House Plans to Tax Millionaires to Fund Health Care



Today's headlines are once again blaring the most common populist mantra of socialist egalitarian rationalization. Obama's plan for funding supposed universal health care? "Tax the rich." That's right friends and neighbors, never fear as it concerns president Obama's plans for America's forced perspective concerning health care. He will tax the rich to pay for it! Or is it...."he will tax the evil rich to pay for it!"

Either way, someone will be taxed to pay for all this, but let's not tell the average working stiff and those poor dumb bastards working 20 hours a day trying to run their own small businesses, that in the end it will be they who are called upon to shoulder their own plucking.

President Obama is going ahead with his full court press for socialized medicine in America and Nancy Pelosi will lead the ground assault in the house of representatives. 

Admittedly, taxing the rich is a popular (hence populist) perspective on just about anything concerning government funding or financing in today's world, especially since the democrats regained the house in 2006 and the senate and the White house last year. But since then, America has suffered the worst economic down turn and recession in a century and the money just isn't there for any more new programs.

None the less our entrusted liberal leaders seem hell bent on pushing us right up to the edge of the great abyss of economic collapse and into the deficit pit of hell. Just as long as they can pursue and obtain their socialist dreams, who cares what cost.

Come hell or high water, these socialist running the democrat party are going to ram through their socialist spending agenda if it kills all of us.

Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! Only this time it isn't a naval blockade but rather the last bastions of capitalism that are under a full scale federal attack by a rogue president and an absolutely out of control socialist majority congress.

The "rich" seem to be the prized golden geese for the democrat goose stepping marchers in congress. Those who are now taking aim at their biggest prize to date (Obama and Pelosi) seem prepared to accept that their cap and trade (tax) plan can't make it out of the senate. And they are now earnestly pushing to get Obama's massive spending bill to supposedly revamp health care through the house before the August recess.

Having been promised by this president a more open and transparent government while campaigning, the reality is proving once again to be far less than was promised to the people by Obama while he was campaigning. (shades of, that was then this is now.)

The present health care legislation being authored by this band of rogues, is already over 1000 pages in length and growing. Does anyone actually think that those who will vote on this bill have read or will read it before they vote to pass it? Does anyone actually believe that we the people will have a chance to read the bill or comment on it for that matter before the vote to pass it? Hell no!

And while the political rhetoric of kill the rich is all fine, well and good on the political stump and in front of the cameras, the reality remains that the liberal definition of rich, leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to taxation.

We are talking about a president and a speaker of the house who have yet to accurately reach a projected mark or promise (concerning budgets, taxes or unemployment) that has been made in the last three years. And these are the same people telling us now, that they will finance their socialized medicine program by simply turning the screws a "wee bit" on those nasty rich people.

Never mind that two things will become terribly apparent just as soon as this bill becomes law.

First, those major corporations and businesses that currently provide health benefits coverage to their employees? That will come to an abrupt end just as soon as this bill becomes law. These businesses (big and small) and the major corporations will quickly realize, that in order to remain competitive, they will have to un-leverage themselves from their present obligations concerning health care coverage for their employees.

Therefore, they will simply pull their benefits packages and tell their employees to go enroll in the new government mandated "free for all" Obama health care program.

The next thing to become apparent to the people after that, will be that the evil rich will soon by necessity encompass everyone who is employed at any level when it comes to paying for the Obama health care taxation program.

Oh sure....make no mistake, those evil rich people will have long since been bled white of all the money that can be squeezed from them. But the reality will remain what any cogent thinking person has to know is truth, "that this socialist farce cannot be funded solely on the backs of the rich!"  (It never could have been).

And what will be accomplished in the long and arduous process of the masses being led to that reality? It will become painfully apparent that we will lose literally millions of small businesses and tens of millions more will soon join the ranks of the jobless. Unemployment may hit 20% if this lunacy passes and is signed into law. But at least everyone will have health care. Even if they have to die waiting for it.

That is what happens when you kill all the golden geese on the alter of socialism. No more eggs, no more land of plenty, no more freedoms. Only famine and pestilence and the final rationalization that believing in egalitarian Nirvana, never was anything other than a disjointed and irrational dream. An impossible dream foisted on the people for the sole purpose of controlling and destroying them. And the funny part? They voted for it.

