07 Feb

Warning! Obama more determined than ever to pass Obamacare

Posted by: The BoBo  //  Category: Congress, Democrats, Obama, P-BO, Politics, health care, progressives

Apparently, the political elite progressives in D.C. think they are smarter than WE THE PEOPLE and we just  don’t understand anything.  Apparently, they believe we are too stupid to understand they are doing what is best for WE THE PEOPLE and that we just don’t get it.  Apparently, those idiots don’t understand that 65% of this country have shouted from the tops of our lungs to stay away from our health insurance.

I am on Obama’s Organizing for America e-mail list.  This is the e-mail I received on Saturday – just one day after he publicly announced that health reform is dead on the hill.

An alarming new study shows that health care costs increased last year at the fastest rate in more than a half century.

Health care spending rose to an estimated $2.5 trillion in 2009, or $8,047 per person — and is now projected to nearly double by 2019. If we don’t act, this growing burden will mean more lost jobs, more families pushed into bankruptcy, and more crushing debt for our nation.

The conclusion is clear: This isn’t a problem we can kick down the road for another decade — or even another year. We need to pass health reform now.

First, the most obvious thing in this e-mail is it does no provide the citation of this “new study.”  Second, the reason that health care spending is on the rise is due to Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP. Private sector spending is 55% of total spending (this includes private insurance and self-pay).  Right now, government spending on health care is 6.7% of GDP and it is expected (without factoring in for this bullshit bill) government spending on healthcare will increase to 18.2% of GDP by 2050.  We’re seeing the effects of that now.  Private sector spending will decrease while government sector increases.  These tactics by the progressives are nothing but fear mongering.  Government run healthcare continues to increase because of fraud, waste, and abuse.  Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP lose $100’s of billions every year due mostly to fraud.  Healthcare fraud in the government run system is so prolific that organized crime is now involved – that alone is a $60 billion/year industry.  You don’t see this in private sector health care because private insurers employ resources that actually search out and combat this kind of fraud.

Despite our pleas with the government to stop – and despite the fact the GOP is taking Democrat seats left and right and are poised to completely take control of Congress in November – Obama came out saying this yesterday

“Just in case there’s any confusion out there, let me be clear. I am not going to walk away from health insurance reform,” Obama said, in one of his most feisty speeches since his 2008 election campaign.

“I’m not going to walk away from the American people. I’m not going to walk away on this challenge. I’m not going to walk away on any challenge.’

I guess we’re just too stupid to take care of ourselves and this idiot President is going to keep drilling it in our heads until we finally get it.  Well – we’re up to his challenge also.  I say – bring it on idiot – this will seal the doom for the progressives once and for all.

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24 Dec

I blame “Independent” voters for this mess!

Posted by: The BoBo  //  Category: America, Congress, Conservative, Democrats, Elections, Idiots, Liberals, Politics, government, health care

confusionAs most should all know by now – the Dems passed that idiotic health care bill in the Senate this morning.

The good news is it still has to go to reconciliation to combine the House and Senate bills – which – it appears there could be some serious obstacles to getting this thing passed. The bad news is that Pelosi and Reid are going to do it behind closed doors.  What ever happened to transparency? Let’s hope there will be enough outraged Dems this time around that will refuse to allow this closed door policy to pass.

But – given all things – the only ones to blame for this mess are those so-called “Independent” voters who are always in the middle of the road – afraid to commit.  During this last election everyone knew how the left was going to vote and everyone knew, pretty much, how the right was going to vote – either McCain or some other conservative candidate. The reason Obama won was because of those so-called “Independent” voters, sometimes called “Swing Voters.”

We really can’t blame Obama or the Dems in the majority of both the house and the senate.  They are doing exactly as many of us warned the country they would do.  They are moving this country in the absolute wrong direction – towards socialism and a complete government takeover of this country.  If the healthcare bill passes – the government will control 49% of the economy and all GDP.  If they pass the Cap-and-Trade bill next year – the government will control 62% of the economy and all of GDP.

