What Does Obamacare for America?

TNM:
As more and more details of Obamacare come to light, the US Government’s—via the Obama Administration—dangerous, socialist takeover of our economy and culture becomes even more frightening.  Those of us over 65 are in especial danger, for the elderly are going to find reduced care—simply because it’s too expensive.  And don’t try to pay for anything by yourself.  That simple freedom is curtailed.

Yes folks, ‘1984′ is on the horizon.  ‘Logan’s Run’ is on the horizon.  Is ‘Soylent Green’ also on the horizon?

Father John of Fox News:
“But let’s be clear: there is no such thing as a fundamental human right to socialized medicine.”

Ryan J Donmoyer and Kristin Jensen Bloomberg:
“The 1,018-page House Democratic plan builds on a June 19 draft and for the first time includes details on how to pay for the measure. In addition to the levy on millionaire households, the House would place surtaxes of 1.5 percent on couples with incomes of $500,000 to $1 million and 1 percent on those with incomes of more than $350,000.

“The surtax on wealthier Americans would be imposed based on adjusted gross income, meaning it would also apply to capital gains and dividends, which are currently taxed at a 15 percent rate. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel said lawmakers targeted high earners because it “causes the least amount of pain on the least amount of people.”

Thomas Donohue of the US Chamber of Commerce:
“The intention of this plan is to tax high-income households, but the real victims would be America’s small business owners…Since when does our great free-market country punish success?”

Dr Orrin Devinsky of ABC “…asked the President pointedly if he would be willing to promise that he wouldn’t seek such extraordinary help for his wife or daughters if they became sick and the public plan he’s proposing limited the tests or treatment they can get…The president refused to make such a pledge, though he allowed that if ‘it’s my family member, if it’s my wife, if it’s my children, if it’s my grandmother, I always want them to get the very best care.’..”

David A Patten of Newsmax
“On Friday [7/17/09], Democrats moved one step closer to giving free health insurance to the nation’s estimated 12 million illegal aliens when they successfully defeated a Republican-backed amendment, offered by Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev., that would have prevented illegal aliens from receiving government-subsidized health care under the proposed plan backed by House Democrats and President Barack Obama…

“The Democratic plan will embrace Obama’s vision of bringing free government medical care to more than 45 million uninsured people in America––a significant portion [about 12 million] of whom are illegal aliens. [Others being about 22 million young and not wanting insurance; about 8 million temporarily between jobs; and about 3 million poorer people not taking the health care that already exists in current programs.]

“Democrats had insisted throughout the health-care reform debate that illegals would be ineligible for the so-called public option plan that is to be subsidized by taxpayers.

Senator Max Baucus D-Montana, Chairman Senate Finance Committee:
“We’re not going to cover undocumented aliens, undocumented workers,” ‘the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, told reporters in May.’
“That’s too politically explosive.”

“A recent Rasmussen Reports poll found that an overwhelming 80 percent of Americans oppose covering illegals in any public health care bill.”

“Anti-immigration [this should be anti-illegal immigration] activists say the availability of low-cost benefits, including health insurance and in-state tuition, will only lure more immigrants to come to the United States.”

Dick Morris Political Analyst:
“…warns that giving illegal free health care will lead to a flood of new illegals who can take advantage of such a benefit not offered in their home countries…”

TNM:
Is any of this a surprise to sane Americans?  Warnings about these socialist plans to be found in an Obama administration were given constantly during the Presidential campaign.  Yet, the amateur Obama was elected.  How?  Some Democrats always vote for the Democrat no matter who he is or what he might do.  Others believed the palpable nonsense of Hope and Change his Teleprompters spouted.  [Well, they got it alright.]  Others didn’t like McCain.  And sadly, others voted for him simply because he was black.  Yes, they are racists.  It’s a fact and should be considered.  So, now we all suffer from a self-bloated and grossly interventionist government.

This tragedy can be traced to the interventionistic Democrats in Congress, especially from 2006 to the present.  Notably among the disaster-meisters are Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, John Murtha, Ted Kennedy, Robert Byrd, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid—and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Are we headed for a revolution?  Possibly.  Who knows?

We have to keep fighting the current Congress and President.  In 2010 we should remove all 435 House members and a third of the Senate.  In 2012, we should put a Conservative in the White House to start cleaning up the mess and replace another third of the Senate.  By 2014, we can vote out the remainder of the Senate and hopefully be on our way to some semblance of order.

Townhall email:
“A National Abortion Bill?

That is what the legislation should be called, because the bill pending in Congress includes the unlimited right of a woman to end the life of her baby, with the government footing the bill. And groups like Planned Parenthood will be the beneficiaries of your tax dollars.”

