Obama made a slip of the tongue last week when he tried to use the United States Postal Service to defend the government option in health care. He said that UPS and FedEx are doing fine. It's the Post Office that is always having problems. Actually the Post Office will be approximately 7 - 10 billion dollars in debt by the end of this year.
We currently have three main sources for healthcare funding in the US: Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance. Two of the three which I mentioned are bankrupt. I'm sure you can figure it out. If the government can't run a nationalized program on a small scale. How will it run it for the whole country without bankrupting the whole country.
I haven't even mentioned other govt failures like Social security and cash for clunkers. I know people may say its the morally right thing to do, but why wait till people get sick? Why not have universal housing? People will get sick if they don't have housing. What about universal clothing and universal food. People will get sick if they don't have proper nourishment.
Obama claims that this is to increase competition. To keep people honest. Thats great if you hold this position throughout. This has little to nothing to do with competition rather than control. If he was really an advocate for competition he would open up the educational system to competition with the school voucher program. When Obama was trying to find a school for his kids, he visited public and private schools and had a few choices.
However, he would deny the rest of us this choice. With the school voucher program, parents who are not happy with their school district could take their tax money and select a school of their choice for their kids. The schools that are underperforming would have to reform or close down. The winners would be the parents because they would have more choices in selecting a school and wouldn't be forced to send their kids to a public school.
Competition is great unless you are owned by the teacher's union and is not politically convenient. This type of hypocrisy can be seen on both sides of the aisle of course. If Obama really cared about competition then he would open up education to competition.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Thursday, July 23, 2009
I'm Pro-Choice
I have to admit that I'm pro-choice. I'm not referring to abortion but rather to my medical care. Obama used an example of Doctor's taking tonsils out when a child has a sore throat. This was an interesting example and actually a poor one at that.
The way things are right now it would ultimately be the parent's choice. The doctor can recommend surgery but the parents can get a second opinion and then have the choice to say yes or no. Under Obama's scenario of government run health care, if there was a child who had a legitimate reason to have there tonsils removed the decision would be up to a government bureaucrat rather than the doctor and patient.
Obama has not even read the HealthCare bill he is trying so hard to ram down our throats. Why is that important? Because he is making claims that are completely untrue and is contrary to what is written in the bill.
Right now everyone is concerned about the 50 million who don't have insurance and they are willing to screw the 100+ million who do have insurance and are happy with what they've got. The 50 million number the president speaks of is very debatable. Some argue that there are millions of people who should be excluded such as those who aren't American citizens (10 million), those who can afford insurance but choose not to take it and people who qualify for government coverage but don't sign up.
The President and the Democratic controlled congress are about to add 50 million people to the healthcare system but with the same number of doctors and nurses. There is a nursing shortage as things stand and the govt is thinking about adding an additional 50 million people. The only choice is for the government to ration health care. The people who will suffer the most will be the elderly. Recently, a woman asked Obama if her 105 year old mother who got a pacemaker at the age of 100 would have gotten a pacemaker with his plan. His response was for her to take a painkiller.
In Canada and in other places with socialized medicine, patients have to wait months to see a doctor. For instance, someone with Arthritis the average wait time is 9 months. Here in the US you can see your doctor immediately. Anytime the government gets involved it only screws things up. Medicare and Medicaid are going broke. Social Security is going broke and next will be government run health care.
"In Obama's interview on ABC, Dr. Orrin Devinsky, a neurologist and researcher at the New York University Langone Medical Center, said that elites often propose health care solutions that limit options for the general public, secure in the knowledge that if they or their loves ones get sick, they will be able to afford the best care available, even if it's not provided by insurance.
At the end its all about choice and Obama and the Democratic controlled Congress wants to take that away from us.
The way things are right now it would ultimately be the parent's choice. The doctor can recommend surgery but the parents can get a second opinion and then have the choice to say yes or no. Under Obama's scenario of government run health care, if there was a child who had a legitimate reason to have there tonsils removed the decision would be up to a government bureaucrat rather than the doctor and patient.
Obama has not even read the HealthCare bill he is trying so hard to ram down our throats. Why is that important? Because he is making claims that are completely untrue and is contrary to what is written in the bill.
Right now everyone is concerned about the 50 million who don't have insurance and they are willing to screw the 100+ million who do have insurance and are happy with what they've got. The 50 million number the president speaks of is very debatable. Some argue that there are millions of people who should be excluded such as those who aren't American citizens (10 million), those who can afford insurance but choose not to take it and people who qualify for government coverage but don't sign up.
