Public Congress

Let’s look at the MOST recent budget outcome – the Bush budget of 2008.

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/100xx/doc10014/March2009_HistoricalTables.pdf

So take a look at that.

Obama and congress have added more than a TRILLION in spending to the Bush budget of 2009 – leaving us with a MASSIVE deficit of $1.86 Trillion… Something the Bush budget would never have given us… (I had to point that out, several idiots point to Obama’s own deficit as Bush’s fault. I hope you people know Obama and congress CAN add spending to the current budget…)

***Let’s get to the point here…***

So first let’s start off with the fact that 45 million Americans out of 300 million are not insured by any company. That’s 15% of the population that’s goes without insurance. So let’s get this straight. We’re getting ready to pay for a $630 Billion dollar health care reform bill, just to cover 15% of the population. $630 Billion per year is more than what we spend per year on our Military/Defense Budget. Even if we cut Military/Defense spending by 50%, we won’t be able to afford this. This cost doesn’t even cover the fact, that like Medicare and Social Security, this cost will increase each year to cover a growing population. Like Medicare and Social Security, this will continue to grow in cost FOREVER unless the program ends. Not to mention the fact that we’re already in massive debt, 47% of our debt is in China’s hands, and that Obama is giving our nation a $1.86 TRILLION dollar DEFICIT (according to the CBO).

Is this really sustainable?

Source:
Just do some research at the damn CBO…

SUMMARY:

Cost PER YEAR of Public Option = $630 Billion (lowest estimate)

Obama Deficit = $1.86 TRILLION (Bush deficit of 2008 is $454.8 Billion.)

47% of our debt = Under China’s hands

Military/Defense Spending = $612.4 Billion PER YEAR.

HOW CAN WE AFFORD OBAMA CARE IF WE CAN’T EVEN AFFORD WHAT WE’RE DOING NOW?
PS: don’t give me benefits of the Public Plan — what’s the point if you can’t afford it?
FILE works fine… update your damn Acrobat reader…
POTATO…. No there is no flaw… We can’t afford it and the regulations that keep the companies within state borders are the VERY reason for little competition and high prices… NEXT…

I’m in total agreement, with one exception. The 45 million people has been broken down with the result that there are actually only about 10 million who are uninsured.

I can’t remember the exact percentages, but when you take away the number of people who can afford insurance, but choose not to get it, the numbers drop dramatically.

Then there are those who are qualified for medicare but for whatever reasons have not filled out the forms.

Then you get to subtract the 12-20 million who are illegal immigrants.

Leaves you with about 10 million, and it is definitely not worth wrecking our health system and increasing our national debt to such astronomical amounts.

24. The ________works with the Environmental Protection Agency to enforce marine biology regulations along the coast and in the Great Lakes channels. (Points :4)
Coast Guard
Department of the Interior (DOI)
Center for Disease Control (CDC)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

25. A main division of the Department of Health, the _________ is responsible for efforts to prevent diseases, disabilities, and environmental health threats. (Points :4)
Coast Guard
Department of the Interior (DOI)
Center for Disease Control (CDC)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

26. The _________is the branch of the Department of Health that is responsible for overseeing the food inspection processes, prohibits the shipping of mislabeled products, and checks quality controls and labels for cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. (Points :4)
Coast Guard
Department of the Interior (DOI)
Center for Disease Control (CDC)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

27. The US Department of the Interior (DOI) is in charge of many different divisions dealing with the natural resources of the country. Connect the following descriptions with the following divisions of the DOI for questions 4-7.
This division is in charge of recycling water for reuse on agricultural areas and landscape areas in National Parks. (Points :4)
US Geological Survey
US Fish and Wildlife Service
Bureau of Reclamation
Mineral Management Service

28. This division is in charge of mapping land and water, and global positioning technologies for the United States. (Points :4)
US Geological Survey
US Fish and Wildlife Service
Bureau of Reclamation
Mineral Management Service

