Honestly, I go nuts when I'm not working. I'm so deep in debt, the minute I finish, or at least get up from one project, I actively look for something else to do that may be a moneymaker. Or invent something that might be a moneymaker. No big bestseller thing, just something that sells all the time.
So I worked Thanksgiving and I'll probably work on Christmas. I'm also working on Sunday, which I usually get off. And writing a little informational book in the meanwhile. And waiting to get the proof of another little book I've just finished. Then I've got a couple more little books planned after that. Non-fiction. Not even political.
I'd love to have New Year's Eve off, but only if some channel is running all those old Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies. Especially love when they do "The Continental," and "Dancing Cheek to Cheek."
Had the opportunity to listen to a Johnny Carson show through headphones a little while ago. That band was really fantastic, it really was, though at the time, I didn't have any sound equipment that could capture how good it was. Now I can't stop thinking about Johnny Carson. I really miss him.
To get to my house, you have to drive through a cornfield a little ways. So I'm driving through this cornfield, and the old song, "Love Is Blue," came on the radio. I was still in high school when that came out. Maybe. About that time.
Anyway, I burst into tears.
Tonight very late on a movie channel, I caught the last 10 minutes of a promo film made about the making of "2010," the sequel to "2001." The sequel came out in the mid-1980s. This little movie-about-the-movie had interviews with Roy Scheider -- famous for "Jaws," but my favorite of his is "All That Jazz." They interviewed John Lithgow, when he was just a slip of a lad. And Helen Mirren -- she was so beautiful.
And was struck with this terrible sorrow -- when they made that movie, they thought America would still be here in 2010.
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Thursday, November 26, 2009
"Obey" as in "Dopey"
A congressman named David R. Obey (D-Wisconsin), the name pronounced like "Dopey", has made an interesting proposal. He wants a "war tax" because, he said, national security interests are getting in the way of pushing socialized medicine and probably another half-dozen other socialist measures he supports.
He should be named "Jackass."
Let's take a vote:
How many in favor of preventing another 9/11 attack?
How many want socialized medicine?
The bill Rep. Jackass is promoting calls for raising $900 billion to pay for the War in Afghanistan, which Jackass and his cohorts estimate to cost $1 million per year per soldier. Any documentation to back that up?
The national defense budget is about 12% - 14% of the entire US budget. By contrast, Medicare, Medicaid and all the other socialist crap consumes right now about 70% of the US budget, and socialized medicine will only expand that.
But, hey, look at it this way: We're gonna need plenty of health care when al-Qaeda and those of their kind are allowed to do whatever they damn please in terms of hijacking planes, blowing up buildings, planting car bombs, poisoning subway systems and commuter trains, shooting up military posts, and whatever else they may be planning. There would be plenty of jobs in the health care industry for any survivors.
Rep. Jackass is apparently dumber than a box of rocks. If there's no damn nation, Rep. Jackass, there's no need to provide socialized medicine for it, is there? Ever consider that? Or is your head so far up your....
Under which moss-covered rocks is the Democrat party finding these idiots? Really, it boggles the mind.
I always used to like northern Wisconsin. Now I'd think twice about going there. You never know what kind of lamebrains might be on the highway.
And you know what? If Obey is so fearless about the terrorist threat to the USA, why not transport all those guys at Guantanamo to northern Wisconsin, Rep. Jackass's district, and put them up in public housing? No need for maximum security or any special security at all, right? They represent no threat or danger to the USA or private citizens, right? Let's ignore history and just let them roam free, take advantage of Rep. Jackass's socialized medicine scheme and all the other entitlements Rep. Jackass wants to force upon the nation.
These people just get dumber and dumber. It's absolutely stunning. Makes you wonder how the USA has survived this long, doesn't it?
He should be named "Jackass."
Let's take a vote:
How many in favor of preventing another 9/11 attack?
How many want socialized medicine?
The bill Rep. Jackass is promoting calls for raising $900 billion to pay for the War in Afghanistan, which Jackass and his cohorts estimate to cost $1 million per year per soldier. Any documentation to back that up?
The national defense budget is about 12% - 14% of the entire US budget. By contrast, Medicare, Medicaid and all the other socialist crap consumes right now about 70% of the US budget, and socialized medicine will only expand that.
