Oilfield Math

A clunker that travels 12,000 miles a year at 15 mpg uses 800 gallons gas a year. A vehicle that travels 12,000 miles a year at 25 mpg uses 480
gallons a year.

So, the average Cash for Clunkers transaction will reduce US gasoline consumption by 320 gallons per year. They claim 700,000 vehicles so that’s 224 million gallons saved per year. That equates to a bit over 5 million barrels of oil. 5 million barrels is about 5 hours worth of US consumption.

More importantly, 5 million barrels of oil at $70 per barrel costs about $350 million dollars.

So, the government paid $3 billion of our tax dollars to save $350 million. We spent $8.57 for every dollar we saved. I’m pretty sure they will do a great job with our health care, though!

So how’s that hope and change thing going for ya?

Oh, you have to PASS it before you can find out what is in it…

Well if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes I don’t think I would have believed it. You have to PASS the bill before you can see what is in it. Nancy Pelosi is admitting that she doesn’t exactly know what’s in the bill but she knows it’s good and “exciting.” Well I’m convinced! Let’s do this!

When I’m done maybe I’ll get a mail-order bride too. There’s no need to talk to her or meet her, just package one up and ship her to me. I find out what she’s like after I marry her.

Then after that I think I’ll buy a used car online without even so much as a test drive. I can find out what’s wrong with the car AFTER I get it in the drive way.

This is why this is the worst Idea I have heard of. This is so screwed up! We have to allow ourselves to be burdened with the bill and the new laws and regulations it will put on us BEFORE we find out what it says, exactly. Let’s face it. It will be YEARS before we figure out everything that’s in the Healthcare Bill. By then it will be too late to fix any of it.

This is Washington B.S. 101!

Obama rails against insurance companies, why not Medicare?

While Obama is railing against the Insurance companies for denying coverage and claims, maybe he should look at Medicare, which has the highest rejection rate of any healthcare provider. Get your facts straight. Oh that’s right you know the facts but are intentionally misrepresenting them. My bad. I keep forgetting that. Let’s not forget that this is nothing more than an attempt to eliminate private insurance, as Obama said in his own words, and take over all American’s health care… and in essence your entire life.

Hear it from his own words…

Massa? WTF?

I don’t think there is anyone who actually believes that Congressman Massa resigned due to his allegedly improper behavior.  In fact, it goes against everything we know about politicians.  They never resign until it actually becomes a huge national-level story.  This wasn’t anything like that until he told us that he was forced to resign.

I honestly don’t know what to believe.  This guy is a total tool bag and he proved it on Glenn Beck’s show tonight.  Glenn said it all by saying that he wasted our time.  The guy had an hour to prove or at least further explain what he was charging the White House with.  He didn’t even come close.  He back tracked and blubbered something about how he screwed himself. 

That seems to play into the logical side of things.  If Massa was truly forced out, then he had nothing to lose.  All he had to do was  speak the truth.  I don’t know if this guy even knows what the truth is.  I don’t think he knows what he is. 

It makes me wonder… is this what Washington is made of?  Holy crap.  We’re in more trouble than I thought. 

So here are my scenarios:

1.  This guy screwed up and resigned before the investigation was plastered all over the news.  He was embarrassed or humiliated and then said the White house forced him out as a childish lash out. Probably because the White House had some harsh words for him when he voted against Obamacare.

2. This guy screwed up and was told to change his vote or resign because the WH had the goods on him.  Then he resigns, but lashes out against the WH and tells them that they are going to get exposed with what he knows.  The WH ignores him and then he shuts up because he doesn’t really know anything.

3.  This guy screwed up and was told to change his vote or resign because the WH had the goods on him.  Then, knowing that Washington is corrupt he decides to tell all on Glenn Beck.  Then something happens to make him change his mind.  And he decides to not say anything bad on TV.  What was it that would have made him change his mind? You got me.  It’s worth looking into.  Maybe he got a dead fish in the mail.

  The WH denied that they forced him out and Robert Gates blubbered, incoherently about something being silly and ridiculous.  He always says that, even when something is completely logical and reasonable.  It really doesn’t seem that far of a stretch to believe that a Chicago-style move was placed on Massa, considering the WH’s reputation for being total failures it’s believable that they might try something so stupid.  But we will probably never  know the truth.

