Texas-The newest Country

The Country of Texas ~ being that Texas is the only state with a legal right to secede from the Union . (Reference the Texas-American Annexation Treaty of 1848.)

We Texans love y'all, but we'll probably have to take action if Barack Obama wins the election. We'll miss you too.

Here is what can happen:

1: Barack Hussein Obama is President of the United States, and Texas secedes from the Union in summer of 2013.

2: George W. Bush will become the President of the Republic of Texas . You might not think that he talks too pretty, but we hadn't had another terrorist attack, and the economy was fine until the effects of the Democrats lowering the qualifications for home loans came to roost.
So what does Texas have to do to survive as a Republic?

1. NASA is just south of Houston , Texas . We will control the space industry.

2. We refine over 85% of the gasoline in the United States .

3. Defense Industry--we have over 65% of it. The term "Don't mess with Texas," will take on a whole new meaning.

4. Oil - we can supply all the oil that the Republic of Texas will need for the next 300 years. What will the other states do? Gee, we don't know. Why not ask Obama?

5. Natural Gas - again we have all we need, and it's too bad about those Northern States. John Kerry and Al Gore will have to figure out a way to keep them warm....

6. Computer Industry - we lead the nation in producing computer chips and communications equipment -small companies like Texas Instruments, Dell Computer, EDS, Raytheon, National Semiconductor,Motorola, Intel, AMD, Atmel, Applied Materials, Ball Microconductor, Dallas Semiconductor, Nortel, Alcatel, etc, etc. The list goes on and on.

7. Medical Care - We have the research centers for cancer research, the best burn centers and the top trauma units in the world, as well as other large health centers. The Houston Medical Center alone employees over 65,000 people.

8. We have enough colleges to keep us getting smarter: University of
Texas , Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Texas Christian, Rice, SMU, University
of Dallas , University of Houston , Baylor, UNT ( University of North
Texas ), Texas Women's University, etc. Ivy grows better in the South anyway. 
9. We have an intelligent and energetic work force, and it isn't restricted by a bunch of unions. Here in Texas , it's a Right toWork State and, therefore, it's every man and women for themselves. We just go out and get the job done. And if we don't like the way one company operates, we get a job somewhere else.

10. We have essential control of the paper, plastics, and insurance industries, etc.

11. In case of a foreign invasion, we have the Texas National Guard, the Texas Air National Guard, and several military bases. We don't have an Army, but since everybody down here has at least six rifles and a pile of ammo, we can raise an Army in 24 hours if we need one. If the situation really gets bad, we can always call the Department of Public Safety and ask them to send over the Texas Rangers. 
12. We are totally self-sufficient in beef, poultry, hogs, and several types of grain, fruit and vegetables, and let's not forget seafood from the Gulf. Also, everybody down here knows how to cook them so that they taste good. Don't need any food.

13. Three of the ten largest cities in the United States , and twenty- three of the 100 largest cities in the United States , are located inTexas. And Texas also has more land than California , New York , New Jersey , Connecticut , Delaware , Hawaii , Massachusetts , Maryland , Rhode Island and Vermont combined.

14. Trade: Three of the ten largest ports in the United States are located in Texas .

15. We also manufacture cars down here, but we don't need to. You see, nothing rusts in 
Texas, so our vehicles stay beautiful and run well for decades.

This just names a few of the items that will keep the Republic of Texas in good shape. There isn't a thing out there that we need and don't have.

Now to the rest of the United States under President Obama: Since you won't have the refineries to get gas for your cars, only President Obama will be able to drive around in his big 5 mpg SUV.The rest of the United States will have to walk or ride bikes.

You won't have any TV as the Space Center in Houston will cut off satellite communications. You won't have any natural gas to heat your homes, but since Mr. Obama has predicted global warming, you will not need the gas as long as you survive the 2000 years it will take to get enough heat from Global Warming. 

Signed,
The People of Texas

P.S. This is not a threatening letter - just a note to give you something to think about!

SLEEP WELL TONIGHT - THE EYES OF TEXAS ARE UPON YOU!!

Socialism-The UKs problems will soon be here!

Want to know where this country is going if we follow this absurd march towards socialism? Europe is broke as a DIRECT RESULT OF THEIR SOCIALIST UTOPIA and now the gig is up. Austerity basically means NO MORE SOCIALISM or you WILL go broke and your country WILL collapse. Read this and find out what the UK is going through, what the world is running away from and where the obama gov. wants to take us! A fool learns from his own mistakes...a wise-man learns from somebody else's!

 A new report out by the Equality and Human Rights Commission has thrown a light on the abuses that invariably come when you socialise healthcare. This one focused on home care for the elderly run by local councils. The chronic disregard of pensioners was found to be so appalling many have been left ‘wanting to die’. Of the 500k people that are under government care, 250k experienced horrendous neglect. Here are some examples of what ‘carers’ get up to:

• Refusal to heat food in a microwave and serve due to “health and safety” concerns
• Soiled sheets unchanged for weeks
• The frail put to bed at 2:45pm
• Lack of time to carry out vital tasks like washing and dressing
• Physical abuse such as rough handling and shouting
• Systematic theft of money
• Leaving food out for a blind and deaf man and not telling him where it is

And it is no better in hospitals, where a study earlier this year exposed similar abuses, like leaving food out of reach, so that patients starved and were so thirsty they couldn’t cry out for help. Hot off the press yesterday, we learn that botched operations are now in the tens of thousands each year, post-operative infections are at an all time high and the death rate due to NHS care is ‘alarmingly high’.

