Government by the people, of the people and for the people.
March 25, 2011
Government by the people, of the people and for the people.
No amount of “hope ‘n change” will ever improve that.
Ideas of the Revolutionary fathers
March 25, 2011
They called him “Silent Cal.” This is well said and worth remembering:
“About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.” – President Calvin Coolidge
All men are created equal, they are endowed with inalienable rights, and governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
No amount of hope and change is going to improve on that.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and the Employee Union Protest
February 20, 2011
The Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and the employee union protest.
(If you just want to skim through the text, scroll down, there are videos and pictures are below.)
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IMHO, like it or not:
There are anti-monopoly laws, known as anti-Trust laws. Is there any difference between “price fixing” and “collective bargaining” except that one is illegal and the other is not?
“It’s for THE CHILDREN”
Madison Schools will be Closed Again Monday
The Democrats left Wisconsin to hide and avoid voting. Do they have any idea of how foolish they look? They are “on strike” and shut down the government. Democrats.
There is some good reporting about it, and some very poor reporting. I wonder how many journalists belong to The Newspaper Guild, Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO, CLC and IFJ or The National Writers Union and “stand in solidarity”?
In many places public employees are compelled, required to pay union dues. Is there any difference between that and a TV-mob character forcing someone to pay “protection” money? Not only that but the employer (government) collects the union dues by withholding the money from the employee’s pay.
I imagine the union makes it all sound good, they make many promises of job security, high pay, vacation time, health insurance, lavish pension for retirement, early retirement, etc.
How is it that some people think that salary, benefits including health care, job protection (requiring more people than necessary), early retirement, lavish pensions, health care for life are “rights”? I have the suspicion the union told them that.
There must be many public employees who have never worked anywhere else – they go right from college into the classroom and do not know any better.
I suspect their fellow employees, their friends are union members too. There is probably a camaraderie, a comradeship with fellow union members. How many times do they say they “stand in solidarity?” In their worldview, it’s “normal.”
I’ve been told that a long, long time ago there apparently were some cases where the employer could really exploit people. In that case I guess a labor union might have been good. Fast forward to today – the labor union is exploiting the employees for union dues in exchange for promises of pay, benefits and pensions. To a much larger extent, the labor unions are exploiting the taxpayer. When the employee union exploits the employer to the point of bankruptcy, how does that help the worker? Detroit comes to mind.
There are anti-monopoly laws, known as anti-Trust laws. Is there any difference between “price fixing” and “collective bargaining” except that one is illegal and the other is not?
Unions “negotiate” as if there is a bottomless pot of cash available for worker’s salary, benefits including health care, job protection (requiring more people than necessary), early retirement, lavish pensions, health care for life. They make minor “concessions” and act as if they are making a noble, compassionate sacrifice.
The unions spend a lot of money to select and elect friendly legislators. They then promote, campaign for and contribute cash and manpower to the same legislators who then control public money. Legislators pass laws to spend public money on the union members – union members pay union dues – the union contributes to the legislator’s campaign. How is that even remotely legal?
At a minimum, Labor unions should not be allowed to contribute time or money to the campaigns of legislators who pass laws to spend public money on the union members, or contribute to any campaign.
“Collective bargaining” for salaries, benefits and pensions should be treated as “price fixing.”
Specifically, in Wisconson, there is no money to pay for the promises made by the union and the former politicians.
chicagotribune.com Lost: The common good
“Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has demanded that state workers contribute roughly 5.8 percent of their wages toward their retirement. He wants them to pay for 12 percent of their health-care premiums. Those modest employee contributions would be the envy of many workers in the private sector. “
People’s homes are being foreclosed on, underemployment is 19%, unemployment is 9.5% and they want the taxpayer to pay for ALL of their pension and health care premiums. According to the proposal, they have to pay only 12 percent of their health-care premiums… and 5.8 percent of their wages toward their retirement. They protest THAT????
It’s outrageous!
So the teachers LIE and say they are sick. They close the schools. The teachers make signs making the Governor look like Hiltler, and take students to the protest, where they whine and cry like spoiled little bratty children.
