I have been focusing on the greatest journey of my life.That most amazing miraculous dream of one tiny little sperm carrying the worlds most heaviest load, the genetic information of generations and generations and generations....in order to enter into the dream world of a small egg awaiting for that wondrous moment to arrive. The greatest journey of my life. The greatest journey of my life, happening throughout the ages.Here i am, the dream of a tiny minuscule sperm who has touched, entered and combined into the amazing dream of an egg. Generations of dreams combining in ONE brief moment of time. Two different distinctive dreams combining everything together to co-create a dream dreaming.Within that brief small moment of synchronization of time and space. The combined wholeness of my dream was unified. Then began the second most amazing adventure of my life. From one miraculous cell to 100 trillion cells playing and dancing in a unified field of utopian nature.Then from being focused inside the womb to looking outward to this.We are all energy. Within a brief moment of time. The possibility of combining and integrating our individual unique miraculous creative genius energy TOGETHER to realize a totally new dream coming from the heart of reality seems so simple so easy.The Mass Group. E=MC2. Peace, love, freedom...pelodom.Within a brief moment of time is our ability to integrate our consciousness to form an amazing new creative dream unfolding. Within the empty space is the ability to integrate ALL our dreams simultaneously. By coming to the O table, by giving freely of our geniusness, our dreams shared, our consciousness expands. Our reality expands. Abundance is the dance. Within a brief moment of time, creation of a new life.. a new dream is owakened.
Dream Big Dreams
We Americans seem to live in a dream world ! There is no such things as "preventable death".
In the real world, the operative phrases are "inevitable death" and "prolonged life".
In the real world, those who insist on prolonging life need to be ready to pay for it too. If they think they can impose life syles on others, then they should be ready to foot the bill for those others as well.
It is simple, in the dream world, immortality comes free. In the real world longevity cost more.
Labor Day contemplation of how to be of ultimate service to oneself.....
The I pledge video is going around and around and around....I pledge to be oneself.
Concerning my recent visit to The White House to http://chalkthewhitehouse.com and all things concerning 'Dream Big Dreams' ....
I haven't had health insurance forever....so i've had to learn the secrets of healing thyself. I've had to learn many new perspectives to live in poverty my entire life while living in a land of plenty. I am a workaholic. Yet my labor has no value. My life has been to study, know, and experience the creative life of an artist in pursuit of the ultimate health of oneself.
Peace is the key. Balance. When I saw the unfinished building of the Institute of Peace near the Kennedy Center for the Arts, I knew I wanted to work there...as artist in residence...sharing my perspective and vision on happiness, sharing my masterpeaces of the ultimate health of oneself.
WE have everything. EVERYTHING. What we need is to co-create systems of utopia...integrating the individual unique miraculous creative geniuses WE were all born as into systems that reflect our geniusness.
Today is Labor Day. Being artist in residence at the Institute of Peace is my way of being the ultimate service to the nation. Can anyone grant me that position. Can anyone deny me that position. It is my place in the world. As all that I have ever been and all that I will ever be is reflected in the need of that postion being full filled by being oneself.
I pledge to be oneself....to form relationships in forming a more perfect union..in co-creating and co-designing systems reflecting the ultimate health of oneself. The Key to knowing oneself is Peace. Is Balance. Is the ultimate health of oneself.
As Artist in Residence of the Institute of Peace. I Pledge to BE, DO and have....as oneself.
My "Dream Big Dreams" is that WE all find the perfect manifestation of our true Labor of Love, and each and every act of BEING ONESELF is an act of service to oneself, family, community, state and nation.
p.s. And my ten year old son Makiah wants to remind his friend Barack Obama to "Dream Big Dreams" as he plays basketball with ALL his Dream Team Players with the most passionate happy Labor of Love he knows.
