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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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Thursday, February 11, 2010
Job creation 101..
When Obama and crew saw the all but taken for granted Kennedy seat in blue state Massachusetts go republican, for the first time in almost 5 decades, over the abysmal economic situation, the terrible unemployment situation, the out of control government spending, the ridiculous stimuluspatronage bill, the record setting debt expansions, from people that ran on the previous administration’s lack of deficit spending discipline no less, only to then tack on in 1 year more than all the previous 8 years, and not to forget the ludicrous government takeover of 1/5th of the economy masquerading as healthcare reform, which the democrats continue to try and push for despite the fact that over 60% of the public is against it, and immediately tried to make like they suddenly cared about anything other than the massive expansion of government and introducing more marxism writ large, by pretending they had shifted their focus on jobs, I pointed out that all we would get was more of the same. I bet people that there would be a costly multi billion dollar government plan that would do nothing but create more government jobs and dig the debt hole deeper. I was lambasted for being negative, even accused of the usual bull. You know, you are a racist, and so on. Looks like I am yet again being vindicated. Now, I know that the collectivists writing this are coming at it from a different angle, but the facts remain the same:
WASHINGTON – It’s a bipartisan jobs bill that would hand President Barack Obama a badly needed political victory and placate Republicans with tax cuts at the same time. But it has a problem: It won’t create many jobs. Even the Obama administration acknowledges the legislation’s centerpiece — a tax cut for businesses that hire unemployed workers — would work only on the margins.
As for the bill’s effectiveness, tax experts and business leaders said companies are unlikely to hire workers just to receive a tax break. Before businesses start hiring, they need increased demand for their products, more work for their employees and more revenue to pay those workers.
The reason this bill will do nothing is that it is just way too little, way too late. This administration is considered the most hostile one ever to the private sector for a reason. And that private sector sees this “jobs bill” for what it really is: fluff. Obama is promising them some meaningless tax cuts to take on huge risks. And that’s precisely what hiring new people is under this administration, These morons are destroying the private sector, directly and indirectly, with their reckless and ridiculous fiscal policies, and everyone, but especially small business owners, are just hunkering down and praying this stuff blows over sooner than later. How much of an incentive is a tax break of any kind, when you are looking at drastic cost increases – from the healthcare bill to other stupid anti-business regulations that seem to be the only thing these collectivists like – that dwarf that break? The answer is none at all. What Obama and the democrats are doing parallels mobsters promising to pay for your nose job, to help you look decent again, after they get done breaking every bone in your body. Nobody is going to buy that.
Rys, of the National Federation of Independent Business, said the credit could speed hiring once employers need more workers. But, he said, NFIB members aren’t seeing many signs of improvement.
And that’s the problem. We are being told things are getting better when they are not. Couple that with the private sector not trusting the crooks in DC, and you can see why whatever moneys these morons allocate for job creation will simply result in a faster growth in deficit spending and debt and yield no jobs for anyone but government bureaucrats.
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Monday, January 18, 2010
Government healthcare takeover plan is doing so good that..
The democrats are now threatening to ignore the rules.
BOSTON (AP) - A panicky White House and Democratic allies scrambled Sunday for a plan to salvage their hard-fought health care package in case a Republican wins Tuesday’s Senate race in Massachusetts, which would enable the GOP to block further Senate action. The likeliest scenario would require persuading House Democrats to accept a bill the Senate passed last month, despite their objections to several parts. Aides consulted Sunday amid fears that Republican Scott Brown will defeat Democrat Martha Coakley in the special election to fill the late Edward M. Kennedy’s seat. A Brown win would give the GOP 41 Senate votes, enough to filibuster and block final passage of the House-Senate compromise on health care now being crafted.
