So with this being said I sent my 16 year old armed with my drivers license, to see if he was able to score a lottery ticket.  The answer was yes, he was able to proceed and able to purchase a lottery ticket.  Whose bright idea was this to install a lottery vending machine???  Now the question is, does the Lottery Commission really care who is purchasing the lottery tickets that are supposed to be funding scholarships? 

Everyday I will post a fact regarding an Issue or a candidate that is in the running for the 2012 Presidential Election.  I welcome comments and suggestions so read my introductory post and let the fun begin.  Oh and I must remind you all that the reason I went to school to be a BROADCASTER is that I do not have the patience to be a WRITER/JOURNALIST, so pardon my current editing skills.  Hopefuly they will get better, but im not making any promises.

     What happened to the theory that our country was built on, innocent until proven guilty? Facts first then accusations?  Immediatly people point the finger to Palin when the facts on Loughner and his motive had yet to be presented for disection.

     Those who rant as such should loose all credibility and take a step back and look at the real facts now.  And though I am not a Palin supporter, I am a supporter of facts. Those of you who hate her will only become more furious in the days to come when her supporters come out of the woodwork with facts making you look ridiculous in your accusations. Best to man/woman up and write that retraction now to at least loosing ALL credibility.

This has become a witch hunt, you people need to seek therapy and dont come back to the debate table until you do as anyone who spews this nonsense has lost all credibility in my opinion.

Accorning the the article below, Gifford offended Loughner at a 2007 rally.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/01/10/associated-press-giffords-shooter-believed-us-government-was-behind-911

Not only does this article speak of his discontent with Giffords, but also of his dicontent with the previous Bush administration, believing that the government was behind the 9/11 terror attack onthe United States. One friend has now come out and stated that Loughner was in fact a Liberal.

My Thought for the day is a Quote form Justice Cardozo:
“Those who purport to care about the health of our political community demonstrate precious little actual concern for America’s political well-being when they seize on any pretext, however flimsy, to call their political opponents accomplices to murder.”

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/01/10/associated-press-giffords-shooter-believed-us-government-was-behind-911#ixzz1AehqJ1sE

     In the following link the author is trying to tell you that if the proverbial  ”he” has not asked you to marry him then it cannot simply be because “he is just not that in to you?”  You will however do, until he comes across the proverbial “she”.  The author is in denial. 

If a man knows that he wants to spend the rest of his life with someone and if she is the one, he will marry her.  You ladies following the authors advice will be the ones that fill the void until he does finaly find the one.  And by the “ONE”, I mean, the one that makes him wonder why she isnt talking about marrying him. Do yourselves a favor and move on to a better relationship,even if its just with your cat, dog or god forbid yourself…lol

http://lifestyle.msn.com/relationships/staticslideshowglamour.aspx?cp-documentid=26657022&gt1=32092

This article is full of excuses…cracks me up that this was even written and featured on MSN.

By Valerie Emmons

     It Seems Capitol Hill still thinks the American People Are STUPID when it comes to this healthcare bill.       This is a review of the study that was released on January 8^th 2010 by the Center for American Progress.  The Study called New Jobs through Better Healthcare, is being backed it seems by Representatives Waxman, Rangel and Miller.  

 (See that release here http://edlabor.house.gov/newsroom/2010/01/new-report-shows-health-reform.shtml )

        This study is supposed to prove that Healthcare is going to create jobs but in picking it apart I was astonished that these people even know how to do a study.  Either that or they think that the American people are that dumb.   This study is bogus first of all because as they would like you to believe they are not a bipartisan or neutral organization.  All one has to do is to read the stories posted on their website to see whose side they are on. 

     The study you can find here:  Print it out and follow along with my rant!  http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/01/pdf/health_care_jobs.pdf

     The second study is the one that I take biggest issue with so we will start there.    Page 5 “The impact of healthcare reform on health insurance premiums”. 

     ” National health care reform now being considered in Congress will help modernize American health care and will affect employer-provided health insurance premiums in several ways.  To

gauge the consequences, we employ the estimates from David Cutler of Harvard University and Karen Davis and Kristof Stremikis of the Commonwealth Fund in the second study

examined in this paper, “Health System Impacts of Health Reform Proposals.”5

       An initial impact of reform is savings associated with lower administrative expenses in insurance, especially for small- and medium-sized firms. Administrative costs range from

5 percent for the largest firms to 30 percent or more for small firms.   The higher costs for these businesses are associated with the marketing, underwriting, and brokers’ fees

charged by health insurance companies. Creating health insurance exchanges is forecast to lead to significant reductions in these administrative expenses. Selective marketing

and individual underwriting will not be permitted in exchanges, and brokers’ fees should decline with greater competition. Cutler and his co-authors estimate that insurance

exchanges should lower average employer-paid premiums by about 2 percent.”

