Saturday, September 14, 2013

IT'S COME TO THIS:  The unions were for until Obama was elected.  This double cross goes down as one of those things you best not wish for, at least if you are a union leader.  It looks like about all the incredibly shrinking unions have to offer these days is a favorably priced private owned and operated health care policy.  If that's off the table, what's left to attract the already poorly union-served members? What's disheartening about all this back and forth about Obamacare is the reality that once in place the healthcare bureaucrats will make everything worse than it already is.  One can expect the companies now providing healthcare insurance as a benefit to begin moving their workers to the exchanges and more-or-less letting them fend for themselves.  They would probably do this by giving workers a salary bump the equivalent of the cost of their individual policy and let the worker buy what they want to with that "bump" on the exchange. Then what you're apt to see is employees opting out of the exchange, paying the fine and pocketing the difference and going without insurance, or maybe buying a less comprehensive policy and pocketing the difference.  Meanwhile companies are happy because they are out from under the headaches and burdens of managing their employees' healthcare and the individual will have to assume responsibility for managing it.  This could be a good outcome however it won't be. The pricing of medical services will be set by the government thus there will be no incentive to shop better pricing by consumers since there will be no competition among providers. All in all this plan will work no better here than it has in any other socialist state now employing it.

LICENSING REPORTERS? Shield laws are not a good idea  Since the advent of blogs and blogging, it's become hard to define who's a 'reporter' in the old definition of the word and who's not.  It shouldn't make any difference especially after noting the revolving door now between the old media (MSM), and this administration.  The latest "reporter" in the door is the TIME magazine hack who has moved over to the State Department.  Jay Carney was also a Time alumnus.  These guys and gals, 21 are reported to have made the move in this administration, are really just PR flacks for the administration while at their media posts so why not join the party formally.  Good for the resume.  It would be nice to know if their pay is the same.  My guess is the government pays them more than Time, which is on the skids badly.  Just for the record FDR hired a lot of "journalists" for his administration in order to co-opt critical press, so this is nothing new for Democrats.  Also, I recall Tony Snow of Fox News, joining the Bush Administration but I don't recall any others from the media side doing the same.

Friday, September 13, 2013

WMDs: Believe this or not, it's still a plausible story. Why we couldn't find WMDs once in Iraq. That fox Sadam.

WHY LIBERAL BIAS: This is usually called incest  And to think these so-called journalists are objective and always looking for "the truth".  Just isn't true.  They are ALWAYS protecting, fomenting, pushing, their world view on their either unsuspecting or willing followers.  This is ridiculous and is getting us nowhere.

Thursday, September 12, 2013

MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX:  This is what Eisenhower warned about

AND OUR ALLIES SAY: This is what weak leadership produces

Wednesday September 11, 2013

HYSTERICAL OBAMA VIDEO:  From the endless Obama campaign for cash

EXACTLY!: J.R. Dunn channels many of us conservatives.  The only change I would make in this perfect political history of my lifetime is Dunn's overlooking, rather understating,  the fascistic programs put in place in the first 4 years of FDR's failed regime which did lead to a little recovery from Hoover's '29-'33 debacle, but nevertheless failed to bring unemployment down below 15%.  Those programs, NRA, CCC, etc., were all properly thrown out by the SC, but not before they entrenched FDR in his second term (he eventually served 4) and delayed the recovery for yet another 4 years.  The moral:  interventionists like Hoover and FDR will be socialists.  And here we are, 70 years later, withyet another interventionist  cum  socialist in the WH.  Will we never learn???

OBAMA'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

President’s Accomplishments: 

He has done more than any other President before him. He has an impressive list of accomplishments:

First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner. 

First President to have a social security number belonging to another man, from a state he has never lived in.
First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.
First President to violate the War Powers Act.
First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
First President to spend a trillion dollars on "shovel-ready" jobs when there was no such thing as "shovel-ready" jobs.
First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.
First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.
First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S.,

     including those with criminal convictions.
First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.
First President to terminate America's ability to put a man in space.
First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.
First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.
First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.
First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).
First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.
First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.
First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office, 102 to date.
First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records.
First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
First President to go on multiple "global apology tours" and concurrent "insult our friends" tours.
First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his

     friends paid for by the taxpayers.
First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week at taxpayer expense.
First President to repeat the Holy Quran & tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most

     beautiful sound on earth.
First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they

     "volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences."
Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last

     suggestion.
First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs. Arizona).

 

How is Obama's hope and change working out for you?   

Not sure any of these are "accomplishments" however he has been busy and cleaning up his legacy will take some time.  Sooner we get started on this reclamation project  the better.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

FOR THOSE WHO LIKE IRONY:  This is for the suckers who voted for Obama

TRUTH HURTS: Much as we may hate Assad, he's got a point about Obama

DIFFERENT RULES FOR CONGRESS?: What's good for the goose is good for the gander  If there's a God the political elites will not get away with this latest example of their venality.  Let them live by the rules they create for the rest of us, no exceptions.  As for their argument this will cause staff members of Congress to leave for the private sector,  GOOD RIDDANCE, may this be the beginning of downsizing the bloated federal government bureaucracies.

