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Democratic doubletalk on budgets
Democratic doubletalk on budget shenanigans associated with the health care reform bill. You get the government you deserve. I hate the idea of future generations paying for our short attention span and fascination with reality TV
carbon units fail trade-in value test, offered assisted suicide instead
- welcome to Obama-care carbon unit. You will be absorbed, or not, based on your trade -in value. I wonder if the old lady would have qualified as a "cash for clunkers?"
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Lucianne.com News Forum – HomePage
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Cancer Patient Offered Gov’t Suicide
Funds But Not Medical Care
Canada Free Press, by Warner Todd Huston Original Article
Posted By: KarenJ1- 8/4/2009 9:50:46 PM Post Reply
Doctor C.L. Gray and his Physicians for Reform group tell us of the horror story of Oregon’s government run healthcare plan that offered a cancer patient named Barbara all the suicide assisted funding she wanted, but not one penny for the medical care that could save her life. As Doctor Gray put it, Barbara was no longer thought of by government as a patient but instead had become a “negative economic unit.”
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Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
White House uses Web against Drudge attack – Yahoo! News
- Drudge must think he lives in America
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WASHINGTON – The White House is turning to the Internet to hit back at a Web posting that claims to show President Barack Obama explaining how his health care reform plans eventually would eliminate private insurance
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Geithner rails at tax payers
http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/geithner-said-to-lose-his-cool-at-regulators-meeting
Geithner the Tax Cheat should have threatened to audit their taxes
US will soon be unable to rely on the kindness of strangers
The rest of the world will apply the fiscal discipline to us that we can’t develop on our own.
eventually people get tired of giving the drunk money, and he either gets clean out of necessity or turns to a life of crime.
Higher taxes, or reduced federal benefits and services – or a combination of both – may be the inevitable consequences.
Hyenas fighting over the carcass
Not a single thought concerning the appropriateness of shovelling other peoples money at favored constituencies; only concerned about elbowing her way into the trough: yeah Maxine! Now if you would just cheat on your taxes you could be in line for Treasury
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus on Monday criticized the lack of minority participation in the government’s financial bailouts and suggested that President Barack Obama isn’t doing much better than his predecessor to ensure diversity.”We are not going to sit by and allow billions of dollars to be dumped into this economy and have the same old players being advantaged by it,” said Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif.
Holding auditions for the role of Nero in our latest farce
The verdict is finally in and it is clear that the Socialists have won this round in the battle for our economic future. Despite decades of rhetoric to the contrary, when push came to shove, leaders of both parties revealed their true colors by mortgaging our future and the future of our children for the sake of political expediency and crony capitalism.
Rather than let their cronies at the Wall Street investment banks suffer the consequences of their incompetence and outright thievery, our popularly elected political leaders bailed them out at taxpayers expense to the tune of at least $1 trillion that we know of. Given government’s inability to control costs we should multiply that by at least a factor of 10 and estimate the future burden on our children and grandchildren to be at least 10 trillion dollars. This would bring the real cost in line with all previous bailouts.
For example, the initial cost projections on the Iraq war by the Bush administration were set at $50 billion and we have already exceeded 500 billion and are quickly on our way to 1 trillion. There’s no reason to believe that the current bailout of mortgage bankers Wall Street banks will come in at anything less than 10 times the initial forecast.
We run the very real risk of turning into Japan and their lost generation. The Japanese form of crony capitalism featured national banks that were deemed too large to fail and they were propped up with the collective savings of the Japanese people. As a result Japan has had zero to negative real growth in their equity markets for the last 20 years and there’s no sign of them coming out of the hole anytime soon. The policy decisions taken this week by our collective leadership have launched is firmly down that same path and there’s no end in sight. What will be the next set of corporations that are being too large to fail? The auto industry? Wal-Mart? The entire service sector? The only bull market we have left any more is the one for government intervention and the taxpayers don’t have many bullets left.
How will we explain this one to our children? Where is our sense of shame? Did we really sell our wisdom so cheaply? The promise of free money and a declaration that consumption is the highest good? The era of bread and circuses is fully upon us and we are holding auditions for the role of Nero.