Fred Thompson radio show:

“ON PAGE 425 OF OBAMA’S HEALTH CARE BILL [sic], the Federal Government will require EVERYONE who is on Social Security to undergo a counseling session every 5 years with the objective being that they will explain to them just how to end their own life earlier. Yes…They are going to push SUICIDE to cut medicare spending!”

TNM
So this is change?  Government funded abortions?  Suicide counseling for the elderly?  Unconscionable taxes?  We’d have done better voting for none of the above.

Our Muslim trained and named President who sat for twenty years listening to the fiery radical pastor Wright condemn America [Obama apologized for America in foreign countries] and had ties to communist, socialist, and radical people and groups [Bill Ayres, Acorn et al] is now showing America his true stripes.  You unthinking Liberals out there voted this guy in.  I hope you’re proud for what you’ve given all of us with your knee-jerk reactions.

Random Thoughts July 2009

Our economy is in the abyss for many reasons, not the least being [the predominantly Democrat] overspending for the past 50 years.  Of course a major reason is the Democrats’ [notably Rep Barney Frank and Sen Chris Dodd] forcing the banks and financial institutions to create dangerous loans.  But who will recognize the truth when they can fall back to the easy blaming of George Bush and his 8 years as President?  He made some mistakes, for sure.  But I think he could do a much better job than recent Democrat candidates for his office, including St Barack Hussein O.

And the history of our economy and free market system would give obvious solutions to our current problems.  Does President Obama and his administration not know history?  It seems so.  They are repeating all the bad decisions from the past, and they expect new results.  The are creating socialist positions that have been proven not to work.  Alfred Einstein once defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”  That’s the exact problem with the Democrats.  They never learn.  Or remember Winston Churchill: “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”

I wrote this several months ago.  Sadly, it’s still true in fact.  The President’s administration is leading us down the road to oblivion.
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Just to update you on what’s been happening:

- President Obama [PO] wants to oversee World financial firms.
- PO appoints ‘czars’ [a gross term] answerable only to him and not Congress.
- US deficit is growing by the $trillions.
- US spending is at multiples of revenue.
- US Government owns most of the Auto Industry.
- US Government owns much of the Banking Business, refusing to let some pay back their loans.
- US Government wants to run Health Care.
- Health Care will cost more for less coverage.
- $$trillions of new taxes here or on the way.
- PO and Democrat Congress show intent on Islamizing the US.
- PO is actively apologizing for all US actions and beliefs.
- PO is weakening the US military in words and action.
- PO wants to close GITMO and release terrorists in US.
- PO wants to give GITMO terrorists US civil rights
- PO is doing nothing to stop illegal immigration except trying to thwart those who are trying to enforce the immigration laws—oh, he is bemoaning it.

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There are increased efforts to gain access to PO’s birth records.  PO has issued an executive order [day after taking the oath] to prevent any release of records pertaining to PO that he doesn’t approve.  And his school and other records are being secured by the institutions involved.  But think about it.  If he was born in Kenya, a claim that seems increasingly likely to be proven, then he isn’t a citizen!  And that makes him an illegal alien!  And that is evident with his policy over border security.  Imagine that, an illegal alien as President.  Thank you Democrats.

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President Barack Obama, whose gay and lesbian supporters have grown frustrated with his slow movement on their priorities, is extending benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees, a White House official said recently.
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http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.549,css.print/pub_detail.asp

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.672/pub_detail.asp

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.1248/pub_detail.asp

These are three links to a frank discussion on nuclear energy, including how nuclear energy works.
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More security?  Hire law breakers.

Per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, back in October, the following people are on the Atlanta Police Force:  Keovongsa Siharath [charged with punching his stepfather]; Jeffrey Churchill charged with assault in a a mall parking lot];  Calvin Thomas arrested on a concealed weapons charge.]  All three are now officers with the Atlanta Police Department.

“More than one-third of recent Atlanta Police Academy graduates have been arrested or cited for a crime, according to a review of their job applications. The arrests ranged from minor offenses such as shoplifting to violent charges including assault. More than one-third of the officers had been rejected by other law enforcement agencies, and more than half of the recruits admitted using marijuana.”
And we’ve wondered aloud how this Democratic VP’s private meetings with unnamed people on unnamed subjects differs from the private meetings with unnamed people that his evil predecessor had that got so many Democratic senators and representatives worried about nefarious secrets.”
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Wonder what Joe Biden’s up to?  Per Andrew Malcolm:

“…We’ve especially noted Biden’s innumerable  “private meetings” that are closed to the press because, well, they’re private…”

“…And we’ve wondered aloud how this Democratic VP’s private meetings with unnamed people on unnamed subjects differs from the private meetings with unnamed people that his evil predecessor had that got so many Democratic senators and representatives worried about nefarious secrets.”