The President and the Democratic controlled congress are about to add 50 million people to the healthcare system but with the same number of doctors and nurses. There is a nursing shortage as things stand and the govt is thinking about adding an additional 50 million people. The only choice is for the government to ration health care. The people who will suffer the most will be the elderly. Recently, a woman asked Obama if her 105 year old mother who got a pacemaker at the age of 100 would have gotten a pacemaker with his plan. His response was for her to take a painkiller.
In Canada and in other places with socialized medicine, patients have to wait months to see a doctor. For instance, someone with Arthritis the average wait time is 9 months. Here in the US you can see your doctor immediately. Anytime the government gets involved it only screws things up. Medicare and Medicaid are going broke. Social Security is going broke and next will be government run health care.
"In Obama's interview on ABC, Dr. Orrin Devinsky, a neurologist and researcher at the New York University Langone Medical Center, said that elites often propose health care solutions that limit options for the general public, secure in the knowledge that if they or their loves ones get sick, they will be able to afford the best care available, even if it's not provided by insurance.
Devinsky 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" (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/HealthCare/story?id=7919991&page=1)At the end its all about choice and Obama and the Democratic controlled Congress wants to take that away from us.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Let's Review
I wanted to take a look at some of the highlights or lowlights of the last few months.
1) Creation of generational debt
I believe the biggest mistake of this administration was the nearly $1 trillion stimulus package. In order to pay for this, the govt will have to borrow, print and most likely increase taxes. None of which will help us. The president came out and said last week that the stimulus did what it was intended for --to extend unemployment benefits. However, Obama is only treating a symptom and not the problem. Rather than extend unemployment benefits why not get people off of unemployment and into the workforce.
Obama promised that stimulus wouldn't allow the unemployment rate to go above 8 percent but now we are sitting with an unemployment rate close to 10%.
Approximately 10% of the stimulus money has been spent. The defenders of the stimulus say that the reason for this is because government is cumbersome, slow and inefficient and it could take many more months. However, these same people want to give government control to health care, auto and the financial sector.
It is also interesting to note that the groups that benefited the most from the stimulus package were Obama's key supporters such as unions, ACORN and many other organizations. Just last week USA Today uncovered that stimulus money was going to Obama supporters in a very partisan way when the actual numbers are broken down and analyzed.
Now there is talk of a second stimulus package!
2) Iraq and Afghanistan
A good decision that he made was to stay the course in Afghanistan. The problem is that he campaigned as the anti-war president. He said that he would pull out of Iraq as soon as he was elected. None of those promises were kept so I'm sure people on the left may not be too happy with this flip flop.
3) Closing Guantanamo bay
This is where Obama drew the moral line and said no more torture. However, in cases of national security Obama can authorize the use of torture or as it is called Enhanced Interrogation Techniques. Basically nothing has changed because only the most wanted terrorists were subjected to these techniques anyways. Very clever way of sounding righteous but keeping everything the same.
Now Obama is stuck in the same sitatuation that Bush was in. Where do you send these criminals? Our Allies turned down Obamas request to keep them abroad. The citizens of this country don't want them on our soil. Do you let them go free? The ones that are released will join the battle field against the US once again.
Only time will tell.
4) Abortion
Obama said that he wants to compromise on the issue of abortion. I wasn't sure what that meant. What it means is that people who are against abortion would have to change their beliefs. Otherwise they would be divisive. As soon as he took office he reversed the abortion funding policy even though most people in the country are against abortion.
Anyways, these are just a few things to think about.
1) Creation of generational debt
I believe the biggest mistake of this administration was the nearly $1 trillion stimulus package. In order to pay for this, the govt will have to borrow, print and most likely increase taxes. None of which will help us. The president came out and said last week that the stimulus did what it was intended for --to extend unemployment benefits. However, Obama is only treating a symptom and not the problem. Rather than extend unemployment benefits why not get people off of unemployment and into the workforce.
Obama promised that stimulus wouldn't allow the unemployment rate to go above 8 percent but now we are sitting with an unemployment rate close to 10%.
Approximately 10% of the stimulus money has been spent. The defenders of the stimulus say that the reason for this is because government is cumbersome, slow and inefficient and it could take many more months. However, these same people want to give government control to health care, auto and the financial sector.
It is also interesting to note that the groups that benefited the most from the stimulus package were Obama's key supporters such as unions, ACORN and many other organizations. Just last week USA Today uncovered that stimulus money was going to Obama supporters in a very partisan way when the actual numbers are broken down and analyzed.
Now there is talk of a second stimulus package!
