Merry Christmas everyone. Just two days away from celebrating the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. This is the second Christmas for me in sunny Iraq. In many ways it is a lot like Christmas in Florida, lots of sand, high Friday 69 and sunny. The CSH (Combat Support Hospital) is looking pretty festive. Several Christmas trees are up, one is even a real tree, not sure how it got here. We had a CSH wide gathering tonight, coffee, hot chocolate, gifts, singing Christmas carols. We had a nice time. Everyone’s spirits seem high.
The DFAC (dining hall) has a couple Christmas trees up, lots of streamers, bells etc. There are some special programs throughout COB Speicher.
I am looking forward to spending some time with Robyn and the girls on Skype Christmas Night. Have to wait for RaDonna to get off work. Should be a good time together.
Looks like Kansas will have a white Christmas!! I am jealous!!
I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New year!!!
Randy
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
A VERY SAD DAY IN MUDVILLE
Yes it is a very sad day in Mudville! Early this morning the 58 Democrats and 2 Independent Senators passed the Healthcare Bill making its passing the Senate 99.9% sure. Then it will go to the House for merging it with their bill.
Four Senators from Nebraska, Louisiana, Vermont, and Massachusetts received large payments to their States for their votes; we are talking hundreds of millions of dollars. Now the money they got pays their state’s share of increased Medicaid costs that this bill will impose on them three years down the road, the other states will pay increased cost of Medicaid.
Now President Obama just spoke on TV and states how much money this is going to save our nation. How many other concessions are in this bill? This bill is over 2000 pages, and so is the House bill. Can they really look us straight in the face and say they need this size of bill just to give insurance portability over state lines, cut pre-existing conditions, I don’t think so.
How many people reading this can say they have gone to any government agency and gotten good, timely, friendly service. I doubt many. Usually they have a non-caring attitude, hide behind rules and policies and act like we are here to serve them. As the government gets more involved in healthcare do we expect their ways to change, NO!
The real underlying issue here is our loss of control over our government. The constitution says for the people by the people. Benjamin Franklin wrote;
“A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."
We have allowed the Congressmen and Senators to become career politicians. They only care about getting re-elected. They cut deals with our money to get votes. Most of them have never run a business, they sit there and come up with pet projects and spend money that is not in the budget. We have a deficit over 12 trillion dollars! And they keep spending. President Obama says today that we must stop spending! He says that after the stimulus spending bill and now that he feels this healthcare bill is going through. He continued to bash President Bush about his spending, which what took Bush 8 years to do, he surpassed in less than one year.
As I have said before, we need term limits; we need representatives with business backgrounds, representatives committed to reducing spending and the size of government. People need to work, send illegal aliens back to their countries, and give our citizens jobs. If you are physically/mentally unable to work, we should help, otherwise get a job!
I know this part is controversial, but women need to stop becoming single mothers, and couples need to be committed to a relationship before conceiving a child. These children in single parent homes end up being brought up by day care centers and public school. They are indoctrinated in liberal ideology that the government owes them and is their savior. What Benjamin Franklin said is so true; you can see it, who votes for the democrats and their spending sprees, those who feel the government owes them a living and reap the money. Like the one Obama voter stated, now that he is elected, I helped him and now he will help me, I won’t have to pay my mortgage or put gas in my car.
I am afraid our country will only get worse if we do not change the attitude of our citizens and politicians. As long as our representatives dole out money in entitlements, those getting the entitlements will vote for the representative giving them out, our tax dollars. The funny thing is, the Democrats are doing exactly what they said they would do, spend money on enlarging the government.
Oh, one more thing, President Obama said today, again, that this bill makes Medicare solvent for years to come. Cutting billions of dollars from Medicare is going to make it more solvent. That is their way of cutting fraud and abuse, cut payments to physicians and hospitals. How about actually stopping the fraud and abuse. Making it harder for physicians and hospitals to pay their bills will only entice more to abuse the system.
Your vote counts, vote! Vote for candidates that promise to lower taxes and make government smaller. Vote for candidates that will pursue term limits, vote for candidates with business background and not looking to be there for life.
Here is a very good blog to read, very informative.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=i&u=32828174&d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.earthfrisk.com%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D200&l=2&c=ejj11iiiv4w43upa
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.
Randy
Four Senators from Nebraska, Louisiana, Vermont, and Massachusetts received large payments to their States for their votes; we are talking hundreds of millions of dollars. Now the money they got pays their state’s share of increased Medicaid costs that this bill will impose on them three years down the road, the other states will pay increased cost of Medicaid.
Now President Obama just spoke on TV and states how much money this is going to save our nation. How many other concessions are in this bill? This bill is over 2000 pages, and so is the House bill. Can they really look us straight in the face and say they need this size of bill just to give insurance portability over state lines, cut pre-existing conditions, I don’t think so.
How many people reading this can say they have gone to any government agency and gotten good, timely, friendly service. I doubt many. Usually they have a non-caring attitude, hide behind rules and policies and act like we are here to serve them. As the government gets more involved in healthcare do we expect their ways to change, NO!
The real underlying issue here is our loss of control over our government. The constitution says for the people by the people. Benjamin Franklin wrote;
“A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."
We have allowed the Congressmen and Senators to become career politicians. They only care about getting re-elected. They cut deals with our money to get votes. Most of them have never run a business, they sit there and come up with pet projects and spend money that is not in the budget. We have a deficit over 12 trillion dollars! And they keep spending. President Obama says today that we must stop spending! He says that after the stimulus spending bill and now that he feels this healthcare bill is going through. He continued to bash President Bush about his spending, which what took Bush 8 years to do, he surpassed in less than one year.
As I have said before, we need term limits; we need representatives with business backgrounds, representatives committed to reducing spending and the size of government. People need to work, send illegal aliens back to their countries, and give our citizens jobs. If you are physically/mentally unable to work, we should help, otherwise get a job!
I know this part is controversial, but women need to stop becoming single mothers, and couples need to be committed to a relationship before conceiving a child. These children in single parent homes end up being brought up by day care centers and public school. They are indoctrinated in liberal ideology that the government owes them and is their savior. What Benjamin Franklin said is so true; you can see it, who votes for the democrats and their spending sprees, those who feel the government owes them a living and reap the money. Like the one Obama voter stated, now that he is elected, I helped him and now he will help me, I won’t have to pay my mortgage or put gas in my car.
I am afraid our country will only get worse if we do not change the attitude of our citizens and politicians. As long as our representatives dole out money in entitlements, those getting the entitlements will vote for the representative giving them out, our tax dollars. The funny thing is, the Democrats are doing exactly what they said they would do, spend money on enlarging the government.
Oh, one more thing, President Obama said today, again, that this bill makes Medicare solvent for years to come. Cutting billions of dollars from Medicare is going to make it more solvent. That is their way of cutting fraud and abuse, cut payments to physicians and hospitals. How about actually stopping the fraud and abuse. Making it harder for physicians and hospitals to pay their bills will only entice more to abuse the system.
Your vote counts, vote! Vote for candidates that promise to lower taxes and make government smaller. Vote for candidates that will pursue term limits, vote for candidates with business background and not looking to be there for life.
Here is a very good blog to read, very informative.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=i&u=32828174&d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.earthfrisk.com%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D200&l=2&c=ejj11iiiv4w43upa
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.
Randy
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