Some elderly with means are even hiring private nurses and having them pose as friends and relatives to ensure they are bathed and fed while in hospital. It is so surreally absurd and obscene, it almost sounds like a comedy sketch, but sadly it is all too real and the tragic result of a human ‘rights’ culture. And it will be the fate of America if Obamacare is not repealed.

When left to the devises of man, a ‘right’ becomes a politicised tool to manipulate for purposes of greed, power or some other nefarious intent. When passed into law, personal responsibility is abrogated and it is left to the courts to fight out whether a right has been denied based on evidence gathered.

Take the simple concept of clean drinking water which the UN Human Rights Council says should be a ‘right’ recognised under international law. Now since we can’t live without it for more than a few days and we all support that everyone should have it, wouldn’t this be a reasonable law? No it would not. 

Just because we call something a ‘right’ does not make it so. The thinking gets muddled when we fail to distinguish the difference between a ‘right’ and a necessity. Water is necessary to human life, so our governments should ensure their citizens have access to it. Unfortunately some governments fail to do so as in developing nations where water access is unsafe or scarce. In 2003 Kerala, India suffered extreme water shortages when corrupt officials granted water rights to a foreign soft drinks manufacturer, allowing them to extract a million gallons a day. To combat this kind of poor government judgment, the UN resolution seeks to let the responsibility fall to the international community, which usually means taxing richer nations to supply that water in various programs. But much of that money will inevitably end up funding a new Mercedes or palatial residence for the local despot. The status quo remains as the tyranny of taxation hampers the ability of private sector initiatives to take action.

It’s the same with health care. In Europe, no politician will renounce social health care for fear of losing his votes. In fact, the best way to gain votes is to denounce its privatization. Money continues to be thrown at services no longer fit for purpose and when that’s gone, the inevitable ‘efficiency ‘ cuts come.

Billions have been spent here in the UK on commissions and reports by outside agencies producing endless reports on how to fix the NHS. Many point to competition being a key to improvement. Yet the country remains frozen into non-action over this sacred cow because of our deeply imbedded ‘rights’ culture. Even Socialist Sweden was able to lift itself from health care hell into market led reforms that have transformed their health service. In former communist Slovakia nearly half of health care is privately serviced.

The British clearly haven’t suffered enough yet, as they cling to the proposition that universal health care is a right and proper way to equalize resources and makes society ‘fair’ for everyone. In the process, free market principles are obliterated forcing people who want other non-government alternatives to fund them themselves while still paying tax to for a universal system. And the basic human interaction of one person helping another in need through the choice that a well developed conscience dictates, is replaced by the state and bureaucratic decisions based on statistics and budgets. Taxation and the appeal to our innate sense of fairness is the oxygen that feeds this system, and it inhibits the freedom for civil society to take action because money is squeezed from that sector. And when a ‘right’ is designated to another party to administer, the culture gets lazy about doing the decent thing. Need can only be truly addressed on an individual basis by people whose objectives are driven by personal charity and not personal greed or power.

‘Rights’ culture turns into tyranny when we fillet out moral virtue and conscience. When you leave the judgement of decent behaviour to another – a politician, a court or a human rights commission, you set up a value system that encourages self-centred thinking devoid of personal responsibility. 

Western civilization was built on Christian values and its attendant rule of law based on Mosaic Law or the Ten Commandants - the ultimate guideline for personal responsibility. Follow these and you have moral order which in turn leads to societal order. ”Honour your father and your mother”, takes care of our elders. If you can’t, then someone in your family will and if they can’t, then it falls to our neighbours, which is way the Christian moral ethic operates. If we swept out government intervention tomorrow, civil society would pick up the baton. Faith groups and others would set up homes for the elderly where volunteers, religious and others would band together supported by private fundraising to do what a culture powered by love does. 

We see this ethic in operation time after time, especially in America after natural disasters. People pitch in and help their neighbour.

America’s founding made this culture of love endemic and is the reason why so many want to flee to its shores, many of whom don’t even understand why this principle works, but they do get that the freedom it spawns does work. The founding fathers also knew the role of government must be to protect this freedom out of which personal responsibility flourishes. This was all placed under God in the Declaration of Independence which recognized the fundamental rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.

The culture of ‘rights’ claims to protect, but it can never succeed. Firstly, take God out of the equation and we will never agree on what a ‘right’ is. It becomes a euphemism for decency. Bloated on luxurious budgets at the expense of ordinary people, the EU unceasingly dreams up new goodies to throw into the ‘rights’ bag, as we saw this summer with one member putting forward a bill for the ‘right’ to a summer holiday.

Secondly, where one ‘right’ is enforced, another will be violated. Take airport scanners. In the UK we will soon be required to do a full body scan without a pat down option if a passenger is selected for screening. If we refuse, we lose our right to fly. Flying is not a right, but in a free society a bought service. We choose this service based on how safe they make it, the food, seat comfort, etc. 

The individual airlines in turn should be able to provide the necessary security as they see fit.

Decency dictates that appearing nude to a stranger while being bombarded with ionizing radiation would warrant another method more valid. But despite the unusual move by the EU to direct its member states not to use this type of scanner, the UK is going ahead because of the significant terror threats we face and our ‘rights’ be damned.

In a free society, airlines should be able to choose their methods of security and market them accordingly. Israeli airline EL AL would be the first port of call for consultation as they have cornered the market in determining who poses a threat by psychological profiling, suspect terrorist intelligence and good old fashioned common sense backed by gun wielding marshals on board. Now, that’s a service I would gladly pay for and relax on the flight.

