Like Sacrificial Lambs to the Altar...

Tomorrow House Democrats are expected to file into the Capitol building and sacrifice their careers for the "Great Leader."  I hope they come to their senses.  I can take some comfort in the fact that they are ensuring a shift in power if they decide to go against the will of the people.  I barely recognize this country any more...

Nancy Pelosi is an Opportunist Shrew

Today, Ted Kennedy died. Nancy Pelosi released a statement that reads, in part "Ted Kennedy's dream of quality health care for all will be made real this year because of his leadership and his inspiration." Wow, not even for one minute could she act like a human being and simply commemerate the man. She absolutely had to jump on the opportunity to play on people's sympathies and push a political point. She could have at least waited until the body was cold. Disgusting woman.

Wow...just, wow

I thought the rep. in front of his name stood for representative. Instead, he is treating the people of his district as children, and him as a well meaning guardian. I'm pretty sure that's not his role. Also, he doesn't have much in the way of manners. Yuck.

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It looks like the vocal opposition of Obamacare is making a dent in the President's carefully laid plans. The biggest problem with Obama is that he thinks the Presidency is rather like a dictatorship in that he can simply list off his personal agenda and push though laws to further that end. He would like to make us into a socialist country, and fast! Unfortunately for him, the American System includes checks and balances. This system includes Congress, who are elected officials by the people, to represent the people. When they stop doing that people get upset, thus the increased attendance at the town halls. It does seem rather important that the people that are being represented be able to tell their representative their opinion on the matter. Otherwise, it's just a Congressperson representing themselves and not their consitutants. This is not a great way to go about being reelected.

Reading the Bill

H.R. 3200 Yesterday I began reading the Healthcare bill in it's entirety, which puts me one step ahead of congress. In my first scan I was overwhelmed by the amount of government intervention into the healthcare system, this thing is massive. One thing caught my eye though, premium pricing. The premiums for socialized medicine are of course covered by cost sharing, you make more, you pay more. Under section 243(b)(2) "PREMIUM PERCENTAGE LIMITS BASED ON TABLE- The Commissioner shall establish premium percentage limits so that for individuals whose family income is within an income tier specified in the table in subsection (d) such percentage limits shall increase, on a sliding scale in a linear manner, from the initial premium percentage to the final premium percentage specified in such table for such income tier."

If you make less you pay less. So, then, what is the incentive to make more? There is none. If everything is shared, people get lazy. Some people stop working all together and the high earners don't see the point of 60 hour weeks when they are not reaping the benefits and others are getting the exact same thing with little or no work. One of the problems with this is that this shrinks the amount of money in the pool and so cuts must be made. Cuts in things like hospital staff, equipment, and research. It also leads to a society that is undesirable.

The very idea of the American Dream is at stake. This was once a place where people could accomplish anything with some ingenuity and a lot of hard work, where millionaires were made. The incentives to do this have been slipping away for quite some time, but this program will destroy the American Dream. It's sad.

If you want to read the bill with me it's available at http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3200/text?version=ih&nid=t0:ih:926

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Un-American?

So now the wonderful Nancy Pelosi is saying that people who oppose socialized medicine at town hall meetings are un-American. Are you kidding me? The democrats invented dissent. Remember "Hell No, We Won't Go"? The double standard is beyond insane. As a former military wife I tend to consider myself patriotic, the opposite of un-American, but it seems now that if I disagree with a nationalized healthcare system I can't be patriotic at all. The problem is that we aren't a socialist country, I don't understand why supporting this type of legislation would be American or patriotic at all. I'm not un-American, I'm simply against this new socialized America that Obama is trying desperately to create in record time.

Also, as a former military spouse I have a different prospective than a lot of people in this country. I have lived with government healthcare. I have been forced to wait weeks or months for care for issues that are urgent and painful. I have arrived at appointment to find that my doctor has been deployed, and I have been told that no referrals are available because the specialist has been transferred to another base. I have also had to deal with the fact that throughout a very high risk pregnancy I never saw the same doctor twice and no one knew my history at all. I had to tell doctors my history as they skimmed my medical file in front of me. The files were replaced by computer records near the end of my husbands military service and they would look at medications and short notes to try to peice together medical conditions. It was substandard care, luckily for me there were other options, private emergency rooms for a large co-pay if things got too bad or urgent. If everything is government run there will be no options like that. That's horrifying to me.

One more aspect of government run healthcare, which is what this bill is leading us into, is the giant hmo-type mentality. This means that care, prescriptions available, doctors, specialists, treatments offered are all determined by the insurer, the government. At this point doctors are advocates of the patients, but when they are hired by the insurance company whose advocates will they be? Not mine. I also hate to think of the halt of the great medical advances this country has made as a direct result of companies being able to charge a premium for prescriptions in the years before the patent expires. People won't do it for free and government hiring tends to breed inefficiency and apathy. The whole thing makes my head hurt.

