Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Who's watching me?


Man, I've had this creepy feeling for sooooo long.

Whatcha mean?

See that thing behind me? It's been following me for months!

Oh, yeah, that figures.

Well, what the hell is it?

That? That's the money you could have saved by voting Republican!


Hat tip: Straight8.

A glimmer of hope...


...emerges after the storm.

Mmmmmmmmmmm. Beeeeeeeer.


Hat tip: Jack B.

Larwyn's Linx: "A criminal organization masquerading as a political party"

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Nation

Fannie and Freddie: The Autopsy: Malkin
Obama health reform and wait times, animated: YouTube
Ohio: Obama approval plummets below 50: RCP

I Still Hate You, Sarah Palin: NRO (Kahane)
Why Palin Quit: WSJ
The video that could kill Obamacare: Patriot Room

Rick Lazio's Second Chance: NY Governor: PJM (Shaw)
The Biden Curve: Taranto
Far Left on the Cusp of Total Success: PJM (Hawkins)

Send them to jail: Corner
Doing the job the GOP girliemen won't: MoneyRunner
What Michelle Obama's staffers earn: Sweet

Economy

California Screaming: Reason (Welch)
McArthur's Bakery Story Goes National: GWP
Should you bet against the dollar?: WSJ

Health Care: a Grander Bargain? :Slate (Kaus)
Ironic gratitude for Charlie Crist: WSJ

Climate & Energy

Gore likens fight against climate change to battle with Nazis: Times Online
Heil Hotter!: Daily Mail
Cap and Trade is a Job Killer: SIGIS

Media

Cast a vote for Neal Boortz National Radio Hall of Fame
Scanning the Michael Jackson Death Spectacular: Anchoress
Andrew Sullivan loses his mind: Riehl

How much does controlling the press cost?: STACLU
40 Acres and a President: AT (Ikenga)
Valerie Jarrett speaks at ISNA Conference: Atlas

World

Avoiding an American Ambush: Glick
Good Stuff Done: Crittenden
I've seen Hell on Earth: Daily Mail

Satellite marks the spot, uncovers pirate weapon haul: Wired
Wishful Thinking Kills in the Middle East: Rubin
Mullen Sees 'Narrow Window' to Stop Iran's Nuclear Program: VOA

Putin praises Bush; disses Obama: BrutHon
Somali Islamist Group Gives Government Five Days to Surrender: Bloomberg
Iraqis celebrate Joe Biden's visit: GWP

Deliverance: Excoriating the New Arms Control Deal: Maguire
Explaining the Obama position on Honduras: GWP
Iranian Revolution, Day 25: Berman

Cornucopia

Citizenship issue finally settled: Denny
Interview with Ambassador Ogego: BigFeed
Evian Roller Babies: LGF

"In other words, stop thinking of the Democratic Party as merely a political party, because it’s much more than that. We’re not just the party of slavery, segregation, secularism, and sedition. Not just the party of Aaron Burr, Boss Tweed, Richard J. Croker, Bull Connor, Chris Dodd, Richard Daley, Bill Ayers, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and Emperor Barack Hussein Obama II. Not just the party of Kendall “Agent 202” Myers, the State Department official recruited as a Cuban spy along with his wife during the Carter administration. Rather, think of the Democratic Party as what it really is: a criminal organization masquerading as a political party." -- David Kahane, NRO


Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Second 'Stimulus' Package, Illustrated


Steny Hoyer, the second-ranking Democrat in the House believes a second "Stimulus" package may be necessary. He cautioned that it is "too early” to assess whether the $787 billion stimulus Congress enacted in February is working.

No, Steny. We've had plenty of time to see that it's a catastrophic failure. Remember, President Obama promised job losses would stop immediately and unemployment would reach no higher than 8% if Congress passed the record-breaking Stimulus package in hours and without reading it. That worked out well, didn't it?

Artist's depiction of the Obama-Democrat Stimulus Package:


This is madness. It is financial suicide.

President Obama struggles with an Excel workbook


It's not a BSoD, but it's a close second: Clippy.



Perspective


Papa B sent this one in.








Kind of puts Michael Jackson in perspective.


Another Dream Shattered


Speaking of "Stimulus" packages...

Finally, someone managed to photograph the pot at the end of the rainbow.

Given the Democrats' outrageous spend-a-palooza packages that have only increased unemployment, I suppose this is to be expected.


