According to theHill.com it appears that the last vestige of Republican support has melted away in the form of Olympia Snowe who expressed concerns over the budgetary constraints the health reform bill poses. When a woman who voted for the 787 Stimulus package is concerned over price, you got a problem! Max Baucus feels he addresses some of the concerns put forth by critics, specifically payment of the program. In the speech to Congress, Obama suggested the Democrat’s bill will not add one cent to our deficit by matching every expenditure with a cut. He also maintained NOTHING will change for those currently insured. OK, let’s see how this holds up.

The proposal is as following:


Fees on insurance companies, drug makers, medical device manufacturers and insurers. Tax of 35 percent on insurance plans costing more than $8,000 for individuals and $21,000 for families, applied to premium amounts over the threshold. Cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. A fee on employers whose workers receive government subsidies to help them pay premiums. Fines on those who fail to get coverage.

Baucus’s measure would cost $856 billion over 10 years — far less than the $1 trillon-plus bills approved by four other congressional committees and less even than Baucus’s previous estimates. The price tag also falls below the $900 billion limit set by President Barack Obama.

First of all, without delving into how many people are affected we can see beyond any shadow of a doubt that no cutting is taking place. There is no shrinking of government, no reduction in departments, agencies, employees, etc so that is lie #1. There is a nasty tax on “wealthy” health insurance programs, therefore cost of insurance programs for at least some people in America will rise, lie #2. Obama also alleges that Medicare/Medicaid will not suffer. According to whitehouse.gov’s reality check, they suggest de-funding Medicare is a myth!! Baucus proposes deep cuts in medicare/medicaid, some sources suggesting up to 500 billion dollars. Lie #3? You bet. But this actually raises a much more serious issue that some have missed.

In summary:

• Medicare will not be cut: Lie
• Nothing will change for existing insurance holders: Lie
• This will be paid for by cuts in government: Lie

As you can see, when the federal government has printed all it can print and faces a situation of critical magnitude the solution is to cut services. After decades of abuse and mismanagement Medicare and Medicaid are broke, they are so broke in fact, that in twenty years the liability cost of these two programs will exceed that of Social Security. Yet by injecting themselves into the health business in the first place, they have crowded out health insurers, raised costs of existing insurers through regulation and significantly compromised the market to provide competitive health care solutions. We find ourselves in a situation where our seniors are utterly stuck and are at the mercy of government bureaucrats, not a good place to be! There is no time to usher in a private solution because the market is broken due to intervention. Americans could easily be facing a similar prospect in 10 or 20 years, between Medicare/Medicaid anywhere between 70-80 million are affected, but we are putting more and more people on a deadly hook.

With so many lies, half-truths, inconsistencies and contradictions one has to question all motivation behind this “emergency” reform. We know there are 30 million uninsured at any one time, with less than half too poor to actually afford anything, so this almost 900 billion dollar plan is intended for something else. Even if bought insurance straight up for all the uninsured the total cost would be a fraction of the proposed number. Instead liberals are simply providing a mechanism by which the federal government can pay for programs they themselves mismanaged in the first place! Medicaid also has strict restrictions on what plans seniors can actually purchase further restricting people’s freedom to choose. This is a convoluted system designed to permanently entrench the government’s position in our health industry to pay for and cover up previous mistakes. This plan is being sold as a benevolent solution, but the amount of contradiction leads me to believe that something more sinister is afoot. Perhaps I am reading too much into it, but how can we possibly trust the people behind Medicare/Medicaid with handling our care? It is madness!

“ACORN has received $53 million in taxpayer funds since 1994 and that the group was eligible for a wider set of funding in the pending legislation, which funds housing and transportation programs. “

This of course still leaves the following questions.

1) Is ACORN still eligible for the stimulus money that Democrats deliberately voted to keep in.
2) Is ACORN Housing being funded via any other channels?

3) Are there plans to defund the parent organization?

The following has to be done as soon as possible.

1) Halt remainder of all funding to the criminal organization known as ACORN and it’s numerous affiliates.
2) Pass legislation to return all of taxpayer money back to the US Treasury.
3) Launch RICO investigations for racketeering charges.
4) Label ACORN as an organized crime enterprise, arrest top officials and dismantle the organization

Any Congressman or Senator that wishes to oppose should be paraded around the Internet and removed from office at the next election. Keep in mind that ACORN has threatened to sue James O’Keefe/Hannah Giles and FOX News for smearing them, naturally because these stories are not being covered by any other news network. As of now I applaud James for slowly distributing these videos, one per day. By doing this he is putting ACORN on the forefront and via Fox News and the Internet, Americans will learn the true sinister nature of this organization. I hope more videos are coming and would be shocked if we do not see several more within the next few days.

