Kathy Sullivan seems to think she has the moral authority to attack Mike Biundo and Citizens for a Strong New Hampshire on ethical grounds, accusing them of hiding behind a 501(c)4 filing status so they don’t have to disclose donors who help them then expose the questionable policy decisions and the hypocrisy of elected Democrats.

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Expanding Medicaid is not as good a deal for New Hampshire as it sounds.

We all know that if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. The Senate Republicans also believe that taxpayers deserve to know how their tax dollars are being spent. Likewise, we have an obligation to carefully consider any new potential increase of government entitlements, which will affect both those being charged to pay for the program and the recipients. It is this thinking that led the Republican-controlled state Senate to defer making a rash decision of leaping into Medicaid expansion before carefully considering all options.

Due to the lack of any plan put forth by Gov. Maggie Hassan to consider how Medicaid expansion could be implemented, the Senate has taken it upon itself to do the work. Frankly, we did not say “yes” or “no.” We recognized that neither the governor nor the Democrat-controlled House has considered the policy implications. Voters expect the Legislature to consider policy changes and create a plan that is in the best interest of the state, and we plan to do just that.

So while the governor frets about the potential loss of free money and looks to find ways to circumvent the legislative process, the Senate is taking a measured view of Medicaid expansion. Despite the criticism from some that the Senate has killed expansion, the reality is that nothing could be further from the truth. The Senate budget is specific. We believe we should better understand and analyze the options, do the math, and then make a decision.

So, what is there to consider with Medicaid expansion? Actually, a lot.

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I just wanted to wish a hearty good morning to the NSA or IRS, or whomever is tasked with surveilling my “extremist rants.”

And oh, the irony of that.  I’m an “extremist” because I think freedom and liberty demand a smaller more accountable government where the money, power, and responsibility are, preferably, kept to the lowest common denominator.  I think that way because it is easier to keep an eye on it, and reign it in when it tries to get out of control.

Yet here we are saying good morning to the faceless, unaccountable, big government bureaucrats who are secretly collecting data on everyone in America; using their power to affect the right of assembly and association, affecting national elections, collecting everyone’s phone records, spying on the press, scraping the whole of the Internet for everyone’s online activity, for purposes stated as domestic security but then, who defines that moving target?

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Several variations of this are out there as to who is to be the recipient – no matter; still brings a smile to my face!

A female libertarian wrote a lot of letters to the Canadian government, complaining about the treatment of captive insurgents (terrorists) being held in Afghanistan National Correctional System facilities. She demanded a response to her letter. She received back the following reply:

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National Defense Headquarters
M Gen George R. Pearkes Bldg., 15 NT
101 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa , ON K1A 0K2
Canada

Dear Concerned Citizen,

Thank you for your recent letter expressing your profound concern of treatment of the Taliban and Al Qaeda terrorists captured by Canadian Forces, who were subsequently transferred to the Afghanistan Government and are currently being held by Afghan officials in Afghanistan National Correctional System facilities.

Our administration takes these matters seriously and your opinions were heard loud and clear here in Ottawa . You will be pleased to learn, thanks to the concerns of citizens like yourself, we are creating a new department here at the Department of National Defense, to be called ‘Liberals Accept Responsibility for Killers’ program, or L.A.R.K. for short.

In accordance with the guidelines of this new program, we have decided, on a trial basis, to divert several terrorists and place them in homes of concerned citizens such as yourself, around the country, under those citizens’ personal care. Your personal detainee has been selected and is scheduled for transportation under heavily armed guard to your residence in Toronto next Monday.

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Oh, they will never say it is is such – directly.  They’ll use other words to mask it, hoping (knowing) that the Low Information Voter (who knows more about Kim Kardashian’s pregnancy with “Daddy Babby” Kanye or what’s with American Idol / The Voice / America’s Got Talent than who their Senators or Congressmen are) will only “hear” the words and never ponder them.  Heck, answer me this – how many of these same folks remember from school how our government even works?  And with the current state of our Educational system, how many of them truly understand the difference between a Right, an “earned privilege” and an entitlement?  Words have meanings and these are all different.

Obama (and most Progressives are, too), however, is BANKING on the fact that most people don’t and that he can use a word outside of its definition to cement in a fundamental change to a word – and going backward, our Founding Documents.  As Grokster Susan pointed out (she beat me to it!), Obama had the temerity to say:

““Quality, affordable care is not some earned privilege – it’s a right

 No, it has never been nor should a Right be ever be defined as something that is simply given or afforded to someone:

• Right – an attribute associated to someone simply for being a human; in the US, our Rights are enumerated  in the Constitution (mostly).
• Earned Privilege – status obtained through work or via meritocrisy; not something that accrues simply for the act of being alive
• Entitlement – a government program providing benefits to members of a specified group; also : funds supporting or distributed by such a program

And that is where Obama wishes for the Masses to delude themselves in thinking that there exists a “Right” to healthcare.  Hey, if someone wants to go and purchase healthcare supplies and give themselves “health care”, but my guest.  Please note that it costs no other person anything for you to exercise that Right .  If you wish to speak, I am not obligated to pay anything for you to speak (including paying attention) – ditto for the other Rights accorded to us as being US Citizens.  However,  to believe Obama is correct that healthcare is a Right for you to independently exercise is to also believe that you have the Right to place someone else into servitude to provide that care – commonly called slavery.

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