This makes sense. The Democrats want to stick it to millions of Americans in order to supposedly punish a few hundred "wealthy" people

As the title of this post suggests, it would seem the Democrats in their zeal to punish success are more than willing to beat down all Americans with more taxes in order to punish the very few wealthy Americans.
No thank you Democrats, this blogger does not care about the wealthy but I do care about you stealing even more of my money.

The make this almost amusing the Democrats claim this will just add to the deficit. Again, the Democrats in their infinite wisdom actually believe a Tax cut is a cost. Also, why would they count this as money in hand before it is, they should have assumed these Bush Tax Cuts would be extended. However, the obvious must be pointed out to the Democrats. Flagrant out of control spending adds to the deficit. NOT raising taxes never adds to a deficit.

So it is back to a very basic plan the politicians seem to fail to grasp. Don't spend so much damn money on every idiot scheme thought of. Don't spend so much money on over priced products and services and stop spending on so much the government should not even be involved in.

Then perhaps we may see an improvement in the economy.

Still back to the original Topic. The reality is the Democrats want to stick it to America. They are not actually going to raise taxes on the wealthy. This is because most of the Democrats themselves are multi millionaires, Their buddies in Hollywood and many other supporters are all wealthy and the Democrats are hardly going to tax themselves and punish their comrades. This is just another scheme where the Democrats claim they will do one thing, shaft the wealthy when in reality that shaft is meant for the rest of the American people.

"You lie" is racist are you kidding NY Times?

It would appear the liberal columnist Maureen Dowd is either insane, stupid or really good at protecting her prophet Obama.

This is the controversy caused by Republican Joe Wilson yelling "You Lie" during Obama's Campaign speech or whatever it is called given to the senate mostly on Obamacare.

Regardless of the opinion about Obama lying or not or Wilson being rude or expressing the concerns of millions, Maureen Dowd has created a new non-existent controversy over this to basically deflect the fact that the liberals look stupid with their Standard bearer doing nothing but regurgitating the same tired talking points the liberals have been saying for months about healthcare.

She claims that Wilson's response was not about Obama's claims during the speech. According to Dowd this was all racist. She decided she heard the word " boy" as in "You Lie, Boy" then proceeds to run of a list of supposed racist decisions Wilson has done and groups he is in. She then follows this with "Some people just can’t believe a black man is president and will never accept it." and the rest of her article attempts to create this myth that anyone against Obama is not against his moronic plans, these people are against an African American as president. Obama and the democrats are not spending insane amounts of money and imposing socialism, no the liberals are ok, anyone against the liberals are just closet racists who simply don't like the fact that whitey is not president.

Well Moron Dowd, the Political Shaman will have to disagree. There is no evidence that the majority of the population is racist. The majority of the population is conservative, independent of party affiliation and the people protesting Obama and Pelosi are not racist, they are coming to their senses. It does not take much intellectual capacity to realize that you just can't borrow trillions and rack up more national debt than our economy can produce over years. These people are waking up and seeing socialism being imposed, something most of us know is a complete and total failure, thanks to recent history formed by the demise of counties like the soviet union. These people know deep down that the government is here to protect rights and the people, not grant and restrict rights, confiscate all property and only protect those people deemed worth of attention.

No Maureen, no one protesting Obama is racist, they are protesting the left's desire to follow the likes of Lenin into oblivion and taking us along for the ride.

The people are against bad ideas and no race has a monopoly on bad ideas but it does seem that the democrat party is trying to monopolize these bad ideas.

Next time Maureen Dowd, why don't you be a real Journalist or at least be honest during a debate and instead of creating controversy about race that does not exist, try defending these bad ideas created by the democrat party you support.

http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/opinion/13dowd.html

Obamacare, healthcare or any care

The Prophet Obama had his little campaign speech/address to congress on his so-called healthcare plans. The speech itself was just as pretty as all of his campaign speeches, promising the impossible and having no actual substance in the speech that could shed light on any actual solution. The most interesting point is The Prophet has this "plan" of his kicking in 4 years from now, conveniently after his presumed re-election.

The Prophet, the democrats nor the republicans are offering ideas that actually solve the problems with healthcare. Some problems are mentions, such has preventing loss of insurance coverage or obtaining coverage due to pre-existing conditions or tort reform. Here is the issue with all of the politicians idiotic ideas, they themselves and their idiotic laws, their uneven application of laws and failure to protect the people are the cause of the problems, which means the government is the cause and they could fix the problems and it cost nothing extra to the taxpayer or patient.

