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Healthcare Reform
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
These are the people that are going to make your healthcare decisions too
Unless you live under a rock, you have heard about this story where some government bureaucrat from the Agriculture Department admitted on camera during an NAACP meeting that she had shafted a honkey farmer. While many are now coming out to condemn her for this, others are defending her, and even have the temerity to claim that it is the people that are pointing out how wrong what she did are at fault, thee real big deal that is going unsaid, is that this isn’t anything new for people working in government.
The people in government, at least the ones I have had to deal with, are with a few exceptions not even close to being as clever or unbiased as they would like you to believe they are. Your usual lefty has a lot of trust in these people, and maybe they are justified considering they share the same world view and ideas, but those of us that know better are not surprised to see these employees abusing their powers and office. In fact, I would be surprised if the opposite was the case. For every one you have on tape, I am betting there are hundreds of other that have done the same, but simply have not been caught or exposed. Heck, I dealt with such petty and vindictive losers with inferiority complexes and a giant chip on their shoulder practically every damned time I had to deal with government people. From the DMV to the IRS, they are smug and drunk with their own power. And they want you to know you have to go through them and are at their mercy.
While we should not ignore the racial component of this case, it is important to keep in mind that it is not just the only motivator of these kind of petty people. And just think how wonderful our healthcare coverage will be when these same types of people are in charge of it? That guy needed a heart transplant, and I just didn’t give him the full force of my abilities, cause I hate his guts. Of course, the only bad people are in the private sector and working for the insurance companies. Heh, our tax dollars at work.
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010
When you haven’t got a clue how to actually do anything right….
The democrats are in a world of hurt come the November elections. They won huge in 2008 by having the MSM help them overinflate the fact Bush was a wet noodle and that republicans were somehow fiscally less responsible than them. As if the Carter years and the demcorat controlled congress tripling spending while the Reagan tax cuts doubled revenue, never happened. Of course, as soon as they won they proceeded to make sure everyone knew that demcorats being fiscally responsible or able to actually lead us into any kind of prosperity was a myth, on par with the one about demcorats caring about individual freedoms. They took the low bar the stupid republicans let the demcorats set for them, and plunged it to new lows.
For a while there they were able to blame Bush for everything they did wrong. We passed a nearly trillion dollar stimulus patronage bill that served to only “stimulate” the growth of government, fill our campaign coffers and the wallets of our donors, operatives, lobbyists, and friends, at the expense of those working in the private sector? Bush’s fault! A democrat controlled congress first pushed TARP up to $750 billion, despite objections from the not insane during an election campaign nevertheless – and so they could blame “you know who” – and then when they won, literally made TARP a no limit slush fund for all things collectivist government expansion related. Blame Bush! Cap and Tax was not popular and temporarily had to be put on the back burner. But PB, a top Obama donor and well connected to their WH and green efforts, blows a well out in the Gulf, and the same people that accused Bush of conjuring up Katrina to kill blacks in NO, now have let months go bye without doing anything of significance – can’t piss off the unions or let this crisis go bye without taking advantage of it and all that – because now they can bring this economy killer back again. Blame Bush! Passed the most intrusive and massive government expansion program ever, masquerading as healthcare reform, but really intended to recreate something like the Cuban healthcare system over here, against the will of the American people, nevertheless, guaranteeing that the massive cost of this boondoggle will fiscally bankrupt the nation. Blame Bush! Can’t pass a budget because it would show that demcorats lied about being fiscally responsible and have already broken last years record deficit spending and debt growing budget busting shenanigans? Blame Bush! We are being overrun by an invasion from our “neighbor” to the south? Blame Bush! Ok yeah, Bush was a moron on this one too, so he does deserve some blame. Of course, he didn’t succeed at his amnesty attempt, and the ones trying now aren’t doing it because Bush is making them, for sure. The surge worked in Iraq? Blame Bush! Oh wait. Biden says Obama, whom I should remind people because the MSM won’t, was against the surge, gets credit for that one now.
You get the picture right? Everything bad they do is Bush’s fault. Of course, that has now worn thin, and is falling on deaf ears, as the polls showing a massacre come November make clear. Remember the collectivists telling us that it was the end of the age of American greed – because making money and wanting prosperity for yourself, is you know, evil – was dead and the right was gone for the next 50 years? Took them less than 18 months to squander away the support their well orchestrated campaign of lies garnered them, by actually doing what they believe in! As many of us predicted: once the left showed what they were all about, the American people would turn on them. Yeah, I am rubbing it in. Anyway, back to the point of this post: the demcorats are desperate. So what’s the new tactic they hope will help show the American people that they are better suited to be in charge?
More of the same:
The Democratic Party is moving faster and more aggressively than in previous election years to dig up unflattering details about Republican challengers. In House races from New Jersey to Ohio to California, Democratic operatives are seizing on evidence of GOP candidates’ unpaid income taxes, property tax breaks and ties to financial firms that received taxpayer bailout money.
Sounds solid. When you have zero successes to campaing on, all you are left with is demonizing the opposition, and hoping the people are too stupid to figure out that’s all you have. You aren’t fit to lead anyone, fiscally irresponsible, drowning the country in debt, destroying the economy, healthcare system, and the lives of millions, and looking like you are going to be hammered in the election for it – all because people have wised up and no longer buy the “Blame Bush!” meme, dang it! – so what you do isn’t square this stuff away. Nah, you go dig up dirt on those that are going to have you for breakfast, hoping the American people are stupid enough to leave you in charge. After all, as this WaPO post does, the MSM will repeat the talking points you want to get out there even as it is pretending to tut-tut at you for doing this idiotic stuff.