Hat tip: Send Pink Slip.

President Obama Readies Stimulus II


President Obama is putting the finishing touches on Stimulus II. It involves Ben Bernanke, a printing press, Goldman Sachs and several bottles of Glenfiddich 12 (the administration spares no expense when it comes to fine dining and cocktails).


If you thought the last Stimulus Package had a big impact, you'll love version two!


Image by: Indiana Jones.

Larwyn's Linx: Obama's Katrina

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Nation

California’s Nightmare Will Kill Obamanomics: Bloomberg (Hassett)
Obama's Katrina: Fox News
There's no one else like Sarah Palin: Doc Zero

Electing God: PJM (Fernandez)
Alcee Hastings and Concentration Camps: STACLU
Amber Alert for Hillary Clinton: LegalIns

Help for Whom?: IBD
Bam's Blunders Abroad: Post
Tough questions for Dodd: The Day

Economy

GM takeover part of broad federal role: Times
How Bonds Work (And How Current Policy Can Wreck Them and Our Economy With It): Provocateur

Climate & Energy

New climate strategy: track the world's wealthiest: Alertnet
June Global Temperatures Drop Again, 8 Year Downtrend Continues: Icecap.us
Global temperatures 'have plunged... since Gore released 'An Inconvenient Truth': M4GW

Media

WaPo flier wasn't only 'salon' offer: Calderone
There's nothing like combining PDS with BDS!: BrutHon
KC Star columnist dreams of Burqa party: McClatchy Watch

World

African entrepreneur eviscerates liberal academic do-gooders: AT (Lifson)
Honduras: Why is the U.S. not supporting the rule of law?: WSJ
20 Armed Nicaraguans Detained at Protest Conclusion, Claims Military Officer: Hunter Smith

Honduras, the Last Bastion of Democracy: AT (Simpson)
Exclusion order on Pamela Geller: Atlas
Iran: The Storm Ahead: Ledeen

Cornucopia

The Ghost Town of Detroit: Forgotten Michigan
A modest proposal: bring back the duel: Winter Soldier

"You must read the comments to 'ELECTING GOD'... [it]s funny how the age groups who voted McCain are disposable [and] probably defective conservative minds will be too!" -- Larwyn

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Monday, July 06, 2009

Scientists puzzled by meaning of bizarre solar storms


As I reported yesterday, a massive outbreak of solar storms has erupted on the surface of the sun.

SpaceWeather.com reports that, "Sunspot 1024 is putting on a spectacular show," according to astronomer David Tyler of Buckinghamshire UK.

Scientists were startled by the rapidity of the outbreak.

In addition, astronomers and solar flare experts have expressed serious concern over unique patterns that emerged today on the sun's surface.



Henry Waxman and Al Gore could not be reached for comment at press time.


Idea: Barry Rubin and Larywn.

Denninger: a Real Gameplan for the GOP


Karl Denninger writes for the outstanding Market Ticker blog, mostly on economic issues, and his predictions have been eerily prescient. Eerily, I say.

Once in a while, Denninger weighs in on political matters and yesterday was such a day. He offered his take on Sarah Palin but, most interestingly (for me, at least, which is all I really care about) is his roadmap for GOP victory in 2010 and 2012.

The formula is as clear-headed and easy-to-follow as any I've read (emphases mine), which is probably why it will be discarded by the same GOP leadership that brought you John McCain and who believe Sarah Palin is less qualified than, say, one Barack Obama.

I have heard exactly nothing out of The Republicans since the election that shows me that they "get it"... Here is what the [party leadership] put forward as the Republican Agenda:

1. Tax relief to stimulate the economy.
2. Domestic energy exploration.
3. Full funding for border security and missile defense.
4. Support for small businesses that create jobs.

Nice rhetoric. Note that we did #1 under George Bush and it was ineffective in preventing the mess. Note also that #3 was claimed after 9/11 but in fact wasn't done, but there were multiple attempts to pass "in the dark of night" amnesty for the illegal aliens, when in fact it would take nothing more than computer verification of SSN records to start sending out thousands of ICE workers to arrest and deport illegals. #4 is a nice premise too, but let's face it - "small business" and "illegal immigrant labor" are joined at the hip, and this is yet another codeword for amnesty...

What's important is what's missing from this missive.

