Thursday, March 25, 2010
HEALTH CARE REFORM: WHO WINS AND WHO LOSES
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So who wins and who loses? "The people who gain the most are low-income people who do not get health insurance from an employer," says John Goodman, president, CEO and the Kellye Wright Fellow of the National Center for Policy Analysis.
"Just about everybody else loses."
Groups that will especially bear the burden include...
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What Bias? Re: Sawyer Claims Everyone Will Be Covered & Shows Kennedy's Grave, CBS Displays Obama's Signature: 'What History Looks Like'
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Later, Smith displayed Obama's signature as he trumpeted: “This is what history looks like, as it came from the hand of President Obama today with 22 different pen strokes comprising his signature.” (See screen shot after the jump)
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[Also what history looks like.]
[Again: the 'victory' being promoted by the MSM is one over the will of the American people - they're going to work overtime trying to make us forget that.]
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[Again: the 'victory' being promoted by the MSM is one over the will of the American people - they're going to work overtime trying to make us forget that.]
How Does Obamacare Poll?
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First, this was not a poll of likely voters, but of random adults. Second, the last time that the USA Today/Gallup poll was taken, a week and a half before the passage of the Senate bill, Rasmussen released a poll at the same time. The USA Today/Gallup poll of random adults then said that Americans opposed Obamacare by only 2 percent; the Rasmussen poll of likely voters said that they opposed it by 16 percent. Third, even this USA Today/Gallup poll demonstrates the two major problems that the Democrats face, as I’ve previously highlighted: opposition to the health-care overhaul among independent voters, and the intensity of opposition among voters as a whole. The poll once again confirms that independents like Obamacare even less than Americans writ large, and it shows that twice as many independents feel “angry” about the legislation as “enthusiastic” — not a good sign for Democrats come November.
Another recent poll is even more revealing (and believable). CNN conducted a poll in the fateful days leading up to, and including, the day of the House vote. It showed that Americans oppose the bill by a whopping 20 percentage points, 59 percent to 39 percent. It also showed why they oppose it: By a margin of 62 percent to 16 percent, Americans think it would raise (rather than lower) their health costs. By a margin of 70 percent to 12 percent, they think it would raise (rather than lower) the deficit. And by a margin of 56 to 16, they think it would result in too much (rather than too little) “government involvement” in health care. These are colossal margins that won’t disappear, or likely even seriously diminish, simply because the text of the bill has now been graced by President Obama’s pen.
Tellingly, the CNN poll also shows that Americans think they’d be worse off (rather than better off) under Obamacare — by a margin of 28 points (47 percent to 19 percent). When the same question was asked by the same poll in August of 1994, in the final days of consideration of Hillarycare, the margin between those who thought they’d be worse off versus better off under that proposed legislation was only 11 points (31 percent to 20 percent). The 1994 election didn’t work out very well for the Democrats. However, if the comparative CNN polls from 1994 and 2008 are any indication, President Obama may well be right that this year will be remembered by the history books — but maybe not for what happened in March.
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NBC and ABC Morning Shows Only Report Rosiest Poll on ObamaCare
On Wednesday, both NBC's Today and ABC's Good Morning America exclusively cited the latest Gallup/USA Today poll, which shows significantly more public support for ObamaCare than other recent polls.
Both programs failed to mention the majority of polls that continued to show overwhelming public opposition to the massive legislation...
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Poll: Most Want GOP to Keep Fighting on Health Bill
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A CBS News poll released Wednesday finds that nearly two in three Americans want Republicans in Congress to continue to challenge the health care reform bill.
The poll finds that 62 percent want Congressional Republicans to keep challenging the bill, while 33 percent say they should not do so.
Nearly nine in ten Republicans and two in three independents want the GOP to keep challenging. Even 41 percent of Democrats support continued challenges.,,
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What Overt-Propoganda? Re: NBC: Which party was really "out of touch with the public?"
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"which party was really out of touch with the public?"
[Yes it's tempting to laugh, but this kind of disinformation worked in '08 - they've got until November to sell it again.]
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California Republicans take aim at health care bill
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Senate Republicans in Sacramento today announced that they have asked California Attorney General Jerry Brown (who also happens to be running for governor, as a Democrat) to join a lawsuit by other attorneys general challenging the massive health care overhaul signed today by President Obama
Judging by comments Brown made today, we're thinking that it's pretty unlikely his office will join the suit...
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Stalking the CIA
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The lawyers reportedly provided photographs of CIA interrogators to defense attorneys, who then showed them to al Qaeda terrorists held at Guantánamo Bay.
