Let’s see. A recent Kaiser Family Foundation report (obvious liberal bias) shows that the average amount of employer-sponsored health coverage is $1,115 a month. That’s the equivalent of $13,375 a year- or roughly the equivalent of the annual salary of a minimum wage job. That’s what an employer pays on top of each employees’ salary. Little wonder why employers are transferring an increasing portion of health care costs on to their employees’, eating into employees take-home pay. Can you imagine if you were a small-business owner, trying to get your feet off the ground, and you had to factor in the costs of paying the equivalence of an annual employee salary on top of the salary you all ready pay out?
Why, that’s madness. But, that’s also the current system status quo which some disillusioned and ill-informed individuals are fighting tooth-and-nail to preserve. All that talk about how Obama’s health care plan is a “job killer?” Yet paying the equivalence of a year’s worth of salary for each job somehow isn’t a job killer?
If the current health care system remains unchanged, then our country continues down an economically ruinous path. All of these cynical pessimists that are opposing the attempts to health care reform- and support the current towards for national economic ruin- are treasonous, plain and simple. Despite the undeniable fact that efforts need to be done, and we are looking at a comprehensive piece of legislation that deals with these issues in a systemic manner, these cynics keep braying about a “clean sheet of paper.” Consider how this extra $1,115 chokes the innovative efforts and the economic driving force of America’s small businesses- how will a “clean sheet of paper” help them? Consider the 45,000 unnecessary deaths that occur in this country this year due to the lack of health insurance, or health insurance that denies coverage. How will a “clean sheet of paper” put an end to that? And consider the outrageous premium increases that occur each year- at least double-digits regardless of where you’re at, but in some locations reaching up to 39 and even 60 percent. How will a “clean sheet of paper” put an end to those?
Boehner, Cantor, McConnell… I have an idea of what you can do with your “clean sheet of paper.” You better home you have a comprehensive health care plan that won’t refuse coverage of what procedures would be needed to take care of you afterwards!”
If you’re not paying attention, you may miss this AP story about the American-born al Qaeda spokesperson getting captured in Pakistan. As this development is a major coup for the Obama administration and represents the fact that it is more successful fighting terrorism than the preceding Bush administration, the “liberal media” will probably not give it much attention. After all, the Obama administration is refusing to take the War on Terror “seriously” and anything that indicates otherwise is to be ignored. (F U Cheney!)
The capture of Adam Gadahn by Pakistani intelligence officers indicates that Pakistan is now a cooperating partner in the War on Terror, and not just giving us lip service as they accept billions of our tax dollars to provide the Taliban (and Osama bin Laden) safe haven inside its borders. How many al Qaeda were captured when Shrub was President? And remember all that harsh rhetoric of Obama’s regarding Pakistan that he was criticized for on the campaign trail? You know, the same rhetoric that supposedly showed how “inexperienced” he was to be President? (Meanwhile, his “experienced” rival can’t seem to remember if he is for or against cutting Medicare.) Well, it appears that such rhetoric has had an effect, as Pakistan is forced to work in partnership with the U.S. in the capture of al Qaeda residing within its borders.
But, as I said, as this reflects well on the Obama administration’s efforts to fight terrorism, it will be probably ignored by the media. The inevitable push back by the conservative media has all ready occurred. FOX News, the propaganda wing of the GOP, is claiming that a different associate of bin Laden’s was arrested in Karachi, with limited information available. (What did you expect? An acknowledgment of a job well done to the Obama administration?) I can’t wait for the inevitable post by that retard Sarah Palin’s Facebook writers suggesting that the capture of Gadahn makes our country ‘unsafe’.
It’s like they don’t think such things as the Internet or the freaking LAWS THEY PASS aren’t around to catch them in their mile-high piles of excrement.
When Governor Mitt Romney passes an individual mandate to ensure 98% of Massachusetts has health insurance = totally okay and acceptable, and worthy of Scott Brown voting in favor of.
When Obama proposes a similar individual mandate to ensure 98% of Americans have health insurance = a socialist tool of government take over of Medicare, which Scott Brown needs to cast a vote in opposition to.
I’m sorry, but that is sarah todded!
You just know that if Mitt Romney was currently President, he’d be pushing for an individual mandate to pass a similar health care system as they have in Massachusetts. I know it, you know it, we allknow it….
by Calickizzle Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 01:21am
Once a year at CPAC, a bunch of angry white people get together to yell and complain about things they know nothing about. Granted, I’m not on the ground so I can’t provide first-person eyewitness, but according to Thom Hartmann, who worked radio row at the conference, he spent his time “looking at a sea of white people.”
CPAC has been described by the Washington Post as the “preeminent gathering of conservative activists,” and so I was eager to hear some of this mythical “conservative common sense” I keep hearing so much about, but yet see succeed in any manner. Unfortunately, with the conference now wrapped up, it appears that the amount of substance contributed at this conference could fit into a 140-character post on Twitter.
Nah, scratch that. Probably more like half a Tweet, 70 characters followed by a string of hashtags, such as: #obamasucks #nobama #wheresthebirthcertificate, etc. etc. You know, the extent of wit as provided by conservatives…
Mark Theissen, Former Bush Speechwriter, and author of the recent book, “Courting Disaster: How CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack”, actually has the mental capacity to go on Morning Joe and say that “if torture programs were in place before the attacks on 9/11 we would have known about Al Qaeda and would have stopped them.” Seriously…
by Calickizzle Friday, February 12, 2010 at 11:13am
Gosh, wasn’t the “Tea Bag convention” just last weekend? Yet new poll results released this week show that Ms. Telepalmer has approval ratings below 40 percent, which means that she would kill for the 51% approval rating currently enjoyed by that “guy with a teleprompter?”
By every indication, this means that the more and more Sarah Palin is in the public eye, the less and less likely she will ever become President. I mean, lower approval ratings than Hillary Clinton ever had? And how many votes did Hillary get in her quest for the Presidency?
Do you hear that sound? That would be the rational people in the Untied States breathing a collective sigh of relief. I’d really like to make an effort to quit mentioning her, but just like every other great political joke, it would simply be too hard to stop mocking her all together…
by Calickizzle Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 02:50pm
Seriously. Someone want to send Michael Steele a few copies? That way they could look up the word ‘bipartisanship.’
Responding to President Obama’s request to have a health-care summit and hash out legislation that combines preferred ideas from both sides of the ONLY if the President agrees to their demand to withdraw the legislation passed by both the House and the Senate off the table, along with the possible threat of reconciliation?
Yeah, that’s pretty much throwing off any and all pretense of attempting bipartisanship, at least from the GOP side.
Not sure if the GOP is worried about becoming irrelevant due to their political posturing and amandnat refusal to address the pressing needs our country faces. For some reason, I doubt it.
