Greetings everyone, my blood is starting to boil! I cannot believe what is going on back in our country. McClatchy Newspaper is reporting that the Obama Administration is disapproving money for 26 elderly members of the World War II-era Alaska Territorial Guard. These people served during WWII without pay or benefits guarding our nation in the waters around Alaska. The Senate is considering a military spending bill that would keep the payments going to these patriots. What is the Obama Administration thinking? How can he say he is so supportive of the military personnel and do this. This is not even a drop in the bucket for the military budget, they blow more money in 5 seconds than these patriots will ever get! Please write your senators and tell them to make sure these patriot’s pensions are included in the military spending bill.
As every year there will be a Capital Christmas tree but guess what, this year the the U.S. Forest Service has banned the name of Jesus from decorations being assembled by children in Arizona for a blue spruce from the state that will become the Capitol Christmas Tree this year. How do you have a Christmas tree that cannot have a Christian theme? Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, I realize it is probably not the exact date he was born, we will probably never know that date, but that is when we celebrate his birth. This is a nation founded on Christian morals, values, principles and faith, we have many people from other countries and religions, but that is who the U.S.A. is, and we do not need to apologize to anyone for that or take our history and heritage out of the country.
There is a woman from Guam, she was living with a Soldier, is pregnant with his child, he was deployed, they married while he was deployed, a wedding by internet, so they had a ceremony and paperwork done, but have not been together since the wedding, not consummated. He was killed in the line of duty, since the wedding was not consummated, she is carrying his child, she will be denied to stay in the US and will be deported. Now how stupid is this, there are illegal aliens in this country, working, getting American citizen benefits, and the administration does not want them bothered, or sent home and here is a couple trying to make a life, he gives his life for his country and since they did not consummate their marriage she gets deported. If they are going to deport her, following the law, then send all these illegal aliens home!!!!!!!
Rep Wilson stated out loud during the President’s speech he lied, I don’t think that was the best thing to do. But it is turning out to be true. There are reports in the news that the Senate has voted down amendments to the Health Care Bill to require people to get coverage to show picture ID, specific language to keep federal funds from paying for abortion. So it is clear, the Democrats do not want anything in the bill that will prevent creative illegal aliens from getting health care. There are Democrats that say illegal aliens should be able to buy health care, if they buy federally subsidized health care that is still tax dollars paying for their care. Also, how can you require everyone to buy health insurance? President Obama compared it to care insurance, that if you own and drive a car you are required to buy car insurance, that sounds fine at first, but then when you realize, you do not have to own a car, not everyone owns a car, and if you do not own a car, you do not have to buy car insurance. The government wants to require everyone to purchase health insurance, is this constitutional? Some are saying no. Think about it. And I am not even starting about how much the president has been on TV, running around the country and world, I bet if someone did a study, he has been out of DC more than he has been in!
AAGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! See why I am so frustrated, disappointed and angry! Please write your Congressmen and Senators about these issues. They need to be held accountable!!!! If you are not happy about how your Congressmen and Senators are performing, check out www.worldnetdaily.com, go to their store and send them a pink slip!
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
HEALTHCARE
Now don't get me wrong, we need to fix some things with healthcare. I feel a 1000 page bill, adding a bunch of Federal Agencies is not what we need. I have been voicing my concerns to our Senators and Congressman, I have not heard back from our new Senator, he is probably pretty busy trying to get settled in. Honorable Mica is very much on board with my views about what needs to change. Honorable Nelson on the other hand seems to want to tow the Democrats line and add to our debt, and create a huge mess. Below you will see my original email to him, his response and my response back. The Democrats do not want us reading the bill, they voted not to give the public and members of the Senate 72 hours to view it before voting. There can be major reform to our healthcare system without creating a huge government bureaucracy that will end up costing more than they say and mess up our level of care. The Honorable Nelson is ours in Florida, I encourage you readers from other states, write your Senators and Congressmen and give them your concerns and get their intentions, hold them to the fire. We elect them, they work for us!!! Medicare and Medicaid are a mess, the way the bureaucrats want to fix fraud is just cut payments, this cuts care to the patients! If we let them do this so fast right now, do you really think it will do any better? Remember the words of President Regan, the scariest words to hear are, “ I am from the government, I am here to help”.
