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Follow the [European] Leader?

October 13, 2012 in Charitable Social Services, Contributors, Economic Policy, Health Care, Monica Frede, Restoring Family, Restoring God

By Monica Frede Last week, many pundits commented on the New York Times op-ed that vindicated Sarah Palin’s infamous “death panels” that drew scrutiny from Democrats and moderate Republicans during the ObamaCare debates of 2009. See, Republicans boasted, she was right all along! Even the New York Times admits that there will be rationing. Yes, Steven Rattner did write in his op-ed that “unless we start allocating health care resources more prudently—rationing, by its proper name—the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the federal budget.” Yes, Rattner did write that “elderly Americans are not entitled to every conceivable medical procedure or pharmaceutical.” And yes, he also stated that families that try every available treatment option to extend or improve the life of their elderly relatives are “an enormous societal cost that few other nations have been willing to bear.”

Tags: advisory board, American exceptionalism, britain, business, charity, community, congress, conservative, constitution, death panels, elderly, fiscal cliff, founders, george washington, government, health care, liberty, national health service, obama, obamacare, principle, progressivism, rationed care, regulation, steven rattner, thomas peterffy, united states of europe, Willie Sutton, workplace
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An Anniversary and A Funeral: ObamaCare

March 26, 2012 in Charitable Social Services, Contributors, Health Care, Monica Frede, Restoring Family, Restoring God

By Monica Frede House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) gave a celebratory speech to Congress on Wednesday, the same week as the two-year anniversary of the Affordable Health Care Act, evoking the core principles of the Declaration of Independence— life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. She could hardly contain her glee: Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is exactly what the Affordable Health Care Act helps to guarantee. A healthier life, the liberty to pursue happiness, free of the constraints that a lack of health care might provide to a family. If you want to be a photographer, a writer, an artist, a musician, you can do so. If you want to start a business, if you want to change jobs, under the Affordable Care Act, you have that liberty to pursue your happiness. And that is why I am so pleased that this week we can [...]

Tags: anniversary, business, charity, congress, conservative, constitution, country, entitlement, government, health care, health care reform, liberty, nancy pelosi, obama, obamacare, pharmacies, politics, reform, regulation, rights, states, workplace
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The Immoral Government and Our Moral Opportunity

March 12, 2012 in Charitable Social Services, Contributors, Health Care, Monica Frede, Restoring Family, Restoring God, Separation of Church and Culture

By Monica Frede Earlier this week, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, penned a letter in response to recent visits by White House officials to the group of Catholic Bishops. In an effort to soothe the fiery debate ignited in recent weeks due to the Obama Administration’s mandate on private insurers providing its customers contraception coverage, the church leaders and White House staff discussed “the options.” Dolan’s letter, addressed to his Conference of Catholic Bishops, reaffirms the unapologetic position by the White House: How fortunate that we as a body have had opportunities during our past plenary assemblies to manifest our strong unity in defense of religious freedom. We rely on that unity now more than ever as HHS [Department of Health and Human Services] seeks to define what constitutes church ministry and how it can be exercised. The HHS seeks to constitute church ministry and [...]

Tags: abortion, archbishop, bible, business, catholic, catholic church, charity, christian, community, conservative, contraceptives, country, dolan, entitlement, first amendment, god, government, health care, Martin luther king, mlk, principle, regulation, timothy, timothy dolan, workplace
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Liberty 101 – Who Owns You?

March 6, 2012 in Charitable Social Services, Contributors, Economic Policy, Federal Taxation, Health Care, Restoring Country, Restoring Family, Tenth Amendment, Tim Nerenz, Ph. D

By Dr. Tim Nerenz It starts and ends with one question: “who owns you?” If you believe that you are owned by your society, that others are entitled to your person, your property, and your compliance with their beliefs, then your demand of the law is that it limits freedom in order to maximize equality. Conversely, if you believe that you own yourself, that you alone are entitled to your person, your property, and your compliance, then your demand of the law is that it protects your rights from those who would limit your freedom. This is why we do not get along anymore. We want different things from the law, from our leaders, from our government, and from each other. In the first case, the owned person seeks to negotiate the terms of his existence through the passage of laws which bind individuals. In the second case, the [...]

Tags: capitalism, coercion, community, conservative, constitution, country, entitlement, government, politics, principle, property, property rights, reform, regulation, states, Tenth amendment, volunteerism
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The Dangers of the Entitlement Mentality

February 17, 2012 in Charitable Social Services, Ed Willing, Restoring God

By Ed Willing The Entitlement Mentality of our generation is a degenerative disease. The Entitlement Mentality has created a militia of ragged, angry civilians of all races and backgrounds. Like him or not (I happen to enjoy him from time to time), Rush Limbaugh had it right when he put the Hurricane Katrina mess into context: “What we’ve seen in New Orleans is first and foremost the utter failure of generation after generation after generation of the entitlement mentality.” Flood victims had been victimized twice, once by nature and again by the perception that government would somehow save them from nature’s rage, he said. “They had no idea what to do because they’ve been told somebody else was going to fix it.” After fostering dependency among the citizens of New Orleans, Limbaugh said state and local officials failed to respond to the dependency they helped create. And not just local [...]

Tags: charity, christian, congress, conservative, constitution, country, duty, entitlement, flood, god, government, homeless, katrina, liberty, reform
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