            Ok first of let me say that when a broker of any kind looses half of his/her business, which will happen just as it did to numerous Mortgage brokers during the mortgage meltdown, they are not going to charge less for their services.  They are going to most likely double their fee to make up for those other deals that they have lost the exchange.  So to this I give a thumbs down and reverse that 2% DECREASE and say in my scenario that it will be more like a 2% INCREASE. 

       Add that to the estimated 2%-5% increase that Insurance Companies, Drug companies and medical device companies are going to throw your way because the government is going to tax these products more to pay for the New healthcare bill.  What you didn’t think they would just eat that tax did you????  Well that was left out of this study, along with how many small tanning salons are going to be put out of business due to a 10%tax being put on them!  This bill is going to hurt the middle class, small businesses and self-employed.  Not to mention if you happen to be lucky enough to have great benefits then you better enjoy them because as soon as this bill passes I guarantee your employer will cut those benefits to not have to pay the tax that is being proposed on “Cadillac insurance”, this is the stupidest plan I have ever heard!   Why not tax fast food???  There are no benefits to gain from eating it, causes diabetes, heart disease and obesity and everyone seems to eat the crap so why not tax that!

     “The second impact of reform is to change the incentives in current payment systems, and thus encourage higher quality, lower cost care. Estimates show that large savings are possible in a number of areas of medicine,

 among them:

• Reducing the number and cost of high-cost illnesses through better coordination of care

(for example, fewer people needing to be re-hospitalized after an initial hospitalization).

• Lowering unit prices of health care services that are more expensive in the United States

than in other developed countries (for example, operating rooms and scanners that are

run at less than full capacity).

• Streamlining excessive administrative costs that neither improve quality nor

patient satisfaction.

     Aspects of the health reform legislation now before Congress that would promote more efficient care include bundling payments for different health care providers to encourage

practice of more coordinated care, increased use of pay-for-performance systems for providers rather than the pay-per-visit system used by most insurers, and greater funding to

support health care transitions, such as between hospitals and outpatient care, and for so-called medical homes, a primary care model that emphasizes coordinated care for the

patient. These reforms would initially be implemented within the Medicare program, but are expected to extend to privately insured patients as reforms take hold, as has happened

in the past.6”

     Now I do tend to agree with this excerpt, as Case Management is increasing its visibility in the Government arena it can help reduce taxpayer’s costs.  When someone has a chronic illness they have no idea what to do so a case manager can come and explain their disease and help them through this time of confusion.  This tends to keep down medical re-admissions because a case manager is checking up on the patient frequently and advising them and talking with their doctor.  It also cuts down on overdoses and medical error when you have someone that has a critical illness they may have many, many, different doctors and a case manager is there to coordinate with each one.

      “Other aspects of reform will affect premiums by influencing the generosity of benefits.  Some small firms will pay more for insurance because the quality of the coverage they offer

will increase. Most firms, however, offer relatively generous benefits and thus would not be greatly affected. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that health care reform will

increase premiums at small firms by zero to 3 percent.8

        The reform legislation also includes an excise tax on employer-sponsored health plans offering more generous benefits, so-called “Cadillac”

plans.  CBO estimates that this excise tax will reduce premiums for small and large employers by 9 percent to 12 percent. Overall, these changes

in benefit generosity will reduce premiums for employers. In this report, however, we focus on the modernization aspects of the reform

and do not include the employment effects of reform that stem from changes in benefit generosity.”   

    These statements together are an oxymoron.  Ok so on one side you want to influence generosity of employers for increasing their insurance benefits to their employers, but then you also want to tax these so Called Cadillac health plans that are more generous????  This makes no sense at all.  First why are you punishing employers who ALREADY offer their employees great benefits?  This is going to either do two things: When the government taxes these types of plans the employer is either going to drop that kind of coverage to its employees to avoid the tax or lay people off to cover the tax.   My bet is that benefits will be reduced for employees so thank the federal government when your great benefits get reduces to mediocre ones!

Now moving on to page 9, The “Impact of health care reform on number of jobs”, Study.      In this section they are estimating ONLY 80,000 lost jobs?????  I thought the point here was to gain jobs???

