So now the Republicans are saying that anything they disagree with is a Trojan Horse leading to something dire (comment by Orrin Hatch, whom I respect a lot). So how does any change get done? End-of-Life counseling leads to "death panels" (which anyone who knows what EOL counseling is thinks is pretty pathetic), a coop will lead to government takeover, etc. So what's the answer?
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Lot's of change can be done. Obama has identified over 500 billion dollars in waste in Medicare. That's a chunk of change. So let's fix it, and save that much money. Change does not have to equal socialist type movement.
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Everything changes except the witness in you. The witness is the only permanent phenomenon. What is absolutely eternal in this world of movement and change? Only change seems to be eternal and nothing else. Everything changes except change. And change cannot be called the eternal truth, because the very definition is "the unchanging one," and change means "changing one." Where is the eternal? -- we never see it, we never feel it, we never know it -- nowhere; everywhere is form and movement and change, and everything is impermanence itself. Buddha says, "Everything is impermanent, EVERYTHING -- even you yourself -- just impermanent. Nothing is permanent here." So is there any truth, or not? Only one thing seems to be deeply eternal: the see-er, and nothing else -- the witnessing soul, nothing else. Buddha says, "Nothing is permanent." But who has seen this? This "nothing is permanent" -- who has seen this? Someone must have seen this impermanency. Someone must have felt this constant flux, change. And to feel the change, this constant change, to be aware of it, at least the awareness must be eternal. So that's why truth and the inner consciousness become synonymous. Everything else changes -- except change. Only change remains as a permanent character. The body is changing, continuously, every moment. Every single moment it is flowing and changing; otherwise how will you become old, how will you become a youth, how will a child become a youth? Can you say on what day the child becomes a youth? Can you say on what date the young man becomes old? Difficult. In fact, if you ask physiologists they are not yet clear at exactly what moment one says that the man was alive and now he is dead. It is impossible to decide. The definition is still unclear because life is a process. In fact when you have died, almost, and your friends have abandoned you, a few processes still continue in the body -- nails go on growing, hairs go on growing. A part of you still seems to be alive and functioning. When exactly a man dies, it is still undefined. In fact, life and death cannot be defined; it is a flux phenomenon. Body goes on changing, mind goes on changing -- every moment the mind is changing. If you are looking into this changing world in these distractions of your being, and searching for truth, God, bliss, then you will be frustrated. Move within. Go into the gaps where neither the world exists nor the body nor the mind. There, for the first time, you come face to face with eternity, which has no beginning and no end, which has no change in it.
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Well, if something so noble as talking to school kids about staying in school and working hard to get a good education can become a Trojan Horse, then anything can become a Trojan Horse. So, the only way for change to occur is to be ready in knowing that there is always going to be a Trojan Horse and forge ahead with armor and shields while dodging the arrows.
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Wow....that's a new one to me. But he's right.
Anytime you turn over control to the government, they are going to take it.
If that means pulling the plug on granny because she's too expensive to keep alive, that's what they'll do.
Why are you liberals so willing to your government rule you? Are you too weak and ill informed to make your own decisions? Do you need a government "daddy" or something?
What "change" is really needed? Is your life such **** that you can't change it for the better without the government giving you a hand up or a hand out? Change is really accomplished through individuals who make a difference one step at a time, not some ponderous, herd like group of bureaucrats who wish to bilk the common man because they can.
Any leader who tries to use the kids to get the parents isn't worthy of the position. It's one thing to encourage kids to stay in school, but it smacks of desperation to got through the kids to push a political agenda that's not being supported by their parents.
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The answer is who ends up with the most money. Very few in DC cares about any-ones health only who gets rich.