Most illegal immigrants are also now excluded from Medicaid, the
government-run health care for the poor. We didn’t see anything that would change that.

One place where the bill does mention immigration status is for
“affordability credits.” These are tax credits for people of modest means need to buy health insurance. The credits would help them buy insurance on a national health insurance exchange. The bill specifically says that people in the United States illegally are not eligible for tax credits, on page 132, section 242.

Ultimately concluding that Joe Wilson is the liar, not their hero Obama. However the center for immigration studies disagrees with this finding offering two very clashing facts.

1. “On July 16, an amendment by Rep. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) that would have required use of the SAVE program to prevent illegal immigrants from receiving the affordable premium credits was defeated by the House Ways and Means Committee.” If Democrats were truly interested in banning illegals from taxpayer funded health coverage, why would they possible strike down this amendment!?

2. Regarding these very same tax credits. “Section 246 of HR 3200 states, “Nothing in this subtitle shall allow federal payments for affordability credits on behalf of individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States.”2 But as CRS points out, “HR 3200 does not contain any restrictions on non-citizens — whether legally or illegally present, or in the United States temporarily or permanently — participating in the Exchange.”

Regarding Medicaid/Medicare, Congress (specifically democrats) have purposely voted against stringent restrictions for verification of legality.

In conclusion, the ICS states the following (they are also assuming 6 million illegals) :

“This report estimates the size of the illegal population without health insurance and incomes low enough to qualify for the health insurance affordability credits contained in The America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 (HR 3200). Although the bill states illegal immigrants are not to benefit from the new affordability credits, this prohibition is without an enforcement mechanism. Congress voted down an amendment in committee that would have required the use of the SAVE program. Almost all other means-tested programs of the kind found in HR 3200 require the use of SAVE. As it now stands, the bill has a ban on illegal immigrants, but Congress has chosen to leave that ban unenforced. As a result, the nearly seven million uninsured illegal immigrants with qualifying incomes could receive affordability credits under the bill, creating billions of dollars in costs to taxpayers. If the final version of health care reform includes a public option plan and if illegal immigrants enroll in that program instead of receiving affordability credits, the costs would be less for taxpayers. Nonetheless, if the government became the direct insurer of illegal immigrants, the cost of covering them would still run into the billions of dollars.”

Obama spent 48 minutes lying to America and apparently he was very successful.

1. Restore local and national caps on the ownership of commercial radio stations.
2. Ensure greater local accountability over radio licensing.
3. Require commercial owners who fail to abide by enforceable public interest obligations to pay a fee to support public broadcasting.

Questions arise. What should be the punishment for “failure to abide”? Could fines be used to put “non-abiders” out of business? How is this remotely constitutional? (Not sure why I bother asking that question anymore)

Admiration of Chavez: Glenn Beck has talked about this quite a bit and uncovered video(video here) of Mark Lloyd speaking at the National Conference for Media where Lloyd said the following:

“…In Venezuela, with Chavez, really an incredible revolution- a dramatic
revolution – to begin to put in place saying that we’re going to have impact on
people of Venezuela…the property owners and the folks who were then
controlling the media in Venezuela rebelled – work frankly with folks here in
U.S. government to oust him…and had another revolution. Chavez then
started to take the media very seriously in that country. “

Whiskey-tango-foxtrot!? So basically, Chavez was trying to launch this wonderful revolution to help the poor people of Venezuela, but the pesky private owners of radio stations and the goons here in America failed to appreciate the merits of Communist takeover? So Mark Lloyd truly appreciates how much power the free press has in a democracy and how one needs to curtail these freedoms to achieve benevolent goals set forth by Socialists. Mark Lloyd has written material to propose artificial balance of radio waves and his admiration for Chavez leads reasonable people to assume that Lloyd is a proponent of state controlled radio.

I would like to remind you that free press is the cornerstone of this country and the framers said it best:

“The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first
object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we
should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government,
I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that
every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.” –Thomas
Jefferson

How does Obama know Mark Lloyd? Would a man who has written and said the previously discussed ever have passed the confirmation hearings? Worse yet, Obama is using these people to drive his true liberal agenda while appearing moderate to a majority (albeit dwindling) of Americans. This appears to me a plan set in motion long ago, successfully brushing aside his own radical past, he is now using people who subscribe to his ideology to push this country in the direction of a Statist utopia while the population sleeps.

Well….wake the hell up people, before it’s too late.

Video of Mark Lloyd on “fairness” and lack of opinions during news reports:

Video of Mark Lloyd on Rwanda genocide and Chavez (part 1), state radio, etc: