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Tuesday, June 08 2010 - 02:12 AM
We are the problem
Dennis Prager makes the point clear.
mattkeltner says...
That’s not saying much. It doesn’t take a great deal to “awe” her, it seems.
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Randy Hall says...
Did you watch the vid mk? Why are you always so moody?
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By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published on DickMorris.com on June 7, 2010
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There are howls of outrage coming from the liberal community in Alberta, Canada. It seems that some doctors, desperate to protect their patients from the overcrowded and failing socialized medical system in their country, have set up private clinics to treat them. To circumvent Canadian laws, which prohibit charging for medical care, they have set up private, membership clinics where, for $2,000 a year, patients can access well staffed and equipped clinics and avoid the long waits and compromised care of the public system.
The leading Canadian newspaper, the Globe and Mail, reports that “critics say that the clinics are taking physicians away from the public system making it even harder…to find a family doctor.” David Eggen, executive director of a group that supports the Canadian socialized system, Friends of Medicare, said that it’s already hard to find a family physician in Canada and that clinics like these, springing up in several Canadian cities, could make it even harder.
Medical care for the elderly will become like public housing or public education in the inner city. Those who can afford to go elsewhere will. Those who can’t will be left to fend for themselves in overcrowded public facilities that will be, at least, free.
And then, as in Canada, liberal critics will rail, not against the system that dried up the resources in the first place or against the socialist rules that drove doctors out of medicine, but against the private clinics for resources from the public sector.
By plunging our excellent medical care system into this new world of regulation, fee cuts, and care rationing, the U.S. is going down the disastrous road Canada has taken.
Unless we can elect a Republican majority in November and a GOP president in 2012, this is our future.
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The More We Learn, The Worse It Gets
James C. Capretta ObamaCareWatch Tue, 2010-06-08
This week, we learned that the Obama administration is orchestrating a $125 million propaganda campaign to sell the recently enacted health-care law to the public. That effort will be funded by labor unions and other groups from the Democratic political orbit. It comes on top of the misleading government mailer sent to the nation’s seniors, at the expense of taxpayers, touting the supposed benefits of ObamaCare for the elderly. On Tuesday, the president himself will join the fray again to make the sales pitch, this time promoting the colossal waste of taxpayer money associated with $250 per senior bribes to be issued this summer and fall.
http://obamacarewatch.org/node/613
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By DANIEL B. KLEIN
Who is better informed about the policy choices facing the country—liberals, conservatives or libertarians? According to a Zogby International survey that I write about in the May issue of Econ Journal Watch, the answer is unequivocal: The left flunks Econ 101.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703561604575282190930932412.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop
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lancaster says...
dick morris? the man who pays for whores to suck his toes really, that one of ur heros TB?
hey TB, u get a invite to rush’s 4th wedding?
Why do u quote these phonys? they don’t even live the values u keep assuring us u stand for? no wonder ur such a twisted individual. everything u post proves ur guys say one thing, n live another.
hey TB, u see were rex is for amnesty? u should be so proud. that’s what ur for, right?
u all get so confusing.
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Randy Hall says...
Dick sucked toes when he was like you lanc; you know, a dem.
Now that he saw the light you vilify him. I’d call that typical dem behaviour, hating someone because you don’t agree with them. Jeez was that Jew hater Helen Thomas a good friend of your political movement. Democrats hate those that oppose them. Thank for your hateful example to remind us of your hatred of others and me.
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Cybertariat says...
And stating that those of us who demand that Israel end it’s Nazi-like occupation of Palestine are “Jew-haters” is a clear indication of the desperation that you tow, cut-and-paste-video-clip boy. Oh but I’m quite certain that, upon your searching the American “Thinker’s” archives, you will find a suitable justification. After all, cut-and-paste-video-clip boy, you are such a “thinker.”.
Persevere..
Guy..
Good day..
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Randy Hall says...
I guess Guy you could demand the blacks of America end their occupation of our country and go back to their homeland; but you won’t because that would be racist. But saying the Jews are “Nazi-like” is equating murdering those you think are evil as somehow a Jewish state mentality? Pardon me but….lol!!!
