Universal Health care

Idiot: Well why shouldn't the United States have universal health care? Canada has it, England has it, and so does France, and it works great there.


Britain Plans to Decentralize Health Care
By SARAH LYALL
Published: July 24, 2010

LONDON — Perhaps the only consistent thing about Britain’s socialized health care system is that it is in a perpetual state of flux, its structure constantly changing as governments search for the elusive formula that will deliver the best care for the cheapest price while costs and demand escalate.

Even as the new coalition government said it would make enormous cuts in the public sector, it initially promised to leave health care alone. But in one of its most surprising moves so far, it has done the opposite, proposing what would be the most radical reorganization of the National Health Service, as the system is called, since its inception in 1948.

Practical details of the plan are still sketchy. But its aim is clear: to shift control of England’s $160 billion annual health budget from a centralized bureaucracy to doctors at the local level. Under the plan, $100 billion to $125 billion a year would be meted out to general practitioners, who would use the money to buy services from hospitals and other health care providers. (And we are doing just the opposite... UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE DOES NOT WORK PEOPLE!!!)

The plan would also shrink the bureaucratic apparatus, in keeping with the government’s goal to effect $30 billion in “efficiency savings” in the health budget by 2014 and to reduce administrative costs by 45 percent. Tens of thousands of jobs would be lost because layers of bureaucracy would be abolished.

The health secretary, Andrew Lansley, also promised to put more power in the hands of patients. Currently, how and where patients are treated, and by whom, is largely determined by decisions made by 150 entities known as primary care trusts — all of which would be abolished under the plan, with some of those choices going to patients. It would also abolish many current government-set targets, like limits on how long patients have to wait for treatment. (Kinda of sounds like what we use to have doesn't it?)

Full Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/world/europe/25britain.html?_r=1&hp

It's Working Already

Illegals are leaving Arizona ahead of the new law going into effect Thursday.


Migrants sell up, flee Arizona ahead of crackdown
* Tough state immigration crackdown starts on Thursday

* Boom in yard sales as migrants sell off belongings

* Legal residents, US-born children join scramble to leave

By Tim Gaynor


PHOENIX, July 25 (Reuters) - Nicaraguan mother Lorena Aguilar hawks (hocks I suppose?) a television set and a few clothes on the baking sidewalk outside her west Phoenix apartment block.

A few paces up the street, her undocumented (AKA Illegal Alien) Mexican neighbor Wendi Villasenor touts a kitchen table, some chairs and a few dishes as her family scrambles to get out of Arizona ahead of a looming crackdown on illegal immigrants.

"Everyone is selling up the little they have and leaving," said Villasenor, 31, who is headed for Pennsylvania. (Why Pennsylvania, seems weird to me)

The two women are among scores of illegal immigrant families across Phoenix hauling the contents of their homes into the yard this weekend as they rush to sell up and get out before the state law takes effect on Thursday.

The law, the toughest imposed by any U.S. state to curb illegal immigration, seeks to drive more than 400,000 undocumented day laborers, landscapers, house cleaners, chambermaids and other workers out of Arizona, which borders Mexico. (Really, that is what the law seeks to do? This Journalist??? is really showing his stuff isn't he? Oh it gets better.)

It makes being an illegal immigrant a state crime (Yes you read that right! Doing something Illegal usually is a crime. I know, I know he said State Crime) and requires state and local police, during lawful contact, to investigate the status of anyone they reasonably suspect of being an illegal immigrant.

Some are heading back to Mexico or to neighboring states. Others are staying put and taking their chances. (Well sounds like Phoenix won't be the kidnapping capital of the USA anymore, it will just be Albuquerque New Mexico)

Arizona straddles the principal highway for human and drug smugglers heading into the United States from Mexico.

The state's Republican governor, Jan Brewer, signed the law in April in a bid to curb violence and cut crime stemming from illegal immigration.

Polls show the measure is backed by a solid majority of Americans and by 65 percent of Arizona voters in this election year for some state governors, all of the U.S. House of Representatives and about a third of the 100-seat Senate.



http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2514063220100725

End Of The Republic?

Obama signs sweeping financial overhaul into law
By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press Writer Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press Writer – Wed Jul 21, 4:21 pm ET

WASHINGTON – Reveling in victory, President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed into law the most sweeping overhaul of financial regulations since the Great Depression. . . The legislation gives the government new powers to break up companies that threaten the economy, creates a new agency to guard consumers and puts more light on the financial markets that escaped the oversight of regulators.

Republicans portray the bill as a burden on small banks and the businesses that rely on them and argue it will cost consumers and impede job growth. Republican Rep. Darrell Issa of California called Obama's bill-signing a "charade" that ignored the root causes of the financial crisis.

In a note of irony, Obama signed the bill with great fanfare in the massive Ronald Reagan Building, named after a president who championed deregulation. The president was joined by scores of consumer advocates, state and local government officials, business owners and executives, and members of Congress who supported the bill. Obama singled out for praise Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., and Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., who shepherded the bill through Congress.

The law also assembles a powerful council of regulators to be on the lookout for risks across the finance system. Large, failing financial institutions will now be liquidated and the costs assessed on their surviving peers. Borrowers will be protected from hidden fees and abusive terms, but also will have to provide evidence that they can repay their loans. The Federal Reserve will get new powers while at the same time coming under expanded congressional oversight. (And I have beach front property in the beautiful state of Nebraska for sell also.)

"While President Obama pats himself on the back today, families and small businesses are bracing for yet another big-government overreach that will make it harder to create new jobs," said the House Republican leader, John Boehner of Ohio.

Though Obama and his top officials urged Congress to pass the law while the memory of the 2008 financial crisis was still fresh, many of the law's provisions won't take effect for at least a year, as regulators scramble to write new rules and implement them.

Obama has at least one contentious remnant from the bill to address. He must still nominate a director for the independent consumer protection bureau, an agency that became one of the bill's flashpoints and was attacked by Republicans as a broad expansion of government power over private business. (Yes, yes another Government bureaucracy that will fix everything.)


