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A NEW HIGH IN STUPIDITY

The Senate Finance Committee chaired by Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) finally came out with a proposal for health care reform. This proposal far exceeds the usual level of stupidity that is to be expected from our rulers in Washington.

The reason given for the effort to reform health care was that 25 million people were not covered by health insurance. After laboring mightily for many days this committee came up with a plan that will cost, according to their own estimates, will cost over $900 billion. But guess what? Does it provide for allowing the purchase of health insurance across state lines? No!! Does it address frivolous malpractice suits? No!! Did they do anything about the high cost of prescription drugs? No!! After this huge expenditure this plan would still leave 25 million people uninsured!! So what is the point?

Washington estimates being notoriously unreliable this proposal if adopted will surely cost over a trillion dollars. And where will this trillion come from? Out of the wallets of every person in this country.

How could anyone vote for this ridiculous bill. It accomplishes nothing in regard to improving health care but does a great deal to take money from Americans of all income groups. It also puts decisions on who will get treatment in the hands of government bureaucrats. They may call it by some other name but Gov. Palin was right it's a Death Panel.

If you value your health, your freedom and your money call your representative and your senators and demand that this whole health care scheme be dropped. Not only this Baucus bill but any so-called comprehensive health reform bill. Sure as shootin' they'll mess it up. Separate bills to allow people to buy health insurance in any state in the country, to reduce frivolous malpractice suits and to reduce the cost of prescription drugs will go a long way to reduce health care costs.

Oh yes and rounding up and deporting illegal aliens would also help a lot.

This makes me FURIOUS!!     Don't vote for incumbents!!    Don't vote for lawyers!!

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FREEDOM!!!!

Congress, is in the process of trying to enact reform of our medical system in spite of the fact that 80+ per cent of Americans are satisfied with the health coverage they have now. I won't try to go into the details now since the content of the bill hasn't been finalized except to say that like everything that comes out of Washington it will be loaded with regulations and penalties for non-compliance.

I'd like to suggest that what we need is not more regulation but more freedom.

We need the freedom to buy health insurance from any company in the country.
This will bring true competition to the health insurance industry.

We need to free doctors from the menace of frivolous law suits.
The cost of the extra tests run by doctors to protect themselves from malpractice lawsuits is a major factor in the cost of health care.

We need to free the American public from the inequitably high drug prices by passing a law which prevents the pharmaceutical companies from charging more for drugs in the USA than they do in other countries.
I speak from personal experience in this regard. An expensive medication I take was purchased from a Canadian pharmacy for one-fourth the cost. If Canada can have it why can't we?

We need to be free of the millstone that is the use of our health care system by illegal aliens.
If the people in Washington won't enforce our immigration laws we should vote them out of office.
We also need a law that says that a child born in the USA to an illegal alien is not automatically a citizen.

The president and others in the administration have said there is a lot of waste and corruption in Medicare and Medicaid.
No 1000+ page bill is needed to correct this.
The Attorney General should take care of this instead of persecuting CIA interrogators who saved us from countless terror attacks.

I urge everyone to contact their representatives in Congress and tell them not to pass this monstrosity of health care reform.

This makes me FURIOUS!!!

DON'T VOTE FOR INCUMBENTS!!!   DON'T VOTE FOR LAWYERS!!!!

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RACISM 2009

It seems that these days if you disagree with President Obama that automatically makes you a racist.
If you tell the truth about a left winger you are a racist.

When Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina shouted, "You lie" during Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress he may have been out of order but he was telling the truth. This brought cries of racism from such diverse quarters as Maureen Dowd the hysterical columnist for the New York Times to Jimmy Carter, the worst president in US history, soon to be superseded by the present occupant of the White House Barak Obama.
Also joining in the chorus crying racism was Rep. Hank Johnson D-GA, bringing up the KKK, who said "people would be putting on white hoods and white uniforms again and riding through the countryside." This ignorant dolt should be reminded that if you take off the white hood you will more than likely find a Democrat.
All of these charges of racism are bogus.
Now let's talk about real racism.
In the last election Obama got 98% of the black vote exceeding even the usual 90-95% that goes to Democrat candidates. This is real racism. If 98% of whites had voted for McCain the shouts of racism from left-wingers and their stooges in the main stream media would have lasted for his entire term.
Blacks routinely elect members of their own race to office, where they are in the majority, more often than not to their own detriment. Predominantly black cities such as Detroit and Washington, DC are a shambles thanks to black incompetence and corruption. Barak Obama is leading the country to financial ruin just as his black leftist counterparts have ruined other places where they have been given power.
So let's examine these charges of racism with a more analytical eye. Charges of racism are being used to stifle honest debate  by those who know they have lost the argument. It's time for President Obama to put a stop to this by stating that to disagree with him doesn't denote racism.

