>>Washington running out of money to pay bills must raise debt ceiling again!

Health-Care Bill May Be Stalled by Legislative Crunch (Update1) – Bloomberg.com

The best chance happening to stop the Monster health Care package from going thru may just have hit Washington:

Raising the U.S. government’s $12.2 trillion borrowing limit tops an agenda of must-pass legislation that imperils Senate Democrats’ ability to pass a health-care bill this year.

As the senators struggle to meet President Barack Obama’s year-end deadline to overhaul the health system, they must also act to keep the government running and prevent a 21 percent drop in payments to doctors who treat Medicare patients.

They need to approve measures to avert a Dec. 31 expiration of the estate tax, extend jobless benefits and renew key provisions of the anti-terrorism USA Patriot Act.

This may also give the Republicans a chance to “save” some funds not usyet used by some of the other monsters already passed.

The debt-limit extension faces a long debate as 11 Democrats want to create a commission to rein in federal spending.

“I am not going to vote to extend the debt limit unless we have such a mechanism” to “deal with long-term debt,” North Dakota Democrat Kent Conrad said in a Nov. 20 interview.

Republicans will use the debate to discuss ways “to control out-year spending,” said New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg. His party will propose curtailing the $787 billion economic-stimulus plan. “You got to do something about spending to keep the debt ceiling from having to be constantly increased,” Gregg told reporters on Nov. 19.

Three Democrats – Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas – along with independent Joe Lieberman of Connecticut oppose the creation of a government-run insurance plan. Reid must also forge a consensus on language preventing the use of government funds to subsidize the purchase of insurance that covers abortions.

McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, has served notice that his party will seek “lots of amendments.”

The Democrat have one arrow in their bow that they have let fly before.  They can  clsoe the session and allow congressman to leave the building and then reopen the session and call for a vote.  The fact that they have done this before and the following notice sent to Senators is all but a promise that this will happen.  The Republican Senators if they want to win any seat in November 2010 had better make plans to sleep in their seats  on the Senate floor!

Senate Democratic leaders warned in a Nov. 23 e-mail to lawmakers that “votes could occur at any time during the day and evening, with weekend sessions likely” in December.

>> Public gets Stimulus snow job first one—–now they are planning a second!

Stimulus snow job — chicagotribune.com

The first thing Obama did after taking office( Or the second really since the first action was to seal his records!) was to ask congress for a huge $784 billion Stimulus  Bill to “save the economy”.   It was also promised to keep unemployment from going above 8%—we are now standing at 10.2%  with all signs promising  more jobs will be lost well into next year.   What then does Congress consider?   Throwing more money at the problem of course.  Congress ever has the same solution to every and any problem.

When the White House came out with figures on just how many jobs were created or “saved”,  because Congress and the tax payers were asking some hard questions about where this $784 billion went,  the watch dogs around the country went sniffing.  What they sniffed out was   counties around the nation that didn’t exist “saving or creating jobs.   Jobs “saved” that were larger than the entire work force of counties.  Raises given to employees counting as jobs “saved”.  And the one true fact: 75,000 newly hired federal employees!

The White House immediately put a task force on the problem to go over the figures with a “fine-tooth comb to weed out inaccuracies”.  Two weeks later they come back and  announce they are standing by the original figures given since only  a handful of discrepancies were found.  One reporter had the audacity to suggest the task force start with the inaccuracies that others had already found.  Bet he is no longer welcome in to the White House.

Oh, and do remember that the US Treasury did not have this money for the Stimulus Bill, or the Bail Out Bill or any of the other Obama/Congress spending bills passed in the last  year.   ALL  of the money had to be borrowed!