This doesn’t surprise me at all.  Myself and many other bloggers out there were constantly sounding the alarm on Obama before the election and warned of the dangers of allowing the Dems a supermajority.  But – we were called nutjobs, idiots, and talk radio zombies by the left and those “independents.”  If there is anyone to blame for all of this mess that our country now faces it is because of those idiots who now have buyer’s remorse for voting for Obama.  We warned you guys and now we’re stuck with this bullshit because of dipshits like yourself.

This is politics – there is no middle ground.  You have to take a side in politics.  It is either Yes or No.  A vote of “present” or “abstain” is not a vote.  Either you consider yourself liberal and vote for liberalism – or you are a conservative and you vote for conservatism, or you are libertarian and vote out government all together.  You idiots in the middle are the problem in this country.  At least we know what liberals, libertarians, and conservatives stand for.  You guys in the middle stand for nothing.  You guys in the middle are weak and non-committal.  What we see now is the result of standing in the middle of the road.  Our economy is trashed because of Obama and the Democrats, our housing market is trashed because of liberal policies, and now health care in this country will be trashed because of liberalism – and the only one’s to blame are you independent boneheads who voted for Obama even after you were warned constantly and consistently by those of us on the right.

This entire health care “crisis” is manufactured.  There is NO health care crisis in this country.  90% of this country has insurance (270 million – that is the total population 300 Mil less the 30 mil uninsured).  Of the 30 million uninsured – 10 million are already eligible for some form of coverage, either medicaid, medicare, or schip – they just haven’t applied.  Another 8 million are between the ages of 18 – 30 that CHOOSE not to buy insurance, and another 2 million make $75k or above and CHOOSE not to purchase insurance.  What this leaves is 10 million in the million who want insurance but either can’t afford it or don’t qualify for the other programs.  This means that effectively 97% of this country either has insurance or choose not to buy insurance.  Of the 90% who do have insurance – 85% are satisfied with their insurance.  So – essentially – only 18% (15% unhappy with their coverage plus the remaining 3% who can’t get insurance) of this entire country has a problem with our current system.  So, what this means is that the catalyst behind this so called health insurance crisis in this country is the result of 54 million people out of 300 million.  That, my friends, does not constitute a crisis serious enough to warrant a complete government takeover of our health care and our country.  If this were truly a health care reform bill meant to drive down the costs of health care – WE WOULDN’T NEED INSURANCE!!!!

You independent idiots bought in to the lies and now the rest of the country suffers because of your idiocy.  Thanks for nothing!  Now – go grow some balls and pick a side and stay with it.

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10 Dec

Don’t rely on the government, get your own health insurance

Posted by: The BoBo  //  Category: government, health care, making money

You know – one of the biggest things that this so-called health reform bill is supposed to do is make health insurance more affordable.  First, that is absolutely idiotic.  There are already places out there where you can get cheap health insurance.  If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a hundred times  – this health care bill has nothing to do with affordable ACCESS to health care – it is all about increasing the size of government and giving them more control over your lives.

If you are one of those out there that doesn’t have employer based health insurance, Medicaid, Medicare or whatever, just look and you can find affordable coverage.  That link up there is just one of many.  Do some research and I am sure you can find affordable coverage for yourself, or if you have a family – for everyone in your family.  That link up there will take you to a place called Insurance Specialists.  They have a lot of good information and will give you a quick quote.

I have seen literally dozens of commercials on the TV from all kinds of insurers offering health insurance.  Don’t rely on the government to provide health insurance for you – this will just make you a slave to the government and I guarantee you that you will not have the choices that you can by purchasing your own coverage through a private insurer.  Besides, a government run plan will probably cost you more than if you were to buy your own coverage.  The CBO has already come out and stated that premiums would rise under the government run plan.  Is that what you want?

Be responsible and do your own research, starting with the link I provided, and take control of your own needs for yourself and your family.

(Disclosure – This post brought to you by Insurance Specialists)

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09 Dec

Yes, America. The Public Option is STILL in the bill!

Posted by: The BoBo  //  Category: A Nation at Risk, America, Congress, Democrats, Liberals, Politics, government, health care

public option triggerDespite what you might be hearing from the main stream media idiots these days regarding the behind closed doors meeting between liberal democrats and moderate democrats – the public option is still in the senate version of the health care bill.