Full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100721/ap_on_bi_ge/us_financial_overhaul_11

Pray For Glenn Beck

If you haven't heard yet Glenn Beck may be going blind. He could use all of our prayers right now.
God Bless you Glenn Beck

Good Time To Die?

Is there a good time to die? Yes there is, this year as a matter of fact.


With Timing of Death, Steinbrenner Family Won't Pay Estate Tax

By MARIA EUGENIA MIRANDA


The timing of George Steinbrenner’s death may have ensured that the New York Yankees franchise stays in the family.

Because of a lapse in the federal estate tax, Steinbrenner’s family is saving about $500 million that they would have otherwise had to pay Uncle Sam. The 45 percent tax expired in January and starts up again in 2011 at 55 percent.

The 80-year-old Steinbrenner died yesterday after a massive heart attack in Tampa, Fla. He was credited with building the Yankees, perhaps the most storied team in baseball, back to a number 1 franchise during his 37 years as owner. A controversial figure, he was also an iconic figure in New York sports and pop culture.

If Steinbrenner’s family would have had to pay the death tax, which the government formerly collected nine months after the person’s death, they would have likely had to sell their most valuable asset – a 55 percent stake in the Yankees’ parent company.

Full Story: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/Steinbrenner-Family-Exempt-From-Estate-Tax-98418909.html


The estate tax is beyond ridiculous and should be repealed indefinitely. Why does any government, this one in particular have a right to tax these people of every dollar they make and then take half of what they have after they have died and already paid taxes on it. I know with the apathy we here in America have shown for the last hundred years we can't cry "taxation without representation" because we voted these bums in. You can't change Washington until you change the people you send there, and you can't change the people you send there until we change ourselves. Get involved!!!

Abortion Under The New Healthcare Law

Obama Administration Approves First Direct Taxpayer Funding of Abortion Through New High-Risk Insurance Pools

Wednesday, July 14, 2010
By Susan Jones, Senior Editor

(CNSNews.com) - If you want proof that President Obama's Executive Order on taxpayer-funded abortion was a sham, look no further than Pennsylvania, says House Republican Leader John Boehner (Ohio).

Boehner and other Republicans point to reports that the Health and Human Services Department is giving Pennsylvania $160 million to set up a new high-risk insurance pool that will cover any abortion that is legal in the state.

Read Full Article Here: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/69384


On a completely different note, here is a little quote from Thomas Jefferson: "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical."

Can anyone say Universal Healthcare, education (teachers unions), social security, medicare, bridges to nowhere, funding for frog crossings etc. etc. etc. etc.

Remembering The Fourth Of July

"Our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor."
Our Founding Fathers paid the price for the United States of America.
By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist
Copyright 2000 Boston Globe

On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted 12-0 -- New York abstained -- in favor of Richard Henry Lee's resolution "that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States."
On July 4, the Declaration of Independence drafted by Thomas Jefferson -- heavily edited by Congress -- was adopted without dissent. On July 8, the Declaration was publicly proclaimed in Philadelphia. On July 15, Congress learned that the New York Legislature had decided to endorse the Declaration. On Aug. 2, a parchment copy was presented to the Congress for signature. Most of the 56 men who put their name to the document did so that day.
And then?
We tend to forget that to sign the Declaration of Independence was to commit an act of treason -- and the punishment for treason was death. To publicly accuse King George III of "repeated injuries and usurpations," to announce that Americans were therefore "Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown," was a move fraught with danger -- so much so that the names of the signers were kept secret for six months
They were risking everything, and they knew it. That is the meaning of the Declaration's soaring last sentence:
"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."

Most of the signers survived the war; several went on to illustrious careers.
Two of them became presidents of the United States, and among the others were future vice presidents, senators, and governors. But not all were so fortunate.
Nine of the 56 died during the Revolution, and never tasted American independence.
Five were captured by the British.
Eighteen had their homes -- great estates, some of them - looted or burnt by the enemy.
Some lost everything they owned.
Two were wounded in battle.
Two others were the fathers of sons killed or captured during the war.
"Our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor." It was not just a rhetorical flourish.
We all recognize John Hancock's signature, but who ever notices the names beneath his? William Ellery, Thomas Nelson, Richard Stockton, Button Gwinnett, Francis Lewis -- to most of us, these are names without meaning.
But each represents a real human being, some of whom paid dearly "for the support of this Declaration" and American independence.
Lewis Morris of New York, for example, must have known when he signed the Declaration that he was signing away his fortune. Within weeks, the British ravaged his estate, destroyed his vast woodlands, butchered his cattle, and sent his family fleeing for their lives.
Another New Yorker, William Floyd, was also forced to flee when the British plundered his property. He and his family lived as refugees for seven years without income. The strain told on his wife; she died two years before the war ended.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, an aristocratic planter who had invested heavily in shipping, saw most of his vessels captured by the British navy. His estates were largely ruined, and by the end of his life he was a pauper.
The home of William Ellery, a Rhode Island delegate, was burned to the ground during the occupation of Newport.
Thomas Heyward Jr., Edward Rutledge, and Arthur Middleton, three members of the South Carolina delegation, all suffered the destruction or vandalizing of their homes at the hands of enemy troops. All three were captured when Charleston fell in 1780, and spent a year in a British prison.
"Our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor."
Thomas Nelson Jr. of Virginia raised $2 million for the patriots' cause on his own personal credit. The government never reimbursed him, and repaying the loans wiped out his entire estate. During the battle of Yorktown, his house, which had been seized by the British, was occupied by General Cornwallis. Nelson quietly urged the gunners to fire on his own home. They did so, destroying it. He was never again a man of wealth. He died bankrupt and was buried in an unmarked grave.
Richard Stockton, a judge on New Jersey's supreme court, was betrayed by loyalist neighbors. He was dragged from his bed and thrown in prison, where he was brutally beaten and starved. His lands were devastated, his horses stolen, his library burnt. He was freed in 1777, but his health had so deteriorated that he died within five years. His family lived on charity for the rest of their lives.
In the British assault on New York, Francis Lewis's home and property were pillaged. His wife was captured and imprisoned; so harshly was she treated that she died soon after her release. Lewis spent the remainder of his days in relative poverty.
And then there was John Hart. The speaker of the New Jersey Assembly, he was forced to flee in the winter of 1776, at the age of 65, from his dying wife's bedside. While he hid in forests and caves, his home was demolished, his fields and mill laid waste, and his 13 children put to flight. When it was finally safe for him to return, he found his wife dead, his children missing, and his property decimated. He never saw any of his family again and died, a shattered man, in 1779.
The men who signed that piece of parchment in 1776 were the elite of their colonies. They were men of means and social standing, but for the sake of liberty, they pledged it all -- their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

