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Jul
1
Obama: Palling Around with Dictators
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- Scott Miller
Is it possible that Barack Obama will fall on the wrong side, the anti-American side, the anti-liberty side, of every single foreign policy matter?
I seems so when this week he decided to meddle in the affairs of the sovereign nation of Honduras when the military forcibly removed a Chavez wannabe ”president” after he defied the Honduras Supreme Court and entire Honduras Congress when they ruled that he could not run to be “President for life”.
Here’s Obama’s statement backing the deposed dictator a few days ago:
IBDeditorials.com had a great piece on this issue:
Democracy: Nations aren’t usually put to the fearsome test to “live free or die.” But Hondurans are accepting it as the world pressures them to reseat a potential dictator in office. They aren’t bending.
On Tuesday, all 192 members of the U.N. General Assembly voted to condemn Hondurans’ removal of President Mel Zelaya from office. He was ousted this week after brazenly defying a Supreme Court ruling against a reelection referendum. Using the language of the effort’s ringleader, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, the U.N. called the constitutional act “a military coup.”
The same day, the Organization of American States gave Honduras three days to reinstall Zelaya as president or its membership would be suspended.
The World Bank “paused’ lending until Zelaya is back. The Inter American Development Bank followed suit.
Standard & Poor’s warned of a credit downgrade. Tourists were told by embassies to leave. Three bordering nations cut off trade. Nations pulled ambassadors. Venezuela’s despot, Hugo Chavez, cut off cheap oil. He now bucks for an OAS-led military invasion if his leftist pal Zelaya is not restored to power.
The U.S. has its own bag of potential sanctions for Honduras, although as new facts emerge about Zelaya’s involvement in the drug trade and his mental instability, doesn’t look as though it intends to use them. Still, the Sword of Damocles over Honduras could mean a suspended free trade treaty, a cutoff of its $200 million in aid, and an end to its immigration agreement with the U.S.
As the world follows Chavez’s lead in trying to force Honduras to accept a lawless man as its leader, disasters for Honduras loom.
The tiny country is impoverished. Its seven million people have a per capita income of just $1,635 a year. Its economy has been enfeebled by Zelaya himself. He has fixed prices and wages, and opened the door to drug traffickers, creating a burgeoning narcostate.
It seems impossible that Honduras could withstand new draconian pressure and isolation over taking Zelaya back.
Yet evidence shows that Hondurans consider the latter fate worse. If Zelaya is restored as president, he will resume his dictatorial ambitions while Hondurans lose their future freedoms. Oh, the OAS will tell them “dialogue” will solve it.
But Hondurans know better: If the rule of law won’t dissuade Zelaya from being dictator, why would sweet talk work?
Honduras’ new, constitutionally appointed leader, Robert Micheletti, defied the global blowhards sitting in judgment of Honduras and said he wasn’t leaving.
To Chavez, he said: “You don’t scare me.” He also warned Zelaya that if he flew back to assume office, he’d be arrested. Honduras’ Congress, and its Supreme Court are holding the line, too.
This can only be happening because they are listening to the only people whose opinion matters: Hondurans, some 80% of whom approve of the Court action. “Everyone here is celebrating,” a business leader told Latin Finance.
Tuesday, thousands of these Hondurans peacefully rallied in the streets, in vivid contrast to the 200 pro-Zelaya thugs who trashed fast food joints and burned garbage a day earlier.
Hondurans will have to prove it. Accepting a fate as an international pariah state bears a hefty price. But plucky Hondurans have made their choice, valuing freedom over world esteem. If against all odds they win, their choice will strike the biggest blow for democracy since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The chain reaction that ensues may topple the false democracies in Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Cuba. Just as Hondurans aided freedom fighters to crush Sandinista communism in the ’80s, they’ll now turn back the tide of false democracies.
If only America could be at their side for the victory this time.
So Obama’s instincts were wrong yet again. He fell on the side of dictators and tyranny yet again. When it came to supporting the opposition movement in Iran, he was no where to be found… he didn’t want to “meddle”. But he has no problem backing a lawless dictator, and meddling in the affairs of Honduras. He also doesn’t seem to have any problems meddling in the affairs of the sovereign country of Israel, come to think of it… this guy’s just plain full of crap isn’t he?
