Fight The Sheep

Obama flew to NV today to stump for Reid and give out 1.5 billion of mine and your tax dollars to try and buy votes.  This seems to be the only transparency that the liberals are going to give us; see-through, lame attempts to buy votes. I hope people in the targetted states see through this cheap attempt to buy some votes and are rightfully offended.

Now ask yourself:

If you live in these states: Would you be getting this help if Reid wasnt getting spanked in the polls?

If you dont: How do I feel about Obama using my tax dollars as campaign money to buy votes?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703787304575074870587312804.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsThird

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Makes you feel good about all the debt we racked up on thestimulus package doesn’t it? Werent we told that if the stimulus wasn’t passed, unemployment could hit 8%?? Makes you feel even better knowing that Congress is trying to pass this ridiculous Health Care reform instead of workingto get our economy straight doesn’t it? Seems like they are bent on making this recession worse. Raising cost on tax payers and expecting states to foot more of the bill with fewer taxpayers just doesn’t seem like good business to me.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Jobless-rate-tops-10-pct-for-apf-563122944.html?x=0&.v=8

Think about what exactly 10% unemployment is, visualize it. Today when you go to the store or drive around or whatever, count 10 people and then try to figure out which one is unemployed.

I believe that our economy is very resilient and would have naturally rebounded from the recession if govt would just get out of the way and let the American people do their thing. Stop playing social experiments. Stop trying to manipulate areas of the free market. Stop adding debt that is going to make it harder to recover.

As for health reform, do we need it? Absolutely

Do we need what the govt is currently proposing? No

Get the govt out of the way. Get special interest groups out of the way. Let  the free market do its thing because it is becoming more and more obvious that Obama’s grandstanding promises and big talk are getting us further in the hole.

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The Wall Street Journal has annointed Pelosi’s new Health Care bill as the “Worst Bill Ever”. Interesting read, good talking points.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703399204574505423751140690.html

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As you know, the Senate and House have rolled out health care plans this week, both of which include the “public option”.

If you are a regular reader of this blog, then you know one of our goals is to encourage people to regularly contact their elected officials. Hopefully you support that idea. So if you do, put your money where your mouth is. I challenge everyone to contact their officials and then report back here.

You can look up your officials here: http://www.congress.org/

Talking points:

-Identify yourself as a registered voter from their state

-Ask how they plan to vote on the proposed health care bill

-Either thank them for opposing or let them know that your household strongly opposes the health care bill and that will affect your vote come election time.

-Suggest your own talking points here too!

We are an A.D.D. nation my friends. We get fired up quickly, but then quickly forget things. Now is not the time to let up on your officials. Challenge yourself, challenge your family, challenge your friends!

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This is a follow up on my post about HR 554 which would require all bills being voted on to be posted online for 72 hours prior to a vote.

http://www.mcswat.com/fightthesheep/?p=102

After I posted this asking everyone to contact their Reps about signing the Discharge Petition so this bill could come to the floor, I myself called my Representative and a few others who had “sponsored” this bill. What I found out, was that the Liberal Reps who had “sponsored” this bill had no intention of signing the Discharge Petition. The general response to the Discharge Petition was that it was a waste of the Representative’s time. How long does it take someone to sign their name??

Now lets think about that a minute, they are sponsoring a bill that they wont help bring to a vote? Now isnt that convenient? Seems to me you can sponsor anything you want when you dont have to back it up.

In reality, any liberal that will not sign it is just playing partisan politics as it would embarass Pelosi. That being said, I would encourage everyone to remind their Reps that we were promised a new era of transparency and we see through their partisan politics.

Here is a link to see who has and hasnt signed: http://www.wethepeoplecanread.com

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We have all heard the claims that the health insurance companies are making obscene profits at the expense of peoples lives. Read this article and then ask yourself how insurance companies can stay afloat against a government agency that does not have to make a profit.

 http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091025/D9BI4D6O1.html

Means to a single payer system?

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Ya know, I remember during the last election hearing about how the liberals were going to shake up Washington. Bring in this whole era of “change”. I am starting to feel that some of the “change” in the WH is bringing in some good ol boy / thug like policies. And they concern me a little tbh..