Thus has been the reality of Nirvana since it's original creation in the diseased mind of socialism over 150 years ago. And it is once again time for the current generation to live the nightmare and learn the painful lessons.

You probably won't see this covered any this week in the MSM now that he is back from his Russian trip of last week. I am surprised that youtube has even left it up at this point. A rather belittling and embarrassing bit of video IMO and it was playing live as the anchor was commentating.

These images and the message they convey are more than clear to me as it concerns his meeting with the Russians last week and what they think of him. Is there any doubt that the man has absolutely no credibility on the world stage? Especially with our enemies and potential adversaries.

Sotomayor hearing moves to key social issues


They began the senate hearings yesterday on Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court. Why bother. The republicans don't have the votes or the balls to stop the nomination and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said as much in his opening remarks to Sotomayor yesterday.

Openly admitting that short of a "melt down, you are going to be confirmed."  Wow....that's what I call GOP leadership personified. Comparing what this woman is on record as saying concerning her own biased vies with how those same remarks would have ended his own career, Senator Graham none the less was willing to immediately concede that her confirmation is in the bag.

I say pull the plug on this farce now and just seat the woman as the newest justice. Why waste my time and my money putting on a charade of supposed probing examination. In the end, Obama gets his liberal Latin justice and the world continues on. and maybe if we are lucky? John Paul Stevens will either go belly up or decide to quit and that will give the messianic one another shot to corrupt the court with another social anarchist.

Just spare me all the media hyped false drama and in depth analysis of what we all know is a done deal.

Obama: Recovery Will Take Years Not Months
Now that it has become apparent that Obama's 787 billion dollar stimulus bill hasn't worked? The president seems to be pleading for patience from the American people.  As a rule, the American people are a patient lot. They tend to go along a lot farther with idiocy than they should historically. Especially when it concerns their taxes. (Makes one wonder what ever happened to the true tea party revelers and their progeny that have become weaklings).

But when the best that the president of the United States can muster are the lame excuses that he brought to the table yesterday? I believe the patience of Job won't be long in the offing with the average American. Give it another 90 days and the reality will be sitting squarely on the shoulders of every American. And it won't have been shaken, sifted and measured in accordance with what the bible teaches, but rather what the bible prophesied IMO.

According to the president? The stimulus wasn't designed to rescue the economy, only to "stop the free fall." So let's see, it costs almost a trillion dollars just to (in theory) put the brakes on a faltering economy which is still in motion in the wrong direction by the way. So how much will it cost to get the economy to put it in reverse and slowly back out of the ditch? Another trillion? Two? Three? Is it even recoverable at this point, especially considering an 11 trillion dollar deficit and grwoing by the minute.

The president's highlight reel of yesterday lays claim to having propped up state budgets and extended unemployment and assisted with more affordable health care via his stimulus. But where are the jobs? There in lies the problem and the reality IMO. You don't hear him or his minions at treasury talking about job creation or even job maintaining anymore. And they have just as quickly brushed past their projections of an 8% unemployment rate of last February. Now that we are at 9.5 unemployment rate and climbing, there is no longer any talk of creating 3 million new jobs. There is no more talk of maintaining what we presently have. Only the prediction that "it will get worse before it gets better." Tell me something I didn't know before you were elected Mr. president.

And as laughable as it may seem? Old smoking Joe Biden may be the only one who has even approached speaking truth to reality in Washington of late. When the VP said last week that they may have misjudged the economy? (just a tad) That was surely an understatement, but at least it is the closest we have come yet to the truth since the man of change first took office.

And now the president is sending up trial balloons on a potential second stimulus package. Carefully dodging any direct references to a second stimulus himself, he none the less has allowed those inside his administration to throw the dog on the table to see how the people will react. IMO? The thoughts of another trillion in government waste won't play well with middle America. The first stimulus hasn't played well from middle America to the board rooms to the former fawning billionaires Buffet and Soros. And it is playing worse now that the realities of the failure of 787 billion in wasted stimulus are becoming apparent to the average American. Give it time? Do we have time?