29. This division is in charge of reestablishing the endangered species that are facing possible extinction. (Points :4)
US Geological Survey
US Fish and Wildlife Service
Bureau of Reclamation
Mineral Management Service

30. This division is in charge of US oil reserves, all mining activities, oil drilling, and natural gas extraction procedures, abandoned mines, polluted wells, strip mining scares and other earth damage are the main repair concepts of this department. (Points :4)
US Geological Survey
US Fish and Wildlife Service
Bureau of Reclamation
Mineral Management Service

31. Use the following Agencies to match with their primary functions listed in questions 8-11.
This agency was implemented to develop regulations for a more efficient and safe national transportation system. They are in charge of all forms of transport systems and vehicles. They have improved the safety standards for rail service, commercial jets, and for American ships. (Points :4)
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
The Department of Transportation (DOT)
The Department of Energy (DOE)

32. This is a division of DOI, in charge of the health, biodiversity, and control of the use of public lands and reserves. It regulates cattle grazing on public lands, controls populations of wild burros and horses on reserves, and is in charge of keeping records on native and endemic species. (Points :4)
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
The Department of Transportation (DOT)
The Department of Energy (DOE)

33. This Agency was established by Congress to oversee all aspects of pollution, including contamination, endangered species, environmental clean up, toxic substances, hazardous waste, pesticide use and many, many more. It has control of researching solutions, policy development, and regulation enforcement. (Points :4)
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
The Department of Transportation (DOT)
The Department of Energy (DOE)

34. This agency is in charge of finding reliable energy sources. Current energy fuels coming from foreign oil, coal, and other fossil fuels are required to be reduced over the next ten years. Replacement fuels and technologies are part of its research and development division. It is currently looking into renewable and environmentally compatible wind power, solar energy, and new biomass energy sources. (Points :4)
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
The Department of Transportation (DOT)
The Department of Energy (DOE)

35. The Environmental Protection Agency is in charge of all of these except: (Points :4)
1970 The Clean Air Act (CAA) – Required the reduction of pollutants being released into the air.
1972 The Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act (MPRSA) – Regulated dumping of ha

I would suggest that you do the work required to answer these questions. You were given a brain, and it will never grow if I or others in here do your work for you. The internet has made finding answers rather easy. Plus, there is always the text book assigned for your class. Yes, that rectangular thing with pages. You will never be underserved by knowledge, only ignorance

See this section on Wikipedia:
1863-1866: The Problem of Restoring the South to the Union

The problem is that Obama did not allow the Senate to read the bill before it was voted upon. Obama is trying to ram through everything he can before he loses his majority. It was not just the Republicans who voted against it. Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska) voted against it for the same reason. The whole vote was a sham as it was a strategy by Obama to make it appear that the Republicans are against reform. The fact is that the Republicans do believe in reform, just not THIS bill.

The White House, Democrats and MoveOn liberals are spreading health care sob stories to sell a government takeover. But there’s one health care policy nightmare you won’t hear the Obamas hyping. It’s a tale of poor minority patient-dumping in Chicago — with first lady Michelle Obama’s fingerprints all over it.
Both Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa and Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush of Illinois have raised red flags about the outsourcing program run by the University of Chicago Medical Center. The hospital has nonprofit status and receives lucrative tax breaks in exchange for providing charity care.
Yet, in fiscal year 2007, when Mrs. Obama was employed there, it spent a measly $10 million on charity care for the poor — 1.3 percent of its total hospital expenses, according to an analysis performed for The Washington Post by the nonpartisan Center for Tax and Budget Accountability. The figure is below the 2.1 percent average for nonprofit hospitals in surrounding Cook County.

Rep. Rush called for a House investigation last week in response to months of patient-dumping complaints, noting: "Congress has a duty to expend its power to mitigate and prevent this despicable practice from continuing in centers that receive federal funds."