Perhaps reading this article will steam you enough to jump on your Congressman’s back about spending bills, spending money we don’t have, before this second Stimulus Bill gets thru Congress.   It doesn’t by any means name all the many, many lies in this White House Snow Job, but it does give enough to get anyone’s dander up a bit.  BB

>>Big Banks fighting congressional efforts to reign them in

Bankers making turkeys out of taxpayers – washingtonpost.com

This time last year We the Tax Payers bailed out the big banks   because they were on the brink of going broke due to their playing with unsafe, unsound and almost criminal banking schemes called derivatives.  They had a lot of help with these activities from congressmen who chose to close their eyes to what was happening rather than to enforce the regulations already on the books.

Now the two Congressman who were the most egregiously enablers for the financial industry, Rep. Barney Frank Chairman of House Finance Committee and Senator Chris Dodd Chairman Senate Banking Committee are  both touting new regulations that will reign in this bad behavior by Wall Street. (see:  >>China may well be our Savior from Obamanation About half way thru the post read   “Nomi Prins discussing her book It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street” and her explanation of what happened to cause the melt down and financial crisis, whose to blame and what is happening now).

The big banks are right back to their old tricks this year.  make no mistake since they didn’t have to pay for their folly last year they see no need to stop their mad dash to make profits out of thin air knowing the tax payer will pick up the tab for them because they “own” those in Congress who can vote to bail them out.  They are therefore fighting against any new , or old, regulations on their practices.

American Financial Services Association AFSA’s membership, according to its Web site, includes some of the best-known names of the financial crisis: CIT, CitiFinancial, Countrywide, EquiFirst, HSBC, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo Financial and GMAC. The trade group points out that its members did not directly receive bailouts from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (those went to banks, including some of the AFSA members’ parent companies), but it’s a safe bet that many of those firms would have failed if the government hadn’t intervened to prop up the financial markets. Now these same companies, suffering from some combination of amnesia and ingratitude, are determined to fight off regulatory efforts to prevent a repeat of the same cycle of bubble, collapse and bailout. Big firms such as J.P. Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Bank of America — direct or indirect beneficiaries of federal bailouts — are all battling efforts to rein in derivatives. And credit card issuers, facing new regulations scheduled to take effect in February, have responded by increasing their rates and fees.

The ASFA, a trade group of credit card issuers, auto-finance companies, mortgage lenders and others leading the fight against the CFPA, took the unusual approach on Tuesday of publicly celebrating the reform’s fading prospects.

“This was supposed to be a slam-dunk,” crowed Bill Hempler, the group’s top lobbyist. But instead, he said, “Democratic members are increasingly having heartburn over CFPA and maybe second thoughts.”

So who beside the bankers are fighting the passage of tighter reforms and restraints on the banking community?

Now these same companies, suffering from some combination of amnesia and ingratitude, are determined to fight off regulatory efforts to prevent a repeat of the same cycle of bubble, collapse and bailout. Big firms such as J.P. Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Bank of America — direct or indirect beneficiaries of federal bailouts — are all battling efforts to rein in derivatives. And credit card issuers, facing new regulations scheduled to take effect in February, have responded by increasing their rates and fees.

…the argument most likely to prevail for the financial firms on Capitol Hill was offered by Chris Stinebert, the trade group’s chief. “Especially now, when we’re in a very, very sensitive time, when the capital markets are just starting to recover,” he said, “introducing a high level of uncertainty in the marketplace could be very detrimental.”

Or, to put it another way: Don’t regulate us now because the economy is still suffering from the mess we made because we weren’t regulated the last time. Chutzpah, it appears, is recession-proof.

The Banking Industry needn’t worry because they have paid the right congressmen off and the Frank and dodd bills are just face saving gambits to show how tough they are after all they did not to enforce the regulations for several years before the financial melt down in 2008.   Congress isn’t about to do anything to reign in these big campaign contributors.  BB

>>Taxing YOU to pay for Obama’s War (the one he won’t fight to win at that!)

President Obama was told by his field commanders in Afghanistan  in early August that an additional 40,000 troops were needed if the war against the Taliban in
Afghanistan/Pakistan is to be won.   After three months of dithering and holding summit meetings with everyone the President has announced he will announce his plan next Tuesday.

