…of any government program that “competes” with private business.

The government gets to set the rules, change it as it sees fit, and never has to score points (make money) to win the game.

The result? All the other players take their ball and go home (or rather, leave the marketplace).

encourage competition? They really MUST think we are all stupid. There’s simply no other explaination for their approach to the facts.

Why is anyone lamenting the fact that Joe Wilson stood up during the address the other night and called the President out?

You know, for a long time I was notorious on this blog and elsewhere (Caleb Howe knows) for being a miniature version of John McCain every time there was a bit of news about Republicans that could be spun negatively by the people in the press and by the Democrats themselves. I was a hand-wringer for Republican decorum who lamented Terri Schiavo, Dick Cheney and his shooting accident, and a lot of other things small and large.

Each time some event happened that I worried about liberals using against us, I sat here and whined and cried about it, and more than anything else criticized our side.

Those days are over. These are not ordinary times and we have no ordinary team of prevaricators in the Executive Branch. Joe Wilson spoke for millions of people when he stood up and said what he said, all thoughts of decorum aside. The President and his lapdogs in Congress and the press really need to understand that we’re going to continue to object to the policies of the Obama Administration vocally, on line, and with our dollars and our votes. Otherwise the Ratchet Mechanism™ that Bob Hahn so precisently wrote about on this blog is going to continue clicking left irreversably.

I find it more than ironic that Vladimir Putin himself talked about the mistakes of State control while he was in Davos. Here’s Mad Vlad Putin as free market Capitalist:

In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state’s role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.

Nor should we turn a blind eye to the fact that the spirit of free enterprise, including the principle of personal responsibility of businesspeople, investors and shareholders for their decisions, is being eroded in the last few months. There is no reason to believe that we can achieve better results by shifting responsibility onto the state.

And yet that is precisely what the Obama Administration is trying to do.

One of our State Reps. standing up during Obama’s Biggest Snowjob and calling it out as such should be something this blog is standing up and cheering. There should be more of it, not less. The people in Congress who stand up to this President should be rewarded generously, not rebuked or chastised.

To Kowalski:

Eisenhour worried every second of every day in the war. He just didn’t let the worry paralyze him. Glad to have you on board the “Screw ‘em” train. Political correctness is a cancer living within the culture of this nation. And a good deal of our decline can be directly connected to it.

Sometimes a man just has to stand up and say what he thinks and tell people what the facts are, regardless if it “offends” some else.

The bad mouthing arrogant politicians of today are lucky they don’t live in my grandfather’s time. They would have suffered bloody noses at the least if they tried to push their loudmouth agendas on men like him.

The good news is that PC may be reaching its limit. People will tolerate a lot in the name of diversity, but not go broke, watch their kids suffer, or loose their nation.

Oh, they’ll try to push universal healthcare as a right, or the right thing to do, but it has not traction. That leaves simply forcing it on us. If in 2010 the system is still in place, we’ll have the chance to vote them out.

If not, well, there is always my grandad’s solution. You’d be surprised how effective it is.

Doesn’t HR 3200 specifically forbid a non-exchange market for individual coverage? If it’s not individual, how would people be able to “choose” their coverage anyway, through their oh-so-responsive corporate HR departments?

There has always been an item on this in the bill. A section says that after 5 years all insurance programs will be evaluated. If the Gov. doesnt like it then it will be rolled into the Gov plan.

This is just a shill for Single payer and always has been.

No plan will ever meet their wants and all will be rolled up into one large cluster*uck.

It is just dumb for anyone to entertain any thought that LIBERALS in Govt. will ever allow Costs (and Budgets) to ever go down!!!

from HC Townhalls: Steny Hoyer (D-MD) edition.

(avoiding the HR3200 consequence/fact) More Govt. regulations and paperwork will DRIVE UP not reduce costs and bring us more Lawyers and Office Administrators to deal with it NOT Doctors

more and even more

are to be prohibited from receiving healthcare without paying for because BHO intends to make all current illegals aliens residents of the US through an amnesty program that will be supported by McCain and other liberals (there are no moderates; there are liberals or conservatives); consequently, those 12 million will be eligible for medical care through the government (you and me) paying for it. Besides, unless the bill specifically says it supersedes EMTALA; illegal aliens will still receive medical care in ERs. EMTALA: The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (42 U.S.C. § 1395dd) is a United States Act of Congress passed in 1986 as part of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act. It requires hospitals and ambulance services to provide care to anyone needing emergency treatment regardless of citizenship, legal status or ability to pay. There are no reimbursement provisions. As a result of the act, patients needing emergency treatment can be discharged only under their own informed consent or when their condition requires transfer to a hospital better equipped to administer the treatment.

…actually seems somewhat surprised that MSNBC missed the main point of this whole incident. Isn’t that what MSNBC normally does, either because they’re Obama apologists and propagandists or because they can’t get outside of their own liberal lame-brained bubble enough to know what’s really going on?

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