I wonder if the leftists see the irony that this story originated out of Boston Mass., where we all know the democrats, whom took the Kennedy seat for granted, seem poised to lose that Senate seat in the special election to Scott Brown. Obama’s visit Sunday was a bust - AP reports mixed results because they are MSM shills, but barely 2000 - 2500 people showed up for that freakshow - while the Scott Brown meeting was a big win. And while democrats have plans for the 2010 elections and likely are counting on more of the same in MA., with some union thuggery thrown in for good measure. After all, the Obama Admin is likely to turn a blind eye to any kind of voter intimidation or fraud that helps them as the dismissed cases of blatant criminal activity in the 2008 election proves.
But, let us get back to the government healthcare takeover attempt by the collectivists. It looks like the troops are reading the writing on the wall, and many are not liking it much. Maybe they figure no amount of cheating or cover from the MSM will spare them a defeat in 2010. Lucky for us most of these hyenas will not simply go along with something that spells suicide for their personal political careers even if it helps their party cement a permanent hold on the American political landscape (when people need you for their benefits, they must keep you in power). Their problem is that the writing is on the wall. The democrats managed in but a single year to remind America why they should never be trusted with power. I hope that idiotic meme that democrats are better for the economy dies a painful and quick death. I never understood how anyone could take the collectivist’s view of the economy as anything good for anyone but the politicians. To quote Clinton: “It’s the economy stupid”. And the current approach of wrecking it permanently, isn’t doing well.
UPDATE: And if you doubt that the left thinks cheating is a fine thing as long as they are doing it, here is MSNBC’s Ed Schultz making a startling remark on his radio show yesterday about supporting voter fraud in Massachusetts. You got that right. The advice from the MSM cronies is to cheat. Not like they would ever report it if it hurt “the cause”.
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Friday, January 15, 2010
Oh, how things change!
I am sure I do not need to remind anyone about how the democrats, and especially their top dog Obama, won the 2008 elections by promising to change things up. Big promises of not kowtowing to special interests and lobbyists were made, and the masses all luxuriated in the promise of hope and change. A year later and there isn’t much hope, because it is now becoming obvious that the change was to kow-tow even more to special interests, lobbyists, and special interests, as the disastrous government healthcare takeover crusade to get all moneys and decision making to go through DC masquerading as healthcare reform trudges on. Case in point the latest deal:
Big Labor got some big love from President Obama and congressional Democrats yesterday after they agreed to exempt union workers from the whopping “Cadillac tax” on high-cost health-care plans until 2018. The sweetheart deal, hammered out behind closed doors, will save union employees at least $60 billion over the years involved, while others won’t be as lucky—they’ll have to cough up almost $90 billion. The 40 percent excise tax on what have come to be called “Cadillac” health-care plans would exempt collective-bargaining contracts covering government employees and other union members until Jan. 1, 2018. In another major concession to labor, the value of dental and vision plans would be exempt from the tax even after the deal expires in eight years, negotiators said. Under the plan to help fund health-care reform, the tax would kick in for plans valued at $8,900 or more for individuals and $24,000 or more for families.
Look, can we all drop the pretense and admit that we are getting hosed by these crooks? They make all the fiscal irresponsibility and the DNC orchestrated campaigns that had the MSM tell us about cultures of corruption and special interests having their way in DC look insignificant. Funny how the MSM is also absent on this stuff, huh? No transparency, massive cronyism, deficit spending and debt accumulation at a rate that simply boggles the mind, encroachments on our freedoms – real ones, not the imagined ones the left constantly spoke of during the Bush years – and a continuation or expansion, at least lip service wise, of the Bush year policies that used to make leftists act like Linda Blair did in The Exorcist, and nary a peep from the usual suspects.
The American people are getting shafted royally, and the democrat special interests are making out even better than any of those shady rich fat cats did in the most perverse liberal Halliburton-eque fantasies ever. Hope and change indeed!
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Monday, January 11, 2010
Venezuelans to suffer even more..