2) Iraq and Afghanistan
A good decision that he made was to stay the course in Afghanistan. The problem is that he campaigned as the anti-war president. He said that he would pull out of Iraq as soon as he was elected. None of those promises were kept so I'm sure people on the left may not be too happy with this flip flop.
3) Closing Guantanamo bay
This is where Obama drew the moral line and said no more torture. However, in cases of national security Obama can authorize the use of torture or as it is called Enhanced Interrogation Techniques. Basically nothing has changed because only the most wanted terrorists were subjected to these techniques anyways. Very clever way of sounding righteous but keeping everything the same.
Now Obama is stuck in the same sitatuation that Bush was in. Where do you send these criminals? Our Allies turned down Obamas request to keep them abroad. The citizens of this country don't want them on our soil. Do you let them go free? The ones that are released will join the battle field against the US once again.
Only time will tell.
4) Abortion
Obama said that he wants to compromise on the issue of abortion. I wasn't sure what that meant. What it means is that people who are against abortion would have to change their beliefs. Otherwise they would be divisive. As soon as he took office he reversed the abortion funding policy even though most people in the country are against abortion.
Anyways, these are just a few things to think about.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Enhanced Interrogation Tecniques (EIT)
There has been much debate about the EIT used after 9/11. I find it interesting that George Bush was blamed after 9/11 for not doing enough to prevent 9/11 with a little info that he had. Now he is being blamed for his interrogation techniques that led to some vital information that saved thousands of lives.
One of the common things the left says is that the EIT will make the terrorists hate us more and be used for a tool for recruitment. I believe this is completely false. There were more terrorist attacks during Clinton's time in office than in the Bush years. More people were killed and/or injured during Clinton's time in office
All of the above attacks happened before the Iraq War and before the EITs. Radical Muslims have hated the US for decades and didn't just suddenly become popular.
Democrats like to support things when they are going smoothly but duck and run when things get shaky. The war in Iraq was supported by both democrats and republicans. The policy for regime change was signed by Bill Clinton in 1998 because he deemed Saddam a threat to the US. Check out this great video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5p-qIq32m8 which shows how the Dems bailed on the issue of Iraq.
The outrage over the EIT is really political payback clothed as morality and righteousness. Why do I say that? Pelosi one of the people leading the attack to prosecute Bush officials has now found herself entangled in this mess. She knew about the EIT in 2002 and had no problem with it then but all of a sudden she is outraged. Obama says that Enhanced Interrogation Techniques are immoral and yet what noone speaks of the fact that Obama didn't get rid of it. In fact, he alone can approve the use of these interrogation techniques in matters of high national security. Isn't that what Bush was doing to begin with? If an issue is wrong, it is wrong. If it is right, its right. This proves that this is completely politically motivated in order for Obama to score points with the far left.
People think that CIA officials waterboarded anybody and everybody. Wrong. They only waterboarded 3 people and valuable information was learned from interrogating these terrorists.
Not only was the head of the CIA against releasing the techniques that were being used but four of the previous heads of the CIA. Obama's own National Intelligence director even said valuable information was obtain from these techniques that saved thousands of lives.
It is interesting that Obama releases the method of obtaining these confessions such as waterboarding but does not reveal the full content because then people would realize he is merely catering to the far left.
One of the common things the left says is that the EIT will make the terrorists hate us more and be used for a tool for recruitment. I believe this is completely false. There were more terrorist attacks during Clinton's time in office than in the Bush years. More people were killed and/or injured during Clinton's time in office
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All of the above attacks happened before the Iraq War and before the EITs. Radical Muslims have hated the US for decades and didn't just suddenly become popular.
Democrats like to support things when they are going smoothly but duck and run when things get shaky. The war in Iraq was supported by both democrats and republicans. The policy for regime change was signed by Bill Clinton in 1998 because he deemed Saddam a threat to the US. Check out this great video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5p-qIq32m8 which shows how the Dems bailed on the issue of Iraq.
The outrage over the EIT is really political payback clothed as morality and righteousness. Why do I say that? Pelosi one of the people leading the attack to prosecute Bush officials has now found herself entangled in this mess. She knew about the EIT in 2002 and had no problem with it then but all of a sudden she is outraged. Obama says that Enhanced Interrogation Techniques are immoral and yet what noone speaks of the fact that Obama didn't get rid of it. In fact, he alone can approve the use of these interrogation techniques in matters of high national security. Isn't that what Bush was doing to begin with? If an issue is wrong, it is wrong. If it is right, its right. This proves that this is completely politically motivated in order for Obama to score points with the far left.
People think that CIA officials waterboarded anybody and everybody. Wrong. They only waterboarded 3 people and valuable information was learned from interrogating these terrorists.
