Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Friday, October 23, 2009
Surprise! Fraud In A Government Program!
Here's an article on the fraud.
Here's the hearing video.
An Open Letter To Newt Gingrich
This Const The Original Const
Quote about two parties "two party death grip" "lesser of two evils"
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can "throw the rascals out" at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy.
- Carrol Quigley, Tragedy and HopeRan for 20 years. In 1957 Ike 50 or 6 years I don't have to run
presidential candidate in 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944 and 1948.
“The difference between Democrats and Republicans is: Democrats have accepted some ideas of Socialism cheerfully, while Republicans have accepted them reluctantly”
The New American Magazine
“I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democratic Party has adopted our platform.”
Norman Thomas
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Here Comes The FDA
Here's the link.
Good Article From Pravda (Yes, The Russian Newspaper)
This Video Has Been Shown To Thousands Of Schoolchildren Throughout The Country !
Does This Video Agree With How You View This Country?
This video was produced by the Tides Foundation.
To see what they're about go to this link.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Government Is Repeating What Caused The Mortgage Crisis!
Monday, October 19, 2009
A Very Timely Article by Samual Adams
October 5, 1772
Monday, October 12, 2009
Friday, October 9, 2009
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Something I Left Out About HR 3200 (The Health Care Bill)
SEC. 102. PROTECTING THE CHOICE TO KEEP CURRENT COVERAGE
GRANDFATHERED HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE DEFINED.—Subject to the succeeding provisions of this section, for purposes of establishing acceptable coverage under this division, the term ‘‘grandfathered health insurance coverage’’ means individual health insurance coverage that is offered and in force and effect before the first day of Y1 if the following conditions are met:
(1) LIMITATION ON NEW ENROLLMENT.—
(A)
IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day of Y1.
WHAT THIS MEANS IS THAT IF YOU HAVE YOUR CURRENT PRIVATE HEALTH CARE PLAN NOW, YOU CAN KEEP IT, UNLESS YOU CHANGE ANY PART OF IT. THEN YOU HAVE TO GO TO THE PUBLIC PLAN. HOW'S THAT FOR CHOICE?
HERE'S A LINK TO INVESTERS BUSINESS DAILY, WHO BROKE THIS STORY BY ASKING THE HOUSE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE IF THIS WAS INDEED TRUE.
Let's Go Trough Some Numbers Based On The CBO Report
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
This is pretty interesting!
So you think Republicans are any better?
It's HR 3357.
It's a really short bill (only 2 pages). O.K. So it's a bill for the Highway Trust Fund. It appropriates $7 billion to the Highway Trust Fund. That seems o.k. But then I read on and it also appropriates "such sums as necessary" for the unemployment trust fund. I can even understand that with all the unemployment. But then it adds an additional $85 billion for the FHA. And it also adds an additional $100 billion to the (GNMA) Government National Mortgage Association--Guarantees of Mortgage-Backed Securities Loan Guarantee Program Account.
So with this bill, the Government just took an additional $185 billion from the American People? Did any of you here about this on the news? I didn't! Do you realize with a U.S. population of 307,545,788, that comes out to $601.54 for every man, woman and child in this country! Just in one stupid bill!
So I'm already starting to get pissed and I decide to look and see who the hell voted for this and guess what? My two Republican Senator's (Cornyn and Hutchison) both voted yes for it! Here's their vote. Holy crap!!
So I e-mailed both of them and asked them why they voted for it. I got a reply from Cornyn giving me his website address and the typical letter sent out to everyone who e-mails him and that was it. Can't they answer my question or are they too busy?
Then to top it all off, I'm on my way to work the next day and there's report out that Senator Cornyn issued a statement about GITMO and he has the nerve to say "I implore the President to keep that in mind and immediately stop throwing good taxpayer dollars after bad policy ideas. If he is looking for a creative way to spend money, I respectfully suggest leaving GITMO open and using the millions of dollars in ‘savings' to pay down the monumental deficit he has racked up since taking office in January." Here's a link to his whole statement.
Can you believe this! Our "fiscally responsible" Republican Senators voted for this! Talk about two faced political liars! It's no wonder there are so many people totally fed up with our Government. I've been fed up with both parties for ten years. They just don't get it!
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the 12th Imam
Iran's Nukes, the Twelfth Imam and Apocalyptic Martyrdom
The 12th Imam: What Is An Imam?
In Iran, Arming for Armageddon
Iran’s President and the Politics of the Twelfth Imam
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Saturday, September 12, 2009
The New Face of Environmentalism
Saturday, August 15, 2009
If You Don't Like To Read
UPDATE: Please watch the video "America's First Founding" Part 1. Load it and start it at the 15:15 for an awesome explanation of what our country is all about. You will learn more in this segment than you ever thought possible!
Cap and Trade Speech by John Boehner
Here is a link to the Amendment if you want to follow along with his speech.
Neo - Marxist Saul Alinsky - His "Rules for Radicals"
Rule 2: Never go outside the experience of your people.