Now I’m not going to play Foxnews fanboy, but when is it acceptable for the WH to call out a news agency because they dont give them the coverage they want? I mean think about that  a little deeper. The leader of the free world is burning WH resources to go after the ONLY major tv media outlet that doesnt kiss his butt and weep when he speaks? That just doesn’t sit right with me. Does that mean that if this website explodes and starts generating a million hits a day (I WISH!) that the WH could set their sights on me?

Now I am going to pull a page out of the liberal play book. WELL BUSH DID IT! Oh wait, no he didn’t…. Do you remember how much nasty coverage and commentary he received the last few years? Can you imagine if he had sought to minimize and discredit MSNBC? Every free speech group in the U.S. would have been all over him. And I think this is even more alarming that these groups arent screaming bloody murder.

Now I mentioned good ol boy policies earlier. What I mean by that is the WH seems to be doing alot of “scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours” type of operating. Monday, a day after this new WH offensive against Foxnews, Obama has this 2.5 hour, closed door pow wow with liberal media figures. It’s like they are rewarding them for being obedient and using them to help coordinate something. With how Obama rewarded the labor unions after the bailouts, this shouldn’t surprise me I guess.

On a closing note, I seem to recall another gov’t declaring war on a media outlet who wasnt providing the coverage they wanted. Now who was that? Where could that possibly happen?

Oh yeah, Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. What was that book Chavez gave Obama again?

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Yesterday the Senate tried to pass S.1776- Medicare Physician Fairness Act of 2009, also known as the “Doctor Fix”. As I understand it, this was a $247 billion medicare doctor reimbursement program which should have been part of the Obamacare package. Problem is the “Doctor Fix” would have pushed Obamacare well over the arbitrary $900 billion line in the sand.

So what did the Senate do? They pulled the “Doctor Fix” out of the health care package, made it it’s own bill and tried to add the $247 billion to the deficit thus keeping the Obamacare number down.

HOW LAZY AND DECIETFUL CAN YOU BE?!? WHAT PART OF “RECORD DEFICIT” DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND?!?

 Didn’t Madoff go to jail for playing with numbers like this? Maybe we should go to Washington and make a Citizen’s Arrest.

Senator Debbie Stabenow called this “honest budgeting”. Wait what? Honest budgeting? This is more like paying off credit cards with credit cards. Problem is the Senate is trying to buy things we don’t need with credit cards that are waaaaaaaaaay over the limit. And on a side thought here, what the heck does Stabenow consider DIS-honest budgeting?

Here is a rollcall link to how the vote went down. If your Senator voted Aye for this bill, then ask yourself if they are representing you or just trying to be part of “history”.  As always, I encourage everyone to call their Senators and give them their own Aye or Nay just to let them know we are watching.

http://www.opencongress.org/roll_call/show/6236

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Pretty Good Read!!!

http://www.pnhp.org/nhibill/nhi_bill_final.pdf

Discuss.

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Just checked out an article about the public option gaining strength again. Here is the link,

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125599567408695255.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLTopStories

It is a pretty interesting read. The new health plan calls that all citizens must be insured or face federal financial penalties. While I feel that health care is a big deal and that people need to be insured,  forcing the lower income families to purchase insurance under penalty of law is not only wrong but unconstitutional.  Lets think about it , what is the only insurance that they will be able to afford, yup you guessed it THE GOVERNMENT RUN PUBLIC OPTION!! Wow isn’t that interesting, No wonder their pushing it so hard. Just a thought.

This also disturbed me out of this article that the insurance lobbiest are stepping up their attack of the so called public option saying this quote from the article

Also, private health insurers stepped up attacks on the Finance Committee bill, fearing it would saddle them with too many unprofitable customers. The committee had embraced cooperatives in part as a nod to insurers’ concerns about a public plan, but the attacks led Democratic senators to look less favorably on the industry.

So the private insurance people are mad because they wont make as much money. WOW!!

Does anybody care at all about the people that live in this country, or is just all about money. I think we all know the answer to that question.

Its all good though BIG GOVERNMENT, your about to spend the dollar into no existence and you wont have to worry about the money anymore.

So who is the PUBLIC OPTION for? I feel like its not for MY FELLOW AMERICANS.

Comments welcome as always.

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