Jun
29
EPA Lies About “Global Warming” to Ensure Passage of National Energy Tax
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- Scott Miller
Interesting how a couple days after the eco-commie, statists, in congress passed a massive national energy tax bill under the guise of phony science about so-called ”climate change”, whatever the hell that is, we get this story finally breaking… from Fox News:
Sen. Inhofe Calls for Inquiry Into ‘Suppressed’ Climate Change Report
A top Republican senator has ordered an investigation into the Environmental Protection Agency’s alleged suppression of a report that questioned the science behind global warming.
The 98-page report, co-authored by EPA analyst Alan Carlin, pushed back on the prospect of regulating gases like carbon dioxide as a way to reduce global warming. Carlin’s report argued that the information the EPA was using was out of date, and that even as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have increased, global temperatures have declined.
“He came out with the truth. They don’t want the truth at the EPA,” Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla, a global warming skeptic, told FOX News, saying he’s ordered an investigation. “We’re going to expose it.”
The controversy comes after the House of Representatives passed a landmark bill to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, one that Inhofe said will be “dead on arrival” in the Senate despite President Obama’s energy adviser voicing confidence in the measure.
According to internal e-mails that have been made public by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Carlin’s boss told him in March that his material would not be incorporated into a broader EPA finding and ordered Carlin to stop working on the climate change issue. The draft EPA finding released in April lists six greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, that the EPA says threaten public health and welfare.
Despite the EPA official’s remarks, Carlin told FOXNews.com on Monday that his boss, National Center for Environmental Economics Director Al McGartland, appeared to be pressured into reassigning him.
Carlin said he doesn’t know whether the White House intervened to suppress his report but claimed it’s clear “they would not be happy about it if they knew about it,” and that McGartland seemed to be feeling pressure from somewhere up the chain of command.
Carlin said McGartland told him he had to pull him off the climate change issue.
“It was reassigning you or losing my job, and I didn’t want to lose my job,” Carlin said, paraphrasing what he claimed were McGartland’s comments to him. “My inference (was) that he was receiving some sort of higher-level pressure.”
Carlin said he personally does not think there is a need to regulate carbon dioxide, since “global temperatures are going down.” He said his report expressed a “good bit of doubt” on the connection between the two.
Specifically, the report noted that global temperatures were on a downward trend over the past 11 years, that scientists do not necessarily believe that storms will become more frequent or more intense due to global warming, and that the theory that temperatures will cause Greenland ice to rapidly melt has been “greatly diminished.”
Carlin, in a March 16 e-mail, argued that his comments are “valid, significant” and would be critical to the EPA finding.
McGartland, though, wrote back the next day saying he had decided not to forward his comments.
“The administrator and the administration has decided to move forward on endangerment, and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision,” he wrote, according to the e-mails released by CEI. “I can only see one impact of your comments given where we are in the process, and that would be a very negative impact on our office.”
He later wrote an e-mail urging Carlin to “move on to other issues and subjects.”
“I don’t want you to spend any additional EPA time on climate change. No papers, no research, etc., at least until we see what EPA is going to do with climate,” McGartland wrote.
Ahhh the transparency of the Obama administration… who care what the science says… science be damned! Facts be damned! Full speed ahead with our radical eco-commie agenda…
Jun
29
A Glimpse into Government Run Healthcare
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- Scott Miller
As long as the statists are scheming to take over our private healthcare system in this country, and Pravda (our MSM) is tugging at your heart strings with fringe stories of inadequate care portrayed as the norm, I will be bring you the conservative side of the story.
While our healthcare system is far from perfect, it is by far the gold standard in the world for quality, access, and innovation. Our healthcare system stands in stark contrast to the government run systems predominant throughout the socialist country in Europe.
To get a small glimpse of the quality of care that our entire healthcare system will devolve into if we move forward with Obama’s socialized medicine, let’s look the chronically trouble veteran’s healthcare system… a 100% government run healthcare system… this from the AP:
Pa. doc at center of VA cancer probe admits errors
PHILADELPHIA – A doctor accused of botching dozens of prostate cancer surgeries at a Veterans Administration hospital admitted Monday that he sometimes missed his target when implanting radioactive seeds, leaving patients with incorrect dosages.
But Dr. Gary D. Kao called the mistakes commonplace in aiming seeds at the walnut-sized prostate, which sits near the bladder and rectum, and he steadfastly refused to become a scapegoat for the scandal at the VA Medical Center in Philadelphia.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has found that 92 of 116 men treated in the hospital’s brachytherapy program received incorrect doses of the radiation seeds, often because they landed in nearby organs or surrounding tissue rather than the prostate. Kao performed the majority of the procedures under a VA contract with the University of Pennsylvania, where he was on staff.