    “In addition, some firms will be affected by the “pay-or-play” requirements for employers. These requirements mandate that firms with 50 or more employees that do not offer insurance coverage—

and in the case of the Senate bill have people who receive a subsidy in the exchange—pay fines ranging from $750 to $3,000 per worker.

     We estimate that these requirements will reduce the number of jobs by about 80,000.  Yet most of this reduction in employment would be offset by an increase in spending associated with providing

coverage to the 30 plus million currently uninsured Americans who would become insured by the legislation.” 

      This study is a joke.  Waxman and his cohorts are giving this Study to the American people as a bone to chew on.  The problem is that ALL of us are not blind to what is going on.  This study is worth no more than the paper I shredded this morning, in fact it should be shredded itself. 

     This also just shows, how Congress thinks we know no better and they can feed us any kind of crap they want and they will still run the show.  When are they going to realize that they work for us?  If you agree that YOU are not stupid and you get what I am trying to say here, then please leave a comment telling your Senator and Representatives that they can count you out!

     Congressman John Fleming ( Louisiana physician) has proposed an amendment that would require Representatives and Senators to take the same healthcare plan they force on us (under proposed legislation they are curiously exempt).

     Congressman Fleming is encouraging people to go on his Website and sign his petition (very simple – just first, last and email). I have immediately done just that at:

http://fleming.house.gov/index.html.

Please urge as many people as you can to do the same! If Congress forces this on the American people, the Congressmen should have to accept the same level of health care for themselves and their families

Written by Don Kates July 29, 2009

        An Obama promise you can believe in: He will keep America youthful − because government-run health care will eliminate the old. The rationale for this is obvious, especially to the bureaucrats whom universal health care puts in charge of eliminating “unnecessarily costly” health care. One unfortunate fact is evident to every bureaucrat: Old people are a “surplus population” we can best bid good-bye.

     On the one hand, they are disproportionate consumers of health care services − and the most expensive services; on the other, they work less and so produce LESS TAX REVENUE. It is true that they ONCE provided tax revenue that, among other things, supported bureaucrats’ salaries. But no longer. If they pay taxes at all, it is less than they cost in medical services. In short, for health-care bureaucrats, old people are a net loss. That is what is implicit in Obama’s pronouncements that Medicare − a program that cares for old people − is an expensive “failure”: it prolongs the “useless,” disproportionately expensive lives of old people.

     Fortunately, the solution is at hand: Why is it that per capita so many fewer Canadians or Britons than Americans survive cancer? Because Canada and Britain have universal health care − in which bureaucrats cull the elderly in various ways, including denying them the disproportionately expensive medical services and medicines which prolong their “useless” lives, instead of allowing them to die − each death being a cost savings to the whole society.   

     Note the vital cost-saving element which inheres in EVERY current universal health-care proposal: eliminate Medicare, which is enormously costly and serves only those over 65 − the “surplus population.” For Medicare, substitute universal health care with cost containment − by substituting cost-conscious bureaucrats for doctors. Three mechanisms by which this can be accomplished are already clear − largely from the experience of the Canadian and British health-care systems, which Obama says inspire him.

      The first solution to the elderly problem is set out in a little-noticed provision of the 1000-page House bill which Obama is pushing. Older patients are to receive “counseling.” In other words: “You’ve lived a good life; 65 years is long enough; now die!” From the bureaucrats’ point of view, every elderly person who can be convinced to cut costs by no longer living is a benefit for the universal health-care system.

     The second solution implicit in universal health care, as so well illustrated by Obama’s vaunted Canadian system, is endless lines with people waiting up to a year for crucial treatment. Example: An old person needs medicine or an operation within 10 weeks. So put him in a year-long waiting line. Problem solved, at minimum cost. Note this isn’t even called rationing. Insofar as Obama’s bureaucrats will ever overtly discuss this solution, they will call it “orderly processing.” Insofar as the first two don’t solve the problem, turn to the third solution.

     [The Final Solution.] It involves inserting bureaucrats into the system to apply cost-benefit analysis to the provision of medical services. Some such services are very expensive. Their cost outweighs the benefit of extending life beyond age 65 for the “surplus population.” So no services. You may wonder whether such analysis properly applies to a population that will (theoretically) include Obama himself and his hordes of legislators and bureaucrats. Not to worry, however. The vaunted Canadian model provides a solution.

     Canada has TWO systems. The one for ordinary people is the one with the endless waiting, doctors who are worked to death, and slipshod medical service. For Canadian bureaucrats and politicians, there is a wholly separate system with no waiting and no rationing. [The current Obama plan has a similar exemption for politicians.]

