August 14th, 2009 I’m sure this will be dismissed as “lies” even though it’s video of people in their own words speaking to their supporters…It even has the video of the original Dem strategist explaining on how we’re going to get to a single payer (government run universal health care) system incrementally so as not to scare people thinking they are going to lose private insurance!
August 12th, 2009 A great summary of the situation from the astute mind of Sarahrolph. I added just a tad in the brackets.
A public plan is by definition outside the realm of market competition. “Public” means that it is paid for by tax dollars. (The government does not have its own money. It prints money as a convenience, so we don’t have to use clams. But all wealth is created by individuals. “Government money” is the money taken from us via taxes.)
Congress has a great plan because you and I pay for it. It works fine because there are so many more of us than there are of them. The special deal Congress gets can’t be shared with everyone because tax money is not unlimited.
The free market is made up of voluntary transactions–people deciding to go into business to provide goods and services and people deciding to spend some of their hard-earned dollars for the goods and services they want or need. Those of us who believe in the free market want to see more private insurance companies, providing more options, with less government regulation. And more private medical research, and more private medical clinics, etc. When things are run like a business, they become more and more efficient as innovation increases, as experience is gained, and as demand and then supply increases. That means that over time things end up costing less and less. (Look at pretty much any commercial product to see this trend. In a truly free market, medical innovation would follow this same trend. Look at Lasik surgery–it is a private innovation, a market has been created, demand increased, then supply increased, now the cost has gone way down.)
These results do not generally happen in government programs because there is no incentive for them to happen. Government employees are paid even if their programs fail, and the receipients of government programs are told they are getting something for free. Lack of incentive on both sides of the transaction.
August 11th, 2009 Congressman Scott loses his temper after a Dr in his district has the gall to ask if he supports the “Public Option” HC reform… I thought it was the mob that was supposed to be angry.
Nancy Pelosi: Town Hall Protesters ‘Carrying Swastikas’:
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August 6th, 2009 And by wrong doers, we mean anyone who disagrees with Obama. I can’t believe this actually on the WHITE HOUSE web site and not some fringe political action committee blog.
“These rumors (vicious lies that Obama wants universal health care) often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help… send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.”
Be sure and report anyone that disagrees with Obama to Big Bro!!
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August 1st, 2009 This 2 min video sums up the goals of health care reform better than any thing else I’ve seen.
June 2nd, 2009 Back in December, Senator Bob Corker advocated letting GM go through bankruptcy as a way for the company to lose some of the millstones around it’s neck and emerge a stronger company that could stand on it’s own. Democrat’s decried the suggestion as a terrible idea and “un-American”.
Two bailouts of GM and $20,000,000,000 later, Obama is taking GM to bankruptcy court as the “best solution”. Wow, why didn’t we see this sooner? We could have saved all that money.
Unfortunately, Obama is not removing millstones so much realizing that the 3rd bailout in 6 months would probably hurt his approval numbers - so he’s calling this government intervention a “structured bankruptcy”. And worse still for the taxpayer, Obama is leading with his strong suit which is politics not profits:
Every decision the feds have made since December suggests that nonpolitical management will be impossible. First they replaced Mr. Wagoner — whom they are nonetheless still paying — with the more pliable Fritz Henderson as CEO and Kent Kresa as Chairman. The latter are good at playing Washington but unproven in making popular cars. Then Treasury bludgeoned the bond holders in both Chrysler and GM to take pennies on the dollar, which will not make creditors eager to lend to the companies in the future.
May 8th, 2009 The Dept of Education’s latest report showed the DC pilot voucher program has been very successful in improving the educational opportunities for poor Black & Hispanic kids. As this didn’t help the position of anti-voucher political allies, Obama’s administration held back the positive news until after Congress killed the program.
Glad those poor minority students now have better representation with the first Black President! Too bad the inner city kids didn’t have a powerful lobby that could donate lots of money to Obama’s political campaign. Otherwise he not only would have kept their scholarships - he might have purchased a 55% stake in their private school for them!!!
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April 23rd, 2009 Wesbury and Stein at Forbes remind us that even “if the government increased the top tax rate [(for the highest income-earners)] from the current rate of 35% to 100% (yes, that’s right 100%), it would only collect an extra $400 billion this year. In other words, confiscating all the income that is currently taxed at 35% would not raise enough revenue to cover any of the annual deficits projected in the next 10 years. There is no way that tax hikes on the rich alone can pay for proposed spending in the current budget.”
Kind of puts the “only raise taxes on the rich” in perspective. And shows how utterly out of hand it has become.
Juxtapose that to this:
Obama’s spending vs. Obama’s spending cuts in pictures
I almost spit my coffee out when I saw that.
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April 17th, 2009 Glen Beck has an excellent 4 minute summation of the motivation behind the mobs of people assembling in Tea Party Protests around the country. If you are for the Tea Parties it will speak to you. Or if you don’t understand the parties (for instance if you think they are anti-Obama) it will open your eyes (and you may find you agree with them more than you think).