I am one of those who happens to believe that the rudder of the ship of state is hard over to the left and we are heading toward the shoals instead of toward the safety of port. There is nothing in the current stimulus or any future stimulus that will save this country, in the absence of common sense cut backs in wasteful Washington entitlements and pork. We have to cut taxes and cut waste and we have to do it now.

We have to cut these wasteful programs and budgets designed solely for bureaucracies that are nothing less than self propelled life blood draining siphons on our collective future as a nation. There in lies the solution Mr. president. there in lies the road to redemption. But I don't think that you see it. You are too blinded by your partisan desires of lofting the socialist brass rings into the arena and your desire to see this nation made over into something completely alien to all.

Last week the phones and emails of the US senate were set ablaze by citizens complaining and demanding that the senate put an end to your cap and trade (tax) bill. And this week the calls will once again reach a crescendo of appeal and demand.

The tide is turning if ever so slowly and the people will not long suffer under the yoke of the fiscal and financial oppression that this man and his philosophies of Marxist socialism are attempting to foist on us all.

Remember the Obama girl from last year's campaign? The one who did all the sexy youtube videos about her love for yes we can man from illinois? Well it certainly looked like the president had a new candidate in mind for his next campaign girl while visiting the G8 summit this week.

Beauty Who Turned Obama's Head Is a Brazilian from Rio

Rarely do I blog about the same issue twice in two days, but the president being caught before the world, clearly staring at a teenager's butt has got to be worth more than just some passing commentary and then sinking into the stacks of oblivion. Not even wild Bill Clinton ever got caught actually lusting.

But here we have president Obama in a clearly captured moment of compromise? And the media first closes ranks and chuckles, then begins tendering plausible deniability scenarios before moving on to other things as if this straying of the eye was much ado about nothing. I first saw the photograph of the president's wandering eye yesterday and since then I have seen the video of the G8 group photo where the presidential FUBAR occurred numerous times.

I have seen everyone from ABC to FOX News back peddling and offering everything from abject denials to outright apologies of supposed humor for the president's actions at the G8. ABC went as far as to analyze the footage and assert that "looks can be deceiving".....that the president was only looking down at the step for his footing, or that he was assisting the woman behind him and searching for her hand to assist her.

According to ABC? He clearly wasn't looking at the a s s of a 16 year old girl. Mean while, they laughingly questioned the actions of French president Sarkozy and seemed to want to transpose all guilt of askance looking onto his shoulders. Yet it is the look on Sarkozy's face that is the major giveaway as to what Obama was really looking at.

The media can parse it until hell freezes over, but Sarkozy and everyone else observing saw and they know what they saw. I know what I see in that photo and I know what I saw when I looked at the still photograph and compared it to the the video. The only difference between Obama and Sarkozy, is that Obama corrects himself quickly while Sarkozy goes on leering at the girl's backside.

And lastly, the media's version of this young Brazilian girl as a beauty? Leaves a lot for open interpretation in my opinion. If her a s s qualifies as the sole gradient for beauty, then I suppose she is in the running for Miss Universe. But when she turned around to face the cameras?

All I saw was an average looking girl at best. But then again as the president noted by example, who was looking at the face. The following collage has a better perspective of what was really going on at the G8 group photo IMO. And from the looks of it? It wasn't just the a s s of some 16 year old Brazilian girl who was getting all the attention by the male contingent of world leaders.

 

As one of millions of interested observers (taxpayers), I have begun to notice what I believe is a bothersome trend being established by the Obama family. Beginning with Michelle and her supposed fashion sense. We first saw a glimpse of that supposed frugality and sense of fashion last April, when the first lady was observed wearing a $540 pair of sneakers to a photo op for a food bank in Washington where she was volunteering. My first thoughts back then were...."who pays that kind of money for sneakers?"

Discounting the fact that there are obviously a great number of the super wealthy in the world, there still remains a certain amount of shock in my mind, when I see or hear of anyone spending that kind of money on something as basic as shoes. And here I am today reading the news and I get treated to the dual reports of both Michelle Obama and one of her daughters sporting questionable clothing and accessories while accompanying the president on his tour of Russia and Italy. (I wonder if they laid back and went shopping again like they did in Paris last month.)

