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DREAM Act Attached To Military Pay Raises

ObamaNation (Obama/Reid/Pelosi) failed in their attempt to repeal the 17 year old “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law.

Attaching the provision to a major military spending bill was just another effort of this failed administrations effort to pass more of their unpopular agenda.

Another attached provision was the DREAM ACT that would allow illegal immigrants to become ‘legal residents’ if they spent two years in college or served in the military. What other country would pay to send you to college or give you three square meals a day, fresh new uniforms to wear, and a warm bed to sleep in (let alone a gun)? Only in ObamaNation does that happen! This administration will go to any lengths to give the illegals ‘legal status’ and it is their hope that they can push their agenda through before the 2012 elections since Obama will need all the votes he can muster after the defeat he will witness this coming November.

He’s already made it into a racial issue based on his recent speech to the Congressional Black Caucus as he “implored black voters to restoke the passion they felt for his groundbreaking campaign two years ago and turn out in force this fall”. Without his base of black voters he and many fellow Democrats will be soundly defeated in 2012 which is why they are now pushing for illegals becoming ‘legals’ with the ability to vote within six years. This Act is meant to allow those born (or arriving under the age of 15) to illegals living in the States to apply for this program and eventually gain citizenship over a six year period. Babies born to illegals should be considered illegals as well and sent packing along with their parents. They are a burden on our school systems stretched budgets, requiring additional English learning classes since most parents do not speak English at home. We are the only country that caters to foreign speaking residents at the taxpayers expense.

It is almost a given that if this DREAM ACT ever passes the ACLU will step in and demand that it not only apply to young people but also to women and children no matter what their age is.  It will also require this nations taxpayers to cough up for teaching them English so that they can get passing grades in college as well as understand their commanding officer. There aren’t enough jobs available for the current citizens of this nation so why do we need to grant legal status to those who came here by breaking the law?

Those who came here and ended up at Ellis Island did so legally and waited in lines for hours for processing. That is what all the illegals need to do. GET IN LINE!

Take That Rory (aka Reid)

So, you’ve decided that you DON’T want to be a chip off the old block!

What’s The Big Deal?

We’ve just passed a health care plan written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn’t understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn’t read it but exempts themselves from it, signed by a president that also hasn’t read it and who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that’s broke.

What could possibly go wrong

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The President And Congress Need Health Care!

The health care reform legislation would now become a joke if the consequences were not so devastating to millions of Americans. In an effort to quickly pass legislation in the Senate, regardless of its content, legislators are removing anything that would prevent votes from being lost. This policy which, originates in the White House, reflects the President’s demand of passing a historic health care bill this year regardless of whether or not it meets the original goals. The goals were to insure all (or at least most) Americans, lower the cost of health care as well as the cost of health care insurance and to regulate the health insurance industry to cover patients with pre-existing conditions and to prevent coverage from being terminated. Guess what – we aren’t even close to achieving these goals. In fact, health care costs will increase, available care will be reduced, Americans will be taxed if they don’t purchase private insurance and in the end the cost of health care and insurance will increase significantly. Worst of all, it appears that the President and many members of Congress don’t care. We now have come to the point where not only Republicans are against this legislation but now many Democrats also oppose it. Regardless, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi (with the help of the President) are trying desperately to find enough votes to ram this bill through. The latest NBC/Wall Street Poll now indicates that only 32% of the people of the United States are in favor of this legislation, but this doesn’t matter either, the Democratic leadership is still hell bent on passing this disastrous legislation.

