Rep. Paul Ryan, at the Health Care Reform Summit, commented on Obama's health care reform proposal. During the 7 hours of discussion neither OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS NEVER ADDRESSED OR REBUTTED ANY OF RYAN'S POINTS. OBAMA COULD ONLY IGNORE RYAN BECASUSE RYAN WAS RIGHT ON THE MARK AND OBAMA KNEW IT. Ryan said: "This bill does not control costs (or) reduce deficits. Instead, (it) adds a new health care entitlement when we have no idea how to pay for the entitlements we already have."
• "The bill has 10 years of tax increases, about half a trillion dollars, with 10 years of Medicare cuts, about half a trillion dollars, to pay for six years of spending. The true 10-year cost (is) $2.3 trillion."
• "The bill takes $52 billion in higher Social Security tax revenues and counts them as offsets. But that's really reserved for Social Security. So either we're double-counting them or we don't intend on paying those Social Security benefits."
• "The bill takes $72 billion from the CLASS Act (long-term care insurance) benefit premiums and claims them as offsets."• "The bill treats Medicare like a piggy bank, (raiding) half a trillion dollars not to shore up Medicare solvency, but to spend on this new government program."
• "The chief actuary of Medicare (says) as much as 20% of Medicare providers will either go out of business or have to stop seeing Medicare beneficiaries."
• "Millions of seniors who have chosen Medicare Advantage (Medicare through a private insurer) will lose the coverage that they now enjoy."
• "When you strip out the double-counting and ... gimmicks, the full 10-year cost of the bill has a $460 billion deficit. The second 10-year cost of this bill has a $1.4 trillion deficit."
• "The 'doc fix' (restoring cuts in Medicare reimbursements) costs $371 billion ... a price tag (that) made the score look bad. (So) that provision was taken out, and (put) in stand-alone legislation. But ignoring these costs does not remove them from the backs of taxpayers. Hiding spending does not reduce spending."
• "Are we bending the cost curve down or are we bending the cost curve up? If you look at your own chief actuary at Medicare, we're bending it up. He's claiming that we're going up $222 billion, adding more to the unsustainable fiscal situation we have."
Sunday, February 28, 2010
United States Acts Crazy In Dealing With Iran
The United States has been acting crazy in dealing with Iran and Ahmadinejad during the Bush, and now the Obama, administrations.
It has been crazy to think that empty threats of "unacceptable", "grave consequences", "sanctions" etc. were actually going to deter Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
It has been especially crazy for Obama to think that through his charismatic personality he could sweet talk Ahmadinejad into giving up its quest for nuclear weapons.
Ahmadinejad has been jerking Obama around like a puppet and is laughing at the puppet show.
Obama will not impose tough sanctions like a blockade and even this might not be enough.
The only realistic option is to destroy the nuclear facilities in Iran and Obama will never do this and Ahmadinejad knows it.
Meanwhile, Israel has a tough decision, it knows it cannot trust the United States, under Obama, to militarily and politically support Israel if it acts as a proxy for the United States in taking out the Iranian nuclear facilities.
As one example, the Obama administration will not give Israel the deep bunker busting bombs that are in the United States arsenal.
Israel, for it's own preservation, may have to go it alone as it did in bombing Iraq's nuclear bomb facility in 1981 and Syria's nuclear bomb facility in 2007, in a raid on Iran's nuclear bomb facilities. The irony would be that Israel winds up protecting all of the Western Powers from Islamic Terrorists getting nuclear weapons.
It has been crazy to think that empty threats of "unacceptable", "grave consequences", "sanctions" etc. were actually going to deter Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
It has been especially crazy for Obama to think that through his charismatic personality he could sweet talk Ahmadinejad into giving up its quest for nuclear weapons.
Ahmadinejad has been jerking Obama around like a puppet and is laughing at the puppet show.
Obama will not impose tough sanctions like a blockade and even this might not be enough.
The only realistic option is to destroy the nuclear facilities in Iran and Obama will never do this and Ahmadinejad knows it.
Meanwhile, Israel has a tough decision, it knows it cannot trust the United States, under Obama, to militarily and politically support Israel if it acts as a proxy for the United States in taking out the Iranian nuclear facilities.
As one example, the Obama administration will not give Israel the deep bunker busting bombs that are in the United States arsenal.
Israel, for it's own preservation, may have to go it alone as it did in bombing Iraq's nuclear bomb facility in 1981 and Syria's nuclear bomb facility in 2007, in a raid on Iran's nuclear bomb facilities. The irony would be that Israel winds up protecting all of the Western Powers from Islamic Terrorists getting nuclear weapons.
Key Issues in Republicans vs.Democrats Proposals for Health Care Reform
It doesn't take 2400 pages to understand the basics of the Republican positions on health care reform:
1. YES to enacting medical liability reform and put an end to frivolous lawsuits that drive up the cost of medicine.
2. YES to individuals and small businesses pooling together to purchase high-quality affordable health care coverage.
3. YES Allow Americans to shop for, and purchase, health insurance policies across state lines.
4. YES to new incentives on saving for current and future health care needs by allowing people to use their health savings accounts funds to pay premiums for high deductible health plans.
5. YES Guarantee individuals with pre-existing conditions or past illnesses access to affordable coverage through the expansion of state-based, high-risk pools, and reinsurance programs.
6. YES to reforms designed to lower costs and expand access without violating individual rights or the integrity of the market.
7. YES to attacking and eliminating the 15 to 20% fraud in Medicaid and Medicare payments.
8. NO to the federal government to forcing any American to purchase an unwanted insurance plan.
9. NO to a government-run insurance program or takeover of any part of the healthcare system.
10. NO to individual mandates, rationing, and special deals for any state.
11. NO to a separate set of rules for government and private sector health insurance purchases.
12. NO to any plan that betrays our senior citizens by cutting Medicare coverage.
13. NO to allocating taxpayer funds to pay for abortion.
The first seven items form the basis for a simplified health care reform bill with reduced costs.
The last six items are the core of Obama's socialist health care plan with the usual bribery and pork thrown in.
1. YES to enacting medical liability reform and put an end to frivolous lawsuits that drive up the cost of medicine.
2. YES to individuals and small businesses pooling together to purchase high-quality affordable health care coverage.
3. YES Allow Americans to shop for, and purchase, health insurance policies across state lines.
4. YES to new incentives on saving for current and future health care needs by allowing people to use their health savings accounts funds to pay premiums for high deductible health plans.