In either event, it seems that while traveling with the president, that they have decided to make their own fashion and political statements, subtle as they are if not palpably less than subliminal. First in the news today, we have reports and photographs of first daughter Malia sporting not one but two different versions of the Peace symbol as her traveling attire while visiting Rome with her mother and sister.

The Brits picked up on that rather quickly.

Then comes news that Michelle was captured sporting a nifty little clutch purse, while playing the roll of the dutiful first lady. She was photographed following along behind Barack and Russian president Dmitry Medvedev as they strolled through the woods in Moscow accompanied by the Russian president's wife. And during that stroll she can clearly be seem sporting a black clutch purse.

 

Cost of the purse according to the fashion police? Right at $6000. That's right, Michelle Obama is photographed carrying a purse that retails for almost $6000! Of course the first lady's press office immediately denied that the purse she was carrying was the one sold by VBH of Italy or that is cost anything approaching that much. Opting rather to attempt to clarify their report by saying that it was actually another purse made by a different stylist and that in reality, the purse the first lady was carrying only costs $875. Oh....I get it. An $875 purse makes it alright. What a relief. I thought for a minute there? That we had another example of an elitist being caught being an elitist. Mean while, the makers of the $5990 purse first spotted and identified as a VBH original had this to say.

Told that Obama's office denied the bag was the high-end VBH clutch, Kelly Vitko, a rep for the company replied, "It’s definitely ours [manila bag]."

House Democrat Joins Pelosi in Accusing CIA of Misleading, Lying to Congress

Right.

Today Rep. Silvestre Reyes, basically called out the CIA, stating in a letter to a republican colleague, that he agreed with speaker Nancy Pelosi in that he believes the CIA has lied to congress. Specifically, that he believes that the CIA has lied to him, therefore, he believes speaker Pelosi's allegations against the CIA from earlier this spring must be true.

Then...there are these pearls from his letter that he apparently sent to Republican, Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich, where he was supposedly expressing his concerns on the matter of the CIA's truthfulness to congress to Rep Hoelstra.

<span style="font-style:italic;">"We all know there have been a number of contentious issues that have been much publicized," said Reyes, who indicated he wrote the letter in an attempt to curb GOP efforts to target Pelosi.</span>

So he openly admits that the purpose of the letter is in actuality to attempt to thwart GOP criticism of speaker Pelosi and her allegations against the CIA, if which she is yet to substantiate.

And then there is this....

<span style="font-style:italic;">"Let's leave for the moment the politics out of it," Reyes said. "Our national security is about the most serious thing we deal with here on Capitol Hill. And it shouldn't be politicized."</span>

On that point you are right Rep. Reyes. Our national security is about the most important thing that congress can address and deal with and it shouldn't be politicized. Therefore, for a US congressman who is the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, to call out the CIA on an accusation of lying to congress and then to openly admit that he wrote the letter for the seeming sole purpose of attempting to curb GOP attacks on speaker Pelosi for her accusations?

Well that is unconscionable IMO.

Then to turn right around and attempt to contend that national security isn't something to play around with, much less to use as a politicized ploy? Yet to then admit that the purpose of what you are doing is in fact what you are railing against?

Well I for one am completely amazed. I am completely amazed that a moron like Rep. Reyes could be elected to the US House of Representatives. I am amazed that a partisan hack of such idiocy and contrived partisan thinking, could be given a chairmanship of one of the most important congressional committees in congress. And lastly, I am amazed that an individual such as Rep. Reyes can openly elect to foist such a low brow ruse as this upon the American people and the media? And having done so, no one seems to care or even be able to see the obvious duplicity and partisan sculdugery afoot in this democrat contrived ploy.

Well....not quite buried yet, but at least by the end of this day he will be. Then let the real games begin.

A $25,000 gold plated casket.

A motorcade of 10 Rolls Royces, 3 Cadillac Escalades and 10 all black Range Rovers.

11,000 people who won golden tickets to this decades greatest show on earth. (the farewell to Michael Jackson).

