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From President Calvin Coolidge’s July 4th speech of 1926 – on the Progressive movement then gaining momentum (emphasis mine):

About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning cannot be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.

“No progress“…”more ancient“.  “Silent Cal” was right – every move that Progressives make politically is to remove inalienable rights.  We see that We The People, more and more, believe that our Government (having been pulled downward by Progressives) has less and less of the sense of being led by our Consent.

And with this President, we see the demolishing  and disdain of the Founders insistence upon The Rule of Law (and thereby, no “ rule of the people“.

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As I reported yesterday:   “May I suggest a good book today – and a GREAT Obamacare healthcare insurance plan??”

Remember when the Patriot Act first came out and the hysteria that ensued from the Nation’s Librarians when they found out that the Feds could come in and demand what books had been taken out by their patrons?  My GOSH, you’d think that the antagonists from Red Dawn movie had come in with guns blazing:  ” SHHHHHH, be quiet!  And we’re gonna burn all the registration cards!  NO – I will NOT turn over my card catalog!  But for Obamacare??

Well as a former budget committee member in town, I know that lots of time is spent in crafting a budget and lots of time is spent examining each line item.  Why?  While monies can be moved around from line item to line item in a NH municipal budget, monies canNOT be expended for a purpose not covered by a line item.  So, if there is no “Obamacare outreach” or some such thing similar, those monies cannot be expended.  So what, you ask?  Like I believed yesterday, local property taxes would have to be used for local public libraries to support the socialized healthcare known as Obamacare.  And no, there is no “free money from the Feds to offset time taken away from their real duties (emphasis mine):

As if the corruption of the library’s time-honored purpose is not enough, the institution won’t even receive a reward for its self-betrayal. Susan Hildreth, Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services [a Federal entity -Skip], has stated that “there are no federal funds to support this program.” As libraries already face devastating budget cuts and declines in funding, the initiative to serve as Obamacare’s cheerleader in communities could spell disaster. In addition to spending money to train librarians in their new capacity as healthcare experts, the alliance could alienate patrons who disapprove of the healthcare legislation and cause them to reconsider much-needed donations to their local library as it converts into something like “Obamacare Enrollment Station #1234.”

Finally, we start to see a bankrupt nation running out of money “for all” things. Here in NH, we hear a lot of complaining and wailing about “downshifting of costs” from one level of government down to lower levels – isn’t this the same thing only from a higher level? So if you DO ask your local authorities if your library is going to be a shill salesdudes information providers for Obamacare  and they say “don’t worry, we’ll get reimbursed”?  Let that gleam begin to shine in your eye and ask “Really?”

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Johnson & Johnson, Ascension Healthcare, Kaiser Permanente, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, H&R Block, NFL, NBA, PGA, NASCAR, MLB

Who else?  Who DON’T we know about?

As I mentioned here, it seems that the Federal Government has such a vested interest in Obamacare that they are willing to go after “the most vulnerable amongst us” – our children.  Just another example of Liberals using the Government Schools in The Cause of Progressive Outcomes?  Fer sure, dudes!

I also remember when Obama decided, during the 2010 State of the Union Address, politically attack the Supreme Court for its Citizens United decision:

“Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law[58] to open the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections. Well I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities.”

This from the guy that has received more from corporate interests (including unions, I might add), yet Justice Alito was the one who was castigated for merely shaking his head “No”.  Democrats went nuts and we still keep hearing from them that a Constitutional Amendment MUST be passed to silence those evil corporations (“but unions are merely collections of individuals, so they should have the right to speak out” – of course, because 99% of their effort is solidly Democrat).   Silenced, because that is all the Left knows in how to win arguments.  After all, that is how Obama got his start in Chicago – simply by silencing his opposition one candidate at a time, one after another (which is why he is now trying to silence the Religious – his biggest rival for the “peoples’ hearts” – and Freedom).

Except when they kneel before him – knavishly trying to curry political favor from Big Government in its role of dishing out taxpayer money or privilege via Crony Capitalism (e.g., “reward our friends and punish our enemies).  Thus, what way to better curry favor than to help Obamacare become the success the President and HHS Secretary Sebelius need for Obamacare (e.g., sign up the young serfs to pay for levels of healthcare insurance

Sidenote: can we stop with the charade now?

