FROM DRUDGE!
http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?&mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=48068
$10 Million tax dollars to improve education in Cambodia…
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How about improving education in Camden or Newark?
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: 10M$ for Cambodian education?
Thursday, June 25, 2009
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Obama’s attempt to takeover health care
Thursday, June 25, 2009http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2009/06/line-in-sand.html
Monday, June 15, 2009
A line in the sand?
Hank Kalet
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And one of these options needs to be a public option that will give people a broader range of choices and inject competition into the health care market so that force waste out of the system and keep the insurance companies honest.
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The problem is that with the “government public option” is that having it in the mix will destroy the insurance market.
Just like Catholic parochial schools can NOT compete with “free” public-paid government supplied education.
Once the government has it’s “nose” in the tent, it will destroy the marketplace.
For example, why should an employer pay for insurance when the employees can get it from the government without costing the employer anything. For example, the government will set the rules about what must be covered (i.e., hair plugs), and the “competing insurances” must cover it. For example, the gooferment will define the records its competitors will have to keep and waive that for itself.
The same reasons why we rejected Hillary-care are the same reasons we should reject Obama-care. It’s just a step in the direction of totally government health care.
Sorry, but we can’t afford this non-sense. Nor can we survive having Health Care a la the Post Office. Rationing, and lower standards, will precede outright denial. Dialysis for old folks is expensive. Neonatal is expensive. ERs are expensive.
Well there is always “medical tourism”. But where can we go?
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Honeymoon used to expand the gooferment
Monday, June 22, 2009http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124407228244683091.html
It’s the Economy, Stupid
The Obama presidency will rise or fall on results.
Karl Rove is the former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush.
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Until now, the new president has benefited from public willingness to give him a honeymoon. He decided to use that grace period to push for the largest expansion of government in U.S. history and to reward political allies (see the sweetheart deals Big Labor received in the GM and Chrysler bankruptcies). The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead — higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery.
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This pig is going in the WRONG direction.
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Fixing health care
Sunday, June 21, 2009http://mises.org/freemarket_detail.aspx?control=279
April 1993
Volume 11, Number 4
A Four-Step Health-Care Solution
by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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It’s true that the U.S. health care system is a mess, but this demonstrates not market but government failure. To cure the problem requires not different or more government regulations and bureaucracies, as self-serving politicians want us to believe, but the elimination of all existing government controls.
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Summary:
1. Eliminate all licensing requirements
2. Eliminate all government restrictions on pharmaceutical products and medical devices
3. Deregulate the health insurance industry
4. Eliminate all subsidies to the sick or unhealthy
Permit me to add a fifth!
5. Make the tax code neutral with respect to benefits. Emerging form the WW2 wage and price controls, the gooferment has distorted the “playing field”. “Benefits” are deductible to the corporation and not to the individual. That has set up the situation where an individual’s health insurance is tied to their job. No job; no insurance.
How much better would things be if it was like life insurance or automobile insurance. I can buy 20 year term life cheap and no one cares who my employer is. I am required by the gooferment to have auto insurance (an absurd concept), but it’s not tied to my employment.
This seems to be an easy one.
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Old rule; unintended consequences
Wednesday, June 17, 2009http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124473141538306335.html
JUNE 11, 2009, 4:38 P.M. ET
IRS Weighs Rules for Taxing Private Use of Work Cellphones
By MARTIN VAUGHAN
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WASHINGTON — The IRS is weighing a proposal to deem one-quarter of employees’ use of work cellphones as personal use and therefore subject to tax as a fringe benefit.
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Cellphone used to be a big exec perk. Congresscritters figured “punish the rich”. Except one of my favorite technology architectural principle came into operation — change happens; time silently alters the playing field — and now the law of unintended consequences operates. Cell phones are cheap and plentiful. Record keeping is expensive, error-prone, and useless. Perk is now a general pain. And, the biz doesn’t give them out for any other reason that to have a 24 hour work force without paying 24 hour wages.
Taxes are theft. Close the IRS. Shrink the gooferment. And, kill corporations! They are nothing more than secret tax collectors anyway.
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Get ready for propaganda!
Tuesday, June 16, 2009http://www.drudgereport.com/flashaot.htm
ABC TURNS PROGRAMMING OVER TO OBAMA; NEWS TO BE ANCHORED FROM INSIDE WHITE HOUSE
Tue Jun 16 2009 08:45:10 ET
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On the night of June 24, the media and government become one, when ABC turns its programming over to President Obama and White House officials to push government run health care — a move that has ignited an ethical firestorm!
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Late Monday night, Republican National Committee Chief of Staff Ken McKay fired off a complaint to the head of ABCNEWS:
Dear Mr. Westin:
As the national debate on health care reform intensifies, I am deeply concerned and disappointed with ABC’s astonishing decision to exclude opposing voices on this critical issue on June 24, 2009. Next Wednesday, ABC News will air a primetime health care reform “town hall” at the White House with President Barack Obama. In addition, according to an ABC News report, GOOD MORNING AMERICA, WORLD NEWS, NIGHTLINE and ABC’s web news “will all feature special programming on the president’s health care agenda.” This does not include the promotion, over the next 9 days, the president’s health care agenda will receive on ABC News programming.
Today, the Republican National Committee requested an opportunity to add our Party’s views to those of the President’s to ensure that all sides of the health care reform debate are presented. Our request was rejected. I believe that the President should have the ability to speak directly to the America people. However, I find it outrageous that ABC would prohibit our Party’s opposing thoughts and ideas from this national debate, which affects millions of ABC viewers.
In the absence of opposition, I am concerned this event will become a glorified infomercial to promote the Democrat agenda. If that is the case, this primetime infomercial should be paid for out of the DNC coffers. President Obama does not hold a monopoly on health care reform ideas or on free airtime. The President has stated time and time again that he wants a bipartisan debate. Therefore, the Republican Party should be included in this primetime event, or the DNC should pay for your airtime.
Respectfully,
Ken McKay
Republican National Committee
Chief of Staff
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ABCNEWS Senior Vice President Kerry Smith on Tuesday responded to the RNC complaint, saying it contained ‘false premises’:
“ABCNEWS prides itself on covering all sides of important issues and asking direct questions of all newsmakers — of all political persuasions — even when others have taken a more partisan approach and even in the face of criticism from extremes on both ends of the political spectrum. ABCNEWS is looking for the most thoughtful and diverse voices on this issue.
“ABCNEWS alone will select those who will be in the audience asking questions of the president. Like any programs we broadcast, ABC News will have complete editorial control. To suggest otherwise is quite unfair to both our journalists and our audience.”
Developing…
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Geee, I guess we should complain to the FCC, FEC, and the Supreme Court!
Like that’s going to do any good.
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TO ABCNEWS:
I think your plan to turn ABCNEWS into the propaganda arm on President Obama administration on “health care”. For me, ABC News has lost all credibility. There is a legitimate POLITICAL debate about the pros and cons of what is being proposed. For you to jump in with both feet on President Obama’s side is completely unacceptable. Bad enough that the lines have blurred in the past, now you are dropping any pretense of independent journalism. Shame on you for letting the American people down. We gave you an honored position in civil society, buttressed you with the First Amendment and our support, to protect us from the Political Class. You have stabbed us in the back. Disgraceful.
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: 7B$ for a worthless TSA?
Wednesday, June 10, 2009http://lewrockwell.com/akers/akers109.html
Boys and Their Toys by Becky Akers
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In its perennial quest to justify its existence and the $7 billion of our taxes it annually wastes, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is up to its usual tricks at American airports. When its screeners aren’t leering at naked passengers on millimeter-wave scanners, they’re manufacturing terrorists from innocuous Americans. Nor do these heartless bureaucrats care about the ruined lives that litter their wake. Neither kids nor US Marines are safe from their abuse, either.
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I blame Bush, a complicit airlines industry (They got non-transferable tickets and unloaded their security problem on the taxpayers), and the sheeple for the TSA.
