If At First You Don’t Succeed, Spend More Money

The latest “economic stimulus” package is only a tenth of the size of the last one.

That means Washington is learning it’s lesson.

If something utterly fails to work, you don’t spend as much for it next time.

Another huge waste of money that we don’t have.

I’ll bet that the Chinese hope it works.

Seeing as how it’s their money.

Senate Democrats circulated a jobs bill Tuesday that’s light on new initiatives on boosting hiring and heavy with provisions sought by lobbyists for doctors and the satellite broadcasting industry.

The 362-page measure is still in draft form and has not been officially released. It has bipartisan backing but very few new ideas for creating jobs, other than a $10 billion plan to exempt companies from paying the employer’s share of Social Security payroll taxes for new hires if they are unemployed and hired this year.

The idea, by Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, is regarded as more workable than President Barack Obama’s plan for tax credits of up to $5,000 for new hires.

The rest of the measure is mostly comprised of last year’s unfinished business, including renewal of business tax breaks that have expired, an extension of unemployment benefits and health insurance subsidies and forestalling a cut in Medicare payments for doctors.

The jobs bill is politically important for Democrats seeking to respond to public anxiety about the economy. But the measure also has a lot of pull with an assortment of lobbying groups seeking to extend a raft of tax breaks and other benefits that expire at the end of the month.

The measure ignores some of Obama’s ideas, including the per-job tax credit, a $250 payment to Social Security recipients and $25 billion in help for cash-strapped states.

Instead, the cornerstone of the plan would exempt companies from paying the employer’s share of Social Security payroll taxes for new hires—as long as those people had been unemployed at least 60 days.

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Pelosi Says Health Care Bill WILL NOT Pass The House!

Nancy Pelosi is not happy.

And she’s letting the President know about it in no uncertain terms.

In spite of the fact that President Obama is considering a health care reform bill without a public option, Pelosi is insisting it be part of the package.

In a recent statement,Pelosi made the following claim:

“A bill without a strong public option will not pass the House.”
“Any real change requires the inclusion of a strong public option to promote competition and bring down costs.  If a vigorous public option is not included, it would be a major victory for the health insurance industry.”

She then went on to say that the month of August has brought distortions from people who want “to try to kill this historic legislation.”

And on that last part she is right on the money.

I haven’t seen such a public uproar since the days of the anti Vietnam War protestors.

There is one thing she is overlooking.

The reason people are speaking out to kill this “historic” piece of legislation is because it is a historically poorly written piece of legislation.

There are numerous versions of the same basic bill floating around the House, and there are significant differences between them.

So how can the White House possibly expect the American public to embrace health care reform when the members of his own party aren’t even in agreement?

Or when the Speaker Of The House is basically telling the President “Hey, if I don’t get what I want, you don’t have a snowballs chance in hell of getting what you want.

And they still can’t figure out that opposition to this proposal is not coming only from Republicans?

Until such time as they can stop arguing with each other, and present the American public with a rational alternative to the current system,opposition will continue to grow.

And even if they manage to do that, they still have to overcome the public’s deeply held belief that anything the government touches, it screws up.

That will prove to be an even bigger battle.

If The Health Care Reform Bill Doesn’t Kill You, IMAC Will

You have to give Barack Obama credit, he is going to get rid of those pesky old sick people come hell or high water.

Now that there has been such an uproar of his health care reform “death panel”, and that some of the terms of the Quality Adjusted Remaing Years (QARY) provision are being exposed, old swifty Barack has pulled another rabbit out of his hat.

IMAC, the Independent Medicare Advisory Council, which would give the government the power to determine “reasonable and (cost) effective” methods of medical treatment.

IMAC would place no restrictions on the government’s ability to “mandate coverage, reimbursment, cost-effectiveness”, etc. to any public or private payer.

Now, I don’t expect that any members of the Kool-Aid Brigade seeing this can be bothered by a dose of reality, but for the rest of you, click here to see the IMAC legislation now before Congress

Better start working the phones and fax machines people, if this thing passes it’s provisions go into effect within 30 days.

Otherwise, the next time you hear and old person say “I’m dying”, the next voice you hear will be:

“I’m from the government, and I’m here to help!”

Health Care Plan Denies Chemotherapy Treatments

President Obama and his fellow end-of-lifers in Congress continue to deny that their health care reform bill contains “assisted suicide” provisions.

They make this claim in spite of the bill containing QARY terminology.

QARY is an angel of death acronym for Quality Adjusted Remaining Years.

And what it boils down to is that how much money will be spent on an elder or disabled person’s medical treatment is going to be determined, not by that person’s doctor, but by a government panel which will determine if spending the money for treatment is justified based on an estimate of how many years of life that person has left.

