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October 07, 2009

Will Obama veto the health care bill?

The following is an analysis of what the Health Care Bill as it currently stands contains. Even if your not a fan of Newt Gingrich, you have to at least consider the points he makes in this opinion piece.

The Democrats are proposing that government gains at least some measure of control over what amounts to 1/6th of our national economy;and in a manner that will affect EVERY single Citizen (and probably most Illegals too), it behooves every single one of us to become informed and keep an eye on what is being proposed and the probable effects of those proposals.

Don't take ANYONE'S word on it;do your own homework and use some common sense when you think about what the probable results of any particular legislation will be.


Will President Obama Veto Health Reform?
by Newt Gingrich

With the Senate Finance Committee poised to pass health care legislation, the final contours of the bill that could come out of Congress are starting to come into focus. The bill will contain new taxes on the middle class. It will add to the deficit. And it will put government bureaucrats between Americans and their doctors, among other things.

So it's not too early to ask the obvious question: Will President Obama veto health care reform?
It's worth asking because so many of the costs to taxpayers the President has repeatedly promised won't be in the legislation are, and so many of the benefits are not.
What follows is a list, in no particular order, of the contradictions between the President's promises and the reality of Democratic health care reform. Add them up and it's hard to see how President Obama doesn't reject the bill Congress seems likely to send him.

Contradiction #1: From a Promise Not to Raise Taxes
on the Middle Class to $2 Billion in "Penalties"
As far back as the campaign, President Obama promised he wouldn't raise taxes on Americans making less than $250,000.

But an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found that at least 71 percent of the individual mandate penalties in Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus's (D-MT) bill would be paid by Americans earning less than $250,000. In fact, the nonpartisan analysis found that, of the $2.8 billion in penalties the bill imposes on those who do not purchase health insurance, a full $2 billion will be paid by taxpayers earning less than $120,000 for a family of four.

The Senate Finance bill also levies $215 billion in new taxes on employers and health insurers for offering high-value insurance benefits, which will surely be passed onto all consumers.

Republicans tried to ensure that President Obama's words would not ring hollow by offering an amendment that said: "This amendment provides that no tax, fee or penalty imposed by this legislation shall be applied to any individual earning less than $200,000 per year or any couple earning less than $250,000 per year." Democrats defeated it.

Contradiction #2: From a Promise to Reject a Bill That "Adds One
Dime to the Deficit" to $239 Billion Added to the Deficit
In his speech to the Joint Session of Congress, the President was adamant: "I will not sign [a bill] if it adds one dime to the deficit, now or in the future, period."

And yet House bill H.R. 3200 will increase the deficit by an amazing $239 billion over the next decade.

The Baucus bill pretends to be deficit neutral but it's an accounting gimmick. "It pays for itself" by forcing a new $250-300 billion unfunded mandate on the states. And it doesn't include nearly $300 billion that will be spent to adjust physician payments in Medicare.

Contradiction #3: From a Promise That "If You Like Your Current Plan
You Can Keep It" to Half of Medicare Advantage Benefits Being Cut
In his speech to the Joint Session of Congress last month and elsewhere, the President has reassured nervous Americans that if they like their current coverage, his reform will let them keep it.

Unless you happen to have Medicare Advantage, that is.

Or employer provided insurance.

The director of the nonpartisan CBO testified before the Senate that, under the Senate bill, the benefits of seniors under Medicare Advantage would be cut in half.

And an analysis of the House bill found that 88 million people will lose their current insurance under government health care.

What's more, both bills would disrupt vision care for more than 100 million Americans.

Contradiction #4: From "If You Like Your Current Doctor
You Can Keep Your Doctor" to Squeezing Doctors and
Hospitals Until They Reduce Patient Access
Here's what three doctors who are former chairmen of the American Medical Association (AMA) say about the cuts to Medicare in Democratic health reform bills:

"Now the government is saying that additional Medicare cuts are coming-thus forcing doctors to try and make up the difference in volume, by seeing more patients. If you ask patients about this, they understand that more volume means less time with the doctor. That's something that all patients and doctors should oppose. In time, it will be difficult to find a physician."