Fire the ones who lied about being sick.
Crybabies
He Does! Is that Presidential?
Organizing For America
Good Golly! Who said they don’t “have a right to organize”?
DNC playing role in Wisconsin protests
They are too? Mmmmmm-mmmmm-mmmmm.
ASTROTURF: Chicago Teachers Union Organizes for Wisconsin Protest CHICAGO?
I wonder why Obama would be on the side of the leftist labor unions?
SEIU for Obama
Guess where this link leads to:
Chicago Commies go to Wisconsin. Wait… CHICAGO? Isn’t that where Bill Ayers is “just a guy in the neighborhood?”
The Socialists join the union protest too.
The teachers, after lying about being sick, take students to the protest.
Where they can see signs such as:
And these:
Leftist Labor Union Signs
“It’s For THE CHILDREN”
It's for THE CHILDREN!!!
Get Your get-Out-Of-School Pass here, Play Hookey!
Are students going to look to some moral authority figure the next time they are tempted to skip a class? This is terrible.
There is much more I could say about this. That’s a snippet of what I found interesting. Please draw your own conclusions.
A few good tweets: “We’re broke.” Maybe they’d like it better if the checks bounced. Lefty logic at work…Oy Vey!
I saw the mob protesting in Wisconsin and couldn’t help noticing how WHITE the crowd is. I wonder if Rachel Maddow will notice.
Gee next time I go to Oympia to be heard I hope I can get a boxed lunch and a pre-made sign!
Why am I contributing to teachers penisons… ?? I need to focus on my own retirement.
There is just no money to pay for the promises made to them – the “deals” they got for their union dues.
Where are we going and why are we in this handbasket???
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Liberty.
January 30, 2011
Liberty. In God We Trust. E pluribus unum. We The People.
I haven’t posted for a while. Time to return, I think.
Ever get the impression that those on the left value “equality” and “social justice” and other things more than liberty?
Liberty. In God We Trust. E pluribus unum. We The People. Spread the word.
I’m Proud To Be An American
October 5, 2010
I’m An American — John Schwarzman
Turn it up and Enjoy!
Happy Independence Day!
July 4, 2010
Let’s start Independence day with Jay Leno!
Too Late to Apologize: A Declaration
I Am America
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Red Skelton’s Pledge of Allegiance
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President Ronald Reagan’s Address to the Nation July 4, 1986
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John Adams – Declaration of Independence
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For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent! Tyrant!
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The Declaration of Independence
CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
— John Hancock
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
Happy Independence Day everyone and God Bless America! – Oldhardhead
★☆♡☆★ ★☆♡☆★ HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA ★☆♡☆★ ★☆♡☆★
Student loans
April 30, 2010
I could comment about the takeover of student loans… in the Obamacare bill!
Sallie Mae Blames 2,500 Layoffs on Obama’s Student Loan Overhaul
Powerhouse student loan provider Sallie Mae says layoffs are imminent as a result of President Obama’s new student loan overhaul.
“This legislation will force Sallie Mae to reduce our 8,600-person workforce by 2,500,” Conwey Casillas, Vice President of Sallie Mae Public Affairs, said in a statement to Fox News.
(Add that to GM, Chrysler AIG, healthcare…)
Was it supposed to be hidden in the 2700 pages of legalese?
More to come.
That said, Greetings to Lenny!
Obamacare – The Greatest Con Job EVER
March 20, 2010
Do we really have over 216 spineless suckers in Congress that are going to fold like a cheap camera and vote for Obamacare? This is for them:
ALERT: The YES vote for Government Health Care is a “self-executing Vote” come November.
We thought Bernie Madoff was convicted over a large amount of cash. He is a piker.
Remember this? (first posted 8-13-09)
Internal Memo Confirms Big Giveaways In White House Deal With Big Pharma
Oh, didn’t the White House say that was not true?
