He's hoping you'll just bend over and take it.

1. Most young and healthy opt out of health insurance – they want to stick us with $4k a year against our will. Sounds like they’re bilking us, not helping us!!! Some opt out of health insurance altogether; they work, save, and pay cash, in full.

2. Health care is as personal as it gets – it’s none of Uncle Sam’s business! Besides, the medical industry should be left to the professionals.

3. It is a Federal power grab. It may take a black market to keep a free market.

4. Obama lies! Coverage will pay for abortion on demand, even if you don’t want more tax dollars going toward it. Democrats voted this down every time it was brought up for vote. This is just one landmine in a field of ethical landmines (i.e., Physician assisted suicide, stem cell research, cloning, denying treatment to those deemed unfit to receive it, eugenics, etc.). Ironically, I guess when you look at it this way…health care is a “moral” issue (In a different sense than the reemerging Democrat crusade).

5. Obama lies! Coverage will be extended to illegal aliens. If they aren’t legal yet, he will make them legal (this is what he really means). Dems voted this down every time it was brought up for vote. This is at least one reason for rising medical costs; they treat the E.R. like their primary care physician.

6. They act like they are in a big hurry…for what? Remember the big push to pass more unread legislation before the August recess? Remember the last time they tried to pass unread legislation (the Stimulus Bill which was drafted by radical socialists in the “Apollo Alliance”). The “benefits” of such a system would not take effect until 2013 – a year after it would effect the next presidential election (how convenient Mr. Obama!?). If health care is the next moral threshold, why make people wait for it? Why hurry up just to wait? As with the Stimulus package, we’re just frogs in a kettle, and they’re just ever so gradually turning up the heat.

7. They are going around the citizens’ backs to try to get this done. Fortunately the house majority realizes that they will not get reelected if they fail to represent the people.

8. Socialized health care has not worked in the UK, France, or Canada. They have less high tech machinery, skilled research, and medical procedure advancement. Why else would they come here to get treatment? The upcoming generations will not be able to sustain such systems economically in the near future (and demographics don’t lie).

9. There has been no promise of a crack down on tort law. Ask any professional from the medical industry and they will tell you that rising medical costs are due to another quagmire: tort law (such as medical malpractice and Dr.s’ need for coverage). Approximately $252 Billion was spent in 2007 for Medical Malpractice Claims, about 2% of GDP. Leave it to a lawyer to tell you the truth.

10. Free things result in long lines. Recently, the Spaghetti Factory offered a free dinner at all their locations for one day. Mars and his buds got one after waiting in line for about 4-5 hours. I gave up when I saw the line stretch 3/4 of a block out the door.

Reagan’s pre-presidency chat in 1961 discusses the threat of Socialized Medicine by Democrats, “the party that left him,” and Liberalism.

NY Times, LA Times, and Washington Post only reported on Van Jones’ post-resignation status. They failed to inform the public of Obama’s initial appointment of this publicly self-avowed Communist as the new Green Collar Economy Czar, expected to produce “green jobs” from a limited Curricula Vitae of community organizing of public protests. Sound familiar?

Just another familiar face in Obama’s long line of sketchy associations. More steeped in Lenin and Marx than Bill Ayers, and as racially charged as Jeremiah Wright, this figure is the best of both worlds. Add in his outspoken conspiracy theory that the Bush Administration planned 9/11, and you have a full-fledged whack-job leaving everyone wondering is there anyone checking I.D.s at the door!?

This guy has all the traits that make a great Liberal: self-loathed nationalism, civil rights gone haywire, and a communist agenda at the core. Obama is building a dream team and this guy was first on the draft list. However, Van Jones was dropped from the 3 dozen or so “Czars.” You can chalk it up to the convenient dumping of relationships with people no longer considered politically-convenient for Obama.

What is troubling is the sound of “Czar,” which shares an etymology with “Kaiser,” and can be traced back to “Caesar” and other supreme authorities and kings who held absolute, unchecked power. Even more troubling is that these Czars are functioning with the authority and power of presidential cabinet members as a part of the executive branch, except without the process of Congressional confirmation. The most troubling thing: Representative government does not seem to matter to this former Constitutional Law Prof.

