Cash for Clunkers Cashless - Not so Fast

Last night I caught a headline that the Cash for Clunkers program had already run out of money; that it was finished, finito, in the junkyard here. Word was, even last night; that the program was going to be closed. Hooray, I thought, a 1 billion hit on future generations, (twice that when interest on the debt is tabulated, remember we are broke) is coming to a close, I hope we can be so lucky with Cap and Tax and Lenin Care.

Not so fast.

I'm watching Cspan at the moment, (9:20 am Pacific), up for vote is an additional 2 billion in debt-financed generational thievery.

Why?

Democrats, liberal Republicans on the House floor this morning -

• Rep from Wisconsin - "The marketplace has spoken! Congress is doing it's part to stimulate!"
• GOP rep from Michigan - "The auto industry is going to bring the US out of this recession! This bill is the best thing we have ever done, ever!"
• Dem rep from Michigan - "The rush to use this program shows it's need, what else do we need to see?"
• Dingellberry from Michigan - "This is a great problem to have amidst all of our problems, (the program running out of money), we cannot stall on changes to this program, I urge passage of this bill!"

Lone conservative rep, (from California no-less) -

• "If Congress got the cost so wrong on this and we now need 3x as much, how can we be trusted on health care reform?"

Well said.

Pertinent pictures -

A once proud gas guzzler, taxpayer skeletal remains gathering dust inside to this day.........

Porky pig reps at the trough. Will their appetite for socialism ever be satiated? Can you spot Pelosi, Waxman, Reid, Barney, Maxine Waters, Murtha, my own Filner, Conyers?

Our economy and freedoms on the edge of a cliff, taxpayer and Constitution trapped inside.

A RINO's fate, at the hands of a taxpayer at his wits end. Fitting that a RINO would be finished off by a Clunker........

Tax the Rich, Patient Grasshopper

by the Left Coast Rebel

I came across the video above whilst on the hunt for another video that I saw last night - a guest on Cavuto on Fox arguing for more excessive taxation on the rich 'to better society'. This Mr. Steve Dore, (above), is a huge Ron Paul fan and an advocate for liberty. His song speaks for itself. As I have said before, sometimes humor is the best antidote for troubled times. Check out his site here.
Back to the intention of this post, spoof aside - the Cavuto show guest, a Mr. Eric Schoenberg, a professor at Columbia, (of course) He is also part of an advocacy group of wealthy folks for taxing the rich even more. The Orwellian sounding Wealth for the Common Good is their name.







I know you as a loyal reader of my blog may be thinking, 'come on LCR, this isn't health care or the Beer Summit, get back to the news of the day', don't digress, keep hitting the same topics!'



I understand, I really do, but patience grasshopper, watch the video, absorb the professor's points, his philosophy, his logic. Check back with me down below for my analysis. To combat leftism, altruism at a gunpoint, socialism, fascism and the shredding of the Constitution and individual rights we must know thy enemy. Again, patience grasshopper.






Pointy-headed educated fool points, (italicized), with my take in bold , what do you think? -

• "Well you know I can’t speak for everybody but it’s people who realize how fortunate we are in our society and really love this country and what it’s done for us and our families and want to give back.”


• This one is telling folks, a seemingly simply benign statement unless you explore the premise behind - isn't it interesting when the Left argues for excessive taxation in terms like 'wanting to give back'? What if they were truly honest? That their belief system is centered to enable an all-powerful state, obliterate our Constitution? To love your country is to believe in Socialism. Guilt of success enables many evils.


• "Part of what my research is about is the psychology of money.....one of the most important findings that I look at is that it is all relative, (the amount of money an individual earns, 250k vs 2 million), there's research that suggest that relatively low levels of income, earning additional income doesn't make people happier."




• Interesting premise. I can go a bit further and tell you dear reader that he thinks, as does the Left in the body politic; that income past a certain point is unnecessary, selfish, doesn't make one happy. What an amazing way to lay the groundwork for wealth confiscation. It should matter not if an individual's wealth makes him happier on a sliding scale, what matters is that it is his property. Property that you as an individual have rights over. Property that is the fruit of your labor, your time, your life. It doesn't take an egghead genius to figure this out. Academia produces and promotes the most illiterate amongst us - simple lack of common-sense is the most dangerous illiteracy. Illiterate egghead Ivy-League Ninnyisms.




• Cavuto asks what the 'acceptable progressive tax level is' - "Well there are two separate issues there, one is kind of a moral issue, the second is a practical issue, at what point do we start impinging upon the incentive to work hard?" Cavuto - "Is it over 50%?" Professor - " "On the moral issue everybody has their opinion, on the practical issue, I suspect that it is a lot higher than people suspect. Most people that earn that kind of money are not doing it for the money itself. "



• Interesting again, fascinating how blatantly illogical and conflicted this man's opinions are. Apparently he thinks that anyone that produces or makes wealth is engaged in some sort of Monopoly game where funny money is the reward. At a certain point of wealth creation the money becomes meaningless. Time for the State-vulture gluttons to come swooping in. The Left always uses ambiguous and subjective reasoning to argue their goal. Who is to say that BO's 250k threshold today is not half that tomorrow? Half that half?


• (On the mysterious 'right to health care', his justification of socialized med ) - " I view this as enlightened self-interest, I have two daughters and care a great deal about the society that they are going to grow up in."


• The whole enchilada folks. Adam Smith's Invisible Hand has miraculously turned into big-government enabling 'enlightened self interest'. There is certainly nothing enlightened in propagating forced taxation at ever-increasing stratospheric levels. There is nothing enlightened in an ethos of forcing others at gunpoint to pay for a Federal Leviathon, a monster that will never have a satiated appetite. Their is nothing self-interested in a central government planning and controlling all aspects of our lives; nothing enlightened in the jettisoning of our Founder's promise of individual protections.

This ethos, this philosophy is that of Marx and Hegel, of Lenin and Stalin, of Mao, of Mussolini. The ethos that a central government is the mighty arbiter, the leveler, the enabler. It is a religion and a disease, this belief. It is the antithesis of what our Founders envisioned. It is a crying shame that many amongst us gravitate to such evil. It is preposterous that Ivory Tower Academia is the breeding grounds for slavery.

"So you think that money is the root of all evil?" said Francisco d'Anconia. "Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?

Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged

Typical California Voter

It's no wonder that we are broke and broken, this needs no elaborative comment on my part.