The deal also keeps the public option as a fallback plan, to be “triggered” if the health care legislation, including the new national plans, fails to meet targets for providing affordable insurance coverage to a set number of people.

In fact, it might actually be worse than a public option.

The standards set in this version of the bill will most definitely set off this public option “trigger.”  It appears to be specifically designed to do that.  No private insurer will ever attempt to provide the government run insurance plan under the mandates stipulated.  For starters, private insurance companies are not allowed to make a profit.  There is a requirement that $0.90 of every $1 has to be paid out in insurance benefits.  That leaves just 10% for G&A and Overhead.  Anyone who has ever run a business, taken business or finance classes, or has a degree in business management knows that is impossible.  G&A and Overhead in your average company runs at between 12 – 15% and that is usually when a company is running at peak performance.

The idea that a private business is not allowed to make a profit also shows just how stupid they are (or smart they are knowing it will trigger the public option) in that profits are used to reinvest in the company, pay out employee bonuses, and held in reserves for future growth.  Profits are not bad.  Profits is what makes this country grow.  This just shows how biased against capitalism these boneheads really are.

The other part of this is that the public option is triggered if private insurance companies do not provide the services in an “acceptable” manner.  It is entirely up to the government to determine what is “acceptable.”  In other words – no matter how the insurance company performs – it will never be “acceptable” ergo – the public option gets triggered.

Here’s the deal people – we know that they want everyone with pre-existing conditions to be covered.  We know they want all premiums to be level amounts and not gender specific – which we all know it costs more to cover women than men simply due to the very broad medical issues that women have that men do not.  Since the government will dictate what the premium to be charged will be without using sound underwriting practices and forcing private insurance companies to maintain G&A and Overhead at an impossible 10% and make no profit at all – these provisions alone will cause even the most efficient private health insurer to default.

This is a shell game people – don’t buy in to it.  Nothing about this bill should pass.  We cannot allow this bill to pass at all.  The only thing this bill does is expand government and place a humongous structure in place that would be irreversible.  They don’t care what is in the bill – they just know they need to get a structure in place for a single-payor system – which is exactly what this bill does.  With all these distractions – they are hoping you aren’t paying attention to the man behind the curtain.

One last thought – if private insurance companies are so evil, inefficient, and the cause for this fake health care crisis we’re in – why would they suddenly be all for having private insurance companies run the government mandated plan?  Just sayin’

Okay – one last thing – don’t let them fool you by saying the Republicans are slowing this thing down and standing in the way.  Remember – they have a supermajority.  If they wanted to pass this – they have the votes without the Republicans.  So – don’t let them try to lay the blame on Republicans.  There has not been one single Republican amendment allowed and no Republicans have been allowed in any of the closed door meetings.  This is entirely a Democrat written and controlled bill.  Republicans have not been allowed to contribute one thing to this bill.  Every Republican amendment introduced has been voted down.  So – don’t believe their lies.  They own this thing 100% outright.  The Democrats will be 100% responsible for the damage this will cause to this country.  Don’t let this bill pass.  If it does – remember who voted for it in November 2010 and 2012 and vote their asses out.

 

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19 Nov

Senate Health Care Bill will lead to Tax Revolt

Posted by: The BoBo  //  Category: America, Politics, Taxes, health care

2074 Pages!  Holy freakin’ hell people!  That bill is even bigger than the damned House version.  Here is just a short list of the taxes that are in this bill – hmm…I thought Obama promised no taxes on the middle-class?

5% Tax on Cosmetic Surgery

40% Tax on “Cadillac Plans” – If you’re single in the cost of your employer based plan is $8,500, and family plan is $23,000 – there will be a 40% tax.

Increase from 1.45 to 1.95% in Medicare tax

$4 Billion in Fees on Medical Device manufacturers (you don’t think this will be passed on to consumers?)

$5 Billion in Fees to pharmaceutical manufacturers (ditto above)

If you don’t have insurance and you “qualify” to be insured, if you’re single you will pay a$95 surchage in 2014 and it raises to $750 in 2016.  A family will have a surcharge of $2250 by 2016.

If an employer has at least 50 employees and does not offer an insurance plan, if they have at least 1 employee who “qualifies” to be insured, that employer will be fined $750 per employee.  That is a minimum penalty of $37,500 just to start off with for only 50 employees.  This will kill small businesses.