We are in their debt to this day.

Good Bye Old Friend

I just had to put my 12 year old boxer down and figured this might help me out a bit. I know people really get attached to their pets, as they should, but Hunter was really something very special. I have been around a lot of dogs before and I swear this one was half human or something. He was the smartest, kindest, most loving and gentle dog I have ever known and he will be missed tremendously. Enjoy the pics.

No, We Are OK. Really We Are

Just some of the days headlines:

Risks to global economy have 'risen significantly', top IMF official warns
The risks to a robust global recovery have 'risen significantly' as many governments struggle with debt, a leading official from the International Monetary Fund has warned.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/7812903/Risks-to-global-economy-have-risen-significantly-top-IMF-official-warns.html

U.S debt to rise to $19.6 trillion by 2015
June 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. debt will top $13.6 trillion this year and climb to an estimated $19.6 trillion by 2015, according to a Treasury Department report to Congress.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN088462520100608

Bernanke Puzzled by Gold Rally
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/06/09/bernanke-puzzled-by-gold-rally/

Bernanke Warns of ‘Unsustainable’ Debt
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/business/economy/10fed.html

(YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP. GOOD GOD, READ THOSE LAST TWO HEADLINES!!!)


FBI: Mexican soldiers used rifles to chase off U.S. Border Patrol
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/06/09/mexico-tensions-heightened-border-patrol-agent-kills-mexican-teen-near-el-paso/

(AND WE WILL LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT TO.)

Coming to America

Just one more article from one more country with universal healthcare that's not working.

Soaring costs force Canada to reassess health model
TORONTO (Reuters) – Pressured by an aging population and the need to rein in budget deficits, Canada's provinces are taking tough measures to curb healthcare costs, a trend that could erode the principles of the popular state-funded system. (gasp, say it ain't so)


"There's got to be some change to the status quo whether it happens in three years or 10 years," said Derek Burleton, senior economist at Toronto-Dominion Bank.

"We can't continually see health spending growing above and beyond the growth rate in the economy because, at some point, it means crowding out of all the other government services.

"At some stage we're going to hit a breaking point."
In some ways the Canadian debate is the mirror image of discussions going on in the United States.

Canada, fretting over budget strains, wants to prune its system, while the United States, worrying about an army of uninsured, aims to create a state-backed safety net.

Healthcare in Canada is delivered through a publicly funded system, which covers all "medically necessary" hospital and physician care and curbs the role of private medicine. It ate up about 40 percent of provincial budgets, or some C$183 billion ($174 billion) last year.

Spending has been rising 6 percent a year under a deal that added C$41.3 billion of federal funding over 10 years.

But that deal ends in 2013, and the federal government is unlikely to be as generous in future, especially for one-off projects.
Ontario says healthcare could eat up 70 percent of its budget in 12 years, if all these costs are left unchecked.

"Our objective is to preserve the quality healthcare system we have and indeed to enhance it. But there are difficult decisions ahead and we will continue to make them," Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan told Reuters.

The province has introduced legislation that ties hospital chief executive pay with the quality of patient care and says it wants to put more physicians on salary to save money. (Man these people just don't get it)

Full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100531/hl_nm/us_health_3

Big Money, Big Money

US money supply plunges at 1930s pace as Obama eyes fresh stimulus
The M3 money supply in the United States is contracting at an accelerating rate that now matches the average decline seen from 1929 to 1933, despite near zero interest rates and the biggest fiscal blitz in history.
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

The M3 figures - which include broad range of bank accounts and are tracked by British and European monetarists for warning signals about the direction of the US economy a year or so in advance - began shrinking last summer. The pace has since quickened.
The stock of money fell from $14.2 trillion to $13.9 trillion in the three months to April, amounting to an annual rate of contraction of 9.6pc. The assets of insitutional money market funds fell at a 37pc rate, the sharpest drop ever.
"It’s frightening," said Professor Tim Congdon from International Monetary Research. "The plunge in M3 has no precedent since the Great Depression. The dominant reason for this is that regulators across the world are pressing banks to raise capital asset ratios and to shrink their risk assets. This is why the US is not recovering properly," he said. (uh ya that is one reason)

The US authorities have an entirely different explanation for the failure of stimulus measures to gain full traction. They are opting instead for yet further doses of Keynesian spending, despite warnings from the IMF that the gross public debt of the US will reach 97pc of GDP next year and 110pc by 2015.
Mr Congdon said the Obama policy risks repeating the strategic errors of Japan, which pushed debt to dangerously high levels with one fiscal boost after another during its Lost Decade, instead of resorting to full-blown "Friedmanite" monetary stimulus.

"Fiscal policy does not work. The US has just tried the biggest fiscal experiment in history and it has failed. What matters is the quantity of money and in extremis that can be increased easily by quantititave easing. If the Fed doesn’t act, a double-dip recession is a virtual certainty," he said.