To paraphrase Patrick Henry, "If this be racism make the most of it."

DON'T VOTE FOR INCUMBENTS!!!  DON'T VOTE FOR LAWYERS!!!! 

THIS MAKES ME FURIOUS!!!!


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CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS = BRIBES

BRIBE - Any gift or emolument used corruptly to influence a person.

Why isn't tort reform in any of the proposed socialized medicine bills now making their way through Congress?

Why haven't our abundant oil resources been developed leaving us at the mercy of antagonistic regimes in the Middle East?

Why are farmers deprived of irrigation water to protect some bottom dwelling junk fish?

Why aren't our borders secured and our immigration laws enforced thereby putting the security of the nation at risk?

The answer to these and many similar questions is bribery of our elected officials by special interest groups.

The most ridiculous of these is the constant blocking of oil drilling by the Democrat Party. This concession to the conservation wackos by the Democrats not only endangers our national security but causes hundreds of billions of our dollars to go to regimes that are antagonistic to us. A good portion of these billions are funneled to terrorist organizations. in effect these billions are going to support our enemies.

The problem is ever increasingly expensive political campaigns. I don't know how much was spent on the last presidential campaign but I do remember that the Obama campaign was reporting contributions in the hundreds of millions. I can foresee a billion dollar presidential campaign in the near future with special interests gaining more and more influence over the winners. The power should be with the people and not the special interests.

The angry protests at town hall meetings are evidence that the average person is tired of having their interests subjugated to the narrow interests of a few groups.

Tort reform is not considered because lawyers give large bribes to the Democrat Party.

Most people want to develop our oil resources but this is denied because  the conservationists give large bribes to the Democrat Party.

Farmers are deprived of irrigation water because of conservationist bribes.

We have an illegal immigrant problem because of bribes given to both parties. The Republicans at the behest of the US Chamber of Commerce want cheap labor mainly from Mexico. The Democrats at the behest of Latino groups are trying to build a voting bloc of people to whom they will give government largess. Both are detrimental to the average American.

The answer to this problem is to limit campaign spending. I have suggested in the past that campaign spending be limited to spending 25 cents for each vote cast in the previous election. So if a 100 million votes was cast in an election spending in the next election would be limited to $25 million. This would also apply to state, county and all other elections. The number of votes cast for a particular office would determine the amount of campaign spending. Any excess contributions would go into the general fund of what ever jurisdiction the election was held in.

If enough citizens get behind such a proposition it could be passed. Any elected official opposing this should be thrown out of office.

DON'T VOTE FOR INCUMBENTS!! DON'T VOTE FOR LAWYERS!!


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AMERICAN ROYALTY

In these times of financial crisis the House of Representatives tried to push through a request to buy eight jets for the personal use of Congressional "dignitaries." These planes would have cost $550 Billion. The purpose of these planes, supposedly, is to transport Congressmen/women on information gathering trips to help in the crafting of legislation and to give insight on foreign policy. This irresponsible expenditure of taxpayer money is just one more instance of the, "Let them eat cake attitude", of the Washington elites. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs but the profligate spending goes on and on. I suppose with the trillions of wasteful spending by the Obama administration the House spendthrifts thought another half billion would hardly be noticed.  Of course, the little known fact about these fact-finding trips is that spouses are allowed to accompany Congressional personnel and that they routinely visit swanky vacation spots around the globe.

Politicians seem to think they are the new royalty. Some new rules must be formulated starting with some for these fact finding trips which are a thinly disguised excuse for taxpayer paid vacation trips.

DON'T VOTE FOR INCUMBENTS!!!!!!

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HEALTH CARE REFORM - LET'S GO SLOW

Congress in it's usual ham-handed fashion has embarked on a course to revamp the entire health care system of the United States. Judging by past performance this is the worst course that could be taken for the large majority of the American people.
 
What should be done is to take reform in easy stages instead of trying to solve a myriad of problems all at once. Especially considering that most members of Congress have difficulty chewing gum and walking at the same time.