5. YES Guarantee individuals with pre-existing conditions or past illnesses access to affordable coverage through the expansion of state-based, high-risk pools, and reinsurance programs.
6. YES to reforms designed to lower costs and expand access without violating individual rights or the integrity of the market.
7. YES to attacking and eliminating the 15 to 20% fraud in Medicaid and Medicare payments.
8. NO to the federal government to forcing any American to purchase an unwanted insurance plan.
9. NO to a government-run insurance program or takeover of any part of the healthcare system.
10. NO to individual mandates, rationing, and special deals for any state.
11. NO to a separate set of rules for government and private sector health insurance purchases.
12. NO to any plan that betrays our senior citizens by cutting Medicare coverage.
13. NO to allocating taxpayer funds to pay for abortion.
The first seven items form the basis for a simplified health care reform bill with reduced costs.
The last six items are the core of Obama's socialist health care plan with the usual bribery and pork thrown in.
Monday, February 22, 2010
The Party of Elitism, Hate and Fear Mongering
Gov. Palin's reference to the "real America" versus the "shadowy elite" fits the politics of the times and is on target for the Obama Administration.
There is a nasty history of the current Administration, and its major voices, disparaging and outright lying about those that oppose their policies and legislative initiatives.
1. Obama spent the past two years striving to create animosity toward "the richest Americans", "insurance companies", anybody on "Wall Street" (except his CEO buddies at Goldman-Sachs and J.P. Morgan Chase", "bankers" and "CEOs" in general; this is a blatant attempt at promoting class warfare.
2. The elitist Obama characterized Pennsylvania voters as "they cling to their guns or religion or antipathy toward anyone who is not like them".
3. Jimmy Carter decried opposition to Obama as being "based on the fact that he is a Black Man".
4. Nancy Pelosi tried to marginalize and dismiss the Tea Party and town hall protesters as "high end Astroturf, not grass roots" and likened them to "Nazis" and labeled opponents of ObamaCare as "Un-American".
5. Harry Reid parroted Pelosi's comments about "Astroturf" and compared opponents of ObamaCare to "supporters of slavery".
6. Chucky Schumer claimed the Town Hall meetings were "orchestrated by tea baggers and birthers".
7. The Democratic National Committee dismissed the protesters as "rabid right-wing extremists".
8. The entire Democratic leadership, and their sycophants in the media, have continuously chanted the theme of Republicans being "the party of no" when in fact the Administration and Congressional Democrats know full well that Republicans have offered numerous amendments to ObamaCare and submitted bills of their own on various matters only to have these rejected or buried in Democrat controlled committees.
9. Then, let's not forget the continual barrage of disgusting comments and phony accusations from Joy Behar, Chris Matthews, Bill Maher, David Letterman and others against Sarah Palin and all opponents of Obama.
10 For fear mongering, go back to numerous Obama statements such as:
"we face a depression unless we act soon",
"bad situation could become dramatically worse"
"our nation will sink into a crisis that...we may be unable to reverse"
and pushing his failure of a Stimulus Bill
"if we don't act immediately, millions more jobs will be lost and unemployment will approach double digits"
OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY LEADERSHIP ARE DEAF!
There is a nasty history of the current Administration, and its major voices, disparaging and outright lying about those that oppose their policies and legislative initiatives.
1. Obama spent the past two years striving to create animosity toward "the richest Americans", "insurance companies", anybody on "Wall Street" (except his CEO buddies at Goldman-Sachs and J.P. Morgan Chase", "bankers" and "CEOs" in general; this is a blatant attempt at promoting class warfare.
2. The elitist Obama characterized Pennsylvania voters as "they cling to their guns or religion or antipathy toward anyone who is not like them".
3. Jimmy Carter decried opposition to Obama as being "based on the fact that he is a Black Man".
4. Nancy Pelosi tried to marginalize and dismiss the Tea Party and town hall protesters as "high end Astroturf, not grass roots" and likened them to "Nazis" and labeled opponents of ObamaCare as "Un-American".
5. Harry Reid parroted Pelosi's comments about "Astroturf" and compared opponents of ObamaCare to "supporters of slavery".
6. Chucky Schumer claimed the Town Hall meetings were "orchestrated by tea baggers and birthers".
7. The Democratic National Committee dismissed the protesters as "rabid right-wing extremists".
8. The entire Democratic leadership, and their sycophants in the media, have continuously chanted the theme of Republicans being "the party of no" when in fact the Administration and Congressional Democrats know full well that Republicans have offered numerous amendments to ObamaCare and submitted bills of their own on various matters only to have these rejected or buried in Democrat controlled committees.
9. Then, let's not forget the continual barrage of disgusting comments and phony accusations from Joy Behar, Chris Matthews, Bill Maher, David Letterman and others against Sarah Palin and all opponents of Obama.
10 For fear mongering, go back to numerous Obama statements such as:
"we face a depression unless we act soon",
"bad situation could become dramatically worse"
"our nation will sink into a crisis that...we may be unable to reverse"
and pushing his failure of a Stimulus Bill
"if we don't act immediately, millions more jobs will be lost and unemployment will approach double digits"
OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY LEADERSHIP ARE DEAF!
Bye Bye Bayh
Evan Bayh served two terms as Senator and 24 years total in public office.
This makes Bayh a "PROFESSIONAL POLITICIAN".
TWO TERMS IN THE SENATE IS ENOUGH FOR ANYONE.
Indiana must have thousands of people qualified to be Senator and represent that state.
Meanwhile, the myth of Bayh being a "moderate" seems to be a favorite theme of the media.
But, Bayh's voting record in the past two years is pretty much in support of the Reid-Pelosi-Obama agenda, despite his speeches and calls for bipartisanship.