Not only was the head of the CIA against releasing the techniques that were being used but four of the previous heads of the CIA. Obama's own National Intelligence director even said valuable information was obtain from these techniques that saved thousands of lives.
It is interesting that Obama releases the method of obtaining these confessions such as waterboarding but does not reveal the full content because then people would realize he is merely catering to the far left.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Obama is running out of people to blame
Great article from the Wall Street Journal:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123604419092515347.html
The next article shows the effect that taxing the rich will have. Taxing the rich hurts everyone because the rich will have to layoff the little people.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=6975547&page=1
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123604419092515347.html
The next article shows the effect that taxing the rich will have. Taxing the rich hurts everyone because the rich will have to layoff the little people.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=6975547&page=1
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Rush Limbaugh's take
I recommend you guys watch his whole speech, but here is just an excerpt. I try to ignore his cockiness and listen to the great great information.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MyDsRWwQvc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MyDsRWwQvc&feature=related
Bush's legacy
I hope people reading my blog don't think I'm just bashing Obama. I'm taking shots at the message. The messenger just happens to be Obama. Everyone believes that Obama is bringing some new ideas to the table. Truth is for the most part he isn't. It's just the democratic platform thats been there for decades being repackaged. I'll write a blog about that later.
I wrote that Obama has been saying that the people have rendered their judgment and brought him in to change things. Well, Bush also had this type of arrogance when he was relected in 2004. He said that he won alot of capital with his re-election. Political capital to be exact and he intends to spend it. I was asked by a friend on my thoughts on Bush and here it is:
The Good:
1) On the social issues, Bush was a true conservative. The limits he put on abortion and embyronic stem cell research, received much praise from most of the country. He was a true conservative on social issues such as gay marriage. The US is a centrist country that leans right. How else do you explain the most liberal state in the country defining marriage as being between a man and woman...twice.
2) His faith based initiatives were also well received. Giving power to local organizations such as churches to serve the community. He realized that who would know the needs of the people better....some bureaucrat sitting in Washington or the people in the local communities that serve the people everyday. It was such a good plan that Obama plans to continue the funding to the faith based initiative program.
3) His attempt to reform education with the No Child Left Behind act was an attempt at bipartisanship. He even reached out to Ted Kennedy to write the bill. Spending on education rose almost 60% in Bush's first three years, this represents a bigger increase in investing in education than Clinton's 8 years. The goals of the bill were for mandatory testing and accountability. Some critics claimed that teachers were teaching to the test, but propents of the bill said at least they were teaching to something. Scores improved drastically for certain grade levels, however the US still lags other countries.
4) Bush sent billions of dollars to Africa for the AIDS epidemic in this country. He was never given enough credit for the help he gave to millions of people living in Africa. He did more for Africa than Bill Clinton ever did.
5) He stood against the alarmists of global warming who said that the world was going to end. He slowed the movement toward a policy disaster allowing facts to catch up with the global warming alarmists. Initially Al Gore claimed that there are no scientists that dispute that global warming is the problem. Now there are over 650 UN scientists that debunk this claim and the numbers are still growing. In fact, scientists now say we are headed towards global cooling.
6) He kept our country safe after 9/11. There were more deaths and injuries from terrorist attacks during Bill Clinton's time in office than George Bush's time in office. A fact many people don't know.
7) He assigned John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court.
The bad:
The war in Iraq was his ultimate undoing. I won't list many because I think the mainstream media has kept everyone well informed of his missteps.
1) The war in Iraq was badly bungled. He didn't send enough troops to begin with and ignored pleas from generals on the ground. Once he did send the surge, it was a great success.
2) While Bush was fiscally conservative when speaking of tax cuts, he was not a conservative when it came to spending. Government grew way too much under his watch.
3) Conservatives believe in less government. Bush did the opposite.
4) Afghanistan is going back into chaos
5) Many people accused Bush for a lack of transparency.
The ugly:
I also believe that the media made him a target. The mainstream media usually do attack conservative candidates more. It's not just me being paranoid. Study after study shows that there is a clear bias in media coverage. You can view the results of an analysis performed by George Mason University as proof. (Time magazine compares him to Jesus Christ)
1) He was blamed for 9/11. They even scrutinize how he reacted when he was told that there had been an attack. He continued to read calmly to children.
2) He was blamed for Katrina even though a majority of the blame should rest on local government. Can you imagine if we got the federal government involved everytime there was a tornado in Oklahoma? Look at what a difference Bobby Jindal has made. He also experienced hurricanes, but he was prepared. No need for the feds.
3) He was blamed for the current economic crisis even though the policies that were put into place happened in the Clinton administration.