This sort of economic problems is what you get when you put stock in and try to force the real world to conform to idiotic collectivist economic ideals. Venezuela, once the economic powerhouse of South America, despite all its oil wealth, is in shambles. The economy has been systematically destroyed by anti-capitalist moves and takeovers by a radical government that thinks it can use socialist fervor to warp economic reality. Chavez just ordered a 50% devaluation of the Bolivar, the Venezuelan currency. Not the first time since he took power and implemented those idiotic collectivist policies this kind of leftist twit always tells us will serve to bring “social justice, fairness, and equality”, and proceed to dismantle viable economies and reduce everyone to equal misery. But the fun part is what he then warned all business owners not to do.. What the hell, read it for yourself, this stuff is just unbelievable:
Jan. 10 (Bloomberg)—Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said that businesses have no reason to raise prices following the devaluation of the bolivar and that the government will seize any entity that boosts its prices. Chavez said he’ll create an anti-speculation committee to monitor prices after private businesses said that prices would double and consumers rushed to buy household appliances and televisions. The government is the only authority able to dictate price increases, he said.
“The bourgeois are already talking about how all prices are going to double and they’re closing their businesses to raise prices,” Chavez said in comments on state television during his weekly “Alo Presidente” program. “People, don’t let them rob you, denounce it, and I’m capable of taking over that business.” Chavez devalued the bolivar as much as 50 percent on Jan. 8 for the first time in almost 5 years, as last year’s decline in oil revenue caused the economy to contract an estimated 2.9 percent, its first recession since 2003. The government set a multi-tiered currency system that Chavez says will stimulate national production by making imports more expensive.
I am devaluating the currency, but those things you have to import or that depend on foreign efforts, because I destroyed any and all local capability to produce anything of any kind of value, better not cost anything more to get! Royal decree enforced by the strong arm of the all powerful state! The end result will be people closing down their businesses and joining the ranks of the equally miserable masses depending on the government for their daily subsistence. Got to love these reality-challenged collectivist morons. Does this stuff where some leader(ship) ignores reality and promises or demands the impossible sound familiar? That’s because this sounds just like the kind of idiotic crap that flies in the face of how the real world works that our democrat controlled Congress is selling us about their healthcare takeover: “It will reduce costs and the deficit, while, giving 40 million new people coverage! Because we says so!”.
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Tuesday, January 05, 2010
If it was republicans
Doing this, conducting business that affects us all and has massive economic impact on everyone, you can bet the left would be foaming at the mouth, and they would be right to do so. This is not any kind of national security issue - unless the fact that this stuff will bankrupt the nation is put into perspective - and this kind of secrecy is only necessary if you really want the American people to not find out how badly you are going to screw them over. The most ethical congress, owned by the party that promised to be the most transparent and forthcoming, as well as responsible and sensitive to the American people, has set a new record for secrecy. Hiding bills is now SOP for these criminals. Even the donkey shills seem to be catching on, and the crooks in DC are getting some pushback. The American people are about to get screwed hard, and the people doing so do not want us to know about it until we wake up at the camp with our behinds hurting and covered in vaseline.
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Friday, December 18, 2009
It IS a patronage bill…
If you have any doubt that the stimulus patronage bill was nothing but more corruption and graft, take a look at this:
A new analysis of the $157 billion distributed by the American Reinvestment and Recovery act, popularly known as the stimulus bill, shows that the funds were distributed without regard for what states were most in need of jobs. “You would think that if the stimulus money was actually spent to create jobs, there would be more stimulus money spent in high unemployment states,” said Veronique de Rugy, a scholar at the Mercatus Center who produced the analysis. “But we don’t find any correlation.” The Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Virginia is one of the nation’s most respected economic and regulatory think tanks and has a Nobel prize-winning economist on staff. The econometric analysis was done using data provided by Recovery.gov—the government website devoted to tracking the stimulus data—as well as a host of other government databases.
Additionally, Mercatus found that stimulus funds were not disbursed geographically with any special regard for low-income Americans. “We find no correlation between economic indicators and stimulus funding. Preliminary results find no statistically significant effect of unemployment, median income or mean income on stimulus funds allocation,” said the report. The Mercatus Center analysis also found that Democratic congressional districts received on average almost double the funding of Republican congressional districts. Republican congressional districts received on average $232 million in stimulus funds while Democratic districts received $439 million on average.