He voted YEA (for)
-Senate's 2400 page ObamaCare bill; here was a big opportunity to show he was a "moderate"
-Cash for Clunkers
-$825 billion Stimulus Plan
-Public Debt limit increase all at once to $14.29 trillion, with PAYGO which has numerous loopholes
-Confirm Bernake for another term at Fed, even though Bernake had big hand in casuing banking crisis
-Confirm Craig Becker, a highly pro-union advocate to the NLRB, tipping Board in favor of unions
-CHIP reauthorization covering children way above the poverty level and into young adulthood
-Continuing federal funding of "sanctuary cities" for illegal aliens
And Bayh voted NAY (against):
-Prohibiting federal funding of abortions
-Comprehensive immigration reform that would better secure our borders among other things
-Paying down the National Debt by not spending funds on programs rated as ineffective.
THIS IS HARDLY THE MARK OF A "MODERATE".
It's about time he got a real job.
This makes Bayh a "PROFESSIONAL POLITICIAN".
TWO TERMS IN THE SENATE IS ENOUGH FOR ANYONE.
Indiana must have thousands of people qualified to be Senator and represent that state.
Meanwhile, the myth of Bayh being a "moderate" seems to be a favorite theme of the media.
But, Bayh's voting record in the past two years is pretty much in support of the Reid-Pelosi-Obama agenda, despite his speeches and calls for bipartisanship.
He voted YEA (for)
-Senate's 2400 page ObamaCare bill; here was a big opportunity to show he was a "moderate"
-Cash for Clunkers
-$825 billion Stimulus Plan
-Public Debt limit increase all at once to $14.29 trillion, with PAYGO which has numerous loopholes
-Confirm Bernake for another term at Fed, even though Bernake had big hand in casuing banking crisis
-Confirm Craig Becker, a highly pro-union advocate to the NLRB, tipping Board in favor of unions
-CHIP reauthorization covering children way above the poverty level and into young adulthood
-Continuing federal funding of "sanctuary cities" for illegal aliens
And Bayh voted NAY (against):
-Prohibiting federal funding of abortions
-Comprehensive immigration reform that would better secure our borders among other things
-Paying down the National Debt by not spending funds on programs rated as ineffective.
THIS IS HARDLY THE MARK OF A "MODERATE".
It's about time he got a real job.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
The Price Of Wheat and Sunspots in 1800 England
As early as 1800, an English astronomer noted that the price of wheat went up when there were fewer sunspots.
Now we know this was related to natural global cooling. Fewer sunspots meant less electromagnetic radiation from the sun which resulted in less interference with cosmic radiation that helps nucleate low cloud formation which, in turn, meant cloudy cool summers, and this was not good for wheat production and hence the higher wheat prices.
The reverse has been true for the past decade or so; more sunspots than usual have been observed and thus more interference with cosmic radiation reaching the lower atmosphere and therefore fewer low clouds and warmer weather. GLOBAL WARMING!
This has nothing to do with man-made CO2 but there is no world to save and no lucrative contracts from which to profit if this natural phenomenon is at play.
Much to the dismay of man-made global warming profiteers, this is one possible driving mechanism for global warming or cooling over periods of a few years or decades, riding on top of changes that occur over thousands of years.
Now we know this was related to natural global cooling. Fewer sunspots meant less electromagnetic radiation from the sun which resulted in less interference with cosmic radiation that helps nucleate low cloud formation which, in turn, meant cloudy cool summers, and this was not good for wheat production and hence the higher wheat prices.
The reverse has been true for the past decade or so; more sunspots than usual have been observed and thus more interference with cosmic radiation reaching the lower atmosphere and therefore fewer low clouds and warmer weather. GLOBAL WARMING!
This has nothing to do with man-made CO2 but there is no world to save and no lucrative contracts from which to profit if this natural phenomenon is at play.
Much to the dismay of man-made global warming profiteers, this is one possible driving mechanism for global warming or cooling over periods of a few years or decades, riding on top of changes that occur over thousands of years.
Man-Made Global Warming Hoax Continues To Be Exposed
Professor Phil Jones previously had to step down from Director of East Anglica University's Climate Research Unit due the release of the Climategate emails a few months ago which showed the cheating, fraud and suppression of contradictory results around the claim of man-mad global warming.
NOW COMES THE MOST SHOCKING ADMISSIONS OF ALL FROM PHIL JONES.
Feb 14, 2010, in an interview with BBC, JONES ADMITTED:
1. 1995 was the warmest year in the past 15 years,
2. his record keeping was "not as good as it should be" and he "MAY HAVE LOST" the data from around the globe used to show the infamous "hockey stick" curve that showed temperature flat for hundreds of years and recently rising sharply (this is what global warming profiteer Al Gore and numerous climatologists used to reach the "overwhelming consensus" that man-made warming was occurring),
3. the Earth was probably warmer in medieval times than it is now (not previously admitted by man-made warming advocates and not shown in the hockey stick plot)
4. the Earth has gone through "natural heating periods"
5. the two latest warming periods, 1910 to 1940 and 1975 to 1998, could be explained by naturally occurring events and man may have had nothing to do with it (like solar flares affecting cloud formation),
6. "keeping track of everything is difficult".
However, Jones still tried to claim that recent warming is man-made; evidently he cannot keep his lies consistent, since he admitted that 1995 was the warmest recent year and due to natural causes.
Add to these shocking revelations by Jones, the other recent revelations that:
1. the U.N.'s IPCC 2007 prize winning report made false claims that the Himalayan glaciers are melting (the claims were traced to media hype, false quotes attributed to the scientist who studied the Himalayan glaciers and no actual data,
2. the IPCC made false claims about sea levels rising in the Netherlands, now refuted by scientists in the Netherlands
3. the IPCC used faulty data from China to "prove" global warming.
There are valid political, economic and pollution reasons for the United States to carefully migrate to domestic energy sources that are cost competitive and develop those that are not, but Obama's "Cap and Trade", Obama's EPA trying to declare CO2 a dangerous pollutant and thereby control industries and similar regulations in other nations are part of the world-wide ruse to "redistribute the wealth" among nations.
The evidence keeps mounting, and is now fairly strong, that man-made global warming is a hoax perpetuated by scientists seeking funds and prestige, by profiteers seeking to make billions by trading carbon allowances and by by corporations like GE seeking to make trillions from forcing change to non-competitive alternative energy sources.
NOW COMES THE MOST SHOCKING ADMISSIONS OF ALL FROM PHIL JONES.