Raleigh, Frayed Agenda, Cats and Paper Bags

by the Left Coast Rebel

Folks I am busy! Something of a curse and a blessing; it seems that my manic schedule is also keeping me a bit out of the loop of current events, namely rapid changes in the health-care takeover via the Obamanation.


Driving home today I tuned into Roger Hedgecock here in San Diego - he has been a one-stop-shop against the socialist medicine push. He literally is an information machine, bettering even a lot of the national guys on content, clarity, activism and hard news. The focal-point of his show today was the Obamanation speech in Raleigh earlier.


"If you already have health care, I can't guarantee that your premiums will be cut in half, but what I can guarantee is your costs will be lower than if we don't have reform."


- Obamanation


Hmm, really? Talk about a change of tone. We are making a difference! Support, even in a massive Democrat congressional majority, is fractured and withering. Today the far-left in congress became irate over a deal that Nostrilitis Waxman struck with 4 Blue Dogs here. The vote on socialized health-care has also been put off until September or October. As I said, we are making a difference!


Pics from patriots protesting the One in Raleigh today -

Have I ever mentioned that I love North Carolina and consider it a long-term destination if/when I am able to leave the socialist hell-hole that is California?

Back to socialized health care. As I mentioned above, many so called 'progressives' are angered by the acquiescence of leadership on the single payer provisions, they feel that the details aren't liberal enough and that potential results will be neutered.

Enter Maxine, (communist), Waters here on Blue Dogs, potential leftists to run against them in upcoming primaries -

“On the one hand they don’t want to spend money, but on the other hand they want to spend money when it benefits them or their district, There may be people out there listening and observing all of this who may get motivated based on what they’re seeing and throw their hat into the ring.”

OK so I get it. The Blue Dogs are mucking up the works and stalling, at least momentarily a Stalinist takeover of health care. Note how the PMSNBC talking bobblehead says that this is a once in 4 decades opportunity to ram this thing through. It is not whether or not it is good for America, on merit of the workability, or not. It is simply hastened because this is the now or never moment.

We're onto you press, liberals, Democrats, Obamanation and Sociailists - the cat is out of the bag.

And the last item on my hit-list today here. B Obamanation's own physician of 20 years on BO's stinky health care proposals -

"I look at his program and I can't see how it's going to work. He has no cost control. There would be no effective cost control in his program. The [Congressional Budget Office] said it's going be incredibly expensive ... and the thing that I really am worried about is, if it is the failure that I think it would be, then health reform will be set back a long, long time."

He is of course right on the cost aspect of the Obamantion health care propaganda. God bless this Mr. Scheiner, ( even though he is a stalwart proponent of 'single payer'), for having the guts, the nerve, the chutzpah to speak his mind and warn us all. What an incredible story, this reminds me of the whistle blowers inside ACORN.

Will the Chicago thugs come after him too?

Glenn Beck Nails Obamanation, Sefdom, The Horse's, (Conyer), Mouth, Ferris Bueller

by the Left Coast Rebel

On top of everything else in the news today; of the socialist march that even an astute citizen journalist cannot seem to keep abreast of, I DVR'd Beck's show. He nails it on Obama per usual. Glenn Beck gets it. He understands what the Obamanation really stands for. The dissolution of our freedoms. The dissolution of our Constitution. The dismantling of our freedoms and way of life. The march to socialism, Marxism, Statism and Serfdom.

Drifting away from Beck - on today's hit list we have the esteemed John Conyers at the National Press Club. The cat is truly out of the bag. Taxation without representation. An elitist, nannyist, totalitarian bunch of ninnies that think they can rule us peasants. That they know better than you do for your health, your family. Your health and your family. That they must be put in charge over life and death issues; a call for you to jettison the remaining fleeting liberties that remain. In his own words, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers on the Socialized Health Bill House version here -

“I love these members, they get up and say, ‘Read the bill, what good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?”




Really? The naked face of taxation without representation. The face of evil. The face of the horrors of history that our forefathers fled their European nations from. The face of our political ruling-class elite. The face of morons in charge of life and death decisions; nary an effort to read the details of such. The face of the desecration of our Constitution.


And of Silver Tongued Messiah that as Beck said today on his show; would transform our nation into an Orwellian Marxist regime. CNSnew.com here -

• The traffic at President Obama's official White House Web site--white house.gov--has fallen from a post-Inauguration peak to nearly the same level it was during the waning days of the Bush administration.


• The decline in White House’s web traffic has coincided with a decline in the president’s approval ratings and the approval ratings for his policies.
  A Zogby poll released July 24 showed that only 48 percent of Americans approve of the job President Obama is doing, down from 51 percent in mid-June -- 49 percent of Americans said they disapprove.


• Public approval of Obama’s health care initiative has also been declining, according to Rasmussen. The public opposes Obama’s efforts 53 to 44 percent, a figure that has been increasing the longer the president has been touting his plan.

Sure to be fooled from time to time but never to be underestimated. The American people on Main Street are the final arbiter. And they are speaking. Dissatisfaction at this fledgling point in the Silver-Tongued One's 8 month time is a welcome sign. Hope and Change were successful commercial hooks. They are not, however; successful bromides for the dissolution of our society.

*....voice from the 1980's....*

Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?

Ben Stein today on Yahoo Finance here -

"Just as one person, I would give a lot to charity to save my family and the future from this kind of redistribution that could mean eliminating freedom and devastating the financial plans of the most productive among us."

I don't agree with Stein often as he is not conservative and/or libertarian enough for me. His statement above, however, hits the nail on the head. Way to go Ben.

Obamacare, Michael Ramirez' Brilliance

Need I add or elaborate? Michael Ramirez of IBD is a genius.....

Why Conservatives Should Love Harry Potter

by the Humble Libertarian

I went to see Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince this Friday, and enjoyed the film very much. While reflecting on its lessons, I thought I would write up a short piece to respond to well-meaning religious conservatives who believe that the Harry Potter franchise promotes witchcraft or lures Christian children into the occult.

Not only do I believe their concern is misplaced, but in fact, I have to say that the Harry Potter books and films are one of the greatest and most crucial cultural developments of our generation.

Consider first, the clear and unambiguous battle between good and evil. In a post-modern world turned upside-down by the philosophical wreckage of the previous four centuries, where "enlightened" students at our top universities will maintain with a straight face that all morals are relative and that there is no objective right and wrong, it is a breath of fresh air to see our entire society captivated by a story that so clearly portrays good and evil exactly for what they are.

Good people are full of love, hope, benevolence, kindness, meekness, humility, and an unflinching dedication to, pursuit of, and reverence for the truth. Evil people are full of malice, fear, envy, cruelty, arrogance, and deceit. The good strive to live in community with one another. The evil try to hurt others. The good are peaceful. The evil are violent. The good love light and life. The evil love darkness and death. The distinction is clear and unequivocal in Harry Potter as it is in real life. Conservative Christians could not ask for a better advocate of their views in the popular culture.

Read the rest here at The Humble Libertarian, a top-notch site promoting liberty.

Rand Paul and Rush - On Shattering the Illusion of Integrity

by the Left Coast Rebel


Begin the day with a friendly voice,
A companion unobtrusive
Plays the song that's so elusive
And the magic music makes your morning mood.

Off on your way, hit the open road,
There is magic at your fingers
For the Spirit ever lingers,
Undemanding contact in your happy solitude.

Invisible airwaves crackle with life
Bright antenna bristle with the energy
Emotional feedback on timeless wavelength
Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free

All this machinery making modern music
Can still be open-hearted.
Not so coldly charted, it's really just a question
Of your honesty, yeah, your honesty.

One likes to believe in the freedom of music,
But glittering prizes and endless compromises
Shatter the illusion of integrity.

For the words of the profits were written on the studio wall,
Concert hall
And echoes with the sounds of salesmen.

- Rush, The Spirit of the Radio, 1980




My favorite band ever, (probably shows my age), bettered only by my favorite Senatorial primary candidate Rand Paul, (Kentucky for the 2010 race). I was reading today here that Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky announced that he will not run for re-election, my mind danced back and forth on the possible usherance of Rand's viability - an accelerated fundraising, message, viability and prophet of liberty. A voice for constitutional restraint and limited governance that is all but nonexistent in our Capitol. Rand is the real deal.

Knowing that Rand Paul's chances in many ways pivoted on Bunning running or not, I am excited that Bunning's exite may usher him into a lead for the Senate primary. Still somewhat of a long shot, (fill me in readers on how he may not be), this may bolster his money efforts and accelerate his campaign. Highlights from Rand's recent speech for me -

• Where I'm different than some Republicans who will run for this office is that I think that we need to self-examine as a party where we are....where we haven't been so good....I believe that we will have within a year or two, worse than what we had in 1979, rip-roaring inflation and it will be of major consequence to the country, ( I agree).



• All of the Republicans voted against the Obamanation budget, but when we were in charge we weren't so good. We were in charge for 8 years and we doubled the debt from 5 to 10 trillion dollars. We presided over the largest entitlement program since LBJ, the Medicare Prescription Drug Plan, we cannot afford it and it is bankrupting Medicare at a rapid rate. (Folks, this needs to be relentlessly pointed out, for the GOP to learn not from it's mistakes is to ensure the same results as the Obamanation, albeit at a slower clip).



• We as Republicans also presided over a doubling of the size of the Department of Education, doubling the number of employees and increasing the Federal control over education.
  


• A primary is about the direction of our country, it's about the direction of our party. Our party is simply an empty vessel unless we imbue it with something....you need to decide what type of Republicans will lead the party and where to go from here. I believe in the Republican party platform, the platform says that we are not here to bail-out private businesses. Let's choose leaders that believe in the platform and vote accordingly.

The direction of the party, the direction of the nation. Rand Paul exemplifies and personifies the adherence to an ethos of liberty; of an unflinching and stalwart compliance to the law of man and the laws of nature. That we cannot find prosperity through printed dollars. That we cannot bring the higher-up down to bring the lower up. That we cannot be ruled by our most base instincts. That we cannot be laid waste by Silver-Tongued Messiahs. That we cannot find prosperity as a nation by jettisoning the very concepts and notions that have made us the most prosperous and freest nation in the world, in all of mankind's history. That we cannot bury our Constitution, our most noble experiment in mankind's history.

Support him. For your Country, for our future, for liberty.

Activism Hats Please - Nancy Pelosi Says the Votes are There for Health Care

Left Coast Rebel reader and fellow activist Conservative Girl at Just a Conservative Girl.com has been making waves and helping hit the ground running to stop the socialized medicine freight train. Her recent email campaign, (listed below), was picked up by Politico here and created quite a stir, jamming up the inboxes of the 55 moderate Blue Dog Democrat's Chief of Staff. My hat is tipped to Conservative Girl and although I am a bit late to this, please spend the time to email each of the contacts listed below. We can do this!

by Just a Conservative Girl

We Have to Work Extra Hard Dear Fellow Patriot,The calls you have been making this week are having an impact. Unfortunately, it seems that our voices are simply not quite loud enough.

Speaker Pelosi has said that she has the votes to move the Health Care bill. So, we have to step it up a little bit more. Will you please joining us in emailing the Chiefs of Staff of the following moderate to conservative Democrats? It is best if you email the Congressional members that are in your state and/or in your specific district.

In the email ask the Chief of Staff to certify that their Member will NOT vote for the Health Care bill. You can your state the reasons why this bill is not a good bill for Americans. Be sure to let the Chief of Staff know who you are in your community whether you are a stay at home mom, a small business owner, or a community leader and the impact of the government take over of our health care to your organization (loss of jobs, increased taxes, etc.).Thank you so much for helping us further the causes of fiscal responsibility, limited government, and free markets.

Tier 1: Conservative to Moderate Democrats who are on Energy and Commerce in the House. If Energy and Commerce does not vote the bill out of Committee, then it will force Speaker Pelosi to bring the bill to the floor of the House without the Committee's approval.

Politically, this does not look good for Speaker Pelosi because she will be ignoring the will of her committees.Please remember to record the number of emails, faxes, and calls you are making.