‘Do as we say, and not what we do’ is—as usual—the Democrat mantra.  How many times do the electors have to be reminded of such things before the dangerous Congress and President are removed from office at the polls?  The sad thing is, I’d be more comfortable with ‘Pistol’ Joe as President than the messiah.  And in 2010, maybe we can get rid of them all.  435 new representatives is my cherished dream.  That way we won’t have to worry about Nancy or Harry succeeding Joe.

Catwoman Skins a Trencher

I was saddened to hear of the recent death of pitchman Billy Mays.  Apparently, he was a well-liked man—something I didn’t know when I was writing barbs about his loud and rat-a-tat style.  But his sometimes annoying commercials will always remain in my memory.  By default, I think the Oxi-Clean account should now be assigned to ‘Sham Wow’ Vince and his headset because I know he could be appropriately annoying—and do it all day.

I must be getting old because I find advertisements more annoying in tone, and less grammatical in form.  Though the ad writing in the past was often deficient to varying degrees, I consider this modern ad world more and more dumbed down to the lowest common denominator.  [Hey! I remember that term from grammar school: 'least common denominator'---though I'm not quite what it means any longer.]  So, I offer my latest comments below.
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I keep seeing these ads on tv for beauty creams that guarantee women a young skin and face.  In fact one female user claims to be addicted to it.  I’m sorry, but all I can think of is ‘Catwoman’, and its plot about the addictive, new beauty cream that once you start using it, you have to take it regularly to prevent scars and the melting of your face.  And if you do use it regularly, it turns your skin to a hardness akin to marble.  Scary stuff for you ladies.  You just can’t win there.  Personally, I don’t use any of these new beauty products, even when they’re designed for men.  As Grandma used to say, ‘what is, is’—though a recent President was worried about ‘what is, is’ in a different manner.
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And now we turn to another type of advertised skin-care product.  Will someone please tell me how the following claim is possible:  ‘It stopped my acne before it started.’  Is that possible?  Was research done with the late Isaac Asimov?  [Thiotimoline?---you have to read that.  Sorry.]  How can this run-of-the-mill- [though very pretty] actress/customer make such a determination?  Is she a dermatologist?  A scientific genius?  A fortune teller?  Don’t the advertisers know that there are many products you can use on your face and permit you to claim the same thing:  Talc, astringent, mud packs, bean dip—almost anything.  If they’d simply state that their products ‘prevent’ acne from forming—well, I could live with that.
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A pizza delivery company has recently been spieling it’s new innovation: pasta and other entrees served in bowls made of Italian bread.  You can eat the bowl when you finish the entree.  A current ad for Red Lobster shows the hollowed out bread being used for soup and stew.  Wowee!  Ain’t modern thinking wonderful?

Except it’s not particularly innovative.  This system was used at least as far back as the Middle Ages.  I think the bread was known as a ‘trencher.’  Stews and similar foods were served in hollowed-out bread ‘bowls’ or ‘plates.’  [Perhaps to use the discarded interior is why 'bread pudding' was invented?]  Forty years ago when we were served spinach dip in hollowed out, round rye breads at parties.  The contents of the breads were cubed and used in picking up the dip—which was mighty good stuff, I must say.

Is this just another omen about the coming 3-plus years of socialist leadership erasing progress and sending Civilization back to those not so thrilling days of yesteryear?

Will the esnes make a return?  Knights with swords and lances? [is that why fantasy role-playing games are so popular?]  Horse transportation?  [as gasoline and oil are taxed to death.]
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Coleman Stoves is now advertising that it ‘pretty much invented camping’ and ’social networking’.  Wow!  That’s one great achievement.  But, I think the Geico cavemen might have something to say about it.  They camped and cooked out [and socialized] all the time for thousands of years.  And what about the cowboys and Indians of the American West?  Many modern Africans and Australians still do.
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My eyes and ears have been swamped with the clashing battles of the local cable vs satellite ad war.  Depending on how you count them—and each combatent counts them differently—each side of the war has more HD channels than the other.  This could go on forever with no one crying uncle or defeating the competition.  Personally, I wish them both warts.  I mean, how many channels can a person watch, anyway?  100? 102? 200?  What difference does it make?  Even if they claim the numbers to provide a choice, it still doesn’t work.  Aren’t there better things to do in your free hours than sit in front of the tube or plasma choosing among 150 channels?  Does the word ‘family’ come to mind?
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As a final note for today, please be careful of those companies advertising: ‘No interest payments ’til 2010 or 2011.’  Ask questions.  It sounds very much like the contract may prevent the return of the goods [this is a popular system for furniture companies] before that date has arrived; also, not paying interest doesn’t mean it’s forgiven.  The operative word is ‘pay’.  Interest will be accruing during that time and in 2011 you’ll have to pay up all that accrued interest.  It’s easy to forget that there’s no such thing as a free lunch.