The weak shall perish ~ Obama

I am writing this as a candidate to be abandoned and delivered to death by the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress with their health care bill.  I am 77 years old, nearly 78 – I have diabetes, gout, osteoarthritis, had a heart valve replacement, bypass surgery, congestive heart failure,  and just spent two months in the hospital and rehab from a stroke.  Do you think they want to spend any money on me?  I think not.  There was a time when age was respected and revered, especially by the Asian countries where the elders ruled the roost.  My value now is only to my family.

This small article is only a pin-prick to the Obama administration.  I am sure they won’t miss me, so depriving me of health care will only please them.  I am sure those old Senators and Representatives now in Congress, where 237 of them are millionaires, will not lack for health care to keep them alive.  We need them… or do we?  I think all you sickly people over 50 should start worrying.

Now, for all you women, the first shot has been fired at you by the Obama administration.  Now you are encouraged to wait until 50 for a mammogram, and then only every two years.  That will save you worry, they say.  I say it will save them money.

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As usual, the most dangerous parts of ObamaCare aren’t receiving the scrutiny they deserve—and one of the least examined is a new commission to tell Congress how to control health spending. Democrats are quietly attempting to impose a “global budget” on Medicare, with radical implications for U.S. medicine.Like most of Europe, the various health bills stipulate that Congress will arbitrarily decide how much to spend on health care for seniors every year—and then invest an unelected board with extraordinary powers to dictate what is covered and how it will be paid for. White House budget director Peter Orszag calls this Medicare commission “critical to our fiscal future” and “one of the most potent reforms.”

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On that last score, he’s right. Prominent health economist Alain Enthoven has likened a global budget to “bombing from 35,000 feet, where you don’t see the faces of the people you kill.”

As envisioned by the Senate Finance Committee, the commission—all 15 members appointed by the President—would have to meet certain budget targets each year. Starting in 2015, Medicare could not grow more rapidly on a per capita basis than by a measure of inflation. After 2019, it could only grow at the same rate as GDP, plus one percentage point.

The theory is to let technocrats set Medicare payments free from political pressure, as with the military base closing commissions. But that process presented recommendations to Congress for an up-or-down vote. Here, the commission’s decisions would go into effect automatically if Congress couldn’t agree within six months on different cuts that met the same target. The board’s decisions would not be subject to ordinary notice-and-comment rule-making, or even judicial review.

Yet if the goal really is political insulation, then the Medicare Commission is off to a bad start. To avoid a senior revolt, Finance Chairman Max Baucus decided to bar his creation from reducing benefits or raising the eligibility age, which meant that it could only cut costs by tightening Medicare price controls on doctors and hospitals. Doctors and hospitals, naturally, were furious.

So the Montana Democrat bowed and carved out exemptions for such providers, along with hospices and suppliers of medical equipment. Until 2019 the commission will thus only be allowed to attack Medicare Advantage, the program that gives 10 million seniors private insurance choices, and to raise premiums for Medicare prescription drug coverage, which is run by private contractors. Notice a political pattern?

But a decade from now, such limits are off—which also happens to be roughly the time when ObamaCare’s spending explodes. The hard budget cap means there is only so much money to be divvied up for care, with no account for demographic changes, such as longer life spans, or for the increasing incidence of diabetes, heart disease and other chronic conditions.

Worse, it makes little room for medical innovations. The commission is mandated to go after “sources of excess cost growth,” meaning treatments that are too expensive or whose coverage will boost spending. If researchers find a pricey treatment for Alzheimer’s in 2020, that might be banned because it would add new costs and bust the global budget. Or it might decide that “Maybe you’re better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller,” as President Obama put it in June.

In other words, the Medicare commission would come to function much like the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, which rations care in England. Or a similar Washington state board created in 2003 to control costs. Its handiwork isn’t pretty.

The Washington commission, called the Health Technology Assessment, is manned by 11 bureaucrats, including a chiropractor and a “naturopath” who focuses on alternative, er, remedies like herbs and massage therapy. They consider the clinical effectiveness but above all the cost of medical procedures and technologies. If they decide something isn’t worth the money, then Olympia won’t cover it for some 750,000 Medicaid patients, public employees and prisoners.

So far, the commission has banned knee arthroscopy for osteoarthritis, discography for chronic back pain, and implantable infusion pumps for pain not related to cancer. This year, it is targeting such frivolous luxuries as knee replacements, spinal cord stimulation, a specialized autism therapy and MRIs of the abdomen, pelvis or breasts for cancer. It will also rule on routine ultrasounds for pregnancy, which have a “high” efficacy but also a “high” cost.

