Why haven't Federal Insurance Antitrust Exemption and Tort Reform been openly addressed? Two more reasons to clean out the House and Senate in 2010.

Why, with all of the Health Care reform debate isn't anyone making a big issue out of the fact that the Insurance companies are exempt from Federal Anti Trust requirements? Other than the Insurance companies paying off most if not all of our Congressmen and Senators I don't really know why, there can't be any other reason since this is the principle reason that we don't have any real competition in the marketplace, it's called 'no incentive if there's no competition'. We wouldn't be in the predicament we are today if there was national competition between insurance companies, and I don't buy for one second the lame excuse the insurance lobby throws out, that it will drive small insurers out of business, when in reality they will be forced to provide quality services. What will happen though is the 'crappy' insurance companies, of which there are many, would have to 'straighten up and fly right' or go out of business. I have had the misfortune to have been forced to use several of the, I'll call them, lesser, second tier or 'crappy' insurance companies over the years and from my experience all they do is take your hard earned money and give bad service in return. You want Health Care reform, then make this priority one.

Next is Tort reform and the second issue that the current majority in the House and Senate, that's Democrats for you Democrats that never bring up the topic in the company of your conservative brothers and sisters when you are berating us for being against your Health Care Reform movement that even you don't understand other than you think it's going to be free, which it ain't gonna be and never was, because most of our legislators are attorneys and from what I can gather many are of the ambulance chasing variety which means they derive a great deal of their income from suing Doctors and Hospitals and heaven forbid they should have their income limited in any way because they can no longer file one frivolous law suit after another. The last statement has nothing to do with legitimate suits that come about from negligence on the part of poor doctoring or hospital care, those deserve to be pursued, but even the lawyers of the ambulance chasing variety have to admit the system is clogged with greed driven stupid suits.

Well anyway, both subjects made about five minutes in the news this last week so I guess our elected officials and their mouthpieces in the media think it's all over and back to business as usual, I say they're very wrong. We can all make a tremendous difference in the next elections coming up in 2010 and 2012, it's time to take our government back from a small group autocrat wannabees and turn it back into government by the people and for the people.

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"Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not it's inhumanity but it's anti-humanity".
Eric Hoffer
1902 - 1983
American author, philosopher. Awarded the Presidential Medal Of Freedom.

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President Obama's speech to the UN was so full of Hope and optimism, then Gaddafi, Ahmadinejad, Chavez et al brought us back to reality

I have scanned over Mr. Obama's speech to the UN outlining his dream for the world, one where we all pitch in together and make everything good and wonderful, where everything is green and opportunity abounds for all. Where Democracy flourishes and all of the peoples of the earth reach out to each other in Peace and Harmony. Barack, you're several hundred years early with your request and for some strange reason passed over several issues that are going to make the fruition of your grand dreams difficult at best to even implement. Then after another in a long line of most uplifting speeches, every known tyrant, dictator and despot who is a member of the UN, that's all of them in case your wondering, got their chance to get up and bash the United States mercilessly for hours on end.

The President's remark about Israels 1967 occupation finally shows his true colors and there is now no question that the Israelis are on their own. That's good because they will handle things as they should have all along. I have a sneaking suspicion that this is going to make the mid-east peace initiative take a little longer than expected and if the Iranian's refuse to open their facilities for inspection because they are close to having the 'BOMB', Israel will have no choice other than to bring to Iranian program to a cataclysmic halt, but then again maybe that's what everyone has had in mind all along.

The 'New era of engagement' remark was particularly poignant. His comment about our religious convictions bringing us together was a nice touch considering he and his inner circle are about as anti religion as you can get. Although in his dream Muslims, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and all the rest will be dancing around the Maypole hand in hand, but considering the Maypole is more often than not considered a phallic symbol my suggestion is that we all keep a thick hardcover book stuffed in the back of our pants.