PhRMA plans $6 million pro-reform ad buy in 38 House districts
It’s for the Drug companies, not the uninsured or some lady wearing her dead sister’s teeth. CON JOB! Meanwhile, demonize the insurance companies because you want to nationalize all healthcare. When there’s single payer, there are no insurance companies. CON JOB!
Do these congressmen really think working taxpayers are calling them and asking them to vote FOR Obamacare? The pro-obamacare callers get their talking points HERE at ORGANIZING FOR AMERICA. I can’t imagine any doctor, nurse or taxpayer supporting it. Astroturf. One con BIG job.
CBO (Congressional Budget Office)
GIGO (Garbage in = Garbage Out)
Rule = What the rules are when it comes to debating and voting a bill.
Hello… $500 billion of new taxes in this economy? Look over there, nothing to see here! Deficit neutral? Another con job.
Well, they aren’t going to vote for it, they are voting for a rule and are planning on “deeming” the bill passed. That’s one hellava con job.
They don’t have the votes in the house to pass the Senate bill. So they are using a con job called “reconciliation” where they pass the Senate bill and reconcile (fix) it later.
That’s one con job.
They don’t have enough votes in the house to pass the Senate bill. The Congressmen don’t trust the leadership to fix the bill as promised (what’s that tell you?).
SO they aren’t voting on the Senate bill. They are voting on a rule that (this is a twisted. contorted process) contains “fixes” to the Senate bill, and “deeming” that Senate bill passed. They are not voting in the Senate bill, but are planning on pretending that it passed.
And now, on to the CBO score used to sell this snake-oil:
The CBO is supposed to “score” the bill to predict how much a piece of legislation will cost. Well, it all depends on what they are given for facts. President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and the rest of the confidence artists are claiming that Obamacare will be financially sound. It makes no sense.
Insure 30 million people, subsidize insurance for many more, shovel money into the education industrial complex and it’s going to be deficit neutral?
Oh, yes, they are nationalizing student loan banking at the same time.
CBO: Obamacare Would Cost Over $2 Trillion
The CBO’s most recent analysis is out, and it’s not likely to convince wavering House Democrats to jump to the Obamacare side of the fence. Even the Democrats are granting that the latest version of their proposed health care overhaul would cost $69 billion more than the previous version. According to the CBO, this version would siphon even more money out of Medicare, make even further cuts to Medicare Advantage, and levy even higher taxes and fines on the American people.
President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and their allies, are cheerfully citing “ten year” costs of $940,000,000,000.00 — apparently believing this to be a far more palatable figure than $1 trillion. But even this colossal tally is like the introductory price quoted by a cell phone provider. It’s the price before you pay for minutes, fees, and overcharges — and before the price balloons after the introductory offer expires.
For a variety of reasons, this tally doesn’t remotely reflect the bill’s real ten-year costs.
Huh. They are deceiving people. Do we really have 218 suckers in Congress?
President Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress touted the latest cost projections from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) as evidence that the bill they are attempting to ram through Congress this weekend is fiscally responsible. Some Blue Dog Democrats may try to use the latest projections as an excuse to switch their votes from opposition to support of Obamacare.
But if they do so, the only people they will be fooling are themselves — the public long ago saw through the gimmicks and sleight-of-hand behind the Democratic deficit-cutting claims. Voters know a runaway entitlement program when they see one, and in this case they got some crucial help from Rep. Paul Ryan and others. The bill the Democrats want to pass is a massive federal spending spree, and the claims that it will reduce the deficit do not stand up to scrutiny.
Five Reasons The CBO Figures Are Phony
as the Economist put it, “The CBO is required to pretend to believe many impossible things before breakfast.”
1. Medicare cuts
The Senate health care bill relied heavily on unprecedented cuts in Medicare spending increases. If implemented, this would have a huge impact on seniors’ care. But Congress has always balked at Medicare cuts. (See No. 3).
2. Delayed start
To make the budget math work, Democrats plan on delaying the start of subsidies and other costly provisions for several years. (The bill spends just $17 billion through 2013). The true 10-year cost is far higher.
3. The “doc fix” is excluded
The Sustainable Growth Rate imposes automatic cuts in Medicare payment rates to doctors.