We lost the basic focus of what the goals are. First and foremost should have been the reduction of the cost of health care. There are a number of things that can be done. Tort reform would have created a tremendous savings by limiting the number of tests and procedures performed only to protect against litigation and it would have reduced physician and facility liability insurance premiums which could have been passed along to lower costs. Allowing most insurance carriers to offer insurance in most states would have created additional competition which almost always drives prices down. Regulating test and procedure costs based upon many years of historic data collected by government resources such as VA, Medicare, Medicaid, could have standardized costs at lower prices for most tests and procedures. Allowing FDA approved prescription drugs to be imported from other countries like Canada would provide substantial savings. Correcting Medicare/Medicaid fraud and mismanagement would save and reduce costs by hundreds of billions of dollars. This could be achieved by contracting independent auditors who would be paid based upon what they identified and recovered, thereby not costing anything, being paid from funds that were previously not collected and lost. When you add up the potential gains of implementing these actions, there is no question in my mind that ample savings could be used to cover more uninsureds under the Medicaid program. The costs to move these programs forward would be almost non existent when compared to the current legislation.

Instead our government is attempting to pass legislation that will reduce Medicare/Medicaid funding by $400-$500 billion dollars. This is supposed to save these programs that are deeply in debt. What it will do is reduce reimbursements to physicians and facilities. This will reduce the number of physicians who will accept Medicare/Medicaid patients, increase the number patients accepting physicians can treat, thereby drastically increasing the load and reducing the time available to schedule treatments, which of course creates a rationing situation. There will be additional taxing on most Americans. Those in the $200,000 earnings category will be taxed, those who have high end health care insurance policies nicknamed the “Cadillac Policies” which includes many union members and of course those who choose not to purchase health care insurance will be taxed, although some choose to call this a penalty. Insurance companies will be forced to take patients with pre-existing conditions, but they won’t be forced to offer low premiums. Forcing those who can’t afford this high cost insurance to pay a penalty for not carrying insurance on top of dealing with life threatening illnesses. There will be government agencies involved with health care decisions similar to one that recently suggested that women under the age of 50 do not need mammography screening. Prescription drug importing has been defeated in the Senate. Tort reform is not part of the legislation. And the list of negatives goes on and and on. Even the former director of the Democratic National Committee, Howard Dean, is now against passage of this legislation. Yet the President and Democratic leadership is still trying to push to through.

The passage of this bill has required the President to make deals with AARP, AMA, the drug industry and the insurance industry to name a few. AARP was promised the Medicare Advantage program would be discontinued in favor of AARP’s supported Medi-gap program. AARP gladly supported the legislation for this trade off. The American Medical Association (AMA) which membership includes only about 17% of the doctors in the US was promised that a scheduled reimbursement reduction would be suspended if they supported the bill. Of course the AMA became a strong endorser. The prescription drug lobby agreed to a $80 million dollar reduction in costs to Medicare/Medicaid (basically peanuts) and support of the health care bill in trade for the continued blocking of importing low cost, FDA approved drugs from other countries. The insurance industry agreed to support the bill when congress had offered to penalize those who did not purchase private insurance, which would have increased the number of people needing to purchase insurance significantly. However, when congress dropped the penalty to $1500 the insurance industry dropped its support. One of the few groups that would not offer support for the legislation was the medical device manufactures. They were rewarded with a tax on their products.

If this legislation needs to be bought and sold to gain enough votes to pass, how good is it? If every political trick in the book is used, if every lie possible is told, if the majority of Americans don’t support it, if a large group of Democrats lead by Howard Dean and the majority of Republicans won’t support it – why in the world is it being pushed through Congress?

Our President promised he would govern from the middle – he has been far left, he promised transparency – there are more closed door meetings than public ones, he promised to reach across the aisle – there is no co-operation between Democrats and Republicans. Today there is only one thing he can do to have any chance of savings his reputation and re-election –scrap this terrible bill and start over with real health care reform and no deals for anyone.

Contributor:
Charles Patti is President/CEO of NCD Medical Corp. and National Consulting and Development Corp.

2012 and 2014 Election Year Hit List

For those of you who are furious about the Obama Health Care Bill being passed in the Senate, it’s time to put together an election year hit list of WHO should be defeated in the 2012 mid-term election as well as making sure that Obama is a one-term President. He, Reid, and especially Pelosi have thrown their fellow Democrats under the bus with all of the strong arm tactics and sweetheart deals that have been made.

