Surveys show that anywhere from 55% to 75% of Americans want Congress to scrap the current health care bill and start over. Survey after survey shows that most Americans do not want abortion funding in the plan. Yet, Democrats intend this week once again attempt to “ram” the legislation through without removing the controversial abortion language. They are just hoping that there are not 12 Democrats in the Senate who will vote against it. In the bi-partisan health care meeting a few days ago, the President said that most Americans don’t care how the process takes place in the Senate. They just want a vote. And we can all see that a majority vote [meaning a 51 vote majority and not the the 60 vote majority] makes sense.
Which Americans don’t care? I am an American, and I do care! I care when our elected representatives openly disregard our Constitution and our rights and decide that they can do things according to their own way. This goes against the counsel of our first President, George Washington who said, “Let there be no changes by usurpation… it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.”
To read about the extremes to which the Democrats are planning to go to get this bill passed without even having an actual vote by the House, go here - http://republicanleader.house.gov/blog/?p=796 Redblooded Americans should be appalled and brought into action by this ridiculousness. Please try to write and reason with your Senators. But if that is impossible, please pray. It is said that Queen Mary feared the prayers of the John Knox more than an army of men. The fear of God is the best fear to for anyone to have. Let us pray for God’s mercy on our nation.
11:36 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- The words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance are an appeal to patriotism, not religion, and do not violate the separation of church and state, a federal appeals court ruled today - the same court that declared the pledge unconstitutional in 2002.
In a separate ruling, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel in San Francisco upheld the placement of the national motto, "In God We Trust," on coins and currency. The language is patriotic and ceremonial, not religious, the court said.
Both suits were filed by Michael Newdow, a Sacramento atheist who has filed numerous challenges to government-sponsored religious invocations.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/11/BAS71CEC9F.DTL
Oh, that America would realize that we must acknowledge God in our government! Our leaders, including our judges, could have no power to rule if it were not given to them by God. In Proverbs 8:16 God says, “By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.”
How have we come so far from what is right? We have gone a whoring out from under our God. We are being destroyed by the enemy from within. Oh that America would repent before God says of her as He did of Israel, “My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.” (Hosea 4:12) Is it any wonder people are calling for “Under God” to be taken out of our pledge of allegiance? Are we truly and sincerely living “under our God?”
Abraham Lincoln declared, “If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freedom we must live through all time or die by suicide.”
More Big Government: Dietary Supplements
Surprisingly, this push for big government comes from the Republican Party. It is called the Dietary Supplement Safety Act. It is being promoted in the name of making supplements safer. Supposedly, it is necessary in order to give the FDA power to remove from the market supplements that contain unsafe “drugs.”
No such law is necessary. The FDA already has this power. It was demonstrated when Ephedra (otherwise known as Ma Huang) was removed from the market several years ago. There were some complaints about this, but Ma Huang is a dangerous herb and was used as a recreational drug in large amounts when it was sold on the black market.
“New legislation in the U.S. Senate would mandate that every dietary supplement would have to go through a brand new process of government review in order to stay on the market.
“If this bill, S. 3002, the Dietary Supplement Safety Act, becomes law your health care choices will be drastically reduced, and many of the supplements available today will become illegal. This and other provisions of this misguided legislation affect ALL dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, herbs, sports, and diet products.
“Even though the bill’s original sponsors, Sens. John McCain and Byron Dorgan, reportedly have backed away from their legislation, we need to keep up the pressure to dissuade other Members of Congress from taking up the bill.”
For more information and to contact your government representatives, go here - http://www.saveoursupplements.org/
There is already a great deal of corruption in the control of drugs and medications. Now they are working on controlling our access to supplements. Will they try to control our food next? Thomas Jefferson said, “When we must wait for Washington to tell us when to sow and when to reap, we shall soon want [lack] bread.”
Again, please write your Senators or call them if you are able. If not, please pray, very fervently. And pray for revival in our nation, for freedom in the Lord is the way to true freedom in our nation.