Under questioning from Sen. Arlen Specter, Kao acknowledged that he never informed patients when he missed the prostate or delivered insufficient doses.
Yeah… that’s government run care for ya’… sound great, right?
Jun
26
Fox News Debunks Common Liberal Healthcare Lies
Filed Under Conservative Side of the Story, Healthcare, The Statists (or Democrats for you Libs) | 1 Comment
- Scott Miller
Fox Business put together an excellent expose on the lies that are being fostered by the statists and our Pravda media… I’ll excerpt major portions of the piece below:
The Obama administration is now attempting the biggest overhaul of healthcare since Lyndon B. Johnson pushed through Medicare and Medicaid in 1965.
But the healthcare reform debate is riddled with misleading myths taken as fact, myths that are torquing the debate beyond recognition, from the U.S.’s supposedly poor infant mortality rates, who really gets medical care, the level of uninsureds, who really pays for insurance, who actually can afford insurance and wait times for surgeries…
…fixing the health system should be based on the facts, not on a statistical faith-based initiative mounted to ram through reform, where the data is either more nuanced on closer look or the statements made are simply not true.
Worth keeping in mind, as the U.S. is already on track to compile total 10-year deficits that would surpass the annual GDP of Great Britain, Russia and Germany for one year-combined, and as the government is getting increasingly entangled in key industries, with higher taxes coming on incomes, on capital and on energy.
Myth: “The U.S. has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the developed world.”
Talk about stretching a point until it snaps. This ranking is based on data mining.
The U.S. ranks high on this list largely because this country numbers among those that actually measure neonatal deaths, notably in premature infant fatalities, unlike other countries that basically leave premature babies to die, notes health analyst Betsey McCaughey.
Other statistical quirks push the U.S. unjustifiably higher in this ranking compared to other countries.
The Center for Disease Control says the U.S. ranks 29th in the world for infant mortality rates, (according to the CDC), behind most other developed nations.
The U.S. is supposedly worse than Singapore, HongKong, Greece, Northern Ireland, Cuba and Hungary. And the U.S. is supposedly on a par with Slovakia and Poland. CNN, the New York Times, numerous outlets across the country report the U.S. as abysmal in terms of infant mortality, without delving into what is behind this ranking.
The Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit research group, routinely flunks the U.S. health system using the infant mortality rate.
“Infant mortality and our comparison with the rest of the world continue to be an embarrassment to the United States,” Grace-Marie Turner, president of the Galen Institute, a research organization, has said.
Start with the definition. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines a country’s infant mortality rate as the number of infants who die between birth and age one, per 1,000 live births.
WHO says a live birth is when a baby shows any signs of life, even if, say, a low birth weight baby takes one, single breath, or has one heartbeat. While the U.S. uses this definition, other countries don’t and so don’t count premature or severely ill babies as live births-or deaths.
The United States counts all births if they show any sign of life, regardless of prematurity or size or duration of life, notes Bernardine Healy, a former director of the National Institutes of Health and former president and chief executive of the American Red Cross (Healy noted this information in a column for U.S. News & World Report).
And that includes stillbirths, which many other countries don’t report.
And what counts as a birth varies from country to country. In Austria and Germany, fetal weight must be at least 500 grams (1 pound) before these countries count these infants as live births, Healy notes.
In other parts of Europe, such as Switzerland, the fetus must be at least 30 centimeters (12 inches) long, Healy notes. In Belgium and France, births at less than 26 weeks of pregnancy are registered as lifeless, and are not counted, Healysays. And some countries don’t reliably register babies who die within the first 24 hours of birth, Healy notes.
Norway, which has one of the lowest infant mortality rates, shows no better infant survival than the United States when you factor in Norway’s underweight infants that are not now counted, Healy says, quoting Nicholas Eberstadt, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
Moreover, the ranking doesn’t take into account that the US has a diverse, heterogeneous population, Healy adds, unlike, say, in Iceland, which tracks all infant deaths regardless of factor, but has a population under 300,000 that is 94% homogenous.
Likewise, Finland and Japan do not have the ethnic and cultural diversity of the U.S.’s 300 mn-plus citizens.
