experts by surprise. I guess they really where not experts after-all if they could not have foreseen that the FREE MEDICAID plans would see an influx of sign-ups while the EXPENSIVE private-care plans would not. I personally believe that this was the plan all along, to make it as easy for people to sign-up for the FREE PLAN and as difficult and unaffordable as possible for everyone else because the end game is to get everyone under a Federally run and administered health-care plan.

Low enrollment in private insurance, meanwhile, could increase premiums as it would likely indicate that only sick people, who really need coverage, were signing up. And the experts could not foresee this? Really those of us who are not experts knew this was going to happen.

ObamaScare #3 Attracting the sickest:

Sicker Americans, with high health costs, are the ones most determined to get through the Healthcare.gov website to enroll. If they dominate enrollment, premiums will have to rise in 2015, discouraging even more young healthies from applying in the future. The industry calls this a “death spiral.”

Again couldn’t the experts predict this? I believe they did know all this and it did not matter because once again this whole nightmare is not about providing the best possibly program for the most American citizens, the current private-sector programs would not have been tampered with, what it is about is gaining control of an individuals health-care.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/361946/top-ten-obamacare-disasters-come-grace-marie-turner

Need proof?

Thousands get health insurance cancellation notices

Oct. 18, 2013 at 2:55 PM ET Health plans are sending hundreds of thousands of cancellation letters to people who buy their own coverage, …

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Health plans are sending hundreds of thousands of cancellation letters to people who buy their own coverage, frustrating some consumers who want to keep what they have and forcing others to buy more costly policies.

The main reason insurers offer is that the policies fall short of what the Affordable Care Act requires starting Jan. 1. The new policies supposedly will offer consumers better coverage, in some cases, for comparable cost — especially after the inclusion of federal subsidies for those who qualify. Now that is a big caveat, if you do not qualify for a federal subsidy (read taxpayer support) then your premiums will most likely be much higher.

So now you are not only paying for your own plan, plus those who are already on Medicaid, now you are going to be asked to help pay for your neighbors plans as well. Face it folks we are being seen as a REVENUE source and not as individual human beings with lives. We are being subjected to this tyranny.The law requires policies sold in the individual market to cover 10 “essential” benefits, such as prescription drugs, mental health treatment and maternity care, whether you need them or not. That’s right guys your policies will now have to cover your maternity care. What you say you do not need maternity care? Too bad you will have to buy it anyway.

In addition less expensive alternative plans are being outlawed.

ObamaScare #4 Less Expensive Plans Vanish

As previously stated since these “catastrophic” health plans do not contain the “required” basic coverages they are not permitted to be sold. And despite Obama’s continued claims that if you like your policy you can keep your policy, you can not.

ObamaScare #5 Families lose out:

Obamacare’s subsidies will mean that the federal tax code’s existing marriage penalty will get much bigger for certain Americans, especially older, middle-income couples. Families will have to reckon with the fact that remaining married could cost them $10,000 a year or more because single people with lower incomes qualify for bigger subsidies.

Massive Marriage Penalties in Obamacare Health Insurance Exchanges

On the Obamacare health insurance exchanges, being married can cost you a lot. Get divorced (or avoid getting married, if you live togeth…

Hans Bader

ObamaScare #6 More Jobs to be lost:

The Obama administration delayed for a year reporting requirements for the mandate that companies provide health insurance for their employees. But with those provisions coming into effect in 2015, employers will continue to restructure their businesses to stay under 50 employees and push workers under 30 hours a week to avoid the hefty fines that will be used to enforce this regulation.

Andrew Puzder, chief executive of CKE Restaurants, wrote in The Wall Street Journal that “the evidence that Obamacare is having a negative impact on hiring is unequivocal, abundant and consistent with common sense.” Job creation will continue to suffer.

ObamaScare #7 Identity Theft and Fraud will explode

Tens of thousands of “navigators,” “assisters,” and other agents are being hired, generally by nonprofit organizations, to help people apply. They will be gathering personal information, such as one’s Social Security number, address, income, employer’s name and address, children’s names and birthdates, and health habits, to find out if you qualify for Obamacare subsidies. Others are going door-to-door to get people enrolled, and there is no easy way of determining if the person at your door is legitimate. While these aides do receive some training, they’re not professionally licensed and don’t go through the background checks required of insurance agents and brokers. Even temporary census workers had to meet tougher standards.