However the Congress has announced a plan to pay for the war this week.  It is called “Share the Sacrifice” and will hit those making from $30,000 to $150,000 with a 1% tax.  There is an even larger tax on the “rich”, but I am only concerned with the tax on the most of us who fall in around the $50,000  to $70,000 bracket according to the IRS.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told The Huffington Post yesterday that every dollar spent on winning the war in Afghanistan was one less dollar available for domestic priorities: “I think we have to look at that war with a green eyeshade on. There is unrest in our caucus about: ‘Can we afford this war?’” But even Pelosi seemed to realize that pitting victory in Afghanistan against more domestic government programs was untenable. She later added: “I think the American people believe that if it’s something that’s in our national security interest [then the investment is worth it.]”

But for the left in Congress, prioritizing national security should never come at the expense of run-away domestic spending. Instead, the left is using the war as an excuse to raise taxes on virtually all Americans. According to Politico, close allies of Pelosi, including Ways and Means Committee Chair Charlie Rangel (D-NY), Democratic Party Caucus Chair John Larson (D-CT), and Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Chair John Murtha (D-PA), all support the “Share the Sacrifice Act.” That legislation would raise taxes on millions of Americans, including a 1% surtax on middle-class households earning between $30,000 and $150,000. So much for Obama’s promise not to raise taxes on the middle class.

And don’t be fooled into thinking that any of the tax hikes the left in Congress are pushing would be in any way temporary. As National Review’s Kevin Williamson details, “temporary” taxes levied during war time, like the 1898 tax on telephone services to pay for the Spanish-American War, have a nasty habit of becoming permanent.

And why are the leftist congressman so eager to tax the people when they can easily get the money and do a good deed at the same time by cleaning up the federal government some?

If the left in the majority actually cared about deficit spending (a laughable proposition considering their fiscal record since they took over Congress in 2006), then the Afghanistan war easily could be funded simply by eliminating known government waste. According to the Congressional Research Service, the war in Afghanistan is currently costing $43 billion a year. That sum is dwarfed by the $72 billion in improper payments (i.e. over-payments, payments made for services and goods never received, benefits and tax credits paid to people who didn’t qualify) that the Government Accountability Office said the federal government made in 2008. Or how about the $92 billion Washington spends on corporate welfare, or the $123 billion spent on programs that have failed to show any positive impact on the populations they serve? Why don’t the left in Congress eliminate this waste before taxing hard working middle class Americans?

Of course I do hope you all understand this is just the first and the smallest new tax that will be levied on We the People to pay for Obama’s and the Democrats  in congress excessive spending this past 10 months.   There is only one sad fact in all of this, the deficit is so great that no matter how much We the people are taxed it won’t be a drop in the bucket  in reducing the debt.  In fact as Glenn Beck has pointed out it would take the profits of all 500 in Fortune 500 companies  145 years to pay the debt, and that is just the original debt and does not take into account the interest!

>>Taxes! in the Reid Health Care reform bill

t is a well known economic policy rule that if you want less of something you tax it, and if you want more of something you subsidize it. Policymakers frequently follow this rule to influence behavior. This is why there are “sin taxes” on things like alcohol and cigarettes, and also why “cap and trade” taxes carbon. This is why there are subsidies for education and for “green” technologies. If taxes and subsidies make any sense at all, they make sense when used to tax “bad” things and subsidize “good” things.Given this basic rule, can you guess which of these are being subsidized and which taxed in the Reid Health Bill currently in the Senate?

1. Innovative Medical Companies
2. Medical Devices, such as prosthetic limbs, wheelchairs and pacemakers
3. Over-the-counter medicines
4. Privately funded medical care – including private health insurance plans, private medical expenses paid out-of-pocket, and employer-provided care

(answers below the fold)

All of these are being taxed.

Innovative Medicine Companies: (Page 2010/Sec. 9008): $2.3 billion annual tax on the industry imposed relative to share of sales made that year.