WE came to Washington DC for http://chalkthewhitehouse.com, to celebrate the Presidents Birthday and to express our individual unique miraculous creative genius with the President in forming a more perfect union. The participants in this years events are planning on amazing things for celebrating 2010. We learned so much this trip. Thank YOU ALL for participating.
Makiah was hoping to realize his "Dream BIG Dreams" of playing some basketball hoops on the White House Basketball Court but was threatened by the secret service to have him talken away by child custody and have his father experience some very very unpleasant times. Still totally puzzeled how a ten year old special needs boy who adores the secret service can be a threat to them or anyone.... or me, who claims to be one of the most peaceful experts on peace on the planet...interesting learning experiences.
I am currnetly working on the book "dream big dreams" the summation of our celebrational journey to DC and the first annual ChalkTheWhiteHouse event. WE learned alot about national archetypes concerning the male and female counterparts ..thank you Mary Mother of God and all things Michelle Obama. We are looking forward to being SIM orchestrators with the Institue of Peace. Balancing all aspects of forming a more perfect union with "happy hands, happy feet, happy heart...happyplanetindex.org" ....WE feel that the simple easy educational and health shifts of experiencing the ultimate health of oneself is here and now...an integral part of our history and future coming together to cross paths on that most rewarding road of being oneself.
Hoping to share more with everyone when the book "Dream Big Dreams" is completed. Until then giving all your focus and support to Michelle Obama in all she does for the ultimate goal of THE CHILDREN is absolutely appreciated by ALL of us who are "Dreaming Big Dreams" .....
Many people state health care costs as 2.2 trillion, and 16% of GDP, including the Kaiser Foundation. However, when I go to Table 3A of http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/gdpnewsrelease.htm
health care in 2008 accounts for 1.5 trillion out of a GDP 14.4 trillion or about 11% (not too far off from other nations).
Where do people get their data from?
I went to the http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/ web site, and while I can reconstruct the popular numbers from their site, they leave me even more puzzled. The GDP numbers for 2007 do not match the BEA. Off by at least a trillion, depending on Net or Gross DP. In addition, the BEA makes it clear that it is not counting Social Security or Medicare/Medicaid under Government consumption. So they must include it all under personal consumption.
The BEA percentage of health care over GDP has been pretty constant over the last decade, around 11%. The HHS data shows it jumping 3 point, to 16% during the same stretch. What's more, it made me realize that 50 years ago it supposedly was at 5% mark(HHS). Made me wonder why we don't hear an explanation of how we did it back then (forget the Canadians).
In other words, it seems very much like whoever counts gets whatever results they desire. Now I have double the evidence that all the numbers are suspect.
Disappointing. Especially since I used Kaiser Foundation numbers from an age stratified cost per year chart, and figured out that "prevention" was bullshit. Excuse my language. Healthy living adds costs to the flat part of the bathtub curve, merely deferring the end-of-life costs. So "whole life cost" goes up with longer lives. There will be no bending of the cost curve as long as longevity increases.
I suppose politicizing numbers shouldn't surprise me. But better orchestration would help.
Congress and the Administration are busy tweaking the existing system, and calling it reform. They are crowing about 47 million uninsured as evidence of a crisis, when a huge number of them are prime of life people who do not need health care. Republicans are attacking costs, increased taxes proposed by Democrats, while claiming that the for profit insurance system is great, begging the question if they’ve woken up from the Bush years yet. All of it is in a crisis mode – must be reformed this summer. Or what? I think we’ll just have another summer next year.
Now I do have some ideas for real health care reform. It starts with the simple premise of a single payer. I don’t care if it is the Social Security Administration or Halliburton. Stop wasting billions on multiple billings, useless accountants, claim processors, rate negotiators, and of course, CBO, GAO and untold other studies. The Government should simply open it up for bids. Companies could partner, agencies and companies could partner, agencies and agencies could partner. I would not care. Just two basic criteria: single payer, meaning single book-keeping, and lowest operating bid. Health insurance is not brain surgery – it is just moving money from the left hand to the right hand. So the winner should do it cheaply. That would take care of my health insurance claim processing reform.