The Obama Administration itself is warning that con artists will take advantage of confusion over the law to steal people’s identities.Beyond the potential for one-on-one fraud, security may be inadequate in the giant government “data hub.” This warehouse of detailed personal information of everyone in the exchanges will be available to people in many different government agencies. The security of that database still has not been independently tested and verified.The risks of potential identity theft are very real, and 13 attorneys general have expressed deep concerns about the security of the exchanges’ information. When this starts happening, it will generate a new wave of negative coverage of the law.

Lawmakers seek answers on Obamacare Data Hub security

Ask HHS for information on access controls, monitoring tools, and the measures used to protect against cyberattacks Computerworld – Two R…

Jaikumar Vijayan

ObamaScare #8 Repaying Federal Subsidies

It’s going to be very important to accurately indicate annual income on one’s insurance application. Those who understate income, either because their situation changes or they reported inaccurate information, and therefore get a larger subsidy than they are entitled to will be required to repay the excess, possibly amounting to thousands of dollars. And since the IRS is in charge of enforcing compliance you can see how this is going to end badly for the individual

ObamaScare #9 Losing your Doctor

To keep rates from going even higher, insurance companies have limited the doctors and hospitals patients can visit.

Many insurers have opted to limit their selection of doctors in some exchange plans to keep premiums and other costs down. And they are also excluding large academic medical centers, which are often pricier because they tackle sicker patients and more complex cases.

“The sticker price will be lower if the number of options are lower,” said Joe Mondy, a spokesman with Cigna (CI, Fortune 500), which is participating in five state exchanges. “The issue is how many options can you do without?”

For example, WellPoint (WLP, Fortune 500), a Blue Cross Blue Shield insurer that offers policies in 14 states, is narrowing its networks in many markets after research showed consumers care more about the price than the provider.

In areas with a heavy concentration of doctors, WellPoint might offer Obamacare plans with only half the number of doctors available in its off-exchange plans, said Colin Drozdowski, vice president of provider engagement and contracting. But where there’s less choice, the network might be only 10% to 20% smaller.

Insurers are also restricting participants access to doctors through HMO plans that don’t offer out-of-network benefits. So patients have to stick to a certain set of physicians and hospitals or foot the full bill themselves.

ObamaScare #9 Doctor choice in Obamacare? Not so much

Many insurers have opted to limit their selection of doctors in some exchange plans to keep premiums and other costs down. And they are a…

And ObamaScare #10 Customer Service Nightmares

If they could not get the website to work can you imagine the nightmare awaiting you if you actually have a health related problem and need to contact someone ASAP?

[4:09:56 pm]: Thanks for contacting Health Insurance Marketplace Live Chat. Please wait while we connect you to someone who can help.[4:09:59 pm]: Please be patient while we’re helping other people.
…..
[4:29:20 pm]: Please be patient while we’re helping other people.
[4:29:50 pm]: Please be patient while we’re helping other people.
[4:30:27 pm]: Welcome! You’re now connected to Health Insurance Marketplace Live Chat.Thanks for contacting us. My name is PGSTX0534. To protect your privacy, please don’t provide any personal information, like Social Security Number, or any other sensitive medical or personal information. (after you spent hours inputting all that information into the exchange website)

[4:30:51 pm]: PGSTX0534
Hello, how may I help you today?

[4:31:12 pm]: Alice

My information is not recording correctly in the summary of my application[4:32:21 pm]: PGSTX0534

Thanks for your interest in the Health Insurance Marketplace. We have a lot of visitors trying to use our website right now. That is causing some glitches for some people trying to create accounts or log in. Keep trying, and thanks for your patience. We’ll continue working to improve the site so you can get covered

[4:32:40 pm]: Alice what does that mean?

[4:32:52 pm]: Alice
It says my application is “in Progress”

[4:33:12 pm]: Alice
Does that mean it is not completed and I can continue to try to edit it?

[4:34:14 pm]: PGSTX0534
Thank you. One moment please while I look that up.

[4:36:19 pm]: PGSTX0534
The only way we can see your application is you will have to call The Health Insurance Marketplace Call Center at 1-800-318-2596. We are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to assist you.