The result is confusion, fear, and retreat.
Rule 3: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of an opponent. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.
Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. “You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”
Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.
Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy. “If your people aren’t having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.”
Rule 7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.
Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this that will cause the opposition to react to your advantage.”
Rule 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself. When Alinsky leaked word that large numbers of poor people were going to tie up the washrooms of O’Hare Airport, Chicago city authorities quickly agreed to act on a longstanding commitment to a ghetto organization. They imagined the mayhem as thousands of passengers poured off airplanes to discover every washroom occupied. Then they imagined the international embarrassment and the damage to the city’s reputation.
Rule 10: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. Avoid being trapped by an opponent or an interviewer who says, “Okay, what would you do?”
Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.
According to Alinsky, the main job of the organizer is to bait an opponent into reacting. “The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength."
MSNBC Host on Hardball states that The President NEVER said he was in favor of a single payer system
But here is The President saying he is in favor of a single payer system. At 1:00 in the video, he says "I happen to be a PROPONENT of a single payer, universal health care plan". When The President is with people who are his buddies, like the AFL-CIO, ACORN, SEIU, etc., he tells them what he truly believes. But when he gets in front of the general public, he says what he has to say in order to get his agenda passed and sound like a moderate.
So, in fact, The President did say he is in favor of single payer. I guess MSNBC didn't see that video or are they not reporting it so people don't find out about it. Wake up America!
PART 4—HEALTH WORKFORCE ASSESSMENT
SEC. 2271. HEALTH WORKFORCE ASSESSMENT.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 761 (42 U.S.C. 294n) is amended—
(1) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (e); and
(2) by striking subsections (a) and (b) and inserting the following:
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall, based upon the classifications and standardized methodologies and procedures developed by the Advisory Committee on Health Workforce Evaluation and Assessment under section 764(b)—
(1) collect data on the health workforce (as defined in section 764(i)), disaggregated by field, discipline, and specialty, with respect to
(A) the supply (including retention) of health professionals relative to the demand for such professionals;
(B) the diversity of health professionals (including with respect to race, ethnic background, and gender); and
(C) the geographic distribution of health professionals; and
(2) collect such data on individuals participating in the programs authorized by subtitles A, B, and C and part 1 of subtitle D of title II of division C of the America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009.
Why is the Government looking at the diversity of health professionals? Shouldn't the makeup of our health professionals be based on their qualifications?
Please read this section. Why is the Government telling hospitals when and how they can expand their facilities?
(C) PROHIBITION ON EXPANSION OF FACILITY CAPACITY.—Except as provided in paragraph (2), the number of operating rooms, procedure rooms, or beds of the hospital at any time on or after the date of the enactment of this subsection are no greater than the number of operating rooms, procedure rooms, or beds, respectively, as of such date.
(2) EXCEPTION TO PROHIBITION ON EXPANSION OF FACILITY CAPACITY.—
PROCESS.—
(i) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall establish and implement a process under which a hospital may apply for an exception from the requirement under paragraph (1)(C).
(ii) OPPORTUNITY FOR COMMUNITY INPUT.—The process under clause (i) shall provide persons and entities in the community in which the hospital applying for an exception is located with the opportunity to provide input with respect to the application.
(iii) TIMING FOR IMPLEMENTATION.—The Secretary shall implement the process under clause (i) on the date that is one month after the promulgation of regulations described in clause (iv).
(iv) REGULATIONS.—Not later than the first day of the month beginning 18 months after the date of the enactment of this subsection, the Secretary shall promulgate regulations to carry out the process under clause (i). The Secretary may issue such regulations as interim final regulations.
(B) FREQUENCY.—The process described in subparagraph (A) shall permit a hospital to apply for an exception up to once every 2 years.
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(ii) 100 PERCENT INCREASE LIMITATION.—The Secretary shall not permit an
increase in the number of operating rooms, procedure rooms, or beds of a hospital under clause (i) to the extent such increase would result in the number of operating rooms, procedure rooms, or beds of the hospital exceeding 200 percent of the base line number of operating rooms, procedure rooms, or beds of the hospital.
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(E) CONDITIONS FOR APPROVAL OF AN INCREASE IN FACILITY CAPACITY.—The Secretary may grant an exception under the process described in subparagraph (A) only to a hospital—
(i) that is located in a county in which the percentage increase in the population during the most recent 5-year period for which data are available is estimated to be at least 150 percent of the percentage increase in the population growth of the State in which the hospital is located during that period, as estimated by Bureau of the Census and available to the Secretary;
(ii) whose annual percent of total inpatient admissions that represent inpatient admissions under the program under title XIX is estimated to be equal to or greater than the average percent with respect to such admissions for all hospitals located in the county in which the hospital is located;
(iii) that does not discriminate against beneficiaries of Federal health care programs and does not permit physicians practicing at the hospital to discriminate against such beneficiaries;
(iv) that is located in a State in which the average bed capacity in the State is estimated to be less than the national average bed capacity;
(v) that has an average bed occupancy rate that is estimated to be greater than the average bed occupancy rate in the State in which the hospital is located; and
(vi) that meets other conditions as determined by the Secretary.
