State can seize your assets to pay for care after you’re forced into Medicaid by Obamacare

The fact that this is being treated with seriousness at Kos is an indication of how large a liability it could be for this government program. Washington is scrambling to change the law. No doubt other states will start looking at their implementation of this part of Obamacare. But there will be people caught unaware that their houses effectively belong to the government because the government forced them into Medicaid coverage.

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Sad letter from a California property owner to a friend who's lived and worked abroad for several decades

You haven't been to America in many years.

Believe me it has changed.

Every day I see drug addicts and homeless people walking up and down the boulevard.  I have tried to offer them food.  They don't want the food, they want money.  I've actually been spit upon for offering food.  The 7/11 is daily flanked with people who are looking for money.  Again, if you offer them food they turn it down.

The immigrants piss on the street where I live and set off massive commercial fireworks on any given holiday which land in people's yards scaring our animals.  If asked to please move their car from your driveway you get flipped off. If you call the police for unlawful fireworks, you get no assistance.  If you don't have a "No Trespassing" sign on your gate, squatters can walk on your property and pitch a tent.  You have to treat them like a paying tenant.

A friend of mind has a home that she rents.  Her tenants left about 6 months ago and before you know it a squatter moved in.  My friend is not allowed to turn the lights off and the squatter has all the rights of a paying tenant.  She has a lawyer and they have not made any progress.  In fact the city has given the squatter a lawyer for nothing.

I have a guest house that I leased to a woman who was homeless for 12 years.  She dug herself out and started her own feeding program for the homeless at a church. I was so impressed with her that I rented my very lovely guest house to her for 300.00 less a month than I would have rented to someone else.  She has been with me for two years.

I went to Utah for five months leaving her there.  I would have trusted her with my life.  I got back and found that she had had some guest there for a couple of weeks.  This was not our agreement.  I don't mind an occasional "sleep over", but I'm paying all the utilities and I do not want strange people walking on my property.

She got into my face and threatened and told me the "she could have anybody there for 15 days at a time if she wanted".  She then proceeded to scream  "was my house permitted."  She told me I was rude etc, etc, etc.  I didn't say anything.  I now have a lawyer and we are trying to get her out.

She wants $10,000.00.  And, she can get it.  This would also be true even if she was doing something illegal on my property.  She is 60 years old.  If she was 62 I would have to give her 12,000.00,  It goes on and on.  If I had done something inappropriate to her, I could understand her attitude.  But, here is a woman I willingly helped and she pulled "the system" out on me and has not yet called my lawyer back and responded to his offer.  This is what happens when there are no boundaries in the system.

I've also been made to feel guilty for having Social Security (which I paid into), Retirement (which I paid into) Annuity (which I paid for) and owning a home.  I am now living in a trailer in a trailer park because the woman on my property has more rights than I do.  This is what is happening in America.

Also, I am trying to sell my house this year because if I wait until 2013, Obama Care kicks in and my Capital gains from my home (which is not that much) will be taxed 3.8% (for Obama Care) on top of state tax and closing cost.  This is only one story.  IT'S A BRAVE NEW WORLD!

I love America.  I wish I had a wonderful solution that would balance all the hatred.  I wish you could too.  I'm so glad that you don't have to be here to witness America.....it's so sad.

Love you.

Remember Gibson Guitars?

Update on the US government’s 2011 attack on Gibson Guitars.

George Will: "Rent control is unconstitutional because it is an egregious and uncompensated physical occupation of property."

From CARPE DIEM

How to avoid becoming a hostage to politicians

HAT TIP:
The Patriot Post

Greater freedom for tax payers would be seized from tax consumers, in an act of terrorism against the sacred machinery of redistribution. This mindset flows from the fundamental leftist misunderstanding of freedom. They view the essence of freedom as action. ... In reality, freedom is property. Every form of collectivism, from fascism to socialism, is an offense against property rights. The early philosophers of socialism railed bitterly against the private ownership of property. They hated the notion of a middle class with independence secured through ownership. The perilous financial situation of the United States government illustrates how closely private property rights are connected to all other forms of liberty. The less absolute your rights of ownership over your land, labor, and fortune become, the more easily the other rights can be dismissed at the convenience of the State. ... Now we are told that we have no choice but to allow the State to become larger, spending and borrowing more as it extends its control over our lives. Those who disagree are denounced as 'terrorists.' ... In a nation where the government fully respected private ownership, the notion of citizens becoming 'hostages' to federal budget cuts would be laughable, rather than insulting. Freedom is not something to be granted, rationed, allocated, or redistributed. It is not won or lost in an election. Freedom is something you own.

Freedom Is Something You Own

Obama: Unneeded Income Belongs to the Government

So: how do YOU feel about this?

Property rights are the foundation of any free society. Civilization depends on it (who would spend any time or money on development, innovation, or improvements otherwise?) Your money represents your time and you have a right to what you earn. The foundation of our great country is based upon this.

Obama is a fascist, a control freak, and a tyrant...and don't you believe for a minute that he will give up his own personal wealth anytime soon like Ghandi did...

While American politicians and intellectuals have not reached the depths of tyrants such as Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Hitler, they share a common vision...

Tyrants denounce free markets and voluntary exchange. They are the chief supporters of reduced private property rights, reduced rights to profits, and they are anti-competition and pro-monopoly. They are pro-control and coercion, by the state.

These Americans who run Washington, and their intellectual supporters, believe they have superior wisdom and greater intelligence than the masses. They believe they have been ordained to forcibly impose that wisdom on the rest of us. Like any other tyrant, they have what they consider good reasons for restricting the freedom of others.

A tyrant's primary agenda calls for the elimination or attenuation of the market. Why?

Markets imply voluntary exchange and tyrants do not trust that people behaving voluntarily will do what the tyrant thinks they should do. Therefore, they seek to replace the market with economic planning and regulation, which is little more than the forcible superseding of other people's plans by the powerful elite.

We Americans have forgotten founder Thomas Paine's warning that 'Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.'

--George Mason University economics professor Walter E. Williams

From the PatriotPost.us newsletter

Don't let them take your property!

Property rights initiatives and referenda

Residents in nine states (9) will go to the polls in November to vote on ballot measures that aim to correct the egregious action done by the United States Supreme Court’s Kelo vs. the City of New London decision [Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, Nevada, North Dakota, Michigan, Oregon, Washington]. Voters in Louisiana passed a ballot measure to restrict eminent domain abuse on the September primary ballot (The measure passed fifty-five percent to forty-five percent). Here is a brief status report of the other initiatives:

Private Property Rights 2006 State Ballot Initiatives.

"Win, lose, or draw, 20 years from now people will remember this election as the beginning of the property-rights movement in America, just as 1978 and 1980 was the beginning of the taxpayer movement in America." -- Grover Norquist, quoted in the Wall Street Journal, November 4, 2006

• Arizona: (Prop. 207) http://www.hopeforarizona.com
  
• California: (Prop. 90) http://www.protectourhomes2006.com
  
• Florida: (Amendment 8) http://www.votesmartflorida.org/mx/hm.asp?id=amendment8
  
• Georgia: (Amendment 1) No website
  
• Idaho: (Proposition 2) http://www.thishouseismyhome.com/
  
• Michigan: (Proposal 06-4) No website
  
• Nevada: (Question 2) http://www.propertybillofrights.com
  
• New Hampshire: (Question 1) http://www.ppanh.org
  
• North Dakota: (Initiated Measure 2) http://www.c-red.org
  
• Oregon: (Measure 39) http://www.oia.org
  
• Washington: (Initiative 933) http://www.propertyfairness.com