Rep. Boucher of VA Chief of Staff: Becky Coleman email: rebecca.coleman@mail.house.gov

Rep. Sutton of OH Chief of Staff: Nichole Reynolds email: nichole.reynold@mail.house.gov or nichole.reynolds@mail.house.gov

Rep. Stupak of MI Chief of Staff: Scott Schloegel email: scott.schloegel@mail.house.gov

Rep. Braley of Iowa Chief of Staff: Sarah Benzing email: sarah.benzing@mail.house.gov

Rep. Mike Ross of AR Chief of Staff: Drew Goesl email: drew.goesl@mail.house.gov

Rep. Baron Hill of IN Chief of Staff: John Zody email: john.zody@mail.house.gov

Rep. John Barrow of GA Chief of Staff: Ashley Jones email: ashley.jones@mail.house.gov

Rep. Charlie Melancon of LA Chief of Staff: Joe Bonfiglio email: joe.bonfiglio@mail.house.gov

Rep. Bart Gordon of TN Chief of Staff: Donna Pignatelli email: donna.pignatelli@mail.house.gov

Rep. Jim Matheson of UT Chief of Staff: Staceylexanderemail: stacey.alexander@mail.house.gov

Rep. Zack Space of OH Chief of Staff: Stuart Chapman email: stuart.chapman@mail.house.gov

Tier 2: Conservative to Moderate Democrats in House not on Energy and CommercePlease remember to record the number of emails, faxes, and calls you are making.

Rep. Frank Kratovil of MD Chief of Staff: Tim McCann email: tim.mccann@mail.house.gov

Rep. Bobby Bright of AL Chief of Staff: Meg Joseph email: meg.joseph@mail.house.gov

Rep. Walt Minnick of ID Chief of Staff: Kare Haas email: kate.haas@mail.house.gov

Rep. Parker Griffith of AL Chief of Staff: Sharon Wheeler email: sharon.wheeler@mail.house.gov

Rep. Mike Arcuri of NY Chief of Staff: Sam Marchio email: sam.marchio@mail.house.gov

Rep. Glenn Nye of VA Chief of Staff: Angela Kouters email: angela.kouters@mail.house.gov

Rep. Travis Childers of MS Chief of Staff: Brad Morris email: brad.morris@mail.house.gov

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of AZ Chief of Staff: Pia Carusone email: pia.carusone@mail.house.gov

Rep. Leonard Boswell of IA Chief of Staff: Susan McAvoy email: susan.mcavoy@mail.house.gov

Rep. Dennis Moore of KS Chief of Staff: Howard Bauleke email: howard.bauleke@mail.house.gov

Rep. Jason Altmire of PA Chief of Staff: Matt Walker email: matt.walker@mail.house.gov

Rep. Christoper Carney of PA Chief of Staff: April Metwalli email: april.metwali@mail.house.gov

Rep. Patrick Murphy of PA Chief of Staff: Scott Fairchild email: scott.fairchild@mail.house.gov

Rep. Jim Marshall of GA Chief of Staff: John Kirincich

Rep. Lincoln Davis of TN Chief of Staff: Beecher Fraiser email: beecher.frasier@mail.house.gov

Rep. Melissa Bean of IL Chief of Staff: Elizabeth Hart email: elizabeth.hart@mail.house.gov

Rep. John Salazar of CO Chief of Staff: Ronnie Carleton email: ron.carleton@mail.house.gov

Rep. Allen Boyd of FL Chief of Staff: Melanie Morris email: melanie.morris@mail.house.gov

Rep. Heath Shuler of NC Chief of Staff: Hayden Rogers email: hayden.rogers@mail.house.gov

Rep. Earl Pomeroy of ND Chief of Staff: Bob Siggins email: bob.siggins@mail.house.gov

Rep. Charlie Wilson of OH Chief of Staff: Candace Abbey email: candace.abbey@mail.house.gov

Rep. Tim Holden of PA Chief of Staff: Trish Reilly email: trish.reilly@mail.house.gov

Rep. Brad Ellsworth of IN Chief of Staff: Cori Smith email: cori.smith@mail.house.gov

Rep. Ben Chandler of KY Chief of Staff: Denis Fleming email: denis.fleming@mail.house.gov

Rep. Jim Cooper of TN Chief of Staff: Lisa Quigley email: lisa.quigley@mail.house.gov

Rep. Joe Donnelly of IN Chief of Staff: Joel Elliot email: joel.elliot@mail.house.gov

Rep. Mike Michaud of ME Chief of Staff: Pete Chandler email: peter.chandler@mail.house.gov

Rep. Mike Thompson of CA Chief of Staff: Charles Jefferson email: charles.jefferson@mail.house.gov

Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin of SD Chief of Staff: Tessa Gould email: tessa.gould@mail.house.gov

Rep. Adam Schiff of CA Chief of Staff: Timothy Bergreen email: timothy.bergreen@mail.house.gov

Rep. Jane Harman of CA Chief of Staff: John Hess email: john.hess@mail.house.gov

Rep. Joe Baca of CA Chief of Staff: Linda Macias email: linda.macias@mail.house.gov

Rep. Sanford Bishop of GA Chief of Staff: Phyllis Hallmon email: phyllis.hallmon@mail.house.gov

Rep. Mike McIntyre of NC Chief of Staff: Dean Mitchell email: dean.mitchell@mail.house.gov

Rep. Henry Cuellar of TX Chief of Staff: Terry Stinson email: terry.stinson@mail.house.gov

Rep. Loretta Sanchez of CA Chief of Staff: Adrienne Elrod email: adrienne.elrod@mail.house.gov

Rep. Dan Boren of OK Chief of Staff: Jason Buckner email: jason.buckner@mail.house.

Collin Peterson of MN Chief of Staff: Mark Brownell email: mark.brownell@mail.house.gov

Rep. Jim Costa of CA Chief of Staff: Scott Nishioki email: scott.nishioki@mail.house.gov

Rep. Gene Taylor of MS Chief of Staff: Stephen Peranich email: stephen.peranich@mail.house.gov

Rep. Dennis Cardoza of CA Chief of Staff: Jennifer Walsh email: jennifer.walsh@mail.house.gov

Rep. John Tanner of TN Chief of Staff: Vickie Walling email: vickie.walling@mail.house.gov

Rep. Marion Berry of AR Chief of Staff: Chad Causey email: chad.causey@mail.house.gov

Want to Go the Extra Mile? Forward this to at least 5 people you know and ask them to make the same calls. Better yet, forward it 10 - 20 people you know and ask them to make the same calls.Thank You! You are the heart and soul of the Tea Party Movement. Thank you for promoting the causes of fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government, and free markets with us!Your Tea Party Patriots National Coordinator Team,