Mr Bernanke no longer pays attention to the M3 data. The bank stopped publishing the data five years ago, deeming it too erratic to be of much use.

This may have been a serious error since double-digit growth of M3 during the US housing bubble gave clear warnings that the boom was out of control. The sudden slowdown in M3 in early to mid-2008 - just as the Fed talked of raising rates - gave a second warning that the economy was about to go into a nosedive.
Read full article here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/7769126/US-money-supply-plunges-at-1930s-pace-as-Obama-eyes-fresh-stimulus.html

What Could Have Been

What follows is Ronald Reagan's 1964 Republican National Convention Speech. It is probably one of the best speeches I have ever heard. Please take a half an hour and watch this video. Everyone of you out there knows you can find a half hour out of your day, so do it and watch this video. I hear people often ask, "Where is the next George Washington? Where is the next Thomas Jefferson? We need people like that these days", they will say. And I say to them: "How do you know that you are not looking at someone like that everytime you look in the mirror?" Those people you mentioned, our Founding Fathers, they didn't want to do what they did, but they did it. They didn't look to someone else to do a job that they were called to do, they did it. They did not say "oh where is John Locke, or Montesquieu when you need them." No, they took the time out of their day to do what their country needed them to do. Will you?

And to the socialist in this country who say things like: "What freedoms have you lost?" in response to someone telling them what their government is doing to them, should also watch this video and ask me that question again.
Enjoy:

RED LIGHT CAMERAS: JUST A MEANS TO MAKE MONEY NOT SAVE LIFES

I am sorry but I am even more pissed now. For years I have been telling people to look at the data behind these red-light programs, now here is just more proof. Seatbelt laws, helmet laws, red-light cameras, its is all an infringement on our rights. Where does it stop? People say "oh what's the big deal if there are camera's in major cities? Who cares if you aren't breaking the law." Lets follow the logic of these types of stupid arguments: I say lets put up camera's on your street. Who cares if you aren't breaking the law right? Lets put a camera up right in front of your drive way. Then some idiot government employee downtown could see a robber/rapist/you fill in criminal of your choice, getting away and identify them, that way they would be able to catch them quicker. Better yet Mr./Mrs. socialist lets put a camera in your home, in your bedroom, and have big brother monitor us all night. Who cares as long as we aren't doing anything illegal right? (Put in joke of your choice here)
Where does it end?

Rear-end collisions jump at red-light camera intersections in West Palm Beach
By Charles Elmore Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

WEST PALM BEACH — Rear-end collisions more than doubled and accidents increased overall in the first 70 days of red-light cameras in West Palm Beach compared to the same period of 2009, traffic records reviewed by The Palm Beach Post show.

In the name of boosting safety, not revenues, West Palm Beach issued 2,675 camera fines worth a third of a million dollars in March alone.

But at the three city intersections from Feb. 21, when fines began, through May 1, The Post found:

--Rear-end collisions increased to five from two. Rear-end accidents sometimes go up with cameras because anxious drivers are more likely to stop abruptly.

--Overall accidents increased to seven from six.

--The only injury in either period came under cameras, in a rear-end crash in March 2010. The injury was "non-incapacitating," according to records supplied by cities and compiled in Palm Beach County's accident database.

City officials did not dispute the data but said it was too soon to draw meaningful conclusions.

"A larger sample size is needed to make any determinations about the program's effect on accidents," said city spokesman Peter Robbins.

Advocates for a law passed this spring giving state authorization for the cameras said the whole point was to increase safety - and there was no time to lose.

"We've got to do something," said state Sen. Mike Bennett, R-Bradenton, during the legislative session that ended in April.

The losing side in the debate contended another motive is in play. Motorist group AAA pointed out a private camera contractor working with West Palm Beach and several other cities, American Traffic Solutions of Arizona, is partly owned by Wall Street titan Goldman Sachs, which gained control of two ATS board seats in 2008.

"It's more about the money than it is traffic safety," said Kevin Bakewell, a vice president with AAA in Tampa who unsuccessfully urged Gov. Charlie Crist to veto the state law.

In West Palm Beach, a barrage of fines dwarfed the total number of wrecks, yet accidents still increased. The city issued 1,337.5 citations per crash in the first full month of fines, March. There were two documented accidents in that month at the three city intersections with red-light cameras: Australian Avenue at Banyan Boulevard, Belvedere Road at Parker Avenue, and Summit Boulevard at Parker. By comparison, there was one crash at those intersections in January, the last full month without fines.

The state law that takes effect July 1 increases to $158 from $125 the standard fine mailed to car owners, but takes $70 to $100 of each fine for the state. Local governments share the rest with camera vendors.

The state acted in response to lawsuits challenging local authority over cameras, but West Palm Beach had already become the first city in Palm Beach County to issue fines with red-light cameras. More than half a dozen cities and the county are poised to proceed with cameras of their own, and their public justification in each case has been safety.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/rear-end-collisions-jump-at-red-light-camera-706186.html?page=2

Spread The Wealth

I am just a little angry right now that people after hearing President Obama tell Joe the Plummer that he thinks it is better for everyone when you spread the wealth around, announcing to the world that the he is indeed a socialist/fascist, that people still voted for him. Sorry I know the story is old but this article just brought it all back for me.

Private pay shrinks to historic lows as gov't payouts rise

By Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY

Paychecks from private business shrank to their smallest share of personal income in U.S. history during the first quarter of this year, a USA TODAY analysis of government data finds.
At the same time, government-provided benefits — from Social Security, unemployment insurance, food stamps and other programs — rose to a record high during the first three months of 2010.

Those records reflect a long-term trend accelerated by the recession and the federal stimulus program to counteract the downturn. The result is a major shift in the source of personal income from private wages to government programs.