And if you can’t find enough dirt? Well, go make some up:
Democratic officials are advising campaigns to hire trackers to follow their Republican opponents to public events with video cameras, ready to catch any gaffe or misstatement. And the Democratic National Committee last week issued a call to the public to submit any embarrassing audio or video of Republicans, as well as copies of their direct-mail advertisements.
Party officials would not say how many staffers are working on opposition research. Such work used to be farmed out to campaign consultants, but the DCCC brought research operations in-house in 2008 to be more nimble. “It may appear to be more aggressive this cycle because what we’re finding on Republicans is so rich,” Vogel said.
Good luck you morons. If these bastards put in a fraction of the time they would doing this kind of stuff in actually doing their jobs to benefit the American people instead of themselves, I guarantee you they would not need to do this stuff. Like I said: I can’t wait for November.
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Friday, July 02, 2010
Told you so…
Well, it looks like some more truth about how disastrous and unlikely to really be possible the promises made by the left to push for the new government healthcare takeover will be is trickling out:
The Obama administration has not ruled out turning sick people away from an insurance program created by the new healthcare law to provide coverage for the uninsured. Critics of the $5 billion high-risk pool program insist it will run out of money before Jan. 1, 2014. That’s when the program sunsets and health plans can no longer discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions. Administration officials insist they can make changes to the program to ensure it lasts until 2014, and that it may not have to turn away sick people.
So let me get this straight. First off, these collectivist are admitting that in order to keep the existing programs solvent and viable till 2014 when the big daddy takeover goes into high gear, they will need to likely deny care to “some” sick people? That is unless they can make some changes to the $5 billion high risk pool program to make it viable until 2014? Care to guess what the changes will be? Don’t need to man. It’s right there:
Officials said the administration could also consider reducing benefits under the program, or redistributing funds between state pools. But they acknowledged turning some people away was also a possibility.
So, in order to not have to turn away the expensive sick, the rest will have to do with less, subpar being the more likely case, coverage. Bet you get both. Less coverage, and people turned away. Of course, since government will do it now, it is still better than getting better care and less people turned away from the private insurers! Don’t worry though! The collectivists are coming to the rescue!
Leading health reform advocate Ron Pollack, founding executive director of Families USA, said the pools were a “very imperfect tool that could be implemented quickly” but were the best option available for the interim period before 2014.“The pools are going to be helpful for a significant number of people,” he told The Hill, “but nobody thought they’re the ultimate answer for helping people with pre-existing conditions.” Still, he didn’t rule out that Families USA could press lawmakers to allocate more money in a few years if it looks like the program needs it.
Well DUH! Just demand more cash! So, since there simply isn’t enough money to go around and pay for all of this, no matter what these bozos pretend otherwise, what we will get is this program costing twice, or more, as much as the allocates $5 billion, the coverage being piss poor, AND people still being turned away.
Not bad. Here is the kicker, though. Nobody seems to point out the obvious: that come 2014 when the big government healthcare takeover takes place, we will be left with a lot more of the same – they won’t turn people away, just drag their feet until they die and then save money – we are seeing here. Only then it will cost trice, if not more, as much to the same effect. Ain’t we lucky the collectivists managed to get government to take over healthcare? Fun, fun!
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Monday, May 24, 2010
The economy, government spending, and healthcare..
I have been busier than a one legged man at an ass-kicking contest the last month or so, and have not posed much, but today I have finally gotten some slow time and decided it was time to get back at it. And I think the appropriate place to start is with the current economic crisis gripping the world, and closer at home, this whole government healthcare takeover thingy, better know as Obamacare. Since everyone but the usual bureaucrats seem to understand the budgetary problems facing the great Western socialist paradises on the verge of economic collapse are caused because the parasites “working” in government have had a great run for the last few decades buying themselves both power and bennies with other people’s money, and are discussing the fact that we can’t keep spending at the rate we are, it should be obvious that this massive government expansion would remain unpopular and continue to get more unpopular as people realize the economic impacts associated with it. In fact, the numbers for those of us wanting it repealed, have climbed to 63%, and they are just going to keep going up as even the CBO now has to admit. I am sure the democrats are quite surprised that it now looks like Obamacare will not save us anything but actually cost more. And that is with a shameful slight of hand/scam used by those promoting this most massive government expansion since the first day of the Roosevelt socialist takeover, that allows the government to collect taxes for 10 years, but then only offer services for the last 5 or 6 years in a 10 year cycle. As I have pointed out repeatedly, it should be blatantly obvious that there is no arguing that even if the program doesn’t end up as I suspect it will deep in the red in the first decade, come the next 10 year cycle, the program is going to be short a trillion or more from the start.
The left made a successful run at power starting back in 2008 by pointing out the lack of fiscal discipline by the demcorats. Of course, many forget that despite the president’s best efforts spending is done by Congress, and that Bush’s worst years are those after the demcorats took over in 2006. The left of course blamed Bush’s “warmongering” for the out of control spending despite the obvious fact that this stuff was peanuts compared to the massive, bloated, and ever expanding social spending. Many like me laughed hard at the demcorats pretending to be fiscal hawks, and warned others that they were being lied to. Now but 18 months after they sweeped, we have tacked on, in a single year no less, more than all the Bush years combined. And we are going to tack on oodles more, even if we discount the disastrous Obamacare government takeover of the healthcare monies and decision making process (because that is really what this was about) masquerading as healthcare reform, because that’s what these people are about. Call me cruel or insensitive to my fellow man, but I still remain unable to quantify any benefits for society as a whole from all this social spending, and see it doing far more damage than good, but that’s neither here nor there. When we have created a whole new ever expanding class of serfs dependant on government for their daily subsistence – people that have trade freedoms in return for minimal security, and have as a result neither – that are akin to slaves, lacking in any desire to contribute to the advancement of mankind, other than by the means, I see very little good coming from all this spending. At least the money spent on the military provides decent and good jobs for hardworking taxpayers. Hey, maybe I am just biased that way…
The fact is that this collectivist stuff, past anything other than a family unit, is unsustainable. No, that’s not just my opinion, as the facts clearly prove. The people that see government and this socialist stuff as the answer to everything are trying to reverse course with actions like this one, or this one, all the while maligning and blaming the only system that has actually created new wealth and helped improve our standard of living on this planet, while the collectivists remain good, and that is me being generous because they even suck at that, at wealth redistribution and destruction schemes. The stuff that has gotten us where we are now (no, it was not Bush), and the people that know, are predicting even more bad times.
