More $$ for Trial Lawyers!!

I'm sure you've heard that the House is set to vote on a 1,900 page health care bill this week.

It's going to destroy health care in America and will cost us $2.24 million for every word that's written in that 1,900 page bill. I've heard so many negative things about this bill - like states can opt out of participating in the bill, but not paying for it; that the bill requires 42 studies on a variety of medical issues be performed; that the word "tax" is used 214 times and the word "shall" is used 3,425 times - but here's a rather interesting tidbit I heard today.

In Section 2531, the bill establishes an incentive program for states to adopt alternatives to medical liability litigation. That's great, right? Medical malpractice suits are part of the reason health care costs so much. But wait - a state is not eligible for those payments if they limit trial attorneys' fees or impose a cap on damages.

Now wait a second, why would this bill disallow states to limit trial attorneys' fees in medical malpractice cases? That would help bring the cost of health care down, right? This is supposed to be a bill to help fix our health care system, right? Could it be because 95% of trial attorneys' political contributions go to Democrats?

Another $13 Billion Borrowed. What's the Total Up To Now, Obama?

Some good news first - the Tea Party express is about to make its second tour through the country! I'll be there on November 9 and let me tell you, I am FIRED UP. See the detailed map for a location near you.

The bad news - Obama is going to spread more wealth around - $13 billion to be exact. He wants Congress to provide a one-time payment of $250 to help senior citizens weather the recession. The alleged reason is that this year is the first time in decades that seniors on social security haven't gotten a cost of living adjustment. The reason for this is that consumer prices have remained stagnant this year.

Questions for Obama: If the cost of living has stayed the same, why do they need extra money? Is this money being borrowed from China? Is the real reason you are doing this is because seniors are ticked that you are planning to make cuts from their Medicare to "give" everyone health insurance? Are you worried they will vote you and your cronies out since they are the one group that always shows up to vote? Is this going to be a regular ongoing payment? Why don't you just go ahead and resign now? Pretty please?

I Wish I Had Appreciated You When You Were Here, Reagan!

Read this about how Obama's "pay czar" is set to review the compensation packages of seven companies that received bailout $$, including AIG and GM.

Then listen here to Ronald Reagan in 1961 warning about the government getting involved in private companies (at the very beginning, later on it's all about the evils of socialized medicine and it is excellent).

It makes me want to go out and buy this t-shirt.

Who's Been Planting Now Obama?

On my way home from an errand today I heard an analyst who had read it three times telling about the hidden goodies in the House's health care bill. Stuff I hadn't heard. Stuff that made my blood boil. I will try to put together a list by tomorrow.

If you listen to one-tenth as much conservative talk radio as I do you will have already heard about this but just in case you haven't: There was an adorable 11 year old girl at Obama's town hall meeting who read a question off of a card about those mean signs that she saw people outside the town hall meeting holding. If you missed it you can watch it here. Turns out that little girl's mother is a huge supporter of Obama's who has previously met the Obama ladies and whose law firm has given him thousands of dollars. Click here to read more.

I find it extremely amusing that Obama and his administration have called legitimate health care protestors "plants" from the right wing, accused them of carrying swastikas and said they are not ordinary concerned citizens while THEY are caught red handed using children to read planted questions at a completely phony health care town hall meeting. Keep it up, Obama! Can't wait until 2012.

Obama's Phony Town Hall Meeting

Did anyone watch Obama's "town hall meeting" today? Not at all choreographed in the slightest. The crowd was shouting "yes we can" when he finished and cheered when he said that the stimulus is working. (That's funny, I thought unemployment has continued to rise). He could barely start spewing his lies in the first place b/c the applause was so loud when he showed up.

How stupid do you think we are Obama? Do you think we haven't seen the non-choreographed town halls popping up across the country with angry citizens demanding to know what will happen to their elderly and disabled loved ones under his plan? (I considered going to a town hall meeting for a democrat rep in Atlanta last night to watch the carnage but I had something else to do. I'm glad I didn't go b/c I heard someone who went say that when someone had the nerve to ask the rep if this plan was constitutional he was escorted out! How's that for free speech?)

During the town hall Obama said he did not support a single payer healthcare system. That's a LIE!!

Another lie: if Americans are happy with their current insurance plan, they can keep it under his plan. I don't know what plan he's referring to b/c in the house's health care bill which you can read by clicking here, if you will scroll to around pages 15-17, it doesn't read to me like I can keep my current health insurance. At least not if I ever change employers.