But, hey, look at it this way: We're gonna need plenty of health care when al-Qaeda and those of their kind are allowed to do whatever they damn please in terms of hijacking planes, blowing up buildings, planting car bombs, poisoning subway systems and commuter trains, shooting up military posts, and whatever else they may be planning. There would be plenty of jobs in the health care industry for any survivors.
Rep. Jackass is apparently dumber than a box of rocks. If there's no damn nation, Rep. Jackass, there's no need to provide socialized medicine for it, is there? Ever consider that? Or is your head so far up your....
Under which moss-covered rocks is the Democrat party finding these idiots? Really, it boggles the mind.
I always used to like northern Wisconsin. Now I'd think twice about going there. You never know what kind of lamebrains might be on the highway.
And you know what? If Obey is so fearless about the terrorist threat to the USA, why not transport all those guys at Guantanamo to northern Wisconsin, Rep. Jackass's district, and put them up in public housing? No need for maximum security or any special security at all, right? They represent no threat or danger to the USA or private citizens, right? Let's ignore history and just let them roam free, take advantage of Rep. Jackass's socialized medicine scheme and all the other entitlements Rep. Jackass wants to force upon the nation.
These people just get dumber and dumber. It's absolutely stunning. Makes you wonder how the USA has survived this long, doesn't it?
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Clilmate change travesty
Apparently a big batch of emails that passed between various bigwigs in the Climate Change movement have been released. Many of the scientists and researchers sending-receiving the emails, if not most of them, are involved in the IPCC, the global organization that has set itself up as the final authority on this b.s. The emails seem to indicate that these so-called scientists have been scrambling of late to sustain their silly claims that "The Sky Is Falling!" in the face of geologic realities.
They seem to discuss the importance of all staying on the same page about climate change, and the emails suggest that there has been some dummying up of the numbers behind their dire claims of melting polar ice caps, rising ocean levels, etc. etc. etc. It seems that some of them also tried to manipulate the peer-review process, whereby one researcher's work is read and criticized by other researchers. Well, if all your peers know each other, and all agree to perpetrate the hoax of Global Warming and other nonsense, then you pretty much end up with some bizarre kind of conspiracy among scientists to deliberately mislead the public.
Gee, I wonder why someone would do something like that.
One scientist wrote that trying to defend Global Warming when the earth is actually cooling has been a "travesty."
Yeah. The whole damn thing has always been a travesty. I mean, Global Warming. Since the globe isn't warming, they rename it Climate Change. Like Pazzo Pelosi suggesting congress rename the socialized medicine government option "One Hot Taco" or something like that so more people would like it. But in both cases, the issues have more than just marketing problems.
And hey, ya know, change happens hour-to-hour in terms of the weather. At least it does in the Chicago area. And as far as climate goes, it seems these "scientists" were taking a rather short-range view of the subject instead of standing back and looking at the whole picture long-term.
Oh, they've been extemely busy projecting long-term futuristic scenarios of the earth turning into a popsicle and/or self-incinerating, they just never looked at data from far enough back to recognize that the earth is constantly changing, always has been, always will. Doesn't mean it's going to freeze or burn up. Doesn't mean that it won't, though, either. But I doubt there's much the human race can do about it.
What it does mean is that these so-called climate scientists will probably go the way of phrenologists and alchemists. And the quicker the better for my money.
Of course, that doesn't mean congress won't try to pass the crap-and-tax energy bill. No, see, congress likes fraudulent public movements that generate lots of hype, as long as congress can figure out some way to raise taxes over it. Climate change is a big one. Doesn't matter if it's true, only if they can create a panic about it, convince people it's some kind of urgent issue and absolutely requires some ridiculous level of funding. How about $920 kajillion? Think that'll do it? I'm sure Pelosi and Reid will get right on it, and the Comrade will fly around the country giving speeches about it.
It's all just an excuse to try to take control over peoples' lives, eliminate individual liberty. Climate change has never been much more than that, though some people, like Al Gore, have figured out how to make a pretty good living off of it.
