Turbo Tax Tim says it’s all good
As the Treasury Chief assures China that their investments are still good, the U.S. continues to trash the dollar and run huge deficits. He is all but begging the Chinese not to bail on us now. After all they have a vested interest in us right?
This is the problem we have in America. We depend so much on DEBT and foreign investment that we have to beg other nations to have faith in us. Is THIS what we have become? An old worn out has been? Foreign nations are carving us up, we’re shipping jobs overseas and we are on our knees begging the CHICOMS of all people! Begging them to have faith in US and not to bail on us.
This is the product of irresponsible government. Ultimately it’s the responsibility of the we the people because we are just like the government. We spend more than we have and then beg creditors to give us more money. Just like the creditors who have been tightening up their belts and stopped lending, I think the Chicoms will eventually stop lending as well. Then where will we be? Up shit creek? Yeah, probably…
This is what I call El ! Unless the people of this nation are more responsible, and realize that elections have serious consequences then we will never pull out of this.
I mean look how irresponsible WE’VE been with our voting! We elected a man in 2000 based on his name. We elected a man in 1992 because he was smooth and good looking. We elected a man in 2008 because he was the first black man to become president AND he was fairly smooth AND he wasn’t the guy we elected back in 2000. We have been sucky at picking presidents AND congressmen. We are to blame for all of this!
Yeah, so next time the government pisses you off, why don’t you slap yourself in the face. In the meantime, turbo tax cheat Tim Geithner is going to beg more countries to lend us money so we can put the final nails in our coffin. We’ve already been buried alive, but why try to dig out now? I mean this borrowing and spending money we don’t have is REALLY working out for us… Why change now?
Senators knew they were getting special treatment
Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn) and Sen. Kent Conrad(D-ND) were both told they were getting special deals from Countrywide on their mortgages. Yet they have continually lied about it. Gee no surprise here. People like Dodd and Conrad are the reason why this country is so messed up. They feel that since they are Senators that they are special. They feel as if they are elite, and worthy of more than the average citizen.
This is why they feel like it’s okay to use taxpayer money to buy themselves re-election after re-election. They deserve it. They are special. So when the VIP guys from Countrywide offer them a sweet deal on their real estate they believe that it’s perfectly justified, even though Senate ethics rules specifically prohibit such activities.
Rules? To hell with the rules! This is why we need to get rid of all these damn politicians and start fresh. If we ousted every single incumbent in the next election it would send a message to the 60+ Senators and the President to LISTEN TO US and quit jerking us around!
The whole reason that these people are in office is to serve themselves and not the American People. They live for VIP deals, campaign contributions, bribes, escorts, and free stuff. Their entire decision making process revolves around how they can dupe the American people (or the people of their state or congressional district) into voting for them again. Sometimes it involves earmarks, sometimes it involves class warfare. Whatever it is they just want to keep the freebies rolling in. They think their celebrities and they deserve it.
Yep, they deserve it alright. We’re talking about a congress who hasn’t had an approval rating above 30% in probably three or four years but they deserve it alright. They deserve a swift kick to the backside and a shoe print on their posterior as we politely remove their sorry, corrupt, money-sucking, power hungry butts from office.
Fed Chair feel bad about bailouts…
The FED chairman Ben Bernanke is trying to sell us a load of crap if you ask me. He says that he was as disgusted as we all are about the bailouts. Yeah, the BAILOUTS which consolidated power in the FED and the Federal Government. I’m sure it’s a heart breaker…
Now he is pretending to be on the side of small businesses and “the little guy.” I’m not buying it. Is anyone else? Yeah I didn’t think so. Let’s face it, the Fed and other big banks run the country. That’s why banks and other financial institutions were “too big to fail.” Yeah no shit. If YOU were in control of the country and you needed a tax payer bailout, and you got one, there would be nothing fishy about that huh? Nope just business as usual right? Right.
Give me a break. The bailouts were nothing more than a taxpayer insurance payout of the big wigs and the string pullers. Go sell your crap to someone else buddy. I’m not buying your made-in-china-lead-laced-poison-dog-food.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090727/ap_on_bi_ge/us_bernanke_town_hall
A simple plan…
My health Care proposal…
1. Allow insurance companies to make “a la cart insurance plans.” This will allow the individual to customize their insurance plans based on costs that THE INDIVIDUAL is comfortable with. This will allow many of the poor and lower middle class to purchase basic coverage for themselves and for their families.