Medical Devices Like Prosthetic Limbs, Wheelchairs, and Pacemakers: (Page 2020/Sec. 9009): $2 billion annual tax on the industry imposed relative to shares of sales made that year. (Exempts items retailing for less than $100).

Over-the-counter medicines: (Page 1997/Sec. 9003): Outlaws use of pre-tax dollars (HSA, FSA, or HRA) for over the counter medicines, except insulin – essentially imposing a new tax on them.

Privately Provided Medical Care:

• Private Medical Expenses: (Page 2034/Sec. 9013): Increase of the minimum medical expenses required before being able to take a deduction (the “haircut” for the Medical Itemized Deduction) from 7.5% to 10% of AGI (waived for taxpayer 65 and older in 2013-2016 only).
• Prescription Drugs for Retirees: (Page 2034/Sec. 9012): Elimination of tax deduction for employer-provided prescription drug coverage for retirees.
• FSA Cap: (Page 1999/Sec. 9005/$14.6 bil): Imposes cap on FSAs of $2500 (now unlimited). Hence there will be a new tax on medical expenses above this cap. This will most hurt families of special-needs children, who tend to use outsized FSA deferrals.
• Health Insurance Premiums: (Page 2026/Sec. 9010): $6.7 billion annual tax on the industry imposed relative to health insurance premiums collected that year.
• Comprehensive Health Insurance Plans: (Page 1979/Sec. 9001): Starting in 2013, new 40 percent excise tax on “Cadillac” health insurance plans ($8500 single/$23,000 family), affecting those with high medical expenses as well as those in high-cost areas.

Given the choice to tax these areas, it only seems reasonable to assume that Obama wants to see less private medical care. Although he has frequently said that he wants to “promote competition” in the health care industry, he has also occasionally admitted that the advantage the government programs must have over the private sector will likely lead to the reverse. Indeed, taxing them in addition is the way to squeeze them out.

Foundry Quiz: What Medical Innovations Does The Senate Health Bill Tax? » The Foundry

Foundry Quiz: What Medical Innovations Does The Senate Health Bill Tax? » The Foundry

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>>Rep. Michele Bachmann Newsletter: Second Stimulus coming!

Second “Stimulus” on the Way

Tacitly admitting their first $787 billion stimulus is a failure, House Democrats are drafting a second stimulus that will raise taxes on investment by $150 billion in order to pay for a government jobs program.

If you thought that the first economic “stimulus” put in place by the Obama Administration was a bust, get ready for a disappointing round two. Democrats in Congress are closer than ever to passing a second stimulus in a misguided effort to spur job growth. According to the Associated Press, “House Democrats are looking at swelling deficits further, at least temporarily, on a jobs-producing bill in response to double-digit unemployment and a sense within their ranks that the party needs to do more to put people back to work.”

The first stimulus was sold largely on the basis that it would cap unemployment at a worst case scenario rate of 8%. Proponents claimed that jobs would be created immediately, and our economy would be on the upswing by the end of the year. That couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, unemployment now sits at 10.2%, and jobs are nowhere to be found.

According to a new forecast by the Federal Reserve, the unemployment rate will remain high for years to come.

How much of your hard-earned money does the government have to waste before they realize that throwing money at a problem isn’t a viable solution?

Just look at the $700-billion financial industry bailout known as TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program). Earlier this month, Neil Barofsky, the Special Inspector General in charge of overseeing the TARP bailout said the program “will ‘almost certainly’ result in a loss to taxpayers.” According to Barosky: “We need to temper or be realistic about our expectations; a dollar-for-dollar return is just highly unrealistic. It’s almost certainly going to be a loss.” Furthermore, “Tens of billions of dollars are likely to be lost on the automotive bailout. In addition, some banks that received TARP money are failing, so the aid they received will be wiped out.”

Bloomberg also reports that Barofsky is conducting 65 investigations of possible fraud with the implementation of the TARP.

