December 3 –
DEMOCRAT POLICY:
“WHAT'S
YOURS … IS MINE”
THE BIG MIDDLE-CLASS TAX
SURPRISE ...
GOV'T HEALTH-CARE – WHAT'S
COMING
At the very heart of
Democrats' political philosophy is this: Money you've earned is
not
yours. ALL money belongs to the government, and you should be
grateful for whatever portion of it you are allowed to keep.
Barack Obama enunciated it slightly
differently with his "You
didn't build that" remark, but his observation was totally in
keeping with the core belief of liberals. The government is all
...
the individual is insignificant.
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Only the truly dumb (i.e.,
Obama sycophants) could fail to understand the following:
The
median (half higher, half lower) net worth of American
households has
dropped to its lowest point in 43 years.
Time again for the
mantra ...
"We live ... in a land ... run by morons."
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About that "fiscal cliff" thing...
"Let's cut right to the end of the
story: Ordinary people have already tumbled off the
precipice. However much they deny it, your tax bill is going
up. Dramatically.
"Along with the promised tax increases for
the rich, Obama is promising something special for you
too. $600 billion in 'additional' taxes. Merry
Christmas,
"And, really, it was never going to end any
other way than taxes for EVERYONE.
"It's not class warfare they are after; it's
your money. The class warfare rhetoric was the fable they
told you just to lull you to sleep.
"You can't finance everyone's home,
everyone's retirement, everyone's healthcare, everyone's student
loan, everyone's bank, everyone's brand new clunker and
everyone's greed fad and not expect to pay.
"We know the math as well as the economists
do. It doesn't take higher mathematical functions to
understand that outgo can't dwarf income forever. So...it
has all the hallmarks of a sophisticated, well thought out,
intentional Obama economic plan. here's another
hallmark: You can expect another crisis - every day."
--John Ransom, Townhall.com --
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Anyone who presumes to have
constructed a new political formulation (e.g., the college
student who believes communism a great idea that "just hasn't
been done right yet" or the Obama who thinks "debt doesn't
matter") might well pause to consider these wise words...
“The
study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary
arrogance. It
is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions,
which seem
to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once
but many
times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at
great human
cost, wholly false.” --
British
Historian, Paul Johns
--Thanks, Dan --
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Since
Obamacare is modeled on Britain's National Health Service,
perhaps
you'd like a preview of what you can expect. This report comes
from a
major British newspaper, the Telegraph ...
"In the
worse cases staff have overseen 'a kind of normalisation of
cruelty',
(Britain's Health Secretary) Jeremy Hunt told an audience of
health
professionals.
"Managers were so
'buried in spreadsheets' that they had become 'blind' to the
fact
that patients were not being treated with dignity or respect, he
said.
"Poor care had
become 'perhaps the biggest problem of all facing the NHS', Mr
Hunt
claimed in his strongest speech yet on the NHS, almost three
months
into his tenure as Health Secretary.
"In a passionate
speech, Mr Hunt cited numerous examples of appalling NHS care.
He
said: 'Just look at what has come to light in the last few
years:
patients left to lie in their own excrement in Stafford
Hospital,
with members of the public taking soiled sheets home to wash
because
they didn’t believe the hospital would do it.'"
More … from the London
Daily Mail newspaper …
“Sick children are
being discharged from NHS hospitals to die at home or in
hospices on
controversial ‘death pathways’. Until now, end of life
regime the
Liverpool Care Pathway was thought to have involved only
elderly and
terminally-ill adults. But the Mail can reveal the practice
of
withdrawing food and fluid by tube is being used on young
patients as
well as severely disabled newborn babies.
“One doctor
has
admitted starving and dehydrating ten babies to death in the
neonatal
unit of one hospital alone. Writing in a leading medical
journal, the
physician revealed the process can take an average of ten
days during
which a baby becomes ‘smaller and shrunken’. The LCP –
on
which 130,000 elderly and terminally-ill adult patients die
each year
– is now the subject of an independent inquiry ordered by
ministers. …Earlier this month, an un-named doctor wrote of
the
agony of watching the protracted deaths of babies. …‘I know,
as
they cannot, the unique horror of witnessing a child become
smaller
and shrunken, as the only route out of a life that has
become
excruciating to the patient or to the parents who love their
baby.’
“
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Burt
Prelustsky counterpunches conventional wisdom...
“For years now, we
have heard people bemoan the fact that, thanks to the profligate
ways
of Barack Obama, we will be leaving our children and
grandchildren
with enormous debt. Considering the way the young have flocked
out
twice to help elect Obama, I say it serves them right. In fact,
I say
let’s pile it on!”
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A contribution from Mad Mike
…
A
mechanic was removing a cylinder head from the motor of a
Harley
motorcycle when he spotted a well-known heart surgeon in his
shop.
The surgeon was there, waiting for the
service manager to come
and take a look at his bike.
The mechanic shouted across the
garage, "Hey, Doc, can I ask you a question?"
The
surgeon a bit surprised, walked over to the mechanic working
on the
motorcycle. The mechanic straightened up, wiped his hands on
a rag
and asked, "So Doc, look at this engine. I open its heart,
take
the valves out, fix 'em, put 'em back in, and when I finish,
it works
just like new. So how come I get such a small salary and you
get the
really big bucks, when you and I are doing basically the
same work?"
The surgeon paused, smiled and leaned over,
and whispered to the
mechanic...
"Try doing it with
the engine running."
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