I recently heard one member of the Kool-Aid Brigade make the statement that Congress would never allow such a thing to happen in the United States of America.

So how do all of these Josef Mengele death squad wannabes explain how the case of Barbara Wagner, who was told that the state would not provide funding for her chemotherapy, but would put up the funding for assisted suicide?

How would all of you Kool-Aid drinkers feel if this was your mother?

And how many of you are really stupid enough to believe that such a thing won’t happen under Obama’s plan?

How many of you supporting this boondoggle of a “reform” bill are really sure that you won’t watch a family member be denied treatment if it passes?

Are you sure enough to bet a loved ones life on it?

Barack And Michelle Disagree On Health Care Reform

The following is an update to an article we did a while ago, before the debate about health care reform started to heat up.
The “free everything for everybody” propaganda that Barack Obama is spouting is a far different scenario than the plan Michelle Obama and David Axelrod put into place at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
Yes, this is the same David Axelrod who sent out all those “fishy” e-mails to folks who had never contacted the White House.
The same ones that Major Garrett of Fox News asked Robert “I’m a know-nothing blithering idiot” Gibbs about.

 

Michelle Obama  is on unpaid leave from her $317,000 a year job as a vice-president of the University Of Chicago Medical Center.

She was making a mere $122,000 a year just before her husband got elected to the Senate.
Before she went on leave, Mrs. Obama was instrumental in having the hospital adopt a program known as the Urban Health Initiative.

The purpose of the plan is to steer people who don’t have adequate health insurance to other care facilities.
Opinion polls taken among Chicago area medical professionals at the time the plan was put into effect were highly critical, calling the plan a break with the medical center’s commitment to the community.

Many doctors also noted that the treatment the people turned away would receive would be inadequate, stating that the level of care at local medical clinics left much to be desired.

Barack Obama’s top political strategist, David Axelrod, co-owns the firm, ASK Public Strategies, who, after some urging from Michelle Obama, was hired by the hospital to try and sell the plan to the community as a better alternative.
Another Obama adviser and close friend, Dr. Eric Whitaker, took over the Urban Health Initiative when he was hired by the hospital.

So the man who is going to see to it that we all have access to top-notch health care is married to a woman who advocated a plan for the hospital she worked at to deny first-class health care to those who need it the most.

Can someone reading this please explain this to me?
Who will judge what level of health care someone receives?

Doctors, Barack Obama, government bureaucrats, Michelle Obama, David Axelrod, Nancy “you’re a bunch of Nazis” Pelosi, who??

And which combination of their third-rate medical plans will we end up with?

Don’t Be Fooled By Obamacare 2.0

There is an old trick that suggests that if you want something, to ask for something totally outrageous first.
When you are told the thing you are asking for is absolutely out of the question, you simply scale back or re-name your request, and chances are you will get what you are asking for.

The White House has put that tactic to good use over the last few days.

Under mounting public opposition to the health care reform bill now before Congress, Barack Obama has backed off on both the “end of life counseling” provision as well as changing his tune on the “public option” section of the bill.

And if the American public falls for this ploy, it will prove to be a disaster.

No matter what phrasing Obama cares to use, this bill as it is written will STILL leave the government and federal bureaucrats in charge of overseeing the quality of health care that you receive.

Your health care will still be rationed, as there is simply no realistic way to provide medical coverage to upwards of 50 million people who are not covered now (many of them non-taxpaying illegal immigrants) without cutting back on services.

By cutting hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicare reimbursement spending, doctors and hospitals will simply perform less procedures such as EKG testing, MRI’s, etc.

And it only stands to reason that once the government sees that it is spending less on Medicare treatment, this policy will trickle down to all aspects of health care, regardless of a person’s age.

And if cutting Medicare spending doesn’t work, Obama still has a plan in place to help Grandma and Grandpa shuffle off of this earth a little sooner.

Under the Quality-Adjusted-Remaining-Years provision, the elderly, the disabled and the mentally challenged will still die a little sooner, but the method of bumping them off will seem to be more charitable.

QARY will analyze the cost of a procedure and weigh that cost against the possible “quality remaning years of life” expected out of the person who needs the procedure.

So when doctors have to make a choice between open-heart surgery for a man in his 30’s and chemotherapy for a cancer patient in her 60’s, take a guess as to who moves to the front of the line.

And as far as someone who is disabled, don’t even bother to ask.

As Ezekiel “Doctor Death” Emanuel says, why waste resources on people who have little chance of becoming productive citizens?

