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!
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