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Yup, we now have the Federal Government turning to Community Libraries to act as insurance salesmen and Obamacare kiosks.  You know, everyone is just so flocking to be first in line like for the latest LeBron or Jordon sneakers, or tix to the latest fad signing act (sorry, I admit that this part of the culture is a failure for me so I can’t name them) or the newest iPhone.  You know, Real Important Stuff that captures the imagination of the pop culture (sorry, fuddy duddy here) and are willing to go all in for what ever the private marketplace is offering.

Well, Obamacare is SUCH a hit that people are just jumping in anticipa…….oh wait, I’ve had too much sugar tonite – I’m hallucinating.  Right now, the Obamacare  Bureaucracy is shaking in fear – how does that Private Marketplace do it; heck, even with a LAW saying they have to, it doesn’t look like people are going to want to sign up (heck, the Youngest admitted this past week that he didn’t know he had to – and look what I do!).  Sign up the Government Schools to do their indoctrination, sign up the Evil Corporations to try to make it cool to sign up – and now you may be hearing:

“May I suggest a good book today – and a GREAT Obamacare healthcare insurance plan??”

Remember when the Patriot Act first came out and the hysteria that ensued from the Nation’s Librarians when they found out that the Feds could come in and demand what books had been taken out by their patrons?  My GOSH, you’d think that the antagonists from Red Dawn movie had come in with guns blazing:  ” SHHHHHH, be quiet!  And we’re gonna burn all the registration cards!  NO – I will NOT turn over my card catalog!  But for Obamacare??

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Yeah, walking right up to that Godwin’s Law again – but with horror and anger: We have your children.  Obamacare is coming in less than 90 days and Obama and HHS Secretary Sebelius are running scared as polls show that a majority of Americans want it killed off.  So we hear news of the NFL and the NBA being approached to help “sell” Obamacare as if they were used cars sales guys.  Lots of “community groups” (like the Wellness Wonder Team made up of ACORN and other “community organizers”) are being asked to help as well to canvass their communities to sign up young donor suckers would be patients through the as-of-yet non-functional Exchanges. Media outlets are running feel good pieces as well – after all, look at what we are going to give you for FREE!!!

Like everything else Governmental that tries to “create a market” that the private market has shunned, our Smart People / Ruling Class just can’t fathom why they have to persuade people to use their services.  It just doesn’t click with them that if the offering was THAT good:

• they wouldn’t need to market this thing
• and the private sector would have beat them to it – and that they didn’t should tell them something
• and the fact that Obama has to FORCE people into this (at the risk of big fines) should tell them something else

So, seeing their failure and impending public humiliation, we now see the these nascent Totalitarians have decided to use “the most vulnerable amongst us” – our children – and are coming schools to spread the Word of Obamacare.  Not just that, students are being enlisted and are expected to go home to tell the adults (their Parents) to “shape up and get with the program”.

Parents – more and more we see the Ruling Class (the likes of MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry, Hillary, and most Progressives) believe my kids belong to their Village  (idiots)- instead of Parents being in charge.  Instead, Parents are seen as being the stumbling  blocks and part of the problem.  Remember that Michelle Obama declared what kids should eat: “We can’t just leave it up to the parents“.  And a teacher of our teachers had this to add:

“Every child in America entering school at the age of five is insane because he comes to school with certain allegiances toward our Founding Fathers, toward his parents, toward our elected officials, toward a belief in a supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity.

It’s up to you, teachers, to make all of these sick children well by creating the international child of the future.”

And I had this to say about that:

It is NOT the role of government public schools to “teach” our children a way of thinking that is antithetical to their God, their parents, and their country; that is sheer indoctrination! Yet, I bet if you dig enough, you’d find it in your local school system (one teacher here in Gilford was heard to say something in a similar philosophical manner “WE have your children 6 hours a day and WE know what is best for them”. In other words, as it was taken “we know better than parents what is needed to be taught!”

Well, California is about to go ALL IN and drop the pretense, embrace the reason why Godwin’s Law exists and proceed not with reading, writing, and arithmetic (that’s just so passe) and skip right to the Indoctrination:

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