From our perspective, we won last night – Nancy Pelosi, Wednesday, November 4, 2009
After Democrats lost the Governors of NJ and VA while winning a race in NY. A few more “wins” like that, and Nancy Pelosi won’t be on the interview circuit!
Prescient cartoon in 1948
This video was produced in 1948 and shows exactly the problems we face today (and for years), and the techniques that have been used for 50 years to accomplish the goals. Disunity and division, class-warfare, race relations are the techniques used to divide the free people and to so conquer and enslave them.
Everyone should take the few minutes to watch this and forward it along.
http://nationaljuggernaut.blogspot.com/2009/09/this-cartoon-seemed-far-fetched-in-1948.html
We (the United States) tax everything that moves and doesn’t move
The percentage of taxes on GDP (in Pakistan) is among the lowest in the world… We (the United States) tax everything that moves and doesn’t move, and that’s not what we see in Pakistan. – October 29, 2009 Hillary Clinton (see article)
Nancy Pelosi Ignores Constitution with an “Are you serious?”
Reporter: Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?”
Pelosi: “Are you serious? Are you serious?”
It is unbelievable that when asked where in the Constitution an individual mandate to buy health insurance is authorized, she responds with an “are you serious?” Talk about one of the most ignorant responses to a quesiton about the Constitution by a Speaker in history. Nancy Pelosi clearly has either not read the Constitution or the Federalist Papers or her own power is more important to her than the law of the land.
The people who voted for her should be ashamed of themselves for electing someone who is as foolish and uninformed as this woman. Her interest in power over the people of the United States trumps all concern for freedom, liberty and the Constitution.
More Chicago Racism and Power-hungry Dallas Police
Check this one out, a Chicago bar denying entrance to certain college kids based on skin color:
http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/well-known_chicago_bar_mothers_accused_of_racism
And power-hungry police in Dallas ticketing people for not speaking English? What is it coming to?
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America ‘s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure – Senator Obama, 2006
“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America ‘s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America ‘s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, “the buck stops here.’ Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”
~ Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006
House Oversight members avoid Countrywide oversight
Gotta love the Democratic members of the Oversight Committee not wanting to oversee:
In order for collectivists (socialists, progressives, fascists, communists, etc.) to check their morality…
In order for collectivists (socialists, progressives, fascists, communists, etc.) to check their morality, they need only remove government as the intermediary of their programs. When they are exposed as clubbing other people for “charity,” housing rights, medical rights, job rights and all the other rights inimical to the right to self-ownership, property, and the liberty to use it, their brute force will lay naked for all to see. That they rely on government agents to do their mugging for them is an indication of their bravery. At least union members do not hesitate to threaten or use force, but they too often rely on paid goons. ~ Bill Holmes
Obama Cabinet Member Anita Dunn cites Mao Zedong/Tse Tung as ‘Favorite Philosopher’
A power hungry dictator who killed 10s of millions and who’s “work-camps” and policies led to tens of millions of more death is praised by an Obama cabinet member in 2009. Mao defended those deaths as “necessary.” (See Terrible Honeymoon).
Health Insurance penalties
In the health care bill passed last Tuesday (10/13/2009) by the Senate Finance Committee, adults who do not purchase health insurance would face an excise-tax penalty of $200 a year starting in 2014 and rising gradually to $750 in 2017.
Let’s analyze this. You can pay whatever you are paying per month now for insurance or you can forgo buying insurance and pay an annual penalty knowing that you can buy insurance later when you need it. Simple trade-off there. Pay $500/month for health insurance now or pay $200/year penalty and only pay the $500 when you need it.
If even a percentage of people wait until they are sick to get coverage, costs will go up on the people who do not try to cheat the system.
The Federal government has one method of making a “universal coverage” mandate viable: huge taxes that everyone has to pay followed by jail if they don’t. Every other method can, and will, be gamed. Look at all the other government programs that people cheat on: from military purchases, to food stamps being, to Social Security (relatives of the dead still collecting), to Medicare, to Medicaid (dump your assets so you qualify) to taxes. Government socialized health care will be no different.
Even ignoring the Constitutionality of it, do we really want jail time for not having health insurance in what is supposed to be free country?