They seem to discuss the importance of all staying on the same page about climate change, and the emails suggest that there has been some dummying up of the numbers behind their dire claims of melting polar ice caps, rising ocean levels, etc. etc. etc. It seems that some of them also tried to manipulate the peer-review process, whereby one researcher's work is read and criticized by other researchers. Well, if all your peers know each other, and all agree to perpetrate the hoax of Global Warming and other nonsense, then you pretty much end up with some bizarre kind of conspiracy among scientists to deliberately mislead the public.
Gee, I wonder why someone would do something like that.
One scientist wrote that trying to defend Global Warming when the earth is actually cooling has been a "travesty."
Yeah. The whole damn thing has always been a travesty. I mean, Global Warming. Since the globe isn't warming, they rename it Climate Change. Like Pazzo Pelosi suggesting congress rename the socialized medicine government option "One Hot Taco" or something like that so more people would like it. But in both cases, the issues have more than just marketing problems.
And hey, ya know, change happens hour-to-hour in terms of the weather. At least it does in the Chicago area. And as far as climate goes, it seems these "scientists" were taking a rather short-range view of the subject instead of standing back and looking at the whole picture long-term.
Oh, they've been extemely busy projecting long-term futuristic scenarios of the earth turning into a popsicle and/or self-incinerating, they just never looked at data from far enough back to recognize that the earth is constantly changing, always has been, always will. Doesn't mean it's going to freeze or burn up. Doesn't mean that it won't, though, either. But I doubt there's much the human race can do about it.
What it does mean is that these so-called climate scientists will probably go the way of phrenologists and alchemists. And the quicker the better for my money.
Of course, that doesn't mean congress won't try to pass the crap-and-tax energy bill. No, see, congress likes fraudulent public movements that generate lots of hype, as long as congress can figure out some way to raise taxes over it. Climate change is a big one. Doesn't matter if it's true, only if they can create a panic about it, convince people it's some kind of urgent issue and absolutely requires some ridiculous level of funding. How about $920 kajillion? Think that'll do it? I'm sure Pelosi and Reid will get right on it, and the Comrade will fly around the country giving speeches about it.
It's all just an excuse to try to take control over peoples' lives, eliminate individual liberty. Climate change has never been much more than that, though some people, like Al Gore, have figured out how to make a pretty good living off of it.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
The socialized medicine new math
Just wanted to point out one little fact about the senate's socialized medicine bill.
It carries a price tag of $849 billion -- and that's using kinda fuzzy figures, like it relies on cutting about $500 billion from Medicare (which probably won't happen) and other economic fundamentals that equate to building a 100-storey highrise on a sandy beach.
Anyway, so it costs $849 billion that Harry Reid and Baucus will admit to.
But the CBO says it will save the USA $167 billion over ten years. Whoopee!!!!!
I wonder if the CBO has factored in the inflation this kind of spending will cause -- in medical demand as well as in dollars -- the unhappy repercussions of the collapse of the private insurance industry, and a permanent unemployment rate of maybe something like 20%.
Hot dang! Kinda like one of those deals where you buy a machine for $5,000.00, and it will save you $37.50 in labor costs over the first year of installation -- or actually the fifth year of installation, if we stick to the timeline of the senate socialized medicine bill. How's that for return-on-investment? Who wouldn't want a stake in something like that?
I don't know... Does this make any sense? Spend $849 billion, get $167 billion in return. Somehow, that fails to impress. It's a real deal ONLY if you ignore the cost.
You can tell those jokers in congress don't know anything about economics. Or about math, either, for that matter.
And this doesn't even touch on things like the shortage of health care professionals that will result in unacceptable wait-times for service, rationed care -- especially to seniors (stick 'em on an ice floe and shove 'em off to sea) -- the serious loss of medical research and development that may prove to be catastrophic over time, and other likely effects of socialized medicine. "Likely" because this is exactly what has happened in every other nation on earth that has socialized medicine.
And no one will have an America to go to anymore for "real" care -- or for freedom from instrusive and predatory government, either. That's the very worst of it.
Why not just line us all up against a wall and shoot us? Hey, think of all the money you'd save!!
And you know what? The very moment you adopt the "we" assumption -- as in "we" spend too much for health care -- you're buying into the socialist's irrationality and bad logic. It's only "we" if we allow the government to force us into some big ugly, faceless pool where we become no more than numbers on a ledger sheet. Otherwise, it's "you" or "me" as individuals spend whatever we want on health care. That is, we get to keep our own choices and freedom in the matter.