It eliminates HSA’s altogether.  It puts a cap on FSA’s at $2,500.  You can’t use your HSA account to pay for over-the-counter medication any longer…and..it raises the medical expenses tax deduction from 7% to 10% of AGI.

In addition, it takes $500 Billion out of Medicare funding.

UPDATE – Includes a monthly “abortion premium fee” to be assessed on everyone that is enrolled in the government run plan.

This is just a short list right now.  I will update this post through out the day as I learn or hear about more.  The word “tax” is mentioned in this bill 124 freakin times! And..just to show you that those idiots up there in Washington have no clue about how insurance works – they added this little piece:

They also would limit total out-of-pocket expenses and prevent insurance companies from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.

Insurers under the Democratic plans would be barred from charging higher premiums based on a person’s gender or medical history.

They obviously don’t know how underwriting works.  This will either drive costs up for everyone because we will ALL be subsidizing those with chronic illnesses, or it will drive private insurers out of business because they can’t pay the claims because there is no money to cover the chronically ill.  Also, there is a HUGE difference between genders and health care costs.  To not be allowed to increase premiums to cover those costs is ludicrous.  There is no such thing as “one-size-fits-all” insurance coverage unless the premiums are skyhigh for all.

Oh – and did I mention it has a public option?  For cryin’ out loud already!  This bill has absolutely nothing to do with improving the health care system and providing for access to affordable health care.  This is simply the largest power grab by our government in the nation’s history.  This is AMERICA.  We are FREE people.  We do NOT want to live under an oppressive and socialist government.

I predict that if this bill passes – there will be an absolute huge tax revolt in this country.  I will be the first to stand up against it and tell our government – HELL NO! I’m not paying my damned taxes for them to fund something that 34% of this country wants! I believe we’re going to something that will eclipse the Boston Tea Party.  I don’t see any violence erupting – but – you can bet there will indeed be a revolution in this country.

The government gets their power from our taxes.  We can shut this thing, and them, down if we stop giving them our money.  Are they going to arrest 66% of this country if we all refuse to pay our taxes?  We don’t have to support our Federal government at all.  They are pushing things on us that are unconstitutional and we need to stand against it.  If this thing passes – it’s time for the Tea Parties to take it to the next level – a REAL Tea Party Tax revolt.

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08 Nov

The BoBo Carnival of Politics – November 8, 2009 Edition

Posted by: The BoBo  //  Category: BoBo, Carnival, Conservative, Liberals, Politics, blogs, government, health care, libertarian

Hi all – and welcome to another fine edition of the carnival.  I’m sure as you all have heard – while many were sleeping last night – Congress passed that disastrous health care bill that is sure to do this country in.  Let’s hope it dies in the Senate.


Conservative

Scott Spiegel presents Obama Decision not to Campaign in Upstate New York Hands Unexpected Win to Democrat posted at Scott Spiegel.

Yeah..I don’t think its a coincidence either despite what the MSM and DNC are saying.  But, the word out there is that Hoffman would have won hands down had the RNC done the right thing in the first place and supported him rather than the RINO.  Besides – Owens just went back on 4 campaign promises before he even set foot in D.C.  Those idiots who voted for him in NY-23 got what they deserve in him.

Liberal

Madeleine Begun Kane presents “Short On Facts” Fox posted at Mad Kane’s Political Madness.

Not real sure what the point of this one is, Mad Kane – War and Peace was originally 1,225 pages long and its 2006 revision has 1,475 pages.  Are you insinuating that the 1990 page bill has less pages than War and Peace?