[4:36:47 pm]: Alice
What does the Chat Service do then?

Alice it does nothing it only makes you feel better that you actually talked to someone. They are not concerned about you and your well being.

President Obama said that buying insurance through the exchanges would be like shopping at Amazon.com. We all know how “truthful” Obama is by now right? Instead of simply clicking a few buttons online, many people will spend hours following up with phone calls, emails, and faxes. As recently as two weeks ago, government software couldn’t reliably tell people the correct price for their insurance or their subsidies. Again all of this is by design, because the end result is the government wants as many people enrolled in a Federal Insurance plan like Medicaid so as to make it almost impossible for any future congress to end the program. This nightmare is going to have more sequels then Freddy Kruger.

Here’s How Well Obamacare’s Customer-Service Live Chat Works

The site failed to record her information correctly and she could not alter the incorrect information it’d recorded, so “Alice” went …

Thanks for visiting the ObamaScare House of Horrors. Our aim is to SCARE you to death so that we do not have to pay for your medical care. Thanks for your contribution to our campaign.

And this has been a “View From the Nest”.

But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness. Isaiah 40:31 (BBE)

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The Times They are a Changing

October 27, 2013October 27, 2013Allen Frederick 7 Comments

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:

English: Vineyard in Napa Valley (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I really enjoy the smell of burning leaves wafting through the air at the arrival of fall. Living in Western Pennsylvania I am blessed with a change of seasons 4 times a year. We have the bleakness of winter with a countryside blanketed in white, melting into the beauty of spring and a countryside bedazzled with brilliant colors. Summertime rolls in and backyards are alive with outdoor activity, barbecues ablaze, swimming pools overflowing with those who are attempting to escape hot and humid evenings. We return full-circle back to fall and the brilliant colors of the changing leaves

Nature teaches us that there is a season and a time for everything. Scripture amplifies this theme of nature by declaring that indeed there is a time for everything and a season for every activity under heaven.

It is natural for nature to revolve in cycles because the Earth’s orbit revolves in a cycle which leads to our seasons. With just casual observation we can see the cycles of life, a time to be born a time to die, a time to plant a time to reap what was planted, a time to gather and a time to scatter, a time to build-up and a time to tear down. All this reflects the cycle of life. A modern-day idiom goes something like this, there’s nothing as constant as change. In fact the only thing we can really count on is that things will change. Without change there’s no room for anything new. The very purpose of fall is for old leaves to make way for new leaves that will appear in the spring. It is the order of life for the old to make way for the new.

Although things change some things remain constant; gravity and the laws of nature and of nature’s God. In order to support the changes of life, some things must remain constant and without change. If there were not gravity than life as we know it would not exist. If the earth did not rotate on it’s axis there would be no night and day, and if the earth stopped revolving around the sun the seasons would come to an end.

It is with that thought in mind that I address a rather disturbing trend in our society. Things that should not change are being changed and those changes are occurring rapidly, while at the same time things that ought to change are being held as sacred. The latter being etched in stone, while that which was actually etched in stone is being done away with.

All earthly governments, principalities, and powers, from the beginning until now, are uniformly represented in the Scriptures as wild beasts, full of destructive savageness and offensive uncleanness. It is but folly and fanaticism for men to talk of Christian states and governments in this world. Christians and good men may be concerned in their administration, and Christian ideas may sometimes temper their enactments, but earthly states and governments themselves are not Christian, and in the nature of things cannot be. They are all the products of devastated nature’s wilds, and full of ungodliness. Fix it as we may, such is the result. The best-planned institutions and the wisest laws are ever disappointing their framers. The same can be said of the United States government.

It is not surprising then to find the Sovereign Law of the Land, our Constitution, being ravaged and rewritten with hellacious fervor, the fact is the very law which God Himself delivered on etched stone from Sinai’s thunder-shaken heights could not restrain mankind from its sinful destructive nature.

Many revolutions have been wrought, and men have labored, and sacrificed, and bled, and died to achieve freedom and just governance, believing that they would secure the precious boon for which the race has sighed and cried for ages; but it was only a rearrangement of the chairs on the deck of the Titanic, an exercise in futility.