Since Jews didn’t murder millions of Aryan people and those that marched under the banner of Marx did; a more apt metaphor for you to use and more correct I might add would been to equate Jews with Marxist ideologues. Of course only Nazi’s and Marxist want-to-be’s are alike. To say Jews are Marxist, and “Nazis-like” is a stretch even for you.
What’s with the name calling are you now liberal-like too?
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Randy Hall says...
“The modern European welfare state has proven unsustainable. From Greece to Britain, from France to Portugal, European countries are slashing social welfare benefits, raising the retirement age and dismantling government bureaucracies. Yet, even as Europe is learning that you can’t forever rob Peter in order to pay Paul, the U.S. is racing to transform itself into a copy of the failing European model.”
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/536668/201006081815/US-Embraces-Model-Thats-Failed-Europe.aspx
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roxi says...
Sorry Randy, old news. Where the f’have you been? Slashing welfare benefits, raising the retirement age, dismantling gov’t bureaucracies???…is something NEW? HA!
Been there, done that and moving on to the Mad Max vehicle of choice!
Use to be a joke that retirees were working as WalMart greeters wasn’t it? WalMart greeters are now college grads.
Rob the War Chest next? Now that’s a plan. We’ve already been hosed by the best of ‘em – no need to follow Europe – they’re following us!
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Randy Hall says...
Daniel Deleon in his debate with William Berry said “social institutions and social associations will overthrow the political state and establish the industrial state.” SLP.org
Roxi, what Daniel was saying is our public sector labor unions would hog-tie the current democratically elected ruling class and replace it with a non-political class that they then don’t have to pump so much of their charges money into to get their way. In other words Europe beat us to bankruptcy due to overly aggressive social institutions wanting more and more of what isn’t earned by their members.
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“Each of us has a natural right—from God—to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. These are the three basic requirements of life, and the preservation of any one of them is completely dependent upon the preservation of the other two. For what are our faculties but the extension of our individuality? And what is property but an extension of our faculties? If every person has the right to defend—even by force—his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. Thus the principle of collective right—its reason for existing, its lawfulness—is based on individual right. And the common force that protects this collective right cannot logically have any other purpose or any other mission than that for which it acts as a substitute. Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force—for the same reason—cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups. Such a perversion of force would be, in both cases, contrary to our premise. Force has been given to us to defend our own individual rights. Who will dare to say that force has been given to us to destroy the equal rights of our brothers? Since no individual acting separately can lawfully use force to destroy the rights of others, does it not logically follow that the same principle also applies to the common force that is nothing more than the organized combination of the individual forces? If this is true, then nothing can be more evident than this: The law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defense. It is the substitution of a common force for individual forces. And this common force is to do only what the individual forces have a natural and lawful right to do: to protect persons, liberties, and properties; to maintain the right of each, and to cause justice to reign over us all.”
The Law Frederic Bastiat
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/bastiat/TheLaw.htm
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Randy Hall says...
Questioning Keynes
FORTUNE — In the 1930s, British economist John Maynard Keynes spearheaded a revolution in economic thinking: The free market is imperfect. And because of these imperfections, it’s the government’s job to intervene and somehow make things right.
The global financial crisis ignited a resurgence in Keynesian thought — specifically, the idea that government should spend big to pull out of a recession. But given Europe’s sovereign debt crisis, is it time to ask where Keynes may have gone wrong? Or did European leaders misinterpret his teachings? And, given the growing complexity of the global financial system, are Keynes’ ideas perhaps outdated?
http://money.cnn.com/2010/06/10/news/economy/keynes_economics_europe.fortune/index.htm
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Randy Hall says...
Moderates Ray listed: #1 built a Christian nation. #2 killed a man in a duel. #3 freed the slaves #3 walked softly and carried a big stick #5 was an accomplished overeater #6 nuked Japan #7 was a accomplished golfer.
Ray, perhaps you mean Neville Chamberlain?
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Ray Cunneff says...
We were talking about Americans. And Chamberlain was a Hitler appeaser and was a member of the British Conservative Party.
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THE TRAGEDY OF DETROIT: HOW IMMIGRATION AND
MULTICULTURALISM DESTROYED IT
By Frosty Wooldridge For 15 years, from the mid 1970s to 1990, I worked in
Detroit, Michigan. I watched it descend into the abyss of crime,
debauchery, gun play, drugs, school truancy, car-jacking, gangs and
human depravity. I watched entire city blocks burned out. I watched
graffiti explode on buildings, cars, trucks, buses and school yards.