Now for actual health care reform? Well we are in a pickle, one that neither Democrats, Republicans, AMA or BCBS want to admit. The baby boomers are going to clog the are demographics arteries. The number of Americans over the age 64 will double for the next 40 years, and these old codgers consume 6 times the health care that a young person does. Our infrastructure, you know the one with Indian immigrant doctors, Philipino immigrant nurses, and hundreds of closed hospitals, cannot serve their numbers. So we will have metered health care. The rich will go to through the side doors while the rest of America will queue up at the front desk. Inevitable. How can Congress ignore this? Perhaps because most will be dead and gone by the time it becomes obvious.
The way to get out of the pickle is to resort to the great American ideal of self determination and self reliance. My suggestion is that every American be endowed with a voucher of $1,000,000, for life time health care. Each time they go to a doctor, the single payer will pay the doc, and reduce the balance of the voucher. Once a person runs out, they are on their own. If they live right, maybe the voucher can last a long time. If they live smart, they won’t rush to the doctor for every sprain and strain, much less for Viagra. If at the end of life, they only have enough for a hospice, rather than the inhuman cruelty of being kept alive on tubes for months, who is to judge which represents better quality of care. How do I suppose to pay for this. Well, the startup cost is minimal. Even old people only average $8-10,000 in annual costs. That’s the only part of the voucher that has to be covered initially. The full million is like life insurance – you pay, perhaps into Medicaid (what a novel idea) to build up the “future value” of you endowment. The younger you are when you start, the lower your monthly payments. I think it is doable.
Now to complete my tour de reform, I would allow the unused balance of a voucher to be transferred to heirs, as part of the estate. I know, it sounds odd, but it really makes sense. The genetics will ensure that in the long run, the healthiest of the breed will end up getting the best of care.
Sorry folks, but when one is looking to reform reform, one has to strain the gene pool to achieve real savings in health care.
The President finally called the reform by its proper name: Insurance reform!
Let's be honest. The entire discussion has very little to do with health care reform for 250 million Americans. It consists of Medicaid offering wall-to-wall coverage for families making under $29,000 per year, and about $2 grand in government subsidies to those making less than $88,000 per year (with yet to be stated levels of coverage. The rest of Americans will retain the same crappy insurance, but pay more in taxes.
The likely beneficiaries will be the insurance companies, who will get another 40-50 million subscribers.
That is not something I want to help with!
Senate will delay action on bonuses tax , not to mention Geithner and the President himself are backtracking on the House action.
The arguments about breaking contracts between employers and employees is bogus. If it had meaning, my real estate tax increases could not cut my raise in half. The retroactive tax argument is bogus. A bonus paid in 2009 is current year taxable earning. The argument that it is not constitutional is the biggest crock of them all. Cigarette taxes, liquor taxes, skims from lotteries are all punitive taxes, and legit. And lets just wait until carbon credits roll, which will be the biggest social engineering tax of them all. These are all Wall Street arguments floated to save their bonuses!
Are we finally seeing tranparency? Is it transparent now the Congress and the Administration listen to and work for Wall Street, first and foremost? If they work for all Americans, then they should act on all our behalf. The House did, this time!
Mr. President, your call for fiscal responsibility in spending the Recovery Act tax dollars has the agreement of every American. It won't be an easy job. But, it would seem to me, there is at least one, simple driving function that you can use, namely the performance standards of every Government manager.
Performing the mission under budget is NOT, and never has been a job standard in government. In fact, the whole Executive Branch operates on the premise that turning money back to the Treasury is a sin. "Year End Obligations" is what the annual September ritual is known as. I believe you can issue and Executive Order that makes "fiscal performance against budget" a mandatory performance standard for all Government managers. A standard that clearly states that coming in under budget will be rewarded. In fact, I think, it needs to be the standard with the most weight, to motivate the behavior you are expecting from your workforce.