Clearly, the last thing we need is another bailout or stimulus or whatever you want to call it. We need to allow Americans to keep more of their own money, not take it away. While simplistic, it’s a tried and true method for economic revitalization and sustained prosperity.

The Preventative Care Conundrum

The United States Preventive Services Task Force last week released a report that encourages women to wait an extra decade before receiving breast cancer examinations.  Eyebrows were immediately raised not only in the cancer research community but also by lawmakers on the Hill.

Turning years of medical guidelines upside down, the report recommends against routine mammograms for women ages 40 to 49, and recommends that women 75 years or older refrain from having mammograms at all. And instead of increasing caution after waiting an extra decade, the Task Force also suggests that women wait a full two years in between screenings, as opposed to having screenings annually.

The timing here couldn’t be more ironic. While the Task Force is advising that less preventative measures be taken, President Obama and congressional Democrats have touted the need for an increase in preventative health care as an excuse to pass legislation which would allow the federal government to take over our nation’s health care industry.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius attempted to disregard public concern surrounding these new recommendations by stating that this Task Force does not determined what services are covered by the federal government.  So why are the Task Force’s findings relevant?According to CNN, “Most of the member companies of America ’s Health Insurance Plans, an association of more than 1,300 health insurance providers, look to the task force as the standard.”

Last week, I participated in a press conference alongside other women in Congress to express our concerns that this could be the beginning of rationed health care. It’s a fact that the $1.3 trillion health care package passed by the House leaves the door wide open for federal bureaucrats to decide what kinds of health care plans Americans may choose from.  Will the new “Health Care Czar” look to the Task Force’s recommendations when making these decisions, just as nearly 1,300 health insurance providers already do?  Will he ignore recommendations from the American Cancer Society, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, and oncologists across the nation who instead stress the importance of using a cost-benefit analysis to determine which procedures should be covered?

This is simply another example of why the federal government should not be given central control over your health care.  We have made great strides over the years to increase breast cancer awareness and early detection and we do not need the government forcing us to take a step backwards.  The American people deserve 21st century health care reform that mirrors this innovation—a plan that will increase quality and individual control of their own health care—and the Republican plan provides just that.

>>YES! It does indeed matter! Obamanations.

I bringing this to you from my dear friend AF Ticker   and he got it from the original author.  Read it carefully.  These are Obamanations  (abominations!)  that our President has committed in only 10 months in office.  Imagine what he can do in four years and perhaps you too will shutter just as I am.  I keep asking how did this happen?  how were so many Americans so dumb?  how will our nation survive this man and his fanatic cohorts in the White House and the Congress?  BB

The Captain’s America

http://thecaptainsamerica.com/

When Obama wrote a book and said he was mentored as a youth by Frank, (Frank Marshall Davis) an avowed Communist. People said it didn’t matter…

When it was discovered that his grandparents, were strong socialists, sent Obama’s mother to a socialist school, introduced Frank Marshall Davis to young Obama, People said it didn’t matter…

When people found out that he was enrolled as a Muslim child in school and his father and step father were both Muslims, People said it didn’t matter…

When he wrote in another book he authored “I will stand with them (Muslims) should the political winds shift in an ugly direction”. People said it didn’t matter…

When he admittedly, in his book, said he chose Marxist friends and professors in college, People said it didn’t matter…

When he traveled to Pakistan, after college on an unknown national passport, People said it didn’t matter…

When he sought the endorsement of the Marxist party in 1996 as he ran for the Illinois Senate, People said it doesn’t matter…

When he sat in a Chicago Church for twenty years and listened to a preacher spew hatred for America and preach black liberation theology, People said it didn’t matter…

When an independent Washington organization, that tracks senate voting records, gave him the distinctive title as the “most liberal senator”, People said it didn’t matter…

When the Palestinians in Gaza, set up a fund raising telethon to raise money for his election campaign, People said it didn’t matter…

When his voting record supported gun control, People said it didn’t matter…

When he refused to disclose who donated money to his election campaign, as other candidates had done, People said it didn’t matter…