Another interesting tidbit - Rahm Emanuel, Obama's chief of staff, has a brother who is a leading proponent of state assisted suicide. Lovely. Click here to read about that.

Obama's Making Lists and Taking Names

Did you know that the White House's blog on Wednesday asked for supporters to email anything on the web about health insurance reform that "seems fishy"? It should be emailed to flag@whitehouse.gov. How about emailing every single thing Obama says about health care to flag@whitehouse.gov? Everything I've heard out of his mouth about it's been an absolute lie! (The White House web posting isn't there anymore. I checked the White House blog even though being there made me sick).

The blog read: "There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there. Since we can't keep track of all of them here at the White House, we're asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov."

And no, of course the White House isn't keeping an enemies list. Of course they don't retaliate against their opponents - HA! "We want to be sure people have the facts about health insurance reform that will lower costs, protect consumers from insurance regulations that deny them coverage and assure quality and affordable health care for all Americans," said Adam Abrams, a White House spokesman. He said no lists or sources of the information would be compiled.

Click here to read more.

Raising My Taxes to Pay for Obama-care

So let me get this straight:

According to this article, in exchange for the privilege of being forced out of my excellent private health insurance which I love and being forced onto a government health care plan, my taxes are going to go up? And this is all because Washington DC thinks it's not fair that some people don't have health insurance? Even though many of those without health insurance don't have it because they choose not to have it, not because they can't afford it? Even though there is no big outcry from the American people to provide us with free medical treatment and in fact polls show the majority of Americans don't want it?

Another Round-up of Recent News

Sorry for the break everyone. I had a surprise medical problem a couple of weeks ago and ended up spending a week in the hospital. I'm now catching up on what the Obam-inable one has done recently.

1. North Korea just staged an underground nuclear test. Reminder: out of all of Obama's massive spending, what is one of the few areas he actually cut? Missile defense.

2. Obama nominated his first supreme court justice. Yes, she is both a woman and a minority, as predicted. This woman has a hard core record as a leftist on the Court of Appeals (but did we expect anything less)? In 2002, she said during a speech that it's appropriate for a judge to consider their "experiences as women and people of color" during decisionmaking. Wait a second, isn't justice supposed to be blind? She also has acknowledged that she believes judges aren't there to interpret laws as our founding fathers intended, but rather to make their own rules, saying that "the Court of Appeals is where policy is made." Judges like her are the reason that gay marriage is legal in Iowa, not because voters want it, but because judges do. We can expect bad things from this.

3. Obama's new car tax: Obama announced the nation's first national emissions standards for cars and light trucks. By the time the plan is complete in 2016, consumers can expect to pay an extra $1300 per vehicle. In addition, consumers can expect to pay an extra $700 for changes he's already approved. Wait, I thought he wasn't raising taxes on 95% of working families?

4. Michelle Obama, in a speech at UC Merced, urged graduates to "give something back". Did you know that between 2000 and 2004 the Obamas did give something back - less than 1% of their income was donated to charity. The biggest donation was made to the church that espouses hate towards America and white people.

5. Perhaps the most ridiculous of all things he's said lately: Obama told Americans "we're out of money . . . . this is a consequence of the crisis that we’ve seen and in fact our failure to make some good decisions on health care over the last several decades."

Yes, we are out of money b/c we don't have socialized medicine. Hey, wait a second, don't we have free healthcare for the elderly? And isn't that system completely, totally out of money? So how is adding more people to that plan going to help? Click here to read more.

6. Finally, a little comic relief: remember Obama vowing to close Gitmo, making a big deal out of that, emphasizing that we don't want that sad chapter to continue in America's history, etc. Well the Senate gave him a little dose of reality - they voted to not give any funding in order to close it. Ha ha ha ha ha.

Obama the Outraged

This AIG stuff just makes me mad. All of a sudden Obama has knickers in a bunch about AIG getting taxpayer dollars and using that to give bonuses. He said the bonus payments are an “outrage” and said he wants Geithner to “pursue every single legal avenue” to block the payments. “This is a corporation that finds itself in financial distress due to recklessness and greed,” Obama said. “This isn’t just a matter of dollars and cents. It’s about our fundamental values.”

First of all, the bonuses are less than 1/10 of 1% of the bailout money AIG received. The bonuses are $165 million. Second of all, the company is contractually obligated to pay these bonuses. Obama can't come in and rewrite contract law. Third, I am guessing that many of these executives earned their bonuses b/c their particular divisions did well, even if the company did terrible overall.

