tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post6400951504949289323..comments2023-10-27T03:41:13.171-07:00Comments on Warning Signs: Do What Obama Tells You to DoAlan Carubahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-61628768407088616922010-06-14T10:43:19.911-07:002010-06-14T10:43:19.911-07:00Ron, I hate to tell you, but the discrimination an...Ron, I hate to tell you, but the discrimination and penalties for "lifestyle" issues are already happening. Just ask anyone who has lost their job or been forced out of a company for being a tobacco user. My wife was denied disability coverage by her employer's provider because, according to them, she's overweight....<br /><br />Smoking, weight and diet are already under attack, and alcohol use is coming next. Sadly, this clampdown on our "behaviors" will have the exact opposite effect. I know many people who are lying to their health care providers rather than admit that they use tobacco or alcohol. Once your admission of these behaviors becomes part of your medical records, and finds its way into the national medical database, you'll be labeled for life, and it will take an act of God to escape it.<br /><br />I brought this point up with dozens of people when smoking was under assault here in Ohio, but most of them were so hell-bent on crushing the rights of smokers that they failed to see the implications. I can't wait to hear their whining when they are targeted for their weight or their other behaviors. I'll probably have to side with them on principle, but it certainly won't be easy ....Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10903448394061019454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-16443323423449544492010-06-14T09:18:49.221-07:002010-06-14T09:18:49.221-07:00More of the same from our federal government, eh?
...More of the same from our federal government, eh?<br /><br />We already have the most prisoners in jail than any other country on the planet.<br /><br />Why?<br /><br />To modify the behavior of people...mostly for smoking marijuana...some for using other drugs...a few that sell drugs...<br /><br />Obviously, we need jails for violent people, but we mostly have people in prison because the federal and state governments want to modify their behaviour.<br /><br />This is just more of the same...Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07068251209893731272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-46781433196540877382010-06-14T02:03:02.648-07:002010-06-14T02:03:02.648-07:00Phoebe Interprises said...
"I fail to make t...<b>Phoebe Interprises said...</b><br /><br /><i>"I fail to make the leap from an effort to encourage a healthy life style with "Do as I say" etc."</i><br /><br />Quite simply, it's outside the scope of the Presidents Constitutional authority.<br /><br />Beyond that, it creates one more agency without congressional oversight, responsible to no one but the President.<br /><br />Do you suppose your medical care could someday be affected by your compliance or non-compliance with the "lifestyle behavior modification" suggestions of this advisory group? For example, if you refuse to lose weight, will you be denied coverage for related problems such as diabetes?Ron H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17778875977813470690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-32309533110145528152010-06-13T22:57:03.150-07:002010-06-13T22:57:03.150-07:00It is awful to watch Yuri Bezmenov's words in ...It is awful to watch Yuri Bezmenov's words in action as he laid out the KGB strategy to demoralize a country, so much so that people would and could not react properly to factual information. Yuri explained all this back in 1984, it's like being trapped in a horror movie to watch this all play out right in front of my eyes in 2010.<br /><br />Our country is being destroyed, yet we are powerless to act much less organize to prevent this from happening.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12577518252395512117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-64456560884270606972010-06-13T11:49:48.141-07:002010-06-13T11:49:48.141-07:00A friend of mine wrote:
Let's see, Obama smok...A friend of mine wrote:<br /><br />Let's see, Obama smokes cigarettes.<br /><br />He eats caviar that is high in cholesteral and salt.<br /><br />He loves Kobe beef that is very high in fat content.<br /><br />He is a boozer and been told to cut back on his drinking.<br /><br />He does play golf and shoots hoops, but can cut brush and chop wood? We know baseball is not his thing because he pitches worse then Charlie Brown.<br /><br />He has a past history of drug abuse, using things like cocaine.<br /><br />Many mental health professionals think he is nuts. <br /><br />We should follow his lead how?Alan Carubahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10901162110385985193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-83605918967784588492010-06-13T11:07:09.360-07:002010-06-13T11:07:09.360-07:00This is very much in line with a national health c...This is very much in line with a national health care program. To put it simply, under the "used to be" health care system in the US, doctors in the US were quite pleased to see patients. The patients represented profits (and yes, physicians' practices have been relatively small businesses, and physicians have had to be concerned with profits. I know, as my grandfather was a GP with his own practice.) Either paying patients, in consultation with their doctors, or health "insurance" companies have had to balance the level of medical services with cost.<br /><br />For anyone who wants to comprehend what is going on, I highly recommend the book <i>The Road to Serfdom</i>, Friedrich von Hayek, 1944. An illustrated synopsis of this book can be had at: http://mises.org/books/trts/<br /><br />And this is certainly is a "do as I say or else" approach.LarryOldtimerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10811006386363706079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-3006397771376991302010-06-13T10:10:01.700-07:002010-06-13T10:10:01.700-07:00The "advisory groups" have infected the ...The "advisory groups" have infected the UN and most of europe. They will be left leaning like minded useful idiots like BO. God help us all.Matt Waltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17678332527514840045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-6578020284044287572010-06-13T09:31:54.823-07:002010-06-13T09:31:54.823-07:00Isn't there enough interference with the way A...Isn't there enough interference with the way Americans live their lives as it is? While good health and exercise are important goals, it seems to me that having the President try to "enforce" behavior modification is just another way of creating an army of robots trained to think the way he does. <br /><br />If I want a pizza, or Twinkies, that's my problem. I don't need a nanny state to come tell me I can't have them.Donna Harrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01757829143764382949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-18204399921785922152010-06-13T08:04:09.464-07:002010-06-13T08:04:09.464-07:00You mean they're not gonna let me buy Twinkies...You mean they're not gonna let me buy Twinkies with my Foodstamp card? Quelle bummer!<br /><br />I spent too many years around Miami Beach to have a lot of faith in "Trust me!" A somewhat different meaning, there. :-)<br /><br />But Obama's trying.<br /><br />Very trying...<br /><br />'RatDesertrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09860257698839313423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196554259323465442.post-28721613490176647362010-06-13T07:57:18.966-07:002010-06-13T07:57:18.966-07:00While I believe that Obama is one of the most inco...While I believe that Obama is one of the most incompetent and socialistic and damaging presidents we've ever had, I fail to make the leap from an effort to encourage a healthy life style with "Do as I say" etc. Enough of this, I need to go and work out. Today I focus on Legs, Back and abs...Phoebe Interpriseshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13942496735927747984noreply@blogger.com