Which scenario do you prefer?
It carries a price tag of $849 billion -- and that's using kinda fuzzy figures, like it relies on cutting about $500 billion from Medicare (which probably won't happen) and other economic fundamentals that equate to building a 100-storey highrise on a sandy beach.
Anyway, so it costs $849 billion that Harry Reid and Baucus will admit to.
But the CBO says it will save the USA $167 billion over ten years. Whoopee!!!!!
I wonder if the CBO has factored in the inflation this kind of spending will cause -- in medical demand as well as in dollars -- the unhappy repercussions of the collapse of the private insurance industry, and a permanent unemployment rate of maybe something like 20%.
Hot dang! Kinda like one of those deals where you buy a machine for $5,000.00, and it will save you $37.50 in labor costs over the first year of installation -- or actually the fifth year of installation, if we stick to the timeline of the senate socialized medicine bill. How's that for return-on-investment? Who wouldn't want a stake in something like that?
I don't know... Does this make any sense? Spend $849 billion, get $167 billion in return. Somehow, that fails to impress. It's a real deal ONLY if you ignore the cost.
You can tell those jokers in congress don't know anything about economics. Or about math, either, for that matter.
And this doesn't even touch on things like the shortage of health care professionals that will result in unacceptable wait-times for service, rationed care -- especially to seniors (stick 'em on an ice floe and shove 'em off to sea) -- the serious loss of medical research and development that may prove to be catastrophic over time, and other likely effects of socialized medicine. "Likely" because this is exactly what has happened in every other nation on earth that has socialized medicine.
And no one will have an America to go to anymore for "real" care -- or for freedom from instrusive and predatory government, either. That's the very worst of it.
Why not just line us all up against a wall and shoot us? Hey, think of all the money you'd save!!
And you know what? The very moment you adopt the "we" assumption -- as in "we" spend too much for health care -- you're buying into the socialist's irrationality and bad logic. It's only "we" if we allow the government to force us into some big ugly, faceless pool where we become no more than numbers on a ledger sheet. Otherwise, it's "you" or "me" as individuals spend whatever we want on health care. That is, we get to keep our own choices and freedom in the matter.
Which scenario do you prefer?
R.I.P. USA - It was terrific while it lasted
Well, the US Senate has even come in below my estimate. They voted -- along strict party lines -- to debate socialized medicine.
Oh, and I've got an anecdote for for Mary Landrieu and for the countless other political whores it applies to. You know who you are.
Playwright George Bernard Shaw was at a party one evening. He was saying that people will do anything for money. A grand lady objected, saying she wouldn't.
GBS asked her, "Would you sleep with me for a million pounds?"
Flustered, she said, "Well, for that much, I might consider it."
He said, "Would you sleep with me for 10 shillings?"
"Certainly not!" she said. "What do you take me for?"
GBS: "We've already established what you are. We're only fixing the price."
So the US Congress now is just a bunch of dumb sluts chasing cash. Blindly. Stupidly. Selling out the nation for.... What was it? $100 million. A lot of them will and have abandoned any pretense of principle for a lot less.
Here's another way to look at it:
Since the USA was established, or actually before it was quite established, something like 658,995 soliders have given their lives for it -- and that's only combat deaths.
These guys undoubtedly believed they were fighting for freedom, to ensure that their kids would have a better life, to defend America as "The Beacon on the Hill," the light of liberty for the world.
The joke's on those guys. What they really fought for was so that Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and the Comrade could buy off willing voters and simply stff-arm the rest in a disgusting scramble to grab power and seize control of the life of every US citizen.
It's sickening. It's unworthy of any American. It's the end of the nation, and it doesn't leave the rest of the world with much hope, either.
Oh, and I've got an anecdote for for Mary Landrieu and for the countless other political whores it applies to. You know who you are.
Playwright George Bernard Shaw was at a party one evening. He was saying that people will do anything for money. A grand lady objected, saying she wouldn't.
GBS asked her, "Would you sleep with me for a million pounds?"
Flustered, she said, "Well, for that much, I might consider it."
