OBAMA Euphoria is waning!

I got this in an email today. I just had to giggle. I am thinking the Obama euphoria is wearing off.

Crazy Journalists

Thomas Friedman recently wrote a story in the New York Times claiming the United States should abandon democracy and give the Democrat party total government control in the same way the Communist party controls China.

Michael Barone comments on the article:

The word limit of his column apparently left him no space to regret the Chinese one-party autocracy's Internet censorship, forced sterilizations, imprisonment of political dissenters and the like.

Just as unbelieveable, Newsweek recently ran a story titled "The Case For Pulling The Plug On Grandma". I found the story incredibly disturbing, especially when the writer accounts the passing of his own mother who was not sick but simply wanted to die.

The repeated assertion is that each person should have the right to choose when they end their own life, and this assertion is wrong, wrong, wrong. Nothing is more hopeless than the choice to give up on life.

The Democrats are becoming a party of death. What used to pass for respectible News organizations now truly partisan and evil. They are peddling their papers based on sheer evil.

Health Care has me baffled?

I have to admit I am very baffled by the entire Health care issue. I hate to admit that but I am.

Can I understand the frustration with Insurance Companies? Yes. Do I want the Government taking over for them? No!

I don't even want to get into all the nitty gritty details of the Bill. That makes my head hurt!

Here are my two biggest concerns.


1. Who is going to pay for this NEW GOVERNMENT PROGRAM? I am assuming the American People. Which is the only correct answer. It is our GOVERNMENT. If we ask for a program we need to subsidize it. Now, here is where I think the logic gets fuzzy. I think bleeding heart Liberals have no problem taking from what they call the RICH and they get to decide the magical number or in other words define who is RICH and they want them to pay more. Although, in theory the Bleeding heart Liberal claims we are all equal and deserving of this PROGRAM, right? Therefore, shouldn't we all EQUALLY, pay into it? I mean why should the GOVERNMENT decide that a Magical number deems that person to have to give more to the Program??? Anyways, let's say we all have to end up paying in at some point, for argument sake. What amount are you willing to give up from your paycheck? In other words, if you give 15% of your pay now in taxes, and I am just throwing a number out there and basing this on a two income household with two children then how high are you willing to have your taxes go? Would 20% be o.k.? Would 30% be o.k.? Would you get upset if it was 40%? What is your breaking point?

Someone has to pay for the Health care program and do not fool yourself that it will only be the quote un-quote RICH. And what if you hit the Magical number, will you like finally reaching that point in your career only to have the Government take a chunk of it to make sure EVERYONE IS WELL TAKEN CARE OF???? Just asking?

Now, if you are perfectly fine with that! You think it is the moral thing to do, then I'm fine with your opinion. You truly have that right. You feel that you are incapable to give to the wonderful charities that provide for our poor and you need the GOVERNMENT to cover you. Which statistics have shown that Liberals do give less to charities that mean, despicable, horrid, let you die Conservatives. You know the Conservatives actually give more of their money away. Interesting, hmmmm.

Anyways. I understand, it makes you feel better.

2.BUT, why do you have such faith in the GOVERNMENT handling Health Care? See, this confuses me too. You seem to be the same people who gripe about how badly the GOVERNMENT has handled Social Security. You know another thing you pay into for your retirement because you can't SAVE your own money, on your own. Yet, now, all of you are whining that the GOVERNMENT has done such a poor job with this SOCIAL PROGRAM that by the time you retire you won't have anything. BUT, you want them to take on Health Care, hmmmm?

Then, at every turn you complain about our EDUCATION SYSTEM. I mean most of you try desperately not to put your children into the public schools and Home Schooling continues to grow every year. THE GOVERNMENT RUNS EDUCATION with OUR TAXES, hello, you do understand this, correct???

So, you don't like Social Security. You don't like our Education System. BUT, you think for some reason Health Care is going to be the one great SOCIAL PROGRAM the government can do!!! Um, o.k.

Lastly, I love going to all the little personal blogs and reading all these little personal horror stories that people have at clinics or hospitals.
For every one of those another person can tell an opposite story.

Like this: I have a relative, who is homeless. Really and truly. The guy has not worked for 3 years and for the last 10 years has had jobs part time here and there. He sponges off of family and friends. He has lived in his car and bounced from home to home. He goes to the hospital that never ever turns him away. He has no insurance. Obviously and they have never turned him away. Matter fact, one time the Doctor wanted him to rest and eat healthy so the hospital paid for him to stay at a hotel and eat at the hospital for a week. Unfortunately, he had a heart attack recently, he is o.k. it was mild, thank God, but the hospital took care of him. He received his stints and he is currently getting his medications. He has NO INSURANCE. They did not kick him out to die.

Once again, for every horror story there is an example of a poor person getting excellent care in the United States. I was unaware that we booted people out and left them to die. At least in my town, Doctors Care!

What I think is funny is that people complain about the mediocre teachers they get because they work for the GOVERNMENT and it is hard to get rid of a teacher. I ask you, don't you think this just might happen with Doctors? You know, when you take away the competition factor you get left with people just towing the line. Why do you think people try to send their kids to Private schools? They pay for their teachers, they pay for better teachers and can boot them out when they are not performing!