Amy Kremer (amy@teapartypatriots.org, 678-495-8271)

Jenny Beth Martin (jennybeth@teapartypatriots.org, 404-326-0936)

Mark Meckler (mark@teapartypatriots.org)

Rob Neppell (rob@teapartypatriots.org)

Since When Did, "It's Broken," Become, "We Need to Make it Worse?"

by It's Just My Opinion, I Could Be Wrong

There's something which has been bothering me about the whole way Obama is phrasing the discussion about health care nationalization ("reform"), aside from his normal rhetoric strategies which continue to aggravate me (such as saying one thing, and doing the exact opposite). Over and over, I hear from the Obamanation that the health care system "is broken", and we need to "fix" it. You know what? I agree with the first part: the health care system does appear to be broken and unsustainable, and I agree with most of the reasons why. Although I'm not sure we "need" to fix it (any more than we need to fix other unfunded entitlement programs left over from historically destructive administrations, such as Social Security), I do agree with a lot of the arguments for why we might want to.

For example, escalating costs of medicare. That system is bad: its an entitlement program which underpays providers while being underfunded and very inefficient. It's unsustainable, and it needs serious reform to cut the costs, and could also use more free-market competition in the rates it pays, to prevent medical providers from being stifled out of business. On this I agree with Obama.

Also, the current insurance system is somewhat of an aggravating disaster. Billing errors are common, consumer protections are scarce, getting quality care is time-consuming and difficult even for those with means to acquire it, and the common consumer is often trampled on. I agree that this, too, could use some serious reform and consumer-oriented oversight.

Consider, too, medical liability costs. America is an overly litigious society, and medical malpractice insurance costs are enormous as a result. This in turn raises the cost of health care for everyone, and almost exclusively only to the benefit of the lawyers involved in medical cases. This is an area where the government could certainly help, establishing safe-harbors and cutting down on rules, to make it easier for providers to follow the law, and reducing insurance premiums (and thus cost of coverage).

Given all that, you'd think I'd be generally for health care reform... but it turns out I'm not. See, somewhere along the line, all those problems which the president emphasizes and I agree with got transformed (inexplicably) into rationale for making the problem worse! How did that happen?

Obama's plan doesn't cut costs or entitlements; it raises both, creating more unfunded liabilities and bureaucratic waste. It doesn't fix the under-payment of providers; it continues and possibly amplifies it. It doesn't fix consumers getting trampled by private providers; it creates a new provider you have even less recourse with. It doesn't reduce liability costs; it creates an entirely new confusing legal scheme which would increase them. Not only does it not fix any of the problems being used to justify the need for the nationalization initiative, it makes all of them worse!

Seriously, did I miss the societal bulletin where "it's broken" became code for "this problem is not bad enough, we need to make it worse"? Or is Obama just counting on people not realizing how what he's advocating does nothing whatsoever to address the problems cited to justify it? And when/how can we get some actual health care reform, to fix the very real problems with the current system which we all agree upon?

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Utopia

by Landshark 5150

And in this case, it’s that Dear Leader Chairman Maobama’s poll numbers are sinking like a stone. For many, it seems to be getting an understanding of what’s actually happening in our country, and for others, it’s all about healthcare.

Whatever the reason, Rasmussen Reports has Maobama’s latest approval ratings falling below 50% for the first time. Overall, 49% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance among Likely Voters nationwide - 51% disapprove altogether. Want the partisan split? 83% of Democrats continue to approve of the President'’s performance while 80% of Republicans disapprove. Among those not affiliated with either major party, just 37% offer a positive assessment. The gender split is interesting though - the President earns approval from 51% of women and 47% of men. And before you try and take a page from a Democrat playbook and ignore Rasmussen - you should consider that Rasmussen was the most accurate pollster for the final results of the 2008 Presidential election.

The American people are finally doing something to put a stop to his plot! Those poll numbers were already a fun way to start the day - much better than having to view the love fest Maobama enjoyed in Shaker Heights, Ohio yesterday while he was on the stump for his healthcare plan. Before a throng of 1800 fans so adoring that we were laying bets on how many were bussed in ACORN employees, Dear Leader reiterated his pledge to expand health coverage and to pay for most of it by reallocating money and building efficiencies into the fragmented health-care system. Sure - except he’s forgetting his plans for the future include a $13-trillion deficit.

Maobama also seems to be forgetting the shambles the rest of our economy is in. How bad is it? So bad that the “New York Times” this morning featured a front page story on states not being able to pay their promised unemployment benefits on time. That’s really great when you consider how this brutal recession has doubled the number of jobless Americans seeking help. According to the report, decisions involving more than a million applicants have been slowed, and hundreds of thousands of needy people have waited months for checks.

With benefit funds at dangerous lows even before the recession began, states are taking on billions in debt, increasing the pressure to raise taxes or cut aid, just as either would inflict maximum pain. Sixteen states, with exhausted funds, are now paying benefits with borrowed cash, and their number could double by the end of the year. While the strained program still makes more than 80% of initial payments within three weeks — slightly below the standard set under federal law — cases that require individual review are especially prone to delay. Thirty-eight states are failing to make those decisions within the federal deadline. And for many who are surviving on these payments, even a week’s delay can mean a missed rent payment or foregone meals.

The Bloomberg report that has defaults on U.S. credit cards rising to a record 10.76% in June and expectations that it continue to climb through the middle of next year. According to Moody’s Investors Services, delinquencies, a signal of future charge-offs, fell for the third straight month to 5.81%, the lowest this year, as measured by Moody’s Credit Card Index. Analysts have attributed the decline to seasonal forces such as a rise in income-tax refunds, as well as consumers being more cautious and the injection of federal stimulus money into the economy.

Charge-offs typically increase with U.S. unemployment, which rose to 9.5% in June, the highest since 1983. Moody’s said it expects the jobless rate to reach as much as 10.5% in 2010, and predicts charge-offs will peak at 12% to 13% at the same time. Briefly on the federal minimum wage increase that takes effect today.Some economists say it could prolong the recession by forcing small businesses to lay off the same workers that the pay hike passed in better times was meant to help. The increase to $7.25 means 70 cents more an hour for the lowest-paid workers in the 30 states that have lower minimums or no minimum wage. It also means higher costs for employers who feel they've already trimmed all their operating fat. As Rajeev Dhawan, director of Georgia State University's Economic Forecasting Center explains, "How will they absorb the increase? They will either hire less people or they will do less business."

