This recent Wall Street Journal article refers to “The Rationing Commission.” Different words, same concept. Obowma and his league of Congressional Democrats want to accomplish the same thing, regardless of what name is pinned on this horse’s patootie.
As envisioned by the Senate Finance Committee, the commission — 15 unelected Presidential appointees — would have to meet certain budget targets each year as they dictate medical decisions. Starting in 2015, Medicare could not grow more rapidly on a per capita basis than by a measure of inflation. After 2019, it could only grow at the same rate as GDP, plus one percentage point.
Health care, treatments and access to medical procedures will be rationed. Your personal relationship with your doctors and the ability to make choices will cease to exist.
If you read nothing else, do yourself and your family a favor and read this article. Then call the Democrats who are pushing this disaster through.
Three years ago, electronics retail giant Best Buy announced it would no longer use the word ‘Christmas’ in its December advertising because, according to their corporate spokeswoman, it was disrespectful to other holidays to use a specific holiday in its advertising: “We are going to continue to use the term “holiday” because there are several holidays throughout that time period, and we certainly need to be respectful of all of them,” said Dawn Bryant.
The American Family Association lists Best Buy as a company that Marginalizes Christmas.”
This past weekend Best Buy’s strange corporate logic toward Christmas was even more evident. Check out the lower left hand corner of their advertising circular that was in Sunday newspapers all across the nation – including the Arizona Republic.
While many other retailers have decided to begin reusing “Merry Christmas,” Best Buy will not be among them. Best Buy considers the use of the words, “Merry Christmas” to be disrespectful.
If you decide to call the Best Buy corporate office, ask for Chairman Richard Schulze to express your displeasure at their offensive policy. The telephone number is 1 (612) 291-1000.
Sycophantic Obowma is at it again. First was his deep bow to Saudi’s Muslim royals, followed by his stooping to Japan’s Emperor. Now the foolish toady is displaying his submissiveness to the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. His global apologies for American superiority apparently aren’t enough; he now makes groveling an integral part of his persona.
Those who allowed themselves to be hoodwinked by this national embarrassment must be very proud of their vote for a slogan: Hope and Change. The rest of us are hoping for a change.
Arrests of illegal alien workers have dropped abruptly under President Obama, according to recently released figures.
Criminal and administrative arrests along with indictments and convictions of illegal laborers at work sites have all fallen by more than 50 percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009 – and not due to illegals returning home.
“The figures show that Obama has made good on his pledge to shift enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves — but at the expense of Americans’ jobs,” said Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE).
Rep. Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said a period of economic turmoil is the wrong time to be cutting enforcement and letting illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans otherwise would hold.
At a stop off at South Korea’s Osan Air Base, while greeting the very troops to whom he continually denies additional backups, Obowma insultingly said: “You guys make a pretty good photo op.”
The daily is pounding its drum again. If you are new to Arizona and unacquainted with the technique, the newspaper often resembles a nagging ex-wife. The editorial staff can’t offer an opinion. They harp. They badger. They stridently repeat. And often they rewrite the same thoughts with a slightly different skew.
Today’s editorial, Let’s energize Arizonans to push for changes, is a case in point.
The latest mission of the daily is government reform — which they want to accomplish from the top down.
Like lovesick swains, they have fallen hook, line and sinker for Sandra O’Connor ‘s namesake effort, the O’Connor House Project which is teamed up with the liberal Morrison Institute and the Center for the Future of Arizona. These groups and their overreaching concepts were represented at the recent Arizona Town Hall, which issued a report calling for a state Constitutional Convention to — among other things – allow these elites to revamp state government, raise taxes, and alter the methods of voting for elected officers by removing the citizen’s ballot component and replacing it with appointments by other elected officials.
The report also points to impediments to raising revenue and suggests the Constitutional Convention implement these major changes. The full report and its recommendations can be found here.
Designed to appear benign they nonetheless conclude these “barriers to effective government” need their wisdom and oversight. A clue that all is not as presented is contained in these words deprecating the current system, which they say “encourages extremist candidates” and the practice of ballot initiatives which they opine “has created dedicated funding streams that cannot be touched, even in times of severe need.” That translates to limits on taxation which the people support and the Town Hallites want lifted.