Trash was everywhere! Detroiters walked through it, tossed more into it
and just ignored it.
today exist on federal welfare, free housing and food stamps! With Aid
to Dependent Children, minority women birthed eight to 10 and, in one
case, one woman birthed 24 kids as reported by the Detroit Free
Press-all on American taxpayer dollars. A new child meant a new car
payment, new TV and whatever mom wanted. I saw Lyndon Baines Johnson’s
“Great Society” flourish in Detroit. If you give money for doing
nothing, you will get more hands out to take money for doing nothing.
America, outside of Richard Daley in Chicago, rode Detroit down to its
knees. He set the benchmark for cronyism, incompetence and arrogance.
As a black man, he said, “I am the MFIC.” The IC meant ‘in charge’.
You can figure out the rest. Detroit became a majority black city with
67 percent African-Americans.
from teaching math and science, I loaded hundreds of American families
into my van for a new life in another city or state. Detroit plummeted
from 1.8 million citizens to 912,000 today. At the same time, legal and
illegal immigrants converged on the city, so much so, that Muslims
number over 300,000. Mexicans number 400,000 throughout Michigan, but
most work in Detroit.
crimes became more violent, the whites fled. Finally, unlawful Mexicans
moved in at a torrid pace. Detroit suffers so much shoplifting that
grocery stores no longer operate in many inner city locations.
knife! Detroit may be one our best (extreme) examples of
multiculturalism: pure dislike and total separation from America!
like a new American Baghdad with hundreds of Islamic mosques in
Michigan, paid for by Saudi Arabia oil money. High school flunk out
rates reached 76 percent last June according to NBC’s Brian Williams.
Classrooms resemble more foreign countries than America. English? Few
speak it! The city features a 50 percent illiteracy rate and growing.
Unemployment hit 28.9 percent in 2009 as the auto industry vacated the
city.
In Time Magazine October 4, 2009, “The Tragedy of
Detroit: How a great city fell and how it can rise again,” I choked on
the writer’s description of what happened.
submerged by a ravenous flood, we’d know a lot more about it," said
Daniel Okrent. "If drought and carelessness had spread brush fires
across the city, we’d see it on the evening news every night.
Earthquake, tornadoes, you name it – if natural disaster had devastated
the city that was once the living proof of American prosperity, the rest
of the country might take notice.
and slipping rapidly, has had no such luck. Its disaster has long been a
slow unwinding that seemed to remove it from the rest of the country.
Even the death rattle that in the past year emanated from its signature
industry brought more attention to the auto executives than to the
people of the city, who had for so long been victimized by their
dreadful decision-making."
knees, no amount of federal dollars could save the incredible payoffs,
kick backs and illegality permeating his administration. I witnessed the
city’s death from the seat of my 18-wheeler tractor trailer because I
moved people out of every sector of decaying Detroit.
support. Detroit’s treasury is $300 million short of the funds needed
to provide the barest municipal services," Okrent said. “The school
system, which six years ago was compelled by the teachers’ union to
reject a philanthropist’s offer of $200 million to build 15 small,
independent charter high schools, is in receivership. The murder rate is
soaring, and 7 out of 10 remain unsolved. Three years after Katrina
devastated New Orleans, unemployment in that city hit a peak of 11%. In
Detroit, the unemployment rate is 28.9% That’s worth spelling out:
twenty-eight point nine percent.”
dozen more about Detroit, he said, “That’s because the story of Detroit
is not simply one of a great city’s collapse. It’s also about the
erosion of the industries that helped build the country we know today.
The ultimate fate of Detroit will reveal much about the character of
America in the 21st century. If what was once the most prosperous
manufacturing city in the nation has been brought to its knees, what
does that say about our recent past? And if it can’t find a way to get
up, what does that say about our future?”
book, $20 Per Gallon, the auto industry won’t come back (to Detroit).