4) He was blamed for the price of gas. The price of gas had to do with supply and demand and there was little he could do about it. Well, the reverse is not true. Prices dropped under his watch and guess what...He wasn't given credit for it.
5) Obama is still blaming Bush and will continue to do so for the next 4 to 8 years. It's a great way to escape any sort of accountability. Reagan inherited a bigger mess than Obama did and pulled the country out of it quickly.
I think the biggest problem with George Bush was his inability to communicate. He couldn't even say the word nuclear. If he would have got out and defended his policies more boldly and put rumors to rest more quickly, he could saved a lot of face.
I wrote that Obama has been saying that the people have rendered their judgment and brought him in to change things. Well, Bush also had this type of arrogance when he was relected in 2004. He said that he won alot of capital with his re-election. Political capital to be exact and he intends to spend it. I was asked by a friend on my thoughts on Bush and here it is:
The Good:
1) On the social issues, Bush was a true conservative. The limits he put on abortion and embyronic stem cell research, received much praise from most of the country. He was a true conservative on social issues such as gay marriage. The US is a centrist country that leans right. How else do you explain the most liberal state in the country defining marriage as being between a man and woman...twice.
2) His faith based initiatives were also well received. Giving power to local organizations such as churches to serve the community. He realized that who would know the needs of the people better....some bureaucrat sitting in Washington or the people in the local communities that serve the people everyday. It was such a good plan that Obama plans to continue the funding to the faith based initiative program.
3) His attempt to reform education with the No Child Left Behind act was an attempt at bipartisanship. He even reached out to Ted Kennedy to write the bill. Spending on education rose almost 60% in Bush's first three years, this represents a bigger increase in investing in education than Clinton's 8 years. The goals of the bill were for mandatory testing and accountability. Some critics claimed that teachers were teaching to the test, but propents of the bill said at least they were teaching to something. Scores improved drastically for certain grade levels, however the US still lags other countries.
4) Bush sent billions of dollars to Africa for the AIDS epidemic in this country. He was never given enough credit for the help he gave to millions of people living in Africa. He did more for Africa than Bill Clinton ever did.
5) He stood against the alarmists of global warming who said that the world was going to end. He slowed the movement toward a policy disaster allowing facts to catch up with the global warming alarmists. Initially Al Gore claimed that there are no scientists that dispute that global warming is the problem. Now there are over 650 UN scientists that debunk this claim and the numbers are still growing. In fact, scientists now say we are headed towards global cooling.
6) He kept our country safe after 9/11. There were more deaths and injuries from terrorist attacks during Bill Clinton's time in office than George Bush's time in office. A fact many people don't know.
7) He assigned John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court.
The bad:
The war in Iraq was his ultimate undoing. I won't list many because I think the mainstream media has kept everyone well informed of his missteps.
1) The war in Iraq was badly bungled. He didn't send enough troops to begin with and ignored pleas from generals on the ground. Once he did send the surge, it was a great success.
2) While Bush was fiscally conservative when speaking of tax cuts, he was not a conservative when it came to spending. Government grew way too much under his watch.
3) Conservatives believe in less government. Bush did the opposite.
4) Afghanistan is going back into chaos
5) Many people accused Bush for a lack of transparency.
The ugly:
I also believe that the media made him a target. The mainstream media usually do attack conservative candidates more. It's not just me being paranoid. Study after study shows that there is a clear bias in media coverage. You can view the results of an analysis performed by George Mason University as proof. (Time magazine compares him to Jesus Christ)
1) He was blamed for 9/11. They even scrutinize how he reacted when he was told that there had been an attack. He continued to read calmly to children.
2) He was blamed for Katrina even though a majority of the blame should rest on local government. Can you imagine if we got the federal government involved everytime there was a tornado in Oklahoma? Look at what a difference Bobby Jindal has made. He also experienced hurricanes, but he was prepared. No need for the feds.
3) He was blamed for the current economic crisis even though the policies that were put into place happened in the Clinton administration.
4) He was blamed for the price of gas. The price of gas had to do with supply and demand and there was little he could do about it. Well, the reverse is not true. Prices dropped under his watch and guess what...He wasn't given credit for it.
5) Obama is still blaming Bush and will continue to do so for the next 4 to 8 years. It's a great way to escape any sort of accountability. Reagan inherited a bigger mess than Obama did and pulled the country out of it quickly.
I think the biggest problem with George Bush was his inability to communicate. He couldn't even say the word nuclear. If he would have got out and defended his policies more boldly and put rumors to rest more quickly, he could saved a lot of face.
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