What a weekend. The drama goes on and on like the energizer bunny! We now hear that Senator Nelson from Nebraska will vote for the healthcare bill after receiving a bribe of over 300 million. But let’s talk about the bill first.
The new bill was just put out today, Saturday and senator’s offices are busy going over the 2000 plus pages. Still in the bill, billions in Medicare cuts; cuts to hospitals, nursing homes, home health and hospice. Tax increases for families, businesses and manufactures of medical devices. This bill imposes increases on Medicaid to states except Nebraska and Vermont (those bribes). The news is reporting a middle of the night vote, Monday 0100, 1am for you civilians . So looking at the above, do you think they are doing what the citizens want? Why do this at night, because they are pushing this through and don’t want us to see.
These career politicians are out of control and need to be sent home. Most of them have never ran a business where you make a profit and worry about expenses. Like right now, spend, spend, and spend! They just signed a bill with over 5,000 earmarks, now to get their votes they have bribed at least 3 Senators. If a civilian business did this the CEOs would be thrown in jail, but this is normal business in Washington. Our president campaigned on promising he would veto any bill with “ear marks” PORK in it, have you seen that happen, NO! He campaigned on stopping business as usual, seen any change, NO! Both parties in Washington need to stop the spending! We should not elect/reelect anyone to Washington that does not promise to stop earmarks!
I believe there are two groups of people in our country, those who want to work, make a living, have nice things and those who think the government should provide for them and they sit back and get a share of the nice things others work hard to get. Look at what who pays taxes;
2007 figures Individual Income Tax Payers
Top 1% of wage earners 22.8% of wage earners, pay 40.4% of tax
Top 5% 37.44% of wage earners, pay 60.63 of tax
Top 10% 48.05% of wage earners, pay 71.22% of tax
Top 25% 68% of wage earners, pay 86.59% of tax
Bottom 50% 12.26% of wage earners, pay 2.89% of tax
The average wage for the top 25% $66,500/year. So, those making over $66,500 dollars in 2007 paid 86.6% of income taxes. I don’t think the lower wage earners in our country have anything to complain about in paying taxes. When you look at those making less than $66,500/year only pay 13.4% of the income taxes paid in 2007.
The 1.1 trillion dollar bill just passed had budget increases for next year of many federal departments. We are in a recession, how many of you are getting increases in your business or job? How many are getting raises in your income? Yet the Federal Transportation Department this year went from one employee making over $170,000/year to over 1000 making that much. We are in a recession and who is making the money and getting more jobs, the Federal Government!
Enough is enough!!! Unfortunately our Florida Senator Nelson is towing the Democratic Party line and voting for all this spending. He will not give a good reason for this his support of all this spending other than the dems talking points. The congress and senate are spending billions and trillions of dollars we do not have and just expect us to sit back and worry about paying for this later. They continue to expand government and its control. According to usdebtclock.org there are over 4.2 million federal government workers. There is no sense of constrained spending in Washington! They only care about getting reelected!
So how are you going to feel when your income does not go up, you pay more for health insurance, pay more in taxes to cover all this spending, your home if you own it does not increase in value, and you pay more for things because the value of the dollar keeps declining because of our out of control spending and increasing debt? And the Congressmen and Senators sit up there making their money, benefits, living high on the hog or should I say PORK. When will you get mad enough to do something about it? Call, write, email your Congressmen and Senators demanding they stop the spending, do not vote for this healthcare bill. If they do not listen vote them out and demand term limits!!! And make the new candidates replacing them commit to lower taxes, less government and no PORK! That they run the government like a business!
Don’t get me wrong, we need healthcare reform, several simple things would do it, and it would not take 2000 pages, TORT reform, portability from state to state, no pre-existing conditions, no caps on coverage. It will take months to really know what they have hidden in the 2000 plus pages of this massive bill.
Let me know what you think.
Randy
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Thursday, December 17, 2009
RAIN DROPS KEEP FALLING ON MY HEAD
Greetings from rainy Iraq, yes rainy, lightning, thunder and light showers. What a week, lots going on. As I watch and read the news so much makes me sick to my stomach. I wonder what the country will be like when I get home, definitely different than when I left 2 years ago.