Minimum wage advocates counter the wage bump will keep more working poor afloat, and say more increases are needed to help stimulate consumer spending and strengthen businesses in the long run. Of course that theory works - if the country isn’t continually bleeding those same positions.The more logical response from small business is that employers are more likely to lay off employees and reduce hours, further fueling the economic slump in states seeing double-digit unemployment rates.

Fiscal conservatives and a number of economists agree. In the end, it's the workers and their employers who find themselves caught in the middle.

The Obamanomics plan to enslave you into depending on Big Brother is well under control.

The Resolved Inquiry of Proper Government

By I'm Always Right, Far Right

The Age of Reason is upon us, Descartes' famous line "I think" is now more then a hallow phrase but a true motto. California is gone, buried under the weight of its immense regulation and eco-fanatics while Texas is ascendant. Big state, massive government, is officially dead. Big state, minimal government - is upon us all.

There now exists the perfect evidence that there is something to little interventionism and much credence to a "hands off" policy when it comes to governance. Want a political hero? Well, go no further then Governor Perry. He is not merely there is a man who believes in Thomas Paine's "That government is best which governs least," but he has managed to keep Texan state spending to a polite level ranging around 1% for his entire tenure. [1] While undoubtedly this has been helped by Texas' brilliant political setup in which the state legislature meets once every two years for no more then one-hundred and forty days.

There must go credit to the governor who has managed to stave off any state income tax whatsoever. Even more fantastic, Texas seems to be going nowhere else but more to the right. There's flourishing grass-roots movements that find offense with even - to us Californians - tax chump change. [2] While Governor Perry has decided to recreate his 2004 coup over big-spenders by asking for agency funding cuts, not agency funding increases: funding decreases. [3] This is in stark contrast to California and other 'liberal' (viz, statist) states with their big taxes, big budgets, big government. [4]

Most painfully two of the most liberal, economic powerhouses: New York and California, are now 2nd and 3rd - respectively - to Texas in terms of Fortune 500 companies. [5] To state this as clearly and coherently as the reports elaborate at length: Texas has surpassed all other states for the sole, solitary, reason that Conservatives know how to run the economy. Statistis send out IOU's. [6] Governor Perry runs the state which has added more jobs then the rest of the country combined [6] and whose outlook looks better then the country as a whole. [7]

As a recent fun fact from economist Arthur Laffer: renting a U-Haul truck to go from Austin to San Francisco this July would cost about nine-hundred dollars; coming back from San Francisco to Austin? About three-thousand dollars [8] and the knowledge that there is so much demand for such services you will be able to start literal 'convoys' of ex-yuppies on the long road together. People used to stream from the panhandle in the last Great Depression because of widespread incompetence, this time they are streaming back to the panhandle areas from their ancestor's promised land but for the same exact reasons.

An out of touch political oligarchy fattening itself on the bare bones of the few brave souls foolish enough to work in an environment where pseudo-victimization wins out over responsibility every, single, horrifying time. Now no true professional can say that "automatic forces" (to steal a phrase from various Progressives) have been disproved in any way, shape or form. Undoubtedly Texas is not some libertarian purist's Nirvana, Texans do love their farming subsidies and wind-power incentives, yet the fact remains that those are large strokes.

The sort of enhancements the GOP, and Blue Dogs, have been aiming for as long as they have been in politics. It is only when the government means to include bitterly fallacious and deceptive talk about "the greater good" that the economy happens to start flailing around inconsequentially. What we need is more policy makers like these, people who can act decently to other human beings enabling, using the voice of Ludwig von Mises,"individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce." We see that when politicians act in conjunction with that of the people's ideals then - in the case of Governor Perry - those guider's of our national integrity will experience widespread support even for a unheard third term. [9]

[1] Governmet Spending

[2] Anti-Tax Texans

[3] Agency Cut Backs

[4] Competitive Report

[5] Texas Policy Report

[6] Texas Data

[7] National Data

[8] Arthur Laffer in National Review

[9] Republican Primamries in Texas

Universal Coverage Does Not Mean Universal Care

By Right Klik

Universal coverage does not mean universal care.
What good is health insurance if you can't get medical attention? This is the question that arises when politicians ration health care. Residents of Massachusetts are learning about all this the hard way.

Will we learn from their mistakes? Let's break down Massachusetts' sad story:
Chapter 58, Massachusetts' universal health care plan, was signed into law by Mitt Romney in April 2006. It is seen as a model for nationwide healthcare reform.

Under Massachusetts law, any individual earning at least $32,508 a year must purchase health insurance. Those who earn less are eligible for subsidized coverage.
Residents who obtain no coverage incur a state-imposed fine of approximately $1000/year.
Physicians who care for patients on state-subsidized plans lose money. "In effect," one physician says, "I hand them $20 when they walk out the door."

Chapter 58 created an estimated 400,000 newly insured residents in less than two years and Massachusetts' glut of doctors quickly became a critical shortage.
More than 41% of primary care practices in the state did not accept new patients in 2008, up from 28% in 2006

Wait times for new-patient appointments rose from four weeks in 2006 to nearly eight weeks in 2008 for general internal medicine doctors. (Nationally, average wait time is slightly under three weeks.)

Universal coverage has resulted in universal price hikes. By some estimates, costs of covering the state's newly insured are rising by almost 10% each year
Overall healthcare spending on state-sponsored insurance has risen 23% since 2006.
"If the problem is cost, reform has failed. Costs have gone up, not down. Since Massachusetts reformed their system, health costs have followed the same path as the U.S. as a whole: a steady upward climb, faster than inflation or wages."

Doctors are miserable. "Anyone who can is leaving the state"
(From Medical Economics)

"If universal care in Massachusetts cannot stem the tide of rising costs [or deliver the care people need] is there hope for similar plans on the national stage?" We will soon know the painful answer to that question if the Democrats manage to pass a health care bill.

More

O's latest healthcare press conference: same old lies, same tired talking points

It is hard to think of a more obvious sign of weakness than attacking members of your own party.

Jim DeMint is under attack from Obama. Lend DeMint your support!

Set the record straight: Obama & Democrats voted AGAINST healthcare reform

37% strongly oppose Obamacare; 24% strongly favor Obamacare.

Waterloo!