And the rest who still feel violated? Since the majority of terrorists taking to the skies these days are Islamofacists, we could create flights based on Imam-defined rules of safety where Muslims might feel happier about not being profiled. The market would operate freely, we all have our dignity and ‘rights’ intact and we would see who did the better business. Similarly, a free market health care system weeds out the good hospitals from the bad and the impetus to decency of the individual would see to the needs of the truly destitute.

When America gets tough, the tough look offshore

I have been telling my left wingnuts this for a long time, "What are you going to do when all the business' and wealthy leave"? They are now leaving at a rate of 54 people a MINUTE, taking their jobs and money with them! You people can't see the tree's for the forest of what is coming down the pipeline! The Sovereign Offshore Newsletter has been telling folks exactly how to go about this LEGALLY! Here is their latest edition and you had better take note:

When America gets tough,
the tough look offshore

America has become a country of deep philosophical chasms, and there now emerges the very real possibility the turmoil will tear the nation asunder.

Over the next 12 months, as America enters presidential-election season, the fight that is coming will determine whether the country swings decidedly right or left, because the winner will rightly claim a mandate to either continue on the current path into the dark night of socialist thinking ... or reintroduce morning in America.

The divisions in this country have already been brought into stark relief. For instance, 54% of Americans believe in a right to bear arms; 46% don’t.

48% believe marijuana should be legalized; 52% don’t.

45% of Americans support ObamaCare; 45% don’t.

No one can deny that during the past decade, America has changed for the worse...

We’re Living in Orwell’s Dystopia

It is just over 10 years since that unforgettable day in September 2001, when two planes slammed into the World Trade Center in apocalyptic fashion and changed America forever.

In spite of what our politicians tell us, America did not recover from that hammer blow. Today, we are worse off - not because of the terror, but because sycophantic politicians wrapping themselves fraudulently in patriotism, and the Americans who pardon their antics, allowed Osama bin Laden’s act to undermine our freedoms, liberties and ideals.

Electronic strip-searches at the airport...

IRS reporting rules that require merchants to disclose transactions of $10,000 or more or which require you to report foreign financial accounts...

Warrantless electronic surveillance of U.S. citizens...

Secret searches and electronic eavesdropping on Americans by the National Security Agency (with the President’s blessing)...

It’s all an eerie manifestation of Orwell’s dystopian 1984.

But The Tragedy Doesn’t Stop There...

America ended 2000 with a budget surplus of $236 billion, yet today she’s technically bankrupt, addled by annual deficits exceeding $1 trillion and with no honest options for repair - and, worse, a political process that is broken, dysfunctional and self-serving.

We’ve depleted our national treasure on wars of personal revenge and vendetta, spending more than $1.2 trillion - and counting - on conflicts inAfghanistan and Iraq that have accomplished little of national significance. Our accumulated debts now exceed $14 trillion, nearly 100% of GDP.

At The Sovereign Society, we know exactly how we would solve the debt crisis - but it would have nothing to do with Fed chairman Ben Bernanke’s redux of Operation Twist, which aims to stimulate the economy by pushing medium and long-term interest rates lower.
Our solution is simple - though it is one the Keynesian-minded, wealth-destroying automatons in Washington refuse to consider.

Firstly, kill ObamaCare.

It’s unconstitutional - no government should force its citizens to buy any product under threat of financial penalty. Business executives are so uncertain about the financial impact ObamaCare will impose they have no desire to hire new workers. The added costs only serve to make American businesses less competitive in the global marketplace.

Second, throw away the entire 71,600-page U.S. tax code and start from scratch.

Ensure that everyone pays a little something for the right to live in the freest nation on Earth. There is no reason 51% of American taxpayers effectively pay no income tax - and even less reason why 30% of taxpayers made money off the tax system through credits.

Reduce corporate income taxes while you’re at it.

Kill the various exemptions that individual industries have lobbied for.
And incentivize companies to repatriate the hundreds of billions of dollars sitting in corporate bank accounts overseas.

Unfortunately, none of those suggestions are likely to happen.

Instead, we have increased inefficient regulation at every turn. Obamacare will doubtless make matters even worse and will continue to work to dampen the animal spirit of American capitalism.

The outcome of the forthcoming election will have long-term ramifications for America.

There is Only One Thing Left To Do

We urge you to think about your financial parachute. Now is the time to have money in banks and brokerage firms overseas ... and in gold and land. You might even consider the possibility of a second passport or residency in another country. Because if fundamental changes in our political priorities and monetary policies don’t happen soon, America is going to become a very tough place to call home for anyone who has even a modicum of wealth.

A possible escape hatch is Asia, where growth is springing forth. Just look at the exploding economies in places like Phnom Penh, Singapore,Bangkok, Hong Kong.

Putting idle cash into EverBank’s Asian Currency Portfolio, for example, means you will inoculate yourself against the never-ending debasement of the U.S. dollar (a trend that has been ongoing for generations) by investing in currencies such as the Singapore dollar, Australian dollar, Indian rupee, Chinese yuan and Japanese yen - all of which consistently outperform the ailing greenback as Asia’s rising middle class fuels the growth of emerging-market economies.

There are a number of other countries that offer offshore banking, citizenship and tax haven opportunities.

Parts of South America - Uruguay in particular - can offer a nice golden parachute and soft landing. As Erika Nolan, Publisher of The Sovereign Individual, pointed out on earlier in the week, not only does Uruguay welcome the right people -- and clearly they are coming in steady numbers - it offers a delightful lifestyle and a myriad of real estate and land investment opportunities. At the same time, establishing Uruguayan citizenship is far from onerous.