For several years, fearing a revolt by doctors — and seniors — Congress has suspended those cuts. The original draft of the House health care bill included a permanent “doc fix.” But that ballooned deficits, so Democrats dropped it, even though everyone knows Congress isn’t going to slash doctors’ rates. The CBO has estimated a “doc fix” would cost $247 billion over 10 years.
4. Student loans are included
Doctors’ payments are excluded from the health bill, but major student loan program changes are included? Yep. The reconciliation bill will end student loan subsidies to lenders. The CBO says this will save $19.4 billion over the first decade, accounting for virtually all of the $19.8 billion in deficit reduction from the health care reconciliation bill. Reconciliation bills must cut the deficit by at least $1 billion. So, without the non-health care items, the health care reconciliation bill would not pass muster.
5. It’s a CLASS act
In the Senate health bill, a new, voluntary long-term care insurance program called CLASS accounted for some $72 billion of the deficit reduction. The Community Living Assistance Services and Supports program is supposed to be deficit-neutral long-term. But Democrats are counting the upfront premium surplus in the short term and ignoring the significant operating deficits after 2029. Update: Democrats also are counting on projected additional Social Security revenues from payroll taxes on higher wages in lieu of lower health benefits. Again, those benefits have to be paid out.
But wait, there’s more! Let’s assume that the cost savings materialize as planned. It still makes the long-term fiscal outlook worse. Why? Democrats are using up a lot of tax hikes, spending cuts and upfront payment just to get barely better than deficit-neutral. That leaves future lawmakers less scope to bring the nation’s finances into order.
It goes on and on. They claim it doesn’t cover abortions. Wrong. They claim it doesn’t cover illegal aliens. They claim you can keep your doctor and insurance…
Oh, and all negotiations were going to be broadcast on CSPAN!HAHAHAHAhahaha!!!
It appears that the ends justify the means, the truth doesn’t matter. All they care about is a path to single-payer.
Gotta laugh:
Seriously. “Death panels” is a cute name for government employed decision makers.
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Clock on House Health Vote Expires
March 18, 2010
They are breaking more promises, Remember in November:
Democratic leaders are staunchly defending their possible use of a parliamentary maneuver to avoid a traditional vote on health care. Are they also getting ready to abandon a promise that lawmakers would have at least 72 hours to read and evaluate the language of the health care bill?
The bill is too big to read in 72 hours. It’s a nightmare.
House Democrats are moving ahead with a package of budget reconciliation changes to the Senate bill that would let members enact the Senate bill by reference. A Democratic staffer tells me House leaders tentatively plan to ignore or blur the 72-hour rule when the long-delayed final analysis is delivered to them sometime this afternoon.
The Rules Committee will meet on Saturday to set the rules for debate. Following the letter of the 72-hour rule would mean no vote before late Sunday, but Democrats have allowed themselves an out. “The Democratic leadership has declared ‘martial law,’” Poltico.com reports, “allowing leaders to bring legislation straight to the floor on the same legislative day.” That could mean a vote as early as Saturday, with a floor debate of just four hours. The public and members of Congress would have only 48 hours or even less to examine the bill.
With all due respect, they are Fargin evil bastages, IMAO.
Associated Press story, 3-17-2010
Committee action starts clock on House health vote
Committee action starts clock on House health vote
(AP) – 1 day ago
WASHINGTON — A House committee has voted for fast-track rules for health care legislation, the first step toward a decisive floor vote on President Barack Obama’s sweeping overhaul.
The 21-16 largely party-line vote in the House Budget Committee Monday was a procedural but necessary step toward getting the historic overhaul before the full House at the end of this week.
The health care legislation has not yet been released and the Budget Committee was voting on a shell bill. But the action set off a 48-hour countdown toward a vote by the House Rules Committee, the final step before the bill can be brought to the floor.