Various and sundry celebrities and politicians present to have their photos made in front of the back drop of a Hollywood drama at it's best.

Priceless?  No. Sickening IMO.

Twelve days after the death of Michael Jackson, the first act of the big top never land circus is finally drawing to an end and the legal wrangling over the estate begins in earnest.

I say good riddance, I am sick of seeing it and hearing about it.

We have lost 13 valiant young men in Afghanistan since Michael Jackson died. Who mourns for them other than their families. What networks stopped the world to report of their passing as real America heroes.

The answer is self evident. And the answer is sad IMO.

No one cares about them. The average American would rather swoon over some emotionally conflicted and drug addicted celebrity, than recognize the life and passing of those that truly matter.

World stocks fall as oil drops to $64 a barrel

All of us have seen the rising cost of gasoline at the pump since the first of the year. Locally, I have seen prices rise from $1.49 a gallon to over $2.65 a gallon and now the price has fallen back to around $2.45 this week.

But the question remains, when will the cost of energy reach any level of reasonable equilibrium. And how can it, when we continue to allow those on Wall street to manipulate the prices. Today's headlines seem to reflect a retreat once again in oil prices and as a result, the world stock markets are reacting by sliding? Why is that? It seems to me that the news of lower cost energy should if anything inspire more investment. but the reverse is seemingly true. that tells me precisely who is behind and responsible for these market fluctuations and erratic prices for oil and other energy sources.

Which immediately brings questions in my mind? Questions of where exactly is this recovery that I have been hearing about for the past two months. There have been some increase in the global stock markets that is for sure, but the bottom line of jobs and job losses have continued to slide and the turn around that Obama's stimulus spending promised simply hasn't materialized.

And I for one don't believe that it will materialize. How can it? Particularly in the face of Obama's desire to have cap and trade rammed down our throats in the midst of a recession. Cap and trade is in actuality cap and "tax" and anyone other than a complete fool can see that. How can further penalizing people with embedded punitive taxing, be a positive thing or an element to economic recovery? It can't be.

Of course all the so called economist who told us all along that everything was alright with the economy, are the same ones telling us now that everything in alright with the economy once again and recovery is underway. I for one don't believe that. I tend to listen to those who are not in the main stream and those who are not affiliated with and obligated to partisan think tanks and thus have to match the reality of their supposed science to the political rhetoric, by supporting it in the public arena with faux science.

The American economy remains floundering and just barely laying off from smashing against the rocks, and our energy policies and the cost of oil remain major driving forces in this economy and always have been. IMO, we can no longer endure the unencumbered speculation in the energy markets that stand to completely wreck what is left of our economy. And we certainly cannot withstand the socialist inspired and liberal democrat led attack on our energy resources in the name of hyped and purposely skewed science, for the sake of supposedly doing out part to combat global warming that isn't occurring.

Saudis give nod to Israeli raid on Iran

Biden: U.S. Won't Stand in Way of Israel on Iran Nukes

Two headlines jumped out at me this morning. The first concerning the Saudis supposed tacit approval to the Israelis potential to launch a preemptive strike on Iran. That story leaked out early this morning, then several hours later, a new revelation by our own vice president. (And since when is Joe Biden the lead man for releasing Obama administration foreign policy. )

Especially concerning the more than touchy reality surrounding public discussions of the Iranian nuclear program and Israel and potential attacks. It seems to me that we may be in the midst of watching a substantive sea change on the part of both America and certain middle eastern entities, as it concerns what to do about the Iranian nuclear problem.

And what better place to run up the test balloons of public opinion, than in the Sunday headline sections of various national media. I remember all too well the Sunday when the news story broke of a supposed cult called the Branch Davidians in Texas. A full expose on David Koresh and his Branch Davidians ran that Sunday in a number of major American papers.

Allegations of child abuse and all manner of other allegations were bantered as fact in those articles. And the following day is when the siege at Waco began. I can still look back on those stories and see sound reason to believe that those stories were purposeful media plants. These stories were purposely floated on a Sunday, to soften up the psyche of the American people (IMO) for what the government knew was about to happen the next day. I have that same feeling after seeing these two articles concerning a potential Israeli attack on Iran, suddenly appearing within hours of each other in the MSM today.

