Sarah Palin, on the other hand, battled her own party exposing the corruption.  I have NO DOUBT that should she become president, the first thing she would do is audit the feds and ACORN.  The next thing she would do is release the US from under UN control.  She would not appoint the same people into powerful positions in this country.  Getting back to the wising up statement, the people that Obama has put into power are the same people that have been in power for the last 20 years, he just played musical chairs.  Wake up people, there is no change with Obama; it is more of the same elitist moving this country to communism except on the fast track!

Palin has proven she can’t be bought and she does not go along with the status quo.  She shakes things up and doesn’t fear big oil!  She would put her foot down just as Reagan did.  Obama, McCain, Bush 41 and 43, Clinton, they are all guilty of having their hand in the cookie jar of corruption and big business!  Goldman Sachs never paid any taxes last year and they are first in line to make millions of dollars should Cap and Trade be implemented.  Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, ING, Goldman, Feds, all the big banks, are all run by friends and family of BOTH parties in Washington.

Sarah Palin has NO friends in Washington or New York.  She puts the country first and not big business or big oil.  For that, the left hates her as well as many on the right.  They do not want Sarah coming into Washington and taking their cash cows and power from them.  She WOULD expose what is really going on in the country!

I am going to a Tea Party tomorrow armed with my video camera! I would suggest everyone going to be armed with a camera as well! If anyone dares to start anything, with luck someone will have it on tape and the real perpetrators (ACORN) will be exposed!

You go to apply for a job; your employer has a doctor on speed dial.  They see you are bi-polar and have diabetes.  Another candidate is completely healthy.  Who is going to get hired?  A woman is applying for a promotion.  They run her health records and find she is 3 months pregnant.  Do you think they’ll still promote her?

You go for Life insurance or you want private insurance, they pull up your health records and find you have the “cancer gene” or you are prone to strokes, heart disease, do you think they’ll cover you?

I watched a doctor advocating this system on Fox News and he was asked about the system being compromised.  If someone breaks into a doctor’s office they might get a handful of records but only specific to that doctor, now they can get all your records for millions of people.  His response, “Sure there’s the risk of someone getting millions of records but it’s not different then banks, credit cards numbers being hacked into.”

I beg to differ!  There is a HUGE difference!  If your banking records have been compromised you can change your accounts, you can cancel credit card. You can’t change your medical history!  What if someone steals the records and post names and addresses of all the people that have AIDS?

I can understand that all Medicare/CHIP patients have their information on the system to reduce cost to the taxpayers.  Most are retired or disabled and won’t be seeking employment any time soon.  For people who have private insurance or pay cash – absolutely NOT!  IT MUST be an opt-in system for people with private insurance.

Otherwise it defeats the purpose of the HIPPA laws:  From the Boundaries of the HIPPA Laws: Employers may not obtain personal health information for the purpose of hiring, firing, or determining promotions without the consent of the individual. Additionally, insurance companies may not use personal health information for the purpose of underwriting products such as life insurance. In all cases disclosure is to be limited to the minimum amount necessary for the intended purpose of the disclosure.

If this system is designed to make your records “easily accessible to prevent duplicate care” then there is going to be no way to prevent your records from being compromised!  I have been commenting on articles on this new Electronic Health Care system and I have been called paranoid.  The problem is, it is not me “being paranoid”, it is exactly what is going to happen in this country should this system be implemented!!

I don’t have anything in my health past that would concern me if it should fall in the wrong hands, I just really think this is an invasion of privancy and not fair to the people that have isssues they deal with every day.  It is no one’s business!  Whatever health issue someone has should be between their doctor and them.  Doctor patient privilege will no longer exist!

This time it is on the appointment of Timothy Geithner.  It just infuriates me at the thought that he is even a contender.  Surely there must be other qualified people out there that have not attempted to defraud the IRS.

I look at it this way.  The man should, by all means, be held to a higher standard.  It’s a little different if I made a “mistake” on my taxes because:

a.) I have very little knowledge about taxes, tax codes and finance

b.) I do not have a life in politics.

c.) I have no desire to control any ones money except my own.

Here’s the thing – because I know I am clueless when it comes to taxes, I pay a man to go through my stuff and do it for me.  My personal price tag is too high to risk fudging my taxes and if I was working in a financial related government position, I would certainly make damn sure that my taxes are done right and without questions.

This is a reflection of Geithner’s character!  The fact the Geithner attempted to screw the IRS out of what? $48,000 – that tells me $48,000 is Geithner’s “price”.  Think about it, we all have a price!  Some people, their price might be as little as the value of one a cigarette to break the law.    (We saw that in our last election cycle and yes, I am referring to our current president and not just the ACORN fiasco.) Other’s it might take millions because they just can’t do something because it’s wrong.

$48k is very a very cheap price considering Geithner will be in charge of billions of dollars!   I’m sorry but his resume dictates to me that he SHOULD KNOW BETTER!  There was no “mistake”!  If there truly was a mistake then shame on him, if he’s that stupid he should admit that he has no business, nor the knowledge, of taking on such a position when there are plenty of people out there that are not stupid enough to make that “mistake”.