He said, "Would you sleep with me for 10 shillings?"
"Certainly not!" she said. "What do you take me for?"
GBS: "We've already established what you are. We're only fixing the price."
So the US Congress now is just a bunch of dumb sluts chasing cash. Blindly. Stupidly. Selling out the nation for.... What was it? $100 million. A lot of them will and have abandoned any pretense of principle for a lot less.
Here's another way to look at it:
Since the USA was established, or actually before it was quite established, something like 658,995 soliders have given their lives for it -- and that's only combat deaths.
These guys undoubtedly believed they were fighting for freedom, to ensure that their kids would have a better life, to defend America as "The Beacon on the Hill," the light of liberty for the world.
The joke's on those guys. What they really fought for was so that Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and the Comrade could buy off willing voters and simply stff-arm the rest in a disgusting scramble to grab power and seize control of the life of every US citizen.
It's sickening. It's unworthy of any American. It's the end of the nation, and it doesn't leave the rest of the world with much hope, either.
And there are things that are worse than death -- like living in a socialist-communist dictatorship, the Comrade's vision of Utopia.
The dead are the lucky ones. They don't have to witness the hogs stampeding to the trough, abandoning any shred of intelligence and humanity. They died thinking something good would come of it.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Has everyone lost their minds?
Well. I actually was trying to NOT watch the news on Friday. It's too upsetting. It's just one disaster after another. I ended up taking notes and I'll probably still leave a few things out.
1. Has it occurred to anyone else that an acquittal for Khalid Sheik Mohammed, or whatever his name is -- the brains behind 9/11 -- might not be as bad as it might seem at first glance? After all, if the prosecutors have to drop the charges because, as a WAR CRIMINAL, he wasn't read his rights, he could just walk out of that New York City courtroom a free man.
They ought to just let him walk out of there. Let's see if he makes it to the sidewalk without somebody accidentally beating him into bloody mush.
Better yet, get him a police escort. How many of New York's Finest were incinerated in those towers?
I mean, look on the bright side.
2. The Senate has offered Mary Landrieu, US Senator from Louisiana, a $100 million bribe to vote in favor of socialized medicine.
Didn't I tell you that bill would be packed with pork to get those suckers to vote for it? And Landrieu just may be stupid enough to accept it. Don't know if she's committed herself one way or the other.
The bonehead from Nebraska has apparently caved under pressure. These people have no spines, you know, and quite obviously, no principles or ethics, either.
So, go ahead, Senator Landrieu, vote "yes," collect your $100 million, and five or ten years from now, you will be facing a fate similar to Khalid Sheik Mohammed. She may not even have to wait that long. I was thinking when the provisions of that bill go into effect five years from now (when the Comrade will be a lame duck if he gets re-elected at all), but the taxes come first, don't they? Five or six long years of everyone seeing their paychecks vanish before their very eyes -- and it will be all your fault, Ms. Landrieu. Don't think we'll forget. Not a chance.
Consider that the senate bill is, according to the Wall Street Journal, one of the worst piece-of-crap legislative proposals that's ever been cobbled together, and that it will destroy the nation -- take away all of our distinctly American freedoms, turn us all into genuine slaves of the state, and bankrupt the country.
But you get your little $100 million. Enjoy it, wench.
It would be nice if Bobby Jindal would talk some sense into the senator, but I don't know if that's going to happen. If she's stupid enough to even consider voting yes, she probably has remarkably little capacity for rational thought. It's been pointed out before that you can't teach a pig to sing.
3. Have you noticed? They're already putting the rationing in place with all the changes in the "guidelines" for even self-examination for breast cancer, and for reducing the recommended frequency for PAP smears for cervical cancer.
Right now, you can still get the mammograms and PAP smears -- because you're paying for it yourself. But just wait until we get socialized medicine.
You know, there's a case in the U.K., a fairly recent one, of a young woman who got cervical cancer at age of about 20 years or so.... In the U.K., they won't pay for PAP smears for women under 23 or so. I think she might even be dead by now. The case was famous because she was trying to sue somebody over that -- for the lunkheaded stupidity that ruined her life. Seems to be characteristic of most governments.
4. Then there's the that senate socialized medicine bill just in general. I couldn't even listen to the news about it on TV. Do people really and truly have cement for brains?
