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But this would not be enough to be sure that “the 99%” have everything they need, especially medical care. So let’s look at “the 1%” in a slightly different way: the 1% who have exceptional knowledge and skills, who could provide us with the medical care we need and presumably deserve.
Doctors are generally not in the 1% of the super-rich, despite what many people think. But regardless of their financial status, why should they be allowed to hoard their skills?
WASHINGTON, DC – Déjà vu is that strange sensation that you’re reliving a moment in time, experiencing something that has happened before. If you watched President Obama’s State of the Union Address this week you may have felt as if you’ were experiencing Déjà vu on numerous occasions.
It wasn’t Déjà vu actually but rather it was a president who promised hope, change and new ideas repeating himself…over and over.
HOUSTON - Harris County District Attorney Patricia Lykos today provided the Houston Police Department with nearly half a million dollars to purchase testing and evidence-documentation equipment to revolutionize local law enforcement's fight against intoxicated drivers.
The $475,000 grant triples the number of
permanently-based Intoxilyzer
breath-alcohol testing instruments in
use by HPD, while entirely digitizing the
video and audio recording
of test procedures and results. There is no cost to
taxpayers, as the
initiative is paid for with money captured through the
District
Attorney's successful prosecution of criminal enterprises.
When government controls health care, bureaucrats war against bureaucrats, medical care becomes a commodity, and the taxpayers pay dearly.
The federal government audited NJ Medicaid and determined that the state owes the federal government $145 million due to “mismanagement.” It claims that the state “improperly oversaw Medicaid patient-care services,” the part of Medicaid services involved in the “cleaning, grooming, bathing and shopping for patients” over three years beginning in 2004.
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Profit causes more people to supply a service or product. Increased supply causes competition, and the one who provides the best quality at the lowest price wins. This is the free market. The only impediment to a free market in medical care is government intervention.
The recent announcement by the U.S. Army that several officers and enlisted men were being charged in the death of Private Danny Chen illustrates the problems that can occur when there is a breakdown in command discipline in a military unit. Poor leadership and a tolerance of racism toward Asians created an environment that failed Private Chen and the U.S. Army.
According to relatives, Chen’s fellow soldiers harassed him by taunting him with ethnic slurs and one time pulled him out of bed and dragged him across the floor; they forced him to crawl on the ground while they pelted him with rocks and called him names.
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Romney - not annointed yet.
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An article on Yahoo News today asks the
question: “Is it over?”
referring to the
GOP nomination for president. The
article which is
datelined New Hampshire says that Romney’s frontrunner
status
is
“So formidable, in fact, that it may be impossible to derail." The
context of the statement is not just New Hampshire, but the entire
race.
Chris Wallace of Fox News heretofore believed to be as “Fair and Balanced” a journalist as there was, even called Romney the “presumptive nominee” the night of the Iowa Caucus, and he did so before a single vote was cast.
The media has an agenda, and it has nothing to do with informing you so that you can cast your vote in an intelligent manner.
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The reason for the media not wanting Paul as the Republican nomination to go against Obama is quite clear. It is simply because they want to spin a Republican candidate as a major contender such as Mitt Romney only because they know Romney isn't electable.
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Is RIck Santorum the last Conservative standing?
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Is Santorum the standard bearer for Conservatives in 2012?
IOWA – Rick Santorum pulled off an amazing upset in the Iowa Caucus last night by coming in second behind perennial candidate Mitt Romney by just eight votes. Romney has long been the anointed choice of both the GOP establishment and the media. Not to mention Barack Obama who would chew Mitt up into tiny bite size Romney chunks that could just flip flop all over the place on their own like Mexican jumping beans.
Last night during early coverage of the Iowa Caucus returns, Mike Wallace of Fox News called Romney the party’s “presumptive” nominee. Has anyone ever before been called the “presumptive” nominee with no victories (at the time of the statement) and no major national poll numbers above 25%?
GOP giants sit on the sidelines or hide in the shadows
As the GOP battle for the nomination for the presidency rages on the leaders of the Republican Party are largely MIA. Larry J. Sabato the Director for the University of Virginia Center for Politics said today on Fox News that the lack of endorsements by major Republican Party office holders was the lowest in modern times for a presidential primary season.
The governors and Senators of the states in play are staying out of the fray. In Florida the next state to go to the polls the governor and high-profile Senator Marco Rubio are mum. Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, the son of one president and brother to another, is silent.
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Romney after "winning" Iowa
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News broke today that Mitt Romney did not win the Iowa caucus by eight votes as was reported on caucus night, January 3, 2012. A final official tally now shows that former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum won the caucus by 34 votes.
On the night of the caucus, Romney's eight point victory was hailed as just that: a victory. Romney himself called it a victory. Today, the GOP and Romney say a 34 vote win by Santorum in Iowa is a tie.
When Romney was thought to have eight more votes than Santorum, it was not only a win, but it propelled Romney into the status of "presumptive nominee" for the party.The necessity of constantly turning on wind turbines when the wind is favorable, and off when the velocity is too high, along with the grid power necessary to maintain them, actually causes the operation of wind farms to produce more pollution than if the turbines used the grid to operate constantly.
Each time the grid is used to start turbines on a wind farm, a surge of electricity is needed to power up the fossil fuel station where the power originates.
Such a proposal is meaningless, since the number of Golden Eagles killed by the wind turbines within the first six months would surpass that number. This does not include other protected birds that would also be killed by the turbines. Overall, the official number of protected birds killed by wind turbines per year is estimated at about a half million in the United States alone. This number is more than likely a very low estimate since most kills are not even reported.
The most important reason to oppose the mandate is that the government gets to choose what we are mandated to buy. This leaves room for all types of “providers” to lobby Congress to have their particular service included in the mandate. The government also determines allowable deductibles, administrative costs, and covered services—and who is allowed to provide those services. All this will raise premiums, reduce the number of available insurance products, and reduce choice for American patients.
Some folks would call it treason. I'm one of them. What is this treason you ask? It's the National Defense Authorization Act that was signed into law by president barack obama. This is the law that allows the military to detain US citizens indefinitely as terrorist or
supporters of terrorist. What exactly is a terrorist or what supports terrorist is very vaguely defined. That vague term in times gone past would be unconstitutional, but those days are long gone. It should be noted that when a few of our reps tried to put forth amendments that fully excluded US citizens those amendments were SOUNDLY defeated by both parties.
Section 1021 requires military detainment of al quaida, taliban, associated forces, and any and all 'supporters'.
