• News to watch:
  • Re-framing the health care issue from fairness to deficit reform
  • Talk about and support for a VAT (value added tax)
  • Pelosi courting the Tea Parties
  • EPA intrusion into climate "crisis" regulations
  • Eminent domain take overs
• The cost of health care
  • Everyone wants health care change according to our leaders?
    • Hyberbole but where are the facts?
  • Health care - any means to the end
  • Pulling out all stops for health care support
  • If you think health care is put to rest, you're wrong!
  • First, Senator Ben Nelson is a hold-out against health care based on his principles against abortion
  • Magically, with promise of financial aid for his state, he became a proponent and signed on.
  • However, the governor of Nebraska refused the "bribe"
  • At the same time, a number of AG's (attorney generals) threatened to sue over the "bribe" and now the principleless Nelson is crying Uncle.
  • No wonder the final negotations to resolve the House and Senate versions will be held in secret (even if C-SPAN hollers FOUL -- transparency anyone?)
• Obama's budget (over $1T was just sent to Congress) - think they'll read it?
• New budget passed and full or "pork"
• "Pay go" - good idea bad adherence?
• Senator Bunning on "Pay Go"
• Bunning standing up to attacks for now
• The continuing cost of war
• How to allow the UN to tax Americans without Congress' involvement [follow the yellow brick road]
1. Identify "greenhouse gases" as a significant part of global warming
2. Give the EPA power to control pollution threats to our environment: Clean Air Act
3. Call for the EPA to act on the premise that CO2 is a pollutent and should be controlled by the EPA
4. EPA announces "greenhouse gasses" a "health threat"
5. Silence anyone objecting to the "science" behind the climate crisis [Blog - follow the sources sited]
6. Identify "poorer" countries who cannot pay for their own remedies and whom the US must help because we are the "biggest pollutant"


Click to see a picture of China and its use of electricity


7. Tell other countries that the EPA will work to help them control this crisis even though Congress may not (Coppenhagen summit)

   And, you thought healthcare would cost you a lot; just wait! But don't wait for the science behind it to be tested first...it's full speed ahead!

• Copenhagen conference results suspended - meeting Mexico City in 2010
• Why would the World Bank suggest that developed countries pay undeveloped countries for climate change AND under what authority? -- See how we are being depicted to the world.
• Just a few Cap and Trade Taxes and How they Affect YOU
• Obama hinting at double dip recession
• Don't let the headlines fool you about unemployment numbers (Feb. 6)
• So far stocks are up when dollar is down...what happens when both fall and could this happen?
• Rumors of a second stimulus are ramping up or will it be called a "jobs bill"


Food for thought: if the stimulus saved teaching, firefighter and other government jobs and provided necessary extensions for unemployment payments, what happens to the states (us the people in the states) when the federal funding (ours the people of the U.S.) goes away? Are we simply seeing the old "hide the nut under the walnut" game? This may be a new way to double-dip into the taxpayers pockets. Food for thought: Are savings really coming from pushing costs down to the states?

• An example from Dick Morris

 

• Trust us? Government's Recovery.Gov full of problems, but Biden says no Big Deal and Obama says trust us (some of the problems with the reporting site for Stimulus spending and jobs: number of jobs created, accuracy of reporting data...) AND, this web site cost US $18M to develop

• Some propose the problem is the spin put initially on the stimulus

• Is Biden the scapegoat of the left?
• Is accepting the Nobel Peace Prize unsonstitutional for the President?
• So when did the government start attacking a private communications network?
• VP Al Gore to make money from the government's "green machine" -- in Finland
• Thank you Lamar Smith
• An interesting view from the Economist

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