Feb 14, 2010, in an interview with BBC, JONES ADMITTED:
1. 1995 was the warmest year in the past 15 years,
2. his record keeping was "not as good as it should be" and he "MAY HAVE LOST" the data from around the globe used to show the infamous "hockey stick" curve that showed temperature flat for hundreds of years and recently rising sharply (this is what global warming profiteer Al Gore and numerous climatologists used to reach the "overwhelming consensus" that man-made warming was occurring),
3. the Earth was probably warmer in medieval times than it is now (not previously admitted by man-made warming advocates and not shown in the hockey stick plot)
4. the Earth has gone through "natural heating periods"
5. the two latest warming periods, 1910 to 1940 and 1975 to 1998, could be explained by naturally occurring events and man may have had nothing to do with it (like solar flares affecting cloud formation),
6. "keeping track of everything is difficult".
However, Jones still tried to claim that recent warming is man-made; evidently he cannot keep his lies consistent, since he admitted that 1995 was the warmest recent year and due to natural causes.
Add to these shocking revelations by Jones, the other recent revelations that:
1. the U.N.'s IPCC 2007 prize winning report made false claims that the Himalayan glaciers are melting (the claims were traced to media hype, false quotes attributed to the scientist who studied the Himalayan glaciers and no actual data,
2. the IPCC made false claims about sea levels rising in the Netherlands, now refuted by scientists in the Netherlands
3. the IPCC used faulty data from China to "prove" global warming.
There are valid political, economic and pollution reasons for the United States to carefully migrate to domestic energy sources that are cost competitive and develop those that are not, but Obama's "Cap and Trade", Obama's EPA trying to declare CO2 a dangerous pollutant and thereby control industries and similar regulations in other nations are part of the world-wide ruse to "redistribute the wealth" among nations.
The evidence keeps mounting, and is now fairly strong, that man-made global warming is a hoax perpetuated by scientists seeking funds and prestige, by profiteers seeking to make billions by trading carbon allowances and by by corporations like GE seeking to make trillions from forcing change to non-competitive alternative energy sources.
Tea Party and Sarah Palin's Biggest Helpers
Richard Cohen, Eugene Robinson and E. J. Dionne, all columnists for the Washington Post as well as TV personalities like Joy Behar, David Letterman, Chris Mathews and Bill Maher as well as the mouth pieces for Obama such as David Axelrod, Robert Gibbs, etc.. will never get it!
They are all leftists ideologues who are used to twisting words, spouting political psychobabble and have unwarranted self-confidence that they are so much smarter than anyone who could support Sarah Palin or the Tea Party.
Honesty, common sense, strong personal character, individualism and unwavering principles are traits unknown to the Cohen, Behar, Axelrod etc. crowd; perhaps they fear what they cannot understand.
This works to the advantage of independents, conservatives and moderates who are fed up with the politics, policies and backroom schemes of Obama-Pelosi-Reid. The voters will start to dump the elitist liberal Democrats in November 2010 and complete the task in 2012.
Thanks to one and all of these Obama pawns. You "make my day".
They are all leftists ideologues who are used to twisting words, spouting political psychobabble and have unwarranted self-confidence that they are so much smarter than anyone who could support Sarah Palin or the Tea Party.
Honesty, common sense, strong personal character, individualism and unwavering principles are traits unknown to the Cohen, Behar, Axelrod etc. crowd; perhaps they fear what they cannot understand.
This works to the advantage of independents, conservatives and moderates who are fed up with the politics, policies and backroom schemes of Obama-Pelosi-Reid. The voters will start to dump the elitist liberal Democrats in November 2010 and complete the task in 2012.
Thanks to one and all of these Obama pawns. You "make my day".
Truth is Funnier Than Fiction
"Number of words in Palin's Tea Party speech: 5,442
Number of written words (on her palm) to get her through it: 5
Number of words in Obama's State of the Union: 7,314
Number of written words (on his teleprompters) to get him through it: 7,314
So for every word spoken in a speech, Obama requires 1,088 times as much help as Sarah Palin."
Truth is much funnier than fiction.
Number of written words (on her palm) to get her through it: 5
Number of words in Obama's State of the Union: 7,314
Number of written words (on his teleprompters) to get him through it: 7,314
So for every word spoken in a speech, Obama requires 1,088 times as much help as Sarah Palin."
Truth is much funnier than fiction.
Friday, February 12, 2010
United States Strives for Third Place in Manned Space Exploration
1. In his State of The Union Speech, we heard "I do not accept second place for the United Sates of America".
2. Well, I guess when it comes to space exploration, the high technology jobs it would create and the continued spinoffs of new technology for many civilian uses, Obama is apparently willing to accept third place, or lower, after the United States held first place for fifty years. Obama has cut the legs out from under NASA and further U.S. manned exploration of space by killing the Constellation program in the 2011 budget. Within a couple if years, the U.S. will be third behind Russia and China and maybe worse if the European Union enters manned space exploration. Obama gave two pitiful excuses, first saying that private industry will take over low orbit space flight and second that the U.S. will ultimately fund space flight to Mars. The former will never happen for many reasonsof cost, safety and risk and, without the Constellation project as the stepping stone, the later will never happen.
3. We already know that Obama wants to move the United States from first place in quality and technical superiority of health care to something much lower for the sake of government control of health care.
4. About the only area where he seems intent on keeping the United States in first place is in National Debt and annual budget deficits.
5. Where a segment of the economy ought to stay in the private sector, like health care, Obama wants to take it over in the public sector. Conversely, where a segment of the economy ought to be in the public sector, like manned space exploration, Obama wants that to be taken over by the private sector.
2. Well, I guess when it comes to space exploration, the high technology jobs it would create and the continued spinoffs of new technology for many civilian uses, Obama is apparently willing to accept third place, or lower, after the United States held first place for fifty years. Obama has cut the legs out from under NASA and further U.S. manned exploration of space by killing the Constellation program in the 2011 budget. Within a couple if years, the U.S. will be third behind Russia and China and maybe worse if the European Union enters manned space exploration. Obama gave two pitiful excuses, first saying that private industry will take over low orbit space flight and second that the U.S. will ultimately fund space flight to Mars. The former will never happen for many reasonsof cost, safety and risk and, without the Constellation project as the stepping stone, the later will never happen.
3. We already know that Obama wants to move the United States from first place in quality and technical superiority of health care to something much lower for the sake of government control of health care.
4. About the only area where he seems intent on keeping the United States in first place is in National Debt and annual budget deficits.