Randy
Dear Honorable Nelson,
Below you will find my email to you and your response to my email. With all due respect sir, you did address some of my concerns but left out some important ones, like TORT reform, Texas has done that, lowered costs about 30%. You did not address keeping earmarks out of the bill. If this is so good, you do not need to buy votes! You did not address illegal aliens and amnesty, this is a large number of people that will add tremendous costs and as important they are breaking the law being here. All you are doing is repeating the general vague aspects of this terrible bill. Yes you are partially right, the current bill will not make those with their own health insurance change, but with a "public option" or whatever the new name this week is to fool us, there is a very good chance that down the road private insurance will go away because of lower cost and incentives to move to the government policy. Even President Obama says in his own words he really wants a one payer health system and many congressmen and senators say it also. This is the camel’s nose under the tent! You and your staff will be seeing several tens if not hundreds of thousands pink slips delivered to your office shortly, one of those is from me, I am watching your votes. I do not feel I see you representing the will of the Floridians.
Respectfully,
Randall Mitchell
Dear Honorable Nelson,
I am writing in regards to the Healthcare Proposals. We do not need a 1000 page bill. There are several things that could revolutionize our healthcare in our country, they are:
Real TORT Reform
No pre-existing conditions
No cap on coverage
Country wide policies, not state only
Negotiate drug prices on all Federal and State Healthcare policies esp Medicare/Medicaid
NO coverage for illegal aliens and NO amnesty for them
These changes will make a tremendous difference, and lower costs! It will not take 1000 pages to do this. IF THE BILL DOES NOT CONTAIN THESE ITEMS AND HAS ANY PORK, EARMARKS, DO NOT VOTE FOR IT. We do not need and cannot afford to expand government with more agencies and employees! Stop the out of control spending. AGAIN, DO NOT VOTE FOR THE BILL IF IT DOES NOT CONTAIN THE ABOVE ITEMS AND IF IT CONTAINS PORK/EARMARKS OR ADDS AGENCIES TO OUR ALREADY BLOATED GOVERNMENT.
Dear Mr. Mitchell:
Thank you for contacting me about health care reform. In his recent speech to Congress, President Obama also provided us with a clearer view of his desires for health care reform.
What the President described is pretty close to the draft of a bill I'm helping prepare as a member of the Senate Finance Committee. This legislation will let folks who are happy with their insurance keep what they’ve got, including veterans and seniors on Medicare. It will also create State-based exchanges – a nationwide marketplace – where those without coverage, or those who are unhappy with what they have, can get it at an affordable price.
The bill will hold insurers' feet to the fire, requiring them to cover everyone and preventing them from dropping someone who gets sick. Additionally, it contains several measures aimed at reducing overall medical and prescription drug costs and eliminating waste and fraud in the system.
I plan on improving the bill through amendments that will, among other things, help pay for reform of our health care system. One of my amendments would require drugmakers to provide rebates to Medicare, just like they do for Medicaid. This would save Medicare a ton of money and help reduce out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for many seniors.
Regardless of where anyone stands on the specifics, I think we all can agree that the system we have can be unfair and too costly, and needs to be fixed. I appreciate hearing from you on this important issue. Please don't hesitate to contact me in the future.
Sincerely,
Senator Bill Nelson
Randy
Dear Honorable Nelson,
Below you will find my email to you and your response to my email. With all due respect sir, you did address some of my concerns but left out some important ones, like TORT reform, Texas has done that, lowered costs about 30%. You did not address keeping earmarks out of the bill. If this is so good, you do not need to buy votes! You did not address illegal aliens and amnesty, this is a large number of people that will add tremendous costs and as important they are breaking the law being here. All you are doing is repeating the general vague aspects of this terrible bill. Yes you are partially right, the current bill will not make those with their own health insurance change, but with a "public option" or whatever the new name this week is to fool us, there is a very good chance that down the road private insurance will go away because of lower cost and incentives to move to the government policy. Even President Obama says in his own words he really wants a one payer health system and many congressmen and senators say it also. This is the camel’s nose under the tent! You and your staff will be seeing several tens if not hundreds of thousands pink slips delivered to your office shortly, one of those is from me, I am watching your votes. I do not feel I see you representing the will of the Floridians.