Abortion and the Health Bill

According to a Wall Street Journal Article, the President’s Health Care bill is going to allow federal funding for abortions, something he said he would not do.  So what’s the big deal?  If anyone remembers the Hyde Amendment which was the first piece of legislation to ban the federal funding o abortion, it came about in the 1970’s when Congress realized that a full third of all abortions in the U.S. were being funded through Medicaid.   This did not sit well with Congress so they passed the Hyde Amendment put forth by Rep. Henry Hyde in 1976.

Planned Parenthood and Medicaid were working together in the form they were meant to.  To get rid of poor minorities through slavery and abortion.  Congress actually stopped it with the Hyde Amendment, but I digress.

Anyway, now the administration is faltering.  Claiming that here has to be a balance between healthcare reform and the Hyde Amendment.  So far, according to the President current proposals to ban federal funding for abortion doesn’t strike that balance.  Which brings up a good point: either the funding for abortion is prohibited or it isn’t.  There is no Zen (as Charmaine Yoest says in the WSJ article).

From the Article:

• It would change existing law by allowing federally subsidized health-care plans to pay for abortions and could require private health-insurance plans to cover abortion.

• It would impose a first-ever abortion tax—a separate premium payment that will be used to pay for elective abortions—on enrollees in insurance plans that covers abortions through newly created government health-care exchanges.

• And it would fail to protect the rights of health-care providers to refuse to participate in abortions.

The president’s plan goes further than the Senate bill on abortion by calling for spending $11 billion over five years on “community health centers,” which include Planned Parenthood clinics that provide abortions.

The bottom line is that the president wants to deploy words that sound soothing like “balance” and “adjust.” Meanwhile, the courts are rendering precedent with stark words like “mandatory.”

When confronted by House Minority Leader John Boehner about abortion funding during the health-care summit last week, the president dropped his head and looked down at the table. How revealing.

Now, it is no secret that I am not a fan of abortion, however, I would never deny someone the right to save their own life through termination of pregnancy.  What I can’t understand is why Americans fall for this all the time.  The politician says one thing with the intention of doing the exact opposite.  President Obama promised that the federal government would not fund abortion, yet his proposals clearly will allow for it.  Where’s the change?

Obamacare must not Pass

This healthcare bill cannot be allowed to pass.  If it does, then we will have a 2000 page bill with laws, regulations, and who else knows what determining the fate of our healthcare.  Which begs the question, why the hell IS it so big?  It couldn’t be because if the bill is so big no one would take the time to read it would it?  No, that couldn’t be it…

So, if you don’t want someone to read the bill you make it 2000 pages long.  Why?  Ever seen the IRS tax code?  It is likes 80,000 pages.  Why the hell do you think it is so big?  Why so many codes?  Why is it so long?  Could it be so that no one bothers to read it?  And if they did, it would probably be so confusing that you wouldn’t really understand what was in there in the first place.

I am reminded of the novel Atlas Shrugged.  At one point a Washington stooge tells Hank Reardon the secret behind democracies.  That secret being that you pass law that are vague, impossible to interpret and impossible to enforce.  You pass laws that are so numerous that it makes it impossible for anyone to be a law abiding citizen.  Then you can do anything you want to anyone at any time.  Ayn Rand, knew what she was talking about.  She lived in Soviet Russia and that is one of the things they did there.  Nobody broke the law in the Soviet Union, officially, but nobody was able to obey them either.  That’s how they got rid of their enemies.

So what does that have to do with healthcare? Well, it’s simple.  There is a 2000 page bill which contains nothing and everything at the same time.  This bill hasn’t been read, by anyone preparing to vote for it.  In it contains what?  The cure to our healthcare problems.  Almost certainly not.  Those 2000 pages represent exactly what Ayn Rand was talking about.  Those 2000 pages represent the scaffolding for something else.  Even if they do add the GOP ideas and take out this thing or that option inside is still the basic framework for something sinister.  That sinister thing is the ability to control every aspect of your life.

Why does the IRS need to know about your healthcare choices?  I don’t know either but it’s in the bill.  Why does the government want so much influence over who gets healthcare, what kind of healthcare is available and how much?  Think about it.  Everything you do affects your health.  If you eat fast food, that affects your health.  If you smoke that does too.  The government is going to intrude on your way of life and document every aspect of your life that has negative effects on your health.  Then what will they do?  I don’t know.  But they’re going to do something about it you can bet your life.