In our day especially, people are looking and longing for a grand “United Nations’, shaped to populism, and compacted by common laws, special interests, in which ‘enlightened’ ideas shall rule, and all the world be one; but the result will be, the very embodiment of hell itself, full of blasphemy and lies. Good shall be called evil and that which is evil will be exalted as good.

Revolutions, fundamental transformation, progressivism and liberal ideologies, which seek to overturn old creeds, and revise the Decalogue by introducing vain philosophies of men with its attempts to rule out a personal God and exalt self in His place, and all man’s foolhardy ideas to reconstruct society, much as they may promise, and successfully tug at the heart, are in the end destined to fail.

Indeed all who delight in piety and are determined to live a devoted and godly life in Christ Jesus will meet with persecution [will be made to suffer because of their religious stand]. But wicked men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and leading astray others and being deceived and led astray themselves. 2 Timothy 3:12-13 (AMP)

What ought we to do then as Christians living in a fallen world being ruled by fallen men whose hearts and minds are being deceived and growing worse and worse? Should we simply throw our hands up in defeat? One could come to that conclusion when we review the events that took place in our country just last week. A couple of lone Senators stood-up to declare that the road we are traveling is ruinous and we need to go in an entirely new direction, only to find themselves shouted down and demeaned for having the audacity to stand-up for what they believed to be right. These men and women of courage took a stand to face down the evil ideologies of those who are trying, and succeeding in fundamentally transforming our society. The few stood tall calling for a change. They wanted to change course and try something different only to be told that what is, is ‘settled law’, written in stone, not to be undone by them or anyone else. There was nothing they could do. So we might as well surrender and sit down and shut-up.

Most thinking people could easily argue that when a product proves defective you repair, replace, or junk the product and try something else, only in government is it ever wrong to ask for a change, to argue for a better outcome, to dare to seek to right a wrong. Although our Constitution allows ‘we the people’ to ‘Petition the Government for a Redress of Grievances’ we are forbidden to do so in all actuality. When Senator Ted Cruz stood to protest Obamacare he was standing for many American people who felt they were being wronged by their government and as such was asking for redress, only to be ignored.

Things need to change in D.C. there is no doubt about it, but things also need to change in the heartland of America. We need to regain our ‘righteous’ footing and restore the sure foundations upon which we wish to build our society. We can not continue to allow the wholesale slaughter of innocent children, and the destruction or should I say the reconstruction of the family unit to go unchallenged. This must not be acceptable by those who call themselves Christian. I am afraid that there are too many “Christian” in name only who are siding with the destruction of our society and enabling those in power to continue their onslaught.

We do need to choose sides, stand with the Lord and his laws or stand with those who are actively doing all they can to erase any mention of God from our society. In the end there will only be two camps. Those who are standing with the Lord when he returns and those who will be fighting against the Lord. Which side do you suppose comes out victorious?

The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all causes of offense [persons by whom others are drawn into error or sin] and all who do iniquity and act wickedly, And will cast them into the furnace of fire; there will be weeping and wailing and grinding of teeth. Then will the righteous (those who are upright and in right standing with God) shine forth like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Let him who has ears [to hear] be listening, and let him consider and perceive and understand by hearing. Matthew 13:41-43 (AMP)

Yes indeed things will change, and a law will be established, that which was sent down from heaven will once again become the chief cornerstone, the rock that the builders of our current societal structure have rejected. God’s law is the only one that is ‘settled’. it is good policy then to stand for the unshakable, immovable, written in stone, unalterable, that which is sure to remain. With whom will you be standing?

“All flesh is as grass, And all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, And its flower falls away, But the word of the LORD endures forever.” 1 Peter 1:24-25 (NKJV

And that is the way I see it.

But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness. Isaiah 40:31 (BBE)

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What Are You Really Worth?

August 1, 2013August 1, 2013Allen Frederick Leave a comment

Romans 12:3 (BBE)
³ But I say to every one of you, through the grace given to me, not to have an over-high opinion of himself, but to have wise thoughts, …

Proverbs 21:2 (AMP)
² Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs and tries the hearts.

More than 100 people were protesting outside a McDonald’s in south St. Louis at lunchtime Monday, the first in a series of wildcat strikes and walkouts that are planned to ripple across the region over the next two days.

