RANT: The answer is always MORE gooferment

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

http://www.anncoulter.com/

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It doesn’t matter if liberals start calling national health care a “chocolate chip puppy” or “ice cream sunset” — if the government is subsidizing it, then the government calls the shots. And the moment the government gets its hands on the controls, it will be establishing death panels, forcing taxpayers to pay for abortions and illegal aliens, rationing care and then demanding yet more government control when partial government control creates a mess.

Which happens to be exactly what liberals are doing right now.

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The gooferment creates the problem AND, of course, the answer is more gooferment!

Argh!

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RANT: Gooferment subsidized stupidity!

Monday, September 7, 2009

http://blogs.abcnews.com/johnstossel/2009/09/27-billion-for-captain-morgan.html

John Stossel’s Take
Commentary from Co-Anchor of ABC News’ “20/20”
$2.7 Billion for Captain Morgan?
09/02/2009 12:52 PM

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40-70 jobs for the bargain price of nearly $3 billion?

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Turns out Diageo currently makes rum in Puerto Rico, so jobs there will be lost if the company relocates to the Virgin Islands.

“It’s insulting that the money we give is essentially paying for a foreign corporation to move from one U.S. location to another, while cutting jobs”

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You can’t make this stuff up. The gooferment should just not take our money in the first place. It delivers NOTHING!

Seriously, the guys at Free Talk Live posed the challenge: “Name one government program that works? Bearing in mind that overpaying is not being a success.” I’ve never heard anyone answer that. Can you?

And, you want them to have MORE programs? AND EVEN something as important as Health Care, Health Insurance, or whatever they are calling it today!

Sheeple.

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RANT: Let them play solitaire; better than passing “laws”!

Sunday, September 6, 2009

http://blogs.abcnews.com/johnstossel/2009/09/your-tax-dollars-at-work.html

Your Tax Dollars at Work
from John Stossel’s Take
by John Stossel

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The job of a Connecticut state representative must be grueling work, especially as the politicians have spent the state into financial crisis. The state borrowed a billion dollars and raised taxes to balance its budget. An AP photographer captured Democratic Reps. Barbara Lambert and John Hennessy hard at work.

As Republican Rep. Larry Cafero spoke about the budget, Reps. Lambert and Hennessy played solitaire on their computers. Another watched baseball.

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Are you surprised?

The gooferment is a joke.

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RANT: “Health care” is not a “human right”!

Thursday, September 3, 2009

http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2009/08/yes-virginia-insurance-companies-do.html

Friday, August 28, 2009

‘Yes, Virginia, the insurance companies do ration’

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MY RESPONSE

Two “minor” points.

FIRST!!!

“Health care” is not a “human right”!

Place a human alone in a forest. Where is their “human right” to health care?

If you assert that is a “right” then their is an obligation for some one to provide it. If I have a RIGHT to health care, then my neighbor is FORCED to provide it. If he’s a butcher, baker, or a candlestick maker, then my health care will not be so good!

OH, you’re just going to FORCE him to PAY for my healthcare. Just as I am going to be forced to PAY for his.

Don’t you see the moral hazard in that? Don’t you see the stupidity in that? Don’t you see the inefficiency and ineffectiveness of that?

Argh!

Please go back and revisit the whole history of John Locke and concept of negative rights.

SECOND!!!

No one want to see people treated like in a third world country. Sick and dying, covered in flies, in human misery.

BUT, (there is always a big butt), you have no right to compel “charity”. America is an unbelievably charitable country. You can not “force” it. When you make it a gooferment program, then you have “free loaders”. Part of our current problem is that people want something for nothing. In my childhood, there was charity care in hospitals. My relatives would pass the hat around the family rather than have a relative use “charity”. They were embarrassed to have their neighbors think that they didn’t love their family member enough to care for them. Freeloaders weren’t tolerated; down on your luck, you were given a hand up. That’s the essence of true charity.

Remember the great hospitals in America were created by the Churches and Fraternal Organizations. Only when the gooferment took over, did we create the mess we have now.

SUMMARY

(1) Health care is not a right.

(2) There will be true charity without the gooferment intrusion.

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RANT: GM Government Motors to make cars in China?

Monday, August 31, 2009

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE57T0IV20090830

GM to form China venture, invest $293 million
Sun Aug 30, 2009 7:33am EDT
By Fang Yan and Edmund Klamann

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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – General Motors said on Sunday it has agreed to set up a light commercial vehicle production venture with major Chinese automaker FAW Group, with total investment of 2 billion yuan ($293 million).

The 50-50 joint venture, based in the northeast China city of Changchun in Jilin province, will make light-duty trucks and vans, GM said in a statement.

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Bet they will have the UAW representing the workers? Not!

Hey, it’s only 293M$ of our tax money.

Glad the gooferment is branching out. From it’s Constitutionally mandated functions.

Now you see the meaning of Fascism. Oh, I mean gooferment – business cooperation.

How’s that “change” working out for you?