Glowing Face Man presents The Work Ethic posted at Glowing Face Man, saying, “In this article I argue that we shouldn’t work so hard, we should change “the work ethic” into more of a “leisure ethic”"

Sorry – gotta disagree with you on this 100%.  I can see why this is under the Liberal category.  Success is a direct result from individual effort and labor.  The more you put in to it the more success you will have.  I’m living proof of this.  I am self-made and have succeeded thus far as a direct relationship to my input of that success.  I work my butt off now so that I can retire comfortably and enjoy that retirement.  Likewise, I budget enough money and time to ensure myself and my family can enjoy leisure time.  Your premise that workers should do the bare minimum on the job and maximize enjoyment to make general civilization more successful is very foreign to me.  It might fit the liberal lifestyle – but – for those of us who actually believe in personal responsibility and true success it just doesn’t fit.  I can tell you, if any of my employees just put out the minimum required – I will fire them.  I don’t want anybody who just shows up because it is a job.  I want employees who are there because they enjoy their job and they get self-satisfaction from a job well done and will do what they need to do to succeed.  Your plan will get a lot of people around this country on the unemployment line and will definitely give them a lot of leisure time.

Libertarian

Zhu presents Working Class Hero Is Something To Be posted at Correr Es Mi Destino, saying, “To be rich in North America, you either have to be : a) incredibly smart (cf. Bill Gates) b) incredibly stupid (cf. Paris Hilton). To be rich in France you can try the two methods above but frankly, few people will bother. Money, you have it or you don’t. And most of time, if you do, you inherited it.”

Zhu – welcome to the carnival – great post.  I spent a little over 10 years in Europe.  While I certainly enjoyed my time there, North America – and in my case – U.S.A. – I think you were spot on.  We all have an opportunity and a shot at achieving “the American dream.”  That is because of the freedom that we have to make our own choices.  Unfortunately, America is slowly becoming a nanny state and falling to the throes of socialism like Europe.  If we don’t reverse what is happening, our grandchildren – and perhaps our children – will never have the opportunity to achieve the iconic “American dream.”

Archvillain presents Last Chance posted at A Dark and Sinister Force for Good, saying, “This story makes me fear for the future of the Republic- and that future hinges on an upcoming ruling by SCOTUS”

HOLY SHIT!  I hope SCOTUS actually decides to uphold the 5th Amendment and absolutely allow this case to proceed.  McGhee and Harrington have every right at this point to just go completely postal if they wanted to.  Given that SCOTUS really hasn’t been upholding the constitution for at least the last 3 decades, I find it hard to believe they might actually decide that prosecutors can be sued – especially in this type of case.  They will be opening a can of worms – as it should be open.  Prosecutors have only been getting little slaps on the hand for misconduct.  However, what these guys did goes well beyond simple misconduct – they knowingly allowed two individuals to be framed and serve time for a crime they did not commit.  I’ll say it again – HOLY SHIT!

News

Steven and Debra presents Is Your Money Safe? Wrong Question!! posted at The END TIMES Hoax.

So – who actually submitted this – Steven or Debra – or did you both take turns hitting some buttons? :)   This is a great post – and – you’re right – that is indeed the wrong question.  Given the weakening of the economy and the dollar – worrying about purchasing power and inflation are  a little more important.

Aetius Romulous presents Impossibleism posted at ScreamBucket.

Excellent analysis once again.  If government would just get out of the way and let the free market work the way it is supposed to – we wouldn’t be in this mess.  Failure is a part of life and the economic cycle.  Our lives improve because someone failed and we learned from it.  We’re living in a lie right now.  We should have let all of those banks and auto makers fail.  Sure – it would have hurt for a little bit – but – someone else who learned from their mistakes would have come along and made improvements – until the next failure.

Joe E presents Private Student Loans May Soon Be Regulated by the Government After Recent Vote in Congress posted at Consolidating Student Loans Online, saying, “The education sector may soon see a huge change in terms of private student loans. A recent vote in congress has taken Obama’s education plan one step closer to becoming a reality.”

Actually, this is very timely.  I just received notice on Friday that my student loan was taken over by the Department of Education.  I’m trying to figure out my options now because I certainly do not want to be on the end of that leash. But, the problem with the bill that was passed is the fact that it was completely unnecessary.  There has never been any reports of large-scale deceptive lending practices in the private student loan sector.  This is just another ruse for the federal government to take over private industry. This is no longer America.

SVB presents Economic Growth Is Up. What Now? posted at The Digerati Life, saying, “Thoughts on the jobless economic recovery.”