2. Allow individuals to purchase plans from out of state companies. This will allow for competition among the many different companies and will help drive costs down for the consumer.
3. Tort reform! America has so many lawyers that everybody is suing the pants off everybody! Doctors pay outrageous malpractice insurance rates that drive costs up. Limit the amount that can be awarded in malpractice suits so that doctors can worry about saving lives and less about getting sued.
4. Reform Medicare and Medicaid! over a third of their payments are fraudulent! This abuse is driving up health care costs as well as our national deficit! By eliminating the fraud, prices will start coming down due to efficiency and cost management. (Fraudulent payments drives prices higher because: 1. they are using up resources. 2.They are artificially Increasing demand. Basic economics: if supply decreases, price goes up… if demand increases, price goes up)
5. Start eliminating mandates by the government on what has to be covered by insurance companies. Or at least let the consumer opt out of certain types of coverage in order to obtain a cheaper rate.
These are just a few free market solutions to our health care problem. In none of these solutions is the government expanding its control over the industry or the people. In fact, people would be offered more health care choices and more affordable plans.
Cheesy Slogans and vauge promises of Change…
Bill Clinton won in 1992 with “it’s the economy, stupid!” George W. Bush won by offering a larger tax cut than Gore in 2000. And Obama won in 2008 by offering tax cuts to the middle class and promising to revive the economy. But now that we’re six months in and 7 million people have lost their jobs and Obama’s administration is claiming that they “misread” the economy it’s looking pretty bad.
Political rhetoric can only get you so far. Obama constantly blamed George W. Bush for the recession and tied Republican candidate John McCain to Bush during the election. Obama constantly reminded the populace that the economy was “inherited” by him from the Bush administration when he was pushing for the stimulus package. Now those words are hanging around but mean nothing. The American people had these words and policies shoved down their throats and it is a bitter bill to swallow (pardon the pun).
President Obama has shown either a lack of understanding in economic matters or a complete disregard for them. Either way it is unforgivable, especially since the economy was his calling card. The economy is getting worse and worse and more and more people are shifting the blame from Wall Street and Bush to Big Business and Obama, who seem to be teaming up to destroy the American economy.
The ramifications will be a loss of the super majorities that the Democrats have in both houses of Congress. If the Republicans can regain power in the congress, that might be the most beneficial thing for the economy as President Obama is weak and is easily influenced by Congress. This economy will eventually recover in two to four years.
Universal Tyranny
People are asking me why I think universal health care is tyranny. Ok one more time, the long way…
The whole premise of Universal Health Care is unconstitutional. The Constitution does not grant the U.S. Government the authority to create such an entitlement (or ANY entitlement). Please note the 9th Amendment of the Constitution.
”The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”
This is saying that the Federal Government must recognize that just because there are rights written down in the Bill of Rights, does not mean that these are the ONLY rights the people have. Many would use this as support for the “right to universal healthcare.” They would be wrong. Healthcare IS a right however, and no Federal Authority can block you from getting it nor take it away from you if you are willing and able to pay for it. However, Universal Healthcare is unconstitutional because it would take the “right to healthcare” that you personally have and impress it upon the rest of the country as a tax payer funded obligation. Just because you have the right to something, it does not mean that you have the right to force others to pay for it, or give something of theirs up (their money) in order for you to get it. Their right to not have to pay for YOUR healthcare would ALSO be protected by the 9th Amendment. Therefore, a RIGHT is something that you have and can exercise that does not put a burden on another. Like speech, worship, etc… When people exercise these rights it does not unduly burden another person nor violate THEIR rights. I have the freedom of speech, but to assault someone (get in their face and yell obscenities at them, threaten them) is against the law because they have a right to reasonable privacy and safety.
The 10th Amendment – “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
This means that the government cannot act outside of the powers laid out in the constitution. Those powers are reserved for the states and for the people. It means that our entitlements (ALL OF THEM) are unconstitutional by their very nature. It means that Universal Health Care cannot legally exists as a Federal Program. The STATES may do such a thing, as they did in Massachusetts (by the way, you can thank Mitt Romney, Republican, for that disaster). But as a Federal program it cannot legally exist. This also means that even a “public option” cannot legally exists as a federal program. Basically all the debate is moot. If Universal Health Care becomes law, it violates the constitution. It violates OUR rights as citizens to not be forced by the federal government to have to pay for someone else’s health care. It violates insurance companies rights to not have to compete against unfair competition. The government makes the rules, and now will be competing against private companies. When the government wants to take the advantage over the private companies, all it has to do is change the rules, just like any tyrant.