* Any understanding or admission that it was fraud that fueled the economic mess, not "too high taxes", and yet The Republicans have steadfastly refused to demand that those who committed that fraud go to prison.

* Any understanding of the fiscal realities of a $2 trillion budget deficit that came about due to too much spending, and that cutting taxes, while it sounds nice, just makes that worse.

* Any admission that Gingrich promised among other things to rid us of the Education Department; instead The Republicans more than doubled its size and George Bush allowed Senator Kennedy to write the Education Bill in the last Congress.

* Any admission that Medicare Part D was the largest single entitlement program ever passed by any Administration in the history of the nation, and George Bush was its proponent and chief architect!

If The Republicans want to gain in the 2010 mid-term elections and have a shot at unseating President Obama in 2012, they need to do all of the following:

* Begin pushing hard for investigation and prosecution of everyone, individual and corporate, who did and still is falsifying any form of accounting or other financial matter... The Republicans are supposed to be the party of law and order... let's see special prosecutors, investigations, indictments and prison sentences.

* Demand that those who made bad investments in insolvent firms be forced to EAT THEM. This means no more bailouts - instead, it means cramdowns. Lots of cramdowns. If pension funds are caught short by this (including PUBLIC pension funds) then they are.

* Demand that PUBLIC SERVICE EMPLOYEES be cut back to the same standards as PRIVATE SECTOR employees, both for retirement benefits and current working benefits and salary. The "gold-plated" games MUST END as WE DON'T HAVE THE MONEY. This includes but is certainly not limited to Representatives and Senators.

* Return ALL entitlement and education programs to the states and END THEM at the federal level. The Department of Education should be dissolved; there is no Constitutional mandate for same. Social Security and Medicare are not properly federal programs and it is their federal locus that makes them non-portable, unowned by the individual and impossible to fix. No citizen would accept a Social Security system at the state level that disappeared if they moved; they would instead insist on individual ownership, vesting, and investment of that account in actual assets (e.g. Treasury bills or notes) and they'd get it too. The Federal Government is able to steal the contents of Social Security annually (and does) precisely because it is cheating on the accounting - that is, the entirety of the program as currently constituted is a lie! STOP IT.

* Cut Federal spending to match the budget. Yes, I know, you'd have to lay off thousands upon thousands of "government employees" in Washington DC and elsewhere. So what? Let's cut The Federal Government back to 1990 levels of employment and spending - right now, today. "Spending cuts" are not decreases in the rate-of-increase - they are actual cuts! Practice what you preach - if we don't have the money, we can't spend it. Period.

* Push HARD to institute The Fair Tax. Yeah, I know some people don't like it. Here's the facts folks: It inexorably ties federal income to GDP and is the only way to do so transparently, containing the tax code for individuals literally in one line of text. It bankrupts nearly all of the lobbying interests on "K" Street immediately. It incentivizes capital formation (no tax on capital gains) and dis-incentivizes going into debt, as there is no tax advantage to taking on debt. It removes all federal tax burden from those who earn less than a poverty level income and eliminates hundreds of billions of dollars of embedded compliance cost in every good and service produced in this nation. It makes America the manufacturing and business tax haven of the world, and will bring millions of jobs back from overseas overnight...

* STOP ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND SEND ALL OF THEM HOME. Period. This begins with MASSIVE enforcement against employers of these people; send them all to PRISON. We have some 16% of our population out of work (U6) and more than 20% of our youth. These are US Citizens who want jobs and can't find them - it is an outrage that we have illegals in this country taking jobs from these citizens primarily on the basis of working under the table for less than minimum wage, paying no taxes, then showing up in the emergency room for free treatment when they shoot a nail through their own foot!

If The Republicans want to win, this is the populist message that will win elections.

I agree -- and I'm a centrist.


That's one expensive 'oops'.


Many years ago, I helped design and implement the Ground Support Equipment (GSE) for one of the TIROS weather satellites*. More than a decade after working on this large software development effort, on June 24, 2002, a Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile launched the satellite into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base.

Today, the satellite looks something like this. The canned NASA description reads:

"The Space Environment Monitor/2... for the NOAA Space Environment Center, detects charged particles and provides measurements to determine the intensity of the Earth’s radiation belts and the flux of charged particles into the atmosphere at the satellite’s altitude. It provides knowledge of solar terrestrial phenomena and also warns of solar storms that may impair long-range communication and high-altitude operations, damage satellite circuits and solar panels, or cause changes in drag and magnetic torque on satellites. The instrument consists of two separate sensor units and a common Data Processing Unit. The sensor units are the Total Energy Detector and the Medium Energy Proton and Electron Detector..."