Don’t expect the president to support a probe. While a top executive at the hospital, Mrs. Obama helped engineer the plan to offload low-income patients with non-urgent health needs. Under the Orwellian banner of an "Urban Health Initiative," Mrs. Obama sold the scheme to outsource low-income care to other facilities as a way to "dramatically improve health care for thousands of South Side residents."

In truth, it was old-fashioned cost-cutting and favor-trading repackaged as minority aid. Clearing out the poor freed up room for insured (i.e., more lucrative) patients. If a Republican had proposed the very same program and recruited black civic leaders to front it, Michelle Obama and her grievance-mongering friends would be screaming "RAAAAAAAAACISM!" at the top of their lungs.

Joe Stephens of The Washington Post wrote, "To ensure community support, Michelle Obama and others in late 2006 recommended that the hospital hire the firm of David Axelrod, who a few months later became the chief strategist for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Axelrod’s firm (ASK Public Strategies) recommended an aggressive promotional effort modeled on a political campaign — appoint a campaign manager, conduct focus groups, target messages to specific constituencies, then recruit religious leaders and other third-party ‘validators.’ They, in turn, would write and submit opinion pieces to Chicago publications."

Some health care experts saw through Mrs. Obama and PR man Axelrod — yes, the same Axelrod who is now President Obama’s senior adviser. But the University of Chicago Medical Center hired ASK Public Strategies to promote Mrs. Obama’s initiative. Axelrod had the blessing of Chicago political guru Valerie Jarrett — now a White House senior adviser.

Axelrod’s great contribution: re-branding! His firm recommended renaming the initiative after "internal and external respondents expressed the opinion that the word ‘urban’ is code for ‘black’ or ‘black and poor.’ … Based on the research, consideration should be given to re-branding the initiative." Axelrod and the Obama campaign refused to disclose how much his firm received for its genius re-branding services.

In February 2009, outrage in the Obamas’ community exploded upon learning that a young boy covered by Medicaid had been turned away from the University of Chicago Medical Center. Dontae Adams’ mother, Angela, had sought emergency treatment for him after a pit bull tore off his upper lip. Mrs. Obama’s hospital gave the boy a tetanus shot, antibiotics and Tylenol, and shoved him out the door. The mother and son took an hour-long bus ride to another hospital for surgery.

I’ll guarantee you this: You’ll never see the Adams family featured at an Obama policy summit or seated next to the first lady at a joint session of Congress to illustrate the failures of the health care system.

Following the Adams incident, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) blasted Mrs. Obama and Axelrod’s grand plan. The group released a statement expressing "grave concerns that the University of Chicago’s policy toward emergency patients is dangerously close to ‘patient dumping,’ a practice made illegal by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)" — signed by President Reagan, by the way — "and reflected an effort to ‘cherry pick’ wealthy patients over poor."

Rewarding political cronies at the expense of the poor while posing as guardians of the downtrodden? Welcome to Obamacare.

Michelle Malkin
http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2009/06/19/the_obamacare_horror_story_you_wont_hear?page=full&comments=true

Liberals whom are also slobbering brain dead obamazombies do not heed advice nor reflect on history or current events.

Those of us who do pay attention also know that countries with so-called "free" health care are barely scraping by if at all. For example, in the Republic of Turkey where i just returned from living for one year, sales tax alone is 28% on all imported goods (just about everything) in order to pay for all the "free" socialism they have. Meanwhile the citizens are all equally as poor while those in the highest levels of government are hording all the money while continuing to marginalize any opposing voices of decent. Sound familiar?

EPA Administrator Jackson confirmed an EPA analysis showing that unilateral U.S. action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions would have no effect on climate.

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=564ed42f-802a-23ad-4570-3399477b1393

It wont do what Obama said it would but we all knew that anyway. What it will do is raise a lot of money for Obama to fund his mandate to bring the US into a Socialist society.

think that they can get reelected if they continue with they love fest with Obama. We got rid of Hagel and Snow & Collins and possibly Lindsey Graham should be next. If they want to be Democrats let them quit the party or change parties.