Finally our right to healthcare (the very thing these people say they want to protect) will be violated as employers drop their health benefits. Why would they do that? Well because, they COULD offer their own (and get taxed on it) OR they could just pay into the public plan and offer employees higher salaries. I know what you’re saying… “Then you’d still have healthcare!” But you’d be on the public plan. Which as we all know would end up rationing healthcare based on discriminatory practices of age, race, gender, and disability. Face it folks, there is not enough health care to go around. That’s why 47 million people DON’T have it. How can the government just wave a magic wand and suddenly create more doctors and people in the health care industry. It can’t. I know they say they can but here’s the reality.
The Public Option is part of the health care reform that’s going on. One of the subjects of the debate is how to lower costs. First of all, how does the private sector lower costs? They do it with advances in technology, efficiency, and productivity. How does government lower costs? Anybody? Exactly they DON’T. Why? Because government is a consumer and not a producer; because government doesn’t have to turn a profit. Government always increase the cost of things because no one in government wants to cut their little pet projects out of the budget. Government raises cost because they cannot efficiently manage anything that has a limited supply. Look at Medicare and Medicaid; they’re bankrupt! Why? Because the government can’t stop the fraudulent payments that amount to almost 1/3 of all Medicare and Medicaid costs.
So if the government can’t lower costs by using efficiency, then can they do it by increasing the supply of doctors? Maybe, but if you did your math then you’d know that the Government would have to pay for all the Doctor’s educations (through education programs and such) which would just raise costs (to the budget) elsewhere. Plus, without an increase in efficiency, the increase in doctors would result in an increase in fraudulent payments with Medicare and Medicaid. So that’s not going to help either.
The only other thing they could do would be to limit payments that the doctors receive from this Public Option. That means the government would pay below market prices for the same care that others with private insurance would get. This would do two things. Doctors would begin refusing public option patients (which would be discrimination) OR they would give subprime care to them. Either way the government would not stand for it. Many doctors, knowing that their services could no longer produce the income necessary to pay off their exorbitant student loans would find another line of work. Thus reducing the supply and increasing the demand per capita. This of course would result in higher prices.
So where does that leave us? Rationing. The government would then have to rationalize every medical procedure and weigh it against certain criteria to determine if giving you certain medical treatments are “worth it.” The human would be reduced to a number of attribute like age, race, sex, orientation, disability and other criteria and attributes. You may need heart surgery but if you’re 73 you probably won’t get it because a younger person may need those fund and can be more useful to society for a longer period of time. Or, you may not get pain medications because hell, you’re going to die anyway we can save money and use it on more productive members of our society. That, or they will ration medical care based on who can wait in line the longest. You may wait 9 to 12 hours in the emergency room for a shot of penicillin meanwhile you die from the infection.
And with that kind of control the government would require all the people to be as healthy as possible. They would pass laws in an attempt to keep the costs down by mandating healthy lifestyles. The government would regulate what we eat, drink, do, everything that goes into our bodies, and all of our activities. They would probably monitor us in a way never imagined before. All under the guise of keeping us healthy. Imagine, sugar intake limits, meat and cheese limits, limits on alcohol and tobacco. These are things that we Americans can choose for ourselves. If we do have vices that affect our health we usually pay for that in increased insurance premiums.
Whether it is by creating entitlements for the taxpayer to fund; or by forcing insurance companies out of business with unfair racketeering-like practices; forcing doctors to accept payment that is below market value; or if it’s just plain old fashion rationing, the government would be tyrannical by forcing its will on the American people. It should be noted that with all of these plans the quality of care would not increase. When greater access is granted to an already strained system the quality will go down. And remember if the government was going to improve the medical infrastructure, it would come at a great cost to the tax payer.
That is why it is tyrannical. All these changes are coming to us, not out of a desire to actually improve anything, but as a means to consolidate power in the government over us. Did you ever wonder what they would REALLY do with this kind of regulatory power? It is quite scary! I imagine something like 1984 where big brother watches us eat and sleep and work.
That is tyranny. It’s tyranny because we don’t really know what they are using their power for.