Congress, historically, also sees the appropriations as "must spend" amounts, where wasting tax dollars to meet obligation goals is inherent. Perhaps you'd need bi-Partisan agreement and support for the Executive Order to change their mindset. But which representative of the tax payers will oppose budgets as maximums, and instead, publicly support fiscal irresponsibility? I think you can drive this through.
Mr. President, you promised us change. Turning the Federal Government into an organization that puts primary value on conserving the tax payer's money would be a huge , and welcome change. One that perhaps all levels of government could adopt.
Start Fiscal Responsibility in Government - all it would take is your Executive Order !
I really would like to see two rules implemented in the Administration's Homeowner Stability Initiative procedures, in addition to payments lowered to 31% of income.
First, no tax deductions for interest on bailed out mortgages. That would make the rest of us cover the sin twice.
Second, if and when a bailed out property gets sold for more than the mortgage principal, the "profit" gets taxed at 100%, until the incentives are paid back. Those incentives, of a thousand dollars here and there, are our tax dollars! They need to be paid back to the Treasury, not end up as "somebody's slick move".
The implementation rules must contain assurances that the $75 billion gets paid back by those who got bailed out, not by our children.
Mr. Geithner has several months for developing the implementation rules. The money comes out of TARP, which means he can do pretty much whatever he wants. Such rules should not be a problem for him, and it would be very reassuring, and FAIR, for those of us with the "responsible gene".
There is no constitutional right to homeownership! If you borrowed above your means, you've got no right to stability of ownership! The fact that the value of a house dropped below your purchase price is not relevant unless you want to sell - and if you can't afford to sell, then stay put - that is stability!
If you want rules for dealing with this mess, and keep 4 million families from being thrown out on the street (who, by the way, are not all hopelessly helpless to start with), here is a suggestion to Mr. Geithner:
Make the banks take their houses back (let them foreclose) and make them rent to the occupants (for minimum of 1 year, or pick your time frame)!
Then the dumb bankers will have their "fair market equity" and the dumb buyers will have a roof over their heads at "fair market rates"
I do not want my children to pay for all these gifts!
I had worked for nearly 50 years, starting with pumping gas when I was 14. I paid my way through engineering school. Worked my way up to what you'd call middle management, before I semi-retired this year. My wife and I raised our children, put them through college, and they are productive, good citizens now. While we scrimped early on, going pay check to paycheck, other than a mortgage, we never carried debt. Paying off the mortgage was one of my pre-retirement goals, and we managed to do so. Mind you, we've lived in our house since 1980, the only thing flipping since then were hamburgers on the backyard barbeque. My pension is reasonable, we have no debts, we've done all the right and responsible things, and now I am starting to feel like a sucker! You might ask why?
Because I will be paying off the debts of irresponsible consumers and the salaries of high paid financiers. I will be getting no tax breaks, while Washington is creating them for those who want to borrow, and live beyond their means once again. My biggest uncertainty is not about the Dow Jones, not about housing prices. It is about taxes and inflation.
What is currently going on is eventually going to have to be paid for, either by more taxes or by inflation. Maybe it will be creatively deferred until past my time. But we have also gifted our children with the "responsible gene". If Washington doesn't get me, then it will make suckers of our children. Social conscience is OK by me. Helping those in need is also. But throwing my tax dollars at greedy crooks, greedy idiots (lenders and borrowers) and adding more pork to wasteful programs and pet rocks is not.
President Obama, perhaps this is not the story you wanted to hear, but it is a real, true, and American story. Thank you for your time.