So the stimulus bill that was supposed to create jobs, had the bulk of the money to democratic enclaves and not even the ones that needed job creation? No way! How could the geniuses over at the WH and Congress, the anti-Bushes, have gotten this wrong? One would almost be inclined to think this was nothing but the fleecing of tax payers to line the pockets of friends, activists, lobbyists, and campaign coffers by democrats! All kidding aside, it gets even better:
Finally, the Mercatus analysis shows that a majority of the funds allocated went to public rather than private entities—nearly $88 billion to $69 billion. While some of the money given to public entities may eventually filter down to the private sector, it’s much less transparent how money given to public entities is spurring economic growth and job creation.
So big government just told us we were in a crisis that required us to allow them to spend close to a trillion dollars without actually seeing how, then they used the bulk of those funds to increase the size of government, line their own and their friends pockets, and enrich their campaign coffers. Why no cry from the MSM? Remember the good old days of the “culture of corruption” talk? This is real graft on a scale that dwarfs the other crap, and yet we hear nothing. I am sure the usual idiots that want to pretend there isn’t any media bias will tell me this isn’t a story because there isn’t enough blood. The American tax payers, the American people, are all being bled and strangled, and yet, this isn’t a story. Go figure. And we are being told we need to let them do more of this, straddle us with crappy healthcare and punitive energy costs, all because they mean well. F them all.
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
News potpourri
Our president has received and signed a 1.1 trillion spending bill, and I am sure most people have not heard anything about the bill. Here are some details:
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama has signed into law a $1.1 trillion bill that increases the budgets in many areas of the government by about 10 percent, including health, law enforcement and veterans’ programs. Obama signed the bill privately at the White House on Wednesday after receiving the bill from Congress on Sunday. The bill lumps together six of the 12 annual appropriations bills for the 2010 budget year that began Oct. 1.
So this is signed in secret, increases government spending on itself by 10%, at a time when the economy is in chaos, the people are hurting bad, unemployment is again going up, government has to do things like borrow close to $300 billion more because we already are over the limit on our spending for next year. And to top this all off, the collectivist crooks are trying real hard to make up their own version of reality with the ludicrous, ridiculous, and odorous claim that their government takeover of the healthcare decision making process and finances plan that under the best of circumstances will add a minimum of $2 trillion dollars to our already astronomically expanding debt, is actually needed to prevent healthcare costs from breaking the bank! Seriously, do they have no shame? In the mean time we find out that these idiots till think government spending is the solution to unemployment. Tax cuts? Never! That crap is evil. Of course we know tax cuts actually spurred growth, and had the government spending not gone up faster than that growth, things would have been good, while this collectivist government spending stuff has never worked to do anything but drag out recessions. Maybe these losers get their ideas from eating stuff from this place? Americans are wising up to the scam run by these bastards though.
In the mean time the cultists gathering in Copenhagen is providing a platform for the worst of the worse. The clergy continues to pretend their house of cards isn’t coming down and on flames, even as more proof comes out that the game is rigged. And the worlds biggest polluter tells the gang of nuts to take a long walk off a short pier. Don’t the peasants know that Waterworld is coming if we do not bow down to Gaia and let the church of AGW run amok with their grand scheme? the Pope of the church of AGW has predicted it! Don’t worry though. If this thing blows up as spectacularly as Pinatubo did back when, it will spew so much junk into the atmosphere - comparable to decades of man doing its worst possible - that we will again see a 1 degree temperature drop world wide.
If this stuff didn’t hurt so much, it would all be funny.
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Monday, November 23, 2009
More people are wising up…
The more people hear about what the politicians are going to stick us with, the less they like it. As the American people learn what the faith our politicians envision for us, while keeping themselves immune to the misery they intend for us I should add, the more they balk at the plan.
Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the lowest level of support measured for the plan in nearly two dozen tracking polls conducted since June. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 56% now oppose the plan. Half the survey was conducted before the Senate voted late Saturday to begin debate on its version of the legislation. Support for the plan was slightly lower in the half of the survey conducted after the Senate vote. Prior to this, support for the plan had never fallen below 41%. Last week, support for the plan was at 47%. Two weeks ago, the effort was supported by 45% of voters. Intensity remains stronger among those who oppose the push to change the nation’s health care system: 21% Strongly Favor the plan while 43% are Strongly Opposed.
It’s no mystery why this thing is becoming despised by so many. It will cost us a lot more than it does now or would otherwise if nothing was done going forward. We will get far less, have to wait much longer, and likely be denied much more coverage than even the worst case scenarios today do. People are realizing that the democrats want control of the money and our decision making, not to fix healthcare. That’s why we have things like this:
Overall, 46% favor the creation of a government-sponsored non-profit health insurance option that people could choose instead of a private health insurance plan. However, if the plan encouraged companies to drop private health insurance coverage for their workers, support for the public option falls to 29%, and opposition rises to 58%.
And you better believe they are lying when they tell us they will not encourage companies to drop us. That is, unless you think using the power of the federal government to bludgeon employers into dropping people instead of just leaving it up to them doesn’t qualify as encouragement.
As Scott Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen Reports, wrote in the Wall Street Journal: “The most important fundamental is that 68% of American voters have health insurance coverage they rate good or excellent. … Most of these voters approach the health care reform debate fearing that they have more to lose than to gain.”
It’s a given that those of us that are happy with what we got are going to not be happy after this bill. We are going to pay more to get less. And we are going to have to go through a bureaucrat to get it. I bet that even the ones that are unhappy with what they have will pine for these good old days if the collectivists get their way.
On immigration, 83% say that proof of citizenship should be required before anyone can get health care assistance from a government program. Most Democrats while claiming the plan will not cover illegal immigrants are opposed to including a proof-of-citizenship stipulation.
We already know the democrats will have none of that. In fact if they somehow are thwarted on this get ready to see some 12 million people nationalized so they can vote for democrats.
Other polling shows that 47% trust the private sector more than government to keep health care costs down and the quality of care up. Two-thirds (66%) say an increase in free market competition will do more than government regulation to reduce health care costs.
That first item there baffles me. Do these people have any real experience with government? Have they simply resigned themselves to poor service because they are jealous of private insurers making a profit? What gives? With the exception of the military I think everything else government does is not only a colosal and monumental waste of our money, but to be shunned just like one would shun a AIDS infected rapist. At least the majority is smart enough to see tha what we are getting is not going to cut costs at all.
Only 31% believe Congress has a good understanding of the proposed health care reform.
I think people got this wrong. My bet is that these crooks know exactly what they are doing to us, and they don’t care. It is about increasing their power, influence and personal wealth. No wonder they are in such a hurry to pass this abommination. As people find out how bad it is, they are going to lose support from even the most ardent supporters.
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Sunday, November 22, 2009
The crooks win one for the government healthcare takeover in Senate.
It looks like Reid bought enough votes to push the government healthcare takeover in the Senate forward. The collectivists are ecstatic about their success and have already slated their horrible plan’s faux discussion for November 30th. Their is a hurry here to get this done so that the collectivists can have time to smooth over this disaster before the 2010 elections. Maybe another big stimulus payout to buy the votes to keep them in power. But the faith of this awful monster thankfully is still not a given. Especially with this kind of economic news and the disastrous way democrats continue to deal with this crisis of their own making.
Anyway, Reid had to promise some massive deficit enhancing cash outlays and favors to buy the votes of many of these red state democrats shown in the list below whom are going to pay for this vote back in their home states:
Alaska - Mark Begich.
Arkansas - Blanche Lincoln.
Arkansas - Mark Pryor.
Louisiana - Mary Landrieu.
Missouri - Claire McCaskill.
Montana - Max Baucus.
Montana - Jon Tester.