"I know," said the Merry Marxists, "Let's double the cost of health care, lock people up if they refuse to pay it, cut care and access to care in half, and tell the people that we're doing them a big favor! We can get the mainstream media to back us up. They're so hot to stand in the warmth of our magnificence, they'll buy anything!"
My God, and a large percentage of the population in this country is so damn stupid they believe it. They honestly and truly think that somehow they're going to get something for nothing. They pretty much deserve the obvious consequences -- but all the rest of us will be paying for it, too. Or go to jail.
I wouldn't mind going to jail at this point. What do they say? "Three hots and a cot." That may be preferable to what's coming in a ruined nation.
5. Harping on this old string -- If you kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, you're pretty much screwed.
So go ahead, anihilate free enterprise and private wealth. Then who's going to pay for all this?
HAS NO ONE ELSE EVEN CONSIDERED THAT ANGLE?
I will have the joy of standing on the curb laughing my ass off: "Told you so!!" Somehow, though, I'd rather keep my freedoms.
It simply blows my mind that the congress is being run by such absolute blockheads. How the hell did these idiots ever get elected?
1. Has it occurred to anyone else that an acquittal for Khalid Sheik Mohammed, or whatever his name is -- the brains behind 9/11 -- might not be as bad as it might seem at first glance? After all, if the prosecutors have to drop the charges because, as a WAR CRIMINAL, he wasn't read his rights, he could just walk out of that New York City courtroom a free man.
They ought to just let him walk out of there. Let's see if he makes it to the sidewalk without somebody accidentally beating him into bloody mush.
Better yet, get him a police escort. How many of New York's Finest were incinerated in those towers?
I mean, look on the bright side.
2. The Senate has offered Mary Landrieu, US Senator from Louisiana, a $100 million bribe to vote in favor of socialized medicine.
Didn't I tell you that bill would be packed with pork to get those suckers to vote for it? And Landrieu just may be stupid enough to accept it. Don't know if she's committed herself one way or the other.
The bonehead from Nebraska has apparently caved under pressure. These people have no spines, you know, and quite obviously, no principles or ethics, either.
So, go ahead, Senator Landrieu, vote "yes," collect your $100 million, and five or ten years from now, you will be facing a fate similar to Khalid Sheik Mohammed. She may not even have to wait that long. I was thinking when the provisions of that bill go into effect five years from now (when the Comrade will be a lame duck if he gets re-elected at all), but the taxes come first, don't they? Five or six long years of everyone seeing their paychecks vanish before their very eyes -- and it will be all your fault, Ms. Landrieu. Don't think we'll forget. Not a chance.
Consider that the senate bill is, according to the Wall Street Journal, one of the worst piece-of-crap legislative proposals that's ever been cobbled together, and that it will destroy the nation -- take away all of our distinctly American freedoms, turn us all into genuine slaves of the state, and bankrupt the country.
But you get your little $100 million. Enjoy it, wench.
It would be nice if Bobby Jindal would talk some sense into the senator, but I don't know if that's going to happen. If she's stupid enough to even consider voting yes, she probably has remarkably little capacity for rational thought. It's been pointed out before that you can't teach a pig to sing.
3. Have you noticed? They're already putting the rationing in place with all the changes in the "guidelines" for even self-examination for breast cancer, and for reducing the recommended frequency for PAP smears for cervical cancer.
Right now, you can still get the mammograms and PAP smears -- because you're paying for it yourself. But just wait until we get socialized medicine.
You know, there's a case in the U.K., a fairly recent one, of a young woman who got cervical cancer at age of about 20 years or so.... In the U.K., they won't pay for PAP smears for women under 23 or so. I think she might even be dead by now. The case was famous because she was trying to sue somebody over that -- for the lunkheaded stupidity that ruined her life. Seems to be characteristic of most governments.
4. Then there's the that senate socialized medicine bill just in general. I couldn't even listen to the news about it on TV. Do people really and truly have cement for brains?
"I know," said the Merry Marxists, "Let's double the cost of health care, lock people up if they refuse to pay it, cut care and access to care in half, and tell the people that we're doing them a big favor! We can get the mainstream media to back us up. They're so hot to stand in the warmth of our magnificence, they'll buy anything!"