Currently, the commission is pushing through the most restrictive payment policy in the nation for drug-eluting cardiac stents—simply because bare metal stents are cheaper, even as they result in worse outcomes. If a patient is wheeled into the operating room with chest pains in an emergency, doctors will first have to determine if he’s covered by a state plan, then the diameter of his blood vessels and his diabetic condition to decide on the appropriate stent. If they don’t, Washington will not reimburse them for “inappropriate care.”

If Democrats impose such a commission nationwide, it would constitute a radical change in U.S. health care. The reason that physician discretion—not Washington’s cost-minded judgments—is at the core of medicine is that usually there are no “right” answers. The data from large clinical trials produce generic conclusions that rarely apply to individual patients, who have vastly different biologies, response rates to treatments, and often multiple conditions. A breakthrough drug like Herceptin, which is designed for a certain genetic subset of breast-cancer patients, might well be ruled out under such a standardized approach.

It’s possible this global budget could become an accounting fiction, like the automatic Medicare cuts Congress currently pretends it will impose on doctors. But health care’s fiscal pressures will be even stronger than they are today if ObamaCare passes in anything like its current form. And that is when politicians will want this remote, impersonal and unaccountable central committee to do the inevitable dirty work of denying care.

The only way to take the politics out of health care is to give individuals more power to control medical dollars. And the first step should be not to create even more government spending commitments. The core problem with government-run health care is that it doesn’t make decisions in the best interests of patients, but in the best interests of government.

Governor Sarah Palin has started her book tour allowing her entrance into the political arena.  This has given purpose to the mainstream media.  They didn’t hate Bush until he was elected.  However, Sarah has generated hate from them because of the possibility she may run for President and they want to get started destroying her as soon as they can.  I can imagine that would make Chris Matthews lose control of his kidneys.  He has such trouble with his body!

E.J. Dionne Jr, of the Washington Post and Evan Thomas, of Newsweek, probably have been meeting regularly to perfect their plan to terminate the possibility of Sarah running for President.  I wonder if their wives are real people with opinions of their own.

Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO of General Electric, has a vast influence with Obama because of him having his TV arms politicking for Obama – I mean NBC and MSNBC.  What will happen to him when Sarah defeats Obama?  I know if she was elected with a Republican majority, we would have an energy program where natural gas would be available for all our country’s needs and available even for exporting to South America.  Also, there would be oil from our country available for export to other countries.  Can you imagine how this would affect our balance of payments?  It would also help the normal, average American citizen to have cheap energy for their auto use, electricity, and manufacturing.

We know most of the elitists live in cities and have use of private planes and airlines for their travel.  They don’t have any need for commuting to work, shopping, doctors visits, children school affairs, etc..  Elitists don’t worry about these things.  As you know, Obama and Al Gore want fuel for cars to be expensive to help with “global warming”, which in and of itself is a SCAM!

A few remarks I wish to make:

• At one time the magazines TIME, Newsweek, and US News and World Report were read by more people than any other news journal.  But this is no more.  They are just failing liberal rags that hardly anyone reads and are, fortunately, on their way out.
• I used to watch all three of the Law & Order programs, but a short time ago, about three or four months, they went political and lost entertainment value and I haven’t watched any of them since and never will.  Anyone else for a boycott?
• Just want Fox to know we don’t have to see the Fort Hood terrorist’s picture on TV over and over.  He is NOT THAT PRETTY TO ME!  Also have been wondering how come Obama is seen hundreds of times daily on cable news programs?  Also, how come they called President Bush Mr. Bush and said “the President” when referring to him but not “President Bush”?
• Have heard no one say how they are going to protect the jurors in this decision made by the Obama administration to move the terrorists trials to New York City, as in the case of the SEIU goons who told people “We know where you live!”  Besides this, what person is going to want to be a juror for two to ten years?  Also, who wants to be considered a peer of terrorists?  The only terrorist that might reasonably have been tried here would have been the Fort Hood terrorist, Nidal Malik Hasan.  The first Muslim terrorist to kill their own military companions was in Iraq, when he rolled a grenade into a shared tent.  What ever happened to him?
• When will the Black Panther Muslims who refused to let people vote be tried?  I don’t trust this Obama Justice Department and their Muslim friends.
• Eric Holder says he thought very carefully before bringing the terrorists to New York – I suppose the same way he let off the 16 FALN terrorists and Marc Rich, a well known international commodities thief.  Frankly, I don’t believe a word Eric Holder says.  He has been a Democratic hatchet man for years.  How he was ever given the position of Attorney General is beyond me.