Pretty cool. I'd nearly forgotten about this development effort and was only reminded of it because of the massive solar storms that have erupted of late.

Some searches led me to this report of a major debacle involving another TIROS satellite in the same series. On September 6, 2003, at a Lockheed Martin facility in Sunnyvale, the NOAA-N Prime spacecraft was in the process of being repositioned from vertical to horizontal.

"[As it was being repositioned] on the 'turn over cart' at approximately 7:15 PDT today, it slipped off the fixture, causing severe damage... The 18' long spacecraft was about 3' off the ground when it fell."

"The mishap was caused because 24 bolts were missing from a fixture in the 'turn over cart'. Two errors occurred. First, technicians from another satellite program that uses the same type of 'turn over cart' removed the 24 bolts from the NOAA cart on September 4 without proper documentation. Second, the NOAA team working today failed to follow the procedure to verify the configuration of the NOAA 'turn over cart' since they had used it a few days earlier."

"The shock and vibration of the fall undoubtedly caused tremendous damage..."

It's not a bad ending, however, despite the damage to the half-billion dollar observatory. The repaired satellite was successfully launched earlier this year and is scheduled to begin operation in 2012.


* C, with a tiny bit of assembler, running under QNX on an x86 platform.

CNN, R.I.P.


The media watchers over at the excellent Business Insider are illustrating the final chapter of CNN's life as an alleged purveyor of news. It closes its days as the Atlanta-based, public relations bureau of the Democrat National Committee.

Consider, for instance, Nielsen's second-quarter numbers, which could be accompanied by a "gong".

"For starters, CNN is now the third-place behind Fox News and MSNBC among the coveted 25-54 demographic."

"Not helping matters, CNN's top stars, Campbell Brown and Anderson Cooper can't seem to hold on to their audiences, which have declined for three straight quarters."

Year over year, CNN's audience is down an astounding 10%.

But perhaps some more coverage of Michael Jackson's death would help. Anderson, could you make sure the lights are out before you leave tonight?

Larwyn's Linx: Palin versus the Pundits

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Nation

Sick in America: 'Free' Is Good?: ABC News
Palin vs. Pundits: AT (Wright)
Marines fighting Taliban led by... Gitmo alum: Prairie

'Dodd Continues To Mislead People About... His Irish Property': JWF
3,500 turn out for St. Louis Tea Party: GWP
Sotomayor and ACORN: AT (Moran)

Health Care Stagecraft: Power Line
That Troublesome Constitution: CharFox
Consistently wrong for 25 years: Commentary (Rubin)

Biden admits that administration lied about Stimulus: Strata
Independence Day vs. Dependence Day: CharFox

Economy

Some numbers. Large numbers: Dinocrat
Stimulayoffs: where are the jobs?: GOPleader
Russia, India Question Dollar Before G-8 Summit: Bloomberg

A Goldman Trading Scandal?: Reuters
The Work Week: A Troubling New Trend: Provocateur
Dumbest VP of all-time: "We misread economy": AT (Moran)

Real homes of genius: Culver City: Dr. Housing Bubble

Climate & Energy

NCDC talking points vs. Anthony Watts: Watts
NYC has 'coolest June since 1958': National Weather Service
A century of global warming disappers in 2009: Strata

Media

Liberal blogs lie again; no Palin investigations: Macsmind
Ignored By Media, Palin's Accomplishments Extensive: GWP
MSM ignores GM, Chrysler fail-outs: NewsBusters

Limbaugh: Establishment 'Scared To Death Of Palin: Equalizer
Powell can't help himself: NewsBusters
Blue on Blue violence: HuffPo vs. WaPo: CNN

MSM's latest crap: Cuba 7th happiest country on Earth: GWP
MSM coverage of Tea Parties: Instapundit
The lies exist to justify the hate: BruHon

World

Honduras: Blood in the Streets (Pics): Abandoned
Report: U.S. to block Iran sanctions at G8 summit : Haaretz
King Obama Wants to Bypass Senate Ratification of U.S.-Russia Arms Treaty : JWF