When he received endorsements from people like Louis Farrakhan and Mummar Kaddafi and Hugo Chavez, People said it didn’t matter…

When it was pointed out that he was a total, newcomer and had absolutely no experience at anything except community organizing, People said it didn’t matter…

When he chose friends and acquaintances such as Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn who were revolutionary radicals, People said it didn’t matter…

When his voting record in the Illinois senate and in the U.S. Senate came into question, People said it didn’t matter…

When he refused to wear a flag, lapel pin and did so only after a public outcry, People said it didn’t matter…

When people started treating him as a Messiah and children in schools were taught to sing his praises, People said it didn’t matter…

When he stood with his hands over his groin area for the playing of the National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance, People said it didn’t matter…

When he surrounded himself in the White house with advisors who were pro gun control, pro abortion, pro homosexual marriage, anti-capitalism, anti-free markets, pro government control over everything and wanting to curtail freedom of speech to silence the opposition, People said it didn’t matter…

When he aired his views on abortion, homosexuality and a host of other issues, People said it didn’t matter…

When he said he favors sex education in Kindergarten, including homosexual indoctrination, People said it didn’t matter…

When his background was either scrubbed or hidden and nothing could be found about him, People said it didn’t matter…

When his first act as President, literally within 5 minutes of taking office, he signed executive order #13489 that sealed his own records, People said it didn’t matter…

When the place of his birth was called into question, and he refused to produce a birth certificate, and continues to spend millions in court to keep the material sealed, People said it didn’t matter…

When he had an association in Chicago with Tony Rezco, a man of questionable character, who is now in prison and had helped Obama to a sweet deal on the purchase of his home, People said it didn’t matter…

When it became known that George Soros, a multi-billionaire Marxist, spent a ton of money to get him elected, People said it didn’t matter…

When he started appointing czars that were radicals, revolutionaries, and even avowed Marxist/Communist, People said it didn’t matter…

When he stood before the nation and told us that his intentions were to “fundamentally transform this nation” into something else, People said it didn’t matter…

When it became known that he had trained ACORN workers in Chicago and served as an attorney for ACORN, People said it didn’t matter…

When he appointed a cabinet members and several advisors who were tax cheats and socialist, People said it didn’t matter…

When he appointed a science czar, John Holdren, who believes in forced abortions, mass sterilizations and seizing babies from teen mothers, People said it didn’t matter…

When he appointed Cass Sunstein as regulatory czar and he believes in “Explicit Consent”, harvesting human organs without family consent, and to allow animals to be represented in court, while banning all hunting, People said it didn’t matter…

When he appointed Kevin Jennings, an overt homosexual, and organizer of a group called gay, lesbian, straight, education network, as safe school czar and it became known that he had a history of bad advice to teenagers, People said it didn’t matter…

When he appointed Mark Lloyd as diversity czar and he believed in curtailing free speech, taking from one and giving to another to spread the wealth and admires Hugo Chavez, People said it didn’t matter…

When Valerie Jarrett was selected as Obama’s senior White House advisor and she is an avowed Socialist, People said it didn’t matter…

When Anita Dunn, White House Communications director said Mao Tse Tung was her favorite philosopher and the person she turned to most for inspiration, People said it didn’t matter…

When he appointed Carol Browner as global warming czar, and she is a well known socialist working on Cap and trade as the nation’s largest tax hike in history, People said it doesn’t matter…

When he appointed Van Jones, an ex-con and avowed Communist as green energy czar, who since had to resign when this was made known, People said it didn’t matter…

When Tom Daschle, Obama’s pick for health and human services secretary could not be confirmed, because he was a tax cheat, People said it didn’t matter…

When as president of the United States, he bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, People said it didn’t matter…

When he traveled around the world criticizing America and never once talking of her greatness, People said it didn’t matter…

When his actions concerning the middle-east seemed to support the Palestinians over Israel, our long time friend, People said it doesn’t matter…