Plus, the U.S. has a high rate of teen pregnancies, teens who smoke, who take drugs, who are obese and uneducated, all factors which cause higher infant mortality rates.
And the US has more mothers taking fertility treatments, which keeps the rate of pregnancy high due to multiple-birth pregnancies.
Again, the U.S. counts all of these infants as births. Moreover, we’re not losing healthy babies, as the scary stats imply. Most of the babies that die are either premature or born seriously ill, including those with congenital malformations.
Even the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which collects the European numbers, cautions against using comparisons country-by-country.
“Some of the international variation in infant and neonatal mortality rates may be due to variations among countries in registering practices of premature infants (whether they are reported as live births or not),” the OECD says.
“In several countries, such as in the United States, Canada and the Nordic countries, very premature babies (with relatively low odds of survival) are registered as live births, which increases mortality rates compared with other countries that do not register them as live births.” (Note: Emphasis EMac’s).
The U.S. ranks much better on a measure that the World Health Organization says is more accurate, the perinatal mortality rate, defined as death between 22 weeks’ gestation and 7 days after birth. According to the WHO 2006 report on Neonatal and Perinatal Mortality, the U.S. comes in at 16th-and even higher if you knock out several tiny countries with tiny birthrates and populations, such as Martinique, Hong Kong, and San Marino.
Myth: “About 46 mn Americans lack access to health insurance.”
There is a difference between health care and health insurance, as Fox Business anchor Brian Sullivan points out after researching reports on health care from the Congressional Budget Office, Blue Cross-Blue Shield and Georgetown University.
Everyone has access to health care. They may not have health insurance, but the law mandates everyone who shows up at emergency rooms must be treated, insurance or not, he reports.
About 14 mn of the uninsured were eligible for Medicaid and SCHIP 2003, a BlueCross-BlueShield Association study based on 2003 data estimated. These people would be signed up for government insurance if they ever made it to the emergency room, Sullivan says.
A whopping 70% of uninsured children are eligible for Medicaid, SCHIP, or both programs, a 2008 study by the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute shows.
Census figures also show that 18.3 mn of the uninsured were under 34 who may simply not think about the need for insurance, Sullivan reports.
And of those 46 mn without insurance, an estimated 10 mn or so are non-U.S. citizens who may not be eligible, according to statistics from the Census Bureau), Sullivan reports.
Myth: “The uninsured can’t afford to buy coverage.”
Many may be able to afford health insurance, but for whatever reason choose to not buy it. In 2007, an estimated 17.6 mn of the uninsured made more than $50,000 per year, and 10 mn of those made more than $75,000 a year, says Sally Pipes, author of the book, The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen’s Guide, a book that attempts to dig behind the numbers. According to author Pipes, 38% of the U.S. uninsured population earns more than $50,000 per year.
That means 38% of the uninsured likely make enough to afford health insurance, but for undetermined reasons choose not to buy it.
Myth: “Most of the uninsured do not have health insurance because they are not working and so don’t have access to health benefits through an employer.”
Not so fast–the data is more nuanced and revealing upon closer look.
According to the CBO, about half of the uninsured in 2009 fall into one of the following three categories. Some people will be in more than one of those categories at the same time:
*Nearly one out of three, 30%, will be offered, but will decline, coverage from an employer.
*Nearly one out of five, 18%, will be eligible for, but not enrolled in Medicaid; and
*More than one out of seven, 17%, will have family income above 300% of the poverty level (about $65,000 for a family of four);
What is potentially the real number for the poor uninsured? According to a 2003 Blue Cross study, 8.2 mn Americans are actually without coverage for the long haul, because they are too poor to purchase health care, but earn too much to qualify for government assistance.
Myth: “The estimated 45 mn people without health insurance lacked health insurance for every day of the year.”
But that does not mean that all 45 mn people spend every day of 2009 without insurance. It is a point estimate - on any particular day, there will be 45 mn individuals without health insurance.
[Source: CBO, "Key Issues in Analyzing Major Health Insurance Proposals," December 18, 2008, http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9924/12-18-KeyIssues.pdf
Myth: “Government-run universal health care would increase the international competitiveness of U.S. companies.”
The Congressional Budget Office disagrees.
“Replacing employment-based health care with a government-run system could reduce employers’ payments for their workers’ insurance, but the amount that they would have to pay in overall compensation would remain essentially unchanged,” the CBO says. “Cash wages and other forms of compensation would have to rise by roughly the amount of the reduction in health benefits for firms to be able to attract the same number and types of workers.”