Nebraska - Ben Nelson.
North Dakota - Kent Conrad.
North Dakota - Byron Dorgan.
South Dakota - Tim Johnson.
West Virginia - Robert Byrd.
West Virginia - Jay Rockefeller.
Let us hope all these bastards selling us to these criminals lose their next election. Better yet, let us hope tat these bastards don’t stick us with this disastrous and destructive takeover of healthcare by government. Because this is the future of healthcare when government owns us through it.
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
The lowdown on what we get from healthcare reform
As Dirty Harry and the rest of the crime syndicate take the whole “healthcare reform” issue back behind closed doors in an effort to ram it through as soon as possible – those pesky 2010 elections and an angry populace they are hoping has a short memory or can be bought off with other goodies, you know – there are a couple of things you can be certain about.
First off, we should stop pretending this “healthcare reform” was about cutting costs. Unless you are one of the people that chose to be uninsured, despite the many options out there to help you get insurance, and are lucky enough to end up getting it “for free” from Uncle Sam, you are going to end up paying a lot more. If you are one of those lucky enough to own what they call a “Cadillac plan” – that means that you have an employer that pays a huge chunk of the bill, and hence pays you a lot less money to cover that cost, pay for the bulk of the cost plan’s yourself, or have something in between so that you can have a good healthcare plan – you are now going to get a 40% tax hit against that.
All those union people with the real sweet plans – including those working for the various states where the cost is likely to just be passed off to the tax payers again (talk about your double whammy!) – most, if not all, of us in the middle class, and quite a few seniors on some nice retirement plans, are going to see our premiums go up, and do so drastically. In many, if not most, cases you will also see employers, but doubly so when they are going to get whacked hard, simply opt to drop their plans and pay the 8% tax. You can then go join the government option or pay for your own plan at 2 to 10 times your current cost: that is if you can now get private coverage. That government option sure becomes unavoidable, huh? But of course we were told this was not the plan. Oh yeah, it looks like the politicians – but especially congress – which has a “Ferrari Plan” is still exempt from anything in this bill. Seriously, can we dispense with the “fix the out of control cost” lie yet?
As I already pointed out: unless you were already on the dole, your costs are going up. Government needs to, best case scenario, BTW, come up with anywhere from $500 billion to something over $1 trillion dollars in revenue to offset most of the cost and bring the deficit that exists between the real cost and the number they will tell you it will cost, to under $1 trillion. And based on past performance, my guess is that this massive theft won’t even cover a fraction of the real cost, and will need to be much higher. No need to explain how we will end up paying a lot more and getting a lot less, be it quality or quantity, than we have now either. Yay, us tax payers!
And then there are those other “cost savings” too. Talk is that they plan to get some $500 billion in savings from Medicare. If you buy their line it will be practically all from reductions in the system’s inefficiency and waste. As many much wiser people than me have asked when they heard this: why can’t we get those savings right freaking now? The ugly truth is that there will be no such savings. Period. Any inefficiency in the system will only likely grow bigger as the scope of how much government involvement in healthcare increases. The same applies to the waste. Anyone claiming otherwise is lying.
If those efficiencies and that waste could be addressed it should have already been fixed. But it never has been, and that’s not an accident. These inefficiencies and the waste are byproducts of government controlled systems. It’s like the stink you get when eggs rot: unavoidable. So that means that the only way that government will get that $500 billion in savings from Medicare, is to cut legitimate services. Guess who’s going to be banged, and banged hard, when that happens? If they want to keep the same level of coverage, they are now going to have to pay out of pocket for it. That’s if they can get alternative or supplemental coverage. Bet you they certainly will not feel that their healthcare has been fixed or that their costs have gone down.