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RANT: Responding to the Kennedy funeral

Sunday, August 30, 2009

>I was struck this past week by the positive images and stories being told by the family and friends of the late US Senator Edward M. Kennedy. >His life knew more than its share of tragedy, ambiguity, and even disgrace. >But his life also had lots of good stuff to counterbalance all the drama
I was struck how the rich and powerful are able to skate away from the tragedy they cause. Mark Steyn called it “Airbrushing out Mary Jo Kopechne”. I thought perfectly described it.
I grew up during the Camelot era. A product of Catholic schooling, everyone was enamored of the first Catholic President. Then over time, the inside joke got out. The sordid family history leaked out around the edges. Never an expose. Just an inside joke.
I was shocked — “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” Captain Renault in Casablanca — to see Boston’s Cardinal Archbishop in the proceedings. Money talks; principles walk!
I followed the MJK story and an older wiser relative summed it up: “If you did it, you’d be in prison for a long time. But a kennedy, nothing will happen!” He was absolutely right.
Teddy was not a paragon. He was a typical “Liberal”. “Good for thee, but not for me.” He was born with all the advantages wealth could bestow. The womanizing, drugs, drinking, and such wouldn’t be so bad. Bad enough! But mainly self-destructive. He went to new depths when he killed a young girl in a particularly horrifying fashion (i.e., it took her an estimated FIVE hours to drown while Teddy sobered up and covered up)!
Where he really negatively excelled was in his role as “Senator”. He was the classic “Liberal”. He “knew” what was good for us! That ego would drive policy that would impact millions but not him. That’s the egotism of “liberals” that are “superior” to all the little people. He was a person who had it all given to him, and yet pretended to know what we all needed. In a different time, he’d not have survived. Somehow, in ours, he prospered. Guess it’s pretty easy when nothing, even murder, sticks.
My problem with him was that: (1) He masqueraded as a Catholic while active in the pro-abortion movement. That’s called giving scandal. We were always taught that was the worst sin. (2) He proscribed solutions while carefully exempting himself. Do you think he had Massachusetts care like an ordinary taxpayer of his state get mandated? (3) He had a particularly obnoxious habit — lately reported in the “liberal” media as if it were “cute” — of asking “if anyone had heard any good Chappaquiddick jokes”.
No, I wouldn’t call it drama. I would call it the tragedy of a wasted life. And, I fail to see the “good stuff”. He was a poltroon — where he was because of his family money, power, and influence. Like the modern day “super star” athletes, who should thank their lucky stars every morning, he should have been … … better.
Maybe great wealth is a great curse, but he certainly let it carry him down.
I think this is a motivator. No matter how much you are born with, you have to earn it. No matter how little your born with, you can do better.
It makes me sad. But not for the reasons on TV! Sad for what could have been.
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RANT: No privacy in Obamacare

Sunday, August 30, 2009

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/26/taking_liberties/entry5268079.shtml

August 26, 2009 8:26 PM

Democratic Health Care Bill Divulges IRS Tax Data

Posted by Declan McCullagh

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One of the problems with any proposed law that’s over 1,000 pages long and constantly changing is that much deviltry can lie in the details. Take the Democrats’ proposal to rewrite health care policy, better known as H.R. 3200 or by opponents as “Obamacare.” (Here’s our CBS News television coverage.)

Section 431(a) of the bill says that the IRS must divulge taxpayer identity information, including the filing status, the modified adjusted gross income, the number of dependents, and “other information as is prescribed by” regulation. That information will be provided to the new Health Choices Commissioner and state health programs and used to determine who qualifies for “affordability credits.”

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Over at the Institute for Policy Innovation (a free-market think tank and presumably no fan of Obamacare), Tom Giovanetti argues that: “How many thousands of federal employees will have access to your records? The privacy of your health records will be only as good as the most nosy, most dishonest and most malcontented federal employee…. So say good-bye to privacy from the federal government. It was fun while it lasted for 233 years.”

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And, CBS couldn’t possibly have a prejudice!

Please, the article is disingenuous. With a slap at a “free market think tank” as if that disqualifies them from having brought forward an “interesting fact”. THey point out to anyone who can read that the bill ENSURES that your privacy is gone!

Argh!

How’s “change” working out for you? Me, not so good!

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RANT: 45k for a year?

Monday, August 24, 2009

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Trust the government
Human Events
by Newt Gingrich

“How much is one additional year of your life worth? Or one more year of life for your father or your wife? For your child? In Great Britain, the government has settled on a number: $45,000. That’s how much a government commission with the Orwellian acronym NICE has decided British government-run health care will pay for one additional year of life for a British subject. Think it could never happen here? Then you need to pay closer attention to what Washington is planning for your health care.” (08/12/09)

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=33100

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Probably all that I have?

How dare the gooferment intrude! Whose decision is it anyway?

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RANT: What gets covered up and what doesn’t when Obama speaks?

Thursday, August 20, 2009

FROM THE FRONT PAGE OF DRUDGE

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Why wasn’t this covered over like the religious icons at his Georgetown appearance?

Like most politicians, he’ll use whatever he needs to when it suits his purpose!

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RANT: Look at government health care survival rates!

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Breast cancer survival rate is twice England; prostate cancer survival rate is similarly higher.

No gooferment health care!

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