I often wonder why so many still do not realize or see how Obamacare is going to serve only to speed up our demise. And it isn’t even as if we are actually going to get something good from it. Oh, sure the usual morons have argued about the evils of private insurance and how this government takeover addresses that, but anyone making that argument is an absolute moron. If anything, you will see the very things that so concerned and angered them when done by private insurance companies, happen with more frequency now that a broke government looking to drag out the circling process that is taking us all down the drain as long as possible, will be in charge. You think those evil insurance people were bad? Wait until you have to deal with a spiteful and petty government employee that gets off on the power that their ability to make your life miserable by denying you services, gives them. At least when the insurance companies did it you were under the illusion that you could seek redress from government. Who will you turn to when it is government that is putting the screws to you? Other government employees? Yeah, good luck with that. Don’t worry though. At the rate we are going we might just implode and all end up without healthcare or anything else for that matter, returning to a 19th century standard of living. But in the eyes of these collectivist that would be a good thing – social justice has been served since we are all equally miserable – considering that the only evil they see is that life doesn’t guarantee equality of outcome.
UPDATE: Arthur C. Brooks has this absolutely awesome piece titled “America’s new culture war: Free enterprise vs. government control” over on the WaPO opinion pages. A must read to understand what is currently going on.
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Friday, April 23, 2010
Well Blow Me Down!
Ain’t it quite funny how all the usual morons in the MSM that propagandized for the Obama WH’s healthcare takeover are now finally coming out of the woods to admit the very same thing most of us that opposed this travesty did, namely that this bill would reduce quality of care and access to care and drastically increase cost. Well, it would be funny but when you remember that this usurpation of power by the federal government will cost us trillions more, mostly to pay bureaucrats and feed the new massive bureaucratic machine that will be created around this thing, and in that the government will now run healthcare with the same efficiency they run your DMV or for example the INS, then you just end up feeling like crying. Anyway, here is some fun new facts for ya.
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law is getting a mixed verdict in the first comprehensive look by neutral experts: More Americans will be covered, but costs are also going up. Economic experts at the Health and Human Services Department concluded in a report issued Thursday that the health care remake will achieve Obama’s aim of expanding health insurance — adding 34 million to the coverage rolls. But the analysis also found that the law falls short of the president’s twin goal of controlling runaway costs, raising projected spending by about 1 percent over 10 years. That increase could get bigger, since Medicare cuts in the law may be unrealistic and unsustainable, the report warned. It’s a worrisome assessment for Democrats.
Not so new I guess for those of us that had not drank the koolaid. So, now many more people will be covered, but the quality is gonna go down and cost is going to go up for all of us that actually work for a living! Yay! I am sure glad some lazy scumbag can now get free healthcare so he can make even more illegitimate babies that will then also be requiring government to support their needs, by stealing even more money from me first me, and then my children. Social Justice at its best. And that projected 1% raise? Its going to be more like 200%. That’s a historical fact with any and all of these social programs the government runs. The one and only outlier is Medicare Part D, and that’s because the private sector runs it. Don’t worry. Demcorats won’t let that stand for too long either.
There was a great laugh in this article though:
The report from Medicare’s Office of the Actuary carried a disclaimer saying it does not represent the official position of the Obama administration.
Well, they aren’t lying through their teeth then I guess.
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Saturday, April 17, 2010
Shya, right…
Pollsters Douglas E. Schoen and Patrick H. Caddell have an opinion piece in the WaPo offering demcorats advice on what to do to avoid a bloodbath in November. I had me a great and hard laugh at the advice. But let me set this up.
Media reports suggest that President Obama is turning his attention toward the midterm congressional elections. There are a few things it is imperative he understand if he is to, at the least, minimize Democratic losses in November. We are Democratic pollsters who argued against the health-care legislation ["Democrats’ blind ambition,” Washington Forum, March 12] that the Obama administration chose to pursue. Instead, we advocated incremental health-care reform. With the passage of health reform, some harsh political realities have emerged.
Recent polling shows that despite lofty predictions that a broad-based Democratic constituency would be activated by the bill’s passage, the bill has been an incontrovertible disaster. The most recent Rasmussen Reports poll, released on April 12, shows that 58 percent of the electorate supports a repeal of the health-care reform bill—up from 54 percent two weeks earlier. Fueling this backlash is concern that health-care reform will drive up health costs and expand the role of government, and the belief that passage was achieved by fundamentally anti-democratic means. Already we are seeing the implications play out with the retirement of Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.)—who had effectively become the face of the last-minute, closed-door negotiations that resulted in passage.
Put simply, there has been no bounce, for the president or his party, from passing health care.
The demcorats cravenly gambled that if they rammed through their government takeover of healthcare that the public would perceive this as a victory and side with them. Only problem was that the MSM could not control the information flow and contain the truth about how horrible this thing is. Americans, even many that agree there is need for healthcare reform, know this bill is not the answer.