And here's what the executive director of the Mayo Clinic said: "We will have to violate our values in order to stay in business and reduce our access to government patients."

Contradiction #5: From a Promise that No Government Bureaucrat
Will Stand Between Patients and Doctors to a Medicare
Commission With the Power to Deny Treatment
Just this week, in a speech to doctors gathered in the White House Rose Garden, President Obama reiterated his pledge not to let a Washington bureaucrat get between a patient and their doctor.

But the Senate Baucus bill creates an "Independent Medicare Commission" with the ability to deny benefits to the elderly or the disabled based on a government calculation of the costs versus the benefits.

Contradiction #6: From a Promise to "Slow the Growth of Health
Care Costs For Our Families" to a New Tax on Hearing Aids,
Wheel Chairs and Breakthrough Drugs
In his speech to the Joint Session of Congress, the President pledged to "slow the growth of health care costs for our families, our businesses and our government."

But the Senate bill contains a tax on medical technology companies and drug makers that will raise the cost to American families for thousands of drugs and devices, including pacemakers, eyeglasses, hearing aids and powered wheelchairs.

Contradiction #7: From a Promise that Health Care Reform Will
Fix the Economy to New Taxes on Small Businesses
One of President Obama's main rationales for health care reform is that it is necessary for economic recovery.

Working against this promise is the provision in the Senate bill that will tax small businesses - the engine of American economic growth and job creation - that can't afford to purchase health insurance for their employees. It's hard to see how the economy recovers when small businesses are prevented from hiring new workers by a new government tax.

Contradiction #8: From Insuring All Americans to Leaving 25 Million Uninsured
One of President Obama's three basic goals for health care reform is to provide insurance to those who don't currently have it.

That's the promise. The reality? The CBO has determined that the Senate bill will leave about 25 million nonelderly Americans uninsured.

I could go on, but I think the point is made. The differences between what Americans have been promised from health care reform and what they are getting go beyond the usual give and take of Washington.

A Congress controlled by the President's party is producing health care legislation that blatantly contradicts his most basic, often repeated, promises.

What will the President do? Will President Obama veto health care reform?

Stay tuned.

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October 06, 2009

Circle Flies

A cowboy from Texas attends a social function
where Barack Obama is trying to gather more support for his Health
Plan.
Once he discovers the cowboy is from President Bush's
home area, he starts to belittle him by talking in a southern
drawl and single syllable words.
As he was doing that, he kept swatting at some flies
that were buzzing around his head.. The cowboy says, "Y'all havin'
some problem with them circle flies?"
Obama stopped talking and said, "Well, yes, if that's
what they're called, but I've never heard of circle flies."
"Well Sir," the cowboy replies, "circle flies hang
around ranches. They're called circle flies because they're almost
always found circling around the back end of a horse."
"Oh," Obama replies as he goes back to rambling.
But, a moment later he stops and bluntly asks, "Are you calling
me a horse's ass?"
"No, Sir," the cowboy replies, "I have too much
respect for the citizens of this country to call their President
a horse's ass."
"That's a good thing," Obama responds and begins
rambling on once more.
After a long pause, the cowboy, in his best Texas
drawl says, "Hard to fool them flies, though."

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October 05, 2009

Deja Vu ?

From the "we've been here before" file:

"Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. ... Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome's, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'" --Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)

Think of this quote the next time Teh One makes a public policy speech...

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A Well-Planned Retirement

From The London Times:


Outside England 's Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot
for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years, its
parking fees were managed by a very pleasant
attendant. The fees were 1 for cars ($1.40),
5 for busses (about $7).


Then, one day, after 25 solid years of never missing
a day of work, he just didn't show up; so the Zoo
Management called the City Council and asked it
to send them another parking agent.


