When Piglet heard, Sen. Ted Cruz say, "My goal is to keep affordable health care out of the reach of ordinary Americans." Piglet was terrified.

Why use Winnie the Pooh's friend Piglet? He's easily scared, worried, confused and scared. I write scared three times because Piglet gets scared three times as much when he hears negative news.

To understand how negative news affect us, encourage you to read: The Te of Piglet is based around two topics, the concept of Te, the Chinese word meaning 'power' or 'virtue', and Piglet of the Winnie the Pooh books.^[3] Hoff elucidates the Taoist concept of 'Virtue — of the small'; though, he also uses it as an opportunity to elaborate on his introduction to Taoism. It is written with many embedded stories from the A. A. Milne Winnie the Pooh books, both for entertainment and because they serve as tools for explaining Taoism....  The book goes through the other characters — Tigger, Owl, Rabbit, Eeyore and Pooh — to show the various aspects of humanity that Taoism says get in the way of living in harmony with the Tao. 

What happens when you read negative news to Piglet? Read on and see how Piglet reacts:

• Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) called Thursday, the day the government reopened after a shutdown that lasted almost two weeks, "a very sad day." "I'm confused? Why is opening up the government a bad thing? Piglet asks. Will it make sick?

• Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, voted to keep the government shutdown. One would believe he doesn't remember the stories he was told about Cuban Dictator, Fidel Castro.  Rubio is using his power to shutdown the United States government. Fidel may have failed in destroying America but Sen. Marco Rubio is now finishing the job for Castro. "Oh my, this is ever so frightful." Piglet jitters.

• Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, with "His eyes welling up with tears, Sen. Cruz said, “I embarked on this crusade with a simple goal: to keep affordable health care out of the reach of ordinary, hard-working Americans. And while this battle was lost, that dream—that precious, cherished dream—will live on." (Ted's father fought for communist revolutionary Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution.^[19][20] Another score for Fidel Castro)  Piglet ponders and says, "Why does he want to keep me from getting healthcare? It scares me! Am I sick? 

Piglet you are not sick. There is nothing to fear.  You may be small but you have great power and no one can take it a way. 

Acknowlegements:

huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/17/michele-bachmann-government

Fear will manifest into a real disease.

Why do Tea Party Republicans want to shutdown our government? I don't know. Is it because president Obama is African-American? Is it because he wants all Americans to have healthcare? Is it he needs to raise taxes to keep our infrastructure in good repair? Is it because he wants American to have access to high speed rail? Is it because he's black?

The Tea Party is equivalent to the Muslim Brotherhood. They must be stopped! Tea Party extremist reveling to be patriots, as they fly and parade with the Confederate flag, must be brought to justice. Tea Party extremists have infiltrated our Nation's government and they have shown their willingness to collapse our economy and shutdown our government.

The Tea Party, with its extremist views has caused the decline of our health. Not just the health of our Nation but our individual health. Fear will manifest into a real disease. So, how will they inflict their virus?  Simple, shutdown the United States government. This is their plan:

March 1 — Sequestration goes into effect.
Barring a large deficit-reduction deal, or an agreement to cancel the sequester altogether, President Obama will be required to issue a sequestration order before midnight on March 1. His Office of Management and Budget (OMB) will submit a report to Congress. Federal agencies, which have already been drafting their sequestration plans according to OMB, will begin operating at reduced funding levels. The cuts will happen.

March 4 — Furlough notices issued.
If President Obama gives his order late at night on Friday, March 1, agencies could give notice to employees on the following Monday, March 4, that furloughs will be coming. Furloughed employees must be notified a month in advance, in most cases, according to Office of Personnel Management guidelines. Agencies can issue these notices before March 1, so it’s possible federal employees will get word of furloughs this week. Agencies could also wait to issue furlough notices, hoping that a deficit deal comes quickly.

March 27  — The government runs out of money, or a new funding measure is passed.
The federal government is currently being funded by a temporary measure that expires March 27. Congress and Obama will have to approve more funding in March, and while they’ve previously opted to continue the same funding levels, the March 27 deadline could provide a convenient time for them to strike a deficit deal, or at least modify the sequestration law to target the cuts differently.