But the thing that makes me the MADDEST is all of a sudden Obama is so concerned about $165 million dollars of taxpayer funds? This is the man who has spent $1 BILLION EVERY HOUR of the first 50 days of his administration! I think he wants to direct the focus away from his reckless spending and direct the anger towards some greedy executives. This is just disgusting.

Also, if we are so concerned about accountability of taxpayer funds all of a sudden, what about the billions of taxpayer dollars that go to welfare recipients every month? Aren't they allowed to go out and blow that on whatever they want? Are they held accountable?

(I'm not saying that people who ran a company into the ground should be rewarded with my money. But that's not what this hullabaloo is all about).

Going John Galt

The conservative blogs I read are all talking about the phenomenon of "Going John Galt" that is already occurring as a result of Obama's policies that will punish the achievers. The title comes from Ayn Rand's book Atlas Shrugged (that I haven't read but will shortly). Apparently the book describes the achievers rising up and failing to produce. There are many, many real life examples of this in the articles I've been reading. Some are:

- a teacher who is going to quit his side consulting business b/c of the high cost of working for himself.
- a lawyer who will do everything possible to limit her income to $249,999.
- the owner of a small company that makes artificial limbs is moving his company to central America.

Click here and here to read more about this phenomenon, and click here if you are going to do this yourself and would like to be interviewed (the interviewer said she got over 400 emails from people living this phenomenon).

Obama's Speech Last Night

I watched a little of the speech but it was too nauseating to spend much time on, particularly with the two clowns behind him. The most hilarious line in the whole speech: "As soon as I took office, I asked this Congress to send me a recovery plan by President’s Day that would put people back to work and put money in their pockets. Not because I believe in bigger government – I don’t."

He did a TON of rich people bashing, seeming to ignore that the vast majority of rich people got that way by working their butts off. And the fact that rich people are the ones who hire the rest of us. He also did lots of bank bashing, also ignoring the fact that banks made bad loans b/c they were forced to by the Democrats. And he bashed CEOs and corporate jets, as usual.

He mentioned that his plan to bail out homeowners who can't afford their mortgages would only help "responsible" borrowers. Oh really? How is the government going to determine who is a "responsible" borrower? I would just love to see the government guidance on who is responsible and who isn't.

Another laughable line: "And in each of these years, one million more Americans have lost their health insurance. It is one of the major reasons why small businesses close their doors and corporations ship jobs overseas." Oh really? I'm sure it isn't our punishing corporate tax rate, which you want to increase.

This is just frustrating. Oh well, if you want a little comic relief, you should watch this youtube video called "Democrats on an escalator".

Dude, Where's My Mortgage Modification?

OBAMA = One Big Ass Mistake America.

Obama unveiled his new plan to save the housing industry. It's called the "Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan". (I would call it the "Reward Those Who Make Poor Choices and Punish Those Who Do Pay Their Mortgages Every Month Plan). It will cost us $75 Billion (which I'm sure is lowballing it).

Did you know that under the plan, homeowners who aren't making their payments will get a special, modified loan? To reward them for making their payments on time under their new mortgage, now they'll get $1,000 taken directly off the principal of their loan every year for 5 years!!! Now wait a second, we've been in our home almost 6 years and we've never missed a payment, where's my $5,000 off the principal??? Oh, that's right, we did what we were supposed to do, so we don't qualify.

Did you know the program will allow bankruptcy judges to just come in and modify mortgages?

Did you know that banks who agree to new mortgage deals with favorable terms for these homeowners who aren't paying will get cash as an incentive?

Where is the money for this coming from? It's going to take billions to pay these banks and these deadbeat homeowners. The cash comes from us, people who do pay their mortgages. So we are financing other people's mistakes.

Obama has obviously not heard that you don't reward failure and punish success. You can read more about this Obaminable plan here.

What's Your Hurry, Obama?

Remember how utterly urgent it was to get that spendulus bill passed? The bill was released on Friday night and just HAD to be signed less than 24 hours later, even though it was 1,071 pages. Meaning none of the Senators or Representatives voting on it really had a chance to read it.

Well guess what, Obama is taking a long romantic Valentine's Day weekend off work, so the bill won't be signed into law until Tuesday anyway. Call me crazy, but what was wrong with waiting until Tuesday for the House and Senate to vote on it, then allowing Obama to sign it into law the same day? Is it because it contains so much crap that they were scared to let the American people read it?