Public Schools: three reports today, one Detroit students, 69% below minimum standards, wow, let’s just throw more money at them! Let’s start teaching the three Rs again and maybe some C (computer)! Quite teaching all this social change stuff and get back to the basics. Also teach true history and government, not the watered down politically correct version. Two an 8 year old is given an assignment, draw something that reminds you of Christmas (surprised she did not say winter holiday) and the student had just got back from visiting a Catholic Shrine and drew a picture of Jesus on the Cross. Well guess what that got him, a trip home and a recommendation for counseling, seems the teacher thinks this shows tendency to violence. Third a third grader in a rest period of some kind, students allowed to sleep, read book, relax play games, the student pulled out her Bible and started to read, the teacher told her to put it away, when the student questioned because it is a book, was told not appropriate reading material. But schools all over the country make students read about homosexuality and their relations. You cannot make this stuff up!
Climate Change: This continues to be a hot topic this week. I believe in climate change, 4 times a year, (summer, winter fall, spring) even here in the desert! This is an unsettled science. There is no way we have enough accurate data to predict where the climate is going. Check out this link for article 100 reasons climate change is natural www.dailyexpress.co.uk/post/view/146138 has very good commonsense reasons. I believe from what I have watched and read that the main reason the underdeveloped countries are pushing so much for this is for the U.S. and other rich countries to give them billions of dollars. It is all about control and world governance. They want to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, “drill baby drill”! Build nuclear power plants, more refineries, wind turbines and solar fields. Funny how the late Ted Kennedy was for green energy until they wanted to put wind turbines in the ocean off his beach, that they want to build a solar farm in a desert in California, but the environmentalist will not let them because it will mess up the eco system. We need to tell the environmentalist to go fly a kite and do the things for this country to help us survive. The environmentalists get their panties in a wad anytime someone wants to build something. We are sending so many jobs overseas and they are part of the reason.
Healthcare: This just needs to stop right now! The Democrats do not want to play with the Republicans and want it their way, expansion of government, take over healthcare, socialize America! They will not entertain any Republican ideas, develop their bill behind closed doors, and expect the American People to rubber stamp their 2000 page joke! They need to start over and listen to the people. Over 9 million pink slips have been sent to Washington, that is over 16,000 per Congressman and Senator, telling them to stop the healthcare bill and stop spending, do you think the Dems are listening, I don’t. The career representatives need to be booted out ASAP! They think they are above us, that we don’t know what is good for us, they it is their money, THEY WORK FOR US! The Dems just passed the 1.1 trillion dollar spending bill with over 5,000 yes 5,000 earmarks better known as PORK, if they were serious about helping the nation they would have been taken out. Look at Senator Schumer, he recently flew a shuttle flight to Washington, hats off to him flying commercial, but it was time to leave the gate, he was asked to end his cell phone call after the announcement was made to the plane, he asked to finish his call, he was politely told to turn his phone off the plane could not leave until he did. He got mad, ended his call and as the flight attendant walked away called her a B----H, is that how you act, that just shows how these career politicians think they are above all rules, and laws. If you or I did that they would have thrown us off the plane which is what they should have done to him.
Florida Senate Seat: Today, reported that Rubio and Crist are even in the polls. Never have been too sure about Crist, seems pretty moderate, I looked up Rubio on his website, looks like my kind of man, a fresh face, pro-smaller government, pro-less taxes, pro-legal immigration, pro-life, pro-gun! Will keep an eye on him.
Out of Control Spending: Just a little while ago the House Dems passed a 155 billion dollar jobs bill, guess the billions in stimulus are not working, Duh! They also passed 290 billion dollar increase in the national debt limit. Is anyone out there getting upset like me with this spending? As I have said before, we are not their ATM machine! This all has to get paid back someday! They need to be stopped!!!
Cool Beans: Today a Independent Senator proposed a 767 page amendment to the healthcare bill, so to slow things down, a Republican Senator required it to be read before it could be voted on. Cool, that way people would know what is in it since the Dems don’t want to play fair an let people read what is being proposed. Well it was being read for three hours, was stopped when the Senator who proposed the amendment withdrew it. Guess it wasn’t too important.
Hope you find these things interesting, thought provoking and mad! Write/call/email your representatives and tell them to stop!!
Pray for our Country!
Pray for our Troops!
What do you think?