I agree 100%.

The problem is that Republicans have tried to "reach across the isle" for the past eight years and it has resulted in watered down values and apologetic patriotism.

If these people can’t stand up and fight for Republican principles, then they need to step aside and let someone else who can do so.

Isn’t competition a good thing according to conservatives?

Only if the companies end up going out of business because they can’t compete. That’s unfair competition.

improved from the low of 5% a year ago?

24% to 30% depending on your source.

“The spin stops here ’cause we’re lookin’ out for you.” So says Bill O’Reilly every time he closes his show. But WHO is he saying it to? Ordinary and upright Americans? No.

It seems O’Reilly is lookin’ out for the seamier and slimier elements of society. This time, it’s communist & thieving Democrats and liar & illegal-alien Barack Obama (AKA Barry Obama, AKA Barry Soetoro). Fortunately, guest Ann Coulter takes him to task with facts, truth, and common sense. O’Reilly can only posture and pout.

Bravo, Ann! YOU’RE the one who’s lookin’ out for us!

Fox News is “fair & accurate” and reports what the rest of the (Liberal propaganda) media MOCKS or CENSORS:

ANN: “I think the important issue to keep in mind is, has the government ever run anything better than the private sector has in the free market, and the answer is no, and Liberals keep avoiding having that argument by throwing out this word salad of ‘the public option’ and ‘triggers’ and ‘the health exchange’. The reason you have trouble with your health insurers right now is because it’s a partial monopoly created by the government. I mean, it was quite audacious of President Obama to complain last night about some states having only three health insurers. Well, why is that? Oh, that’s right, because of government intervention …”
…

BILL: “You told our guys that you liked that South Carolina ‘pin-head’, that Congressman Wilson is his name?”

ANN: “Yeah!”

BILL: “Yelling out at President Obama. Now, what if a Liberal Democrat had yelled out at President Bush at one of his speeches? You wouldn’t like that?”

ANN: “Well they DO, they DO all that time, and the difference is they just ‘boo’ generally. Last night, we had Obama telling lie after lie, and by the way you began your ‘Talking Points’ by saying you just want to be able to speak for the fair minded people, well here how about making this for ‘fair minded’. Just take two examples of what Obama said last night, including the one that the greatest living Statesman, Representative Joe Wilson, ”

BILL: [laughs out loud]

ANN: ” responded to, and that is this bill will NOT cover abortion, it will NOT cover illegal aliens.”

BILL: “That’s what he said.”

ANN: “There are allot of arguments I could make on that but I’m only going to give the fair minded viewers their one argument. Republicans introduced amendments that would NOT allow coverage under the ‘Health Care Bill’ for illegal aliens. Democrats – voted – that – amendment – down. Republicans introduced amendments that would say the ‘Health Care Bill’ won’t cover abortions. The – Democrats – voted – that – amendment – down.”
…

BILL: “Woah, woah, woah, wait, wait, though. Right, that’s true what you say, but now Obama’s on the record, in front of the country, as saying ‘no illegal alien coverage’, ‘no money for abortion’. So, he’s locked down.”

ANN: “He can say he’s a Martian.”

BILL: “He’s locked down.”

ANN: “Yeah, but the Democrats voted against it.”

BILL: “He can say whatever he wants, but if he lies he loses. If he lies he loses.”

ANN: “Okay, well, that was a lie, and that was what Representative Joe Wilson was saying.”
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Who is this Barack Hussein Obama, A.K.A. Barry Obama, A.K.A. Barry Soetoro (illegal alien)?

http://www.obamacrimes.info/

ObamaCrimes “was created after research indicated that Barack Obama is not a ‘natural born’ citizen or a Citizen of the United States as required by the United States Constitution to be eligible for the Office of President.” -attorney Philip J. Berg (a registered Democrat)

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