In the event that life in the U.S. goes pear-shaped, we urge you to protect your future and the assets you have worked hard to accumulate for yourself and your family by going offshore.

Stay Sovereign my friends,

How Stupid are American Voters?

Well this should come as NO surprise to anyone! The last bastion of unionism has no choice but to endorse our communist in chief as they have pissed off just about EVERY non-union American out there under obama and his out of control left wingnut NLRB crew! Check this out by fellow blogger Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh:

As I read the memorandum in front of me, I am amazed how blind Americans are, how naïve, ignorant, credulous, and unable to discern fact from fiction, reality from fantasy. How much more proof do they need before they realize our country is on the path of purposeful destruction?

Service Employees International Union (SEIU), with its 2.1 million dues paying members had announced on November 16, 2011, “with great pride and a sense of purpose,” that they were endorsing President Barack Obama for re-election.

“President Obama is the only candidate for president who shares our vision of America as a land of opportunity for everyone. We need a leader willing to fight for the needs of the 99 percent, and stand with hard working families to say that the world’s wealthiest corporations must pay their fair share.”

Is this the vision of socialist America where almost 50 percent of citizens already pay no federal income tax and receive welfare from the producers? Is this the vision where pot-smoking youth occupy our parks demanding handouts while preaching Marxism?

Is this the vision of America where working Americans support millions of illegal aliens who take advantage of our lax law enforcement when foreigners cross the border illegally, drop anchor babies, use our emergency rooms for medical care, our schools and universities for educating their children, and take jobs from American citizens?

Our leader does not fight for the needs of all Americans. His needs, golfing, vacationing, entertaining lavishly at taxpayer expense, or his favorite hobby, non-stop campaigning, come first. He punishes companies that are not supporting his plan for America and rewards companies who have contributed heavily to his campaign coffers.

Congressman Frank Wolf remarked on the floor of the House on November 16, 2011, “General Electric, the nation’s largest corporation, had a very good year in 2010 but GE paid zero taxes in 2010. At the same time, the Congressional Research Service found that the October 2008 issue of China Taxation magazine published top corporate taxpayers in the commercial services sector. The Beijing subsidiary of GE was number 32.”

The 99 percent have been overlooked by the head of President Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, GE chairman, Jeffrey Immelt, who announced recently that the headquarters of its 115-year old X-ray business would be moved from Wisconsin to Beijing.

Fifty percent of GE’s workforce is overseas. A joint venture between GE and the Chinese firm AVIC was announced to develop avionics systems for jets. If the president cared so much for the 99 percent, would he not make sure jobs would be created here and repatriated from China?

Is it a good idea to provide the PLA with advanced avionics technology at a time when the Chinese are developing aeronautics and space exploration programs? Is this not a national security issue?

The SEIU memo continues, “Our economy and democracy have been taken over by the wealthiest one percent.” The truth is, wealthy individuals are being threatened and blackmailed by the left on a daily basis.  Our country has been taken over by Marxists and anti-American individuals who wish nothing but the failure and de-development of America from a super-power to a third world nation.

The SEIU memo to its members says, “These bankers and CEOs have used their wealth and excessive political influence to treat our state and federal governments like their personal cash drawer – spending lavishly on elections and then pressuring legislators to give them even more instead of creating jobs. It shows the results.”

Was it not unions that spent hundreds of millions of dollars to elect Democrats to Congress and President Obama in order to influence the outcome of legislation favoring and benefiting unions?

Was it not ACORN protesting outside the homes of bankers and CEOs with the intent of shaming them into giving mortgage loans to people with shady credit scores? Were certain Congresspersons not urging bankers to make these loans? Did this move not exacerbate the housing bubble crisis?

Corporations are not creating jobs because they are overregulated, EPA is denying permits, business confidence under this administration is at its lowest, and corporations are afraid to hire because of the uncertainty of taxation and the foreseen high cost of Obamacare per employee.

SEIU’s president says, “We know there needs to be a pathway to citizenship for every immigrant worker.” The left now calls illegal aliens “immigrant workers,” last year it was “undocumented workers.” No matter how they spin it, the left wants amnesty for illegal aliens because they want new cardholders paying dues to unions and new automatic Democrat voters. It does not matter to liberals that the majority of Americans do not want amnesty.

Our President has had three years, a few billion dollars job stimuli, and many opportunities to create jobs. It never was his intent to create jobs – he likes people being dependent on the government dole. People who cannot find jobs, especially young people with college degrees, have nobody to blame but themselves for choosing perennial poverty by voting for Obama in 2008 and by choosing unmarketable degrees.

Mr. Obama has presided over the largest spending spree in the history of the U.S., out of control debt that threatens our national security. Aided by both Republicans and Democrats in Congress who are unwilling to set a debt ceiling, he will not stop spending until we have reached an insurmountable debt that many future generations will not be able to repay. It is like giving a child total control of the candy jar.

“We know that health care, elder care and other vital services must be available for all our families,” says the SEIU President in her letter, which solicits $10 in re-election campaign donations. 

We already have the best and most generous health care system in the world available for all families, including illegal alien ones. Nobody is refused medical care in our emergency rooms. Foreign nationals come to America legally for medical treatment because we have the best-trained and brightest physicians in the world and the fastest service.

Insurance issues across state lines should have been addressed first and the fraud within the healthcare system. Instead, Obamacare increased the cost of healthcare and health insurance. In order to offer everything to everybody as falsely promised, rationing and death panels had been introduced in the massive bill that we had to “pass first in order to know what’s in it.” 

This one bill will add trillions of dollars to our future national debt.