Randy
Public Schools: three reports today, one Detroit students, 69% below minimum standards, wow, let’s just throw more money at them! Let’s start teaching the three Rs again and maybe some C (computer)! Quite teaching all this social change stuff and get back to the basics. Also teach true history and government, not the watered down politically correct version. Two an 8 year old is given an assignment, draw something that reminds you of Christmas (surprised she did not say winter holiday) and the student had just got back from visiting a Catholic Shrine and drew a picture of Jesus on the Cross. Well guess what that got him, a trip home and a recommendation for counseling, seems the teacher thinks this shows tendency to violence. Third a third grader in a rest period of some kind, students allowed to sleep, read book, relax play games, the student pulled out her Bible and started to read, the teacher told her to put it away, when the student questioned because it is a book, was told not appropriate reading material. But schools all over the country make students read about homosexuality and their relations. You cannot make this stuff up!
Climate Change: This continues to be a hot topic this week. I believe in climate change, 4 times a year, (summer, winter fall, spring) even here in the desert! This is an unsettled science. There is no way we have enough accurate data to predict where the climate is going. Check out this link for article 100 reasons climate change is natural www.dailyexpress.co.uk/post/view/146138 has very good commonsense reasons. I believe from what I have watched and read that the main reason the underdeveloped countries are pushing so much for this is for the U.S. and other rich countries to give them billions of dollars. It is all about control and world governance. They want to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, “drill baby drill”! Build nuclear power plants, more refineries, wind turbines and solar fields. Funny how the late Ted Kennedy was for green energy until they wanted to put wind turbines in the ocean off his beach, that they want to build a solar farm in a desert in California, but the environmentalist will not let them because it will mess up the eco system. We need to tell the environmentalist to go fly a kite and do the things for this country to help us survive. The environmentalists get their panties in a wad anytime someone wants to build something. We are sending so many jobs overseas and they are part of the reason.
Healthcare: This just needs to stop right now! The Democrats do not want to play with the Republicans and want it their way, expansion of government, take over healthcare, socialize America! They will not entertain any Republican ideas, develop their bill behind closed doors, and expect the American People to rubber stamp their 2000 page joke! They need to start over and listen to the people. Over 9 million pink slips have been sent to Washington, that is over 16,000 per Congressman and Senator, telling them to stop the healthcare bill and stop spending, do you think the Dems are listening, I don’t. The career representatives need to be booted out ASAP! They think they are above us, that we don’t know what is good for us, they it is their money, THEY WORK FOR US! The Dems just passed the 1.1 trillion dollar spending bill with over 5,000 yes 5,000 earmarks better known as PORK, if they were serious about helping the nation they would have been taken out. Look at Senator Schumer, he recently flew a shuttle flight to Washington, hats off to him flying commercial, but it was time to leave the gate, he was asked to end his cell phone call after the announcement was made to the plane, he asked to finish his call, he was politely told to turn his phone off the plane could not leave until he did. He got mad, ended his call and as the flight attendant walked away called her a B----H, is that how you act, that just shows how these career politicians think they are above all rules, and laws. If you or I did that they would have thrown us off the plane which is what they should have done to him.
Florida Senate Seat: Today, reported that Rubio and Crist are even in the polls. Never have been too sure about Crist, seems pretty moderate, I looked up Rubio on his website, looks like my kind of man, a fresh face, pro-smaller government, pro-less taxes, pro-legal immigration, pro-life, pro-gun! Will keep an eye on him.
Out of Control Spending: Just a little while ago the House Dems passed a 155 billion dollar jobs bill, guess the billions in stimulus are not working, Duh! They also passed 290 billion dollar increase in the national debt limit. Is anyone out there getting upset like me with this spending? As I have said before, we are not their ATM machine! This all has to get paid back someday! They need to be stopped!!!
Cool Beans: Today a Independent Senator proposed a 767 page amendment to the healthcare bill, so to slow things down, a Republican Senator required it to be read before it could be voted on. Cool, that way people would know what is in it since the Dems don’t want to play fair an let people read what is being proposed. Well it was being read for three hours, was stopped when the Senator who proposed the amendment withdrew it. Guess it wasn’t too important.
Hope you find these things interesting, thought provoking and mad! Write/call/email your representatives and tell them to stop!!
Pray for our Country!
Pray for our Troops!
What do you think?
Randy
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