5. Where a segment of the economy ought to stay in the private sector, like health care, Obama wants to take it over in the public sector. Conversely, where a segment of the economy ought to be in the public sector, like manned space exploration, Obama wants that to be taken over by the private sector.
Thank Obama, Pelosi and Reid for Creating The Tea Party
The Obama defenders are panicking about the rejection of ObamaCare and his multiple failures on the economy and jobs, so the worn out WHINE OF "RACISM" is being kept alive as to the answer why the electorate is turning against him. Meanwhile, there is a new desperate attempt to silence critics of his pampering Islamic Terrorists so such criticism is now labeled as "helping Al Qaeda" .
NO! The electorate has found out that he is naive, inexperienced and incompetent in domestic and foreign policies.
The electorate has found out that his plans for health care, cap and trade, taxation and "fees", and education are socialistic and in line with his learning from lifelong of associates, his own words his two books, his appointments as president .
THE LIST OF OBAMA'S FAILURES, LIES AND EMBARRASSMENTS to the United States is extensive and covers just about everything he promised as a candidate and in his inauguration speech.
It is THIS LIST AND MORE THAT SPAWNED THE TEA PARTY. Those who make ignorant claims about the motivations and principles of the Tea Party have likely never attended a gathering or discussed issues with any Tea Party advocate. Instead they spout stupid little anti-Tea Party comments that perhaps they heard from David Letterman, Bill Maher, Joyce Baher, Chris Mathews or some other Obama leftists shills.
1. Limit unemployment to 8% with Stimulus bill #1-failure
2. Promoted climate change bill-failure (fortunately)
3. Personally will win 2016 Olympics for Chicago-failure
4. Promoting Stimulus Bill #2 under guise of "Jobs" bill - a lie
5. Favors Card check for unions-failure (fortunately)
6. Contain Iran nuclear program through strength of his personality-failure
7. Contain N. Korea missile & nuclear program-failure
8. Contain Al Qaeda-failure
9. Middle East peace-failure
10.Reduce budget deficit-BIG BIG failure
11. End Iraq war-failure
12. Earmark reform- BIG lie and failure
13. Transparency in government-failure
14. Bipartisanship-failure
15. No lobbyists in government-failure
16. No Islamic terror attack in U.S.-failure
17. Health care reform to cut costs, cover those who have no care, tort reform, no rationing -failure
BUT SOME MAY SAY: LOOK AT OBAMA'S SUCCESSES:
1.New dog at WH-success
2.Blame Bush for everything and often-success
3.WH Beer summit with Cambridge cop and Harvard Prof.-success
4.Protect "civil rights" of Islamic Terrorists with civilian trials -success
5.World apology tour-success
6.Appoint tax cheats-success
7.Noble Peace Prize for doing nothing-success
8.Dither on Afghan policy and announce future retreat timetable -success
9. Record budget deficits- success
NO! The electorate has found out that he is naive, inexperienced and incompetent in domestic and foreign policies.
The electorate has found out that his plans for health care, cap and trade, taxation and "fees", and education are socialistic and in line with his learning from lifelong of associates, his own words his two books, his appointments as president .
THE LIST OF OBAMA'S FAILURES, LIES AND EMBARRASSMENTS to the United States is extensive and covers just about everything he promised as a candidate and in his inauguration speech.
It is THIS LIST AND MORE THAT SPAWNED THE TEA PARTY. Those who make ignorant claims about the motivations and principles of the Tea Party have likely never attended a gathering or discussed issues with any Tea Party advocate. Instead they spout stupid little anti-Tea Party comments that perhaps they heard from David Letterman, Bill Maher, Joyce Baher, Chris Mathews or some other Obama leftists shills.
1. Limit unemployment to 8% with Stimulus bill #1-failure
2. Promoted climate change bill-failure (fortunately)
3. Personally will win 2016 Olympics for Chicago-failure
4. Promoting Stimulus Bill #2 under guise of "Jobs" bill - a lie
5. Favors Card check for unions-failure (fortunately)
6. Contain Iran nuclear program through strength of his personality-failure
7. Contain N. Korea missile & nuclear program-failure
8. Contain Al Qaeda-failure
9. Middle East peace-failure
10.Reduce budget deficit-BIG BIG failure
11. End Iraq war-failure
12. Earmark reform- BIG lie and failure
13. Transparency in government-failure
14. Bipartisanship-failure
15. No lobbyists in government-failure
16. No Islamic terror attack in U.S.-failure
17. Health care reform to cut costs, cover those who have no care, tort reform, no rationing -failure
BUT SOME MAY SAY: LOOK AT OBAMA'S SUCCESSES:
1.New dog at WH-success
2.Blame Bush for everything and often-success
3.WH Beer summit with Cambridge cop and Harvard Prof.-success
4.Protect "civil rights" of Islamic Terrorists with civilian trials -success
5.World apology tour-success
6.Appoint tax cheats-success
7.Noble Peace Prize for doing nothing-success
8.Dither on Afghan policy and announce future retreat timetable -success
9. Record budget deficits- success
Thursday, February 11, 2010
"Employees Free Choice Act" Sounds So Nice, But..
What a nice sounding name "Employees Free Choice Act". Who couldn't be in favor of such a nice sound bite; it's like "hope" and "change", really lofty ideals. "Free Choice" essentially means a card check system where secret ballots are preempted and workers have to vote yes or no on the question of unionizing in front of pro-union representative. Of course, the truth is that CARD CHECK would be anything but "free choice". It would be a vehicle for pro-union thugs to intimidate workers who do not want unions but would be afraid of reprisals if they didn't agree to unionization. The secret ballot is the nemesis of union organizers, since they want anything but free choice; the latter has resulted in the decline of union membership as workers wise up to the fact that union leaders are like politicians, out for themselves first and then way down in priority they might throw a few crumbs to the rank and file members.
The Obamaites as usual just drool over every left wing agenda item and so they love Card Check.
Anyone who has worked in a unionized company, BUT not been part of the union perhaps being a non-management salaried employee up to an executive), has experienced how the unions take the work to the lowest common denominator of ability or skill, how they ostracize and often undermine any union member who shows extra initiative, how they squeeze as many work rules out of the company as possible to increase union headcount and overtime by increasing inefficiency, and how they never see the success of the organization as tied to their personal success.