The FDIC is BROKE in terms of present capital and even just the 416 troubled banks.
The FDIC will approach the US Treasury within ten weeks for additional funding.
The FDIC must, as their funds are falling towards zero.
The FDIC will be restocked with funds by the US Treasury.
The FDIC then becomes another form of QE.
The Chinese are publicly opposed to a continued QE dollar program.

This adds more fuel to the fire that this coming winter will be extremely difficult for the US dollar.

The Coming Deposit Insurance Bailout
Another lesson that federal guarantees aren’t free.

Americans are about to re-learn that bank deposit insurance isn’t free, even as Washington is doing its best to delay the coming bailout. The banking system and the federal fisc would both be better off in the long run if the political class owned up to the reality.

We’re referring to the federal deposit insurance fund, which has been shrinking faster than reservoirs in the California drought. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. reported late last week that the fund that insures some $4.5 trillion in U.S. bank deposits fell to $10.4 billion at the end of June, as the list of failing banks continues to grow. The fund was $45.2 billion a year ago, when regulators told us all was well and there was no need to take precautions to shore up the fund.  More…

Beauty I’d always missed, with these eyes before,

Just what the truth is, I can’t say anymore.

There is an inexplicable, but somehow widely held, belief that stock market movements are predictive of economic conditions.  As such, the current rally in U.S. stock prices has caused many people to conclude that the recession is nearing an end.  The widespread optimism is not confined to Wall Street, as even Barack Obama has pointed to the bubbly markets to vindicate his economic policies.  However, reality is clearly at odds with these optimistic assumptions of our economic Knights in White Satin.

In the first place, stock markets have been taken by surprise throughout history.  In the current cycle, neither the market nor its Knights in White Satin saw this recession coming, so why should anyone believe that these fonts of wisdom have suddenly become so clairvoyant?

According to “official” government statistics, the current recession began in December of 2007.  Two months earlier, in October of that year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 both hit all-time record highs.  Exactly what foresight did this run-up provide?  Obviously markets were completely blind-sided by the biggest recession since the Great Depression.  In fact, the main reason why the markets sold off so violently in 2008, after the severity of the recession became impossible to ignore, was that the economic Knights in White Satin had so completely misread the economy in the preceding years.

Furthermore, throughout most of 2008, even as the economy was contracting, the economic Knights in White Satin and stock market strategists were still confident that a recession would be avoided.  If they could not even forecast a recession that had already started, how can they possibly predict when it will end?

I thought there was progressive liberal undertaking of separating church and state?…or any religious language from political discourse? However, lately Obama has been using words like “my brother’s keeper” and “calling” to describe incentives to do away with health care as we know it.

“Brother’s keeper” occurs once in the Bible (Genesis 4:9), and is from a answer to God’s question to Cain about where his brother is, after he had murdered him in cold blood. Not the sort of quote you would want to pull out in support of “health” or “care,” huh? However, in desperation, I suppose, liberal politicians will use anything – even religion, which they despise so much – to accomplish their dirty work. This is the near the pinnacle of the abuse of religion.

Furthermore, the worldview from which Obama is misquoting the Bible is known as the “Universal Brotherhood of Mankind,” oft used amongst “comrades,” of which I would rather not be one. The Bible as a whole does not support such an ideology. This theme is prevalent within Secular Humanism, but not God’s word.

The Bible does speak of physically caring for all mankind (Galatians 6:10), but specifically places priority on blood family (1 Timothy 5:8), and those within the household of faith, or family of believers in Jesus Christ before those outside the church (Galatians 6:10). The Bible never says that we are all brothers and sisters of each other. Each person, whether a believer or not, is valuable because they have the image of God in them, but those who actually care what the scripture says are to take care of themselves first (2 Thessalonians 3:10), then blood family and family in Jesus Christ, then the rest of the world.