The trend is not sustainable, says University of Michigan economist Donald Grimes. Reason: The federal government depends on private wages to generate income taxes to pay for its ever-more-expensive programs. Government-generated income is taxed at lower rates or not at all, he says. "This is really important," Grimes says.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/income/2010-05-24-income-shifts-from-private-sector_N.htm

We Send Back Them

Listen to the President of Mexico, who you might remember is blasting Arizona for enforcing federal law, try and double talk his way through this interview. When asked what Mexico does with illegal aliens that enter their country (I know, I know; its a growing concern I guess) President Calderon says "We send back them!"
Amen, hallelujah that is what I am all for, lets follow Mexico's lead and send back them.

Must Watch Video

I am kind of getting tired of saying Wake Up America as I am sure if you are reading this blog you are probably already awake. So now is the time to wake up your neighbors, friends, relatives, co-workers, etc. It is time to stop being quite and start talking. I don't know who it was that first said "don't talk about politics or religion" but I am sure it must have been a leftist of some kind. If we can't talk about two of the most important things in humanity than I don't know what we can talk to each other about.

So anyway back on topic. Below you will find a very disturbing video of a radical muslim student, here in the United States, asking a question to David Horowitz who is exposing the Muslim Student Association’s (MSA's) radical Islamic ties. After watching the video you might want to do a little homework. Notice she talks about the Hitler youth program, go out and find the ties between Hitler and the Nazi's and Muslim extremist. For example: Iran isn't called Iran for no reason. Find out why. Anyway watch the video below:



Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/05/13/muslim-student-association-member-admits-she-wants-jewish-genocide-video/#ixzz0oVCBFtBw

Another Government Healthcare Failure

Check out this article

Texas doctors opting out of Medicare at alarming rate
By TODD ACKERMAN
HOUSTON CHRONICLE

Texas doctors are opting out of Medicare at alarming rates, frustrated by reimbursement cuts they say make participation in government-funded care of seniors unaffordable.

Two years after a survey found nearly half of Texas doctors weren't taking some new Medicare patients, new data shows 100 to 200 a year are now ending all involvement with the program. Before 2007, the number of doctors opting out averaged less than a handful a year.

“This new data shows the Medicare system is beginning to implode,” said Dr. Susan Bailey, president of the Texas Medical Association. “If Congress doesn't fix Medicare soon, there'll be more and more doctors dropping out and Congress' promise to provide medical care to seniors will be broken.”

More than 300 doctors have dropped the program in the last two years, including 50 in the first three months of 2010, according to data compiled by the Houston Chronicle. Texas Medical Association officials, who conducted the 2008 survey, said the numbers far exceeded their assumptions.
The uncertainty proved too much for Dr. Guy Culpepper, a Dallas-area family practice doctor who says he wrestled with his decision for years before opting out in March. It was, he said, the only way “he could stop getting bullied and take control of his practice.”
“You do Medicare for God and country because you lose money on it,” said Culpepper, a graduate of the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. “The only way to provide cost-effective care is outside the Medicare system, a system without constant paperwork and headaches and inadequate reimbursement.”

In a new Texas Medical Association survey, opting out was one of the least common options doctors have taken or are planning as a result of declining Medicare funding — behind increasing fees, reducing staff wages and benefits, reducing charity care and not accepting new Medicare patients.

Read Full Story Here: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7009807.html

Mexican President Insults Americans

Mexican President Insults Americans in our own country in front of congress

Watch this video as the President of Mexico talks about the Arizona immigration law. If you are an American that usually votes democrat for whatever dumb ass reason ask yourself this question, as you watch all of the democrats in congress stand up and applaud President Calderon as he bad mouths your country, ask yourself: "Is this what I believe? Do these democrats share my values?"
And if you are a republican that believes in conservative values ask yourself this question: "Why is a quarter of the republicans standing up also?"
Time to vote the bums out if you ask me.
The bottom line here is that these people do not want to secure our borders and the Mexican President telling us how we should secure our borders is the height of hypocrisy. Below the video are just some of the laws Mexico has on immigration.


Mexico's Immigration Laws:
Mexican law makes it a felony to be an illegal alien in Mexico. Yet if the United States adopted such a law, Mexico would no doubt denounce it as a manifestation of American bigotry.

Foreigners are admitted into Mexico "according to their possibilities of contributing to national progress." (Article 32)
Immigration officials must "ensure (that) immigrants will be useful elements for the country and that they have the necessary funds for their sustenance" and that of their dependents. (Article 34)
Foreigners may be barred from the country if their presence has upset "the equilibrium of the national demographics," if they are deemed detrimental to "economic or national interests," if they are not good citizens in their own country, if they have broken Mexican laws, or if "they are not found to be physically or mentally healthy." (Article 37)

The secretary of governance may "suspend or prohibit the admission of foreigners when he determines it to be in the national interest." (Article 38)

Mexican authorities keep track of every person in the country:

Federal, local and municipal police must cooperate with federal immigration authorities upon request: i.e., help in the arrest of illegal immigrants. (Article 73)

A National Population Registry tracks every "individual who comprises (sic) the population of the country," verifying each individual's identity. (Articles 85 and 86)

A national Catalogue of Foreigners tracks foreign tourists and immigrants (Article 87), assigning each a tracking number. (Article 91)

Foreigners with fake papers or who enter the country under false pretenses may be imprisoned:

Foreigners with fake immigration papers may be fined or imprisoned.

(Article 116)

Foreigners who sign government documents "with a signature that is false or different from that which he normally uses" are subject to fine and imprisonment. (Article 116)

Foreigners who fail to obey the rules will be fined, deported, and/or imprisoned as felons:

Foreigners who fail to obey a deportation order are to be punished. (Article 117)

Deported foreigners who try to re-enter Mexico without authorization can be imprisoned for up to 10 years. (Article 118)

Foreigners who violate terms of their visa may be sentenced for up to six years in prison. (Articles 119, 120, and 121) Foreigners who misrepresent the terms of their visa (as by working without a permit) can also be imprisoned.