Another “Post Office” but a very annoying one. I choose not to fly unless I absolutely positively have no other choice! I certainly do NOT volunteer for this treatment.
We have to emulate Ghandi and just refuse to cooperate with the Gooferment.
Argh!
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Health Care: Oppose greater government role. Support free market solutions!
Saturday, June 6, 2009https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/114
Health Care: Oppose greater government role. Support free market solutions
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Please oppose increased government involvement in health care. Please work to reduce government involvement in health care.
We can’t afford to lose what we have by further governmental meddling in health care. Go fix the VA and Medicare before you start messing up something that is at least working.
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Before you create a worse problem, how about trying some small gentle corrections. How about making medical insurance tax deductible in reducing the gross income right on page 1 of the 1040 just like an IRA contribution? If you’re concerned about the “uninsured”, why not make that tax deduction and refundable tax credit paid directly to an insurance company? Why not offer your congressional health plan to an “uninsured”?
Bottom line, just like we wouldn’t have identity theft without social security numbers, we won’t have medical privacy if you “federalize” this problem. Stay out of our doctor’s office.
Don’t nationalize health care! We’ve seen Canada, England, and the VA. No thanks!
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Who invented what? When?
Friday, June 5, 2009http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/us/politics/04obama.text.html
Text: Obama’s Speech in Cairo
Published: June 4, 2009
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The following is a text of President Obama’s prepared remarks to the Muslim world, delivered on June 4, 2009, as released by the White House.
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As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam. It was Islam – As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam. It was Islam – at places like Al-Azhar University – that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe’s Renaissance and Enlightenment. It was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing; our understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed. Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation. And throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.
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Here’s where I went nuts!
I’m an injineer. Technology is my “thing”. Mistakes around that just send me up the wall.
>It was Islam – at places like Al-Azhar University – that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe’s Renaissance and Enlightenment. It
Sorry, but wasn’t that the Irish monks that preserved knowledge for the Renaissance?
> developed the order of algebra
Other than the concept of zero, I’m unaware of this. Wasn’t it the Greeks and later the English that developed algebra?
>our magnetic compass and tools of navigation
Chinese and later the English Navy?
>our mastery of pens and printing
Gutenberg?
>our understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed
Hippocrates, and / or Ignaz Semmelweis?
>majestic arches and soaring spires
Wasn’t the arch a Roman invention; spires in the Far East?
>demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.
Wow, that’s a corker. Didn’t, don’t they, they kill Jews and “unbeleivers”?
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Sorry I thought this was outrageous!
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: We don’t physically inspect squat!
Wednesday, June 3, 2009http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=99785
How North Korea could destroy U.S. for $5,000
Posted: June 01, 2009 1:00 am Eastern
By Rob Pfriender
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Several years ago, my company proposed to build three super-security offshore cargo container inspection ports to robotically and cost-effectively inspect each and every container entering the U.S. Despite the proposal being sent to every member of Congress, the Senate, the Whitehouse, Homeland Security and the Coast Guard there was no interest – even though it would cost taxpayers absolutely nothing being privately financed and with a small inspection fee charged to the shipper on each container covering the cost of development and operations. Clearly, this should be considered unacceptable and a national disgrace. How often do the taxpayers get something so worthwhile for free?
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Robert Pfriender is the founder and president of Allied International Development, Ltd., a New York-based privately held real estate development and construction management firm. He has also founded Allied Transgenic Energy, Ltd. to exploit his incredible new proprietary process of producing biologically synthesized and economically competitive alternative motor fuels. Allied has proposed to develop three Super-Security Offshore Cargo Container Inspection Ports to inspect 100 percent of containers for weapons of mass destruction before they enter the mainland United States. The ports would be privately financed and leased to the United States government.
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See that’s the problem. You didn’t have a key role for some Senator’s in-law whereby the Senator could feather their nest. Better yet, three congress critter in-laws. It’s have been done yesterday!
Absurd, that the sheeple think the gooferment is protecting them.
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