Suckers!

Are you a sucker? Take the test and find out: http://bit.ly/8mx2bg

How's that Hope and Change working for you?

Once Patients Pay, Health Costs Will Fall

KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID.

When a third-party pays all the bills, cost rise. Since most Americans pay a $20 or $50 co-pay when they visit the doctor, no one is asking the doctor, "why do you charge $15 for an aspirin?" or "why do you charge $300 for a simple X-ray?". Because of that, costs rise.

Costs also rise because malpractice insurance for doctors is at an all-time high.

Cost also rise because of frivolous lawsuits.

Cost also rise because of over 2,000 state mandates on health insurance providers (i.e. if you want to sell health insurance in NC or GA or WV, you must offer acupuncture or chiropractic coverage even if the insurer does NOT want it). It's asinine!

How hard is it for the idiots in Washington to understand? The problem is they NOT want to understand; all they want is power and control.

Click on this link to read the article: http://bit.ly/5knqFc

What the Hell is Going On?

Update January 6, 2010: Great analyis by Dick Morris. http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/2010/01/06/dorgan-and-dodd-quit-sinking-ship/

For the 60%-70% of Americans who don't understand how/why Obama and his band of kamikaze law-makers can get away with shoving their radical, left-wing, big-spending agenda down our throats, here is a great article published earlier this week by Victor Davis Hansen where he provides, what is essentially a psychological profile of the radical liberal's mind. "[I]t is always about them—all the time." A great read!

http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/where-did-these-guys-come-from

Excerpts below:

"These true believers, then, don’t really care that the Blue Dogs (if such really exist) bite the dust in 2010, if Harry Reid goes up in smoke, or indeed, if Barack Obama is reelected. Instead, they will institutionalize an agenda that will affect America for generations, move it sharply to the left, and earn a spot in the academic pantheon of American heroes."
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Without qualification (remember we are in a new age of transparency and ethical reform) votes are bought with hundred-million-dollar earmarks. . .

Such a strange scenario we have found ourselves in—a clear majority of Americans is opposed to almost everything Obama has to offer; congressional representatives know they are acting against the will of the people, but know too that they are offered all sorts of borrowed money for their districts to compensate for their unpopular actions. And a charismatic commander in chief believes that he can charm even the angriest of critics, and that anything he promises (Iran’s deadlines, closing of Guantanamo, new transparency, no more lobbyists, etc) means zilch and can be contextualized by another “let me be perfectly clear” speech spiced with a couple of the usual “it would have been impossible for someone as unlikely as me to have become President just (fill in the blanks) years ago

. . . . . So what drives his agenda? . . . .

Here are the three most prominent catalysts.

1. Equality of Result - "Give us all the same amount of money and perks at the end of the day, and then utopia reigns under the benevolent watch of Ivy-League professors and organizers. . . . Its more pernicious strains are socialist, in which the state ensures, through bureaucratic fiat and a labyrinth of laws that curb free expression, that redistribution is institutionalized. . . . . Remember, history’s greatest killers (Stalin and Mao) do it all 'for the people.'"
   
   
2. Multiculturalism - "It works like this: The ghetto resident, the denizen of the barrio, the abandoned and divorced waitress with three young children, can all chart their poverty and unhappiness not to accident, fate, bad luck, bad decisions, poor judgment, illegality or drug use, or simple tragedy, but rather exclusively to a system that is rigged to ensure oppression on the basis of race, class, and gender—often insidious and unfathomable except to the sensitive and gifted academic or community organizer.

   So Obama combines the age-old belief that the state is there to level the playing field (rather than protect the rights of the individual and secure the safety of the people from foreign threats), with the postmodern notion that government must re-compensate those by fiat on the basis on their race or class or gender. Remember all that, and everything from the Professor Gates incident, to the dutiful attendance at the foot of Rev. Wright to Van Jones become logical rather than aberrant. Michelle Obama could make $300,000 and she will always be more a victim than the Appalachian coal miner who earns $30,000, by virtue of her race and gender."

3. The Chicago Way - "Rahm Emanuel threatens recalcitrant congressmen with reminders of the long Obama memory. The Axelrod/Jarrett clique ensures that the government channels stimuli to blue-states, that key Congress people are bought off with tens of millions of government largess, that every campaign promise—from no lobbyists and airing on C-SPAN health care debates to posting impending legislation on the Internet for set durations and “reaching across the aisle”—is simply cynical fluff that no sane person would take seriously."

Asking why would Obama & Co. be so self-destructive to push through an array of proposals that have no more than 45% of the public’s support is like asking whether the well-off union boss is all that upset that membership has sunk to 30% of the workforce, or multimillion-dollar-earning Katie Couric-interviewing Sarah Palin is worried about her sinking ratings, or whether the New York Times columnists are upset that their mother paper is broke with subscription and readership down, and laying off thousands of blue-collar employees.

Instead, for the true believer, it is all about the self, and the sense of the self—and damn all other considerations. (We saw that with Jimmy Carter as well; that he destroyed liberal Democrat politics for a generation meant nothing; that he won prizes and jet-setted the world for thirty years meant everything. For these people, it is always about them—all the time. Let us eat cake as they end up liberal icons for the duration).

The most blatant cynicism in recent American political history—a man who ran as a bipartisan who is the most partisan we’ve seen, a healer whose even flippant comments are designed to offend, a statist who assumes that the sheared sheep cannot stampede somewhere else, a reformer who trusts his honey-laced rhetoric can disguise Daley style-corruption.

No Morals, No Ethics, No Accountability and No Transparency

What a mockery! Nothing but a bunch of whores and prostitutes!

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http://bit.ly/8a3RaY
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It is truly sickening.