I like the way you broke this down in to 6 different categories.  I definitely believe the stock market is ahead of itself.  As for inflation – I believe that we have double-digit inflation coming around the corner.  I hate to be the nay-sayer as I’m generally an optimistic person.  However, I don’t believe the propaganda coming out of this administration.  There are still way too many negatives.  What we saw last quarter was fake.  The numbers were propped up because of VERY short-term policies.  I believe the 4th quarter numbers are going to be dismal and reflect the reality of what is going on.  I think this government used the short term policies to “reset” the recession clock.  Since there was on quarter that showed improvement – when the next quarter results show GDP losses again – they will effectively reset the recession clock back to 1 month.  We still  haven’t bottomed out in the housing market and foreclosures are still increasing.  Unemployment continues to increase and we have a trade deficit that is continuing to increase.  Like I said – I don’t like being a nay-sayer – but – I just don’t see it.  I think you were right at the beginning of the post – “they say.”  Keep up the great work.  As always – your post was very informative and helpful.  I hope I’m wrong.

Politics

smrtas1 presents Pelosi Pushes for Tort Reform? posted at Conservative Patriot HQ.

Yeah – I wouldn’t exactly call that tort reform since it tells the states they can’t impose laws that limit the amount the lawyers can make.  Besides, now that we know this passed in the house – if this provision stays – you know this is a direct violation of the 10th Amendment.  The Federal Government cannot make this kind of imposition – nevertheless force any state to accept a federal program such as this.

Surbhi Bhatia presents The Story of Kashmir: The Sin of Being Who You Are posted at The Viewspaper » The Viewspaper.

Thanks for this interesting look and brief history lesson of Kashmir.  I had no idea.  If the film shows any of the history that you mentioned – it would be worth seeing.

Jacob Johnson presents Common Sense Caucus: Where Democrats Went Wrong on Health Insurance Reform posted at Common Sense Caucus, saying, “Jacob Johnson graduated from Iowa State University in 2008 with a B.A. in Liberal Studies and a minor in Political Science. He served on now President Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential Campaign for 9 months, covering 7 states throughout the primary and general election. He now resides in his hometown of West Des Moines, Iowa. Please send comments and requests to jake.johnson@obamaalumni.com”

Jacob – welcome to the carnival.  Apparently, you must have believed Alan Grayson’s lie about the 44,000 deaths per year due to no insurance.  The study that he quoted that from is right here.   It is severely flawed and the numbers are fake.  First – since this is your first time here – you probably do not know that I am working on my Ph.D. in Epidemiology – I’m on the dissertation now…with regards to the survival analysis conducted in this study – this I am VERY familiar with…so..let’s break this down:

If you look at this – you will see they used the hazard ratio (1.40) to extrapolate/estimate that 44,587 died in 2005 due to lack of insurance. A 1.40 HR is not exactly a significant amount given that they used a 95% confidence interval vs. a 98% CI. They had a sample size of 9,004. Of that 3.1% died – no where do they state how many of those who died were insured or uninsured at the time of death. This was a survival analysis using retrospective data. There was no actual interview data. In fact, it is clearly stated in their limitation discussion on page 5 that “We have no information about duration of insurance coverage from this survey.” That is a HUGE confounder.

If you look at the variables they used in their survival analysis – insurance is not one of them because they didn’t collect this type of data. Don’t you think that if they are doing a study to determine deaths associated with lack of insurance they should actually find out who had insurance and who didn’t at the time of death?

Additionally, it states:

“Our study has several limitations. NHANES III assessed health insurance at a single point in time and did not validate self-reported insurance status.”

I have published studies as well using NHANES and survival analysis. While there are precedent studies that point in time results predict future point in time results, it is a bias that has to be accounted for – which they do not. Instead – they used point in time data as valid. Therefore, they cannot use the determined hazard ratio to predict future results – i.e. the 44,587 deaths in 2005. The data they used only went to 1994. Not only that, they don’t state which year in specific they utilized as the PIT measurement. As far as we know, they are trying to use data obtained in 1986 to predict death rates 20 years later and at minimum 11 years later. This is a severely flawed study and was used as propaganda by Grayson. Just because two of the authors are from Harvard doesn’t make it any more credible.  The fact of the matter is that more than 25% of peer reviewed papers published in journals have severe flaws – this being one of those.


