by j. wright
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Friday gave us a “Good news, bad news” scenario: the good news was that President Obama would be vacationing at Martha’s Vineyard and out of the public spotlight briefly. The bad news is that his administration released a revised report showing the growing federal spending deficit would explode to an outrageous $9 trillion during the next ten years instead of the $7.1 trillion they had projected after taking office. Contrary to the Obama Administration’s economic experts, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) had predicted a $9.1 trillion deficit and it appears they had the right numbers all along.
So for the next ten years our federal government will go along, happily spending $900 billion more dollars annually than it takes in. I wish I could run my household finances like that. Maybe not, come to think of it. The really bad news is this $9 trillion expected deficit increase adds not only to the burgeoning $11.7 trillion National Debt, it doesn’t include a single dime for the cost of national health/insurance reform… if somehow passed, would be tacked on.
On May 24, 2009 President Obama, as quoted in the NY Post said during a lengthy interview referring to the country, " We are out of money, were broke.” He also added, as I remember, that our government’s current spending habits were “unsustainable.” So what is his solution? Break his campaign promise and increase taxes on every remaining wage earner in order to cover our various near bankrupt social programs? Or begin to reform all of them, cut wasteful fraud and spending and get our financial house in order before taking on anything new?
Still mired in a deepening recession, and with approximately 30 million currently out of work, a huge amount of social program dollars will never be collected. Scarlett O’Hara might suggest that we “…take care of it tomorrow.”
jaq~
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Friday, August 14, 2009
Get Ready for Socialized Medicine
by jwright - August 12, 2009
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The national health care reform proposals being generated in Washington and introduced in Town Hall meetings across the land are not receiving the warm welcome that many politicians wanted or expected. Many ordinary folks in attendance appear to be beyond angry with their lawmakers, who in fact were “hired” at the voting booths to represent but seem hell-bent on passing some sort of radical bill anyway. One in essence that “tears down the house to remodel the bathroom.” Apparently the lawmakers are more fearful of their leadership’s ability to destroy them than they are of the voters to boot them from office. How else could they all utter the identical pro-reform lines over and over?
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The bill most discussed, of several being generated, is HR3200, a 1,018 page complicated monstrosity that if passed could result in 30,000 pages rivaling our IRS code. That after the government bureaucrat’s finish fine-tuning and defining it into a total remake of our current medical care system; one that isn’t broken but could definitely use some major changes.
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The Democrats in power have rejected out-of-hand many changes proposed by Republicans including tort reform. A.good part of the escalating costs of medical care is passed on by the increasing costs of medical malpractice insurance. Anti-tort reform trial lawyers are a major financial contributor to the Democrats. No one wants to close that spigot.
NO one wants to close that spigot..
Another tidbit the Democrats refuse to consider is to allow the various independent insurance companies to sell their wares across state lines. For example, if you live in New York state today and wish to purchase lesser cost insurance in Delaware, you can't. Why?
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Now the Town Hall attendees in disagreement with health care reform are accused of being a mob, organized rabble-rousers, etc. because they want their voices heard. So the opponents of free speech send in their own ‘mob’ of organized thugs, even to the point of beating a conservative black man who was handing out “Don’t Tread On Me” outside one of the meetings. Add to that, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and her political toy-boy, Steny Hoyer, recently labeled public dissent as “un-American.” Our Founding Fathers must be spinning in their graves!
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One line I overheard last week sticks with me: ''They (the lawmakers) didn't come to listen, they came to teach.'' Good grief! I know all I need to know about any of their various health care reform plans, or as Obama now calls it, health 'insurance' reform. What I know is I don't want it! And for all of his so-called oratoical presence, President Obama can't explain it short of lying about what it includes.
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What I fear most is that come hell-or-high water, these elected idiots, as I mentioned before, are more fearful of Obama's ability to destroy them politically than they are of their constituents booting them out of office. They will dutifully do the bidding of their leader, their Messiah, and pass this or a similar abomination anyway, regardless of massive public sentiment to the contrary.
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Then what? Wait for the 2010 mid-terms, elect Republican or conservative Independents and attempt to rescind the entire mess with a president holding a veto pen? How much damage will have taken place in the interim?
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I sincerely hope that those good folks who were duped into voting for ''change'' are choking on their fears right now.
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jaq~
.
The national health care reform proposals being generated in Washington and introduced in Town Hall meetings across the land are not receiving the warm welcome that many politicians wanted or expected. Many ordinary folks in attendance appear to be beyond angry with their lawmakers, who in fact were “hired” at the voting booths to represent but seem hell-bent on passing some sort of radical bill anyway. One in essence that “tears down the house to remodel the bathroom.” Apparently the lawmakers are more fearful of their leadership’s ability to destroy them than they are of the voters to boot them from office. How else could they all utter the identical pro-reform lines over and over?
.
The bill most discussed, of several being generated, is HR3200, a 1,018 page complicated monstrosity that if passed could result in 30,000 pages rivaling our IRS code. That after the government bureaucrat’s finish fine-tuning and defining it into a total remake of our current medical care system; one that isn’t broken but could definitely use some major changes.
.
The Democrats in power have rejected out-of-hand many changes proposed by Republicans including tort reform. A.good part of the escalating costs of medical care is passed on by the increasing costs of medical malpractice insurance. Anti-tort reform trial lawyers are a major financial contributor to the Democrats. No one wants to close that spigot.
NO one wants to close that spigot..