In fact, only stupid people think this bill isn’t going make healthcare more expensive, quality go down, availability of care be rationed, and eventually, to sooner than later, make government completely in charge of who gets care and who doesn’t. Even worse, it is guaranteed to break our budget because the only way they could make this disastrous healthcare takeover seem fiscally responsible was to demand a CBO report limited to 10 years, collect taxes for those ten years, then provide services for only 5 of those years. Even a dumbass can figure out that this is unsustainable shit. Oh yeah, did I also mention
It also is going to cost jobs? We all know Waxman’s reaction to companies restating their earnings and the obvious economic and job related impact of government stealing yet another massive chunk of capital from the private sector to implement the ever elusive socialist utopia.
Anyway, as these two pollsters point out, there has not only been no bounce, the number of people opposed to this behemoth keeps going up. The latest polls put the number against this bill at 58%, up 4% since the Obama and MSM blitz to sell this disaster. Obama’s approval goes down, the demcorats join him in that downward spiral, and yet, their strategy isn’t to roll back the stupid, but to pile it on. Now they intend to hammer through a “Cap and Tax” bill. Which brings me to my point. The pollsters are recommending that the demcorats actually stop their campaign to demonize the Tea partiers and actually adopt their platform:
Democrats can avoid the electoral bloodbath we predicted before passage of the health-care bill, but in one way: through a bold commitment to fiscal discipline and targeted fiscal stimulus of the private sector and entrepreneurship.
And that’s why I laugh my ass off. Fiscal discipline to demcorats means to use the power of government to buy votes. We all have seen how well their fiscal stimulus plans work too. By some unexplainable twist of faith (that’s sarcasm for you lefty idiots that want miss this on purpose) their campaign coffers are loaded with cash for the November elections, and the real jobless numbers keep climbing towards 20%. These people don’t care about entrepreneurship. They believe government should pick the winners and losers. And we all know how well that works. It’s not a coincidence that when let loose demcorats in power recreate the Carter years.
They might have tons of cash to help them fend of the onslaught in November, but my bet is their stupid is so high that they almost guarantee there will be a landslide against them.
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Thursday, April 15, 2010
Waxman bluffed, and now he is calling…
When Obamacare passed and companies royally screwed by the government takeover of healthcare restated their earnings to show the drastic impact of this disastrous bill, the democrats ent after blood. How dared these companies point out that Obamacare was going to take millions, if not billions away from their bottom line, drastically curtail new hiring, if not require them to lay off more people to mitigate the disastrous costs, and think the demcorat masters were going to let them show them up? Who cared that it was their own rules and regulations that forced these companies to do so? I guess the law of unintended consequences caught up with them. Anyway, the leftist twits decided to play hardball, and called all these businesses on the carpet. Threats of hearings and retaliation were bandied, and the demcorats decided some show trials could help them and dissuade others. Of course, as soon as it became obvious that there was no way for them to hide the fact that Obamacare was a disaster and that the hearings they wanted to brow beat the private sector with would likely end up making them look bad, Henry Waxman angrily accused companies like this happened:
A House Energy and Commerce Committee spokeswoman tells me that Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., has indeed cancelled the April 21 subcommittee hearing in which CEOs were to testify about Obamacare. So far, the only indication of this change appears on the committee’s website is on the Republican minority ranking member’s site. In fact, the hearing still appears on Waxman’s committee calendar for that day. Waxman had called the hearing in reaction to public statements by several companies—including Verizon, AT&T, and John Deere, among others—that Obamacare would cost them hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars because it laid a new tax on their retiree health benefit payments.
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Hearings on this matter would likely have proved an embarrassment to the Democrats and helped drag out discussion of Obamacare’s unexpected ill effects.
Don’t worry. These demcorats will find a way to get even with these corporations for pointing out the truth. The show trials may be off, but they will get their pound of flesh. In the mean time most people continue to understand that Obamacare is a disaster, and most now clearly see - even if they won’t admit it out loud - that demcorats are bad for the economy. The unemployed better get used to living from the slim pickings Uncle Sam will throw their way, because there won’t be any action from the government that will do anything but make things worse.
The beatings will continue until morale improves. November can’t get here quick enough….
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Saturday, March 27, 2010
Obligatory post on the left’s assalt on those of us angry at their tyranical actions
You would think that after such a monumentous victory as the left pretends their ramming through the government takeover of healthcare bill we refer to as Obamacare was supposed to be, that if they really thought they had served the will of the people and done something that was good for America and Americans, they wouldn’t be so focused on burying the story by shifting focus to those that oppose it.
When people calling Bush a Nazi, it was because of dignified anger. When Hollywood produces movies where Bush was murdered or soldiers are portrayed as villainous barbaric morons, it’s because of justified anger. When immature students on the dole riot on college campuses because they are told they have to do more than rely on government handouts to subsidize their college partying years, it is dignified anger. When animal rights douches douse rich folks wearing coats with paint, it is dignified anger. When environmental wackos force things to happen that cost people jobs, destroy other people’s property, or even kill people when engaged in real acts of terrorism, it is because of dignified anger. When collectivists in government label military vets as war criminals ready to turn into right wing terrorists, and the left gets mad at them and calls them names, that’s justified anger. When leftist twits wish death upon the people they hate on the right, that’s justified anger.
The right hasn’t been responsible for collectivist ideologies that have murdered hundreds of millions, imprisoned billions, and in general been some of the most vile and horrific expressions of man’s evil towards man the last century or so: the left and what it believes in, is responsible for that. People on the left that believe in this vile stuff and act, or incite others to act in anger, become heroes. People on the right that are indignant that their government has ignored their will and screwed us all over, are painted as evil. Even worse, most of the evidence of this bad behavior seems to be made up whole cloth. Do you really believe that if these lying scumbags had evidence of this behavior, that it wouldn’t be doing the rounds 24/7 on the usual DNC outlets that comprise the MSM? In this day of phone cameras and people filming everything, what are the odds? Instead it is all circumstantial bull followed up by letters asking people to donate money to the DNC.