Under Mexican law, illegal immigration is a felony. The General Law on Population says:

"A penalty of up to two years in prison and a fine of 300 to 5,000 pesos will be imposed on the foreigner who enters the country illegally." (Article 123)

Foreigners with immigration problems may be deported, rather than imprisoned. (Article 125)

Foreigners who "(make attempts) against national sovereignty or security" will be deported. (Article 126)

Mexicans who help illegal aliens enter the country are considered criminals:

A Mexican who marries a foreigner with the sole objective of helping the foreigner live in the country is subject to up to five years in prison. (Article 127)

Shipping and airline companies that bring undocumented foreigners into Mexico will be fined. (Article 132)


Get the picture America? We all need to pass an Arizona style immigration law, then the illegal aliens will start policing themselves and some if not most will start to leave the country, state by state.

Gold hits all-time high

Gold hits all-time high as investors seek haven
By Javier Blas and Jack Farchy in London

Published: May 11 2010 20:07 Last updated: May 11 2010 20:07

Gold prices hit an all-time high as demand surged to the highest level since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 amid volatile financial markets in Europe.

Spot gold in London surged to above $1,230 a troy ounce, surpassing the previous record set in December last year.

Traders and coin dealers said buying was exceptionally strong from German and Swiss investors. In Frankfurt, gold sellers said that demand late last week was three to four times normal levels. The spike appears to reflect concerns in Germany about the potential inflationary impact of the European Central Bank’s decision to buy up eurozone government bonds in the wake of the Greek debt crisis.

Michael Kramer, president of Manfra, Tordella & Brookes, a large New York-based coin dealership, said: “The demand has been huge overseas. Most of it is ending up in Germany.” Edel Tully, precious metals strategist at UBS in London, added: “Coin demand is so intense that SUPPLY is struggling to match”.

Kerry Tattersall, marketing director at the Austrian Mint, which sells the popular Vienna Philharmonic bullion coin, said the mint was producing “as fast as we can”.

Holdings in physically backed gold exchange traded funds are at record highs after some ETFs last week experienced their biggest inflows in over a year.

Global investors have been increasingly turning to gold since 2008. Gold traditionally performs well during times of financial distress or in times of US dollar weakness.

Global investors, led by the US, last year bought a record 228.5 tonnes of gold in the form of bullion coins, up from 77.4 tonnes in 2000, according to GFMS, the London-based precious metals consultancy.

Read More: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c43cc5fc-5d2b-11df-8373-00144feab49a.html

WOW A Rare Moment of Truth From The Media

This is a must watch video. Brian Williams talks to David Letterman on the recent stock market freefall, the status of Greece, and whats to come. Please, please prepare people. I mean this guy is saying things like "I wouldn't leave the house" and he is right things are getting pretty dire just prepare yourselves.

U.S.A Countdown

U.S. Debt Crisis and Tax increases. It's coming:

In the wake of the financial crisis and recession, Moody's Investors Service has brought new transparency to its sovereign ratings analysis — so much so that 2018 lights up as the year the U.S. could be in line for a downgrade if Congressional Budget Office projections hold.

The key data point in Moody's view is the size of federal interest payments on the public debt as a percentage of tax revenue. For the U.S., debt service of 18%-20% of federal revenue is the outer limit of AAA-territory, Moody's managing director Pierre Cailleteau confirmed in an e-mail.

Under the Obama budget, interest would top 18% of revenue in 2018 and 20% in 2020, CBO projects.

But under more adverse scenarios than the CBO considered, including higher interest rates, Moody's projects that debt service could hit 22.4% of revenue by 2013.
The Moody's ratings framework is one that could have a significant influence on policy — particularly in a crisis.

Because debt levels and interest rates can't be lowered overnight, the obvious way of staying within the AAA limits set by Moody's would be to raise revenue.

"It would bias the remedy in favor of tax increases for countries that want to improve their bond rating," said Brian Riedl, budget analyst at the conservative Heritage Foundation.

Because economic growth is a key to fiscal health, Riedl argues that a ratings agency concerned about whether bondholders are repaid should bias spending cuts over tax increases.

Read Full Story Here: http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=532490

A Vision Of Our Future!!!

Who is John Galt? And Where?

I don't know how many people are paying attention to what is going on in Greece but they had better start because I believe it will be coming to a city near you in the near future. So what is going on in Greece? I will tell you and see if any of this sounds familiar to any of you in the United States or anywhere else in the civilized world for that matter. In Greece they have had a socialist government for years with uncontrolled spending, cheap lending, and massive entitlement programs. The countries National debt, put at €300 billion ($413.6 billion), is bigger than the country's economy, with some estimates predicting it will reach 120 percent of gross domestic product in 2010. The country's deficit -- how much more it spends than it takes in -- is 12.7 percent.

Greece's credit rating -- the assessment of its ability to repay its debts -- has been downgraded to the lowest in the eurozone, meaning that foreign investors will be scared away leaving the country struggling to pay its bills as interest rates on existing debts rise.

So what do you think Greece is doing to try and get its tumbling economy back on track? Well they are doing one thing that needs to be done and the other is just suicide. Good Luck Greece. First the good: The government has started slashing away at spending, raised the retirement age by two years, and imposed public sector pay cuts. Now for the stupid thing they are doing: THEY ARE RAISING TAXES. That's right raising taxes while cutting pay.

Now here is a good point for all of you "it can't happen here in America" types. Question- what do you think America will look like if and hopefully when we get rid of social security, medicare, and other entitlements that our government has hooked people on? Thats right... withdrawls and they ain't pretty. I mean for God's sake lets see what we have in common with Greece:
Massive Debt: Check
Massive socialist entitlement programs: Check
Socialist/Progressive policies and leaders: Check
So whats next for us? Well probably a downgrade in our credit rating, Greece will fail, Portugal, England, Italy, Spain, and Ireland will follow, along with us The United States of America. Make no mistake about socialism never works, it is always a miserable failure and the living hell we all are about to go through should be proof positive. I mean really, ask yourselves our your progressive friends to explain why Europe is on the bring of destruction? Kind of obvious isn't it? Yet our President our progressive leaders, and idiot liberals across America want us to be more like Europe? No thanks!!! We are already to close to them for my comfort, but hopefully far enough away still to see it coming and prepare.