Blogging From Tegucigalpa: LegalIns
Refusing to see evil clearly: Corner
Reuters Runs Staged Photo Of Bloody Honduran Protester: LegalIns

Sci-Tech

Starry Night at Mount Rushmore: American Digest
PPC Agencies Make 45X What SEOs Do for the Same Value: SEOmoz
Coffee may reverse Alzheimer's: BBC

Cornucopia

Medical First: Watching Effects of Hi-Carb Food on Arteries: INN
Deep question o' the day: Sondrak
While the Paleos find new ways of breaking bones, Israelis find ways to grow them: INN

Quote o' the day: "We don’t know about you, but we find it creepy that an American President gave a 751-word, Fourth of July address without once mentioning the words “freedom” or “liberty” or even the American Revolution." -- Dinocrat

Not to mention "limited government"... though he did mention "American workers", saving the planet through carbon cap-and-trade and nationalizing health care.

Sunday, July 05, 2009

The Sum of All Fears


Radio Equalizer has the exclusive reaction from the CEO of Excellence In Broadcasting.

And that begs the question: which ticket would p**s off the moonbats worse: Limbaugh-Palin or Cheney-Rumsfeld?


Massive storm erupts on surface of sun


Larry Sheldon sent me the following note this morning: "I noticed a bit ago that the little indicator in the upper left corner [of my personal screen, which has a solar activity X-ray indicator,] had changed from green ("Normal") to yellow ("Active") for the first time in a long time (2 years?)."

"The graph at http://www.n3kl.com/sun/images/noaa_xrays.gif? is sort of startling."

Not a solar expert, although I sometimes play one on TV, I asked Larry what he thought it meant. He responded, "With no authority whatever I think that is an artifact of the first (my estimate) really energetic sunspots in a long time."

Sure enough, SpaceWeather describes a massive solar storm that dwarfs anything seen in the last couple of years.

"Sunspot 1024 is crackling with B- and C-class solar flares. The activity is so intense, astronomers can't seem to take a picture of the sunspot without catching a flare in action. Pete Lawrence sends this example from his backyard observatory in Selsey, UK:

'Active region 1024 is putting on a fantastic show,' says Lawrence. 'The center of this region is incredibly bright and fluctuating.'

Solar observers haven't seen an active region like this one in more than two years. It is big, complex, and rapidly growing..."

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But not to worry: the Democrats' "Crap-and-Tax" plan will save our climate from the effects of solar storms.


A Brief Interlude in the Oval Office


I'm in some real trouble with Michelle.

What do you mean?

She picked up my trousers off the floor last night
and noticed lipstick marks on the seat of my pants.

Well?? What happened?

I admitted that they were from Jennifer Loven and Gary Trudeau,
but assured her the three of us have a strictly platonic relationship.



Democrat Health Care, By The Numbers


0: The number of unrehearsed, unscripted questions asked of President Obama during his "Town Hall" on health care reform.

13: The number of teeth that British veteran Ian Boynton pulled out himself with pliers "because he couldn't find an NHS (National Health Service) dentist... [he] could not afford to go private for treatment so instead took the drastic action to remove 13 of his teeth that were giving him severe pain."

14: The percentage of all patients in Britain who wait more than one (1) year to receive treatment after a referral by a general practitioner. Half of all National Health Care patients in Britain wait between 18 and 52 weeks for treatment.

37: The "health care ranking" assigned to the U.S. by the World Health Organization among the world's countries. This oft-quoted number is used to justify an overhaul of the U.S. health care system and lists countries like Italy (2), Andorra (4), Malta (5), Singapore (6), Oman (8), Portugal (12), Greece (14), the United Kingdom (18), Ireland (19), Columbia (22), Cyprus (24), Saudi Arabia (26), the UAE (27), Morocco (29), Canada (30), Chile (33), the Dominican Republic (35) and Costa Rica (36) ahead of the U.S. Considering that no U.S. citizens travel to these countries when experiencing a life-threatening situation, it's worth questioning the methods by which the WHO arrived at these rankings. Their criteria included subjective and political assessments such as "Fairness in financial contribution". Suffice it to say that the WHO's rankings are clearly fraudulent and are designed to influence U.S. policy.

60: Average cancer survival rate (all types) for patients in the United States. Canada's survival rate is significantly lower at 55%, while Europe's is a dismal 48%.