So we are not getting any kind of cost savings. We are guaranteed to see a lot more government price fixing and control of access to care. The out of control tort system remains untouched. Quality of care and availability of care are going to both go down. You can’t add a couple of dozen new million people thinking they are getting “free healthcare” without any increase in the number of qualified healthcare professionals & facilities to the system and expect availability and quality to not drastically and negatively be impacted. If we are lucky, I have so far only seen that congress will write the law to prevent insurance providers from excluding people for preexisting conditions, and while they are trying hard to force everyone to buy healthcare I simply do not see that working out well. In the end that means we all will see a big bump in our premiums to cover the cost of that as well.
So if you do the down & dirty analysis, healthcare will cost all us shlobs more, result in a reduction of quality and availability for all but the elite, and really not fix either the cost issue either. What is being done really doesn’t do anything but funnel the trillions we spend on healthcare each year through congress, while at the same time moving the decision making capability and mechanism into congress’ hands. Healthcare reform indeed. After you find all that out, does what we have right now seem that bad?
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Sunday, October 04, 2009
Why the “Public Option” should die a horrble death
Looks like support for the healthcare takeover by government, despite the massive propaganda campaign by the left and their MSM mouthpieces, is not making any headway, and is in fact, going backwards. Americans are not buying the lies:
Sixty-three percent (63%) of voters nationwide say guaranteeing that no one is forced to change their health insurance coverage is a higher priority than giving consumers the choice of a “public option” health insurance company. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 29% take the opposite view. They say it’s more important to give people a government-sponsored non-profit health insurance option.
You got it right, just 29% of the people think that public option is “The big deal” the collectivist politicians make of it. My guess is that most of these people for this disastrous idea are either those that are too stupid to understand this public option care is going to make the average citizen’s DMV experience look like a model of efficiency, actually do not care how bad government care and the destruction of private coverage will be - because they are exempt likely - and actually like the government take over, or are somewhere in between. The rest of us can read the tea-leaves and prefer to avoid the collectivist’s plan to rape us, even with that offer of a reach around. Have no doubt who is doing the stupid:
Even if it encourages employers to drop private health insurance for their workers, 51% of Democrats still support the public option. Eighty-two percent (82%) of Republicans and 61% of voters not affiliated with either party are opposed.
It’s not those of us that avoided the kool-aid.
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Friday, October 02, 2009
I know why he did it!
The Messiah has crashed and burned, and there will be no Chicago Olympics: it is going to Rio. With Obama jetting there, I thought this was a done deal. But it seems that my belief Obama was just going to capitalize on the given, was wrong. One is now left wondering WTF he was thinking. This is an epic fail, and the left is already blaming the right for it. I think I know the plan though, with horrible unemployment, the deteriorating Afghanistan situation, the mounting deficit spending, a Nuclear Iran, the Public Option failure, ACORN going down in flames, taxes going up, and yet another public sector crisis in the making, this trip to Copenhagen to fail was being done to distract from these things. Everybody will be talking about how the world, which we were all told would love us again if we elected Obama, just dicked us, this weekend. And in the mean time the democrats will continue to destroy the country without any worries as all are distracted by this crap.
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Fiscal disaster on the horizon?
This one is for the usual Bush, America, and capitalism hating lunatics that constantly try to repeat the same lies in order to divert attention from their disastrous economic policies. You can’t make this crap up:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. government will have issued $7 trillion in bonds by the time the current fiscal year ends next week, but it expects the debt deluge to stabilize by mid 2010, a Treasury official said on Wednesday. .
WTF? $7 trillion in one year? Who’s in charge and doing this kind of borrowing? And why the “expectation” things will stabilize by mid 2010? I see nothing other than fluff and lies from people that now, because the guy in the WH has a (D) by his name, switched from reporting real good economic news as bad or insignificant for the 8 years before this new occupant moved in, to reporting bad news as improvements or good news in the last 9 months. Wishing for it to be better is not going to make it so. Here are some hard facts about the spending being done.
Though markets and the economy are improving, efforts to provide a firm foundation for recovery will require increases to the U.S. Treasury’s conventional bonds going forward, as well as debt securities that are indexed to inflation.