Is something about to happen in Iran? Involving an Israeli attack and the subtle but well wished blessing of America and a number of her allies? I suppose we will have to wait and see. Just don't be surprised later on this week if we suddenly find ourselves at war with Iran. Remember, Achmed the the crazy president of Iran and the Mullahs of Iran have long promised to attack America and Americans if anyone attempts to attack Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Ever since the breaking news announcement this afternoon concerning Governor Sarah Palin, I have been at an increasing loss for words and bewildered of thought, as to exactly what has happened and what was or is behind it all.

To suddenly call a news conference and then to get up there in front of the national media and ramble for twenty minutes, before finally dropping two bombshells? Well something is going on IMO and that something stands to be a big bombshell. And a lot bigger bombshell than the mere announcements that occurred in Wasilla this afternoon.

I could understand her decision to opt not to run for a second term as governor of Alaska, in order to prepare for a national presidential race. But I cannot fathom why she would abandon her current term 2 1/2 years in and without any explanation other than what I considered to be a weak, rambling and lack luster dissertation that left more questions than it answered.

It was as if I was watching a different version of the inexplicable Mark Sanford press conference of ten days ago. Only this time? No discernible scandal or rhyme or reason to the mid afternoon drama. Something tells me that we have not heard the last of this shocking announcement of Governor Palin's resignation.

And something tells me that when the other shoe finally drops? It is going to be a bombshell. Something that will literally shake the republican party to its foundations.

You just don't get elected to the governorship of a state, then get picked to be the running mate of a presidential party candidate, then suddenly six months after the race, simply call a news conference and bow out of office. Not unless there is a major reason or outside influence at work in that decision.

There is no question or doubt in my mind, that Sarah Palin has purposely fallen on her own sword and there is presently no amount of convincing me that it was done for the benefit of family or because of the totality of stress that the vice presidential run created and has continued to create. Or that it was decided based upon the recent controversy involving Letterman.

Sarah Palin was sitting on the cusp of being the 2012 nominee for the presidency of the United States as the republicans choice and suddenly? Someone yanked Cinderella's shoes and her ball dress and turned her chariot back into a pumpkin and mice.

Something is definitely amiss and it is only a matter of time before the truth prevails. And when it does, people's heads are really going to spin IMO.

Washington Post Cancels Plans to Hold Costly Dinner for Lobbyists

Well of course they had to cancel it. As soon as some less than savvy dweeb let it leak out that the editor of the Washington Post was seeking to be the go between between Washington insiders and lobbyists and those on capitol hill and the Obama administration? What else could they do.

The flier called the discussion an "exclusive opportunity to participate in the health care reform debate among the select few who will actually get it done." The "few" included Obama administration officials, congressional leaders and Post reporters and editors. The fee was $25,000 per "sponsor," and $250,000 for an annual sponsorship.

Imagine that....an "exclusive opportunity." Is that what we are calling pay for play in the new world order of Obama's Washington these days? Yes, it certainly looks like whether this clandestine little get together came off or not, there will still be efforts afoot to hook up "the few" (with the money to play) with Obama administration insiders, Washington post editors and congressional leaders. (Would that be considered a "Cabal?")

How quaint. According to these revelations, it seems to be both legal and ethical to have one of these get togethers, just as long as they do it all together and call it a dinner. Which makes me wonder about the difference between simply visiting a prostitute and attending a government sponsored orgy. Is there a difference? Obviously one activity is looked upon shady and distasteful (not to mention illegal) while the other is probably akin to attending one of Louis the XVI's and Marie's masquerade balls according to these neuvo democrat politicos inside the beltway. I wonder what kinds of cake they intended to serve at this little dinner get together. What ever it would have been? I'll bet that it would have rivaled the best that Louis the XVI could have mustered in his day.

You will have to wait for the end of the video, but Helen Thomas absolutely refuses to let Gibby off the hook on his trying to dodge the quesation of the president's town hall meeting today and the fact that the media was being excluded and the internet questions were being culled and in the can for the president.

Way to go Helen!