Let us not let the left set the tone or focus of this discussion. Focus on the real issue, and what should be the story: the tyrannical way that government went about taking over our healthcare system, and the massive infringement on our freedoms that comes with that takeover. This stuff about angry tea partiers is nothing but a distraction. It is intended to shift the focus away from the royal screwing that we just got by the left. Don’t fall for it. Whenever this stuff comes up, don’t waste time apologizing or trying to distance yourself from their accusations – likely to be fabricated anyway – and focus on the problem at hand: how Obama and the democrats just royally fucked over all Americans.
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Obamacare guarantees a single payer system
Now that Obamacare is the law of the land, and likely to stay so, we should have a look at what this means for everyone. Before you make the case that we can repeal this behemoth, understand this: to roll this back we will need a majority of people that are opposed to it - meaning republicans - in both the house and the senate. That means 60+ republicans in the senate and a majority in the house. Then we would need the house and the senate to agree on the bill in question to make it law and be bale to send it to the president. If this happens while Obama is president we will need 66-67 senators and 290 congress critters - that’s 2/3s out of a 100 member senate and a 435 member house for those wondering - to override the presidential veto. That’s the reality the democrats banked on, and why Biden dropped the f-bomb on national TV, the idiots that wanted blood when Cheney did it, are making excuses for Biden, the snooty left is talking about the end of the “American Empire” - they forgot to add their usual “Evil” prefix – and democrat John Dingell has no problem saying that Obamacare will allow them to eventually control the people. They think they have won. When republicans now also talk about fixing what’s wrong with Obamacare instead of repealing it, you can see why demcorats feel that way. This country has now made a permanent shift to the left, and the odds are there is no going back.
Considering the above, it should be obvious that reversing this disaster is statistically as likely to happen as Obama and the demcorats admitting they have screwed us, and screwed us hard. Not saying we shouldn’t try, but understand what the obstacles and chances are before we start this fight, so we do not fall short. And no, I am not trying to prevent or discourage people from pursuing the repeal of this monstrosity. We need to try, even if we fail. What I am doing is pointing out how stupid the people that let the demcorats gain this majority in the last election cycle, due to whatever reason, principled or not, were. They are the ones to blame for this disaster happening. How well did your “principles” serve you now? Elections have consequences, and this one hada doozy of a consequence. And the collectivists don’t think they are done yet. Thanks!
Back to my point about the end goal of Obamacare now that I got that little rant out of the way. The demcorats are banking that Obamacare is a done deal, and that it will politically be a big win for them, even if it costs them in the short run. And they are also banking on it leading to that single payer system they pretended to drop. Hear me out, here.
Obamacare basically imposes a tax or penalty on those that don’t buy healthcare. That tax currently is so low that it behooves practically everyone to pay it and avoid likely higher insurance premiums. After all, when you do get sick you can just go out and get insurance anyway. Insurance companies will find themselves with a gigantic pool of sick people. Considering that scenario where the only people buying insurance are the ones that need costly medical care and government is capping insurance costs, expect private insurance companies to go under, and do so very quickly. When that happens the collectivists in government will step in to save us! They will use this crisis opportunity, or as Rahm Emanuel pointed out, and take over the insurance business going under.
Now you could argue that the fix is to make the penalty bigger than the cost, but that’s not going to happen until they have their single payer system. Sooner than later government will be in charge of all insurance and thus control a single-payer system. Actually they won’t need a penalty because you won’t have a choice. You will pay whatever they want and suffer crappy government controlled and rationed healthcare, and learn to like it. We have traded freedom for the illusion of security, and as Ben Franklin long ago and eloquently pointed out, we will end with what we deserve: neither.
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Saturday, March 20, 2010
The end of “Hope and Change”?
Looks like some in the MSM might be turning on the messiah as this See-BS article by Benjamin Domenech dealing with the anger caused over the current government healthcare takeover by the left shows. My favorite observation by the author was:
Such crumbling popularity would give any politician pause, especially one who has spent most of his political career appearing before cheering crowds who proclaim trust, optimism, and hope for him. Obama’s dedication to passing this spectacularly flawed and unpopular health care bill appears to be based on the assumption that the American people like a winner even if the victory comes at their expense.
Seriously, at this point one has to wonder what is motivating the demcorats. Is it just ego and their idiotic presumption that if they pass this they will be seen as winners, even as the author points out the American people will be screwed over by that, or is it something else? Is it that fundamental change of America that Obama promised? He destroys what made the country exceptional and basically creates a two tiered collectivist shit-hole, with the elite living large and the rest of us being peons at the mercy of the all encompassing state? WTF?
As the dangerous outcomes of this plan become apparent, Obama may well come to regret this moment when he chose political expediency over what’s right for the nation. When historians judge this presidency they may well point to this moment as signaling the end of Obama’s cotton candy storyline of “the people vs. the powerful,” the rhetoric that once drove to his side multitudes of people fed up with the ways of Washington, the lies, kickbacks, shady backroom deals, and lack of transparency.
Obama is hoping to be remembered like FDR. Methinks that if the demcorats pull this off and somehow this costly and unconstitutional power grab by the federal government isn’t reversed in the near future, when the country ends up just another collectivist shithole like the ones falling apart over in Europe right now, he will be remembered more like another enemy of the American people. He will have a legacy, but it will be exactly the opposite of what he was hoping for. He will probably be remembered as one of the worst presidents ever. I am not even going to bother discussing how bad it will look that the first real black American president will be considered amongst the most disastrous ones, if not outright the worst, in our history.