The Obamaites as usual just drool over every left wing agenda item and so they love Card Check.
Anyone who has worked in a unionized company, BUT not been part of the union perhaps being a non-management salaried employee up to an executive), has experienced how the unions take the work to the lowest common denominator of ability or skill, how they ostracize and often undermine any union member who shows extra initiative, how they squeeze as many work rules out of the company as possible to increase union headcount and overtime by increasing inefficiency, and how they never see the success of the organization as tied to their personal success.
Will The Democrats Get The Message on Health Care?
Every legitimate poll,
every recent election,
town hall meetings and,
the mere existence and growth of the Tea Party,
all give a CLEAR AND RESOUNDING NO
TO HAVING OBAMACARE CRAMMED DOWN OUR THROATS.
However, Obama, Pelosi and others seem to be deaf or such staunch ideologues that the messages don't matter.
The Democrats will pay a huge price in November if they continue to:
-pander to the special interest lobbyists who wrote the ObamaCare bills
-pander to the Far Left who want government run health care
-no matter high high the cost or
-how degraded the quality
-as along as it is equal for everyone.
If Obama, Pelosi and the Leftist Democrats were truly interested in separately needed health care reform they would :
-scrap ObamaCare
-work with Republicans on simple solutions
- like removing barriers to buying insurance across state lines,
-tort reform,
-high penalties for insurance companies that drop customers or refuse legitimate claims,
-create private high risk pools,
-create small business pools,
-modify tax laws to benefit individuals buying insurance
-increase limits on tax-free Health Savings Accounts
and more,
that leave health care in the private sector but make needed improvements.
BUT, WE ALL KNOW BY NOW THAT THE OBAMA-PELSOI-REID AGENDA IS TO:
-FIRST TAKE CONTROL,
-MAKE PEOPLE MORE DEPENDENT ON GOVERNMENT BECAUSE THE ELITISTS THINK PEOPLE ARE TOO STUPID TO TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES,
-INCREASE THE SIZE OF GOVERNMENT,
-PAY OFF SPECIAL INTERESTS LIKE THE UNIONS, AARP, TRIAL LAWYERS
-CREATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR HUGE PORK SPENDING IN RETURN FOR POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS AND VOTES AND
-FIND VEHICLES TO INCREASE TAXES DIRECTLY OR SNEAKILY THROUGH VARIOUS SO-CALLED "FEES' ASSOCIATED WITH INSURANCE AND THE PROVIDERS OF CARE.
every recent election,
town hall meetings and,
the mere existence and growth of the Tea Party,
all give a CLEAR AND RESOUNDING NO
TO HAVING OBAMACARE CRAMMED DOWN OUR THROATS.
However, Obama, Pelosi and others seem to be deaf or such staunch ideologues that the messages don't matter.
The Democrats will pay a huge price in November if they continue to:
-pander to the special interest lobbyists who wrote the ObamaCare bills
-pander to the Far Left who want government run health care
-no matter high high the cost or
-how degraded the quality
-as along as it is equal for everyone.
If Obama, Pelosi and the Leftist Democrats were truly interested in separately needed health care reform they would :
-scrap ObamaCare
-work with Republicans on simple solutions
- like removing barriers to buying insurance across state lines,
-tort reform,
-high penalties for insurance companies that drop customers or refuse legitimate claims,
-create private high risk pools,
-create small business pools,
-modify tax laws to benefit individuals buying insurance
-increase limits on tax-free Health Savings Accounts
and more,
that leave health care in the private sector but make needed improvements.
BUT, WE ALL KNOW BY NOW THAT THE OBAMA-PELSOI-REID AGENDA IS TO:
-FIRST TAKE CONTROL,
-MAKE PEOPLE MORE DEPENDENT ON GOVERNMENT BECAUSE THE ELITISTS THINK PEOPLE ARE TOO STUPID TO TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES,
-INCREASE THE SIZE OF GOVERNMENT,
-PAY OFF SPECIAL INTERESTS LIKE THE UNIONS, AARP, TRIAL LAWYERS
-CREATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR HUGE PORK SPENDING IN RETURN FOR POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS AND VOTES AND
-FIND VEHICLES TO INCREASE TAXES DIRECTLY OR SNEAKILY THROUGH VARIOUS SO-CALLED "FEES' ASSOCIATED WITH INSURANCE AND THE PROVIDERS OF CARE.
It's Not Just a Peasant Revolution
It's NOT JUST a "PEASANT REVOLUTION" that we are seeing with
New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts.
It's the majority of Independents, traditional Republicans, Conservatives, some moderate Democrats, the new Tea Party,
all who have HAD ENOUGH AFTER ONE YEAR.
IN NOVEMBER 2010, WE NEED TO VOTE OUT EVERY INCUMBENT OF EITHER PARTY WHO:
-voted for the first Stimulus/jobs (actually non-jobs pork) bill
-voted for Cap and Trade
-voted for ObamaCare
-supported Cash for Clunkers
-supported the bailouts of GM, Chrysler, AIG and most of the banks
-supports closing GITMO
-supports civilian trials for Islamic Terrorists
-opposes tort reform in health industry
-supports card check for unions
-opposes closing borders to illegal aliens
-opposes buying health insurance across state lines
-accepts "pork" for their district or state
-opposes open trade
-opposes better regulation of Fannie and Freddie
-supports another wasteful Jobs/Stimulus bill (more pork)
-supports more hiring in the public sector
-supports voting rights for illegal aliens
-opposes some long term plan for Social Security and Medicare change
THEN IN 2012, WE CAN DUMP OBAMA ALONG WITH Holder, Geithner, Napolitano Emanuel, Bernanke and the rest of the incompetents, cheats, career public executives, academics with no common sense and lobbyists running the government under Obama.
New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts.
It's the majority of Independents, traditional Republicans, Conservatives, some moderate Democrats, the new Tea Party,
all who have HAD ENOUGH AFTER ONE YEAR.