“President Obama is looking to turn things around, but he needs help from all of us to be heard over his wealthy opponents, people who seem to believe that the only thing wrong with the economy is that they have to share it,” says SEIU President Mary Kay Henry.

People have heard President Obama loud and clear. No matter how many times he repeats his canned rhetoric, none of his plans, schemes, bailouts, stimuli have worked, none of them. He cannot turn things around because he does not know how. Furthermore, he has no intention of doing so.

Mr. Obama is a wealthy man himself, much wealthier than he was when he took office.  He knows that wealthy people cannot and do not keep all wealth for themselves, they spend it and reinvest it in order to create more wealth. In the process, they create jobs and elevate the economic status of many Americans.

Although we cannot blame all the economic problems on President Obama’s leadership and his failed policies, he is the captain of the ship of state.

Pandering to economic dolts and people who are asleep is a very stealthy tool to manipulate the masses into automatic donor compliance and SEIU has a large membership.

SEIU President continues in her letter, “Just last month, congressional supporters of the one percent blocked President Obama’s latest job proposals. They claimed that we could not afford to invest in creating jobs in the United States and then suggested another round of tax cuts for wealthy corporations and the one percent. I have a word for that: “ridiculous.”

Jobs were indeed created by this administration in the past three years with American taxpayer dollars – in China, Finland, Mexico, and Brazil.

Past economic history has proven that every time taxes were cut, government revenue increased, and small corporations, most of which have a capital of $100,000, created jobs. We only have 500 or so large corporations. If we confiscated everything corporations own and their profits, it could only offset our huge national debt for a short period of time while the greedy spending in Washington would continue.

It is incomprehensible that people are unable to see through the disingenuous statements made in this SEIU call to action memo to re-elect Obama President. The seemingly small $10 donation will be their economic demise. Fighting and knocking door-to-door to re-elect a losing president assures a bleak future for the so-called 99 percenters. If he is re-elected, the economy will take an irreversible slide into bankruptcy. We will become the banana republic he planned to “fundamentally transform” us into all along.

The FACTS on YOUR Medical-Urgent

Just about EVERYTHING about obamacare is and has been a LIE! Knowing this administration the way you should by now, this should come as no surprise, but it is only going to get worse! In fact it is getting worse everyday. 


I personally know doctors that already refuse to see medicare/medicaid patients and 1 that has retired early. I now have to wait almost TWICE as long to see my Doc as I did a 2 years ago! Well this is what is going on behind closed doors right now. I urge you to read this short piece and sign the quick petition at the end immediately;

The worst fears about Obamacare are now being realized in a decision on Monday by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MPAC) established by the law to supervise $500 billion in Medicare cuts.  MPAC, whose decisions have the force of law, has voted to impose drastic pay cuts on all doctors under Medicare and, by extension, under Medicaid (which tends to follow suit).  The cuts will effectively reduce the real pay for specialists by 50% over the next ten years --- including a 25% reduction over the next three years -- and cut general practitioners' pay by one-third over ten years (and that assumes that inflation stays down at 3% a year).


MPAC has ruled that specialists must accept a 6% cut in their fees per year for each of the next three years followed by a seven year freeze in their fees without any adjustment for inflation.  If inflation stays very low -- at 3% per year -- this cut amounts to an 18% cut in nominal pay and a 50% cut in real pay for specialists.  General practitioners will face a ten year freeze on their pay, reducing their real compensation by one-third assuming ongoing low inflation.  Higher inflation, of course, would make the cuts in real pay even more drastic.


The consequences of the MPAC decision will be immediate and drastic:


* Many physicians, and many more specialists, will refuse to treat Medicare patients.  It will become very, very difficult to see a cardiologist or an oncologist or a gastroenterologist or OB-GYN specialist if you are on Medicare unless you are willing to pay out of pocket or have the kind of health insurance coverage from a private source that would reimburse for their care.
 
* More and more medical care will be turned over to nurses or physician assistants, and fewer people will ever get to see a doctor on Medicare.
 
* Private health insurers will follow in the footsteps of the Medicare program and likely slash their fees as well.
 
* Fewer students will enter medicine, and a major shortage of doctors will reduce the quality of medical care in America drastically.
 
The MPAC cuts will bring American doctors' incomes more into line with European doctors who typically earn half or less of what their American counterparts earn -- and deliver worse medical care as a result.
 
We have got to stop these MPAC cuts from taking effect.  The very future of Medicare and of our entire health care system is at stake.  If they are allowed to stand, Medicare will become akin to Medicaid or public housing -- a program for poor people who cannot afford to pay for medical care from specialists outside the system.
 
Please take a moment and click here to sign the petition asking Congress to overrule the MPAC decision.  Providing quality medical care and preserving the Medicare program is something that can reach Republicans and survival-minded Democrats, but we need to raise a storm of protest!

Obama’s 1,000-day Report Card: ‘Gridlock, Dysfunction'

Well folks, these are the FACTS, so read this before arguing! I am also looking for any other  credible studies that refute this! Read it and weep. If you want MORE of this dismal failure, you can vote him in for another 4 years....but I doubt that will happen. 

Like I have said for months, people want radical change and Herman Cain is the man. It is such a shame to see that our first Black President will go down in the annuls as 1 of the WORST ever, save Woodrow Wilson.  I believe Herman Cain can come in and become 1 of our greatest presidents, pulling us out of this major world recession with his simple 9-9-9 plan. In the meantime here is obama's report card:

Don’t look for champagne, party horns, and confetti to mark President Barack Obama’s 1,000th day in the White House today. 