Car-Salesmanship Obamacare, Smacking of Desperation, Overreach

By the Left Coast Rebel

I was driving home today, listening to an a.m. conservative guy; he was commenting on the Obamanation used-car salesman primetime pitch for socialized medicine tonight. He said that he couldn't stomach wathcing or even listening to the Obamanation - references to a certain bodily function came into play, that the nausea induced from the Silver Tongue so-called oratory skills, (I don't think that he is skilled); the abigation of such to suffer through the pitch was not worth this talker's health, his sanity. An evening of happiness is a sacred thing.


I agree, therefore I am writing in silence.

It's interesting and almost shocking to me, it smacks of desperation and realization of overreach; to see our Fearless Leader Red Sucker Car Salesman once again whoring a Lenisist/Maoist/California-model/Stalinist takeover of medicine on primetime tv. Not surprsing, America is increasingly apprehensive here.





And of overreach, of massive evidence of; none other than David Brooks of the hallowed NYT wrote up a piece on such - Liberal Suicide March here.



Interesting.


Brooks, (I never thought I would quote him) -


Finally, there is health care. Every cliché Ann Coulter throws at the Democrats is gloriously fulfilled by the Democratic health care bills. The bills do almost nothing to control health care inflation. They are modeled on the Massachusetts health reform law that is currently coming apart at the seams precisely because it doesn’t control costs. They do little to reward efficient providers and reform inefficient ones.


Fascinating.




Remember the Obamanation's constant harping on the Bush Admin's lack of transparecy? Remember in the campaign how he outlined a push for openess? Recall how he listed everything on his web-site, a signal of new honesty here?





Well, based on the democratic power of the interweb,( thanks Al Gore), I went to Change.gov, (Obamanation campaign site), to reference the openness and transparency outline. I mean the ink on the outline is still fresh, right? Written a year ago, maybe?


You'll never believe the message that popped up on Change.gov.


The page you requested is not available right now.


How convenient, albeit not surprising.

Well, absolute power corrupts absolutely - even Silver Tongued Messianic Used Car Salesman and state-controlled media anointed ones are not immune. Today the White House invoked arguments from the Bush Admin to deny release of information on which health care execs have visited the White House recently - quid pro quo here.




And speaking of quid pro quo, remember last Friday when the CBO director roasted Obamacare, calling upon spiralling increase in cost precisely from Obamacare here? In an unprecedented move here, the Director was summoned and/or coerced, err I mean invited to the White House to discuss health care.

The result?

Not a peep of dissent from him since Friday. I wonder what kind of dirt the Chicago Thugs pulled up on him? Threats to his family? We will never know. Venezuelan, Cuban, Maoist, Despotic -Change You Can Believe In.

Tactics of a Fearless Leader that is truly fearless? Or moves of a leftist thug bent on re-shaping America in His image?

Harry Alford Redux

Once again, one man against the machine of leftist, 'get to the back, you are nothing without us because we are your massa's' ideology. One man against a machine that sees him only as a number, a color, an object. Massive hat-tipping to thee Mr Alford.

Close Congress Doors, Debate Until Midnight - On Who to Payout Whom, Public Not Allowed

By the Left Coast Rebel

Headline today, July 21 2009, Investor's Business Daily -

Update on Bleak Budget Delayed

Hmm, sounds ambiguous, even a bit benign. I'm sure they have their reasons, those guys in the government, to delay budget details, replies John Q Public......

I'm sure that young man knows what he is doing, he was elected to change things, says Grandma Smith whilst knitting......

I don't know but I feel hope and trust, they are working a lot!, Mr. librarian at the local elementary school opines.....

Fair enough, the chatter in the press on the unusual move to postpone budget details?


*******crickets gently caressing their posteriors**********


Such a soothing sound, crickets chirping remind me of my youthful summer days in Texas, (fireflies too but they don't make a sound ). Ignorance was bliss, as it was. Better to not be informed than to be privy of bad details. If only it were so simple, MSM.



The details here being that budget details are being delayed because it may distract from the present distraction of House debates on Obamacare, (aka socialized medicine). ?!?!?!?! Damn it's funny what trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see do to the public conscience. Best to rush, fast now Fearless Leaders!





Close Congress doors, debate until midnight on who to payout whom, public not allowed.





Now that should be the sign above every open orifice to the halls of Congress. That would be honest. That would be what we are facing as concerned citizens. That would be the truth. That would be Pelosi, Reid, Waxman, Obama, Schumer, Boxer......whom am I forgetting?

Cap and Tax and Obamacare, (aka socialized medicine) are being pushed, (rushed), while details on the Federal budget are delayed until late August. Unprecedented. Spooky, damning, massive deficits, as I said; are assumed. Or is it something even worse? Read the whole story here.

Obamanation-Napoleon, Waterloo-Blowup

By the Left Coast Rebel

Blogging may be a bit sporadic in the next few weeks. Fear not though dear reader, I plan on putting up guest posts and some of my own material. I may lag a bit on the grandiose, expansive pieces as they take up to 3-4 hours - I simply do not have the time. I've come into some business, a shocking rarity under Obamanomics and will be gone on and off. I will check in evenings and keep the content here at the Left Coast Rebel flowing. Fear not!

Today during my 2 hour commute across San Diego from North County to South County, there and back, I had some time to tune into the local a.m. conservative talk shows. Barbie Boxer was highlighted this morning in her brilliant, ubiquitous moronity. The local guy here Rick Roberts, (great show), was just skewering her.

The real meat and potatoes of the discussion though took place whilst the drive home. Health care of course and the now or never MO of the Dems and the administration took center-stage. The big-hit was Senator DeMint on Michael Medved's show. Typically I don't care for Medved as he seems neo-conish to me at many times - he went as far as touting the Amnesty Bill in 2007. That was the surest way to get jettisoned off of my conservative radio fan list. I still check in from time to time.

Anyway back to DeMint on the show. Are you aware of his conservative credentials? Is he a true conservative? I'd like to know if he was on-board during Bush's big-spending years. I don't recall him standing against Bush socialism as others, (Coburn, etc), did.

I loved what he said today regardless. He was pounding the table on Obamacare and saying that 'we' in the grassroots could turn Obamacare into the Obamanation version of Waterloo.