Respectfully,
Randall Mitchell
Dear Honorable Nelson,
I am writing in regards to the Healthcare Proposals. We do not need a 1000 page bill. There are several things that could revolutionize our healthcare in our country, they are:
Real TORT Reform
No pre-existing conditions
No cap on coverage
Country wide policies, not state only
Negotiate drug prices on all Federal and State Healthcare policies esp Medicare/Medicaid
NO coverage for illegal aliens and NO amnesty for them
These changes will make a tremendous difference, and lower costs! It will not take 1000 pages to do this. IF THE BILL DOES NOT CONTAIN THESE ITEMS AND HAS ANY PORK, EARMARKS, DO NOT VOTE FOR IT. We do not need and cannot afford to expand government with more agencies and employees! Stop the out of control spending. AGAIN, DO NOT VOTE FOR THE BILL IF IT DOES NOT CONTAIN THE ABOVE ITEMS AND IF IT CONTAINS PORK/EARMARKS OR ADDS AGENCIES TO OUR ALREADY BLOATED GOVERNMENT.
Dear Mr. Mitchell:
Thank you for contacting me about health care reform. In his recent speech to Congress, President Obama also provided us with a clearer view of his desires for health care reform.
What the President described is pretty close to the draft of a bill I'm helping prepare as a member of the Senate Finance Committee. This legislation will let folks who are happy with their insurance keep what they’ve got, including veterans and seniors on Medicare. It will also create State-based exchanges – a nationwide marketplace – where those without coverage, or those who are unhappy with what they have, can get it at an affordable price.
The bill will hold insurers' feet to the fire, requiring them to cover everyone and preventing them from dropping someone who gets sick. Additionally, it contains several measures aimed at reducing overall medical and prescription drug costs and eliminating waste and fraud in the system.
I plan on improving the bill through amendments that will, among other things, help pay for reform of our health care system. One of my amendments would require drugmakers to provide rebates to Medicare, just like they do for Medicaid. This would save Medicare a ton of money and help reduce out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for many seniors.
Regardless of where anyone stands on the specifics, I think we all can agree that the system we have can be unfair and too costly, and needs to be fixed. I appreciate hearing from you on this important issue. Please don't hesitate to contact me in the future.
Sincerely,
Senator Bill Nelson
Monday, September 28, 2009
INTRODUCTON
Greetings and salutations. This is the first posting on my blog. I thought I would write about who I am and what I believe. This will give you an indication of where I am coming from with future posts. I hope you will come back and read my posts.
I was born and raised in El Dorado Kansas; I spent the first 35 years of my life there and an additional 7 from 1998 to 2005. The other years I spent in Central and South Florida.
I worked for my father at his truck stop during high school as a pump jockey, and then joined him full time after I graduated. I worked for him for 13 years managing two truck stops, a wrecker service in El Dorado, and two restaurants. During that time our wrecker service was the heavy rescue for the county and when someone was trapped in a vehicle we took two wreckers, pulled the car apart and the ambulance personnel got them out. My father had done this for many years. I became friends with Joe Moreland, found out by hanging out at the ambulance service there was a better way to get people out of a wrecked vehicle. I went to EMT school and was certified in 1975, organized EMS was still pretty new in Kansas then. December of that year I helped organize the Butler County Volunteer Rescue Squad. With dad’s monetary support, and giving of my time from work, the squad was formed with 10 volunteers, firemen, EMTs, policemen and a couple civilians. The rescue squad responded to any victim trapped, we mainly responded to motor vehicle crashes, we also worked drownings, industrial accidents, and even cattle and horse accidents where they were trapped in trailers. We developed an extrication class that was taught state wide and even in Colorado. The rescue squad is still in existence, volunteer and completely county funded. They have a beautiful truck purchased by the county and have a boat and water rescue equipment.
My father never went past middle school, but had a good business sense. The two truck stops did well, we made it through the Carter years but then the high interest rates caught up with us and our bank had trouble and we lost the truck stops in 1985. I had taken basic accounting classes at Butler County Community College and other than that I learned to run a business from my dad.
When we lost the truck stop, I had to work, I was married and we were expecting our first child. So I worked full time for Butler County EMS. I knew I could not support our family as an EMT; I needed to get a better job. Joe Moreland was working for Butler County EMS as a paramedic and finishing nursing school at the time. We talked during shift one night and I decided to go to nursing school. I enrolled in Butler County Community College and started working on nursing. I graduated in 1988 and started working in the emergency department at St. Francis Hospital in Wichita Kansas. I have been in emergency nursing ever since.