This could have been drawn yesterday
Chicago Tribune Cartoon from 1934
Here is an editorial cartoon 75 years old! Seem familiar? Most all of us know what happened and how long it took to get things straightened out. Most of those in DC weren’t even born then! Look at this cartoon from 1934 and look especially carefully at the plan of action.
Remember the adage, “Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it.” Looks like we could be in for difficult times. Frightening…
This could have been drawn yesterday!
What has changed?
Iranian update!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090717/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election
Protestors in Iran are still fighting for their rights. I haven’t commented on this issue in a few days, but it is still very near and dear to my heart.
On Fridays, the militia fired tear gas at protestors inside the mosque at Friday prayers. As the former president Rafsanjani criticized the Iranian government for post election violence the protestors yelled “Azadi! Azadi!” Persian for “freedom.”
But tear gas was not the only disturbing thing going on. Hard line supporters of the regime bullied and pushed the opposition leaders as they were headed for the prayers. According to the AP, “As she headed for the university, a prominent women’s rights activist, Shadi Sadr, was beaten by militiamen, pushed into a car and driven away to an unknown location, Mousavi’s Web site http://www.mowjcamp.com and a women’s rights site http://www.meydaan.com said.”
Reports have been coming in from Iran saying that the morgues have been filling up in Tehran with hundreds of unidentified bodies. People are disappearing and being killed. It stinks of Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany.
Rafsanjani’s sermon during prayers is heartening to see that he wants his people to be united but it will fall on deaf ears. The government will continue to ignore the will of the people as they continue to pretend to know what’s best for them. But, as it is with all tyrants; it’s not about the people it’s about the POWER.
Look, this is tyranny at its finest. But its also good to see that the people of Iran are not giving up. The people outnumber the tyrants in the government. If I’ve learned anything from reading about revolutions it is that.
Our government is failing to properly support this fight for freedom. I’m not talking about arms and troops; I’m talking about support from our president and State Department. For instance, WHY isn’t Hillary Clinton calling out the Iranians for abducting the women’s rights activists? Why isn’t she speaking out against the horrible treatment that women get in many of these so-called “republics?” All we get is empty drivel about how they are “concerned.”
Our nation is not far behind the kind of tyranny that is in Iran. Our tyranny will not be religious but the assault on our economic freedom and the freedom of our healthcare choices will lead us down the road to a police state.
Healthcare, Biden and AARP
From: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=51162
Why does the Obama administration let this guy speak at all? I don’t know, maybe, in some weird way he connects to the people who are already self deceived. Joe Biden was talking again; this time to the unwitting members of the AARP. Where he comes up with this gem: 
“Now, people when I say that look at me and say, ‘What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?’” Biden said. “The answer is yes, that’s what I’m telling you.”
He apparently likes the word “there” a lot. He keeps referring to “there” repeatedly referring to “there” as it relates to the national health care plan that he was pushing on the bussed in AARP members.
I’ve been reading “We the Living” by Ayn Rand recently and the book tells the story that WE will be living if this country continues to go the way that its going. Socialism is a graveyard and the people are the ones who get buried.
Even Khrushchev is quoted as saying “we will feed you small doses of socialism until one day you will wake up and find that you already have communism. We don’t need to fight you.”
This healthcare bill and this Cap and Trade bill are nice big spoonfuls of socialism. Open wide folks it’s a bitter helping of crap.
If we don’t defeat Obama’s policies, we will wake up in a place that we fought two World Wars and a Cold War to avoid. Government healthcare is tyranny disguised as benevolence! Once the government gets its public option out in the works it will begin to start passing punishing rules on private health insurance providers. The private sector will then be unable to stay in business and will fold, leaving their clients without health care. The government will then demonize the industry for “leaving people out in the cold” and bring more and more people under the fold of the government system. Once most people are on the government system, then it’s just a short jump to single payer universal healthcare.
It will be SO expensive for the government that they will begin to ration it like we discussed yesterday. Then they will begin passing laws and health regulations on your food, drink, sugar intake, and activities as a means to “cut the cost of healthcare.” You life will be regulated to no end all in your name. Yay America!
Cap and Trade will be no different as the government will assign punishments based on pollution and rewards based on “greenness.” The private industry will shut down because of the pollution punishments but the green jobs will be scarce because every green job the government creates it destroys 2.2 EXISTING jobs!
Our economy will collapse under these plans and WE will suffer for it. Not the president or congress WE WILL SUFFER! They are the elite they are always the exception. They will remain in power over us and we will gladly pay them for their services.
This explains so much!