First we need tort reform.
Doctors must be shielded from frivolous lawsuits which drive up the cost of malpractice insurance and the cost of practicing medicine. At the same time victims of real malpractice must be protected. Of course getting the lawyers in Congress to enact such a law would be a huge undertaking.But public outrage stopped the amnesty for illegal aliens and could also force passage of tort reform.

Second, buyers must be allowed to purchase insurance across state lines. This will finally introduce true competition into the health insurance field.

Third, Illegal aliens must be rounded up and deported. It is estimated that in 2004 it cost the taxpayers of California
 $10.5
Billion in medical care, education expenses and to incarcerate illegal alien criminals. We must also stop the practice of alien women coming across the border to have their babies in American hospitals. In addition to the cost to American taxpayers the baby is an American citizen and under present law and can be the anchor to bring in the rest of the family.The law must be changed so that babies born to illegal aliens are not automatically American citizens.

That should be enough to start with. We should see significant benefits if these proposals are enacted into law. Considering Congress' abysmal record they'll probably screw up at least half of this and have to do it over again. Let's hope practice makes perfect.

DON'T VOTE FOR INCUMBENTS!!!!!!




 



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PHEW!!!!

Well, here it  is Friday, August 17 and the Senate has adjourned.

Now we can finally say that Congress is in recess and the Republic is safe..........for the time being.

Don't vote for incumbents!!!!!!


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A PRO-AMERICAN GOVERNMENT

Last August I wrote on this site about a Pro-American president outlining what actions I would like to see our president take. Now I'd like to outline what actions I think a Pro-American government should take.

1. Our government should begin a crash program to develop all domestic energy resources. Every other country in the world that has a drop of oil in it's territory can develop it but we cannot. The political contributions of the Sierra Club and similar organizations influence our politicians to such an extent that as a result we are kept dependent on foreign sources of oil. If  countries like Saudi Arabia and Venezuela cut off our oil the present fiscal crisis will seem like child' play.
France gets 80% of it's electric power from nuclear plants. Why can't we? Nuclear power is the cleanest, non-polluting energy there is. The Greenies say, "What about nuclear waste?" France takes care of it. Why can't we?
Now there is a lot of talk about using natural gas, of which we have an abundance, to power our cars and trucks. That's fine. But where are the programs to convert cars and trucks to use this gas in place of gasoline and diesel fuel? Where is the program to help gas stations to sell natural gas? If there are such programs I haven't heard about them.

2. Our trade policies should be reformed. We should withdraw from all international trade organizations. Our trade policies should be determined by the Congress, as prescribed by our Constitution, not by bureaucrats in a foreign country.
Our industries should be rebuilt by placing tariffs on foreign imports. Critics would call this isolationism. That's nonsense. We would still trade with other countries but on bilateral terms not on one size fits all regulations formulated by a bunch of bureaucrats. It has been said that the Smoot-Hawley tariff of the thirties was one of the causes of the Great Depression. That's debatable but there is no such act in force now and it looks more and more like we are headed for something resembling what occurred before we got into World War II.
At least in the thirties we had a substantial industrial complex to help us recover from the Great Depression and win the war. Now we have nothing. Thanks to "Free Trade" our industrial complex is a pale shadow of what it once was.

3.The insane spending must be stopped and an immediate 10% cut in all departments except the military must be imposed. Any politician who votes for excessive spending must be thrown out of office.

These measures, if implemented, would be a good start. For anything like these measures to be put in effect we need leaders who put the welfare of the United States first and their political parties and their personal ambition second. For this we need real patriots.

Abraham Lincoln once said words to the effect that all the armies of the world with Napoleon as it's leader couldn't set foot in the Blue Ridge. That if our nation were to be brought down it would have to be by internal enemies. That's exactly what is happening to us now. Our most dangerous enemies aren't China or Russia or any foreign country. Our enemies are the career politicians in congress who will do anything to keep their cushy jobs.

There is an election in 2010. It may be our last opportunity to save our republic.

DON'T VOTE FOR INCUMBENTS!!!!!


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DON'T JUST DO SOMETHING - STAND THERE!!

The Senate is considering three bills which having been passed by the House are now awaiting Senate action before becoming law. The three measures are :

1. Cap and Trade which will make energy and everything else more expensive for every American. Naturally, the brunt of these increases will fall on those least able to bear them. The poorest Americans, those near the poverty level, will have to pay more for gasoline, more for heating their homes; in short more for everything.