Another tidbit the Democrats refuse to consider is to allow the various independent insurance companies to sell their wares across state lines. For example, if you live in New York state today and wish to purchase lesser cost insurance in Delaware, you can't. Why?
.
Now the Town Hall attendees in disagreement with health care reform are accused of being a mob, organized rabble-rousers, etc. because they want their voices heard. So the opponents of free speech send in their own ‘mob’ of organized thugs, even to the point of beating a conservative black man who was handing out “Don’t Tread On Me” outside one of the meetings. Add to that, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and her political toy-boy, Steny Hoyer, recently labeled public dissent as “un-American.” Our Founding Fathers must be spinning in their graves!
.
One line I overheard last week sticks with me: ''They (the lawmakers) didn't come to listen, they came to teach.'' Good grief! I know all I need to know about any of their various health care reform plans, or as Obama now calls it, health 'insurance' reform. What I know is I don't want it! And for all of his so-called oratoical presence, President Obama can't explain it short of lying about what it includes.
.
What I fear most is that come hell-or-high water, these elected idiots, as I mentioned before, are more fearful of Obama's ability to destroy them politically than they are of their constituents booting them out of office. They will dutifully do the bidding of their leader, their Messiah, and pass this or a similar abomination anyway, regardless of massive public sentiment to the contrary.
.
Then what? Wait for the 2010 mid-terms, elect Republican or conservative Independents and attempt to rescind the entire mess with a president holding a veto pen? How much damage will have taken place in the interim?
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I sincerely hope that those good folks who were duped into voting for ''change'' are choking on their fears right now.
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jaq~
Monday, August 3, 2009
What is in the Democrats drinking water?
by j wright - August 3, 2009
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A friend of a different political persuasion questioned what is in my drinking water that causes me to post here? Similarly I’d ask what’s in the water of many of our elected officials in Washington when they utter some of the things they do?
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President Obama began it with his statement that although he didn’t have the facts about an arrest made in Cambridge MA went on to assert, “The police acted stupidly.” This was at the end of a press conference covering his health care reform proposals.
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On that topic, Senate Majority Harry Reid, D-NV, blamed the media for “making up” the August 1st health legislation deadline. That flying in the face of several video clips showing Obama, Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, pushing incessantly for a pre-recess deadline.
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Pelosi later publically accused our health insurance providers of being the “villains” in this process.
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Later, Representative Charlie Rangell, D-NY described our current health care system as “terrible.” Terrible? I’m well satisfied with mine, and other than the annual cost increases of Medicare, my insurance premiums have not increased since 2001.
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Fellow Michigander John Conyers, Democrat, House Chairman, Committee of the Judiciary, questioned why lawmakers should bother to read 1,000+ page bills before passing them because it would take two days and two lawyers to explain it. Unbelievable!
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Then Democrat Barney Frank of Massachusetts, House Financial Services Chairman was caught on video saying the “public option” that Obama wants to include is the best way to achieve single payer coverage (such as Canada and the UK have). That would ultimately result in the rationing or outright refusal of some aspects of medical care, especially for senior citizens.
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This contentious, omnibus health care plan is being hashed over in several proposed bills; none of which the national polls find appealing to the informed voters. None of which many Republicans are involved in in or supporting. We need to reform our health system, perhaps starting with tort reform in order to get law suits agaionst doctors and hospitals uinder control BUT that would hinder the trial lawyers ability to make tons of money, AND the trial lawyers are one big fat special interest that supports the Democrat Party.
.
Another move would be to allow insurance cmpanies to sell their services across state lines, increasng competition and lowering costrs to the nsured. Why this isn't in effect already is a mystery to me.
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jaq~
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A friend of a different political persuasion questioned what is in my drinking water that causes me to post here? Similarly I’d ask what’s in the water of many of our elected officials in Washington when they utter some of the things they do?
.
President Obama began it with his statement that although he didn’t have the facts about an arrest made in Cambridge MA went on to assert, “The police acted stupidly.” This was at the end of a press conference covering his health care reform proposals.
.
On that topic, Senate Majority Harry Reid, D-NV, blamed the media for “making up” the August 1st health legislation deadline. That flying in the face of several video clips showing Obama, Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, pushing incessantly for a pre-recess deadline.
.
Pelosi later publically accused our health insurance providers of being the “villains” in this process.
.
Later, Representative Charlie Rangell, D-NY described our current health care system as “terrible.” Terrible? I’m well satisfied with mine, and other than the annual cost increases of Medicare, my insurance premiums have not increased since 2001.
.
Fellow Michigander John Conyers, Democrat, House Chairman, Committee of the Judiciary, questioned why lawmakers should bother to read 1,000+ page bills before passing them because it would take two days and two lawyers to explain it. Unbelievable!
.
Then Democrat Barney Frank of Massachusetts, House Financial Services Chairman was caught on video saying the “public option” that Obama wants to include is the best way to achieve single payer coverage (such as Canada and the UK have). That would ultimately result in the rationing or outright refusal of some aspects of medical care, especially for senior citizens.
.
This contentious, omnibus health care plan is being hashed over in several proposed bills; none of which the national polls find appealing to the informed voters. None of which many Republicans are involved in in or supporting. We need to reform our health system, perhaps starting with tort reform in order to get law suits agaionst doctors and hospitals uinder control BUT that would hinder the trial lawyers ability to make tons of money, AND the trial lawyers are one big fat special interest that supports the Democrat Party.
.
Another move would be to allow insurance cmpanies to sell their services across state lines, increasng competition and lowering costrs to the nsured. Why this isn't in effect already is a mystery to me.
.
jaq~
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