Healthcare Emergency (now with analysis)

Alan Korwin's blog has made a special post for this health care bill. He posted some commentary and Peter "Fleckenstein's" analysis of this monstrosity.

There's much too much to post here on my blog. I recommend you go to his blog (blog.flecksoflife.com) and read the original post.

Pg 241: SEC. 1121. SUSTAINABLE GROWTH RATE REFORM Line 6-8 HC Bill – Doctors, doesn’t matter what specialty you have, you’ll all be paid the same.

Pg 429: SEC. 1233. ADVANCE CARE PLANNING CONSULTATION Lines 13-25 – The Government will specify which Doctors can write an end of life order.

[NOTE: Read carefully, it doesn't have to be a doctor, it can be an undefined "physician assistant" appointed by an unelected federal bureaucrat. --Alan.]

Also check out the Liberty Counsel's compiled analysis of this bill. (http://www.liberty.edu/media/9980/attachments/healthcare_overview_obama_072909.pdf )

And LASTLY.... PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE!

Call AND Visit your Senators and Congressmen while they're home for the August recess and let them know that you DO NOT support this monstrosity and if they do they'll be out of a job come next election cycle.

Putin Warns U.S. to Back Off from Socialism

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned the U.S. to stay away from the path of socialism and 'state control' today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

...the US should take a lesson from the pages of Russian history and not exercise “excessive intervention in economic activity and blind faith in the state’s omnipotence”.

“In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state’s role absolute,” Putin said... “In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.”

... Putin said, “Nor should we turn a blind eye to the fact that the spirit of free enterprise, including the principle of personal responsibility of businesspeople, investors, and shareholders for their decisions, is being eroded in the last few months. There is no reason to believe that we can achieve better results by shifting responsibility onto the state.”

...Putin also echoed the words of conservative maverick Ron Paul when he said, “we must assess the real situation and write off all hopeless debts and ‘bad’ assets. True, this will be an extremely painful and unpleasant process. Far from everyone can accept such measures, fearing for their capitalization, bonuses, or reputation. However, we would ‘conserve’ and prolong the crisis, unless we clean up our balance sheets.”

Hell has frozen over...

...and those in Washington are much more foolish than you or I (that much is obvious when the Russian Prime Minister has to warn us of this).

Ron Paul Talks about "Stimulus" Packages

Props goes out to CSPAN Junkie

$700B bailout leads to $5,000,000,000,000 in requests

So after we the American public petitioned our Representatives and Congressmen, and tried to shake some common sense into them about why throwing money at the problem is a bad idea. We're told that unfortunately it's NOT ENOUGH!

U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson comments that it'll take a lot closer to $5,000,000,000,000 (yes, FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS) to "fix" the problem. You know what I say? F*ck 'em.

Let them go under... they'll learn from their mistakes and be better off because of it. It's quite possibly the best thing that can be done in this situation.

To add to the problem. We don't even know where some two billion dollars in emergency government lending went despite several requests that it be made public in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act.

But you thought that was bad, I guess I forgot to mention that there's much more. Both GM (because they own GMAC--a lending company) and GE are either in the process of getting bailout money or are petitioning for it.

To compound on this, President elect Barack Obama wants to give detroit auto-makers $50 billion to keep them from going under. I have an idea... why not get rid of the $%^&*#! unions that prevent the American auto industry from being competitive?

Seriously, how expensive is it to live in Detroit? Come on... why is it that a Union factor worker makes more than a school teacher with a Master's degree, don't you see something wrong here?

But wait, I'm not finished yet. The City of Detroit recently petitioned the Fed for some of this wonderful free money, and reports are that NYC is soon to do the same.

So you have to ask yourself? Do we honestly believe that we can fill a sink hole by throwing more money into it, or would it be better to just back off and see if it'll swallow itself up?