2. The Hate Crimes Bill or as it is known to some The Child Predator Protective Bill. This legislation would gag clergymen from preaching against homosexuality and other perversions. If provisions in this bill are similar to those in Canada it would even be forbidden to put an ad in a newspaper referring to the bible verse in Leviticus which condemns these unnatural practices.

3. Universal Health Care. In a few words: IT DOESN'T WORK! If you're reading this you have a computer. Do a Google search on national health care in places like the UK and Canada. People with serious illnesses sometimes have to wait months for diagnostic tests which can be had in the USA in a few days. Our politicians tell us that our medical system is too expensive yet they want to spend more billions on insuring everyone in the country. Maybe instead they should round up the illegal aliens, who are the chief users of emergency rooms, which would cut down the expense a great deal. They could also stop wasting our tax money on lavish foreign trips and other wasteful pork projects.

The politicians (I didn't call them representatives because they aren't) insist on passing laws that we don't want and are harmful to the country. They think they can get away with it because we keep re-electing the same bums election after election. It's time for REAL change. There's an election next year. It's the opportunity to save our republic. DON'T VOTE FOR INCUMBENTS!! It doesn't matter which party they belong to.  If enough incumbents are tossed out on their rear ends it will serve notice on the rest that we are:
MAD AS HELL AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE.

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2010: FREEDOMS LAST CHANCE

The latest polls show that Barak Obama has a 58% approval rating. I'm wondering why! Are these 58% not paying attention? Are they unaware that Obama and the Democrat dominated Congress are spending us into unsustainable debt.

Are they unaware that this president, who promised a transparent administration, has erected an iron curtain of secrecy between the American public and almost every move he makes?

Do they approve of his violating a law which he co-sponsored regarding the firing of Inspectors General?

Do they approve of his unwillingness to show his birth certificate to prove he is eligible to hold the highest office in the land? Never mind if he was born in the United States we don't even know if he's a citizen.

Do they approve of his demanding a stimulus package be passed so quickly that those who voted on it didn't have time to read it and then waited five days to sign it.

Everything has to be done in a hurry with this administration. His Supreme Court nominee has to be approved before the August recess., socialized medicine (don't let them tell you it's anything different) and the Hate Crimes bill has to be passed right away.

The only way to stop this plunge into socialism is at next year's election. If a large number of incumbents are defeated it will send shock waves through Washington. Our "representatives", of whatever party, might start listening to us . I believe that the 2010 election is our last chance to preserve what freedom we still have left.

DON'T VOTE FOR INCUMBENTS!!!!!
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HOW TO DEAL WITH NORTH KOREA

North Korea has been making some threatening moves lately.

Nuclear tests, rocket launchesand threats to their neighbors.


The rest of the world is having a hissy fit trying to work out some way to deal with these commie maniacs. This tenth rate dictatorship can't provide for it's people without massive aid from China and, when the limp-wrists in the US State Department have their way, .Uncle Sap.

The only way to deal with these bullies is from a position of strength.

We should tell the North Koreans that if they want to build nuclear bombs go ahead. If they want to build rockets go ahead. But if they dare to use these weapons or conventional weapons against anyone they will bring down on their heads thermonuclear destruction. Kim Jong Il and his family will die. Most of their army, including their top generals, will die. Those that survive will be living (for a short radiation poisoned time) in a country that is even more miserable than it is now.

In addition, all ships going and coming from North Korea will be subject to search. If contraband is found the ship will be sunk on the spot.

No negotiations. This is the way it will be.

Everything else has failed to rein in these wackos. Let's try something different.

Of course the weaklings in the White House and the State Department will never have the intestinal fortitude to do any such thing.

And this makes me FURIOUS!!!!!



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THE BOY PRESIDENT

Barak Obama has been touted as the most intelligent president in United States history. He is certainly one of the most polished speakers in recent times. But I would suggest that he is also one of the most immature men to occupy the Oval Office.

Whenever a difficult problem arises he always claims it is not his fault someone else is to blame (usually George W. Bush).

His recent difficulty with closing the Guantanamo Bay prison is George Bush's fault for building the prison in the first place. However, Bush didn't force him to make the promise to close the prison. He did that on his own. But now, like a teenager or a left-winger (who have very similar mind-sets) he refuses to take responsibility for getting himself into this quandary. It's Bush's fault for building the prison in the first place.

Time after time when a tough problem comes up we hear the same thing from our most intelligent president, 'It's not my fault George Bush did it."

