The Obama mandate requiring un-reproductive heath services to be made available to workers as part of any employer-provided health insurance plan has put the Nanny state squarely at odds with America’s time-honored respect for religious liberty.
President Obama’s mandate covers religious institutions, including those operated by the Catholic Church—which has stood firm against the new law. In the face of its opposition to the new rule—the Church does not, as a matter of doctrine, endorse artificial birth control—Obama has tried to “split the baby” and push the responsibility for making such services available onto the insurance companies themselves, supposedly freeing up the Church to obey the dictates of its conscience.
In fact it does no such thing as, in the first place, the mandate was allowed to go into effect even as the idea of a compromise was being floated and, in the second place, many of these institutions are self-insuring, meaning that the responsibility to provide the services remains within the confines of the Church itself.
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The jerks in Washington keep trying to put band aids on the economy, but do not correct the source of the problem! A trillion here, a trillion there, a trillion everywhere – bankrupting our country!
Since demographics is what drives the economy, I believe that biggest source of the economic problem is the abomination of law passed by bigoted, immoral, liberal supreme court justices called Row v. Wade. Since the passing of this law FROM THE BENCH, over 50 million little, defenseless babies had their heads crushed and their brains sucked out just because women could not keep their legs crossed, because some found that having a baby was inconvenient or because Planned Parenthood talked people into abortion in order to increase their profits. (They should NOT receive federal funds.)
Roe v. Wade was passed in January 1973, so those aborted would have been 0 to 39 years old. They would have required that schools were built, roads were updated, required a larger energy grid and that at least 20 million more homes/apartments were built. They would have gotten married, had children, raised families, bought a house or rented an apartment, bought clothes, bought food, bought refrigerators, computers, cell phones, books, washers, dryers, dish washers, furniture and many more products that would have caused more factories to be built to manufacture these products and more stores to sell them in.
Now, because of Roe v. Wade, we have had over three years of recession with no sign of an end. In fact, we are looking forward to ten to twenty years of more of the same.
To fix the problem, we need to reverse Roe v. Wade and it would help to instill better morals in all our citizens. GOD is punishing us through the use of simple economics. The application of Keynesian economics IS NOT the solution!