I have worked in large city emergency departments, trauma centers, small rural emergency departments. I have been director of three emergency departments since 1998. I have spent the first 10 months of my deployment to Iraq as an Army Nurse as head nurse of the emergency department of a combat support hospital and the last 5 months as night supervisor of the hospital.
I have been to Honduras, Panama, Suriname, Germany, and Iraq. I have seen how they live and challenges that they have. Helping to reaffirm how great a country I live in.
Since starting to work for my dad, I have had a wide variety of experiences that have shaped me, I have been serving the public either in sales as in the truck stops or health care. I have seen the best of people and the worst. I have treated people with burns, multiple injuries, minor injuries, colds, heart attacks, watched people of all ages pass away, I have saved lives, consoled love ones, I have provided care to death row inmates, Iraqi detainees, Iraqi insurgents, American Heroes injured in battle, and had a member of my unit die from a rocket attack. I have watched my three daughters being born, helped my wonderful wife homeschool them K through 12 and watched two of them graduate from college with our youngest still in college. I watched my father lose a business he built for 25 years, pick himself up and move on, only to die of lung cancer a few short years later, my mother died of natural causes in her sleep.
I gave my life to Christ in 1979, changed my life forever. Kind of lost my way until I married my best friend Robyn in 1982. We rededicated our lives to Christ at a Basic Seminar in Wichita and have never looked back.
I was born and raised in El Dorado Kansas; I spent the first 35 years of my life there and an additional 7 from 1998 to 2005. The other years I spent in Central and South Florida.
I worked for my father at his truck stop during high school as a pump jockey, and then joined him full time after I graduated. I worked for him for 13 years managing two truck stops, a wrecker service in El Dorado, and two restaurants. During that time our wrecker service was the heavy rescue for the county and when someone was trapped in a vehicle we took two wreckers, pulled the car apart and the ambulance personnel got them out. My father had done this for many years. I became friends with Joe Moreland, found out by hanging out at the ambulance service there was a better way to get people out of a wrecked vehicle. I went to EMT school and was certified in 1975, organized EMS was still pretty new in Kansas then. December of that year I helped organize the Butler County Volunteer Rescue Squad. With dad’s monetary support, and giving of my time from work, the squad was formed with 10 volunteers, firemen, EMTs, policemen and a couple civilians. The rescue squad responded to any victim trapped, we mainly responded to motor vehicle crashes, we also worked drownings, industrial accidents, and even cattle and horse accidents where they were trapped in trailers. We developed an extrication class that was taught state wide and even in Colorado. The rescue squad is still in existence, volunteer and completely county funded. They have a beautiful truck purchased by the county and have a boat and water rescue equipment.
My father never went past middle school, but had a good business sense. The two truck stops did well, we made it through the Carter years but then the high interest rates caught up with us and our bank had trouble and we lost the truck stops in 1985. I had taken basic accounting classes at Butler County Community College and other than that I learned to run a business from my dad.
When we lost the truck stop, I had to work, I was married and we were expecting our first child. So I worked full time for Butler County EMS. I knew I could not support our family as an EMT; I needed to get a better job. Joe Moreland was working for Butler County EMS as a paramedic and finishing nursing school at the time. We talked during shift one night and I decided to go to nursing school. I enrolled in Butler County Community College and started working on nursing. I graduated in 1988 and started working in the emergency department at St. Francis Hospital in Wichita Kansas. I have been in emergency nursing ever since.
I have worked in large city emergency departments, trauma centers, small rural emergency departments. I have been director of three emergency departments since 1998. I have spent the first 10 months of my deployment to Iraq as an Army Nurse as head nurse of the emergency department of a combat support hospital and the last 5 months as night supervisor of the hospital.
I have been to Honduras, Panama, Suriname, Germany, and Iraq. I have seen how they live and challenges that they have. Helping to reaffirm how great a country I live in.