81: Average percentage of those who survive a diagnosis of prostate cancer in the United States versus 43% in Britain under their National Health Service.

90: Number of days, on average, each Canadian patient must wait for an MRI under the Canadian government-run health care system.

750: The estimated number of people waiting in line (in the pouring rain) at Britain's Bury Office attempting to register for dental care.

2050: By this year, "Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid (health care for the poor) will consume nearly the entire federal budget." And by 2082, Medicare spending alone will consume the entire federal budget. This trajectory is, quite obviously, unsustainable for our children and our grandchildren. Congress is bequeathing our descendents a bankrupt health care system -- for just the third of the medical system that the government already runs!

10,000: Number of Canadian breast cancer patients to file a class action lawsuit against Quebec's hospitals because, on average, they were forced to wait 60 days to begin post-operative radiation treatments.

280,392: The number of jobs that employers would shed if government levied an employer mandate, requiring them to insure all employees. A 2007 study by Katherine Baicker of Harvard University and Helen Levy of the University of Michigan ("Employer Health Insurance Mandates and the Risk of Unemployment") found that "0.2 percent of all full-time workers and 1.4 percent of uninsured full-time workers would lose their jobs if a health insurance mandate were written into law. Workers who would lose their jobs are disproportionately likely to be high school dropouts, minority, and female."

443,849: The number of British patients of the National Healthcare Service (NHS) who waited four or more weeks for inpatient admittance into a hospital (Excel file) in May of 2009 (more than 75% of all patients).

1,500,000: The number of Canadians who do not have -- and cannot find -- a general practitioner/primary care physician due to shortages in medical staff: "In Norwood, Ontario, 20/20 videotaped a town clerk pulling the names of the lucky winners out of a lottery box. The losers must wait to see a doctor... Shirley Healy, like many sick Canadians, came to America for surgery. Her doctor in British Columbia told her she had only a few weeks to live because a blocked artery kept her from digesting food. Yet Canadian officials called her surgery 'elective.' ...'The only thing elective about this surgery was I elected to live,' she said."

12,000,000: number of illegal immigrants who would qualify for free health care and -- in all likelihood -- additional health care rights for relatives under the Democrats' universal health care plan, according to a reported statement by the office of Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and spokespeople for the racial separatist group La Raza.

$311,000,000 ($311 million): The amount of additional funding requested last month by the Obama administration simply to combat Medicare fraud. Medicare fraud is estimated at $60 billion annually.

$3,600,000,000 ($3.6 billion): The amount of added malpractice insurance costs to the current health care system instigated by an out-of-control trial lawyer lobby that donates heavily to Democrat causes.

$10,000,000,000 ($10 billion): The estimated amount of Medicaid fraud, based upon FBI estimates. Criminal practices include billing for nonexistent, overstated, or unnecessary services, kickbacks to patients, inflated costs, etc.

$60,000,000,000 ($60 billion): The estimated annual amount of Medicare fraud, due to widespread criminal operations that victimize taxpayers and specialize in dead doctors, fake patients, non-existent treatments and the like.

$107,000,000,000,000 ($107 trillion): The estimated shortfall of the Medicare and Social Security programs, which are utterly and completely bankrupt; they can be legitimately called an "enormous version of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme".

Canada and England don't pay as high a price for their health care because they freeload on American innovation. If we utilized their systems, Americans might worry less about paying for health care, but we'd get 2009-level care and long lines. Those are the immutable laws of supply and demand. Government monopolies don't innovate. Only the free market innovates.

Furthermore, government bureaucrats already raped the Social Security Trust Fund -- there is no trust fund. They raped the Medicare Trust Fund -- there's nothing left. They raped the Highway Trust Fund -- it's empty. I could go down a long list of things the government said it would do, but hasn't done. Because the big government statists are liars. They even moved these massive expenditures "off the books" to conceal the damage they've done.

And now the Democrat Party, the union bosses and the trial lawyers are launching the most massive attack on the American people in the history of government.

They promise health care for everyone, but they will not -- and they can't possibly -- deliver it. The numbers don't lie.


References: Sick in America: 'Free' Is Good? (ABC News), There's no such thing as free health care (Reason Magazine), Social Security and Medicare Projections: 2009 (National Center for Policy Analysis), Who is Debby Smith?, E.R. P.R., Bureau of Labor Statistics, July 2009.
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