Now I keep hearing the United States compared to a lot of other countries. Let us look at these countries personal income taxes:

Comparable Taxes in 2005 Married 2 children

United States 11.9%

Canada 21.5%
UK 27.1%
France 41.7%
Germany 35.7%
Sweden 42.4%
Switzerland 18.6%


Bottom Line: You have to pay for Social Programs. What are you willing to pay out of your paycheck??? And, are you really absolutely sure it is money well spent? You really think the GOVERNMENT is best suited to run Health Care? If you say yes, then I do wonder, why? You already complain about two other huge social programs, Social Security and the Education System, what are you basing this trust on???

We Want What We Don't Need

I was thinking about this Health Care debate. Which one?

Well, all of them! Here's the thing that I see. Health Insurance is a BENEFIT that people PAY for. You want to go to the doctor? If you have insurance, you don't have to pay as much for that doctor's visit because you've been paying (or many times your employer has been playing) for your insurance every month. So maybe that doctor's appointment only costs you $30.

If you don't have Health Insurance, you can still go to that doctor...you just will pay more. Guess what? I'm okay with that.

Why? Because if you can't afford to go to THAT doctor, you can go to a different doctor. It's kind of like going to Target or Walmart to buy a bottle of Aspirin. MOST of the time, you're actually getting the exact same product, just for less money at one place.

You can't afford a particular doctor, you can go to another one. There are clinics everywhere in which you can go even if you don't have any money. When I first got a job out of college, I had no money. In my field of work, you must have a physical and TB test before you can be hired anywhere. I had no money. I had no insurance. How did I ever get a job?

I went to a local clinic that didn't charge me. They worked off of donations.

Why do we think that every single person in the USA needs to have Health Insurance? Because everyone has the right to have all things equal?

That's a wrong presumption. Everyone has the right to have equal OPPORTUNITIES. Finding a job, paying for your own medical care, and having money to provide for your needs (and yes, your wants as well) are all OPPORTUNITIES that everyone in this country has. Whether or not you take that opportunity is up to you!

Everyone doesn't NEED to have insurance, they just have to have to OPPORTUNITY to see a doctor should they choose to do so. I choose to see a doctor on the medical insurance plan that I pay for. If I didn't choose to accept that insurance, and pay into it, I would choose to either pay the full price OR go to a local clinic that doesn't cost as much.

Health Insurance isn't a NEED...it's a WANT. The government is not here to provide us with our WANTS.

NHS's Forced Euthanasia

The new media is exposing the euthanasia scandal in Britain's National Health Service.

You can read about it at hotair.com.

Basically, government health care wants to save as much money as possible, so they push people toward a quick death rather than pay the money for the expensive surgeries Americans are used to getting.

The NHS decides which patients are close to death and can withhold basic nursing services such as food and water with the patient's consent. Some doctors are getting upset because these patients are dehydrated and are not able to think clearly.

A person should never have the legal right to end their own life. This should be prosecuted, not encouraged or pushed upon people by the government as a matter of expediency.

The patients who are deemed "very close to death" are put on permanent sedation medication. Doctors are speaking out against this practice. Some are taking these patients off the sedation death cycle after discovering they were nowhere near death.

This is, by the way, the same health care that only authorized people to get anti-blindness medication once the patient had already gone blind in one eye.

The government's plan is to save money by refusing treatment and cutting off their costs (or as Obama put it "pulling the plug on Grandma").

If you doubt there will be death panels under Kennedy/Obamacare you should think again!

Living within our means

Here in California we are having budget crisis (not unlike many states I am sure). It only took us until months into THIS year to balance LAST year's budget.

Why? Well, we spend more money than we make and we finally hit a wall where the citizens said ENOUGH! We are the highest tax paying state in the country and really have nothing to show for it.

Highest paid teachers equal lowest school results (I'm talking graduating rates, test results, productivity, etc...).

People who live on welfare and food stamps and unemployment and never want to get off their duffs and actually make a living for themselves.

Small businesses going under not because they don't have clients, but because they can't afford the taxes; so these small businesses cross the nearest border and do their business IN California FROM a neighboring State.

The real problem, however, is that people don't want to be told, "No, we can't afford that."

Yesterday I was listening to the news and hearing people complain about a local college that had to lay off 600 employees and enroll 2200 less students BECAUSE OF BUDGET CUTS!

Does it suck? Yeah! But it needs to be done.

Remember when you were little and you went to the store and you looked longingly at the shiny new bike? You told your mom that you wanted that bike (maybe even told her you needed the bike) and she said, "No, we can't afford that right now."

I'll never forget the time I was about 12 or 13. I was so upset because I was taking just 2 dance classes a week. I would NEVER get to dance on Broadway taking only 2 classes a week. EVERY OTHER girl in the studio practically LIVED there, I wanted to do that, too. My mom turned to me and said, "Okay, you can take dance lessons every day. You can take all the dance lessons you want in order to fullfil that dream. But you will have to give up going to private school and the great education we are paying for. We can't afford both; so make your choice."

I wonder what she would have done if I said I wanted to go to public school and take all the dance lessons I wanted.

The point that I am trying to make is this: even at 12 I knew that there were some sacrifices that had to be made. There are times when we want, or even think we NEED, to have or do something; but in the end it is a cost that is too much of a burden on something or someone else.

Does it suck that 600 people had to be laid off because of budget cuts? Yes! But what would you rather have? A school that is 600 less people running it or a school that bankrupts and can now no longer be in existence?

The funny thing is, do you ever hear anyone say, "Hey, cut my wages by a certain percentage and keep both of us!" You don't. Even though that person made that same percentage just 5 years ago.

The problem is that everyone wants more. More money, more toys, more this, more that. No one wants to be told, "No, we can't afford that."

If there is no money to be had we just...can't...afford...it!