What other Conditions?
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(D) INCREASE LIMITED TO FACILITIES ON THE MAIN CAMPUS OF THE HOSPITAL.—Any increase in the number of operating rooms, procedure rooms, or beds of a hospital pursuant to this paragraph may only occur in facilities on the main campus of the hospital.
So we’re telling hospitals not only if, but where they can add to their facilities.
tax on "small Employers"
SMALL EMPLOYER.—For purposes of this subsection, the term ‘small employer’ means any employer for any calendar year if the annual payroll of such employer for the preceding calendar year does not exceed $400,000.
So folks it’s not businesses that make a PROFIT of $400,000, it’s businesses with a PAYROLL of $400,000 that mandates the tax! This bill doesn't just target the "evil rich people" earning over $250,000, it will affect thousands of small businesses. Small businesses who create 70% off the jobs in our economy.
So you don't believe the Government will have access to bank accounts?
(C) enable electronic funds transfers, in order to allow automated reconciliation with the related health care payment and remittance advice;
So there will be bureaucrats in Washington with access to our bank accounts?
Plain Language?
(2) PLAIN LANGUAGE.—In this subsection, the term ‘plain language’ means language that the intended audience, including individuals with limited English proficiency, can readily understand and use because that language is clean, concise, well-organized, and follows other best practices of plain language writing.
(3) GUIDANCE.—The Commissioner shall develop and issue guidance on best practices of plain language writing.
More HR 3200 excerpts
"Such report shall include any recommendations the Commissioner deems appropriate to ensure that the law does not provide incentives for small and mid-size employers to self-insure or create adverse selection in the risk pools of large group insurers and self-insured employers."
So the Government wants to make sure that the law doesn’t provide incentives for employers to self-insure?
Some of the HR 3200 bureaucracy
(1) IN GENERAL.-There is established a private-public advisory committee which shall be a panel of medical and other experts to be known as the Health Benefits Advisory Committee to recommend covered benefits and essential, enhanced, and premium plans.
(2) CHAIR.-The Surgeon General shall be a member and the chair of the Health Benefits Advisory Committee.
(3) MEMBERSHIP.-The Health Benefits Advisory Committee shall be composed of the following members, in addition to the Surgeon General:
(A) 9 members who are not Federal employees or officers and who are appointed by the President.
(B) 9 members who are not Federal employees or officers and who are appointed by the Comptroller General of the United States in a manner similar to the manner in which the Comptroller General appoints members to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission under section 1805(c) of the Social Security Act.
(C) Such even number of members (not to exceed 8) who are Federal employees and officers, as the President may appoint.
O.K. So we're going to have a committee of up to 26 members all appointed either by the president or the comptroller. No bureaucracy here.
(5) PARTICIPATION.-The membership of the Health Benefits Advisory Committee shall at least reflect providers, consumer representatives, employers, labor, health insurance issuers, experts in health care financing and delivery, experts in racial and ethnic disparities, experts in care for those with disabilities, representatives of relevant governmental agencies. and at least one practicing physician or other health professional and an expert on children's health and shall represent a balance among various sectors of the health care system so that no single sector unduly influences the recommendations of such Committee.
Excuse me, why do we need "experts in racial and ethnic disparities" and "labor" and yet we only have "at least one practicing physician or other health professional and an expert on children's health"? Shouldn't it be mostly doctors who know how to practice medicine that should be on this committee!?
Middle of page 32 the bill states
"The Health Benefits Advisory Committee shall recommend to the Secretary of Health and Human Services benefit standards."
So this new bureaucracy of mostly non-medical members will be recommending what our benefits will be. Not us!
Page 35 and 36
DETERMINATION TO ADOPT STANDARDS.-
If the Secretary determines-
(A) to propose adoption of benefit standards so recommended as a package, the Secretary shall, by regulation under section 553 of title 5, United States Code, propose adoption such standards; or
(B) not to propose adoption of such standards as a package, the Secretary shall notify the Health Benefits Advisory Committee in writing of such determination and the reasons for not proposing the adoption of such recommendation and provide the Committee with a further opportunity to modify its previous recommendations and submit new recommendations to the Secretary on a timely basis.
So the Secretary will "provide the Committee with a further opportunity to modify its previous recommendations and submit new recommendations to the Secretary on a timely basis." What's the reason for a committee if the Secretary can overwrite the committee!? Can he just keep sending their recommendations back to the committee until they make, "the right decision?"
Friday, August 14, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
http://www.senate.gov/
At the main page, click on "LEGISLATION & RECORDS". Then select "Roll Call Votes".
http://www.house.gov/
After going to the site, click "Roll Call Votes". Then select "111th Congress, 1st Session (2009)".