The Council did some research and replied that the
parking lot was the Zoo's own responsibility.
The Zoo advised the Council that the attendant was
a City employee.
The City Council responded that the lot attendant
had never been on the City payroll.


Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain

(or some such scenario), is a man who'd apparently had a
ticket machine installed completely on his own; and then
had simply begun to show up every day, commencing
to collect and keep the parking fees, estimated at about
$560 per day -- for 25 years.
Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over
$7 million dollars!

......

And no one even knows his name.

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Quote of the Day

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy."--Ernest Benn

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Today in History

On this day in 1947, President Harry Truman (1884-1972) makes the first-ever televised presidential address from the White House. Politics would never be the same...

On this day in 1793, The revolutionary government in France abolishes Christianity.
Proving the French wrong again.

On this day in 1921, The WJZ radio station in Newark, New Jersey, broadcasts the first radio play-by-play coverage of the World Series, between the New York Giants and the New York Yankees. Thus started the American obsession with broadcast sports.

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Stimulus Payment --Obamnomics

Subject: Economic Stimulus Payment

Sometime this year, we taxpayers may again receive an Economic Stimulus payment.

This is a very exciting new program. I will explain it using the Q and A format:

Q. What is an Economic Stimulus payment?
A. It is money that the federal government will send to taxpayers.

Q. Where will the government get this money?
A. From taxpayers.

Q. So the government is giving me back my own money?
A. Only a smidgen.

Q. What is the purpose of this payment?
A. The plan is that you will use the money to purchase a high-definition TV set, thus stimulating the economy.

Q. But isn't that stimulating the economy of China ?
A. Shut up.

Below is some helpful advice on how to best help the US economy by spending your stimulus check wisely:

If you spend the stimulus money at Wal-Mart, the money will go to China .
If you spend it on gasoline, your money will go to the Arabs.
If you purchase a computer, it will go to India .
If you purchase fruit and vegetables, it will go to Mexico , Honduras
and Guatemala .
If you buy a car, it will go to Japan .
If you purchase useless stuff, it will go to Taiwan .
If you pay your credit cards off, or buy stock, it will go to management bonuses and they will hide it offshore.

Instead, keep the money in America by:

1 spending it at yard sales, or
2 going to ball games, or
3 spending it on prostitutes, or
4 beer or
5 tattoos.

(These are the only American businesses still operating in the US .)
***
I'm going to go to a ball game with a tattooed prostitute that I met at a yard sale, and drink beer! Yay!

Maybe Obamanomics ISN'T so bad!

CARPE DIEM !

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October 04, 2009

HCR

Let's get this straight,

Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it.

Passed by a Congress that hasn't read it, and whose members will be exempt from it.

Signed by a President who smokes.

Funded by a Treasury chief who did not pay his taxes.

Overseen by a surgeon general who is obese.

And financed by a country that is broke.

Now, what could POSSIBLY go wrong?

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October 03, 2009

Today in History

In 1941, Adolf Hitler declared in a speech in Berlin that Russia had been "broken" and would "never rise again."

In 1990, East and West Germany reunite after 45 years.

In 1863, expressing gratitude for a pivotal Union Army victory at Gettysburg, President Abraham Lincoln announces that the nation will celebrate an official Thanksgiving holiday on November 26, 1863.
(The speech, which was actually written by Secretary of State William Seward, declared that the fourth Thursday of every November thereafter would be considered an official U.S. holiday of Thanksgiving.)


In 1917 Congress passed the War Revenue Act. Under the 1917 act, a taxpayer with an income of only $40,000 was subject to a 16 percent tax rate, while one who earned $1.5 million faced a rate of 67 percent. While only five percent of the U.S. population was required to pay taxes, U.S. tax revenue increased from $809 million in 1917 to a whopping $3.6 billion the following year. By the time World War I ended in 1918, income tax revenue had funded a full one-third of the cost of the war effort.

(Congress realized what a Golden Goose they had in the WRA and never looked back.)

