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Title: Prison Rehabilitaiton, Healthcare, And Smarter People in Washington Post by: WhiskeyGirl on October 16, 2009, 08:05:34 AM Quote The Senate Finance Committee must be participating in a prison rehabilitation program. It obviously has a former Enron accountant dummying up the Baucus healthcare bill, which has enough phony accounting procedures to get someone in the private sector sent to jail. But you don't have to be an accountant to be suspicious. You just have to remember that this is Congress, creating an $830 billion entitlement and promising that it won't add a cent to the deficit. Nor will it grow exponentially. Say, like Medicare did. This is Congress saying that raising $500 billion in new healthcare taxes won't increase the cost of your healthcare. Nor will the $400 billion in spending cuts, primarily to Medicare, affect grandma's coverage. ::MonkeyNoNo:: Nor will adding 11 million people to the states’ Medicaid roles bankrupt the states. Just ask California. And then there are the uninsured. Remember them? They started all this. Ramp up the printing press and send more money to stamp out financial need. You didn't need that syringe that went from $.50 each to $500 overnight because the dollar collapsed, did you? Quote If they were in fact serious in Washington, they wouldn’t be having this debate at all. They would be paying strict attention to this economy. To the stimulus they passed and whether it’s working as promised. To the housing sector, where the hemorrhaging continues. To payrolls that continue to get slashed. To the unusually bad hit small business has taken. This could be the beginning of a recovery, if companies can start making enough money to hire new workers. For some reason, Wall Street seems to be making record profits while Main Street suffers. Why isn't the focus on prosperity for Main Street? A chicken in every pot? Why is the grim reaper alive and well on Wall Street? Main Street is closing up everywhere. Hours are being cut, and states are running out of money. Why is Obama insisting through actions, that prosperity on Wall Street won't be broadly shared with Main Street any time soon? Who's prosperity was he planning to broady share? Who is he sharing with? Main Street? Does the government option guarantee folks a job? A home? A comfortable retirement? Quote Or, it could be a temporary lull before the recession resumes. That’s exactly what happened during the 1930s. A new study by Charles Rowley of George Mason University and Nathanael Smith of the Locke Institute, “Economic Contractions in the United States: A Failure of Government,” available on Amazon, concludes that we are about to repeat history. Then, as now, just as it looked as if we would recover, our government decided to pile on new programs, new taxes, and generally so bedeviled businesses that they didn’t hire, and the unemployment rate remained unimaginably high, and…. I think they should have used Depression in this article. read more here - http://www.ajc.com/business/thomas-oliver-no-accounting-163918.html?cxtype=rss_news_128746 (http://www.ajc.com/business/thomas-oliver-no-accounting-163918.html?cxtype=rss_news_128746) While those in the White House party harder, and the dollar collapses, the hope and lights for those on Main Street disappear... Where are the leaders that represent Americans? |