When he took American tax dollars to resettle thousands of Palestinians from Gaza to the United States , People said it doesn’t matter…

When he upset our European allies by removing plans for a missile defense system against the Russians, People said it doesn’t matter…

When he played politics in Afghanistan by not sending troops the Field Commanders said we had to have to win, People said it didn’t matter…

When he started spending us into a debt that was so big we could not pay it off, People said it didn’t matter…

When he took a huge spending bill under the guise of stimulus and used it to pay off organizations, unions and individuals that got him elected, People said it didn’t matter…

When he forced the takeover of insurance companies, car companies, banks, etc, People said it didn’t matter…

When he took away student loans from the banks and put it through the government, People said it didn’t matter…

When he designed plans to take over the health care system and put it under government control, People said it didn’t matter…

When he set into motion a plan to take over the control of all energy resources in the United States through Cap and Trade, People said it didn’t matter…

When he announced he was returning the masterminds of 9-11 to New York City to stand trial as ordinary criminals — not war criminals — and thus allow them the benefits from our system of jurisprudence, The mainstream media loved it and the people said it didn’t matter…(Oh really? Go ask an FDNY FF, NYPD Cop, NY EMS, NY Port Authority Cop or Transit Worker, or a 9/11 Families member who was at the World Trade Center 9/11/2001 and see if it matters…)

When he finally completed his transformation of America into a Socialist State, people finally woke up, but it was too late…

Any one of these things, in and of themselves does not really matter. But when you add them up one by one you get a phenomenal score that points to the fact that our Obama is determined to make America over into a Marxist/Socialist society. All of the items in the preceding paragraphs have been put into place. All can be documented very easily. Before you disavow this, do an internet search. The last paragraph alone is not yet cast in stone. You and I will write that paragraph. Will it read as above or will it be a more happy ending for most of America ? Personally, I like happy endings…

If you are an Obama Supporter, please recognize that you have elected a president who is a ’socialist’. There is simply no debate about these facts. But you need to seek the truth; you will be richer for it. Don’t just belittle the opposition. Search for the truth. I did. Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Constitutionalist, Libertarians and what have you, we all need to pull together. We all must pull together or watch the demise of a society that we all love and cherish. If you are a religious person, pray for our nation…

Never before in the history of America have we been confronted with problems so huge that the very existence of our country is in jeopardy. Don’t rely on most television news and what you read in the newspapers for the truth. Search the internet. Yes, there is a lot of bad information, lies and distortions there as well, but you are smart enough to spot the fallacies. Newspapers are a dying breed. They are currently seeking a bailout from the government. Do you really think they are about to print the truth? Obama praises all the television news networks except Fox who he is currently waging an open war against. There must be a reason. He does not call them down on any specifics, and he has failed to refute any facts presented – because it is all true. If they lie, he should call them out on it but he doesn’t. Please, find the truth, it will set you free…

Our biggest enemy is not China, Russia or Iran; no, our biggest enemy is the current contingent of politicians in Washington DC led by the Progressive Left Liberals who support the previously mentioned things…

Wake Up America! There’s still time in 2010 to take back America and send a message LOUD and CLEAR to those who think ‘it doesn’t matter’…

I happen to think ‘it does matter’…

God Bless America!

Matt Bruce  http://thecaptainsamerica.com/
An American Independent Conservative Who Thinks ‘It Matters’…

>>Overcriminalized.com And now an individual might be sent to jail for not buying Obamacare!

Overcriminalized.com

Obamacare requires that everyone purchase health care insurance and this is the health care insurance coverage that the government mandates a person must have, not the insurance an individual thinks is good enough.  Forcing the young to purchase health care coverage they really don’t need.

In view of the Obamacare mandate that everyone must purchase  health care insurance or pay  a fine and possibly go to jail I went surfing  for more information and came upon a really interesting site.

