I was going to refrain from politics on the blog, until Pat emboldened me, saying he liked the political posts. He even liked the link to the trailer of Mega Shark v Giant Octopus. Thanks Pat and Julie for letting me stay at your place for almost a month.
Health care. If, according to the Prez, 47 million Americans don't have insurance, that means we have 85% coverage. If you take out those who qualify for programs but haven't signed up for them, and those who can afford insurance but choose not to buy it, we have well over 90% coverage, and the shortest wait times in the world. Of course there are problems with all health care systems, but if the main concern was coverage, there are better ways than a national system, or a "public option" (which = a national system eventually). The Swiss system isn't that bad and has the world's second shortest wait times (I care because wait times matter in cancer).
ABC ran a huge Obama infomercial where they not only did not allow a rebuttal, they would not even let opposing groups PAY for commercial time to respond. Now it comes out that at the last "town hall" meeting today, the president and his allies chose the questions before hand, making the whole thing basically staged government propaganda.
CATO's website did a 5 minute rebuttal of the initial ABC infomercial.
It is eventually about more than health care. It is about statism vs freedom.
Since our current Republicans have been so inept recently, here is a speech from 1961. I think Reagan was still a private citizen back then.
Some petitions/groups against government healthcare.http://www.freeourhealthcarenow.com/
http://www.conservativesforpatientsrights.com/
In other news:
Unemployment shot past the 8% level that we were told the "stimulus" package was supposed to prevent.
The dollar has started to fall again.
Cap and Trade passed the house, representing a huge tax increase on everyone. (Mostly on the poor and middle class.)
The Honduran President, a friend of Castro and Chavez, tried to extend his time in office in violation of that country's constitution. His Supreme court ordered him thrown out, his military threw him out, and his congress approved it and appointed an interim leader. Maybe it will be a mess all around, but our State department came out strongly in support of the would-be socialist dictator.
