Daily Archives: March 1, 2009

Mar 1 2009

Obama may use 50-vote tactic on energy, healthcare (Obama is out to Wreak this Country at all cost)

Obama’s budget director said the White House would consider using a Senate procedural tactic so that only 50 votes would be rquired to pass major healthcare and energy reforms.

Peter Orszag, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, said the administration would prefer not to use the budget reconciliation process to push through its package.
But he added: “We have to keep everything on the table.

The Obama blueprint calls for major changes in both energy and healthcare policies that is likely to engender significant opposition from Republicans and business lobbies. The reforms are expect to win widespread support from Democrats and more left-leaning constituencies.

The budget plan calls for a cap on carbon emissions, for example, and projects $645 billion in revenues from an auction of pollution permits that a variety of business groups, including oil companies, large manufacturers and utilities, would have to purchase.

On healthcare, the plan calls for a $634 billion reserve fund to pay for a first step on healthcare reform.

The president would pay for it in large measure by raising taxes on wealthy people and businesses by about $1 trillion over 10 years.
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Obama is out to wreak The United States at all cost, he seem to be against this great Nation instead of for her. The American people better get out and join the Tea Parties and start protesting from each State all the way to the White House door.

LINKS:

(1) “Liberty: All the stimulus we need”

(2) Middle Class Begins To Revolt

Mar 1 2009

An interview with John Goodman on the future of health care …Europe socialist governments provide “free” universal health care for everyone.

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It’s hard to find anyone who likes America’s health care system, including John Goodman, president and founder of the National Center for Policy Analysis. But you’ll never find Goodman saying that health care is better in places like Europe, where socialist governments provide “free” universal health care for everyone.
Q: Many people – mostly people who think health care should be provided free to everybody by the government – point to Europe as a model. Should they?

A: The people who praise European health care say that the average country in Europe spends half as much as we do and they have very similar health outcomes. What they don’t tell us is that the typical European country is disguising costs, shifting costs, to hide what it really spends. And if we look over the last 40 years at the average spending per person in real terms, the growth rate in the United States is right at the European average.

Q: How does what Europeans get for their money compare with what Americans get for their money?

A: Well, life expectancy looks as good or better in Europe than it does in the United States. But life expectancy is primarily determined by genes and how people live their lives, not by doctors and hospitals. If you look at things that doctors can do something about, like cancer, and you ask, “What is the five-year survival rate for major forms of cancer?,” we are the best in the whole world.

To find out what he thinks America’s health care system should look like – and why Europe’s government health systems are the last things we should copy…..Click Here

The S&P 500 has dropped 18 percent this year following a 38 percent decline in 2008 that was the steepest annual retreat since 1937.

Health-care stocks in the S&P 500 fell 11 percent, the most among 10 industries. Humana, an insurer, lost 42 percent to $23.67, while rivals UnitedHealth Group Inc. and Coventry Health Care Inc. dropped more than 26 percent. Drugmakers also slumped. Eli Lilly & Co. decreased 12 percent to $29.38. Pfizer Inc. slipped 10 percent to $12.31.

Federal Budget

Obama’s budget, released Feb. 26, calls for paring subsidies to insurance companies participating in the government’s Medicare health-care system by $170 billion. The proposed budget would also raise rebates that drugmakers must provide for patients on Medicaid, the nation’s health plan for the poor, to 22 percent of the manufacturer’s price from 15 percent. Lilly and AstraZeneca Plc said they would lose “several hundred million” dollars each in sales.
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Obama healthcare plan isn’t looking so good by this report. Obama is making the crisis worst with all his hot air talk. 4 years sure is along time voters so we better join the Tea Parties and fight back for our rights unless you want a socialist country.

Mar 1 2009

Angry (taxpayers) citizens open fire Lawrence City Hall

From the bullet that smashed through a Lawrence City Hall window to stinking fishes flung at the Gloucester mayor’s home.
“In this budget climate, we’re all faced with cutting jobs, people’s livelihoods,” Kirk said. “It makes a mayor a target.”

Meanwhile, at a gas station on Old Colony Avenue yesterday, State Rep. Brian Wallace (D-South Boston) got an earful from a man incensed about Gov. Deval Patrick’s proposed 19-cent gas tax hike.

“It’s gotten worse,” said Wallace, who also gets blistering e-mails from constituents. “It’s taken a different tone, an edge. People are stretched to the limit.”

Geoff Beckwith, executive director of the Massachusetts Municipal Association, fears that the anger could morph into violence as the economic crisis deepens….Read More

What does the government expect from the people when Obama is giving billions of dollars to banks that the CEO then has big parties with while the American people are hurting trying to provide for their families.

Gas tax hike protested at State House
Boston drivers cruising past the Statehouse today honked horns in opposition to a proposed 19-cent gasoline tax increase, as the governor tried to ease fears that the hike would run tandem with toll increases on the Massachusetts turnpike.
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Can anyone say Tax and Spend Liberals?