April 4 — Furloughs can begin, consequences are felt.
This date is not definite, but it’s a best guess. A wide array of  agency-specific factors could mean different kinds of federal workers are furloughed at different times, according to an OMB official, but a 30-day notification timeline is the general rule — meaning government employees would start missing work a month after notices go out March 4.

Some content from:
abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/02/sequester-timeline-when-will-the-cuts-be-felt/

It's obscene!

Is he a Taker?

It makes no sense for the average person to support a government run amok with corruption. It's obscene!

The USA is a stranger to its people.  The government defends and protects corporations as if they were its citizens. They reap billions in profit from City, County, State and Federal agencies.   Woodrow Wilson must be turning in his grave. It was he who created the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). It gave it power to forbid unfair business practices and officers of corporations liable for illegal acts of those corporation. This is the law and its intent. In the past 50 years the FTC is merely a rubber stamp for Corporate America. 

Prior to the FCC, Teddy Roosevelt, felt that large corporations had become too powerful and had become corrupt. He  touted individualism.  Whereby every citizen should be free from the control of powerful organizations.  He believed it was the government's role to keep individuals free from control. Many years later a fellow Republican president, Ronald Reagan, began to court the power of corporations and disavow individualism.

Wilson and Roosevelt where correct to force corporations and even small business from abusing their employees and corruption.  Now we see the opposite, corruption and excesses rewarded and the average worker a miscreant. Workers are maligned both by their employer and government.  They are viewed as lazy and overpaid. Retirees, the sick and the disabled are said to be "takers." Its obscene!

3.8 Billion in Revenue  2012

Retirees, disabled or low income families can barely afford to buy food. They turn to charitable organizations for assistance but they have less and less to offer.  Year after year our government reduces the budget for entitlements and increases the cost of services to those dependent. Why? Corporate power. Our representatives are their whores and our government is corrupt to its core.  It's nonfunctional! Its obscene!

While many of us fear loss of income, furloughs, property values drop, medical care cost increasing, corporations demand more and more money from our government.  In Hillsborough County, Florida, recently gave Bass Pro Shops a 6.5 million dollar subsidy to open a mega store. "I want to commend Bass Pro on their outstanding record of partnership with local communities.  We are very pleased to welcome them to Hillsborough County,” said Commission Chairman Ken Hagan.  He forgot to mention Bass Pro Shops' revenue of 3.92 billion as of November 2012. Is Bass Pro Shop a taker? YES!!

Corporations pay significant political contributions to their political whores of our  their government. In their defense, a few help local food pantries but mostly during Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, 4th of July, and maybe on Mothers and Fathers Day. Some times they will accommodate the disabled but if they can get away with non-compliance, they will. Our government structure is entrenched with corporate America. Their influence has created a nonfunctional government. Its obscene!

Immigration reform is also Health reform

"Once the US begins the process immigrants will have the legal right to purchase healthcare insurance and not rely on the Emergency Room as their primary care physician."  Mauricio Rosas

Beginning March 4, certain immigrant visa applicants who are the spouses, children and parents of U.S. citizens (immediate relatives), and have been unlawfully present in the United States, can start applying for provisional unlawful presence waivers through a new process.

The new provisional unlawful presence waiver process is for certain individuals who seek a waiver of inadmissibility only for unlawful presence. They can now apply for a provisional unlawful presence waiver while in the United States and before departing for their immigrant visa interview at a U.S. Embassy or Consulate abroad. Under the current process, which continues to remain in effect, immediate relatives of U.S. citizens who are not eligible to adjust status in the United States have to travel abroad and be found inadmissible at their immigrant visa interview before they can apply for an inadmissibility waiver.

The new process is expected to shorten the time U.S. citizens are separated from their immediate relatives while those family members go through the process of becoming lawful permanent residents of the United States. 

For eligibility details and information on the process, please visit:
http://www.uscis.gov/provisionalwaiver