My God, and a large percentage of the population in this country is so damn stupid they believe it. They honestly and truly think that somehow they're going to get something for nothing. They pretty much deserve the obvious consequences -- but all the rest of us will be paying for it, too. Or go to jail.
I wouldn't mind going to jail at this point. What do they say? "Three hots and a cot." That may be preferable to what's coming in a ruined nation.
5. Harping on this old string -- If you kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, you're pretty much screwed.
So go ahead, anihilate free enterprise and private wealth. Then who's going to pay for all this?
HAS NO ONE ELSE EVEN CONSIDERED THAT ANGLE?
I will have the joy of standing on the curb laughing my ass off: "Told you so!!" Somehow, though, I'd rather keep my freedoms.
It simply blows my mind that the congress is being run by such absolute blockheads. How the hell did these idiots ever get elected?
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Oh boy, has the senate got a deal for you!
Just heard a few details about the Senate socialized medicine bill.
Guess what? Surprise! Surprise! It has a "government option."
Hey, Senator Snowe from Maine... Looks like you've been had!! Ha-ha!! That was a good one, huh? Maybe you should be more careful about the way you vote. Pretend that your vote means something next time, OK?
And the bill only costs about $100 billion MORE than the House bill -- if you can imagine that. That's that crack government fiscal responsibility thing at work.
You know what? For the $800+ billion it's supposed to cost, they could give every American family $10,000+ and tell us to buy our own insurance. Or better yet, just let us keep the money -- no income tax -- and we'll all get a policy we want.
But n-o-o-o-o... In fact, guess who gets to pay for this drek? Betcha got that one right.
Socialized Medicine deductions from your paychecks -- higher than they are now. Medicare funds cut dramatically -- but the seniors will get a nice check for $500.00 to make up for it. $500.00 won't cover that heart valve replacement, but what the heck? You can be sure we're getting rationing along with this piece of crap, too, so let the rationing begin -- by denying seniors health care.
And so many more goodies jammed into this bill. You just wouldn't believe it. And it's even longer page-wise than the House bill. Better in every conceivable way!
Taxes on medical devices. Taxes on plastic surgery. And I'm sure I'm leaving a whole lot out. After all, nobody's had a chance to read the whole thing yet. Only about four or five Democrat senators who were locked inside that little room in the Capitol building along wth Ram Emanual -- them and the accountants from the CBO -- those are the only people who've even seen the whole damn thing! Yes, it's true! It's the Comrade's new transparency policy in operation!
Isn't it wonderful? Do you like this?
If so, please leave me a message here. I've got some real estate available you might also be interested in.
Guess what? Surprise! Surprise! It has a "government option."
Hey, Senator Snowe from Maine... Looks like you've been had!! Ha-ha!! That was a good one, huh? Maybe you should be more careful about the way you vote. Pretend that your vote means something next time, OK?
And the bill only costs about $100 billion MORE than the House bill -- if you can imagine that. That's that crack government fiscal responsibility thing at work.
You know what? For the $800+ billion it's supposed to cost, they could give every American family $10,000+ and tell us to buy our own insurance. Or better yet, just let us keep the money -- no income tax -- and we'll all get a policy we want.
But n-o-o-o-o... In fact, guess who gets to pay for this drek? Betcha got that one right.
Socialized Medicine deductions from your paychecks -- higher than they are now. Medicare funds cut dramatically -- but the seniors will get a nice check for $500.00 to make up for it. $500.00 won't cover that heart valve replacement, but what the heck? You can be sure we're getting rationing along with this piece of crap, too, so let the rationing begin -- by denying seniors health care.
And so many more goodies jammed into this bill. You just wouldn't believe it. And it's even longer page-wise than the House bill. Better in every conceivable way!
Taxes on medical devices. Taxes on plastic surgery. And I'm sure I'm leaving a whole lot out. After all, nobody's had a chance to read the whole thing yet. Only about four or five Democrat senators who were locked inside that little room in the Capitol building along wth Ram Emanual -- them and the accountants from the CBO -- those are the only people who've even seen the whole damn thing! Yes, it's true! It's the Comrade's new transparency policy in operation!
Isn't it wonderful? Do you like this?
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