Commrade Pelosi: "Death To America!"

Yesterday the socialist/communist party voted 220-215 to socialize medicine. The only thing saving us now is the fact that the bill has to be merged with the Senate and there is not guarantee that it will come out of there in its current form. The only good thing for America is that in 2010 those Democrats not in strongly leftist/socialist states and districts will no longer be in office. The fact that Pelosi and company blatantly ignored the will of the majority of Americans is testament that the socialist wing - ie all of the Democrats - have lost touch with America and its values. This new government socialization of health insurance, if it passed in a form similar to its current form will push millions of Americans out of their current health insurance plans into a government run form of health care. Only the rich - ie those making more than a $1 million a year, will be able to get decent real health care. The rest of us, while paying for millions of deadbeat American's health insurance will basically end up like those that go to the emergency room for their health care. The Republican fielded a bill that was 1/10 the size of the Democrat pile of crap and it was summarily voted down by the Obamacrats whose interest is not in fixing those problems that need fixing with Health care insurance but in extending government control over all American lives. If the Obamacrats were truly interested in medical insurance reform then the Republican bill was just that. Not one word of Pelosi's speech foisting the bill on America was true. There will be no increased competition - How can a new insurance option compete with the thousands available already? But more to the real point, the government option will squeeze out private insurance because the government doesn't have to make a profit and it can hide its overhead costs in the beauracracy, something that private insurance companies cannot do. Also, since the government option steals its money from the working class it can pay for anything without actually having to worry about actual costs. The other real issue that needs to be better addressed is the probable decline in the number of doctors leaving the practice to persue jobs that pay better. No doctor is going to work at a 50% loss. Let's face it the House bill is just plain dumb and stupid and starkly highlights the growing ignorance of the liberal class.

16 Million and Growing!!

WooHoo, the Stimulus is really kicking butt - unemployment reaches 10.2%!!! The last time that happened was 26 years ago. Way to go the Obama and his head stimulus honcho - Biden.

A Rose By Any Other Name

When is a tax not a tax, when the Obama say's its not, JACOB SULLUM: Obama’s Hidden Fees: When the president does it, it’s not a tax.

If Obama can deny that a charge is a tax even when it’s collected by the IRS and identified as a “tax” in the legislation creating it, he surely sees nothing tax-like in the money people are required to spend if they want to avoid that charge. Yet forcing people to buy insurance they do not want so their premiums can subsidize other people’s health care looks a lot like a tax-funded welfare program, even if the money does not flow through the public treasury.

Sobering

I have to admit that lately I have not had any faith at all in our government, Obamacrat or Republican and now after reading Peggy Noonan's latest column I think that I now understand why: We're Governed by Callous Children

We are governed at all levels by America's luckiest children, sons and daughters of the abundance, and they call themselves optimists but they're not optimists—they're unimaginative. They don't have faith, they've just never been foreclosed on. They are stupid and they are callous, and they don't mind it when people become disheartened. They don't even notice.

I would like to add that given this disengaged governance an entire class of American citizenry has been allowed to grow - millions - 47 Million at last count - that has come to rely entirely on the mindless, disinterested government for their existence. In some sense why should the rest of us care when millions of our "fellow" citizens don't?

Liberal Fads that Kill - kind of like Obamacare

This is what happens when rich countries try to inflict their trendy fads on poor countries - over at the WSJ, Bjorn Lomborg: Climate Change and Malaria in Africa.

Pelosi: Worst of the Worst

Nancy Pelosi, Squeaker of the House and Liar extraordinaire, has already inherited the title of Worst Speaker of the House ever and now she can also claim the title of authoring the Worst Bill in American History. Wall Street Journal: The Worst Bill Ever.

Not So Great Expectations

The Obamadministration is desperate to find anything that it can claim as a success - today it is the economy. The economy is beginning to show signs of life. The economy grew 3.5% in the July-September quarter. The White House propaganda machine was quick to claim credit for the growth on behalf of the Obama's economic policies. Unfortunately the data are against the White House's claims. The White House claims that the growth is evidence that the Stimulus is working. The facts are, of the nearly $800 billion in stimulus money that Congress appropriated, only $173 billion of it has been spent and of that only $47 billion has been spent on what could be called "shovel ready" programs, roads and other infrastructure jobs. The rest went to social spending and tax refunds to non-tax payers. The cash for clunkers program spent $3 billion and now we are finding that it had less of an impact than first estimated. Only 125000 of the nearly 700000 cars sold can be credited to the program. Only about a point and a half of the 3.5 points can be attributed to this one-time program. The only government initiative, and it is not really the government, it is the Fed, working are the low interest rates, which is helping with borrowing by businesses. The low interest rates are all Bush initiatives not the Obama's. The other piece of evidence against the White House's claims of glory is that historically, recessions typically last between 18 to 24 months and we are approaching the end of this recession so one expects the economy to begin trending upward. The real damning bit of evidence, though, is that Americans continues to lose jobs. One would have expected job loss to level off or start decreasing but it actually ticked up more than expected. In the coming years we will be paying for the $800 billion that was appropriated via borrowing so this growth really is an artificial blip in the long term.