So “1 day ago” a clock started and the House Rules Committee has 48 hours to vote. It’s Wednesday March 17, 10:17 AM eastern Standard Time
Fox News Story
House Rules Cmte to Meet Friday on Health Care Bill
March 16, 2010 | 5:35 PM ET
House Rules Cmte to Meet Friday on Health Care BillHouse Rules Committee Chairwoman Louise Slaughter (D-NY) says she expects the Rules Committee to meet on the health care bill Friday. Rules is the next stop for the bill to prepare it for the floor.
That would potentially pit the vote at Saturday at the earliest.
Also, they could still post the bill to the House Rules Committee website sometime before that. That would initiate the 72 hour clock…which is how much time Democratic leaders have said they will provide before taking up the bill.
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) says “We are not going to start counting until we get (CBO) numbers.”
Their 48 hour countdown will have expired. A Saturday vote at the earliest? Rules, schumles they MAKE the rules.
Medical Justice dot com (how’s that for a progressive name?) agrees with Fox News
House Rules Committee Meeting On Friday, But Still No Real Health Care Reform
What goes on here? Is anyone minding the store? The media doesn’t seem to be.
IS the vote null and void if they break the rules? Bill Ayers got off on a “technicality,” why can’t the American People?
P.S.
You know, CBO GIGO.
Garbage In = Garbage Out
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That Progressive Math – Obamanomics!
March 17, 2010
I guess it must be that liberal education: Progressives can’t do math. You want to trust them with a $500 Billion dollar tax increase called Obamacare? It will only cost $2.5 Trillion.
When liberals do math, we can increase the number of people covered by healthcare insurance, increase benefits and reduce cost. Let’s watch:
Obama does math. Our president visited 57 states, 1 left to go.
Nancy Pelosi does math. 500 million Americans lose their job every month.
Joe Biden does math. “Jobs” is a three letter word.
And now, the gift that keeps on giving. Obamacare will reduce your insurance premium by 3000%.
If someone is paying the insurance company $10,000 they will send you $300,000 back to get a policy.
How many people are getting insurance through their jobs right now? Raise your hands. All right, well, a lot of those folks, your employer, it’s estimated, would see premiums fall by as much as 3000%, which means they could give you a raise!
HAHAHAHAHAhahahaha!!!!! And people called president Bush names…
Democrat Dicky Durbin admits… premiums won’t go down.
This seems to be what the Democrats are saying:
I’ll tell you anything to get you to like Obamacare. Free health care! Yeah, let’s slam this Obamacare bill through, whatever it is, without a bill out of conference, heck, without the House voting on the Senate bill. Who needs to read the bill anyway, it’s all full of numbers and stuff. We don’t understand that sort of thing. We want to campaign saying we “passed health care for the American People.”
Psssst. Don’t tell anyone we are taking over the student loan business and putting all those making student loans out on the street, unemployed. It’s a little baby step to Nationalizing Banking completely.
Here is some math from a financial GURU:
Cramer: ObamaCare Would Rocket Tax Rates to 50-60%
Financial guru Jim Cramer says ObamaCare would:1. break the federal budget;
2. cause federal income tax rates to rise to 50-60%; and
3. cause capital gains and dividends to be taxed like ordinary income [i.e., at those 50-60% rates instead of the current 5-15%].
Uh… no raise? HAHAHAHAHAHahahahaha!!!!!!!!!
FACT CHECK: Premiums would rise under Obama plan
WASHINGTON — Buyers, beware: President Barack Obama says his health care overhaul will lower premiums by double digits, but check the fine print.
Premiums are likely to keep going up even if the health care bill passes, experts say. If cost controls work as advertised, annual increases would level off with time. But don’t look for a rollback. Instead, the main reason premiums would be more affordable is that new government tax credits would help cover the cost for millions of people.
So how is it that a tax increase counts as a cost reduction? What manner of math is this, pray tell? It not be of this world!
It be magic!
“There’s no question premiums are still going to keep going up,” said Larry Levitt of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a research clearinghouse on the health care system.
Perhaps insurance premiums fall in the 57th state, after all, not all states are treated the same by Obamacare. HAHAHAHAhahahaha!!!!!
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