Dear Congress: Are You Crazy?!!!

On 11.20.09, In Acting Stupidly, Cash For Clunkers, Congress, Health Care, It's The Economy, Nancy Pelosi, By markboabaca

The following chain-email seems to be doing the rounds quite a bit today. And I think it sums the situation up perfectly:

A message to the Administration:

The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775 – you’ve had 234 years to get it right; it’s broke.

Social Security was established in 1935 – you’ve had 74 years to get it right; it’s broke.

Fannie Mae was established in 1938 – you’ve had 71 years to get it right; it’s broke.

The “War on Poverty” started in 1964 – you’ve had 45 years to get it right. $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to “the poor”; it hasn’t worked and our entire country is broke.

Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965 – you’ve had 44 years to get it right; they’re both broke.

Freddie Mac was established in 1970 – you’ve had 39 years to get it right; it’s broke.

Trillions of dollars were spent in the massive political payoffs called TARP, the “Stimulus,” the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009…. none show any signs of working, although ACORN appears to have found a new source: the American taxpayer.

And finally, to set a new record: “Cash for Clunkers” was established in 2009 and went broke in 2009! It took cars (that were the best some people could afford) and replaced them with high-priced and less-affordable cars, mostly Japanese. A good percentage of the profits went out of the country. And the American taxpayers take the hit for Congress’s generosity in burning three billion more of our dollars on failed experiments.

So, with a perfect 100% failure rate and a record that proves that “services” you shove down our throats are failing faster and deeper, you want Americans to believe you can be trusted with a government-run health care system-  20% of our entire economy???

With all due respect,  Are you crazy? Or do you think the American people are?

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Obama Administration Searching for Financial Fraud?

On 11.18.09, In Acting Stupidly, Barack Obama, Congress, It's The Economy, Stimulus, Stupid, By markboabaca

Is this a joke?

Washington (AP) – The Obama administration has formed a new task force to target financial fraud – replacing an earlier corporate fraud task force.

Attorney General Eric Holder says the new group will have a broader scope – and incorporate state investigators as well as federal agencies – to investigate and prosecute financial crimes that worsened the market collapse.

The attorney general made the announcement standing with officials from the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Treasury Department, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The task force replaces one created in 2002 by the Bush administration following the corporate scandals surrounding WorldCom, Enron, Adelphia, and other firms.

Wow.  So we’re going to trust the government to target financial fraud that made the market collapse when the majority of blame lies at the feet of Washington?

Take a look at the massive su(ck$ a$$)ccess of the $787 billion stimulus in creating (or saving? LOL!) jobs:

Here’s a stimulus success story: In Arizona’s 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have beensaved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that’s what the Web site set up by the Obama administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says.

There’s one problem, though: There is no 15th congressional district in Arizona; the state has only eight districts.

“The inaccuracies on recovery.gov that have come to light are outrageous and the Administration owes itself, the Congress, and every American a commitment to work night and day to correct the ludicrous mistakes.”

There’s the understatement of the year: “correct the ludicrous mistakes”.  The only problem with this statement is that the administration will try to “correct” their mistakes by either firing the people who reported the inaccuracies and replacing them with people who don’t squeal, or they will “correct” their mistakes with new reports that “don’t need to be audited because they have been ‘verified’ already”.

Of course there’s always more:

More than ten percent of the jobs the Obama administration has claimed were “created or saved” by the $787 billion stimulus package are doubtful or imaginary, according to reports compiled from eleven major newspapers and the Associated Press.

Based only on our analysis of stimulus media coverage in the last two weeks, The Examiner has created this interactive map to document exaggerated stimulus claims. The map, which will be updated as new revelations appear, currently reflects an exaggeration by the Obama administration of about 75,000 jobs, out of the 640,000 jobs supposedly “created or saved.”

Ultimately, the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress set up a $787 billion slush fund to create more government jobs and to finance Democrats’ 2010 campaigns, while the taxpayer foots the bill.  So much for stimulation.

But hey, bring on that task force to find financial fraud.  Just make sure they don’t turn look at the crooks and liars in the White House and Congress – or they may end up unemployed like Gerald Walpin and others.

This comes from PEU Report:

Not on the list?