With regards to your assumption regarding “money” as you know, the CBO recently stated this bill will cost us $1.2 Trillion and will increase taxes and will FORCE everyone who does not have employer based coverage to purchase a $15,000 policy from the government or risk going to jail.  Do you have $15,000 to give to the government?  The problem isn’t their strategy – the problem is this bill does nothing to “reform” health care at all.  All this bill does is give more power to the government – please see the post prior to this.

smrtas1 presents 3 Billion Reasons to Distrust House Health Care Reform Bill posted at Conservative Patriot HQ.

This almost seems like a moot point now doesn’t it?  Either way – we need to continue to pound the pavement with these types of stories to continue to rally everyone and make sure the senate does pass it either.

Tamir Birk presents A New Perspective on the Abortion Debate posted at Informed Vote | Keeping Canadian Voters Informed.

Well – I do agree with the basic premise of your post – however, you lost all credibility when you called the U.N. a “credible international organization.”  I won’t go in to all their corruption in this response since it is beside the point.  What I will say is that I wrote a paper on abortion for one of my classes – I am pro-life.  I chose to do this paper on this topic to challenge myself as a scientist.  I wanted to see if I could remain completely unbiased regarding a topic that I clearly have a bias for.  I too found the same results.  I don’t believe that abortion should be criminalized.  While I do believe it is murder – I believe the best way to reduce abortion is through education.  What I am opposed to is government/taxpayer funded abortions.  Since I am opposed, I do not believe the government has the authority to take my money and violate my constitutionally guaranteed First Amendment right to freedom OF religion.  My religion and belief is that abortion is murder and a sin – therefore – the government cannot force me to pay for it.

Tamir Birk presents Safe Crack Houses in Canada posted at Informed Vote | Keeping Canadian Voters Informed.

Okay – you’ve stepped in to my world on this one – C. Laurel Ostfield lied about the W.H.O. report and illicit drugs.  You can find the report here.  What the report really says is to give such individuals “safe chill out places” and to provide them with “education kits” – not provide safe places for them to get high and to provide them the means to do so.  Such drug users need to be arrested, detoxed, then placed in inpatient treatment.  Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a proven technique and recidivism is low.  Keeping drug users high and doing nothing to stop them from getting high might help decrease the spread of disease – but – if you really want to eradicate the spread from drug use – do what is necessary to prevent it in the first place.  Whoever this Ostfield individual is – he/she obviously is an idiot and didn’t learn a thing about public health.  This intervention that he/she is proposing has a very minimal and almost insignificant effect on the spread of infectious disease in the general population.  This intervention is only significant in the drug user community.  Like I said, if you want to prevent it – stop the drug use.

smrtas1 presents Alternative Healthcare Reform Bill Would Save $1.7 Trillion posted at Conservative Patriot HQ.

Well – like I said above…a moot point.  Bastards.  Nevertheless – this is a great post and I only wish the Republicans would have made a stronger push at getting this information out there. They waited waaaaay too long.  This debate started last November when P-BO got elected.  They should have started working on their bill then…not wait until the last minute.

Albie presents End of poverty. Start of prosperity. (Updated 22/10) posted at iDevelopWorld.

Eh..that’s all well and good – but – what I saw as a solution is redistribution of wealth from rich nations to poor nations.  That is not a sound solution.  A sound solution to bringing those poor nations out of poverty is freedom and democracy.  Those “poor” nations are poor because their governments are corrupt.  All the money stays with the political elite, monarchs, and dictators.  Foreign aide money that is intended to make it to the “poor” never get there.  If you want a real solution to end global poverty – get rid of the dictators and give the people real freedom.  While Sachs does have some lofty goals – economic prosperity cannot be gained by one giving it to another.  True economic prosperity comes from a free people that have no governmental barriers.  The goals are admirable, but lofty and unattainable as structured.

Euroyank presents The Real American Unemployment Rate Coverup posted at EuroYank The Blog.

Euroyank – this is a must read for everybody.  My readers are pretty educated in these manners – however, you have provided additional details that I was not aware of.  My readers may know about this already – if not – you will be educating them.  I knew the “reported” numbers were lies – I just didn’t realize how far off they really were.  Not only that, but, you are spot on with regards to the underlying cause of the demise of this country and our economy.  Great post.

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