So why are the politicians NOT fixing anything? The Political Shaman could speculate that the reason is power and money but the reason doesn't matter. History shows that the politicians are either unwilling or incapable of fixing any problem, especially the problems they cause.

The laughable comment the Prophet made during his speech was how he will cut waste and fraud in medicare and use the saved money to pay for the Obamacare. Where in history has any politician cut waste and fraud? The democrats and republicans practically invented the both government waste and fraud and the Prophet who is a former senator and community organizer has had years of experience doing both himself. As a Senator, creating waste and as a community organizer, working for organizations skilled at committing fraud.

So who really cares what the Obamacare plans are, what the republican plans are or any other plan for healthcare. The actual result of any healthcare change by a politician is more fraud, more waste, more taxes, more regulation, more costs, more for their power and more for their pocketbooks and the citizens of American having to pay for it all, history doesn't lie.

Obamacare is a fraud but not for the reasons you may think...

The democrats are unveiling their so called plans for Obamacare and everyone has it wrong. The liberal socialist ruling the Democrat party are not reforming anything, they are not cutting costs or helping solve the healthcare crisis.

There are problems in the healthcare industry but Obamacare does not address any of the causes. Costs are high because of government regulation primarily. This industry is heavily controlled in everything they do, from the way they administer care to the documents they must keep to protect themselves from litigation and the government. From the moment you set foot on a hospital's property to the moment you leave, every single thing that happens to a patient is regulated by the government. Some regulation is necessary but the bottom line is every single regulation and tax the government imposes, is a cost and this cost is passed on too the patient.

The next problem is the patient not being involved in the payment of the care. As long as insurance continues to be viewed as a "magic money tree" for paying for a patient, then costs will be high. If each person had to pay for care directly, you can be assured that the costs would not be so high because patients would begin to look at things like 5 dollars for a bandage as insane and would refuse to pay. As long as the patient is not part of the decision making process for what is paid for, the costs will remain high.

The third problem is Insurance companies barred from competing across state lines. Insurance only works if there are far more payers paying into the insurance than those who draw benefits. The larger the pool of potential payers the better. Insurance companies are barred from directly competing for business across state lines, meaning it is difficult to increase the base of payers and pool the funds to create a better product for all.

The fourth problem is this parasitic relationship between employer and insurance company. This makes sense for an employer because the employer can offer this as part of a package to obtain the best employees and save some on salary by offering a benefit. The problem is because of regulation and the fact that insurance can't compete directly for everyone, the insurance companies are focused only on employee pools and almost ignore or even make it hard for individuals to obtain insurance with favorable costs and services. The biggest one is pre-existing conditions. This farce is a concoction the insurance industry used to basically remove the inconvenience of individuals from their roles. Otherwise insurance companies would deny pre-existing conditions for employer based plans as well.

The fifth problem is preventative care. The government regulation has basically caused this entire part of the healthcare experience to not exist. This is typical of any kind of preventative measure whether fixing a car or a human body. Everything is against this. Taking time off work, being unable to itemize these costs on a tax return, insurance companies basically refusing to pay for it and other factors all contribute to this problem. Additionally, care and preventative measure not of traditional means are also not covered.

The last major problem is medicare. The fact is the existing socialist medical program already heavily influences prices of medical care. Medicare already limits what they cover and insurance companies use this list for what they cover as well. Medicare also reduces the available money each employee and employer has that could be used for insurance benefits.

Obamacare addresses none of these problems. It only seeks to create yet another massive government bureaucracy that is going to merely going to do what insurance companies do now, only at the cost of taxpayers and with no control over what they do.

At first it will appear to work as all new insurance companies do. The first couple of years of massive influx of new money and few people drawing benefits creates the illusion that something is being solved. 3 or 4 years from now when the government has run out of money again and has the wished for 45 million patients they are paying for, the government will begin to do what is being said today. They will ration care, make decisions about who gets what procedure and why. At the same time, they will increase taxes in the name of paying for it all, just like they do today with medicare and social security. This will slowly increase with every congress declaring a need to reform this mess and making us pay for it. Eventually, they will tax and tax until they finally do nationalize the industry and do away with private insurance completely, all in the name of saving the people.

If the government addressed the actual problems, they would not need a new socialist welfare program. The fact is the democrats know from experience a program like this increases their personal wealth and their hold on power. History shows the democrats are very good at this shell game. They create non existent problems and solve them with socialist programs. They tax the hell out of everyone for it, never actually solve the non-existent problem and the people keep putting them in power to continue doing it.

This shell game is the real reason to prevent obamacare from occurring. There is no history of successfully implementing any socialist program and Democrat party history is to use so called calamaties and crises to enhance their own power.