Senator Chris Dodd. Remember him? He’s the guy who remarked back on Dec 23rd “We Will Always Remember This Day!” after 60 Democrats approved the Senate version of the health care bill?

But, we the American voters will remember THIS day when election time rolls around. We will have you all in our sites when it comes to marking our ballots!

Up Or Down Vote Will Kill Democratic Careers

With little to show for his first year in office and the distinct possibility that he will be a one-term President, several are wondering why they should flush their political careers down the toilet on a bill that the American public has clearly said that they do NOT want. It’s been quite obvious to Democrats how the voters feel based on several recent elections, most notably in Massachusetts.

Now the President is painting new lipstick on a pig (reconciliation) and asking for an up or down vote, staying away from calling it what it is, “Reconciliation”. Even after his much publicized meeting with several members of both Republicans and Democrats to iron out differences, he is forging ahead with plans to invoke reconciliation for an up or down vote on a Reid/Pelosi Health Care Bill.

What a lying sack of shit he turned out to be! He had this plan in his back pocket the whole time he was ‘playing’ the Republicans to come to his summit. Pelosi all but let the cat out of the bag when she kept saying that she would deliver a vote to the President with or without bipartisan participation. We already know what a piece of work she has turned out to be. She isn’t too worried about her chances of re-election since she usually runs strong in her district. But, even if she should stumble and fall (have you ever noticed her chicken walk), it’s quite obvious that Obama would make her an Ambassador to some nice sunny place. We can only hope that these three individuals have a short career ahead of them.

Quarterback Obama Is 0-4

It seems that our quarterback, President Obama, can’t seem to get the ball in the end zone and we should start considering replacing him with a new one. Consider his failures in campaigning for both New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial candidates who both lost to Republicans, his trouncing on getting the Olympics in the U.S. and most recently, his failure to shore up Coakley’s Senate run in Massachusetts.

Yet, in his mind it is still all Bush’s fault. He continues to make remarks indicating that he just doesn’t get it. When he turned his health care reform over to Reid and Pelosi, all he wanted from them was a bill on his desk no later than his State of the Union address. The two of them, at all costs to their fellow Democrat’s re-election bids, strong-armed members to “git ‘er done!”. I’m sure that the two will be greatly rewarded down the road with some high paying ambassadorship for their now failed efforts. Reid’s in big trouble in his home State and should be thinking about buying a used pickup truck to get his belongings back home but Pelosi still seems to be in control of her Democratic San Francisco area voters, however, she may need to tighten up those lines again before another run for her House seat.

 

How quick the landscape in Washington will change come November as Americans go to the polls and continue to say NO to all the backroom deals and pork that got added to the over 2,000 page health care bill. It will be interesting to see how many copies of the side deals can be shredded before the Republicans get a chance to see the ‘secret’ bill. I’m sure staff will be told to work overtime and additional shredders will be brought in to accomplish the destruction before Scott Brown is sworn in. Wouldn’t you love to be a fly on the garbage dumpster to see how many times it gets filled and emptied with bag after bag of shreddings?

Obama, Harry Reid, and Speaker Pelosi believed that voters had given them a license to do whatever they wished. Now, it looks as though Obama and Reid got the message from Massachusetts voters but poor Nancy Pelosi continues to promise health care ‘reform’ no matter what. The difference in her continual denial is that she no longer puts a time line on it nor does she say it will be a ‘one-piece’ bill. It must be extremely hard for her to accept the fact that she will NOW have to reach across the aisle and include the Republicans who her and Reid kept outside of the locked doors. The arrogance that the Democrats have displayed since gaining the 60 Senate seats has come around to bite them in the ass and through the voters of Massachusetts the American public was finally able to send them a wake-up call.