This is in Dutch, use online translator to translate or email me
Oxfam novib en het onzincomplex Wanneer oxfam novib in staat de helft van het geld op te brengen voor de oplossing van het wereldarmoede probleem lijkt het mij een peuleschil de andere helft ook ergens weg te toveren. Wanneer dit niet mogelijk schijnt te zijn is er volgens mij maar een conclusie mogelijk en dat is dat er nog steeds onwil in de wereld bestaat de echte problemen op te lossen. De helft van het geld wordt hier een synoniem voor de echte intenties van multinationals en G20.De andere helft van het geld is ook de andere kant van het verhaal!Er wordt zoveel onzin de wereld in gegooid over de krediet crisis dat het bijna onmogelijk is echte essentiele problemen te doorzien. Naar mijn mening zijn die: 1. De wereld is toe aan een crisis omdat men dat wil. Geld speelt nog steeds de hoofdrol in de oplossing van de credietcrisis. Is dit niet in strijd met elkaar?Wanneer de oorzaak van de problemen in geld ligt lijkt het me voor de hand liggen daar de problemen aan te pakken.Maar integendeel met dezelfde middelen wordt het probleem aangepakt. Dit leidt onherroepelijk tot conflictstof die er in de praktijk op neer komt dat men water met vuur wil bestrijden!Het lijkt me nu al duidelijk wat de gevolgen hiervan zullen zijn. Dit complot is de oorzaak van de echte spanningen in de wereld waar het om draait. Oorlog wordt op die manier gelegitimeerd en de zaak is rond. 2. Ontwikkelingslanden blijven de dupe van geld en multinationals Alhoewel het lijkt of multinationals geld pompen in de armoede bestrijding wordt deze op het eerte gezicht menslievende actie weerlegt door onzinnige informatie te verstrekken over percentages e.d.De ontwikkelingslanden staan eigenlijk gewoon met lege handen en dat zal voorlopig ook wel zo blijven.De norm van 0,7% respectievelijk 50% zijn gewoon zoethoudertjes om de wereld er van te overtuigen dat men ergens mee bezig is, in werkelijkheid wrijft men zich in de handen en blijven multinationals grof incasseren.Corruptie regeert de wereld waarmee de crisis zijn werkelijke gezicht laat zien. Oxfam novib predendeert hiermee een voorloper te zijn in het proces om de wereld vrede een kans te bieden echter zij bewerktstelligt juist de oorlog. Conclusie De werkelijke oplossing van het probleem ligt in het stoppen met onzinverhalen en keiharde maatregelen te treffen tegen de corruptie die op het ogenblik een ingeburgerd begrip is geworden waarmee al duidelijk wordt hoe vreselijk de wereld er aan toe is. Stop met de waanzin om de wereld bewust kapot te maken en wees een vent en trek je eigen conclusies.Uiteindelijk zal het goede overwinnen, dit kan tijdens of na mijn leven zijn maar het is de wet van Murfy!Daarom speel open kaart nu het nog kan, wanneer de koppigheid zich doorzet zal aan de vrede een vreselijk bloedbad voorafgaan.Dit doemscenario lijkt ons te zijn weggelegt.Protesteer, provoceer, gebruik je verstand. WE ZULLEN UITEINDELIJK OVERWINNEN!!!!!!! Janjakob Koning007tx1@live.de
I have applied to be in charge of the White House Basketball Court where the Dream Team will be meeting for the next four years or more. Join the Dream Team as play begings January 20th 2009.
And when the Dream Team isn't meeting I have applied to be on the board of the Peace Institute, time we make a real peace with the natives, and work our way outward from the heart of reality.
When one quarter of the computers are invectid by a virus the problems are so big you can't solve them without beeing angry!
When you get angry people will react in a way which is very predictable and will make mistakes again!
Thisis a way you can solve new corruption because corruption per defenition goes with terror, this is right wing terror!!
When you underestimate the terror you can't win this war against computercorruption!
It's gigantic and will go into history as a total human madness, sorry if you see me laughing.
I'm sure this idea will go nowhere but here it is anyway.