The four pillars was the best part though, The first pillar was another veiled benign threat to North Korea and Iran about their nuclear programs that fell upon deaf ears once again and some more sabre rattling for good measure, because in reality the Chinese are the masters of North Korea and until they decide to do something, nothing will ever happen. The US is not going to go after China because the government has doesn't want to upset such a valuable 'trading partner', I hope you notice I do not use the word ALLY. Then his pillar of peace and how we are going to cooperate with and enlist the help of all of our three allies, France-Germany and England, to confront terrorism around the globe. Then he went for the 'Rodney King' to close the deal.

The third pillar is one of the best kept secret jokes of all time. The Obama people are intent on creating all of this alternative energy and essentially making oil obsolete when the world economy is driven by oil, most of our adversaries and or enemies have oil and their wealth is derived from oil so they have absolutely no incentive at all to pursue anything else. The emerging countries could care less about green industries, their interest is building economies and pollution etc fall very far down on the list of priorities. The fourth pillar was a nice finish if you were still awake and the last plug for what a great institution the UN is was the horse manure frosting on the cake.

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"The surest way to destroy a nation is to debauch it's currency"
Vladimir Ilyich Lennon
1870-1924
First Leader of The Soviet Union

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The US Attorney General has proven himself to be another Obama pick choosing style over substance. We'd be better off with Geoffrey Holder.

I was not really following the CIA investigation story very closely over the last couple of weeks even though it looked from the beginning that it was nothing more than a socialist witch hunt that was being put on to further undermine our National Security by the ever expanding Obama Czar system. I was having enough of a problem digesting the swill produced by the Regulatory Czar, that is, Mr. Sunstein's theories on Social Engineering and how communication should be controlled, apparently he is not a fan of free speech, but enough of him for now I'll cover that one on another day.

So anyway, I'm watching a news report while I'm working out on my Nordic Track when the reporter says that Mr. Holder admitted that he had never read any of the documents related to the very investigation he was authorizing, that he had only been briefed by staffers, and was still going forward with an investigation and possible prosecution that would HAVE far reaching effects on our National Security and our relationships with our allies for God knows how long into the future. The first thought that comes into my mind is, 'What kind of an idiot is this guy'? He is proving himself to be another bungling bureaucrat who has exceeded his level of competency by probably ten GS rating levels (I don't know what GS level janitorial staff are, but it's somewhere in there) that this President has managed to snag from his crony pool and have himself placed in a position of authority.

I guess their plan is to completely destroy any credibility we have in the world and to hand any edge we may have over to our enemies and adversaries. Then it takes an unprecedented seven letters from past heads of the CIA to even elicit a response from 44 himself who's out running around making the same speech over and over through any and every News outlet that's willing to give him five minutes of air-time in an attempt to convince America his Health Care plan is good and that he won't or doesn't want to increase taxes and that the money he is going to take from each and every one of us isn't really a tax it's just money that is going to the government, and basically admits he isn't up to speed on what has been transpiring in the offices of his hand picked top law enforcement guy the Attorney General.

From his appointment this one has been less than impressive and only goes to show the country that this Attorney General is nothing more than an ideological tool of the so called minds behind this administration. Janet Reno have been absolved and replaced.

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"Mr. Madison has introduced his long expected amendments...The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing government, are declared to be inherent in the people".
Fisher Ames
1758 - 1808
American statesman, orator and political writer.

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This may be the most fair and novel approach to welfare that has ever been floated.

There was an article supposedly written by a construction worker, popping up on the Internet today and the concept he proposes may just be the best approach ever fielded for fairness when it comes to entitlements. That is, want your welfare check, then you have to pass a urine test. For those of you who don't understand the technical phrase; Urine test, I'll put into a phrase that I know you'll easily recognize, you would have to piss for your money.

The writer states that he has to pass periodic urine tests since he works on a government funded project and if he can't pass he loses his job, he also, pays his taxes which are taken out of his paycheck and the funds are spent by the government and distributed to those less fortunate who don't have jobs and are part of the welfare system. He says he has no problem helping those who are unable to find work but has a real problem with those who, as he puts it, sit on their asses, drink beer and do drugs and to this I'm in full agreement. I could take this much further but I would be accused of everything from being completely insensitive to the needs of others to being an out and out racist all of which I would call Democratic - Socialist - True believer horse crap and in my world definitely isn't a conversation stopper. In fact I would welcome the label and welcome the opportunity to make the accuser look like the dumb ass most liberal accusers' are for even using the term racist.