The protests are part of a national campaign to push for higher wages for fast-food workers and are expected to hit dozens of stores between now and the end of the day Tuesday, culminating in a rally downtown in Kiener Plaza. The fast-food protests are being organized by local labor and church groups and are taking place in six other cities this week as well.

Workers are advocating for wages of up to $15 per hour, a hike to Missouri’s $7.35 per hour minimum wage and the right to form a union without retaliation.

In an interview Monday morning, one of the strikers, 19-year-old Doneshia Babbitt, said she hopes the protests will draw attention to the challenges of making ends meet on jobs that pay less than $8 an hour with no benefits.

“I hope this helps people understand, I hope they get the picture,” said Babbitt, who’ll be a senior at Jennings High School in the fall, along with her 20-year-old sister, helps support three younger siblings on a job at McDonald’s. “A lot of people working these jobs really need the money.”

To add insult to injury along comes a Democrat who is quick to see that ‘no crisis so go to waste’, and steps in to offer his brilliant assessment of the situation.

Georgia Rep. Hank Johnson, a Democrat from the Atlanta area, flew in to lend his support as well and said federal legislation is needed to reform an industry that profits handsomely off the backs of low-wage workers.

“It’s obscene,” he said, pointing to profits and executive pay at big fast-food companies. “And it’s not the kind of system that’s working for people.” (emphases mine)

Now I need to pause for a moment and let you digest this. Take your time, I know for some this can be difficult to grasp. The concept of minimum wages and how one gains work experience is hard for the ill-informed to get their heads around. Too many have been brainwashed into believing that everyone, regardless of ability, want, effort, knowledge, understanding, education, or work ethic should be treated exactly the same. There should be no difference between a highly paid skilled worker and an unskilled laborer. Both have a job so they both should earn equal pay.

I know that is overly simplistic but I really want to highlight my point here. Both the protestor and the Democrat operative haven’t a clue on how our economy works. The labor unions wise to corral more members so they incite a crowd by stirring up trouble. They point to differences and say HEY it is not fair, let us represent you so that you too can be treated fairly. Only to end up slaves to a union.

Not wishing to see a crisis go to wastes quick on the scene is a Democrat lawmaker promising that Washington DC will make all ills go away by passing yet another grievance bill in the name of fairness.

So far the actors in this drama are our usual suspects. Labor union thugs, their hired rent a mob, and democrat operatives. One unusual participant however is church groups. This article does not say who these church groups are but I have my suspicions. If I were to take a guess I would say that they represented a minority church led by a “black liberation theology preacher” in the likes of say a Rev Al Sharpton or Rev Jeremiah Wright.

By focusing the attention of the mob, hyped up by cries of unfairness, one big FACT is totally over-looked. In fact it is so in your face it is hard to miss but since these racketeers are masters at redirection and deception, the benefits of working for a particular ‘fast-food’ company is purposely diminished. And yet the Democrat lawmaker spelled it out quite nicely when he said:

“It’s obscene,” he said, pointing to profits and executive pay at big fast-food companies. “And it’s not the kind of system that’s working for people.”

Apparently executives at fast-food companies are paid very handsomely for their work. I wonder how many of them started out flipping burgers and frying potatoes for minimum wage? I am sure not all of these executives started their careers making handsome salaries. Apparently working for a fast-food company is working for someone because there are highly paid executives in the industry. If there was no UPWARD mobility or advancement opportunities available to them I would doubt if they would have remained employed there.

Minimum wage jobs are not designed to make ends meet. They are designed to offer low-skilled, or unskilled labor an opportunity to learn a trade or business and advance to a better paying job or career path. They are not intended to be a career choice but rather a career launching pad.

I do find it a bit amusing to find a Democrat hawking higher wages when they are the ones who continually push for the importation of low-skilled, low wage workers into the country by the millions.

Not everyone believes they ought to be paid huge salaries for doing very little. There are some and will continue to be those who seem to think that just by virtue of them being alive they are owed something. They seem to value themselves quite handsomely and place a high dollar value on what they feel their contribution to society is. Just don’t ask them to actually work for anything.

Note to the strikers. If you really want to have a better paying job, then may I suggest you do a better job of being the best employee at your work place and make yourself indispensable to the organization. Learn all you can, do all you can do, become the best you can be at whatever job you are doing.