Once, they trusted and hoped in his ability to achieve change. Now the American people know whose side he’s on.
Heh, only idiots trusted or believed anything this guy said based on his actions, experience, education, friends, and those few beliefs he wasn’t careful enough to hide. I was baffled at the comparison with Reagan that was trotted out to explain his popularity. I saw Reagan, and heard him speak. Reagan never doubted the greatness of this country and never felt obligated to either remake it or to spread the wealth. Other than to stop government from robbing the people to fuel it’s incessant growth, and to change our awareness of the Soviet menace, Reagan consentaneously talked about American exceptionally. This country was great. We just needed to get government out of the way of the people to make it greater. Obama stands for the exact opposite of any of that. He believes the same ideological crap the soviets did, he thinks America is unjust and wants to spread the wealth. He may talk a mean talk occasionally, but he gives away his real beliefs and plan in his actions. Case in point this horribly unpopular healthcare takeover by his government that he is pushing for.
No, Obama promised change, and he is delivering that. When he mentioned hope though, I believe he meant he hoped nobody would realize what kind of change he wanted until it was way, way too late to stop him from destroying the country and in its place prop up a two-bit leftists European-like has been. I hope we can yet stop his changes.
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
Obama gets a real interview finally.
Obama has finally been given something other than the usual fluff stuff interview he has been getting away from the MSM for the past 2 years, and it is no surprise it happened to be done by Fox News (video1, video2). He finally sat down with a reporter that was interested in the facts, and Bret Baier grilled his ass. We finally got to see the great orator at work when he wasn’t being handed some softballs by people that get tingles in their legs about him, and Obama, in addition to getting pissed he was not being allowed to just skirt questions with stupid and meaningless talking points, scored, as I expected, a clear F- with his idiotic answers.
President Obama is not worried—and doesn’t think Americans should worry—about the “procedural” debate over whether House Democratic leaders should go ahead with a plan to approve health care reform without a traditional vote, he told Fox News on Wednesday.
After all, he is not worried that the stupid American people are worried that this government healthcare takeover bill is a disastrous thing that will not only bankrupt the country, but also drastically alter healthcare coverage quality and access downward, and costs, directly or indirectly, upwards, for most people that already have healthcare. His concern seems to be with scoring the historical legacy for being the guy that fundamentally changed America from an exceptional nation to a has-been. After all, the American people are too stupid to know what’s best for them according to democrats. Technicalities, and especially rules, should stop the left’s agenda. The rules are not for them.
The president, in an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier, responded for the first time to the controversy over a plan to use a parliamentary maneuver to allow the House to pass the Senate’s health care bill without forcing members to vote for it directly.
The issue isn’t the maneuver, Mr. President: the issue is that the maneuver is being used to clearly obviate a vote on an incredibly unpopular, costly, and destructive bill that would then stand no chance of passing if the vote was held on its own. And that’s because the American people have made it clear to democrats – whom hold clear majorities in both houses, have the executive pen on their side, and if they were so inclined to, could have passed this thing by party line without a glitch at any time if it was popular – that they don’t want this bill. Something, and I am not going to even bother arguing that I find this rule to be constitutionally questionable and that I feel it shouldn’t be used by either party, even when the votes for both bills lumped together is a given, that wasn’t ever done previously when this stupid parliamentarian maneuver was to lump two votes into one.
The esoteric procedure has drawn fierce protest from Republicans, who say Democrats are trying to avoid accountability. But the president said there will be no doubt about where lawmakers stand on health care reform.
The only reason they are doing this is because they know they can’t get the first vote to work, not because the first vote is a given, as was the case when this questionable maneuver was used before.
“I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about what the procedural rules are in the House or Senate,” Obama said. “What I can tell you is that the vote that’s taken in the House will be a vote for health care reform. And if people vote yes, whatever form that takes, that is going to be a vote for health care reform. And I don’t think we should pretend otherwise. And if they don’t, if they vote against it, then they’re going to be voting against health care reform and they’re going to be voting in favor of the status quo.
No Mr. President, if they vote against it, they are doing what their constituents want them to do. Last I remember these bastards were supposed to represent their constituents, not the will of the democratic party and its hard core collectivists block. And that’s what is behind this maneuver in the first place. If there wasn’t such massive opposition to this bill there would be no argument. Your clear majority in both houses would have made this a done deal, no matter what the republicans wanted.
The tactic would allow members to temporarily accept the Senate version while keeping it at arm’s length.
Here is the gist of the problem. The democrats in the House don’t want anything to do with the Senate bill, for whatever reason, and any attempt to vote for it would fail, however, because they then don’t trust their leadership, said leadership is forced to use a trick to give the bill a chance in hell. Nancy Pelosi lives in fantasyland where collectivist idiots are the majority, and her seat is safe, but most of the rank and file democrats don’t, and they are all seeing the writing on the wall come the next election. Their choice is to vote for this and please the radicals and leadership, in the process angering and going against the wishes of their constituents with all that entails, or hope that they can hide behind this maneuver and claim they didn’t really vote for this monstrosity in the end. I have a feeling that this excuse will not hold much water either. Of course, they are damned if they do, and damned if they don’t, anyway. Their choice is to please their constituents and risk losing campaign funding – have no doubt queen Nancy will cut campaign funding for anyone that opposes her, and I guess that’s her prerogative – or go for the campaign funding and hope they get enough cash to buy off the angry mob. Cosmic justice, if you ask me for the way these democrats have behaved for so long.
Asked to respond to a viewer’s e-mail question about why he has to “bribe Congress to pass it,” Obama said, “I’ve got the same exact e-mails that I could show you that talk about why haven’t we done something to make sure that I, a small business person, am getting as good a deal as members of Congress are getting, and don’t have my insurance rates jacked up 40 percent?”