Tennessee Floods

Below is a wonderful article about government, politics, the media, and good decent people. It was written by Nashville native, Patten Fuqua, entitled 'We Are Nashville.'

"If you live outside of Nashville, you may not be aware, but our city was hit by a 500-year flood over the last few days. The national news coverage gave us 15 minutes, but went back to focusing on a failed car bomb and an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. While both are clearly important stories, was that any reason to ignore our story? It may not be as terror-sexy as a failed car bomb or as eco-sexy as an oil spill, but that’s no reason to be ignored."

"The Cumberland River crested at its highest level in over 80 years. Nashville had its highest rainfall totals since records began. People drowned. Billions of dollars in damage occurred. It is the single largest disaster to hit Middle Tennessee since the Civil War. And yet…no one knows about it."

"Does it really matter? Eventually, it will…as I mentioned, there are billions of dollars in damage. It seems bizarre that no one seems to be aware that we just experienced what is quite possibly the costliest non-hurricane disaster in American history. The funds to rebuild will have to come from somewhere, which is why people need to know. It’s hard to believe that we will receive much relief if there isn’t a perception that we need it."

"But let’s look at the other side of the coin for a moment. A large part of the reason that we are being ignored is because of who we are. Think about that for just a second. Did you hear about looting? Did you hear about crime sprees? No…you didn’t. You heard about people pulling their neighbors off of rooftops. You saw a group of people trying to move two horses to higher ground. No…we didn’t loot. Our biggest warning was, “Don’t play in the floodwater.” When you think about it…that speaks a lot for our city. A large portion of why we were being ignored was that we weren’t doing anything to draw attention to ourselves. We were handling it on our own."

"Some will be quick to find fault in the way rescue operations were handled, but the fact of the matter is that the catastrophe could not have been prevented and it is simply ignorant beyond all reason to suggest otherwise. It is a flood. It was caused by rain. You can try to find a face to stick this tragedy to, but you’ll be wrong."

"Parts of Nashville that could never even conceivably be underwater were underwater. Some of them still are. Opry Mills and the Opryland Hotel are, for all intents and purposes, destroyed. People died sitting in standstill traffic on the Interstate. We saw boats going down West End. And, of course, we all saw the surreal image of the portable building from Lighthouse Christian floating into traffic and being destroyed when cars were knocked into it. I’m still having trouble comprehending all of it."

"And yet…life will go on. We’ll go back to work, to school, to our lives…and we’ll carry on. In a little over a month, I’ll be on this website talking about the draft. In October, we’ll be discussing the new Predators’ season with nary a thought of these past few days. But in a way, they changed everyone in this town. We now know that it can happen to us…but also know that we can handle it.

Because we are Nashville."

Anti-American

Let me just ask a few hypothetical questions here. Just suppose that there is, oh I don't know, lets say an SUV parked in New York City and the police find a bomb in it. Who do you start looking for? These people, we will call them group A?

Or these people, group B?

Well if you are the United States Government, the liberal media, or any other big government progressive you start looking for people from group A.

Here are some quotes from NYC Big Government Mayor Bloomberg: Bloomberg told CBS Evening News Anchor Katie Couric that the suspect behind the bombing attempt could be a domestic terrorist angry at the government who acted alone.

"If I had to guess 25 cents, this would be exactly that. Homegrown, or maybe a mentally deranged person, or somebody with a political agenda that doesn't like the health care bill or something. It could be anything," he said.

"There is no evidence here of a conspiracy, there is no evidence that it's tied into anything else. It looks like an amateurish job done by at least one person," he told Couric.

Then the NY Times, time after time keeps calling the Islamic terrorist "A Connecticut man."

"A Connecticut man who was arrested as his plane was about to take off from Kennedy Airport admitted on Tuesday that he had tried to explode a car bomb in Times Square, and had received bomb-making training in the militant strongholds of western Pakistan, according to a criminal complaint."

And worst yet from the NY Times they say: "Mr. Shahzad, a naturalized United States citizen from Pakistan..."

And then we have MSNBC host Contessa Brewer said this on the Stephanie Miller show: "I get frustrated...There was part of me that was hoping this was not going to be anybody with ties to any kind of Islamic country.
There are a lot of people who want to use terrorist intent to justify writing off people who believe in a certain way or come from certain countries or whose skin color is a certain way. I mean they use it as justification for really outdated bigotry."

She sounds to me like one of those idiots that doesn't think we should racial profile muslim looking people at airports, oh wait, kind of like our own government. Speaking of that, as you all know we have caught the guy you tried to blow up his SUV and kill innocent people in NYC and where did we find him? Thats right on a plane. How did he get on a plane you ask? I contend that since he is a muslim he walked straight through security while granny there in group A was being stripped searched. And just for the record for all of you non-racial profiling progressive, liberal, big government idiots, the person caught was A Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40. See earlier blog below:
http://cincinnatus17.blogspot.com/2010/01/case-for-racial-profiling.html

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2010/05/04/msnbcs-contessa-brewer-frustrated-times-square-bomber-muslim-0#ixzz0n0r8WZbN

Puerto Rican Statehood

Everyone needs to call or e-mail their Representatives today Friday April 30th and tell them to vote no on H.R. 2499 The Puerto Rico Democracy Act. If you don't know who your representative is, first shame on you, second go to this website and find out:
http://www.congress.org/

For those of you who haven't heard anything about this, which doesn't surprise me nobody is covering it, here is some background info:

There is a bill to make Puerto Rico a state. Again, Congress is trying to pull one over on us and on Puerto Ricans, who have consistently said they do not want to become a state.