The second half of this that really irks me the wrong way is the fact that so many people are too quick to brush this off as a “mistake”.  Do they not care that Timothy Geithner will be in charge of billions when his price tag is ONLY $48k?  That tells me Geithner can be bribed with as little as $48K.  At least Gov Blogoviech has a higher price tag.

When did this country stop caring about people’s character?  When did people in this country stop caring that our political figures should be held to a higher standard?

Secondly, we need to outlaw ALL unions!  I don’t mean just the UAW, I mean all unions, police, teachers, teamsters…There was a time and place for unions and that time has passed!  Imagine if teachers actually had to teach rather then do just enough to get by knowing the union will protect them! 

Right now, we have a bunch of moronic crooked lawyers making a decision over whether or not to bail out the auto industry.  The facts are, they aren’t really doing it to bail out the auto industry they are doing it to bail out the unions.  That alone proves the moronic lawyers know nothing about business.   Unions are nothing but a noose around the neck of the company and they do little more than stifle innovation and protect dead beat workers! 

If our politicians were business smart they would be saying, “Let the Big 3 go into chapter 11”  Why you ask?  That will cause 2.5 million people to lose their jobs…why would you want such a thing?  There’s a lot of companies that depend on the Auto industry that will lose their companies too.  No one will buy a car from a car manufacture that is going bankrupt. 

To that I say – NOTHING BUT A BUNCH OF SCARE’M TACTICS! Ask yourself something, how is the government giving the Big 3 money…..going to sell 1 car?  Do you actually believe if the government hands over the money every American will run out a buy an American made car?  Hell NO!  The Big 3 will be back in 4-6 months for another bailout! 

Here’s what will happen if they skip the bailout:

The contract with the union will become null and void.  This scares the Democrats shitless.  If the Autoworkers Union fails – this will cause other unions to lose credibility and power as they should!  Again, there was a time and place for unions and that time has passed. 

Anyway, getting back to what would really happen.  The unions will get their little butts kicked out the door.  2 of the Big 3 may fail completely, but 1 will come out of it and thrive.  For the sake of this diary entry, let’s say Ford.  All of a sudden there is only 1 American made auto company.  Competition drops drastically.  Sure there will be a lot of jobs lost from GM and Chrysler but without GM and Chrysler, the foreign auto makers in this country, as well as Ford, will be growing.  They will share the market once covered by GM and Chrysler with Ford getting the largest share. 

Ford and the foreign auto makers will pick up some of the employees let go from GM and Chrysler.  Meanwhile, a group of former GM employees will get together and realize that without GM and Chrysler, there is a big hole in market shares.  They get together and form their own company and name it a smooth name like, “Autobot”.  They acquire a fat federal grant for developing an energy efficient car and the next thing you know, we have a new American made car that gets 150 mpg and also flies.  (Okay, so I’m stretching it a bit but you get where I going with it right?)

As far as the automakers, I have no sympathy for them!  When was the last time a really cool car came on the market?  Not since the PT Cruiser.  I remember when it first came out my friends were on a waiting list.  Personally, I thought I looked more like a small hearse than anything but hey, if it floats your boat – go for it. 

Think about it.  We keep getting these big ugly machines thrown down our throats when most of us would much rather see small, sexy fun cars.  They haven’t come up with anything really new or unique and inexpensive.   (Although the unions force the price of American made cars up because of labor cost – nix the unions, drop the labor cost.  Why do foreign auto makers pay so much less labor cost and have a better quality car?  Because they don’t have a union!)

My first car was a Honda CRX, I got 50 mpg and it was fun to drive.  After 2 CRX’s I graduated up to the Honda Del Sol which was even more fun to drive, especially topless.  Both were small affordable cars with excellent gas mileage! 

I understand a mom with 3 kids can’t be driving around to soccer practice in a Honda Del Sol.  However, what the American Auto Makers fail to realize is there is a big market out there for small, affordable, fun and sexy cars.  We don’t want to see stupid little ugly cars like the smartcar (god I hate those things!) but what’s so difficult with coming out with some small, inexpensive cars with sexy lines and maybe a top that can be removed?  Not everyone needs a backseat.  I would certainly forgo a backseat over paying an additional $20K + for something I don’t need. 

That’s enough with the automakers, my head is hurting.  (Note to self – take some aspirin) The next thing we have to do is get the governments nose out of everyone’s business!  I swear, if the government used half the energy they use worrying whether people are being politically correct or whether people know how to make the right decissions about their own lives and took that energy and focused on cutting ALL the wasteful spending we might actually go out of debt. 

Government needs to keep their nose out of anything related to personally choice!  From wearing a seatbelt to smoking in a bar.  Leave it to the bar owners to decide if they want to be smoke free.  The wait staff and workers have free choice of where they want to work.  Let them decide.  Patrons should have free choice to decide where they want to eat and drink.  If a restaurant allows smoking and their revenues decrease or they can’t find good help, let them decide to go non smoking or bankrupt!  If I don’t want to wear a seatbelt, I shouldn’t have to!  If I want to eat food fried in trans fat – I should have every right to! 

How can we expect a bunch of idiot lawyers to make decisions on how to run a business or how to live our lives!?!  How can we expect a bunch of idiot lawyers to balance a budget, especially when most of the lawyers have never had to balance a budget before! 

Anyway, I have completed my rant for today….I will be back!