WTF was this? Doesn’t he see how he is undermining his own argument? Congress excluded itself from the effects of this moronic government takeover by exempting themselves from anything in this bill! Then various democrat congress men and women had to be bribed with massive lard to get them on board – wonder if these costs are also factored into the cost of this bill by the CBO – for this disaster, because they understood how damaging this thing was going to be to the country, their states, and to them personally.
People see this and complain about it, as this person asking why he didn’t get a sweet deal like congress, did. And Obama’s defense of the indefensible is that small business people that know they are going to get raped by the taxes government has to institute to help pay for their takeover plans, are asking him why he is allowing this disaster of a bill to go ahead? Why is it so hard for him to figure out that everybody except for democrat politicians and the freeloaders that are hoping to have others pay for their healthcare are against this bill? Or does he know that and simply not care?
Obama later added, “I’ve got to say to you, there are a lot more people who are concerned about the fact that they may be losing their house or going bankrupt because of health care.”
I am sure those people losing their houses because they don’t have a job, and much worse, can’t get one in this age of private sector hostile government, far outnumber those that lose their houses due to healthcare costs. But I don’t see Obama worrying about those people at all. Other than to give them lip service, that is. And I suspect that’s because the economics of creating non-government jobs doesn’t mesh well with his idea of fundamentally changing America into a third world collectivist shithole, which taking over healthcare at such an exorbitant cost that it will bankrupt the nation, does facilitate.
“And yes, I have said that this is an ugly process,” he said. “It was ugly when Republicans were in charge. It was ugly when Democrats were in charge.”
Except I still can’t find republicans pushing for this massive a government expansion that guarantees an economic collapse sooner than later, ever. At least Obama didn’t blame Bush for this too.
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Friday, March 12, 2010
Government healthcare takeover economics 101.
Here is how the economics behind government takeover of healthcare proposed in the current monstrous bill congress is going to pass against the will of the people by means of a gimmick, works. Obama’s congress proposes a monster that will cost close to $2 trillion over 10 years and gives government absolute and total control of all things healthcare. Even more frightening, the bill is set up in such a way that by that decade’s end everyone will have been funneled into a government controlled plan. People freak out. So Obama then tells congress they need to find a way to make it happened for a measly $900 billion to make the number more palatable. The congress then proceeds to concoct a scheme that charges you taxes over 10 years to come up with some $1.8 trillion dollars the CBO projected optimistically will be the cost of their behemoth takeover plan, but then offers no care whatsoever for the first four or five years. This then allows them to collect some $850 billion dollars in extra cash during that first 10 year stint, leaving us with a plan that they tell us will now only cost us a measly $1 trillion! Presto, healthcare costs are under control! I should mention that this $1.8 trillion CBO score is for the best case scenario cost of a government healthcare takeover, but we all know that as things go, these collectivist scams usually cost orders of magnitude more than was projected by the biggest pessimists, when they go live.
So after the first 10 years of Obamacare comes to a close, and we roll into the next decade of this wonderful collectivist experiment, we suddenly have government controlled healthcare that is at a minimum underfunded by $850 billion dollars for the next ten years, and likely to be behind a couple of trillion already too. Yet they and the MSM are all claiming this bill will save us money! Maybe they know that the collectivists elite in charge and pushing this plan through even though we don’t want it plan to confiscate our paychecks in their entirety and then distribute to us each according to our needs eventually, and then this stuff wont matter much. Barring that, you can fill in the gaps how they plan to deal with the vanishing of the “savings” they are now tauting sooner than later.
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
Campaign promises, fiscal responsibility, debt, ethical scandals, and hope and change
Democrats ran and won in 2006, and then again in 2008, on the bad behavior of republicans. Republicans were successfully and correctly painted as having lost their fiscal sanity for the deficit spending prior to 2006, only to have democrats gain control of congress and the spending purse after the 2006 elections, and set new spending records they then blamed Bush for. The leftwing machine’s manipulations of the facts, with big-time help from a complicit media that didn’t point out democrats were always worse at that stuff anyway when in charge, allowed them to run on the lack of fiscal responsibility of the republicans in 2008 again, using the crisis of their own making that they then blamed on Bush yet again, to win big, only to then proceed to set new deficit spending records. Here is the graph for those of you that want to dispute the deficit spending facts, so spare us the bull:
As this projection showed Obama’s deficit spending in his first year ended up being more than all 8 years of Bush. Oh sure, as I already pointed out Obama is blaming Bush for having to do so. Democrats have successfully convinced so many that the financial crisis we are in isn’t tied to those idiotic collectivist economic lending practices they forced upon the market in the last 3 decades. Even worse, they successfully have covered up the rigged games Franks and Dodd set up with Fannie and Freddie to keep those faulty economic policies afloat, and how those trading scams then led to the implosion of the housing market and then the financial sector. But that “It’s Bush’s fault” excuse is wearing thin as people are slowly seeing the truth. Almost $2 trillion of the tax payer’s dollars has been funneled to democrats and their friends, through one collectivist economic scam or another promising salvation, but delivering nothing but a drastically growing government bureaucracy, while the private sector continues to bleed jobs and contract. And the WH remains focused on tacking on trillions more in new taxes and debt so they can give government control of healthcare moneys and decisions, with a scam which purports to reign in costs and be fiscally responsible by of all things taxing us for 10 years to provide 5 or 6 years of coverage, while ignoring the economic disaster they are leaving in their wake. And the one thing they should be addressing, the lack of jobs, gets nothing but some meaningless political play. In the mean time the hole is growing deeper and the spending of money we simply don’t have continues to rise. This year is looking like it will set even higher and wasteful deficit spending records as this February’s $220.9 billion single month record is showing. This seems to be our economic future thanks to the democrats and their economics. But the fact that democrats are destroying our economy, and are trying hard to destroy healthcare, is not the thing I want to address here. I want to talk a bit about one of the other lies they told to get themselves elected.