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How Eric Holder fixed the FALN pardons

By Michelle Malkin  •  January 9, 2009 10:18 AM

The Los Angeles Times, mirabile dictu, breaks from the Obamedia pack and does some digging into Attorney General nominee Eric Holder’s past history as a political fixer for the Puerto Rican FALN terrorists (hat tip – Debra).

Attorney general nominee Eric H. Holder Jr. repeatedly pushed some of his subordinates at the Clinton Justice Department to drop their opposition to a controversial 1999 grant of clemency to 16 members of two violent Puerto Rican nationalist organizations, according to interviews and documents…

…President Clinton’s decision to commute prison terms caused an uproar at the time. Holder was called before Congress to explain his role but declined to answer numerous questions from angry lawmakers demanding to know why the Justice Department had not sided with the FBI, federal prosecutors and other law enforcement officials, who were vehemently opposed to the grants.

Some religious groups and influential individuals, including President Carter, had endorsed the commutations. But Clinton’s decision outraged law enforcement officials, who had tried to contain a bombing campaign in New York, Chicago and elsewhere in the 1970s and 1980s by groups seeking independence for Puerto Rico from the United States.

New interviews and an examination of previously undisclosed documents indicate that Holder played an active role in changing the position of the Justice Department on the commutations.

Holder instructed his staff at Justice’s Office of the Pardon Attorney to effectively replace the department’s original report recommending against any commutations, which had been sent to the White House in 1996, with one that favored clemency for at least half the prisoners, according to these interviews and documents.

And after Pardon Attorney Roger Adams resisted, Holder’s chief of staff instructed him to draft a neutral “options memo” instead, Adams said.

The options memo allowed Clinton to grant the commutations without appearing to go against the Justice Department’s wishes, Adams and his predecessor, Margaret Colgate Love, said in their first public comments on the case.

“I remember this well, because it was such a big deal to consider clemency for a group of people convicted of such heinous crimes,” said Adams, the agency’s top pardon lawyer from 1997 until 2008. He said he told Holder of his “strong opposition to any clemency in several internal memos and a draft report recommending denial” and in at least one face-to-face meeting. But each time Holder wasn’t satisfied, Adams said.

The 16 members of the FALN (the Spanish acronym for Armed Forces of National Liberation) and Los Macheteros had been convicted in Chicago and Hartford variously of bank robbery, possession of explosives and participating in a seditious conspiracy. Overall, the two groups had been linked by the FBI to more than 130 bombings, several armed robberies, six slayings and hundreds of injuries.

The fate of a shoe-thrower had Saddam been in Bush's place

A Saddam follower throwing shoes at the President, who went against Saddam to being freedom to a country and to stop the murder and torture at Saddam’s hands of anyone who questioned his actions or disagreed with him, brings home the fact that the Islamists have hatred for this country as when they danced in the streets when 9/11 happened.  But what concerns me more than that is the reaction of our esteemed fourth of state and them reacting to it with glee.  I can understand comics using this in their routines, but when ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN were so gratified of this in their news coverage, it made me wonder if they were glad when 9/11 happened.  I am afraid their patriotism has been taken away by their Bush hatred syndrome.

It would seem to me that their lives are so empty they need their hatred for someone to make living, for them, have some meaning.  After Bush has left the scene, they will need someone else to turn this on, and it can’t be a Democrat, so it will have to be some Republican they can turn their need to hate on, and I feel sorry for HER and what she will have to go through.

The pity expressed by the Wall Street crooks for the credit card companies, who in two years will lose one of their tools to STEAL – especially from the poor, by the actions of the Federal reserve makes me sick.  I think the amount of money placed before the banking committee by the lobbying firms, paid for by the credit card companies, is something that should be placed before John Q Public for some decisions to be made for who should be voted out of office.  There should be some simple formula set up to apply to credit card company charges without having to have two or three pages of small print describing how they have a right to STEAL from you.

I was very pleased to read an article explaining how Russia is suffering from the low oil prices.  Makes me feel guilty every time I fill up my gas tank.  The world bank put out a statement saying how bad low oil prices will harm the world economy.  How many ways can you say BULL S***?  Members of the United Nations and the world bank have been squeezing money for themselves from sales of oil for years, especially when Saddam was in power.  Is there any wonder that they HATE Bush?  The UN has been like an albatross around the neck of the United States since it was founded, and all it has done is block any program the United States is for.  We should take that quarter-billion a year we give them and use it for better purposes.

Evil Empire: Putin wants it back again!