Maybe they will eventually use the data as a means to enact the Single-payer system in which they have absolute control over your life.  Will they deny you expensive, life-saving drugs and treatment because you eat too much fast food?  Or will they pull the plug on your cancer treatment because you smoked when you were younger?  I don’t know.  But it seems likely.

If people tell you it’s about cutting the cost of healthcare then ask them this.  Why does the government need to provide subsidies to people in order to make their payments go down under this bill?  That’s not lowering the cost of healthcare its RAISING the cost of healthcare.   What if you lose your job?  How will you pay for your healthcare then?  Will the government pay it for you?  How convenient that they would do that since that’s their stated goal: to get everyone on single payer.  Don’t believe me? Go watch the video.

If it’s about cutting costs, then ask yourself this.  Is it reasonable to believe that the Federal Government is able to save money and cut costs?  If you believe it is then I submit to you Medicare and Medicaid, Social Security and the Federal Budget.  Please point out to me the government program capable of saving money.  I’ll save you your time and energy.  You can’t.  Government will always cost more tomorrow than it did today.  It will always cost more than what was projected and it will always need to take more from the people in order to survive.

So if it’s not about controlling costs, then it has to be about expanding coverage right?  Let me ask you this, how do you expand coverage to 30 million people without adding to the costs of the program?  You can’t.  Let me ask you this, how do you expand coverage when people in the healthcare industry are dropping like flies to get out of the industry?  You can’t… unless you start rationing healthcare. 

The people who wrote this bill know that it will fail.  It is meant to fail.  It is meant to fail so that we can get a NEW bill that will create universal healthcare.  Mark My Words.  That’s why we can’t let it pass.

Democrats to pass Healthcare at their own peril

There is a lot of this going around right now.  Intellectual mistakes and cognitive errors abound.  First, the Republicans…  Many on the GOP side believe that the people want bi-partisanship to the point where they are willing to take one in the rear.  Those republicans would be wrong you see?  The public opinion polls show that the American people DO want health care reform, but they do NOT want this bill to pass.  Let’s just assume that this bill will pass and a number of Republicans vote for it in the spirit of bi-partisanship, I will guarantee that they will not win their primaries or re-election.  For whatever reason, this healthcare bill has been poisoned with kick-backs, buy-offs, union favors and corruptions that would make any Chicago politician proud.  This is nothing new in Washington, and this is what the people are fed up with.  They’re done.  They don’t want this bill and ANYONE who helps this bill pass is going to pay dearly this November.  Just sayin’ GOP.

Now the Democrats… I have never seen so many smart people completely unable to learn from the mistakes of the past.  The last time the Democrats tried to pass this they got they’re asses kicked in the mid-term elections.  They have somehow managed to fool themselves that the reason they lost big time in 1994 was because they FAILED to pass Hillary Care.  Idiots.  The reason you guys lost in 1994 was because you tried to pass it in the first place.  Calling it a different name and making it sound happier isn’t going to help you this time.  There is too much information available to the American people now.  It’s just too easy for us to see right through this bill even though its almost 2000 pages.  Sorry democrats, you will pass this Healthcare reform at your own peril.

Republicans would do well to start campaigning to repeal the legislation as soon as it is signed by President Obama.  If they do, I think there will be super-majorities of Republicans in the House and Senate.  And they will be able to repeal the legislation over any Presidential Veto.  There are going to be so many new Republicans in the House that they can pass a law to force Nancy Pelosi to change her name to Bozo the Clown.

Yeah, I think the American people hate this bill THAT much.  But hey, what do I know?  I just talk to people and look at the information available to everyone.

Right-o then.  So the Democrats are going to use the reconciliation process to pass this legislation.  A process that they will tell you the Republicans have used way more than they have.  I would wager though, that the GOP used the reconciliation process to pass more popular things like, tax cuts and other things the American People approved of.  Not a comprehensive healthcare bill that would ultimately doom us all to excessive national debt, poor quality of healthcare, rationing, and the loss of the control of our lives and liberty.

And even if the GOP did use it to pass unpopular legislation (I have no idea because I haven’t looked it up) it doesn’t make this any more popular now.  It’s just a terrible idea and the Democrats are going to pay for it at the polls.  And for every day this legislation stays in place we the people will pay for it the most.