Click here to read more about this travesty.

Obama's Compensation Limits

Obama is coming unglued! He is not happy that even with a Democrat controlled House and Senate, he is having trouble getting this spend-ulus bill passed. What happened, he was so popular on the campaign trail! Why can't he just order us around now? Click here to read what he said last night.

The Obama-nation of the day: This week Obama signed a bill limiting the compensation of executives of companies who were receiving bailout money to $500,000. Sounds reasonable, right? It's unfair for those executives who have run their companies in the ground to get millions in compensation courtesy of the taxpayers, while the companies are laying off thousands.
No, it doesn't sound like a good idea to me for several reasons.

• First, this is only Obama's first step in setting salaries for all kinds of companies in all kinds of industries. Just like his first step in instituting socialized medicine is giving insurance to children (b/c who can deny the children?), his first step in "spreading the wealth around" is limiting the compensation of executives getting bailout money, because who can object to that? It's a very slippery slope. It may sound silly now, but in 20 or 30 years, will there be a government pay chart telling us exactly what nurses or business people or cable guys can make? This is the first baby step to that. Next he will tell us what ANY company who gets any type of federal money (not bailout) can pay their employees, and then it will take off from there. That's not what America is about.
• Second, to turn these companies around takes incredible business talent not possessed by just anyone. If someone with that type of talent and experience is only going to make $500,000 at one company, but millions overseas or at a company not receiving bailout $$, why work for the failing company?
• Third, some of these executives ARE doing their jobs well. In huge corporations, maybe one honcho is leading his division to record profits, even though the company is overall losing money. Why should that honcho be punished?

Obama's Quote of the Day

Obam-inable quote of the day: If lawmakers don't pass this spend-ulus bill right now, "This recession might linger for years. Our economy will lose 5 million more jobs. Unemployment will approach double digits. Our nation will sink deeper into a crisis that, at some point, we may not be able to reverse," Obama wrote in a newspaper piece in the Washington Post. Way to go, Obama, let's terrify all Americans so you can get your way.

He also said that more tax cuts are NOT needed, saying "I reject these theories, and so did the American people when they went to the polls in November and voted resoundingly for change."

In other words, do it now or we are doomed. We will not be able to recover unless we spend $1 Trillion dollars on nothing. Do you know how much $1 Trillion dollars is? I really didn't grasp it until I watched Huckabee last weekend. $1 trillion could buy 1,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies for every American (now there's a plan I might actually support). $1 trillion is $3,271 per person. $1 trillion would cover the Feb. 2007 market values of Microsoft, Wal-mart, Google, Coca-cola, Pepsi, Time Warner, and Apple combined with $23 billion left over.

Socialized Medicine, Here We Come!!

Oh man am I mad now. Barack's been in office what, 2 or 3 weeks, and he isn't even being subtle about rapidly moving the country towards socialism. Guess what he did today - he signed an S-CHIP bill which gives government health insurance to 4 million additional children (besides those which are already covered). I know what you're thinking, "Sarah, how can you be so heartless as to want him to deny insurance to poor sick little kids?" Of course I don't have a problem with giving poor children health care and vaccinations.

The reasons I hate this are:

• This bill covers children whose parents make up to $88,000 a year!!!! If you are making $88K and can't pay for some insurance for your kids, maybe it's time to reevaluate your budget. Come on. Why should others have to cover your responsibilities?
• Applicants aren't required to present proof of their identity, other than an oral recitation of their SS number. Sounds like a situation begging for fraud.
• The tab will supposedly be paid for by an extra tax on tobacco products, but the # of tobacco users has dropped dramatically in the last few years, and is expected to drop further once the extra tax is added. Which means we will either need an extra 22.4 million new smokers in 10 years, or else pay an extra tax for this. Click here to read more.

In addition, when Obama signed the bill, he was actually fairly honest - he said "it's only the first step" in his march towards insurance coverage for every American. Socialized medicine, here we come!!!!

Obama's First Week in Office

First, an update on the abortion posting I sent yesterday. I read this news today: Obama's planning to reverse a federal ban that prevents funds from going to international groups that promote or perform abortions. Wow, you have to hand it to him, he really hit the ground running didn't he. Nominating a tax cheat to head the IRS, closing Gitmo and preventing waterboarding, which will cost American lives, and now this. So let me get this straight, some of my tax money that gets taken directly out of my pocket can now be used so some girl in Mexico City can get an abortion, which millions of Americans have moral and religious objections to? And this is happening while we are borrowing trillions from other countries? It sounds too ridiculous to even be believed. I hope the founding fathers can't see this.