The White House is manuvering to dress up one of the worst pieces of legislation in American history in new clothes so that we all want to take it out to dinner.

President Obama, you said it yourself and you should keep it in mind:

You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.

Obama Slams TV Over Health Care Ruckus

Obama Says:

Free Speech!

What the hell is that?

You can’t question me, I’m the Messiah, I mean the President!!

 

US President Barack Obama on Friday blamed headline-hungry television networks for enflaming an ugly backlash by foes of his top priority effort to offer health care to all Americans.

A combative Obama also accused health insurance firms of holding sick Americans “hostage” as he launched a weekend tour of mountain west states Montana, Colorado and Arizona where suspicion of Washington runs deep.

“I know there’s been a lot of attention paid to some of the town hall meetings that are going on around the country, especially when tempers flare,” Obama said, at his own event with 1,300 people in an airport hangar.

“TV loves a ruckus,” said Obama and then joked: “you’ve got to be careful about those cable networks.”

US news channels have been looping ferocious confrontations at town hall meetings held by lawmakers during their summer recess where voters have accused Obama of plotting a “socialized” takeover of the private health system.

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From ‘Yes, We Can’ to ‘No! Don’t!’

You really thought that Obama meant everything he said on the campaign trail?

Come on now!

Even the people in ACORN aren’t that gullible.

 

Don’t strain the system. Don’t add to the national stress level. Don’t pierce when you can envelop. Don’t show even understandable indignation when you can show legitimate regard. Realize that the ties that bind still bind but have grown dryer and more worn with time. They need to be strengthened, not strained.

Govern knowing we are a big, strong, mighty nation, a colossus that is, however, like all highly complex, highly wired organisms, fragile, even at places quite delicate. Don’t overburden or overexcite the system. America used to have fringes, one over here and the other over there. The fringes are growing. The fringes have their own networks. All sorts of forces exist to divide us. Try always to unite.

These are things one always wants people currently rising in government to know deep in their heads and hearts. They are the things the young, fierce staffers in any new White House, and the self-proclaimed ruthless pragmatists in this one, need to hear, be told or be reminded of.

The big, complicated, obscure, abstruse, unsettling and ultimately unhelpful health-care plans, proposals and ideas keep rolling out of Washington. Five bills, thousands of pages, “as it says on page 346, paragraph 3, subsection D.” No one knows what will be passed, what will make its way through House-Senate “conference.” They don’t even know what the president wants, what his true agenda is. He never seems to be leveling, only talking. Everything’s open to misdirection and exaggeration, and everything, people fear, will come down to some future bureaucrat’s interpretation of paragraph 3, subsection D, part 22.

What a disaster this health-care debate is. It strains…Read the rest of this entry

The Etiquette Czar’s Rules for Patriotic Protest

Don’t be impolite.

Don’t raise your voice.

And whatever you do, don’t ask legitimate questions.

The White House press office is now Miss Manners’ office. President Obama’s press secretary Robert Gibbs took to the television airwaves this week to criticize congressional town hall protesters for “yelling.” Gibbs’ underling, Bill Barton, chastised voters not to “disrupt” and “scream.” Instead, he advised America to engage in a “spirited debate about health care, a real vigorous conversation about it.”

What constitutes “spirited?” How do they define “vigorous?” When does forceful dissent become intolerable disruption? Herewith, the Obama Etiquette Czar’s Official Rules for Patriotic Protest. Keep this guide with you at all times to avoid being flagged by the Democrat politeness monitors.

*No shouting. Congressional representatives cannot sell Obamacare with mobs of unruly senior citizens and small business owners interrupting to press them on specific sections of the bill. Limit your objections to a library whisper (30dB or less) and only…Read the rest of this entry

Grandma and Grandpa Aren’t The Only Ones Scheduled For Death

Why does Barack Obama insist on hiring people that have so little regard for human life?

The latest is health care advisory appointee Ezekiel Emanuel. brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

In previous articles, we have pointed out that Dr. Emanuel feels that medical care should be withheld from the disabled.

Turns out, it’s worse than we thought.

Check out this quote:

“Conversely, services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.|
A less obvious example Is is guaranteeing neuropsychological services to ensure children with learning disabilities can read and learn to reason.”

It’s bad enough that if Grandpa is struck with diabetes or Grandma is diagnosed with breast cancer, Emanuel will figure that they will not be participating citizens, therefore health care resources should not be wasted on them.

If that isn’t bad enough, if you have a child with autism, cerebral palsy, Downs Syndrome or some other disorder, the government will turn it’s back on you and your child also.

Although I suppose you have to be willing to make some concessions if you want to offer everyone (well, almost everyone) free health care.

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