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Health Care Tanning Tax Starting

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:02:07 +0000

Yay! It’s here! The first new tax for health care is finally here! It only took about 36 hours from the time Congress passed the health care bill before the first new tax was enacted. This one is a 10% tax on tanning beds.

But that’s not all, let me tell you what else you’ve won. You also get increased taxes on insurers (don’t worry, they’ll pass the cost on to you), increased taxes on drugmakers (oh, fear not, that cost will be passed on to your prescriptions, it won’t bother them), increased taxes on medical device companies (again, they’ll just pass the taxes along to you for your new pacemaker), and new taxes on Americans making more than $200,000 a year (you know, those people that own small businesses and provide over half of all private sector jobs, so they’ll just lower wages or cut employees, no big deal).

Isn’t this new health care program just great? I know I’m excited that I will no longer be able to do something as simple as decide to take high-deductable insurance. It’s hard to wait until the “Cadillac” policy tax goes into effect. All this for the 47 million… huh? 30 million? really? I thought he said… ok… 30 million new people… Maybe that’s ObamaMath (like 57 states?).

Head over to John John Goodman’s Health Policy blog for some real facts. There could be 33 million lose medicare coverage alone thanks to the cuts. Throw in higher health care costs, additional taxation, potential for rationing of care, increased IRS investigation, and you need a considerable amount of ObamaMath in to spin this into a positive thing!

Obama: 5 Days to Look at Every Bill

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:03:59 +0000

Well, if my math is correct, health care will get signed sometime Friday night. After all, Obama promised we’d have 5 days to look at every bill before he would sign anything that reached his desk. Remember that pledge?

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Not So Random Acts of Arrogance

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:24:34 +0000

Is anyone else noticing the outright arrogance of this administration? They are completely ignorant of public opinion (not to mention the constitution). Obama’s victory speech tried to say that America was listened to and he delivered what they wanted. Has he not seen the polls? Is he truly that far out of touch with reality or is he getting bad intelligence data from someone?

Then you have Jessie Jackson giving a smug look at tea partiers and grabbing at their signs, clearly attempting to bait them.

Al Sharpton understands what Obama’s change means. The man is claiming that Americans voted overwhelmingly for the way Obama is transforming the country, and if it is Socialism, so be it. His delivery is amazingly smug

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ObamaCare is about Making History

admin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:43:04 +0000

As I continue to watch the Democrats continue to push and push in their attempt to pass ObamaCare, one thing continues to become evident… This isn’t about helping America or fixing healthcare, it is about “making history”.

Even more disappointing is that the President stated in his State of the Union address that his number one focus was going to be jobs. Instead he pushes a bill that would cause 120,000 to 700,000 more jobs to be lost.

March 14 - Nancy Pelosi: “on the verge of making history“
March 16 – Nancy Pelosi: “It’s a very exciting prospect that we’re right on the brink of making history“
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Victoria Jackson: Communist Living in the Whitehouse

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:07:13 +0000

Got this from realnewsblog. Victoria Jackson (yes, the one from “Saturday Night Live”) came out with a song I thought is well worth sharing!

Celebs on Healthcare

admin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:56:50 +0000

This is in response to a left-wing celeb video on healthcare. As usual, a great job by Alfonzo Rachel.

National Debt Road Trip

admin — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:21:10 +0000

Hat tip to PoliticalMath.wordpress.com

Deficit Danger

admin — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:07:40 +0000

I believe this speaks for itself.

Obamacare Demonstrated by Legos

admin — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:40:04 +0000

Update: Henrietta Hughes

admin — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:53:48 +0000

I’m sure you all remember Henrietta Hughes, the one who asked Obama for a place to live. Courtesy of WinkNews, here is an update.

Obama’s Budget Tightening Farce

admin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:50:37 +0000

It’s official, Obama is asking his Cabinet to cut spending. Has he finally realized the importance of not putting the country into a tailspin of debt? Let’s evaluate…

Obama has asked for a reduction of $100 million. When we are talking about deficits in the Trillions, a few million is a simple drop in the bucket. AP puts this into perspective:

Less than one-quarter of the budget increase that Congress awarded to itself.

4 percent of the military aid the United States sends to Israel.

Less than half the cost of one F-22 fighter plane.

7 percent of the federal subsidy for the money-losing Amtrak passenger rail system.

1/10,000th of the government’s operating budgets for Cabinet agencies, excluding the Iraq and Afghan wars and the stimulus bill.

When you consider that the costs of borrowing the money for the latest “Stimulus” package is $100 million a day, does this effort amount to anything?

$3.6 Trillion Budget Approved

admin — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:15:19 +0000

Brietbart reports that the House and Senate have passed $3.6 Trillion budget bills. These bills will have to be reconsiled, but the two bills appear to be very similar. Next year alone, each of these bills will create $1.2 Trillion of debt.

Nancy Pelosi is quote as saying “we have come here to make a difference.” I suppose a record increase in debt could be considered a differece. Adding taxes on those who create jobs during a floundering economy is another difference. It seems that change for change’s sake trumps change for the betterment of the country with the current leadership. These budgets are a move towards more Government spending, more generational debt, and handcuffing job growth.

On a positive note, chairities can breathe a sigh of relief as the Senate denied the option of cutting tax breaks on donations to charity.

Trivial Coverage of Obama’s Trip

admin — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:00:12 +0000

It’s hard to say if it was design by the Obama team but coverage so-far of the trip to Great Brittan is weak to say the least. Contrary to Bush, who used to schedule events to co-incide with U.S. morning shows, Obama started his day at 5:15AM Eastern. Nearly every event banned news cameras, including his visit with the Queen.

On a side note, at least Obama learned a little from his ill-fated gift to the Prime Minister. He loaded an iPod with a video and photographs from the Queen’s 2007 United States visit. On the good side, at least the Queen can watch the video. On the bad side, the Queen already has an iPod.

At least the G20 protests may give news crews following Obama may have something to do, even if Obama won’t let them cover him.

Job Losses Turning Ugly in Auto Industry

admin — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:11:53 +0000

Job workers brawled in western Michigan today as the auto industry continues in its death throws. Meanwhile, the Obama administration pushed plans to use bankruptcy filings for GM and Chrysler to free the companies of their retiree entitlements. The plan seems to be to see Chrysler sold to Fiat and GM re-formed under additional Government loans. Meanwhile the job losses continue to mount with no end in sight.

Update: Youtube link is dead, but there’s a video from the news station available here.

Barack Obama’s Top 10 Gaffes

admin — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:59:43 +0000

The Telegraph has compiled what they consider the Top 10 Barack and Biden gaffes so-far. The youtube collection below is in reverse order (#10 is first on the list, #1 is the last one). Also there are 11 videos because #5 is a two-parter.