I was thinking about paying for UHC and since I do not like the insurance companies running the health care system I looked at my auto insurnce of which I buy the minimum to be on the road, all of the premium is related to health care related expenses. ALL of the premium is for bodily injury.
So I got to thinking if there was UHC why would a person have to pay those premiums to the auto insurance industry? If a person were in a car accident and there was UHC the expenses would be paid anyway. Why not just pay a portion of the auto insurance directly to a UHC program by an amount reduced by the profits if the auto industry and lawyer fees for accidents, I mean the only way a person can be sure to NEVER be in a accident is to never get in a car.
This would raise billions of dollars for a UHC program.
Just an idea to think upon.
ok. bye.
Makiah's Bill
NOW, that WE have children in the White House, let's make 'the children' the nation's TOP PRIORITY, as they are in Barack and Michelle's life.
Let's be a part of the integral age, while surfing the agriculture, industrial, information, conceptual, integral, magic and utopian ages. Let's ALL be part of the Dream Team, of playing the ultimate game of life.
Let's get Makiah's Bill on every desktop of every congressman, senator and the President of the United States of America. This is a TOP PRIORITY bill coming from the bottom UP...Let's start the NEW Year, January 20th 2009 with the world's highest priority, the children.
makiah.com
My name is Robin the Nurse. Unlike Joe the Plumber, I want Barack Obama to be President of the United States. Joe the Plumber and I have something in common besides both being Americans. We have a fan by the name of Rhonda from Fresno.
Rhonda from Fresno has become my biggest fan/stalker as she has commented on several of my blogs. She talks about Joe the Plumber on one of them. She tells me I am ignorant and in the dark because I support Obama/Biden.
How did I get so lucky to get such a fan? How many profiles are there on MyBo? After reading several of her rants about how great Palin is, I maintained my cool and didn't tell her what an ignorant **** I thought she was ala Dan Akroyd's-"Jane, you ignorant ****!" Oh, but I wanted to. I thought-"wwod, since he is my Messiah",( according to Ms. Fresno).
She even inspired me to write a little prayer which I posted in a reply to one of her rants. What is it about some Christians where they feel they can judge who a real Christian is? I have been told many times what I am because I support Barack Obama. Good Christian isn't usually what comes out of thier mouth's.
Another thing, I love about the Rhonda from Fresno types are when they ask me, "How would you like it if your mother got an abortion and you couldn't be born?" I guess I wouldn't care much, since I wouldn't know that she had one, since I wasn't born." But, if I did know it out of mental telepathy or osmosis or something, this is what I would think: "Wow, my mommy feels so trapped that she wants to abort me. Where is her support system? Didn't they teach her sex education ?Why does she feel she is so alone? Where are all the Christians to help her through this? I feel great comapssion for my Mommy. I wish there was someone to help her." That, Rhonda from Fresno, is how I would feel.
Also, before you start judging who a good Christian is, I want to see your credentials. Did God deputize you to go forth and identify the good Christians? What's that? No, you answered. Oh, I didn't think so. You just took upon your self to cast stones at my morals and that of Barack Obama. Those who live in glass trailors shouldn't throw stones.
I personally abhor abortion. I worked in a clinic that performed them as a counselor. When the clinic realized I was also a nurse, they put me in the room where they performed the abortions. I found myself praying for the soul of the aborted fetus. Never did I feel anything but compassion towards the mother. I realized that I could not do that kind of nursing and left.
I still am pro-choice and I never would vote for a candidate because of one issue. Abortion is a serious decision that a woman needs to make for herself. It should not be made by the Goverment, Rhonda from Fresno, or the good Christians.
So in closing, Rhonda and your followers, keep reading my blogs. Visit my site http:/r.yuwie.com/robin1. Visit Michigan Nurses and Advocates for Obama.
Who knows? You may actually learn something about tolerance, compassion, and love instead of spewing your hate-mongering, bigoted view points. Feel free to bring your good friend, Joe the Plumber with you!