If you have been following the whole Eric Massa fiasco, you know this stuff has turned into a soap opera writ large. Frankly I do not know if Massa is telling the truth. He is a democrat after all, and lying is second nature for them. However, I do not put it past this WH to do what Massa has accused them of doing either. Based on what I have seen them do in just this first year, I have no doubt that this bunch is probably the most corrupt crew I have ever seen. We are dealing with Chicago politics here, and this – hope & change! - is SOP for these people. My bet is that since Obama wants this monster passed, his team is going to make it happen. Even if they have to do what Massa has accused them of. In fact I do not put it past them to resort to openly committing felonies to do so considering the vested interest they have in making this the law of the lad. After all, they control the levers of power and the press, so whose gonna be able to do anything about anything bad they do? If the stuff that has been going on so far hasn’t made the case yet, I doubt anything they do will.
And that brings me to my point about this whole Massa thing. If you don’t remember Nancy promising to drain the republican swamp and end the culture of corruption back in 2006, here is just one of the instances the sympathetic press gave her words play. Unfortunately, as case after case proves – Chris Dodd, Barney Franks, Charley Rangel, and a plethora of others – Nancy lied, and the corruption and criminal behavior, like the deficit spending and the fiscal irresponsibility I talked about before, is also setting new records. Don’t take my word for it. The case with Massa is more of the same. Even more important is the fact that while Pelosi is now claiming ignorance that’s a blatant lie because Nancy knew months ago about Massa’s behavior. And while Nancy is playing dumb, just a little research would have made it all obvious from records going back to Massa’s NAVY days showing that Massa was a time bomb waiting to explode.
As is the case in all these other stories of corruption that the MSM is ignoring or down playing, we are being lied to by these democrats that want to pretend real criminal activity and serious ethics violations, stuff that makes what happens when the republicans were in charge look tame, isn’t their modus operandi. And keep in mind that it is this scandal driven congress which is ignoring the will of the people and pushing forward with an unpopular government takeover of healthcare. Why isn’t the MSM up in arms about all this corruption and the will of the people being ignored? I guess that’s more of that hope and change for you.
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Monday, March 01, 2010
Bipartisanship means do it my way!
Despite the failure of that WH PR stunt around the government takeover of healthcare last week, it looks like, at least to Pelosi, the donkeys are thinking they should move ahead and force that monstrosity on the people. According to Nancy, the problem is the republicans, not the fact that the majority of the people do not want this thing.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Sunday that Republicans have left their mark on the healthcare bill and should accept that the bill will go forward. “They’ve had plenty of opportunity to make their voices heard,” she said on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday morning. “Bipartisanship is a two-way street. A bill can be bipartisan without bipartisan votes. Republicans have left their imprint.” The public option, for example, has been stripped from the bill because Republicans were so adamantly against it, she said. “They’ve had a field day going out and misrepresenting what the bill says,” Pelosi said. “But that’s what they do.”
I especially loved that bipartisan bit. As I have always contended, to democrats bipartisan means “you choose to do it my way”. Queen Nancy has decreed that the problem isn’t the cost or all the lies from the people pushing this disastrous proposal, and it certainly isn’t the objection by the people to it and other costly and insane collectivist policies pushed by congress and the WH, as the last 3 elections culminating with the Scott Brown victory for what once passed as a given democrat senatorial seat, but the republicans! They have had their say. Heck, the left even gave up the immediate government takeover option – the public option – and settled for a long term approach that will produce the same anyway. So there!
These collectivist have literally calculated that while this move will crush them in November, that nobody will dare roll this crap back. Thus in the end, they win, as the social expansion takes the biggest jump it has in decades and even more people become accustomed to the “free ride”. I think the idiot donkeys forget that this monster isn’t supposed to do anything but steal more of our money for the next 4 years before it delivers a single service. If they lose big enough though, that assumption might prove erroneous. But they are gambling that they are not going to lose big enough, and that even more importantly, there will be nobody with the guts to roll this back in the next 4 years, especially with Obama c*ck-blocking for them, it looks like. Lets hope they fail either way. Not because I hate this sort of colelctivist crap, but for the sake of the American people which have already beeen badly screwed over by these demcorats in but 1 year.
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Monday, February 22, 2010
Doubling down..
Well, as I suspected, the Obama Administration’s plan to revive the bloated and vile government takeover of healthcare money and decision making, isn’t about fixing the differences and actually fixing healthcare at all, because the WH strategy is to double down on the same crap. If you needed more proof that these leftist elitists think we are all morons and not smart enough to make our own choices, look at this. After the Scott Brown loss in MA, and the obvious looming disasters at the polls in the elections this coming November, you would figure that the collectivist would figure out they over played their hand and that the people didn’t want any more of the destructive stuff they have given us for the last year. You would expect them to work on getting the economy going and getting people employed. Instead they are using smoke and mirrors and hoping their partners in the MSM can make the republicans out like the bad guys without any ideas of their own. Talk about projection, huh? To me it is not clear that the democrat agenda is to pass this behemoth in order to so drastically shift the balance of those that work for a living vs. those that vote for a living in their favor that they are willing to take the hit for another decade or two, if it then buys them perpetual power. Of course, at this rate, there will not be much of a country in even a decade worth ruling, but then again, marxists think they can make it better when they never, ever, have done anything but the opposite. Don’t let the freak show that is going to come out of DC distract you. These collectivists are dangerous.
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