A doctor that serves an Amish community called into the Mark Levin Show on yesterday's program (2009/09/28) with guest host Mark Simone. He said that they pay cash; they don't believe in carrying insurance.
Can you imagine imprisoning all these honest, God fearing, hard working people.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish in 2008 there was a population of 227,000 Amish in the United States.
The doctor also said that all Catholic people, if they are true to their faith, would need to reject participation in a plan that supported abortion.
I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and I believe I would also have to reject participation. I can't willingly support in any way the murder of innocent human life, nor participate in an unconstitutional plan that robs people of their property and free agency. Furthermore, I would be breaking my oath that I took when I enlisted in the U.S. Navy, to support and defend the constitution of the United States of America.
Perhaps this is what the liberal Democrats and Socialists want; to lock up all the Amish, Catholics, and Mormons; and Veterans.
I know one thing: at least I'll be in good company.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholicism_in_the_United_States in 2008 there were 70 million catholics in the United States. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States in 2008 there were 3.16 million mormons in the United States.
So, with all the good honest people in jail, where will all the money come to build more prisons, staff them, and feed all the new inmates?
According to http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/prisons.htm in 2008 there were 2,310,984 prisoners held in federal or state prisons or in local jails.
As of 2007, there are about 138 million taxpayers in the United States. (According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_the_United_States)
So, currently we have roughly 138 million tax payers supporting 2.3 million prisoners. With passage of universal health care we would have roughly 64.8 million tax payers supporting 75.5 million prisoners. That's a shift of 146.4 million people. That's roughly half of the U.S. population of 304 million. (see http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=uspopulation&met=population&tdim=true&q=united+states+population.
This must be the fundamental transformation of our country that Obama promised. Now that's change we can believe in.
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In times as serious as these, we must not permit fear of criticism to keep us from doing our duty, even at the risk of our counsel being tabbed as political, as government becomes more and more entwined in our daily lives. In the crisis through which we are now passing, we have been fully warned. There are some of us who do not want to hear the message. It embarrasses us. The things which are threatening our lives, our welfare, our freedoms are the very things some of us have been condoning. Many do not want to be disturbed as they continue to enjoy their comfortable complacency. There can be no neutrality! We are, or we are not, on the side of the Lord! (Ezra Taft Benson, 1973)
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