IN NOVEMBER 2010, WE NEED TO VOTE OUT EVERY INCUMBENT OF EITHER PARTY WHO:
-voted for the first Stimulus/jobs (actually non-jobs pork) bill
-voted for Cap and Trade
-voted for ObamaCare
-supported Cash for Clunkers
-supported the bailouts of GM, Chrysler, AIG and most of the banks
-supports closing GITMO
-supports civilian trials for Islamic Terrorists
-opposes tort reform in health industry
-supports card check for unions
-opposes closing borders to illegal aliens
-opposes buying health insurance across state lines
-accepts "pork" for their district or state
-opposes open trade
-opposes better regulation of Fannie and Freddie
-supports another wasteful Jobs/Stimulus bill (more pork)
-supports more hiring in the public sector
-supports voting rights for illegal aliens
-opposes some long term plan for Social Security and Medicare change
THEN IN 2012, WE CAN DUMP OBAMA ALONG WITH Holder, Geithner, Napolitano Emanuel, Bernanke and the rest of the incompetents, cheats, career public executives, academics with no common sense and lobbyists running the government under Obama.
Entitlements Are Driving the U.S. to Financial Disaster
MEDICARE , SOCIAL SECURITY and many other entitlment programs ARE A HUGE PART OF WHY THE COUNTRY IS GOING BROKE.
This system is unsustainable. People receiving benefits are getting more than they put in, and the government did not save or invest their contributions to grow the pot of money, but rather greedily and irresponsibly spent the funds on other "programs".
QUESTION:
-Exactly who is paying for the Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits being paid out? Is it some mystical "free" phenomenon?
ANSWER:
-Borrowed money accruing as unsustainable debt to China and others
-High taxes, such as the highest corporate tax rate in industrialized nations
-Income, social security and Medicare taxes paid by those not yet in the plans and who will not have their contributions waiting for them when needed; in a snowballing deficit.
People may be happy with Medicare and think they are getting something for nothing but it's a fool's dream. There is no such thing as "free benefits".
The national debt, annual deficit budgets, taxes and broken health care system attest to the "no free lunch".
The fix is certainly not to expand the broken system as ObamaCare would do.
This system is unsustainable. People receiving benefits are getting more than they put in, and the government did not save or invest their contributions to grow the pot of money, but rather greedily and irresponsibly spent the funds on other "programs".
QUESTION:
-Exactly who is paying for the Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits being paid out? Is it some mystical "free" phenomenon?
ANSWER:
-Borrowed money accruing as unsustainable debt to China and others
-High taxes, such as the highest corporate tax rate in industrialized nations
-Income, social security and Medicare taxes paid by those not yet in the plans and who will not have their contributions waiting for them when needed; in a snowballing deficit.
People may be happy with Medicare and think they are getting something for nothing but it's a fool's dream. There is no such thing as "free benefits".
The national debt, annual deficit budgets, taxes and broken health care system attest to the "no free lunch".
The fix is certainly not to expand the broken system as ObamaCare would do.
How the U.S. Ranks in Health Care
The TRUTH about the World Health Organization (WHO) ranking of United States as 37th is a decade old, greatly misleading and often quoted incorrectly to make a political statement. Here are some facts.
The WHO ranking is NOT JUST FOR THE QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE, but consists of five factors, arbitrarily weighted, where only one factor is strictly for health care, one is a mixture and health care and some subjective factors and three are for WHO criteria of "fairness" which favor socialized health care countries.
The "Health Level" is weighted only 25% of the total score and is a measure of life expectancy which is the closest criterion to health care quality. If you remove homicide rate and accident death rate, which are social issues, then the United States has a longer life expectancy than any other country.
A second factor, "Responsiveness", is weighted only 12.5% and measures factors such as choice of doctors and speed of service which are relevant to quality of care, but also contains some other qualitative factors not related to quality of health care.
The other three factors account for 62.5% of the total score and reward systems where everyone gets the same level of care no matter how bad it is and where everyone pays the same percentage of income for health care no matter how much they earn. A country that has uniformly poor care where the government runs the system and taxes everyone on their ability to pay will rank higher than a country that has excellent care for most citizens but only medium care for some citizens and which has a free market for patients and providers.
The U.S. has the highest quality of health care, is the most advanced technologically and attracts thousands of foreigners who can afford to come here with medical problems; they don't go to the other 36 nations with higher WHO rankings.
All those who believe the WHO rankings ought to travel to one of the first 36 countries when they have a serious illness.
The WHO ranking is NOT JUST FOR THE QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE, but consists of five factors, arbitrarily weighted, where only one factor is strictly for health care, one is a mixture and health care and some subjective factors and three are for WHO criteria of "fairness" which favor socialized health care countries.
The "Health Level" is weighted only 25% of the total score and is a measure of life expectancy which is the closest criterion to health care quality. If you remove homicide rate and accident death rate, which are social issues, then the United States has a longer life expectancy than any other country.
A second factor, "Responsiveness", is weighted only 12.5% and measures factors such as choice of doctors and speed of service which are relevant to quality of care, but also contains some other qualitative factors not related to quality of health care.
The other three factors account for 62.5% of the total score and reward systems where everyone gets the same level of care no matter how bad it is and where everyone pays the same percentage of income for health care no matter how much they earn. A country that has uniformly poor care where the government runs the system and taxes everyone on their ability to pay will rank higher than a country that has excellent care for most citizens but only medium care for some citizens and which has a free market for patients and providers.
The U.S. has the highest quality of health care, is the most advanced technologically and attracts thousands of foreigners who can afford to come here with medical problems; they don't go to the other 36 nations with higher WHO rankings.
All those who believe the WHO rankings ought to travel to one of the first 36 countries when they have a serious illness.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Faulty 2011 Budget Plan
1. The 2011 fiscal year budget has 5 items that are acknowledged as "frozen" (national security, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and net interest on debt) for a total of $2.6 trillion. Projected revenue with numerous tax increases on the "wealthy and "fees" (which are taxes) on certain industries and products, is $2.6 trillion; not all of the increase and fees will actually get through Congress.This leaves unsupported all non-security discretionary spending and other mandated programs at a minimum deficit of $1.2 trillion but more likely $1.6 trillion.The current 2010 fiscal budget is approximately in the same shape.
2. Obama's plan to cut a small fraction of the $500 billion non-discretionary spending next year is a joke compared to the size of the problem.
