The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions

Today is Adolph Hitler's birthday.  Hitler is considered one of the most, if not the most evil man in history.  He committed mass genocide, and managed to drag the entire world into a second world war.  There is no question that Adolph Hitler was an evil man, but I have a question of my own:  Did Hitler realize what he was doing was evil?  Did Hitler realize he himself was evil?  How could a man commit such arocities, unless he thought he was doing good for his country and the world?  Perhaps Hitler felt he was ushering in a new era for humanity, where the weak are not tolerated and allowed to burden the strong.  He felt that through eugenics, the human race could attain even greater heights.  Phrenology and other junk sciences were the basis of his thinking.  Thankfully today, most of us realize the shape of your skull has nothing to do with your intelligence.

The most amazing thing about Adolph Hitler, is the fact that he was not German (if you stayed awake in history class, you know Hitler was Austrian), yet managed to rise to the highest seat of power in Germany.  He used scapegoats to explain the tough economy in Germany at the time, the Jews being the most famous, but not the only ones oppressed by Hitler's Nazi party.  Why were the Jews such an easy target?  Well, they have money.  It's very easy to convince an ignorant uneducated population to blame their problems on people more fortunate or harder working than themselves.  This is the mentality socialism thrives on, and modern socialists are still using the same tactics.

Now, I know there will be plenty of jack-holes out there calling me paranoid for saying what I'm about to say, and that's okay.  After all, who's to say I'm right?  I'm not even sure if I'm right, but I have suspicions based on the history I've shared above. 

Today the United States of America has it's first socialist president, and the class warfare mentality is thriving in this country.  Everyone that doesn't work feels entitled to the same luxuries working people enjoy.  While some in America will still point to the Jews as the problem, they are generally dismissed as anti-semetic and ignorant.  However, blaming wealthy people for the problems of the poor is still par for the course for a socialist government. 

Hitler managed to grab power by capitalizing on disaster (the burning of the Reichstag).  Who's to say our government is not doing the same thing?  Some smelly terrorists knock down a couple of skyscrapers, and all of the sudden Americans are okay with having TSA Agents feel them up, make them take off there shoes, irradiate them with body scanners, etc.  The government also found a way to go to war in two different countries, ignoring the fact that most of the 9/11 highjackers were from Saudi Arabia (a supposed ally).  After 9/11 the government grew in scope and size, while the liberties of its citizens dwindled, and continue to dwindle.  Who's the big winner in the 9/11 disaster?  Well, the US Government.  If you've read "The Prince" by Machiaveli, you already know what I'm getting at.

Today is not only Hitler's birthday, but also the anniversary of the Gulf Coast BP Oil disaster.  This is probably a coincidence, but it raises my paranoid suspicions.  One oil rig blows up, and the next thing we know the executive branch of government shuts down the entire industry.  The courts ruled that the moratorium was unconstitutional, so the executive branch simply re-issued the moratorium, blatantly disrespecting the judicial branch, as well as the US Constitution.  This makes oil prices go up, causing more stress on our already dying economy.  Luckily, Obama's buddy George Soros happens to have just recently invested in Brazilian oil production.  Just another coincidence right?  I'm just being paranoid, right?

As you may have noticed, even well over halfway into his presidency, Obama has still managed to blame George W. Bush and "Rich people" for the country's economic plight.  Nevermind that over half of our population is now using government assistance in some way or another.  Nevermind the fact our public schools are overburdened with illegal aliens, and education standards continue to slip in this country.  Nevermind the entitlements this country inspire more laziness than anything.  Remember, weak economies allow socialism to fester and grow in power.  Disasters are their favorite tool, as Rahm Emanuel has said, to push through otherwise unpopular ideas and policies.

There are still quite a few questions about Obama's past, as well as speculation that he is not a Natural Born Citizen and therefore, ineligible to hold the office of the President.  Whether he is or not, neither side can (or is willing) to prove his eligibility either way.  I personally think Obama's unilateral attack on Libya without Congressional approval is grounds enough for impeachment, but the birther movement is still quite important.  Next time you say it doesn't matter whether Obama is a natural born citizen, just try and remember how German Adolph Hitler was. 