Myth: “The cost of uncompensated care for the uninsured significantly increases hospital costs.”
Hospitals provided about $35 bn in uncompensated care in 2008, the CBO says. Uncompensated care represented only 5% of total hospital revenues. In addition, half of the $35 bn in uncompensated hospital costs were offset by Medicare and Medicaid.
And the cost of uncompensated care for the uninsured is “unlikely to have a substantial effect on private payment rates,” the CBO says, adding that shifting costs from uninsured to private insurance premiums is “likely to be relatively small.”
Myth: “Nationalized health care would not impact patient waiting times.”
No they’re covering more costs. According to the CBO, consumers paid for 33 % of their total, personal health care expenditures in 1975. But by 2000, consumers’ personal share had fallen to 17%, and it declined to 15% in 2006.
Well done Emac, well done!
Jun
26
Can I Just Say…
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- Scott Miller
That I am already sick and tired of seeing the fawning news coverage of this alleged pedophile.
Do I feel sorry for his family that he’s passed… sure.
Do I think he is an unconvicted child molestor… sure.
He’s dead, I got it… move on… I’m sick on the pope-like coverage already.
The “man” was a freak, OK? MOVE ON news media.
Jun
25
ACTION ALERT: National Energy Tax Bill Vote Tomorrow in the House!
Filed Under Conservative Side of the Story, Taxes, The Environment, The Statists (or Democrats for you Libs) | 1 Comment
- Scott Miller
Got an extra $1,870 per year to pay for higher energy, food, and other product costs?
Folks, time to get on the horn to your congressman or woman!
They are planning on voting tomorrow on the largest tax increase in our nation’s history. A tax that will increase the cost of every single item you buy, and a massive increase in costs of energy related purchases such as oil, gas, electricity, heating fuel, etc…
The statists are putting on the big push, and the vote will be close, so you can make a difference. This from Reuters:
Climate change bill gaining in House: Pelosi
“We are making progress,” Pelosi told reporters when asked whether previously undecided Democrats were beginning to line up behind the climate change bill. “We intend to bring it up” this week, she added.
Before a debate by the full House can go forward, the House Rules Committee must sign off on the bill. It was working late on Thursday deciding which amendments would be allowed and other rules governing the possible floor debate.
President Barack Obama, hoping to prod wavering House Democrats, urged passage of the bill, saying it would create millions of jobs and “open the door to a new energy economy.”
House Democratic leaders have said they hope to schedule the vote on Friday on the “cap and trade” bill that would reduce carbon emissions from utilities, manufacturers and others by 17 percent by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050, from 2005 levels.
The United States is the world’s top greenhouse gas emitter after China.
Uhh, not to you idiot lib reporter… the reason that we are a top greenhouse gas emitter, is because we have the worlds largest economy, moron!
Folks, again please call and email your congressman now (contact page link is at the top of the site)… here is a version that my family sent… feel free to use, or alter to your style.
Congressman,
I thought I would add my voice, and vote in urging you to vote NO on the so-called “climate bill” that will be up for a vote tomorrow in the house, and I’m sure heading your way soon.
This national energy tax will raise the cost of everything… including the basic necessities of life… food, electricity, gas, heating oil, etc… and for what? The religion of so-called “global warming”?
You have got to be kidding me!
Please know that if you vote to increase our taxes in such a massive way, my family and many others I have talked to in my neighborhood will work to defeat you in the up coming election.
So please vote NO on this sham “climate bill”.
PS. Please don’t even think about supporting any sort of government-run or sponsored national health service plan. Most Americans, despite some of the sham polls, do not want any gov’t meddling in our health care… and we don’t want to pay for anyone else health care either! Enough gov’t “fixes” already!
Regards,
Jun
23
Obama Not So Smart on Healthcare
Filed Under Conservative Side of the Story, Evils of Socialism, Healthcare, Obamarxist, Strategery, The Statists (or Democrats for you Libs) | 2 Comments
- Scott Miller
My apologies for being “out of the pocket” the past couple days… between the job that pays, two great kids that deserve a Dad’s attention, and a couple days of R&R where I started reading the Great One’s, Mark Levin’s, newest masterpiece “Liberty and Tyranny” (book review coming soon… let me just say, you have to buy this book) … getting in front of the laptop was tough to do.
