Obamacare...really?

With the continuing controversy about the "Affordable Care Act," (I used quotation marks on purpose) these seemed timely.  What an enormous, money-sucking hole it is.  I hope my almost 83-year-old mother doesn't have her insurance rates double to cover somebody who has never managed to keep a job.  The most amazing to me is the number of people who actually believed that an insurance program could magically cover everyone for everything--for nothing.  Wow, our gene pool is getting shallow.

Heaven help us.  Our government won't.

Not so funny funnies.

Isn't it interesting how the perspective from the highest levels of government (with help from most of the media) seems so skewed? This comic writer feels it just as I do....but he is much more artistically talented.
All you have to do is listen to Nancy Pelosi from time to time. I've heard her say we needed to pass the "health care bill" in order to know what it said. Obviously, she knows best; who are we to question?

Constitution at risk.

This is so in line with what George Will said about President Obama and the liberal leadership. I had to post it. Not that anyone is actually reading this blog, but I feel that I'm passing along conservative messages anyway. Who knows?

By Hook or by Crook...

I continue to be astonished by the arrogance and deception of President Obama and the liberal leadership. The "health care" bill (and I used the description only to make a point, because that is not really what it is), would have failed in the Senate except for a few legislators who allowed themselves to be bribed--bought.

The House bill could not pass so Speaker Pelosi fell back on tricks, sleight-of-hand, and parliamentary chicanery to "deem" the Senate bill passed, and used a reconciliation tactic that has never been used for such an enormous government program. At the heart of this under-handed dealing is, as George F. Will puts it, a liberal desperation.

"Liberals are deeply disappointed with the public, which fails to fathom the excellence of their agenda. But their real complaint is with the government's structure. Liberals have met their enemy, and he is the diminutive 'father of the Constitution,' James Madison."

President Obama would very much like to change the Constitution, giving government far more power and control.

As Thomas Sowell stated:

Fraud has been at the heart of this medical care takeover plan from day one. The succession of wholly arbitrary deadlines for rushing this massive legislation through, before anyone has time to read it all, serves no other purpose than to keep its specifics from being scrutinized--or even recognized--before it becomes a fait accompli and the "law of the land."

Nancy Pelosi

I was amazed to actually hear Nancy Pelosi say how wonderful it would be to have an economy in which someone could write or paint or take pictures without worrying about a day job to have health insurance.

Okay, let's all quit working and indulge in our hobbies of choice. When we need some medical assistance then......ah......opps, who will cover the cost?

Doctors attend school for at least 8 years, are basically slave labor at hospitals (way over-worked and under-paid) for residencies of an additional 2 to 6 years, and after this 10 to 15 year time-span and thousands of dollars of debt, they will be happy to take care of us for free? Hospitals do not need to charge for their services? Nurses, assistants, technicians, record keepers, pharmacies, clerks all exist so you can write your novel? It is ludicrous, yet I heard the words come out of Nancy Pelosi's mouth.

Mysteries of Liberal Thought

I am often in awe of people who know just the right words to effectively state their beliefs. It is so frustrating to try to explain something and not have the words you want on your tongue. I suppose that is the benefit of writing; one can spend a little time trying to get the explanations clear and understandable.

When I try to comprehend the liberal mind set, I am befuddled by their reasoning. Why do they have such little respect for individual responsibility? Why do they want people depending on government for so much? Why do they think they are entitled to take money from those of us who worked for it and give it to those who didn't (taking a percentage for government along the way)?

Fortunately, there are very articulate writers who say things so well. Writers who understand the strange thought processes of Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Dodds, Rangel (who didn't even know who paid for his trips to the Caribbean--he claims).

Thomas Sowell explains:

A couple of good examples he explores:

Liberal intelligensia would also like us to believe that wealthy people somehow got that way accidentally, while also preventing others from doing the same. That is ridiculous.

Taxes are always good, according to the far left, and there is never enough (not that they are dedicated about paying their own). But what companies pay employees, by mutual agreement, should be of no concern to the government. As soon as government sets rules for how much money we are allowed to earn, we are doomed. Our so-called public servants become our masters.

People are becoming disillusioned..

I think people are beginning to see that most (perhaps all) politicians are greatly affected by their induction into the halls of power. President Obama, more than anyone I can think of, has ignored the very promises he made during the campaign. He talked of transparency in congressional discussions, of putting an end to earmarks, of fiscal responsibility, of removing the influence of political lobbyists, and of keeping the unemployment rate below 8%. On these issues, he's batting zero.

The "we know better than anyone else" attitude seems to be catching, particularly in this administration. We might feel better about some of the decisions regarding Social Security, health care, or taxes and IRAs, if we were all in the same boat. However, the leaders of these "reforms" don't pay into Social Security (salaries forever), have their own life-time cadillac health insurance, and use their positions to accumulate wealth (and, apparently, avoid paying taxes).

Just what I was talking about

This was in my paper, just the day after my post. I guess others have noticed the deception too.

Clever Bumper Stickers

With so many in this country finding out that the "change" they thought they wanted isn't turning out to be wonderful, there are some very creative folks who have synthesized their frustrations into possible bumper stickers. This is the second bunch I've seen, but a few of these really express my concerns.






My favorite. I would definitely display this one.

Power Grab like no other

The "health care" legislation shoved through the House by the Democratic leaders is an enormous power grab like nothing else in history. Ms. Pelosi is not interested in seeing that the uninsured get health care. She cares about the accumulation of power and control. The Wall Street Journal has published two recent editorials about the disaster of this bill. The title of one is, "The Worst Bill Ever." To quote a couple of paragraphs:

In a rational political world, this 1,990-page runaway train would have been derailed months ago. With spending and debt already at record peacetime levels, the bill creates a new and probably unrepealable middle-class entitlement that is designed to expand over time. Taxes will need to rise precipitously, even as ObamaCare so dramatically expands government control of health care that eventually all medicine will be rationed via politics.

Yet at this point, Democrats have dumped any pretense of genuine bipartisan "reform" and moved into the realm of pure power politics as they race against the unpopularity of their own agenda. The goal is to ram through whatever income-redistribution scheme they can claim to be "universal coverage." The result will be destructive on every level—for the health-care system, for the country's fiscal condition, and ultimately for American freedom and prosperity.

One of the House's bill claims to be able to trim hundreds of billions of dollars in waste and fraud from Medicare's budget to help pay for the new plan. But if Medicare is truly this mismanaged, then government-dominated health care is not a model to follow.

An article written by Deroy Murdock, a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University, highlights some interesting comparisons. He points out that a year ago, candidate Barack Obama warned that Republican rule meant cuts in Medicare, lower-quality care, and paying more for drugs. "But wait....These massive Medicare cuts bear no Republican fingerprints. They are--gasp--handcrafted by Democrats."

He goes on to say, "Had the GOP mulled even a fraction of these cuts, Republican National Headquarters would be a smoking ruin. GOP members of Congress would be clad in Kevlar." He includes quotes about dire consequences for Medicare and Medicade (if Republicans had their way) from the late Ted Kennedy, Sen. Chris Dodd, and then Rep. Sherrod Brown (D. Ohio).

He ends with the note that Democrats are in charge now and "...they practically can taste the government medicine they covet." The mainstream media would have lambasted the Republicans as they did in 1995 when a GOP Congress considered a 6% Medicare growth, rather than the 10% that was projected. Now, however, they are an active part of the power grab.