Guess What is on Page 1,020 of the Senate Health Care Bill?

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=516040

I defy anyone to make the argument that the Democrat Party, in their quest for power and control, are NOT destroying this country. Go ahead and continue to stick your head in the sand. Continue riding the apathy train!

I beg someone to step up to the plate and explain how the majority Party is NOT acting like a dictator. In EVERY SINGLE poll, the American people have rejected this bill. Harry Reid and Hussein Obama have not included a single Republican in the drafting of this legislation, they meet on Saturday nights on a regular basis to vote on this shit and they are playing all of us for fools.

Please go back in history and research how long certain historic pieces of legislation were debated. Please email me directly or post your findings in the Comments box on the blog. You will not find a single piece of legislation of this magnitude (one-sixth of the economy and the confiscation of your right to do what we want with our money!!!!) that was rammed through like this one.

How can anyone with a conscience vote for another Democrat? It's a crying shame that the Republican Party if full of civil, pleasant-sounding, "gentleman" like Mitch McConnell. GIVE ME A BREAK! He goes on the Senate floor today and calls Harry Reid "a gentleman" and "his good friend".

WHERE ARE THE LEADERS? WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GONADS OF THE OPPOSITION PARTY?

What Would the World Be Like Without America?

Please post your response in the "Post a Comment" box below.

Be creative. Be critical. Be realistic. Think through the 233-year history. Pick a decade and think about how history may have been different had the U.S. not existed.

I look forward to your feedback.

Doomed to Repeat It

This is scary stuff!

Please check out the URL listed below, which chronicles the recent history of Argentina. If you do not see parallels with the current state of the United States then you need to be exiled to . . . Venezuela or San Fransisco. It demonstrates the incredible wisdom of our Founding Fathers and the absolute insanity of an ever-expanding federal government which continues to print money and raise the federal debt ceiling on a weekly basis.

Striking parallels:

• Mandatory health care for all ("You plebeians don't need to read the bill. Trust us.")
• Support for low-income housing ("No down payment required" - Freddie and Fannie)
• Increasing flow of funds into entitlement and social programs (Social Security - bankrupt, Food stamps - all-time high number of recipients, Welfare - come one come all, Unemployment compensation - 50+ weeks of benefits with no documentation while the administration does absolutely nothing to stimulate private sector job creation, explosion in federal workforce via the non-stimulus bill)
• Taking over private industries (banking, cars, insurance)
• The growth of labor unions (SEIU)

http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2009/11/21/dont-cry-for-me-america

"In 1902 Argentina was one of the world's richest countries. Little more than a hundred years later, it is poverty-stricken, struggling to meet its debt obligations amidst a drought.

We've seen this movie before. The Democrats' populist plans can't possibly work, because government bankrupts everything it touches. History teaches us that ObamaCare and unfunded entitlement programs will be complete and utter disasters.

Today's Democrats are guilty of more than stupidity; they are enslaving future generations to poverty and misery. And they will be long gone when it all implodes. They will be as cold and dead as Juan Peron when the piper must ultimately be paid. "

Glory Days for Federal Employees

Update 12/28/09: Government Workers More Bullish About Economy. I wonder why?

USA Today reported that the fastest growing segment of jobs in the country is in the federal government. They are adding 10K jobs per month during a recession.

The average public sector job earner makes $40,331 per year, while the average federal government employee makes $71,206. It is a rapidly growing area, and they are paying top dollar.

• The Department of Transportation had one employee making more than $170K before the stimulus package was passed; after the stimulus package was passed, there are 1,690 transportation department employees making more than $170K.

• The FAA chief got a $100K + raise thanks to the stimulus package. That money is not being used to create jobs; it is being used to pad the pockets of federal workers. When the FAA chief got 100K + raise, how many other federal government employees got such raises? 1,700.

In the middle of a recession when millions of people are losing their jobs, federal employees are not only getting more jobs, but they are getting massive pay raises. This should be bothering people. It certainly bothers me as a taxpayer.

The deeper question is why is this happening? It's very simple, power, control and socialism. Who are the federal employees, many of whom are members of unions, going to vote for in the upcoming elections? Democrats OF COURSE. You vote for your own self interest. What party do unions contribute to? Democrats OF COURSE. It's a beautiful political strategy by a political party with no shame, morals or ethics, led by a community organizer.

How's that Hope and Change working for you? That question is only directed at those of you not on the public dole.

Lies

“But what we will do is, we’ll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies.”

“I’m going to have all the negotiations around a big table. We’ll have doctors and nurses and hospital administrators. Insurance companies, drug companies — they’ll get a seat at the table, they just won’t be able to buy every chair. But what we will do is, we’ll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies. And so, that approach, I think is what is going to allow people to stay involved in this process.” - - - Barack Obama

What’s the solution? Pass this type of analysis on to people who are drinking the Kool-Aid. Make the people around you think for themselves. Once the American people are informed, they will make the right decisions at the ballot box. But we, as a nation, can no longer afford to walk blindly into the polls anymore.

How's that Hope and Change working out for ya?

Mid-Term Exam - Part 3 of 3

This post has three parts and I want to feed it to you over the course of several days so you can give it some thought.

Please answer the questions as honestly and in as much detail as you can. I will be curious to hear your ultimate findings at the end of the exam.

Question #1 - Would you vote for Sarah Palin for President in 2012? If so, why? If not, why?

Question #2 - Did you vote for Barack Obama? If so, why? If not, why?

Compare and contrast your answers.

Those of you who did not vote for Obama will not get much out of this exercise. My hope for those of you who answered "NO" to #1 and "YES" to #2 is that you will do some soul-searching and truly compare and contrast your responses. Do it honestly and let me know what was revealed.