The Puerto Rican government is even playing hardball with it own people! Read this by Ann Shibler :

The United States House of Representatives is set to vote on H.R. 2499, the Puerto Rico Democracy Act, as early as this week. This bill would mandate a non-binding expression by the voters of Puerto Rico as to their wishes with regard to retaining their commonwealth status or becoming a state or becoming an independent nation, but in conjunction with other legislation already introduced inside Puerto Rico, the commonwealth status of the island could be eliminated as early as this year.

Three times in the past 43 years Puerto Ricans have voted against becoming the 51st state in the Union, the last time being 11 years ago. But this time the bill is rigged to eliminate the commonwealth option and grant either full statehood, or total independence. Sen. Jose Hernandez-Mayoral of the island's minority Popular Democratic Party said, "Behind this innocuous bill lies a fully thought out assault on Congress to designate the island the 51st state." "With the commonwealth option out of the ballot, statehood is finally, albeit crookedly, assured a victory."

The whole article is here: http://www.jbs.org/us-constitution-blog/6230-legislation-promotes-statehood-for-puerto-rico


Please consider this:

* The U.S. would transform, overnight, into a bilingual nation. At least half of Puerto Ricans do not speak English, the language of our U.S. Constitution and founding documents. The Washington Times article, "Puerto Rican statehood," analyzes all the implications of adding a foreign language-speaking state to the Union.

* It would bring immediate demands for massive federal spending. The average income of Puerto Ricans is less than half that of our poorest state, and infrastructure and the environment are far below American standards. Puerto Rico has a population with a median national income of $17,741, nearly a third of that for the U.S.

* Puerto Rico is already a democracy. Despite the bill's deceptive title, Puerto Rico already has an elected government and exists as a self-governed commonwealth of the U.S.

* Statehood would give Puerto Rico more congressional representation than 25 of our 50 states! It would inevitably give Democrats two additional U.S. Senators and 6 to 8 additional Members of the House.


H.R. 2499 is stealth legislation designed to lead to the admission of Spanish-speaking Puerto Rico as the 51st state, thereby making us a de facto bilingual nation, like Canada. The U.S. Congress should not be forcing Puerto Ricans to vote on statehood, especially since the Puerto Rican people have rejected statehood three times since 1991!

No Member of Congress who describes himself as a limited government, fiscal conservative should be casting a YEA vote for H.R. 2499,as Puerto Rican statehood would cause an immediate increase in federal expenditures, particularly for taxpayer-funded welfare state services.

Read the whole thing:
http://biggovernment.com/taylorking/2010/04/28/puerto-rico-51st-state-congress-scrambling-to-make-it-so/

The Tennessee Plan

Some will say "it's non-binding. Big deal!"

True, but here's where if you don't know history, you are destined to repeat it. Let me introduce something to you called the Tennessee Plan. (This is probably going to sound like a conspiracy theory, but I have one thing the conspiracy theories never have.)

OK — so the Tennessee Plan, you've probably never heard of it unless you are from Tennessee or Alaska. Apparently, some of those who took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution haven't heard of it either. When Tennessee first came to the Union, it had a different name; it was first called "Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio." It was a U.S. territory, just like Puerto Rico is now.

But instead of waiting for Congress to decide if they wanted to make the territory a state, they took a different, bold route: They forced the issue themselves:

• They elected delegates for Congress

• They voted on statehood

• They drafted a state constitution

• And applied for statehood

• Then, when Congress dragged their feet, they went to the Capitol and demanded to be seated

Congress was unsure of how to proceed; this was the first territory going for statehood. They relented and Tennessee became America's 16th state. Alaska did many of the same things.

Again, the Tennessee plan in a nutshell:

• Unsuccessfully petitioning Congress for admission

• Drafting a state constitution without prior congressional intervention

• Holding state elections for state officers, U.S. senators and representatives

• In some cases, sending the entire congressional delegation to Washington to demand statehood and claim their seats

• Finally, Congress has little choice but to admit a new state through the passage of a simple act of admission

Congressmen, voting for HR 2499 are like sheep being led to slaughter. They'll say the people of Puerto Rico have a right to vote for themselves. They'll vote yes. The progressives will then present a false choice to the people. Instead of saying "do you want to be a state?"it's "Do you want the status quo?" If voters vote no, the next vote removes the status quo from the ballot, leaving statehood against two far less popular options. They'll vote yes for statehood. Then they'll elect their congressman and senators, they'll demand to be seated and a 51st star will be attached to the flag.

How could this happen? Look at the immigration debate. What are Arizona and Texas being called? Racists. Anyone opposing Puerto Rico as state 51 would be called a hatemonger. Why do you hate Puerto Ricans so much? Why do you hate freedom?

This is not about Hispanics or freedom or sovereignty. It's about power and control. If progressives convince Hispanics that everyone besides progressives are racist, you'll have their vote for 60 years. But it's more than that.

Why are Democrats and Republicans for this? Because it's not about Republicans and Democrats. The progressives in our country know that this is the moment they've been waiting for; every Marxist daydream they've ever had, now is their time to get it done. They are not going to let it pass.

That's what's happening: The fundamental transformation of America. And this is only the beginning.

I told that this sounds like a conspiracy theory. But who is orchestrating this effort in Puerto Rico? Lo and behold, the New Progressive Party; from their own party platform:

"The New Progressive Party adopts the Tennessee Plan as an additional strategy for the decolonization and the claim for the admission of Puerto Rico as the 51st State of the United States of America."

And: "This shall be done through legislation which will establish a process for the adoption and ratification of the Constitution of the State of Puerto Rico, and the election of two senators and six federal congresspersons to appear before Congress in Washington D.C. to claim their seats and the admission of Puerto Rico as the 51st State of the United States of America."

They're going to paint this as a vote for freedom, but Puerto Rico has already voted and they've already spoken. When they send the delegates to Washington, if you stand against this you'll be labeled a racist.