Why would lawyers do that?
Gertz says it was done “in an attempt to have the terrorism suspects identify the interrogators in order to call them as witnesses in future trials.” The John Adams Project’s lawyers wanted to use court proceedings intended to try mass-murdering terrorists for another purpose: to put the Bush administration and the CIA on trial...
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Love those California legislators!
Wanted (No, Needed): PART-TIME LEGISLATURE
Nothing else needs to be said the picture speaks for itself. Paid by our tax money to represent us?????
House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, pictured standing, far right, speaks while colleagues, Rep. Barbara Lambert, D-Milford and Rep. Jack F. Hennessy, D-Bridgeport, play solitaire Monday night as the House convened to vote on a new budget. (AP) The guy sitting in the row in front of these two... he's on Facebook, and the guy behind Hennessy is checking out the baseball scores. And these are only the ones that the camera was able to catch.
These are the folks that can't get the budget out by Oct. 1, Seriously!!! So, we’ve got a 30 day budget extension. Well, guess what, 30 days from now we will be in the same boat. I guess this makes it easy for the news ‘reporters’ as all they have to do is recycle the same headlines from this week and from 2 years ago. And these yo-yo’s will still be playing SOLITAIRE!!!
Are you angry yet?These are the folks that can't get the budget out by Oct. 1, Seriously!!! So, we’ve got a 30 day budget extension. Well, guess what, 30 days from now we will be in the same boat. I guess this makes it easy for the news ‘reporters’ as all they have to do is recycle the same headlines from this week and from 2 years ago. And these yo-yo’s will still be playing SOLITAIRE!!!
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
[Confusing: when one Republican votes for the thing to get it out of a committee the MSM preface each reference of it with 'bipartisan'.
Yet the bill has actually had bipartisan opposition all year, without exception, and finally passed with only (but not nearly all) Democrat votes - yet you won't even hear the MSM referring to it as controversial? -- despite 13 States immediately filing law suits against it?!?
Has there been any more controversial bill all year???
And now we're subjected to repeated references of Democrat "victory laps" re: its passage without any of our professional journalists reminding the American people that it was THEIR WILL over which the Democrats were 'victorious'.
No bias here - by all mens get your news from TV - move along...]
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CNN poll: Americans don't like health care bill
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Washington - A majority of Americans have a dim view of the sweeping health care bill passed by the House, saying it gives Washington too much clout and won't do anything to reduce their own health care costs or federal deficits, according to a new poll released Monday. A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll found that 59 percent of Americans opposed the bill, and only 39 percent favored it...
[A twenty point spread. Three times that of Obama's 'landslide' victory in '08. What a great 'victory' for the Democrats over us ignorant masses]
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Obama basks in glow of health care victory, but now comes the hard part: selling it to the people
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"Outside the Beltway, the American people are very angry"
[Not to worry, our professional media will convince them accept the inevitable and actually get them to thank the Dems in the six months between now and November. Note how they're glossing right over the fact that the 'selling' of the People on Obama's ideas after he passes laws they dislike is evidently not even news worthy/mentionable - no, it's his next challenge {for which he'll be lauded when again victorious, I'm sure}.
As in '08, the MSM is demonstrating its loss of integrity is absolute. ]
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POLL: 49% Support State Lawsuits Against Health Care Plan
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A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of likely voters finds that 37% disagree and oppose their state suing to challenge that requirement. Fourteen percent (14%) are undecided.
Seventy-two percent (72%) of Republicans and 58% of voters not affiliated with either major party favor such lawsuits. Sixty-five percent (65%) of Democrats are opposed.
[Yet in our MSM...]
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CBS to Steele: What if People 'Like' ObamaCare? Is RNC too Extreme?
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"What if, now that it's a reality and people start to see the benefits, [no bias there] they actually like it?"
Steele replied:
"David Axelrod didn't talk about the $506 billion that's being taken out of Medicare....He didn't talk about the $500 billion in new taxes that are going to be imposed on those small businesses....there's a lot in this bill that have yet to be revealed to the American people. And when it's further revealed, it'll be less – less liked."After Steele's response, Rodriguez felt the need to incredulously criticize the RNC for being too "extreme" in its opposition:
"I looked on the RNC website this morning. I have to say, I was surprised by what I saw. The home page shows a big photograph of Nancy Pelosi and in huge block letters it says 'Fire Pelosi' ....Isn't this a little bit extreme?...What can you accomplish with this?"
Naturally, Rodriguez failed to mention the latest CBS News poll showing Nancy Pelosi only has an 11% approval rating.