1. Fraud that led to the financial crisis.
2. Insider trading by New York Fed Chairman Stephen Friedman (purchase of GS stock)
3. Insider trading by Senator Dick Durbin (purchase of Berkshire Hathaway)

Wall Street doesn’t play by the same rules as Main Street. Neither do the Beltway Boys. As long as the Beltway’s revolving door is greased and spinning, neither group ever will.

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President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid: Are You Listening?

On 11.13.09, In Barack Obama, Congress, Health Care, It's The Economy, Nancy Pelosi, By markboabaca

President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid: Are You Listening?

From Gallup.com:

More Americans now say it is not the federal government’s responsibility to make sure all Americans have healthcare coverage (50%) than say it is (47%). This is a first since Gallup began tracking this question, and a significant shift from as recently as three years ago, when two-thirds said ensuring healthcare coverage was the government’s responsibility.

In 2006, the survey found a 69%/28% split in favor of it being the federal government’s responsibility, or more than 2-1, the apex for statists on health care. In 2007 the gap narrowed to 64-33, and when Obama got elected a year ago, it had drifted to 54-41 — still better than Obama’s eventual margin of victory.

But somehow Gallup can’t connect the dots to figure out why people have changed what their thinking:

The reason behind this shift is unknown. Certainly the federal government’s role in the nation’s healthcare system has been widely and vigorously debated over the last several months, including much focus on the “public option.” These data suggest that one result of the debate has been a net decrease in Americans’ agreement that ensuring all Americans have healthcare coverage is an appropriate role for the federal government.

Ed Morrissey at HotAir.com has a good answer:

They’re ignoring the obvious, probably not deliberately but because they didn’t ask enough follow-up questions to determine it. People have begun seeing what the bill would be to deliver that kind of system — and not just in dollars and cents. It has costs in choice, in access, in options for care that only became clear when Democrats rushed to impose such a system on the US. Before 2008, the question existed almost entirely as an academic one, and people gave a response based on broad concepts and lazy thinking.

Also, Gallup ignores another significant factor. In late 2007, the economy and unemployment did not look bad at all, and deficit spending was too high but not historically out of the norms of post-war America. By 2008 that economic picture and deficit problem looked much worse, and in 2009 people have begun to realize that top-down government programs are the problem, not the solution.

So I will ask again: President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid: Are You Listening?

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Nancy Pelosi: Obamacare is our present to America

On 11.12.09, In Congress, Health Care, It's The Economy, Nancy Pelosi, By markboabaca

Whiskey
Tango
Foxtrot?

Are you kidding me?

I think a more accurate analogy would be if somebody ‘borrowed’ all of your cremydit cards, emptied my bank account and took out a second mortgage on my house to buy the worlds biggest flaming bag of crap and gave it to me for Christmas, then they left me with the bill.

Stealing money from hard working Americans and giving it to others is not anyone’s idea of giving gifts. It’s stealing.

 
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Obama Health Care Bill in the Mirror: Freedoms & Liberties Are Smaller Than They Appear

On 11.09.09, In Congress, Health Care, By markboabaca

rearview_mirror2President Obama and his minions in Congress claim that their liberty destroying healthcare bill will cover 96% of Americans, and that no one will be denied coverage.

Unfortunately, what they don’t tell you is that Obamacare is ostensibly modeled on Medicare.

From Archimedes on HotAir.com:

Medicare’s record of “denial of service” exceeds all American insurance companies combined!.

That is the other great lie hawking to the great unwashed, that all proceedures will be covered, i.e. no denials of treatment, when of course their program has intended rationing as well as the inherent rationing that comes with doctors quitting practice here, swamping of the system and the closure of hospitals for imbalance of services and reimbursements.

The Catholic Hospital System alone nearly accounts for 1/2 of all our hospital facilities and they have made it quite clear that if abortion services are mandated they will close their operations. Poof! Just like that close to a 50% evaporation of medical care in the blink of an eye.

The disaster the Obamacare will wreak on our nation is an utter clamity in the making. Then comes the Cap & Trade debacle and the immediate and draconian reduction of our GDP that’ll ensue.

If anyone is still unclear on the concept, Obama is pulling the lynch pins of the country, his intent is to hobble us and remove the nation from the world stage as a major power.

If you need proof of what Archimedes is saying please check out the 2008 National Insurer Health Report Card, and the graphic here:

Medicare_Denials_Large

If you’re unclear as to what liberties and freedoms will be taken from you by Obama, read this:

“Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail.

The JCT letter makes clear that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.”

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