Throughout history, there has been opportunities taken and some not taken that have changed the future.  There is an opportunity at this time for the United States and all countries that have available places to drill for oil.  Make every effort to do so and keep the price of oil low for the benefit of all nations except for OPEC countries, Russia, Iran, and Venezuela.  Reagan used $10 a barrel oil (when it fell that low) to defeat the evil empire.  Putin has been trying to rebuild the evil empire by use of $147 barrel of oil prices.  Now that oil is below $40 a barrel, Russia is hurting and does not have the funds needed to rebuild that evil empire.  Any person looking at Putin’s activities, recently, must know what his intentions were.

One thing I will add… if speculators rule and this opportunity isn’t taken, history will judge HARSHLY those who fail to avail themselves of this opportunity.  I don’t think the Democrats will because of the hold the environmentalists have on them.  My greatest wish is for common sense, somehow, to work its way into the political structure of this country.  As for the media, until one of them is able by use of the Freedom of Information Act to get a list of the money given by the Treasury to financial interests in this country, and if reasonable efforts were made to see that the American people received some benefit from this giveaway, I will continue to hold my opinion of them in abeyance.

Bill Clinton saying he heard a culinary workers union official threaten a worker to vote for Obama or else – this is, I am sure, one out-and-out lie.  The Clintons will stoop at nothing to win.  Bill is licking his chops with the idea of becoming a stealth President.  God save the country from this!  Anyone who thinks this wouldn’t happen, I have a Great Wall of China to sell you.  Bill is so mad at the media for not helping Hillary enough – poor baby.

One thing I have noticed this time versus when he was President – he gets more red-faced and mad now than then because he doesn’t have a staff around him to protect and use the words “out of context” for his cover.  Let’s face it, women and Perot put Bill in, and now he is out trying to use his charm to help Hillary get the women’s votes.

Hillary is showing her softer side and appearing on tv teardrop shows to enhance her appeal to women voters, and it seems to be working, God forbid.  Another thing that seems to be working is the Clintons’ spokesmen bringing up the race issue and Obama’s drug use when he was young, and which he has admitted to.  The Clintons believe all’s fair in war and politics.  In fact, they have a war room in their headquarters.

Just saw the Nevada caucuses and the South Carolina primaries – a few observations…  The Huckster blaming his loss on Fred Thompson and also said McCain ran a decent campaign and inferred that Romney didn’t because he and Thompson brought up the Huckster’s record.  I think both he and McCain’s record should be brought up repeatedly.  The media and the debate moderators had a lot to do with Fred Thompson’s numbers.

Thompson was also responsible partly, but there is no question that the liberal media was pushing Huckabee, as he would be the easiest to beat by Democrats, and of course McCain has always been a media darling since he was beat by Bush, as they HATE Bush with a passion.  Even Fox went along with the derision accorded Thompson.  I wish he had enough funds to continue the race and would expand on his message.  If he could do this, and the media gave him an even break, he would be the nominee.

As far as I am concerned, the only thing I welcomed from the South Carolina primary is that the lesser of two evils won.  At least I might vote for McCain over Hillary.  But if the Huckster won the nomination, I would vote for Hillary over him.  One thing about Huckabee is he sure can talk.  All those people from Hope, Arkansas can talk.  Note the Huckster’s concession speech and Clinton’s speech at the Democratic convention in 1988.  Hope, Arkansas is also the capital of sleaze.  Hillary lived there.

Obama is facing a formidable battle, as he is going against the Clinton machine with Bill’s desire to be the acting President and Hillary being the figurehead.  The Democrats are hoping for this.  Don’t forget they love Bill after they knew he was a rapist, a sexual aggressor, and used the Oval Office for sex with an intern, Monica Lewinsky.  Reagan wouldn’t even go in the Oval Office without a suit on, but Bill lets it all hang out wherever he goes.  The Democrats version of morality seems to have changed since Gary Hart – remember monkey business – just one indiscretion sealed Gary’s fate.  See attached:

Donna Rice, who brought an end to Gary Hart’s 1988 campaign for US President

Gary Hart was more than 20 percentage points ahead of the field when he was photographed with Donna Rice sitting on his lap, on a yacht out in the Atlantic Ocean on the way to the Bahamas. It seemed almost certain that Hart would have been nominated for president had it not been for allowing a beautiful girl to sit on his lap.

Because of this incident, combined with the fact that Hart was an air-head, Dukakis got the nomination, and was overwhelmingly defeated by Bush. More people remember Hart than remember Dukakis.Nobody ever said whether Hart did anything else with Donna Rice, but what else does a man do with a woman he has way out on the ocean all night?DONNA RICE: Reporters who followed Gary Hart’s advice to “put a tail” on him discovered the actress on Hart’s lap aboard the good ship “Monkey Business”; Hart’s presidential campaign imploded. Rice turned down big offers from Playboy and Penthouse, but did a “No Excuses” jeans ad. Now 39, a born-again Christian and conservative icon, she’s crusading against pornography on the Internet.

