Ignorance is Bliss

When someone makes a statement of political importance there’s always a level of uncertainty depending on their source. Often someone will take a single news article as a source, and depending on the agenda of the writer or the editor, that article may simply leave out something. Usually what gets left out is the fact that they wrote to inflame rather than to inform their readers.

Recently there was a story on the news posted by someone on facebook, clearly inflammatory. The slug line? Congress tries to redefine rape.

The story was about HR3 currently in the legislative process in Congress otherwise known as the sausage mill. I read the article, saw how inflamed it could make anyone who is female or anyone that is proabortion.

I then did what many refuse to do, especially when they are the target audience for the inflammatory article, I went to the Thomas Pages, the Congressional web site where the text of a bill gets printed. Each time it is amended or changed during hearings, committees and such the text is accurately recorded so anyone can read it.

Now if you have read any of my material then you know that my default on any federal spending is the limit of the Constitution. That said I will give you a summary of what I found reading the bill, you can always go to the same place and read the bill for yourself.

What I found was that it is intended to ban all federal funds from paying for abortion. While most people think that is already the law, it was surreptitiously removed during the passage of obamacare last year. The NEWS at the time denied that but as Nancy Pelosi said, we have to pass it so you can find out what’s in it. Well over the past year we have found what REALLY was in the obamacare plan and federal payment for abortion was provided in that law.

Now Congress is attempting to correct that. The Social Liberals are furious because they have been working for decades to get “abortion-on-demand” at any place in any pregnancy and paid for by tax payers the law. They are very close.

The facts, summarized are that HR3 bans federal funds from paying for abortion. It also bans federal tax deductions as health care costs for elective abortions. It also bans federal tax deductions under “cafeteria plan insurance plans” from paying for insurance plans that provide elective abortions. It specifically exempts from all of these funding prohibitions for abortions that save the mother’s life or results of rape or incest.

Those facts are clear from the text of the bill and anyone can read the text online here:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c112:3:./temp/~c1124Abcne::

It is so easy to believe writers, even me, but most Americans are just too lazy to read. Why? Plausible deniability!

People don’t want to do their own homework, they want to trust the leaders of their country and in the party they support. That is the reason I wrote the article “Party Loyalist” and why we cannot be party loyalists. Politicians, by and large, are seeking power to control the population. Taxes are one of those controls, regulations are another.

So what will You do? Are you going to learn and read? Are you going to study and look for the truth or just believe someone that you previously thought were worthy of your trust?

Debate, discuss, read and learn or remain ignorant. It’s your choice. I like to debate and discuss, many do. Comments are welcome to this blog as long as they stay civil.

Authored By Paul Smith Words from the Ranch

Authored By Paul Smith Words from the Ranch