Steele dismissed Rodriguez's characterization:
"Actually, I tamed it down. You know, the reality of it is I don't know why you're surprised. Nancy Pelosi is the architect of the demise, in my view, of one-sixth of our economy. She should be fired for her failure to serve the interests of the American people."[Get it? With all that's transpired in the last month, it's the Republican actions that are 'extreme'. Of course.]
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To 'Indefatigable' Pelosi, Sawyer Wonders What Her Dad and Mom 'Would Have Said About this Moment?'
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ABC anchor Diane Sawyer shared the glow of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's health care policy victory, showing her, in an “ABC News exclusive” interview, a Washington Post with the headline of “Democrats Claim Health Votes” as she wondered:
“What do you think your dad and your mom would have said about this moment?” Sawyer followed up: “Did your dad have a phrase, a sentence that meant the most to you when he'd say it to you, or your mom?”
Pelosi's answer, “make sure you have the votes,” cracked up Sawyer, who chuckled...
[And the thwarted will of the people? Not mentioned.]
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The Moral Case Against Government Health Care
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The greatest expansion of American government and the social welfare state since the Great Society passed the House Sunday night. Opponents recognize that this bill violates the most important principles of American government, and as such, is immoral. In a free society, does one individual's needs constitute another individual's obligation to provide? The answer is no; rather, it is the duty of free individuals to decide what and whose needs appear most important to them. In a free society, the individual is of supreme importance and should not to be used as a means to society's ends. The individual has the right to order his actions and possessions in the manner most consistent with pursuing his own happiness and values. This view is consistent with America's founding principles. The Declaration of Independence states:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.-That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.The above rights are known as "Natural Rights," and they protect the individual's right to freedom, autonomy, and self-government -- in other words, to take all the actions required to support the furtherance, fulfillment, and enjoyment of one's own life. They provide no material assurances or particular opportunities to the individual, but rather set conditions that allow the individual to decide what use he shall make of the circumstances in which he finds himself -- to act in his own best interest so long as his actions don't infringe on the equally protected rights of others. Based on this logic, government programs that involuntarily transfer or redistribute wealth are immoral because they violate the individual's natural right to order his own actions and possessions. Theft is immoral. Likewise, theft via the government is immoral. Karl Marx and Thomas Jefferson highlight the differences between collectivism and individualism. The philosophy of collectivism regards the individual as a means to society's ends and is thus immoral, whereas individualism respects the freedom and autonomy of each member of society.
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." - Karl Marx, 1875 "A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned." - Thomas Jefferson, 1801Another important question is: What constitutes a need, and who should decide? Should it be the patient in concert with his or her physician? This seems like the obvious choice. However, if society is paying the cost of whatever service is required to satisfy "the need," then the provision of that service must be regulated to prevent overutilization and runaway costs. In other words, it must be rationed. In a free market, prices perform this rationing function. In the absence of a free market, some third party must ration based on a formula other than price. Rationing by price is moral because this unbiased mechanism allows individuals to maintain complete freedom and autonomy. A patient who cannot afford a service that he deems a "need" is still free if he can pursue any course of action in order to meet that "need." Likewise, a provider who feels that his patient "needs" a service is free if he can pursue any course of action in order to provide that service. Some members of society today confuse the concept of true freedom or liberty with the concept of how many options are available to an individual, and this encourages them to advocate for collectivist schemes to help those who may be less fortunate.
"[Liberty] describes the absence of a particular obstacle -- coercion by other men ... the range of physical possibilities from which a person can choose at a given moment has no direct relevance to freedom. The rock climber on a difficult pitch who sees only one way out to save his life is unquestionably free ... if [he] were to fall into a crevasse and were unable to get out of it, he could only figuratively be called 'unfree,' and that to speak of him as being "deprived of liberty" or of being 'held captive' is to use these terms in a sense different from that in which they apply to social relations." - F.A. HayekUnfortunately, the only alternative to rationing through price is rationing through the government, and this is immoral because the decision of what constitutes a "need" is made by a third party with no personal connection to the individual or his circumstances. Ultimately, these decisions are made by those with the most political influence -- a situation that inevitably breeds corruption. These governing bodies do not respect the primacy of the individual, but rather view the individual as a means to society's ends. Bureaucrats don't make decisions about health care according to an individual's "need" or preference, but rather, they ration resources based on a social-driven calculus. As evidence of this, the health care bill under consideration has a Medicare board of unelected officials to determine the program's treatment protocols as a method of limiting costs.
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