Familiar with Waterloo? Well turn your history books back to 1815...... a vicious battle was ensuing between French Forces under Napoleon Bonaparte, (@ right), and the Seventh Coalition , ( British, Prussian armies). Needless to say, the battle lay waste to Napoleon's army - he lost some 25,000 men and 8,000 were taken prisoner. It finished him, his empire, and his reign. The brave little general had bet the whole farm, the entire enchilada on the Waterloo event and it destroyed him. He hadn't measured the opposition realistically. He had been arrogant, not judging the strength of those against. His pride, lust for power and maniacal push crushed him.

Today America has it's own Brave Little Fearless Leader, (@ left). On the menu today; every day since inauguration, has not been military insurrections but rather battles in the realm of ideas. A massive change in the very nature of our government; a further dissolution of the sacred liberties bestowed upon us by our Creator. A broad and expansive curtailing of the freedoms that make us unique in the world as Americans. A collectivization of individual uniqueness. A watering-down, a hidden revolution, a malaise of spirit and economy.

Nothing to our Brave and Fearless Little Leader is more sacred and important than a Federal takeover of our health care industry.

• It's money - 17% of our GDP.


• It's power - the very reins over life and death.


• It's forever - an entitlement of near impossibility to roll back

It's antithetical to the Constitution and individual freedom. It rewards malfeasance and illegitimate behaviours. It encourages and promotes all that is wrong. Americans sense the disaster-in-the-making. They sense here that something is amiss, that our brave little fearless leader is pushing something evil upon us. They sense that something just isn't right. For the media-annointed Chosen-One, it is most unbecoming of Him, ( and showing nary similarity to Bonapart's persona), to strike at the few voices of dissent as well here.

And all of these things add up to the Waterloo moment that anyone amongst us that cherishes liberty over command hopes fervently for. Time will tell, our voices of the underground in the blogosphere may push this Little Wannabe Fearless Napoleon Lite into the battle that he will never recover from......

Please America, say it is so.

An Intervention for Obama's Debting

Guest post by New Conservative Generation


It’s time to hold an intervention for Obama. We need to get him into Debtors Anonymous as quick as possible. With the economy on the ropes and hopes of economic recovery bleak, Obama has decided it’s time to spend more money, a lot more money. Obama’s health care will cost $1 trillion dollars. I’ve long been warning that our options available for stabilizing the economy have been dwindling over the last few months and new developments have been buried under the news of the Sotomayor confirmation hearings. Obama’s health care initiative was always a bad idea, but given recent economic news, moving forward with the legislation has never been more foolish.

An example of the program Obama should follow thanks to SNL.


Let me begin by summarizing the White House’s and Fed’s strategy for stabilizing the economy. The Fed has slashed interest rates to zero to lower the cost of borrowing and boost capital expenditures. At the same time the White House has been spending and sending trillions of dollars to political cronies in boxes with blue ribbons. To fund Obama, the Fed has the money printers working overtime. In short, the policy is to expand the money supply as large and fast as possible. The effects of which create inflation. Generally, no one worries about inflation during a recession because prices are usually deflating.

Great, the boring part of the post is out of the way.

So the economic wisdom in Washington has been, we can keep the economy limping along so long as we keep spending. Sounds like a party when you’ve got your hands on America’s credit card. No one seemed to ask, “What happens if things get worse?” You can’t cut interest rates when they are zero (Hat tip to Nick). Two months ago, Paul Krugman would have responded, “Well, we may not be able to cut interest rates, but since there is no such thing as inflation, we can just keep spending more.” Last month, we saw the largest increase to the CPI in a year, a jump of .06 percentage points to .08. Normally, this wouldn't be cause for alarm except, inflation is not supposed to occur when the economy is still retracting. The FOMC came out this month and is predicting that it will continue to retract throughout the rest of the year.

Let me sum this up for you. We can’t cut interest rates anymore, because they are at zero. We can’t continue to deficit spend, because our economy is so sensitve to inflation, that inflation is increasing when it shouldn't be. Inflation would have a terrible impact on people in the middle of an economic recession and a time where 16.5 percent of people are unemployed or underemployed. How are we going to keep pushing those great Obama policies without tacking onto the deficit?

Congressman Rangel gave us the answer earlier this week. We are going to raise taxes and we are going to raise them so high we are going to beat out Clinton. Everyone in the left, please take a sigh of relief. It looks like we may have Pay-Go. It looks as though Obama is not going to blindly spend our country into an inflation avalanche that buries us all (he already has). Oh, I forgot to mention that dramatically raising taxes causes higher unemployment (see my post on tax incidence). What was that figure I said again? Yes, 16.5 percent unemployed and underemployed. The best part is that raising taxes has a negating effect on stimulus when your strategy is deficit spending, which happens to be Obama's plan. So Obama’s first major bill was to stimulate the economy and his second major bill will be to cancel his first bill out.

It’s not too late to stop the madness. Please support the Obama spending intervention and tell your representatives to oppose all Obama spending sprees for the rest of his Presidency. Remember, when the addict is the President, they don’t hurt themselves, they hurt everyone else around them.

Private Health Insurance Banned in House Bill

By the Left Coast Rebel

Hat-tip to Sean Dixon, a financial analyst at Madison Street Partners in Greenwood Village, CO. The following tidbits taken from Mr. Dixon's blog, (subscription only), he did a little digging on the House Socialized medicine bill and found -

It didn't take long to run into an "uh-oh" moment when reading the House's "health care for all Americans" bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal.

The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage. Under the Orwellian header of "Protecting The Choice To Keep Current Coverage," the "Limitation On New Enrollment" section of the bill clearly states:

"Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day" of the year the legislation becomes law.

So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised — with, of course, exceptions: Those who currently have private individual coverage won't be able to change it. Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves be free to buy individual plans from private carriers.

What wasn't known until now is that the bill itself will kill the market for private individual coverage by not letting any new policies be written after the public option becomes law.

So there you have it folks. He only got to page 16 of the House Bill and found that the bill clearly bans private insurance. Main stream media? Not a peep. It's up to us to do the heavy-lifting and shed light on the vampirious details of this Federal intrusion into our medical freedoms. This must be stopped. The daily shredding of the Constitution in the White House and the halls of Congress must be stopped.

Too much common-sense between 3 men - God bless Beck, Teller, Stossel. The lack of supply/demand equation due to the insurance industry in health care is a huge component of the cost inflation issue, free market alternatives, vs a Federal takeover is the obvious way to go.