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Quote of the Day

"We should stop the comparisons (of Obama) to Hitler. At least Hitler got the Olympics to come to Berlin." --LC Lone Haranguer

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October 02, 2009

BDS Rears it's ugly head

Roland Burris, the winner of Obama's vacated Senate seat lottery, stated that it's "Bush's fault" that Chicago didn't get the 2016 Olympics...

President Bush has been out of office for nine months, yet he's so diabolically eeeevil that everything that the Left doesn't like is still his fault...to the point where even the Obamamessiah couldn't do anything to correct it....Riiight.

The IOC must be composed of all racists, since they wouldn't swallow the Obamamessiah's crap sandwich!

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The White Mans Burden

Mostly Cajun has a great post up that flies in the face of the apologies the Pretender in Chief has made to the world recently about how badly the developed nations, notably Britain, treated the world in the past, and the effect that had on those nations.

Kipling had it right in his poem The White Mans Burden. As bad as conditions indeed may have been in the subjugated areas in the Colonial Era, those conditions WERE ultimately vastly improved upon by the presence/actions of those Colonists.


H/T Rurick

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Double Standard, Much?

Bobby Earl has a good Op-Ed piece demonstrating the blatant double standards applied in our political system today.

Rep. Joe Wilson shouted "You Lie!" during an Obama address to Congress on health care (yes, it was rude; but demonstratively true), and in spite of a sincere apology, Rep. Wilson is being brought up for censure; meanwhile Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) states on the Congressional record that Republicans want Americans to "die quickly" if they get sick. In his "apology", Grayson states that he is sorry that "he and other Democrats didn't do enough to prevent their death" to some of those that have recently died and their families. Some apology - NOT!

WHEN will we see a censure motion against Grayson? (here's an offer for you; if you believe that there WILL be a movement for censure placed against Grayson, I have a great bridge I'd love to sell to you, cheap)

JUST ONCE, I would like to see parity in the treatment of politicians of both Parties when they do idiotic things...

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Obama = Messiah?

Unlike any other President I can recall of, The current pResident seems to be the focus of an almost religious type of adulation by his supporters...The MSM media discounts this view, but ZoNation demonstrates this with video proof that it is indeed so:

This is indoctrination heretofore only seen in such egalitarian societies as North Korea, Cuba, and the former Soviet Union...

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Quote of the Day

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" --Albert Einstein

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Today in History

On this date in 1959 Writer/Producer Rod Serling debuted a new television series that coined a term that succinctly describes the worldview from which the Liberal/Progressive factions of our society operate from.

The term?



"The Twilight Zone"

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Quote of the Day

''I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.'' -- Ronald Reagan

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September 30, 2009

Quotes of the Day

"The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it." --American writer H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)

"Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity." --American author Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)

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September 29, 2009

Jeanne Robertson

One of my former CYO teachers sent me this on FaceBook this morning and I think it's hilarious.. Love the Tennessee accent!

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Geography of a Woman and a Man

GEOGRAPHY OF A WOMAN

Between 18 and 22, a woman is like Africa: Half discovered, half wild, fertile and naturally beautiful!

Between 23 and 30, a woman is like Europe: Well developed and open to trade, especially for someone of real value.

Between 31 and 35, a woman is like Spain: Very hot, relaxed and convinced of her own beauty.

Between 36 and 40, a woman is like Greece: gently aging but still a warm and desirable place to visit.

Between 41 and 50, a woman is like Great Britain, with a glorious and all- conquering past.

Between 51 and 60, a woman is like Israel: Has been through war, doesn't make the same mistakes twice, takes care of business.
Between 61 and 70, a woman is like Canada: self-preserving, but open to meeting new people.

After 70, she becomes Tibet: Wildly beautiful, with a mysterious past and the wisdom of the ages....An adventurous spirit with a thirst for spiritual knowledge.

THE GEOGRAPHY OF A MAN

Between 1 and 80, a man is like Iran , ruled by nuts.

THE END.

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