We are in need of change in this country and one thing that our elected' never seem to properly address in the entitlement system, and please don't get me wrong, there are many people who for one legitimate reason or another cannot provide for themselves and deserve to be helped out. I am referring to those able bodied who think the system owes them because some poverty pimps told them this is the easy way, or for that just plain lazy ass who thinks living like white trash is OK as long as someone else pays for it.

I am of the opinion that our government should be open to any and all solutions that are presented and so in the interest of getting along with all of my fellow Americans I am going to blog good ideas, like the Urine test concept in the HOPE that some of our elected officials see the logic in these ideas and promote CHANGE that will lead to an equitable system for one and all. Mr. Obama talks of testing his health care reform in small pockets across the country to show how it will really work, this idea would be simple to test in the same way at the same time and I can guarantee would show a significant savings from the day one.

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"Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever".
Chinese Proverb

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Goodbye Van we hardly knew ye, or better yet if he's no commie you can throw me out.

I normally don't go for piling on but in this instance it's not only appropriate but a necessity to keep this example of subversion in front of the American public until they begin to wake up and look what is happening before their Prozac glazed over eyes. This is another perfect example of this current President, that's President Obama for you true believers and the rest of you who are just asleep at the wheel, appointing not just another Socialist to his stable of Czars and inner circle but a real card carrying radical Communist, by his own admission, the overthrow the government and put us into bondage kind of Communist. Not only that, he's an avowed white hater, now if that isn't an indication that the American voters were duped in the last election I don't know what is, what happened to the PRESIDENT FOR ALL AMERICANS PLEDGE.

Don't think that Mr. Jones was the only one of his kind, a Unicorn so to speak there are more where he came from, and as we have seen, our President and his inner circle will continue to throw them up against the proverbial wall until enough stick to begin the real changeover of our society from a successful Democracy to a Socialist Republic that will stagnate and oppress like all of those before. Socialism is an idea that has been tried and failed time after time. The most current iteration hatched is Chavez in Venezuela, even the ignorant that elected him are finally waking up to what is in store if he stays in power.

Remember, this is still the land of opportunity, if you apply yourself, work hard and persist you can and will more than likely succeed. You can be whatever you want to be under our system of government, there are no limits. Under the Obama dream lies social engineering which in a short form is; you are told what you are going to be, how much you will make and where you fit in the pecking order and that's it.

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"Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it".
Maimonides
1135 - 1204
Jewish Philosopher

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Mr. Obama, emergency control of the internet, how about the truth, just come out and tell America that you want to take away Freedom Of Speech.

As a blogger and more importantly an American who believes in the precepts set down by our founding fathers I find the premise of the government taking control of the Internet or any other medium of communication absolutely unacceptable, even in times of crisis or national emergency, an idea floated by our current President. One of the rights we have that sets us apart from every other country in the world is free speech and by that I mean uninterrupted, un-violated free speech.

I have a question for all of the young people out there as well as the older idiots that voted this administration into office who were' willing to sign their futures over to this bunch of Socialists for a promise of hope and change that has yet to be defined. Do you understand that the first right taken away from any populace when Socialists take over to make control easier is the removal of free speech? What has Chavez done in Venezuela, what did Putin do in Russia, what did the military junta in Myanmar do, what has Castro maintained control over, what does the Communist government in China maintain strict control over, what did Hitler do and what was one of the first things that Lenin did after winning the revolution in Russia? I'll tell you geniuses, they all took control of the media and in modern times the Internet as well, control communication and media outlets=control of the population. For you non readers that means no free exchange of ideas and the only information you will get will be laundered and spun to the ruling administration's liking. Much of this may not happen right now but you can rest assured the movement to institute this and many other Socialist changes is not going away any time soon.

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"Every man is, no doubt, by nature, first and principally recommended to his own care; and as he is fitter to take care of himself than of any other person, it is fit and right that it should be so".
Adam Smith
1723 - 1790
Scottish philosopher and economist

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