That said, I’m back and ready to take on the statists, as they are on the verge to attempting to ram through socialized healthcare and a huge national energy tax that the eco-commies are pushing hard.
Today Obama held (surprise) another press conference where he said amongst other things, this:
Now, I’ve always though that Obama was a relatively bright guy, but I gotta’ tell ya’, I’m not so sure after hearing this answer. Can it be that his blinding love for all things government has his common sense this cloudy?
He thinks he’s being clever when he mock the critics saying that ‘they’re afraid of competing with a public option and yet they say government can’t run anything… that doesn’t make logical sense to him’… I really don’t think he gets it.
Of course anyone with a shred common sense can see that if a so-called “public option” (read government healthcare) were allowed to compete with private insurers, private insurers will be out of business in no time. Why? It’s simple…. the government doesn’t have to make a profit to stay in business. Period. Look around… Obama thinks he can spend and print as much money as he wants, national debt be damned. So what’s to keep the government insurance company (who said Obama’s not a socialist) from putting up a gold-plated plan at a very low cost, subsidizing the cost through government debt… which will ultimately force private profit-driven insurance companies out of business.
This is their real plan… this is how they plan to backdoor a national, one size fit all, rationing, poor quality, socialized medicine plan in America. They know the American people wouldn’t go for a Canadian/Britain style plan if they try to do it on the up-and-up, so the statists scheme to backdoor socialized medicine through the innocuous sounding “public option” plan.
Don’t believe me? Here’s a Democrat Congresswoman, Jan Schakowsky from Chicago, saying essentially the same thing… from Breitbart.tv:
Dem Congresswoman Admits Obama Health Care Plan Will Destroy Private Health Insurance Industry
“I know many of you here today are single payer advocates and so am I … and those of us who are pushing for a public health insurance don’t disagree with this goal. This is not a principled fight. This is a fight about strategy for getting there and I believe we will,”
Interesting that the YouTube video of her admitting the strategy has been pulled down… hmmmm.
Here’s the Heritage foundation explaining how their backdoor plan is currently structured:
Morning Bell: The Unprincipled Fight for Government-Run Health Care
Recent SCHIP expansion and additional Medicaid funding in the stimulus package made a substantial down payment on major expansion of government run health programs. Established research shows that a public health plan will ”crowd out” private insurance, forcing millions of Americans off their current plans, and away from their family doctors. A public health plan, coupled with Comparative Effectiveness Research, would engineer artificially lower prices for medical services through the imposition of Medicare-style price controls. Such Medicare-style payment levels would undercut the market share of existing private health plans, and, combined with a mandate on employers, stack the incentives against workers in private employer-based health insurance by encouraging their employers to dump them into a new government-run health plan. Watch the video of Rep. Schakowksy’s statements on The Foundry. She clearly admits that the purpose of the government run option is to kill private insurance so everyone eventually is forced into government-run health care.
Moving all Americans into a government-run health care system will not only bankrupt our country, but will lead to less innovation in the health care sector and lower quality care for all Americans. There is an alternative. Some of which the Obama Administration even supports like removing the tax benefit of employer-sponsored health care coverage which will untie Americans health care coverage from their employers and help move the country towards a truly market based consumer driven health care model. Health care coverage can be expanded in a cost efficient manner, but only by empowering Americans to make health care decisions with their doctors.
Now watch that clip again, and see if you find Obama credible when he say ‘oh yeah… you’ll be able to keep your private plan… no problem’…
Jun
18
Babs “Ma’am” Boxer Show Her Disdain for Our Military
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- Scott Miller
Nothing pisses me off more than a spiteful little dwarf liberal who can’t hid her contempt for the courageous men and women of our Armed forces. Watch the fat-ass little dwarf “Senator” from CA showing nothing but utter disdain for a decorated General:
He showed a lot more restrain than I would have… I think a reply like: “Drop-dead you little troll” would have been more appropriate for the General to say
Jun
16
Fiscal Irresponsibilty Reigns Supreme with Obama Administration
Filed Under Conservative Side of the Story, Healthcare, The Central Planners, The Statists (or Democrats for you Libs) | 2 Comments
- Scott Miller
Let’s take a look at our current federal government finances:
- Obama 2009 Budget projects a $1.75 TRILLION dollar deficit
- As of June 2, 2009, the federal debt stands at $11,382,737,715,925, that’s over $11 TRILLION in case you’ve never seen so many digits strung together like that.