Indeed, some might be forgiven for feeling that these thousand days of “hope and change” seem more like a thousand years. 

Partisan discord — fueled by a president who seems unable to find any common ground with the opposition party — is rife and rancorous. 

The economy is seeing its worst times since the Great Depression. Internationally, the country is bogged down in two major wars, while competitors such as China and Brazil take advantage of the mayhem to seize crucial economic terrain and key industries.

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The president whose approval rating stood at a stellar 69 percent on Inauguration Day has seen his popularity dip deep into the cellar on several occasions, dropping below 40 percent. Independents have left him in droves, contributing to a midterm drubbing for Democrats that was among the worst in political history. 

As the nation struggles with a Carter-esque malaise, Democratic pollster and Fox News commentator Doug Schoen tells Newsmax: “There is no ‘hope and change,’ no high-minded politics. It is just politics as usual: gridlock, dysfunctionality, and impotence. Sadly, you see it on both sides of the aisle.”

Consider the facts:

• Jobs: The president has presided over the loss of 2.2 million jobs.
• Debt: Obama has increased taxpayer debt by $4.2 trillion. Every day, the nation runs a deficit of $4.2 billion.
• Foreclosure and Bankruptcy: 2.4 million homes have been foreclosed on. Homeowners and businesses have declared 4 million bankruptcies.
• The Stimulus: Obama promised that his $787 billion stimulus would save or create 3.5 million jobs by the end of 2010. He came up 7.3 million jobs short of his goal, according to the Heritage Foundation.
• Healthcare: Obamacare did not reduce healthcare costs as promised and is in fact responsible for increasing costs in 2011. Health insurance premiums are up 13 percent.
• Poverty: Nearly 3 million more Americans live in poverty than did before Obama took office.

On Friday, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly summed up the situation perfectly for Republicans in his "Talking Points Memo." 

"On the economic side, things remain dismal," O'Reilly said. "The president will try to convince the folks that things could be a heck of a lot worse had he not spent all that money, that his economic policies saved the banks and some car companies. 

"Democrats will also say they saved the country from another great depression because the Bush administration was so bad. Some Americans will buy that, even though none of it can be proven."

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review writer Salena Zito reports that, after a recent jobs speech by Labor Secretary Hilda Solis in the Steel City, an audience member shouted “Let’s go Obama!”

What followed, Zito reports, was an awkward, prolonged silence — among a crowd of Democrats, no less.

“It was a reaction you'd expect at a Republican rally,” Zito writes, “not from Pittsburgh unionists, elected Democrats, and other party faithful gathered to support Barack Obama's jobs bill.”

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Of course, it has long been a maxim of American politics that presidents campaign in poetry and govern in prose. On the hustings, Obama’s political verse seemed more euphonious than most. But in governance his prose at times has seemed encrypted, as far as the American people are concerned. 

The president’s hard-core supporters remain confident he will prevail over GOP primary contenders. As Team Obama awaits the survivor of the struggle between the buttoned-down political competence of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and whichever grass-roots standard-bearer finally prevails, they know they will have to rewrite political history to win re-election: No president since FDR has won re-election with unemployment above 8 percent. 

Critics of the administration complain that President Obama seems to speak a different tongue when it comes to connecting with everyday Americans. To be fair, Obama’s shining achievement was giving Seal Team Six the green light to take out Osama bin Laden. But the one-term presidency of George H.W. Bush demonstrates how brief the half-life of foreign-policy success is for a president presiding over a poor economy. 

However, the 7.4 percent unemployment rate that Bush-the-elder presided over in November 1992 would look like veritable boom times, compared to the economic circumstances of today. 

One thousands days into his presidency, Obama’s own economists project that unemployment will still be about 9 percent on Election Day 2012. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is slightly more sanguine, projecting 8.5 percent joblessness. The fractious tea parties have established formidable get-out-the-vote machines in some congressional districts, as Obama’s “summer of recovery” gave way to a long economic winter of discontent. 

Obama’s difficulties transcend economics, however. His “signature legislative achievement,” the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, is so unpopular that Democrats rarely mention it on the campaign trail. 

On Friday, the reforms known as “Obamacare” sustained yet another blow, as the administration pulled the plug on the disability-insurance entitlement known as CLASS, admitting it has no path to economic viability. 

Republicans had warned all along that the voluntary program, whose premiums would skyrocket to $3,000 a month by some estimates in return for a $50-a-day payout if you become disabled, was a budgetary gimmick that defied common sense. 

Canceling the program after its approval in the Democratically controlled 110th Congress put Obamacare another $80 billion in the red, because the administration had counted on advanced premiums payments to help finance providing insurance to another 35 millions souls. 

The administration continues to say the Affordable Care Act will save Americans $120 billion over 10 years, but the CBO is expected to rescore the entire Act now that CLASS is defunct. 

Perhaps even more worrisome for the administration: The expected June 2012 timeframe for the Supreme Court to rule whether the individual mandate, the sine qua non of the program’s viability, is constitutional. If Obama loses, he will have only 120 days to explain to American voters why his No. 1 legislative proposal would violate the founding covenant that Obama in 2001 told a Chicago radio station was “a charter of negative liberties” limiting federal power.

“Americans are less free than they were 1,000 days ago,” Obamacare foe and former New York Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey tells Newsmax. “Many of the Obama administration’s acts, and initiatives without legislation, have reduced American freedom and the rule of law.” 

She cited the granting of thousands Obamacare waivers granted by the administration to unions and companies as an example of actions she says have pushed the United States closer to “rule by cronyism.” 