Don’t be fooled by the high-sounding rhetoric. This is a fundamental takeover of state government by a liberal cabal, with the blessing of the left-wing Arizona Republic.
They don’t intend to tarry. We can’t afford to ignore the massive power-grab they envision and intend to implement.
First, the King of Saudi Arabia, now the Emperor of Japan. What’s next? Bowing to Castro and Chavez?
The community organizer needs to remember that he now holds the office of the President of the United States! Even his socialist chums Putin and Mao have never given deferential bows to anyone. He should take a lesson from these heroes of his. The Los Angeles Times runs the disgusting photo and video along with the accompanyingarticle here.
Contrary to some claims, the video shows no reciprocal bow by the emperor, who traditionally bows to no one.
Read this letter to Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl from Holder’s own Justice Department regarding the FBI’s decision to suspend formal association with CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations).
Dawud Walid, the executive director of CAIR’s Michigan chapter where Holder will speak, said, “A lot of people are there…the NAACP, the ACLU, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee…the National Lawyers’ Guild.”
The old adage, “You are known by the company you keep,” applies.
Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, Fort Hood’s top commander has obviously gotten the word from on high. He’s calling for “counseling and healing,” in the wake of the terrorist attack on the base last week by a Muslim extremist and base psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who fired more than 100 rounds Thursday, killing 14 people including a pregnant woman and her unborn baby. Twenty-nine people were wounded in the carnage and 15 soldiers remain hospitalized, with eight in intensive care.
Cone bizarrely announced the military base is launching a comprehensive program to help soldiers and civilians with “whatever difficulties they may be facing,” and went on to say, “we’re going to take a very hard look at ourselves” and consider whether the post needs new security and psychological assessment measures that could have prevented the attack.
Psychological assessments and “hard looks at ourselves?”
What would have prevented the attack was less political correctness when Hasan engaged in anti-American rants, consorted with other known Muslim extremists and action on the part of authorities after they became aware of numerous emails he sent attempting to contact people associated with Al Qaeda and did nothing.
Although we are now being told the massacre was “not terrorism,” the reality is that Hasan’s attack at Ft. Hood was indeed an act of Islamic terrorism. He justified his actions based on his interpretation of Islam. At the onset of his attack Hasan shouted “Allahu Akbar!” — God is great!
Yet he began getting press sympathy almost immediately as the MSM began discussing his “post-traumatic stress disorder,” although he had never been deployed to a war-zone. The words “Muslim” and “terrorism” are nearly obliterated from coverage. Months ago, Homeland Insecurity Chieftain, Janet Napolitano had no trouble issuing a disreputable report accusing our returning service personnel of presenting potential threats, but excised the word “terrorism” from usage in her capacity as an Obama cabinet member.
The Washington Post, however, links to the power point presentation Hasan used during a presentation to senior Army doctors in June 2007. Instead of the medical topic scheduled, he lectured on Islam, suicide bombers and prophetically discussed threats the military might encounter from Muslims conflicted about fighting wars in Muslim countries.
President Barack Hussein Obama and his wife Michelle are scheduled to attend today’s memorial service. Former President and onetime Texas Gov. George W. Bush and his wife Laura have already been to the base to personally offer condolences.
As Nancy Pelosi glowingly reported on the “bi-partisan” passage of the House’s version of Obama’s nationalization and massive power grab of America’s health care system, here are the facts.
Just a single Republican, Rep. Anh “Joseph” Cao, voted with the Democrats. The Los Angles Times provides an overview of the sellout chap who represents a predominantly Democrat district..
Check out the nation’s congressional representatives and their votes here.
Uber-liberal Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) — because this version didn’t go far enough left to suit him — joined with Republicans in voting against the monstrosity. Bad reason, good vote.
In the end the $1 trillion+ bill, HR 3962, erroneously titled Affordable Health Care for America Act, passed 220 – 215, with 39 Democrats joining 176 Republicans.
The vote against the bill was indeed bi-partisan; the vote in favor was a sham.
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