“Overcriminalization” describes the trend in America – and particularly in Congress – to use the criminal law to “solve” every problem, punish every mistake (instead of making proper use of civil penalties), and coerce Americans into conforming their behavior to satisfy social engineering objectives. Criminal law is supposed to be used to redress only that conduct which society thinks deserving of the greatest punishment and moral sanction.

But as a result of rampant overcriminalization, trivial conduct is now often punished as a crime.  Many criminal laws make it possible for the government to convict a person even if he acted without criminal intent (i.e., mens rea). Sentences have skyrocketed, particularly at the federal level.

The problem of overcriminalization has a huge impact on the tax payer’s pocket book:  the federal and state laws have guide lines that must be followed  in housing prisoners making jails and prisons overcrowded under the guide lines forcing  cities, counties states and of course the nation to be always building new jails and prisons.

One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008 – The Pew Charitable Trusts

the number of people behind bars in the United States continued to climb in 2007, saddling cash-strapped states with soaring costs they can ill afford and failing to have a clear impact either on recidivism or overall crime. (read  full report on site–click above)

We here in  Guilford county North Carolina are current in the process of building a new jail.  the sheriff insisted the jail was overcrowded  and new facilities were desperately needed.

A citizens group studied the jail population and decided that many of the prisoners could have been  “punished” for lack of a better word in alternate ways that would not have necessitated their being locked in a jail cell.  In fact, my own brief study of those incarcerated for one specific day and just studying their “crimes”   lead me to the same conclusions as the study committee.   But this is overcriminalization  on the home front  and a $115 million new jail located in downtown Greensboro.

Another problem that overcriminalization  is causing society and no one can foresee the problems that will come from this:  Black young men are being incarcerated at alarming rates.  See:  Latest News – Why We Must Fix Our Prisons This site offers a lot of information on our prison system  beside the named article above. BB

>>Obamacare Hurts the Young

Obamacare Hurts the Young » The Foundry

I would say that Obamacare doesn’t just “hurt the young”  it sucks the blood out of their veins!  Read the article and please go to the referenced articles for better understanding.

After noting that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid spending totaled $1.3 trillion, 43 percent of federal spending and more than twice military spending, in 2008, the Washington Post’s Robert Samuelson turns to Obamacare:

Now comes the House-passed health-care “reform” bill that, amazingly, would extract more subsidies from the young. It mandates that health insurance premiums for older Americans be no more than twice the level of that for younger Americans. That’s much less than the actual health spending gap between young and old. Spending for those age 60 to 64 is four to five times greater than those 18 to 24. So, the young would overpay for insurance that — under the House bill — people must buy: Twenty- and thirtysomethings would subsidize premiums for fifty-and sixtysomethings. (Those 65 and over receive Medicare.)
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Although premium changes would apply mainly to people using insurance “exchanges,” the differences would be substantial. A single person 55 to 64 might save $3,490, estimates an Urban Institute study. By contrast, single people in their 20s and early 30s might pay about $600 to $1,100 more. For the young, the extra cost might be larger, says economist Diana Furchtgott-Roth of the Hudson Institute, because the House bill would require them to purchase fairly generous insurance plans rather than cheaper catastrophic coverage that might better suit their needs.

Whatever the added burden, it would darken the young’s already poor economic prospects. Unemployment among 16- to 24-year-olds is 19 percent. Peter Orszag, director of the Office of Management and Budget, notes on his blog that high joblessness depresses young workers’ wages and that the adverse effect — though diminishing — “is still statistically significant 15 years later.” Lost wages over 20 years could total $100,000. Orszag doesn’t mention that health-care “reform” might compound the loss.

Samuelson also goes after the AARP, so read the whole thing, here.

As we’ve noted before, the young are not the only losers under Obamacare. Particularly the poor and small businesses take a heavy hit too.

 

See also:  According to the Pew Research Center, 10% of adults younger than 35 have moved back in with their parents because of the recession.

 

According to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, thanks to the recession, 34.5% of young African American men are unemployed.

 

According to Rasmussen Reports, just (only)  38% of voters now favor Obamacare.