Obamacare Only Looks Worse Upon Further Review: Kevin Hassett

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-02/obamacare-only-looks-worse-upon-further-review-kevin-hassett.html

One of the more illuminating remarks during the health-care debate in Congress came when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told an audience that Democrats would “pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it, away from the fog of controversy.”


That remark captured the truth that, while many Americans have a vague sense that something bad is happening to their health care, few if any understand exactly what the law does.

To fill this vacuum, Representative Kevin Brady of Texas, the top House Republican on the Joint Economic Committee, asked his staff to prepare a study of the law, including a flow chart that illustrates how the major provisions will work.

The result, made public July 28, provides citizens with a preview of the impact the health-care overhaul will have on their lives. It’s a terrifying road map that shows Democrats have launched America on the most reckless policy experiment in its history, the economic equivalent of the Bay of Pigs invasion.

Before discussing what the law means for you, we have to look at what it does to government. That’s where the chart comes in handy. It includes the new fees, bureaucracies and programs and connects them into an organizational chart that accounts for the existing structure. It’s so carefully documented that a line connecting two structures cites the legislative language that created the link.

Ornate System

This clearly is a candidate for most disorganized organizational chart ever. It shows that the health system is complex, yes, but also ornate. The new law creates 68 grant programs, 47 bureaucratic entities, 29 demonstration or pilot programs, six regulatory systems, six compliance standards and two entitlements.

Getting that massive enterprise up and running will be next to impossible. So Democrats streamlined the process by granting Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius the authority to make judgments that can’t be challenged either administratively or through the courts.

This monarchical protection from challenges is extended as well to the development of new patient-care models under Obama’s controversial recess appointment, Donald Berwick, whom Republicans are calling the rationer-in-chief. Berwick will run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, where he can experiment with ways to use administrative fiat to move our system toward the socialized medicine of Europe, which he has at times embraced.

Closer to Home

A sprawling, complex bureaucracy has been set up that will have almost absolute power to dictate terms for participating in the health-care system. That’s what the law does to government. What it does to you is worse.

Based on the administration’s own numbers, as many as 117 million people might have to change their health plans by 2013 as their employer-provided coverage loses its grandfathered status and becomes subject to the new Obamacare mandates.

Those mandates also might make your health care more expensive. The Congressional Budget Office predicts that premiums for a small number of families who buy their insurance privately will rise by as much as $2,100.

The central Obamacare mechanism for increasing insurance coverage is an expansion of the Medicaid program. Of the 30 million new people covered, 16 million will be enrolled in Medicaid. And you could end up in the program whether you want it or not. The bill states that people who apply for coverage through the new exchanges or who apply for premium-subsidy credits will automatically be enrolled in Medicaid if they qualify.

Hurting the Elderly

To pay for this expansion, the bill takes $529 billion from Medicare, with roughly 39 percent of the cut coming from the Medicare Advantage program. This represents a large transfer of resources, sacrificing the care of the elderly in order to increase the Medicaid rolls.

For all this supposed reform, you, the American taxpayer, can expect a bill to the tune of $569 billion.

Front and center among the new taxes is the 40 percent excise tax on those lucky people with so-called Cadillac health plans. The higher insurance costs that are driven by the government mandates will push many more ordinary plans into Cadillac territory.

If the idea of taxing people with coverage deemed too good doesn’t bother you, maybe the new 3.8 percent tax on investment income will. That will apply even to a small number of home sales, those that generate $250,000 in profit for an individual or $500,000 for a married couple.

In vivid color and detail, Congressman Brady’s chart captures the huge expansion of government coming under Obamacare. Harder to show on paper is the pain it will cause.

(Kevin Hassett, director of economic-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, is a Bloomberg News columnist. He was an adviser to Republican Senator John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. The opinions expressed are his own.)

To contact the writer of this column: Kevin Hassett at khassett@bloomberg.net

Definition of Socialism

The harder you work, the less you're rewarded.  The less you work, the more you're rewarded.