Healthcare

I am loving the people coming together at town halls to attempt to talk some sense into representatives home for the August recess. The uprising against socialism is amazing and inspiring. The democrats statements on the issue are beyond insane. The claims I've heard just lately is that the people in the town halls are planted there, that the people at the town halls are violent, and that they carry swastikas.

The truth is that the Republican party doesn't need to plant anyone in these town halls. There is real opposition to united healthcare/Obamacare/whatever you want to call it. As to the violence, I read one of the articles that claimed violence and the single example they could give was a man who was hurt trying to jump into some closing doors because the fire marshall had said no one else could enter. He had a ripped shirt and a scratch. That's all they could come up with? Swastikas? This was just an audio clip of Nancy Pelosi saying this. As I scratch my head and try to figure out why someone would carry this horrible symbol, if they were indeed carrying it, this is Nancy Pelosi, I finally come up with it, these are probably not white supremists or skinheads....they are far more likely to be people comparing our government with Nazi Germany. Sad but not entirely inaccurate.

It's funny, when the democrats disagree with something they pull on their filthy unwashed jeans and go protest while the liberal media cheerleads and takes all sorts of misleading shots to make the protest appear to have more than 20 people attending. However, when individual Republicans try to argue issues at a legitimate forum and dressed in clean clothing they get slammed in the press.

I pretty much love that congress refused to meet Obama's August deadline. What's the rush? Give them time to read it. They are supposed to represent the people, shouldn't they see what the people are thinking? Obama is a bit like a used car salesman in this way. It happened with the stimulus as well. Rush, rush, rush, don't read it!!! If they leave the building they may walk away from the deal. I hope they do.

Blog Consolidation - Bringing my sites together

August 6, 2009 - Obamacare is the single worst idea I've heard in a long, long time. Also, when did it become okay for members of congress to not read the bills that they vote on? I find myself wondering what happened to this country. I simply don't recognize it any more. The idea of the federal government paying for abortions makes my skin crawl.

After much research and consideration I have decided to categorize myself as a birther. Now, I'm not sure Mr. Obama was born in Kenya, but I'm also not sure he was born in Hawaii. This is a problem because I should be able to be sure. After all, the president is supposed to be a natural born citizen. His refusal to prove this is highly suspicious. It seems extremely expensive and unnecessary to block the release of the one document that would prove this if he is, in fact, Hawaiian born. As a result of my research I have found that a certificate of live birth can be issued to a person born on foreign soil. The full long form document, the birth certificate, is required to prove Hawaiian birth. Why won't he release it? Why did his paternal grandmother say that she was present at his birth in Kenya? Just produce the birth certificate and all the questions will be answered...except one, adoption.

I don't profess to be an expert in adoption law, however Mr. Obama's travels, along with school registrations bring up the strong possibility of him being adopted by his Indonesian stepfather, possibly while living in Indonesia. Indonesia does not have duel citizenship. Did Obama renounce his U.S. Citizenship?

Okay, enough Obama. It's depressing.

August 7, 2009

Today is my anniversary. I am home with the kids and my husband is at work, making all the money. Fun, right? So why do I feel guilty and overwhelmed all at once? The house is a mess and my mind is turning to mush. Time for grown up talk.

Yesterday a self-described "wise Latino woman" was confirmed to the United States Supreme Court. Sonia Sotomayor, the racist. It amazes me that racism is fine as long as it doesn't come from the white 'majority.' I hate her policy. I hate that she is willing to choose race over applying the law. I hate that she touts empathy as a legal method. Her one job is to interpret the law, not bend and mould it to serve her personal agenda. She is a horrible choice. I know I sound bitter, I am.

There is something to be excited about though. The media seems to be slowing removing their lips from Obama's ass. I would never expect unbaised reporting, that would be too much to ask. However, issues are being brought up. The birth certificate issue is finally making news. The 200 day report reflects dissapointment in the sitting president. His healthcare policy is being questioned. These are all good things. The tide may be turning, slowly.

Obama has been in office 8 months and he's doing his best to make us Canada as quickly as possible. We have government intervention and control up the ying yang. He clearly hates our country and apologizes for it every chance he gets.

On a completely unrelated note I just have to mention Paula Abdul. She's really leaving Idol? She is the entertainment for that show. Her antics cause tons of people to tune in, including me. She is fun to make fun of and fun to watch. Trust me, I don't tune in to see Randy say dawg. I do enjoy the singing (sometimes) but it's kind of a package deal. Watch the singer mangle a song, watch Simon rip the person to shreds, and then watch Paula gush. It's fun. I can't imagine Victoria Beckham or Katy Perry gushing or embarassing themselves in such a manner.