3. The revenue side must be increased and this can only be done by creating jobs and wealth in the PRIVATE sector.
4. Proposals for further taxing the "rich", taxing gains and dividends , other hidden "fees" (actually taxes by another name which will fall on everyone) and stifling growth by further taxing of corporations with overseas operations(when the U.S. has the highest corporate tax rate of 30 top industrialized nations) will decrease investment, decrease exports and cost jobs.
5. Now, how is more government spending for public sector jobs or more mandated entitlements going to help?
6. It will certainly make Washington more powerful and give politicians a control over a larger fraction of the GDP and thus over votes, but it will not help grow the GDP or revenues topay for existing programs.
2. Obama's plan to cut a small fraction of the $500 billion non-discretionary spending next year is a joke compared to the size of the problem.
3. The revenue side must be increased and this can only be done by creating jobs and wealth in the PRIVATE sector.
4. Proposals for further taxing the "rich", taxing gains and dividends , other hidden "fees" (actually taxes by another name which will fall on everyone) and stifling growth by further taxing of corporations with overseas operations(when the U.S. has the highest corporate tax rate of 30 top industrialized nations) will decrease investment, decrease exports and cost jobs.
5. Now, how is more government spending for public sector jobs or more mandated entitlements going to help?
6. It will certainly make Washington more powerful and give politicians a control over a larger fraction of the GDP and thus over votes, but it will not help grow the GDP or revenues topay for existing programs.
Spending The Way to Recovery -It Didn't Work For FDR in the 1930s
The economy was a disaster under Hoover and FDR, it remained a disaster for 10 long years because FDR tried socialist economic fixes, the same things that Obama is doing. Unemployment was 16.3% in 1931 and still 17.2% in 1939. It only got much better with WW2 when America was forced into investing in factories and wartime provided jobs. War is not the desirable answer but the lesson is that encouraging investment in production rather than phony government make-work jobs is the answer.
So, tax RATE cuts on corporate, capital gains, dividends and top end income are what will stimulate the economy.
Things were also worse under Carter than now, not because he was a socialist like FDR but because he was incompetent in every aspect of his presidency. They only got better when Reagan did just the opposite of what Obama is doing; that is, tax rate cuts.
Japan in the 1990s was in a decadelong recession and still hasn't fully recovered because they tried for ten years to government spend their way out of a recession. It didn't work.
Evidently, these lessons are too complicated for Obama and his administration.
FDR was a "spread-the-wealth-around" kind of guy; BO is following FDR's examples such as FDR's government created make-work jobs, government support of unionization, government regulation of many industries, inhibiting free-trade, The result for the FDR years prior to WW2: a median unemployment of over 17% for all of FDR's years up to WW2, because all of this socialism, being "fair", did nothing to stimulate entrepenuership, investment in industry, real job growth.
So, tax RATE cuts on corporate, capital gains, dividends and top end income are what will stimulate the economy.
Things were also worse under Carter than now, not because he was a socialist like FDR but because he was incompetent in every aspect of his presidency. They only got better when Reagan did just the opposite of what Obama is doing; that is, tax rate cuts.
Japan in the 1990s was in a decadelong recession and still hasn't fully recovered because they tried for ten years to government spend their way out of a recession. It didn't work.
Evidently, these lessons are too complicated for Obama and his administration.
FDR was a "spread-the-wealth-around" kind of guy; BO is following FDR's examples such as FDR's government created make-work jobs, government support of unionization, government regulation of many industries, inhibiting free-trade, The result for the FDR years prior to WW2: a median unemployment of over 17% for all of FDR's years up to WW2, because all of this socialism, being "fair", did nothing to stimulate entrepenuership, investment in industry, real job growth.
Obama Scolds the Supreme Court, But Obama Was Wrong
In his State of the Union speech, Obama scolded the Supreme Court for its decision to allow domestic corporations, and unions, to contribute to campaigns from general funds:
FIRST, THE SUPREME COURT DOES OT EXIST TO RUBBER STAMP THE WISHES OF THE ELECTED BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT.
Any high school student should know about the independence of the three branches of government.
The Supreme Court is supposed to decide if cases brought before it are consistent with the Constitution and are they are guided by the wisdom of prior Court decisions, but they are not their to simply rubber stamp prior court decisions or the wishes of the President.
SECOND, OBAMA WAS ABSOLUTELY WRONG IN HIS STATEMENT THAT FOREIGN CORPORATIONS CAN NOW DONATE MONEY TO CAMPAIGNS.
One expert after another has commented that this is still specifically and clearly forbidden.
JUSTICE ALITO WAS CORRECT IN HIS GUT REACTION MOUTHING THAT WHAT OBAMA SAID WAS "DEFINITELY NOT TRUE".
It is clear that Obama and whomever gave him that line in his speech did not read or understand the Court's decision.
But, we all know that the Constitution is just an annoyance to Obama.
In the past, Obama has specifically said and wrote that he doesn't like the Constitution because it places too many restrictions on what the federal government.
NO KIDDING!
This was exactly what the founders intended! They were leery of a central (federal government with too much power and they intended to distribute the power to the States and to keep the federal government in check by distributing power to Congress and the Supreme Court.
FIRST, THE SUPREME COURT DOES OT EXIST TO RUBBER STAMP THE WISHES OF THE ELECTED BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT.
Any high school student should know about the independence of the three branches of government.
The Supreme Court is supposed to decide if cases brought before it are consistent with the Constitution and are they are guided by the wisdom of prior Court decisions, but they are not their to simply rubber stamp prior court decisions or the wishes of the President.
SECOND, OBAMA WAS ABSOLUTELY WRONG IN HIS STATEMENT THAT FOREIGN CORPORATIONS CAN NOW DONATE MONEY TO CAMPAIGNS.
One expert after another has commented that this is still specifically and clearly forbidden.
JUSTICE ALITO WAS CORRECT IN HIS GUT REACTION MOUTHING THAT WHAT OBAMA SAID WAS "DEFINITELY NOT TRUE".
It is clear that Obama and whomever gave him that line in his speech did not read or understand the Court's decision.
But, we all know that the Constitution is just an annoyance to Obama.
In the past, Obama has specifically said and wrote that he doesn't like the Constitution because it places too many restrictions on what the federal government.
NO KIDDING!
This was exactly what the founders intended! They were leery of a central (federal government with too much power and they intended to distribute the power to the States and to keep the federal government in check by distributing power to Congress and the Supreme Court.
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