Monday September 9, 2013

GAME CHANGER?:  Assuming this reporting is accurate, there's little doubt Assad did the gasing

EFFICIENT MARKET FOR STOCKS: This article suggest index funds have changed investing standards

ELIZABETH WARREN FOR PRESIDENT?:  A liberal Democrat on full display.  It's really hard not to give up on the system when following the political career of Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law School professor turned politician after enriching herself representing demon bankrupt corporations against the "little" people whom she now purports to represent.  This woman is as vile as Hillary, maybe more so, because she is demonstrably two-faced.  At least Hillary has been reasonably consistent in her representation of the poor and downtrodden even though she was on the board of Wall Mart at one time. Bottom line:  these scummy liberals will do anything, be anything, say anything that could possibly help them attain power, their ultimate goal.  OMG, can one imagine Elizabeth Warren, this prissy busy-body two-faced phony liberal college professor as President?  She'd make Presidents Wilson, Johnson, Carter and Obama look like conservatives.  Here's more on this phony, and even more It's almost more than a sane person can endure

PONZI SCHEMES:

If You Don’t Like ObamaCare, Can You Quit?

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By G. Keith Smith, MDSurgeryCenterOK.com

At a physician’s roundtable years ago, I asked Senator Orrin Hatch why I couldn’t punch out of Social Security, happy to leave all that I had paid “into the system” on the table. Why couldn’t anyone, I asked, willing to leave behind all they had paid in, be allowed to walk away from these entitlements, as long as they were willing to forgo a future claim to these “benefits?”

He wouldn’t answer me. The answer is obvious, though, isn’t it? Without the current “contributions” of the young (and yes, draws on the credit line of the unborn), the current beneficiaries would discover that these programs were bankrupt.

Virtually all of the legislators that brought us Medicare are dead and gone now. All of the legislators who brought us Social Security are dead and gone. This is no coincidence, for these men realized that it was politically much more popular to give away government goodies paid for by the young and unborn than to tax the very same people who were to “benefit” from their “ideas” and “programs.”

Dead now, these criminal politicians have largely escaped the harsh judgment they deserve for buying votes with property that would belong to future generations. Currency depreciation (“inflation”—the current political class’s favorite way to rob the young for the benefit of their current constituents) has the same effect on future generations.

This is the essence of a Ponzi scheme. That is a fraudulent investment scheme that pays investors not out of profits but out of money paid in by later investors.

If you think about it, all government programs are Ponzi schemes. It is becoming increasingly clear that the same can be said about the [Un]Affordable Care Act.I call it the UCA, instead of the ACA.

UCA can’t let young people out for the same reason that Social Security can’t. Young workers aren’t paying or saving for their own benefits, but for older, sicker people.

UCA rules force insurers to charge them more than they actually cost to help offset the higher cost of insuring older and sicker people. If the young don’t sign up, premiums for everyone in the insurance pool will dramatically increase, as will the cost to the government.

People generally don’t volunteer to be overcharged so that strangers can be undercharged. Hence the individual mandate, and tax penalties.

Young adults are beginning to see the reality as the UCA takes shape, and understand how they wind up losing from every angle. Hence the $600 million advertising campaign and multimillion dollar Navigator program to steer people into the program as quickly as possible. UCA promoters know how hard it is to take away an entitlement once people are trapped in it.

The idea is to entice people with subsidies so they won’t notice how outrageous the premiums are. When enough are lured away from private insurance—the “crowding out” effect shown so well with the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)—private insurance will collapse. Like Medicare beneficiaries now, all Americans will be without options for major medical insurance.

The success of the UCA hinges on the successful fleecing of the young people. This is the same immoral basis for Medicare and Social Security, “programs” that are still alive because participation in these Ponzi schemes is involuntary. With Bernie Madoff, at least people could take their lumps, having learned their lesson and move on. They didn’t have to continue to give him money after they learned what he was up to.

I am optimistic that today’s young people will reject the shackles that many of their elders have embraced.

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G. Keith Smith, MD is a board certified anesthesiologist in private practice since 1990. In 1997, he co-foundedThe Surgery Center of Oklahoma, an outpatient surgery center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, owned by 40 of the top physicians and surgeons in central Oklahoma. Dr. Smith serves as the medical director, CEO and managing partner while maintaining an active anesthesia practice.

In 2009, Dr. Smith launched a website displaying all-inclusive pricing for various surgical procedures, a move that has gained him and the facility, national and even international attention. Many Canadians and uninsured Americans have been treated at his facility, taking advantage of the low and transparent pricing available.