Swine Flu and Magic Tricks

H1N1 Swine Flu map:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=p&msa=0&msid=106484775090296685271.0004681a37b713f6b5950&ll=36.031332,-95.625&spn=42.156578,87.890625&z=3&source=embed

Are we getting closer to a world wide pandemic? The swine virus has killed up to 149 people in Mexico already. The WHO raised its pandemic alert level for the swine flu virus to phase 4, indicating a significantly increased risk of a pandemic, a global outbreak of a serious disease.
The last such outbreak, a "Hong Kong" flu pandemic in 1968, killed about 1 million people.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE53N22820090427

AP: Swine flu epidemic enters dangerous new phase
The swine flu epidemic entered a dangerous new phase Monday as the death toll climbed in Mexico and the number of suspected cases there and in the United States nearly doubled. The World Health Organization raised its alert level but stopped short of declaring a global emergency.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/med_swine_flu

We all need to keep an eye out with this swine flu and pay particular attention to what is happening and very well could happen to Mexico in the near future. Mexico's economy was already in a horrible state when this outbreak started. Now all but essential travel to Mexico has been suspended from several countries including the United States. Tourism in Mexico, which is one of the major ways Mexico makes money, will take a huge hit. Soccer games were played to empty stadiums, restaurants and malls are empty and this country can't take much more. Not to mention they were hit by an earthquake yesterday also. What better argument than to have better border security is there?

Be careful with Obama and those magicians up in Washington though. While we are all watching Obama's right hand let us not forget that he is left-handed take a look what is in that hand. Some recent headlines you might not have heard about follow:

US to take majority GM stake: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a5326d50-332a-11de-9316-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1

Treasury needs record $361B April-June borrowing: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090427/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/us_treasury_borrowing

Also the Obama administration is trying its best to hurry up, under the news of this swine flu, to pass his budget complete with government run health care. They are trying to do this with a trick called reconciliation. This is a procedure designed for deficit reduction being misused to jam through a government takeover of health care with only 20 hours of debate, no amendments, and just 50 votes instead of the usual 60. This trick will silence Republicans and centrist Democrats, and allow a radical leftist plan in which government takes away control of health care from patients and doctors, and rations care by denying it to people judged by bureaucrats to be too old or too sick to justify the cost.