Allegations of insider favors to supporters are fueling the congressional probe into the loss of 1,100 jobs when the politically connected solar-panel firm Solyndra shuttered its doors after it received a $535 million loan guarantee President Obama hailed as a model green-jobs “investment.” 

The administration and Attorney General Eric Holder also find themselves dogged by a flurry of congressional subpoenas stemming from the Operation Fast and Furious program that allowed automatic weapons to “walk” across the border and into the hands of Mexican drug cartels, which used them in scores of crimes including the December 2010 murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry near Rio Rico, Ariz. 

None of the setbacks appear to have discouraged Obama, who at times appears happiest on the campaign trail trying to score tactical points against Republicans. A recent Washington Post editorial by Scott Wilson portrayed Obama as “The loner president.” 

Wilson noted that former President Bill Clinton had an army of loyal surrogates — James Carville, Lanny Davis, Dee Dee Myers — to carry his water to the national media. Wilson calls Obama “a political loner who prefers policy over the people who make politics in this country work.” 

Although polls show Obama remains well-liked on a personal level, he recently conceded himself that Americans are not better off than they were four years ago, then proceeded to imply that Congress and President George W. Bush bear the blame.

Robert E. Moffit, senior fellow at the Center for Policy Innovation at The Heritage Foundation, tells Newsmax that Team Obama has displayed a penchant for repeating its talking points even when facts no longer support them.

“I think one of the reasons why the president’s approval ratings are so low is not just the economy, but the backdrop of saying things over and over and over again that nobody seriously believes,” Moffit says.

He cites the administration’s ongoing insistence that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will reduce the federal deficit as just one example.

“It gets tiresome and I think at some people start to just simply shut it out. I’m not talking about Republicans,” he says. “I’m talking about Independents — there is very strong evidence that it this is true. Even Democrats are starting to say, ‘I hope he doesn’t say that again. Please don’t say that.’ — and he says it.” 

IBM turned down by Obamacare

While your medical bills have quadrupled since obamacare came into play, IBM offered their services FREE of charge, to root out medical fraud saving us HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS only to have our dictator in chief say....you guessed it...NO! Check this out:

Hope the whole United States population finds out about this. IBM offered to help reduce Medicare fraud for free... The offer is true.

 Mort Zuckermann, US News and World Report, a Democrat, was interviewed on Fox and confirmed it. IBM has confirmed it. You won't believe it .

IBM offered to help reduce Medicare fraud for free...

What if I told you that the Chairman and CEO of IBM, Samuel J. Palmisano, approached President Obama and members of his administration before the healthcare bill debates with a plan that would reduce healthcare expenditures by $900 billion? Given the Obama Administration's adamancy that theUnited States of America simply had to make healthcare (read: health insurance) affordable for even the most dedicated welfare recipient, one would think he would have leaned forward in his chair, cupped his ear and said, "Tell me more!"

And what if I told you that the cost to the federal government for this program was nothing, zip, nada, zilch?

And, what if I told you that, in the end and after two meetings, President Obama and his team, instead of embracing a program that was proven to save money and one that was projected to save almost one trillion dollars - a private sector program costing the taxpayers nothing, zip, nada, zilch - said, "Thanks but no thanks" and then embarked on passing one of the most despised pieces of legislation in US history?

Well, it's all true.

Samuel J. Palmisano, the Chairman of the Board and CEO for IBM, said in a recent Wall StreetJournal interview that he offered to provide the Obama Administration with a program that would curb healthcare claims fraud and abuse by almost one trillion dollars but the Obama White House turned the offer down.

Mr. Palmisano is quoted as saying during a taping  of The Wall Street Journal's Viewpoints program  on September 14, 2010: SEE LINK AT BOTTOM

"We could have improved the quality and reduced the cost of the healthcare system by $900 billion...I said we would do it for free to prove that it works. They turned us down."

A second meeting between Mr. Palmisano and the Obama Administration took place two weeks later, with no change in the Obama Administration's stance. A call placed to IBM on October 8, 2010, by FOX News confirmed, via a spokesperson, that Mr. Palmisano stands by his statement.

Speaking with FOX News' Stuart Varney, Mort Zuckerman, Editor-in-Chief of US News & World Report, said, "It's a little bit puzzling because I think there is a huge amount of both fraud and inefficiency that American business is a lot more comfortable with and more effective in trying to reduce. And this is certainly true because the IBM people have studied this very carefully. And when Palmisano went to the White House and made that proposal, it was based upon a lot of work and it was not accepted. And it's really puzzling...These are very, very responsible people and don't have a political ax to grind.

In Mr. Obama's shunning of a private sector program that would have saved our country almost $1 trillion in healthcare expenditures, presented to him as he declared a "crisis in healthcare," he proves two things beyond any doubt: that he is anti-Capitalist and anti-private sector in nature and that he can no longer be trusted to tell the truth in both his political declarations or espoused goals.

Be sure to click on the link below for Mr. Palmisano's statement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcR_bLBHcJo

Where your money goes and why?

This is a well done article and sums it up nicely! Learn a little history here:

 Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh 
 The total federal budget for 2012 is $3.68 trillion. The interest on debt is $242 billion. The rest constitutes mandatory and discretionary spending.
Discretionary spending refers to the budget appropriated each year. The discretionary budget is one third of the federal budget. Congress directly sets the level of discretionary spending ($1.24 trillion) and can choose to increase or decrease any programs.

In 2012, 57 percent of the federal discretionary budget will be national defense. The rest will include education, health programs, and housing assistance.
Mandatory spending ($2.44 trillion) includes entitlement programs, funded by eligibility rules or payment rules. Congress decides to create a program, determines who is eligible for the program, various criteria, and then estimates how much is appropriated for the program each year based on how many people will be eligible and will apply for benefits.


Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are the most costly entitlement programs. Veterans Administration programs, federal employee and military retirement plans, unemployment compensation, food stamps, and agricultural price supports are also included in entitlement programs.


Congress periodically reviews the eligibility rules and may change them in order to exclude or include more people.
Mandatory spending makes up about two-thirds of the total federal budget. The largest mandatory program is Social Security, about one-third of mandatory spending. As the age demographic of the country shifts towards an older population, mandatory spending increases.


The controversial national debt or public debt is $14 trillion to $100 trillion, depending on how many variables are considered. Nobody disputes the fact that, over the years, U.S. ran more deficits than surpluses because of recessions, inflation, sluggish growth, wars, oil price shocks, and a steady growth in entitlements.


Two American presidents are largely responsible for entitlements, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson with the “New Deal” and the “Great Society.” All politicians recognized the popularity of the programs and considered it political suicide to reduce or repeal the benefits once extended. Tip O’Neill called entitlements the “third rail of politics.”
Promising costly benefits to individuals predicated on an unsustainable Ponzi scheme eventually caught up with countries like Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain (PIGS), especially since their governments gave up their sovereignty and could no longer control their monetary policies, they were at the mercy of the European Union and its currency, the euro. It is heading in that direction for the United States. Right now, our temporary salvation is the fact that we can print our dollar.


Several administrations changed tax policies, thus altering revenue; new unregulated financial instruments were invented and sold as debt securities to financial markets, creating the capability to finance large debt, and the capability to create dangerous bubbles that could burst.


To service a debt, you must have enough cash over a period to repay the interest and the principal. Normal operating expenses of our country should be fully funded with current tax revenues in order to preserve borrowing capacity for future crises.


If the president tells Social Security recipients that they may not get their checks by August 2 if the debt ceiling is not raised, he is in essence telling them that he does not have any Social Security lock box money, it has been spent long time ago and he must borrow from the Chinese in order to make payments on the Social Security Ponzi scheme. This should give Americans great pause.


For the past three decades, the government has used deficit spending (spending more money than it receives in taxes) in order to cover operating expenses, stealing from Peter to pay Paul. Some economists argue that deficit spending is necessary during recessionary periods. We can all agree that it cannot be sustained indefinitely if it exceeds the growth rate of the economy.


How does the government raise money in order to finance the debt? The Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of Public Debt attracts buyers and arranges for the sale of debt instruments: Treasury bills, notes, bonds, and inflation protected securities. Bills mature in less than a year, notes in two to ten years, and bonds mature in twenty to thirty years. Inflation protected securities (TIPS) are sold in various maturities and are indexed to the rate of inflation. Said securities are sold directly or on secondary markets.


As the U.S. runs more and more debt, the Treasury must find new sources of financing or enforce stricter revenue collection (taxes). Sealed bid auctions are held to finance new debt and to roll over existing debt that has matured and is still outstanding.
About 36 percent of public debt will come due within a year ($1.6 trillion) and another $3.5 trillion over the next three years. In 2009, the Treasury held an auction on average more than once a day to finance $7 trillion of new and maturing debt.


How much more debt will international and domestic investors absorb before reaching a tipping point since the Federal Reserve has kept interest rates so low over an extended period? The more debt U.S. amasses, the more pressure will be put on the Fed to raise interest rates.
Central banks hold reserves in U.S. dollars as a hedge against their own currencies. The price of oil is quoted in U.S. dollars. There is pressure to change that as the economic and political strength of the United States wanes.


The sheer scale of borrowing necessary to sustain growing U.S. deficits, the possibility of default, and the bleak outlook of U.S. economic prosperity because of the recent housing collapse “could well exceed the absorption capacity of Asian central banks for dollar holdings.”
International trade deficits could contribute to the devaluation of the dollar, driving interest rates upward in order to attract more foreign and domestic investment that would sustain our insatiable spending appetite.


As long as investor confidence in the U.S. government exists, there is no danger that investors will dump the dollar in favor of some other currency or gold, triggering a stampede sell-off in U.S. stocks and bonds. Rising interest rates alone could plunge the world into a global financial crisis.
Voracious government demand for credit can “crowd out” private sector investment, causing high unemployment and lack of capital formation. Available pool of creditors choose to lend their money to the government instead of buying corporate stocks and bonds.


If business confidence is low because small business owners see higher taxes in the future or are uncertain about future government regulations, private investment will be “crowded out” resulting in more unemployment or lack of new job creation. The industrial base will weaken, the competition will diminish, research and development will dwindle, and acquisition costs will go up.


“America is like no other dominant power in modern history – because it depends on other countries to sustain its military and economic dominance.” A strong economy supports a strong military, and a strong military supports statecraft.


Past decisions on debt increasingly limit the ability of the government to maneuver economically and to deal with national emergencies such as war by running large deficits. The government runs large deficits now just to maintain the status quo. This “leaves the country more exposed to shocks and more vulnerable to the financial leverage of its creditors.”


Thomas Jefferson summed up the quandary best when he said, “The laws of nature made it unfair to impose the debts of one generation upon another.” Perhaps, instead of nation building in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and other countries that do not understand nor want democracy, who are not grateful nor thankful for our help, we should concentrate on our nation’s needs, our infrastructure, creating attractive investment opportunities in the process. We should also return our government to fiscal responsibility and our own citizens to self-reliance, not handouts and entitled cradle-to-grave welfare.