Clinton also failed to take any action against al-Qaeda.  You decide if that is what brought on 9/11.  To me, him being back in power again scare the living hell out of me.  I hate to say it, but if Hillary won, I would hope that during one of Bill’s rages, he became incapacitated.  The condition of morals in this county has deteriorated so badly since the Clinton administration, that we don’t have much further to go – maybe sex on the streets or live demonstrations of sex on tv for the sex education of our teenagers.  The Clintons have been very aggressive on sex education in the schools.  Also, of course, Jocelyn Elders was very helpful in this program.  Remember her?

Now in reference to the economic stimulus package… this will give the Democratic Congress and the minority Republicans the opportunity to work together to solve the economic needs of the country at the moment.  If they can come together in a non-partisan manner and get this done, it will go a long way into solving the great divide between the parties and give their constituents some hope for the future.

They could increase their reputation by passing a line-item veto for the next elected President, whoever HE may be.  They could outlaw earmarks and their reputation would improve dramatically.  I would even have kind words for them.  The axe I have to grind is this: I don’t have a great amount of time left, and I would like to leave feeling good about the future of my grandchildren, great grandchildren, and the future generations.  I hope they never have to feel shame for the previous generations as I do with the 60s dropouts and smoke-outs, free sex, and an abandonment of morality.

I pray for a return to old fashioned morals, but a phony like Huckabee is not the person to lead that crusade.  He reminds me of the Pied Piper of Hamelin – you know what he did.

May God continue to bless the USA.

Watching the stock market these days, it’s easy to see by the fluctuations in the market that an SEC investigation into those large corporations manipulating the market with computer buying and selling should be due.  These practices will not encourage Joe or Mary citizen to participate.  I am amazed by how they take the same factors to say it’s time to buy, then shortly afterward the same factor appears and they say “It’s time to sell.”  Exploiting of the economy for their greed should be a matter of great concern to the SEC.  If you were a conspiracy theorist, you might say the SEC is in league with them or taking a few bribes, and if they are participating in buying and selling stocks, they should be prosecuted.  The manipulating of the oil futures should also be investigated.

With the ethanol fiasco, I can imagine what the manipulations of corn, wheat, and soybean futures will do to the cost of food in the coming months.  Beef, pork, lamb, and chicken meats will reach much higher prices.  Milk, eggs, and cheese and all products in which they will be used will increase in price.  I wonder if they might consider putting the cost of food back in the inflation index.  Is it any wonder that they took the cost of food out of the inflation index?

Like everyone else, I have been watching the election and the polls.  There is only one thing I will say for sure – if Huckabee gets the nomination, I will stay home for the first time since voting for Eisenhower in 1956.  I would also stay home if Ron Paul got the nomination, which is highly unlikely.  The Democrats have been using hate Bush, fear, and doom and gloom in their messages to their voters.  As a party, they have always been the party of pessimism and despair.

Here we all are on pins and needles waiting for the outcome of this fake election in Iowa.  I know it wasn’t Hillary that crossed the picket line to appear on a late night show – it was the Huckster on Jay Leno.  I guess he don’t think social Conservatives or evangelists belong to unions.  I think he has put the evangelists in Iowa on the same par as the Arkansas evangelists.  I hope they prove him wrong.  Arkansas, especially Hope, Arkansas, must have a training program for slick politicians.  First there was Slick Willy, now there is Slick Huckster.

They talk about Hillary’s negatives.  Huckabee’s are going to be a lot worse if he wins the nomination – God help the nation!

I have been through many political campaigns, and this has had the most hoopla of any campaign we ever had in my long tenure in watching elections.  Also, this election media coverage has been on trying to have the candidates skewer themselves on their own petards.  I think, therefore, the media has lost its way – what else is new?

I sorta wonder about John McCain.  Seems the Democrats and media like him to an inordinate amount.  This disturbs me in no small way, being complicit with Kennedy and Feingold being against Bush’s tax cuts and holding hands, in many cases, with Democrats helping them to further their aims.  The Democrats wanted to give amnesty to illegal immigrants.  They also wanted campaign finance.  Now we have all those 527s, and they are working against Republicans in most cases except that McCain has one work for him.

This election would make more sense if it were a poker game with the pot being the nomination.  It couldn’t be any worse than this caucus in Iowa.

May God continue to bless the USA.