What brought our country it's #1 superpower status, is the antithesis of the statement above.  In capitalism, the best and brightest can rise to the top and become successful.  That's why they all came to The United States and made us the powerhouse we used to be.  Sadly, we seem to have peaked as a superpower.  Socialism threatens to drag our society down in mediocrity.  Who will strive to achieve, when the reward is so small?  

Stafford Hospital caused ‘unimaginable suffering’

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article7039285.ece

Patients were routinely neglected or left “sobbing and humiliated” by staff at an NHS trust where at least 400 deaths have been linked to appalling care.

This is what we'll get when we socialize healthcare.  If they insist, at least put Congress and the rest of the Government on the same plan as the rest of us.  If it's good enough for me, it's good enough for them.

Single mother-of-six finds £2m mansion on the net... and then gets YOU to pay £7,000 a month rent

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250993/Single-mum-finds-mansion-net-gets-YOU-pay-7-000-month-rent.html

This story is out of Britian, but you get the idea.  This is where socialism will take us.

Got Socialism?

So it has.

George W. Bush the Psuedo Conservative

George Bush was the worst president this country has ever seen.  I know there are plenty of conservatives that would ask me to take a look at Obama, but in my book he's running a close second.  However, he is on pace to overtake Bush for that title within his first year. 

I feel much more betrayed by Bush than Obama though.  After all, Obama had written books about his plans for socializing medicine, and his facinations with socialism and communism.  No one would've guessed that George W. Bush would invest our hard earned tax dollars into Wall St. to bail out a bunch of people

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"I've abandoned free market principles to save a free market system." - George W. Bush

When the leader of the Republican Party spouts this sort of nonsense, you can bet socialists have infected the Republican Party heirarchy.  With socialism already well established in the Democrat party under the guise of liberalism, it's clear the "Big 2" no longer offer a choice.  Both parties apparently now think the government should run healthcare, auto industry, banks, etc.  It's painfully obvious that while our current "leader" may be twisting the knife in America's back, Bush is the one who put the knife there.

With Bush's bailouts, precedents were set.  It's unbelievable what Bush did.  No sane person (who's paying attention) would have this man as a leader.  Not only did he forget how to spell VETO, even when Democrats were in charge, he managed to DOUBLE the spending of Bill Clinton under his watch even if you exclude wartime expenditures.  Clearly, Bush is not a fiscal conservative, and unworthy of much of the praise he receives. 

Words of Wisdom

Learning from Europe's Mistake

Mirror, Mirror

Is anyone else troubled by the fact that every healthcare bill these constitutional butchers put forward doesn't include them? I mean, isn't it obvious they're screwing us? C'mon people, wake up. I personally don't believe in socialism, with the exception of education, and children's welfare. I'm not heartless, but I don't like the fact junkie's use their welfare to get crack. I'm sure no one else likes the situation either, well maybe the junkie. I see people sitting on the corner, waiting for someone to roll down their window and give them some change. I don't have a problem with helping people, but sympathize more if their pathetic cardboard sign said, "will work for food," instead of "hungry, anything will help." These people have learned that they don't have to work, and soon, they'll have free healthcare. How is this going to encourage productivity in an already troubled economy? How is this constitutional? I just don't see it. There's just not one mention of healthcare in the Constitution, the 10th Ammendment clearly states: Amendment X The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. But aside from this, our guilded plan does not include the very people we're supposed to trust to make it better. I understand who benefits from this, and it's not good. We already have medicaid, and let me tell you the seniors ain't exactly roses about that setup. Now, they'll force you to get health insurance. Doesn't that sound wrong in America? Congress & Obama shouldn't force us to get insurance, especially if they're not willing to put their own families on it. All in all this just looks like another government takeover. They took over the banks, financial sector, automobile business, and now healthcare is the new target. If healthcare is passed, there will be trouble. Do we really want to go to the DMV to get a checkup, or referral to a specialist? Why does the government demand access to our medical records? Why won't Congress impose them on themselves, and the rest of the Federal Government? It's obvious something stinks here. Unfortunately, it's the entire Federal Government.