- Obama’s Administration projects that our total federal debt load will double to $20 TRILLION over the next 6 years
- Obama projects that his spending plans will take the federal debt to 100% of America’s GDP (gross domestic product), or the value of everything produced by our economy. A level that hasn’t been seen since 1940’s.
- The federal government has another $53+ TRILLION in unfunded obligations created by our massive social welfare programs and lavish public pension programs…. that $53 TRILLION is in addition to the federal debt
- That means that our total debt and funding obligations stand at an incomprehensible $73+ TRILLION
So any normal, rational thinking adult, looking at these staggering numbers would start to do some serious budgetary reforms, and start drastically cutting federal spending across the board (save our national defense)… but not the Obama administration.
Instead, they set out to nationalize another 17% of our economy with a massive new socialized medicine healthcare entitlement. An new entitlement that will cost us another $3.2 TRILLION over the next 10 years. Here are some highlights of the rank irresponsibility of the party of Statists (aka Democrats) when it comes to their socialized medicine plan:
Several officials said the Congressional Budget Office had issued a cost estimate of $1.6 trillion, with only about $560 billion paid for. They spoke on condition of anonymity, saying the matter was confidential
Question: These central planners in government are scheming to spend a ton more of our money, and their plans are “confidential”? Talk about arrogance and gall!
Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., said that with cost estimates coming in so high, “It is clear there have got to be changes made to make the whole package affordable.”
Sen. Conrad, the government is BROKE! We can’t afford the pot you piss in, let alone a massive new entitlement program… a program that will include free healthcare for illegal aliens! Wake the F-up!
At the Senate Health panel, officials said that after penciling in subsidies for families with incomes as high as $110,000, or 500 percent of the federal poverty level, they would limit the help to families up to $88,000 in income, or 400 percent of the poverty level
Subsidies for families making over 100 Grand?!! Are these people freakin’ nuts? Why the hell would some poor waitress be subsidizing a family making over $100K? How stupid is that? 500% of the federal poverty level? Have we become this much of a pansy-nation? Where we expect momma government to take care of our every little need? $100k… pay for your own damn health insurance! Don’t reach into my pocket to pay for your healthcare… if you can’t take care of your family’s health, then you shouldn’t be having kids in the first damn place.
Now some of you may say, “but Scott, that article says Obama’s healthcare plan will be $1.6 trillion, not $3.2 trillion”. Folks, if you haven’t learned by now, you need to take every figure that the politicians give you, and at least double it to get to what will be the true cost of any government program.
Just look at the Medicare program created by the socialists in 1965… in 1965 the government projected that medicare, in the year 2003, would cost taxpayers $26 billion a year; the actual cost came in at… get this… $245 billion, or 10 times what the politicians promised…. still want 535 central planners in Washington DC taking over your healthcare?
Jun
15
Obama Decries “Fear-Mongering” on Healthcare, as He Fear-Mongers Himself
Filed Under Healthcare, Obamarxist, The Central Planners | 1 Comment
- Scott Miller
This guys is too much… the Statist is always in a hurry, and Obama is no different. As he races to socialize our healthcare system, today he is in front of the American Medical Association. From his speech we get these two headlines… this from the AP:
Obama hits ‘fear-mongering’ on health care changes
CHICAGO – Pushing again to get the health care system overhauled, President Barack Obama is arguing that people must beware of “scare tactics and fear-mongering” that have killed such efforts in the past.
Obama said “we know there are those who will try to scuttle” the program no matter what. He said that “because these fear tactics have worked, things have kept getting worse.”
Then there is this one from Reuters:
Obama: Government could go broke if healthcare not fixed
CHICAGO (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, making his case for healthcare reform to America’s doctors, said on Monday the U.S. government could suffer the same fate as troubled automaker General Motors and go broke if the healthcare system is not fixed.
“When it comes to the cost of our health care,” Obama told the American Medical Association, “the status quo is unsustainable.”
So in the same speech the Obamarxist on one hand decries “fear-mongering” by his opponents, and on the other hand fear-mongers himself. This from the guy who has perfected the art of political fear-mongering to get his agenda passed.
Plus, note to Obama THE GOVERNMENT IS ALREADY FREAKIN’ BROKE!… or did you somehow miss your $2 trillion deficit?
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