     How about Obama’s claims that his program will reduce burgeoning costs? That involves two claims, one false and the other highly misleading. The false claim is that the preventive medicine he extols will reduce costs. Preventive medicine competently applied will extend life. But, as discussed above, this increases cost − not decreases it. It means more elderly will live longer, thereby increasing medical costs. Again, to deal with the problem of extended life, sick old people will be stuck in lines until they die. And for those who survive that, there will be culling of the surplus by bureaucrats decreeing that services to old people are not “cost-effective.” The misleading claim is based on the fact that all medical care will be subject to cost caps imposed by the bureaucrats. This will indeed cut costs − but only in the short term. The long term effect will be that here − as in Canada − fewer and fewer young people will go into medicine. Just what we need: ever more services provided by ever fewer doctors.

     An Obama future you can believe in. All you need to be convinced is to look at how the Canadian and British systems actually work. Lest there be any doubt, I am not suggesting that Obama is deliberately conspiring against old people. What I am talking about is the inevitable result of replacing a system in which doctors “inefficiently” serve individuals with a system that allocates medical care according to the “rational priorities” determined by bureaucrats. And what about Obama’s assurances to the contrary? Are they worth anything more than his prior assurances: That his $700 billion stimulus plan would keep unemployment below 8%? (It is now 9.5% and rising.) That he would abide by campaign spending limits? (McCain did; Obama didn’t.) That he never heard his beloved pastor’s ravings against white people and Jews? [Twenty years of sleeping in church?] Etc., etc., etc.

     Don Kates is an attorney and former law professor. He was active in the civil-rights movement and is a leading advocate of the Second Amendment. ●

     Editor’s Note: America lost 405,399 dead in World War II. We did not spend all that blood to defeat Nazism over there, only to adopt Nazi ideas over here. The notion of “life unworthy of life” is totally foreign to us. The idea that the elderly and the disabled are a “drain on the Fatherland” should have no place in our thinking. But as John O’Sullivan observed, “In Europe, the fascists goose-stepped; in America, they jog.” We are slowly accepting Nazi ideas presented not by stern-faced men in uniforms, but by smiling men in casual clothes. The Nazis actively murdered those who were no longer economically useful to the state, while we will passively allow them to die. But the end result will be similar.

     You’re crazy if you think that a society can survive if it aborts its babies, the source of the next generation, and it kills its elderly, the source of wisdom. And you’re even crazier if you think that a society like that deserves to survive. In stark contrast to ObamaCare as described by Don Kates, consider the words of Vice President Hubert Humphrey: The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the aged; and those in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped If this sounds more like the America you know, phone and e-mail your senators and representatives.

Let them know how you feel. Sign the petition. Speak out, while there is still time.

Dr. Stolinsky writes on political and social issues. He can be contacted at dstol@prodigy.net.

www.stolinsky.com

     Aparently My state is not the only one where this is happening:

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/07/salvation_army_brings_kettles.html

This is scary folks, very scary.

     The following arguement started from a story that was posted on an aquaintence of mines facebook page.  The article was about Palin being investigated for violating ethics laws.  This is not the exact article but it gives background on the story and is similar to the one that was being argued about.

http://news.aol.com/article/palin-ethics-probe/581975

Here is how the debate wednt down:

Richard:  Hello, she (PALIN) knew this was coming, so she quit

Kathryn:   YOU may have a problem with Obama but I don’t, so I don’t need to focus on that. And again, you can’t sit here and say that you are ‘smarter’ than everyone because you ‘woke up’ and seen the light …. I am close to an MBA in Communications and all of these debates … are a matter of opinion … I would never, ever tell someone they are stupid for… Read More believing what they believe in. I’ll say it again … I am 35 and my morals, values, beliefs, and convictions didn’t just happen overnight … or when Obama became President.

Valerie Emmons:  I never said anyone was stupid…i said i wish people would open their minds to new ideas…thats the problem when people hear facts and still deny them, because they dont want to admit that they may be wrong and change their opinions…because they like someone. And realy you dont have issues with the things I pointed out in my article?? Wow … Read Morethats some crazy stuff on there that we should be outraged about it. Page 16 in the new healthcare bill will make it illegal for ins agents to sell health insurance..thought they were gonna make it an option????.how many more jobs will be lost there? This is a joke that the American are falling for these lies that are being told by this administration, just as it was when bush lied about Iraq!