I do not buy the premise that the economy is improving. It’s all artificial. Sure, things are not getting bad as fast as they where before, but that, as I already pointed out above, would never have been reported as anything but bad news if the guy in the WH didn’t have a (D) by his name. And what do securities indexed to inflation mean to the economy? Is this the dreaded inflation monster that has to eventually rear its ugly head as these collectivists continue to print money like it was Monopoly cash? The fact this is glanced over or ignored is not coincidental, IMO.
However, this expansion may take place in an environment where investors consider leaving the safe-haven Treasury market for riskier assets, and debt issuance is likely to level off mid next year, said Treasury Acting Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets Karthik Ramanathan.
Likely to level off? What’s this being based on? The collectivists have already told us that we have seen nothing yet. They plan to do even more radical collectivist crap. And that stuff is bound to costs us oodles of cash. The need to keep borrowing is not going to go away. Maybe the AS mentioned above means that they will give up on issuing these bonds. Again, the borrowing and spending seems not to have any kind of end in sight. And it’s a question of time before things go belly up. An issue of when. I am surprised investors have not bailed on these idiots yet. It’s going to happen however. While the stock market may be climbing now, I hear from friends that are traders that most of them are selling off their stuff. They know something.
“In fiscal year 2009, which ends next week, Treasury will have issued $7 trillion in gross issuance—that’s in a 12-month period,” Ramanathan told a financial markets conference in New York.
Let that number sink in. When was the last time the US Treasury did anything like this? And we have not yet dealt with the consequences of this stunt either. The fact is that we are setting new records in spending what we don’t have, and the collectivists have no plan to scale it back. This warning from Obama is likely because he expects us to end up a broke banana republic and unable to do much.
“This issuance was necessary to meet nearly $1.7 trillion in net marketable borrowing needs, nearly $1 trillion more than what we raised last year,” he added.
But Bush is the bad guy, and conservatives are fiscally irresponsible! The debt we now carry, your average collectivist twit will tell you, is because of those evil wars Bush started. From the CBS article I linked above:
(CNSNews.com) – As a candidate for president, Barack Obama decried the financial toll that the Iraq war was taking on the economy, but Obama’s proposed spending on welfare through 2010 will eclipse Bush’s war spending by more than $260 billion. “Because of the Bush-McCain policies, our debt has ballooned,” then-Sen. Barack Obama told a Charleston, W.V., crowd in March 2008. “This is creating problems in our fragile economy. And that kind of debt also places an unfair burden on our children and grandchildren, who will have to repay it.” During the entire administration of George W. Bush, the Iraq war cost a total of $622 billion, according to the Congressional Research Service. President Obama’s welfare spending will reach $888 billion in a single fiscal year--2010--more than the Bush administration spent on war in Iraq from the first “shock and awe” attack in 2003 until Bush left office in January. Obama’s spending proposals call for the largest increases in welfare benefits in U.S. history, according to a report by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. This will lead to a spending total of $10.3 trillion over the next decade on various welfare programs.
The next time you hear your average economically illiterate and reality challenged collectivist harping about how our economy is in bad shape, because of the evil Bush wars, remember this, and hammer the idiot for his stupidity. And this is likely just the start. That welfare spending is not likely to go down next year. We could fight the equivalent of the Iraqi war some 12-15 times for the welfare money that these collectivist plan to flush down the toilet every year. That’s some $10.3 trillion dollars in the next 10 years. If this was going to actually help improve things, like the Iraq war did, it might be worth it. But this $10.3 will not do anything other expand the number of people dependant on government handouts, added to the ranks of the poor and unemployed, and voting for democrats. Guess if you are a progressive and a democrat this is great fiscal policy. For the rest of us it is a disaster. Looks like Obama didn’t learn from Bill Clinton.
And when the Obama people come out and say they have to go against this suggestion because it costs too much, remember the above. Democrats do not have a problem with spending us into banana republic status. They just don’t like any kind of spending, even spending that helps national security, unless that spending helps them win elections. One thing is certain: we are going to pay the price for the collectivisation of America.
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