Immigration will keep pouring more and more uneducated third world
immigrants from the Middle East into Detroit -thus creating a beachhead
for Islamic hegemony in America. If the 50 percent illiteracy continues,
we will see more homegrown terrorists spawned out of the Muslim ghettos
of Detroit. Illiteracy plus Islam equals walking human bombs. You
have already seen it in Madrid, Spain; London, England and Paris, France
with train bombings, subway bombings and riots. As their numbers grow,
so will their power to enact their barbaric Sharia Law that negates
republican forms of government, first amendment rights and subjugates
women to the lowest rungs on the human ladder. We will see more honor
killings by upset husbands, fathers and brothers that demand subjugation
by their daughters, sisters and wives. Muslims prefer to use beheadings
of women to scare the hell out of any other members of their sect from
straying.
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Randy Hall says...
Sorry Ray we were talking about moderates. I never said American or otherwise. Plus freeing the slaves isn’t moderation, neither is nuking Japan. You swung and missed twice in one post. Now trying to say something I never said. That would be 3 strikes in two posts, almost a record.
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Ray Cunneff says...
It was Limbaugh who specified Americans. And you should not confuse the actions of an individual with their political philosophy. Truman, for example, was the definitive moderate. The fact that he “nuked” Hiroshima was undoubtedly a painful decision given his political beliefs, but he truly believed he could save a million American lives by not having to invade Japan.
For me, the tougher moral dilemma was the decision to drop the second bomb on Nagasaki.
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Randy Hall says...
Thanks for listening to Limbaugh, I’m not Limbaugh, but again thanks for expressing that comparison. Rich, successful, you know all those things the left hates I’d be happy to embrace. If you say drug addict, well he says he beat that demon so I forgive him. You know it’s a Christian trait that I hold.
Ump, Ray, you made a very liberal mistake; you put words into my mouth and then tried to set the rules. I was showing you your bias and a basic error. Perhaps it’s not a strike but an unforced error?
Ray, I’m happy to know that nuking a nation is the trait of a true moderate. That’s a good one. Do you practice your routine in front of a mirror? I can see it now the great moderate leader of Iran Ahmadinejad nukes Israel the left rejoices!
Could this be a newspaper headline? Or this, Ray C thinks the bomb is used by great moderates!
Good one!!!
Thanks I needed that smile.
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Ray Cunneff says...
Glad to see you enjoying yourself. Have a good weekend.
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Randy Hall says...
http://database.californiapensionreform.com/?vttable=calpers
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Obama’s White House stands accused of tampering with U.S. Senate primary elections involving Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania and Andrew Romanoff in Colorado. Both Democratic primary challengers apparently were urged to drop out of their races by White House operatives in exchange for a job. The details remain murky as storylines from White House officials, along with Sestak and Romanoff themselves, are both evasive and implausible. But this much is clear: Election tampering by Obama treads upon the very foundation of American exceptionalism — free elections in a representative democracy….
…Since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed — and, by the way, was enabled by a far greater proportion of Republican than Democrat U.S. senators — Democrats and liberals have been grandstanding self-promoters decrying voter disenfranchisement. But where is this purity of process when it comes to arriving at the actual names on the ballot?
And who are now the champions of suppressing free speech through revival of the Fairness Doctrine and eliminating the U.S. Senate rules on the filibuster and cloture? The Democrats. Who are now advocating the regulation of journalism through the Federal Trade Commission? The Democrats.
Obama and his operatives cannot escape the stench from their wholesale corruption of American governance. And their amateurish bungling is neither amusing nor defensible. Tampering with federal elections is only the latest in long line of brazen, cynical manipulations. Only a few among today’s political class, notably Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), have the courage to call out such treachery by demanding an independent inquiry. How long will their courage hold out?
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/obamas_treachery.html
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Randy Hall says...
…In a letter the experts sent to Salazar, they said his primary recommendation “misrepresents” their position and that halting the drilling is actually a bad idea.
The oil rig explosion occurred while the well was being shut down – a move that is much more dangerous than continuing ongoing drilling, they said.
They also said that because the floating rigs are scarce and in high demand worldwide, they will not simply sit in the Gulf idle for six months. The rigs will go to the North Sea and West Africa, possibly preventing the U.S. from being able to resume drilling for years.
They also said the best and most advanced rigs will be the first to go, leaving the U.S. with the older and potentially less safe rights operating in the nation’s coastal waters.
So this looks like one more instance where the Obama administration is neither honest nor competent, and where its first instinct seems to be to pursue the course that will most damage our economy.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/06/026520.php
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Randy Hall says...
I think Sarah was awed!
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