Since starting to work for my dad, I have had a wide variety of experiences that have shaped me, I have been serving the public either in sales as in the truck stops or health care. I have seen the best of people and the worst. I have treated people with burns, multiple injuries, minor injuries, colds, heart attacks, watched people of all ages pass away, I have saved lives, consoled love ones, I have provided care to death row inmates, Iraqi detainees, Iraqi insurgents, American Heroes injured in battle, and had a member of my unit die from a rocket attack. I have watched my three daughters being born, helped my wonderful wife homeschool them K through 12 and watched two of them graduate from college with our youngest still in college. I watched my father lose a business he built for 25 years, pick himself up and move on, only to die of lung cancer a few short years later, my mother died of natural causes in her sleep.
I gave my life to Christ in 1979, changed my life forever. Kind of lost my way until I married my best friend Robyn in 1982. We rededicated our lives to Christ at a Basic Seminar in Wichita and have never looked back.
In 1982 I married my best friend Robyn. We have been married 27 years, we have a covenant marriage, unbreakable, she completes me, every day I am more in love with her. We have three beautiful daughters, Randi graduated as a paramedic in May and works in Volusia County, RaDonna graduated nursing in May and is working at Florida Hospital Flagler in the Emergency Department, Rachel is going to Daytona Beach State College, taking basic classes. God has richly blessed me with a wonderful family.
My beliefs:
- Jesus is the only son of God and is the only way to him.
- He died for my sins on the cross, it is a gift to anyone, you cannot earn salvation.
Once saved always saved. - The Bible is the inspired word of God and is infallible.
- The Bible is as relevant today as when written thousands of years ago.
- Our earth is only 6000 or so years old, the scientist do not know what is really trending with our climate, they do not have enough accurate history, Cap and Trade is a Power Grab.
- Genesis is a true account of creation, life did not spontaneously appear in some unknown pool of unknown chemicals on some unknown beach millions of years ago, and all life was created by a loving God.
- Homosexuality is wrong, and not to be a protected status or promoted as normal.
The United States was founded on Christian values, principals, and morals. As the founding fathers said, the new country will work as long as we follow our foundation, we can see how we have not and what it is causing today. - I am registered as a republican, but mainly I am a conservative, I vote for the man, not the party, but in the recent years have not been able to vote for a democrat due to their views on core issues.
- I strongly believe in the 1st amendment, there is no separation of church and state, that has been made up by non-believers. The founding fathers meant that the government would not make a national church like England. If the founding fathers really wanted church out of the government, why did congress buy Bibles with federal funds and distribute them? Why would they state that teaching the Bible is core teaching in early public schools?
- I strongly believe in the 2nd amendment. Every citizen has the right to keep and bear arms, unless you are mentally ill, a convicted criminal. This means rifles, shotguns, semi- automatic rifles and handguns, pistols. We have the right to protect ourselves, families and anyone we come across in distress. I have a concealed weapons permit and if it comes to it will protect myself and family, I hope that never happens. My entire family shoots and owns firearms; three of us have concealed weapons permits. Contrary to the main stream news media, people that have concealed weapons permits are not dangerous, do not increase violence/crime, and actually decrease crime. If you are a criminal, then I guess you would consider them dangerous.
- I believe the government is too big, spending too much money and is out of control. I believe the founding fathers meant for business men to run for office, go for a term or two and go back home and work. Our government was not meant for career politicians, lawyers spending all their years in office never knowing how to run a business. We have lawyers and political science majors with 20, 30, 40 years in office, most in congress only care about being re-elected, not serving the people they represent.
- I listen to and read Fox News, Sean Hannity, Glen Beck, Dick Morris, Bridget Gabrielle, Chuck Norris, Ann Coulter, Barbra Simpson, and Charlie Daniels. I watch CNN and MSNBC for short periods, very short. I read books on current issues and of course the Bible. I research what these people say and confirm what they say.
- I believe Islam is not a peaceful religion and their true followers are trying to take over the world and the non believer has three choices, convert to Islam, be subservient and pay tax, or die. They are trying to take over our country with their Sharia law. I believe we are giving them rights and privileges that we as Christians and Jews do not get.
In 1987 I joined the Navy Reserve and two years later joined the Army Reserve Nurse Corps, I have taken an oath to protect and preserve our country and constitution. I do this voluntarily, humbly, and proudly! I believe in a strong defense and you can only talk so long and you have to act. We are letting North Korea and Iran run all over us developing nuclear weapons. - I believe Israel is our friend and we should continue to support them, the current administration is working to throw them under the bus!
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