Also, I just started reading Jerome Corsi's book The Obama Nation, where I got the title of my postings. I am only on page 63, but already it's unbelievable to me how many half-truths and outright lies are contained in Obama's autobiography.

Finally, the Obama-nation of the day: reader Mark sent me this fascinating article by Dick Morris. It outlines how the US is marching towards socialism under Obama's watch. Obama wants to give every family making less than $200K a "refundable tax credit" whether those people pay taxes or not. He will expand the percent of Americans who pay no taxes from around 1/3 to more than 1/2. A majority of Americans will receive money from the government. How can we function as a democracy if over half of our citizens are on the dole?

Some other predictions from Morris: Obama will nationalize the banking system. He promised to move our current healthcare system to a "single payer system" (ie, socialized medicine). He's going to open the borders. He will enact the "Fairness Doctrine" to shut down conservative talk radio. (FYI, I swear if he takes my talk radio away from me I am storming DC - is anybody with me?). Other dire predictions are contained in the article. A bright point - he predicts Obama's name will be mud by 2012 and probably by 2010. Much too late.

Barry the Red

You think Barack's comment that "we want to spread the wealth around" was just a slight slip of the tongue and that he's not actually a socialist (or communist)?

Think again! Check out this 2001 radio interview with Barack in Chicago. Click here to listen. A caller asks Barack to explain how he would do “reparative economic work.” Obama gives the legislative route two thumbs up as his preferred method of “breaking free of the constraints” placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution and then burbles about cobbling together the “actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change.”

Some more of his lovely comments:

"If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court. I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed people, so that now I would have the right to vote. I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order as long as I could pay for it I’d be o.k. But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as its been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the Federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the Federal government or State government must do on your behalf, and that hasn’t shifted and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was, um, because the civil rights movement became so court focused I think there was a tendancy to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change. In some ways we still suffer from that."

Obama and FDR: Birds of a Feather

Did anyone else catch Obama's economic speech? He promised bold, sweeping and dramatic action to save the economy. He's determined we're going to spend our way out of this mess! (I know that in my own personal life, when I am in a financial jam, taking on more debt as opposed to cutting spending always works out so well for me). He's even going to work on the weekends to get his economic plan passed! America is going to spend trillions of dollars on "green jobs" and pork projects "for the children".

Did you know that in 2004, two UCLA economists discovered why the depression dragged on for 15 years? The cause: Franklin D. Roosevelt. He intervened in the free market to help the economy recover. FDR promoted and signed into law two anti-competition and pro-labor measures in 1933. The economists believe the economy would have recovered very quickly if the government hadn't intervened. Ironically, FDR is credited with lifting the nation out of the depression.

I sense history repeating itself. You can read more about the study here or at Michelle Malkin's blog.

Privatizing Social Security

Now's probably not the best time to talk about how great investing in the stock market is but I'm going to anyway.

Did you know that since 1926, the annual average return of the stock market is near 12 percent per year when adjusted for inflation?

Did you know that for a household with two 30 year old wage earners, the average return on an investment in social security is only 1.23 percent annually? For some low income minorities, there is actually a negative return because of decreased life expectancy.

Wouldn't it be great if instead of throwing away our money that is stolen from our paychecks against our will and thrown into a large social insecurity pot, we could keep some or all of that money in a private account to invest as we wished?

Bush tried to enact a partial privatization of social security. Under his plan, workers would be able to place part of their social security money into private accounts that they would control and be able to pass on to children and grandchildren. The accounts were completely optional, not mandatory. Those workers who were comfortable with SS as it was didn't have to participate. Sounds like a great plan, right?

Guess who didn't think it was a great plan: Barack Obama. He called social security "Franklin Roosevelt's greatest legacy" instead of what it is: a giant entitlement program that is bankrupting America and that I don't expect to see a dime from when I retire. On the campaign trail he told a group of voters in Florida that McCain wanted to privatize their social security and "gamble with their life savings".

That is typical liberalism for you: any possible option that would lessen the effect of government in peoples lives should be quashed. If American citizens are not reliant on the government anymore, the Democrat party will shrivel up and die. What a wonderful thought.