Several, such as New York Democratic Representative Anthony Weiner is advising his colleagues to ‘take a step back’ from health care reform and concentrate on creating jobs. Others, up for election, are saying “Jump ship…………Obama can’t help you!” Even Democratic Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana is now saying things like “There’s’ going to be a tendency on the part of the people (Democrats) to be in denial about all this………if you lose Massachusetts and that’s not a wake-up call, there’s no hope of waking up”.

Voters in Massachusetts have jerked the chain of Washington politicians and reminded them who is in charge as in “We The People”

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Mr. Brown Goes To Washington!

….in his pickup truck as Americans across the nation THANK Massachusetts for their vote Tuesday.

Massachusetts Sends Obama A LOUD and CLEAR Message

A large number of Democrats joined the Independents and Republicans in sending a loud and clear message to Washington that they are tired of the direction the Obama administration is taking the country. The long held Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy for almost 47 years is now back in the hands of the PEOPLE. No matter how Obama wants to spin this loss it has become obvious to all that the people in America did not get the HOPE that they voted for but instead got the same old closed door politics. Even the White House spokesman was starting to spin a possible loss earlier in the day, suspecting that the seat would be lost to the Republicans.

Surgically altered Speaker Nancy Pelosi has promised that there will still be a health care bill on the President’s desk by the State of The Union Address. What we will see now is probably going to be some the dirtiest politics we have seen in decades as the Obama Administration and Democrats try to force the unpopular health care plan on the public even though the voters have said ‘enough is enough!”

Come November, there will be a lot of Democrat’s looking for a Scott Brown ‘truck’ to carry their belongings back to their home states. The Massachusetts election will be one that will go down in history as a ‘game-changing’ election. Obama has not lived up to his campaign promises as he tries to, instead, socialize our great country. Now the blame game starts as to whom was to blame for the loss. I say that the buck stops at the President’s desk along with his agenda. We are tired of big government taking over the banks, the auto industry, the health care system, and the environment. Even the way that stimulus jobs are being counted has been altered so that the numbers no longer mean a thing.

CONGRATULATIONS Scott Brown for running a great campaign and sending a message to the White House. Elected Democrats had better listen up and think about whether they want to stay in Washington or whether they will also need a ‘truck’ to get back home after their limo is taken away!

It was interesting watching channels other than FOX and seeing them all squirm as they tried to put any type of positive spin on the results as they were coming in from the polls.

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer talked over Brown’s acceptance speech or showed a bunch of charts and MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, who wears Democratic blinders, also ignored the acceptance speech and went on and on about Brown’s credentials. It was great to see the two trying to make a positive spin out of the defeat. And let’s not forget Senator Dodd’s remark back on Dec 23rd when he said ”We Will Always Remember This Day!” after 60 Democrats approved the Senate version of the health care bill. Well, Senator Dodd, the voters of Massachusetts DID NOT forget that day! Nor did they forget the back door deals Harry Reid cut with Ben Nelson and the unions.
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Obama Says He Is Ready For The Fight!

According to President Obama’s recent speeches, if his health care passes the Senate and House he is ready to beat the bricks and campaign on behalf of Democrats who are worried how their vote will effect their re-election chances. With several starting to get jumpy (like jumping ship on the health care bill), Obama has promised to give it ‘the good fight’ against Republicans who were totally left out of the negotiations.

I am encouraged by his comments and can only HOPE that Scott Brown kicks the Democratic candidates ass in Massachusetts so he can throw a monkey-wrench in Obama’s 60 vote controlled Senate. Then, for sure, Obama would have to come out of the smoke-filled rooms and face the public whose majority opposes the health care plan he and his cronies have devised.

Just like Senator Dodd said “We Will Always Remember This Day” when the Senate version was approved, we the voting public Will Always Remember That Day as well and send Obama and many of his Democratic buddies packing in 2010 and 2012. Harry Reid is already history and so will many others once the voters have their say.

For those that voted for HOPE, about all they got was Rope-A-Dope!

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