I think it's about time for Obama to start taking on the responsibility of the office he holds. When a problem comes up don't try to shift the blame. Take action to solve the problem instead of trying to shift the responsibility.

It's time to grow up and act like an adult.

How about it Mr. President?

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HOLIER THAN THOU DEMOCRATS

I'm supposed to be on vacation but listening to these hypocritical holier-than-thou Democrats pontificating about "torture" during the Bush administration calls for some straightforward questions. Questions that the Obama sycophants in the main-stream press don't dare to ask for fear they will make their fair-haired boy (oops - is that politically incorrect?) look bad.

What ever George Bush's failings he did keep America safe from the Islamofacist fanatics.

When this question of interrogation comes up one premise that is proposed is what should we do if an American city was the target of a nuclear bomb and we had a prisoner who had information that would let us forestall this disaster. Should we use "enhanced interrogation techniques" to get that information? Apparently Obama, from what he says would not. He would rather see thousands of Americans die than betray, what he calls, American values.

Obama should be reminded that the first obligation of an American president is to keep America and it's citizens safe. Not only the thousands who might be killed by a nuclear device but even a single citizen should be safeguarded by any means at the disposal of the government. Not only "enhanced interrogation" but any other means that might wring the information from such a subject.

Here is the question that the press should ask the president: "Mr.President would you sacrifice an American citizen who could be saved by using rigorous interrogation? Which citizen or citizens are you willing to sacrifice?  If so suppose that citizen was your wife or one or both of your daughters?"

Death by nuclear bomb would at least be fast. One or two people killed by these barbarians would have a slow painful death if the butchery inflicted on some of our troops in Iraq is any indication.

Obama would have to be pretty cold-blooded to allow any citizen to be killed, much less members of his own family, by Islamic fanatics.

But then again this is the man who would let babies born alive due to botched abortions die of neglect by denying them medical help.
Water-boarding maybe torture to Obama but nobody died from it. I'd like to know what his take is on a helpless new-born baby gasping for breath until death finally ends his/her suffering.

How about it, Mr.President?




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HOW TO DEAL WITH PIRATES

As this is being written Somali pirates are holding hostage the captain of a ship which was flying the US flag and which these pirates tried to hijack. The American crew, unlike the crews of other ships, fought off the hijackers. Unfortunately, the captain was taken hostage and now the pirates are demanding a $2 million ransom.

The Obama administration doesn't seem to have a clue as to how to handle this situation so I'd like to offer some suggestions which would not only end this standoff but would guarantee that American flag ships would have no problems sailing this perilous stretch of the ocean in the future.

1. Tell the pirates they will get no money.

2. Tell the pirates if they release the captain unharmed they will be allowed to leave but if the captain is harmed they will all be killed.

3. Once the captain is released take the pirates into custody.

4. If the pirates protest that they had a deal to go free tell them that the deal is invalid since it was made under duress.

5. Summarily hang the pirates. No ACLU, no endless appeals just a length of rope.

6. Send a detachment of Marines, with air cover, to the town where these creeps lived and burn it to the ground.

I don't think any ship flying the US flag would be bothered in the future.



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WHAT WE DESERVE

It has been said that in a republic the people get the government they deserve. Well, we are getting what we deserve - good and hard.

In 2006 the voters were mad at the Bush administration so they threw the Republicans out and put the Democrats in  charge. In 2008, in spite of the fact that the course of the Iraq war had changed for the better, voters gave the Democrats larger majorities in both houses of Congress and also elected a Democrat president who had a clearly socialist agenda.

Now, after less than three months in office Tea Parties protesting the profligate spending of the Obama administration are springing up all over the country. Since voters have given the Democrats such large majorities in both houses these Tea Parties will probably not have much effect.

Voters should vote on facts not emotions. They should know by now that Democrats are the tax and spend party. We are seeing the spending right now by which the future of our children and grandchildren is being mortgaged. The taxes are yet to come and they will be huge.

There is a saying that goes, "Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me." The politicians, all of them Democrats and Republicans, have been fooling the American people over and over again for years than I can count. People say over and over that our representatives don't listen to us. Why should they listen when we march to the polls and send the same incompetents.back to Washington for term after term. Before the 2008 election Congress had an approval rating of only 12% yet almost 90% of them were re-elected. It must prove that Americans are either stupid or insane or both. People say we should have term limits. We do have term limits - It's called an election.

WISE UP AMERICA.

DON'T VOTE FOR INCUMBENTS

THIS MAKES ME FURIOUS!!!!!

                               
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