Nice try, you have been in the Senate as long as the departed Ted Kennedy, that alone says alot of where your politics and abilities come from...not what the Big Sky ad campaigns  promote.  Never mind that American workers are already saddled with 4 deduction lines on a paycheck for (FIC,SIT,MedC, & SSI) you want to include a new line for 'mandatory' health insurance, well go to the line that includes Flag Burning buster!  It was a miracle after a several hour wait that you actually felt the urge to get in front of the cameras in DC to promote a Bill that your other Gang of 6 couldn't join..lonely territory for a supposedly astute committee.  It would make sense if you threw Market based proposals in same as the auto world or groceries and clothes competes in, and Tort Reform, but NO...another sop to the democratic left special interest polluters.  How much of that money would end up in the trial lawyers pockets before the usual tithing to a politician at election time? And you put blame on the Insurance Cos. that actually with their faults are collecting the money and paying the bills and solvent even with 50% being non-profit, better than the USPS.  The President said "not a dime..", but your Bill asks for $856B!  I mean if your DC friends think the Fanny& Freddy are Dodd enough, what is a mandate to ...buy something or the IRS is going to fine them going to precipitate if you didn't like the August Townhalls?  YOU want a mandate...pass a NEW Constitutional Amendment that will make a citizen buy your demand(s). 

If the party,democrats, that passed most of these social programs, whether of good intention, didn't work through constitutional mean, but the machinations of the seperation of powers and a weak disposition at times of those seperations, and a sleepy populous...not today dude.  Take a pet to a trough and think thirst, then remember your wallet or a neighbors...right, politicians always think someone else has a bigger wallet..seems we have big potholes and other infrastructure failure despite all the money that went ACORN AMERICA'S HEZBOLLAH. 

Pass an Amendment XXVIII to make me buy the governments's demand, and I'll play this health care game, otherwise go to a Townhall and explain your ability to demand your constituents 'hard earned labor', and remind them of the Flag burning Amendment while you're dreaming of passing this garbage bill.  

President Obama is looking more like a Soap Opera fill-in character than the real deal.  Just view the ABC feed of the poor guy strolling across the WH lawn with hunched shoulders alone and no smile, add in that the camera never pans the 'adoring' stringline waiting for a handshake or autograph...Bush always waived and greeted the 'folks'!

Now that August is over, sales are budget constrained, the Stimulus is a continual LIE by VP Biden as to the stimulation that Green jobs are OUR future, and that Michigan couldn't afford to keep the snow off the roads last year and are opening the jail doors this year...speaks trouble ahead for many states with record unemployment and food stamp dispersements. 

Can you imagine what the Gang of Six in the senate are thinking tonight before returning to Washington DC after months of rangling over the Health Care Bill in the Finance Committee to have a week before declaration that the Napkin Bill is the result of a dinner conversation with a Czar...I don't think Max Baucus is or should be a happy camper.  Does anyone have a clue where a $Trillion is going to come from as a downpayment for this dog?  The economy is a disaster, and will remain so with this borrow and spend Clunker mentality in tow.  When the government wants to spend $787 Billion of borrowed...what is the REAL number of debt applied to our posterity?  Take a 30 year mortgage at 8%...the original amout is about triple with interest...when paid off; is this or any future Administration going to actually repay this Blinging?  I believe it's time that America have a legislative Truth in Borrowing Accounting as to what the 'total cost' is to this profligate waste of borrow for the sake of Pander from the political elite/office holders that seem to be anything but Elite, but as bankrupt as our National piggy bank appears and going further wayward with the Democrats wishing to achieve the Unicorn of SF,CA.  Look around the recent cutbacks by the Federal government, the WIC program will now reduce milk if you breastfeed, imagine that along with two years no SSI COLA, and the 'we're broke' message is slipping into our lives without much News mention that drives the message home...that China will soon ask America for some real collatoral for the borrowing ...maybe like California's EBay auction, say ownership of Yosemite or Yellowstone Parks....think about what we are doing to ourselves for a perverse desire to 'get a free lunch' from a politician!   I don't want an Ameritina (America/Argentina) as my future reality, do you?

Isn't it wonderful that those especially in these tough times that have a JOB, fail to look at all the Government extractions that preceed you getting what's left of 'your labor' in the check!  Medicare is so old that it rises to the George Washington level in social studies in school, don't go there, no wonder most kids even if they graduate k-12 can't find any country on a globe...they aren't stupid, but trained dumb.

Medicare as a paystub deduction is an addendum of the XVI Ammendment to the Constitution which authorizes raiding your income.  This like your SSI deduction is labeled and meant to be a 'pre-paid' retirement liability to the government and a debit for the payee, Joe six pack...except they since implimention of the 'plan' have continued to add goodies to mostly help themselves at election time.  No wonder there once was a "Lock Box" plan.  Well the election promises are way out of the money with the deductions....oops Congress got the math wrong...just like the USPS is broke and Amtrac and....so instead of fixing the over promised la la land payout congress now wants to cowboy everyone that escaped Roe v Wade to pony up $$$.  This is how political IDIOTS in Washington DC try to balance the books. These are the same political players that told President 43 GWBush that SSI didn't need fixing, yet today cannot help themselves in trying to crash America into an Argentinesque reality to sell our future to a foreign Bond holder or a moneyless paycheck!  Pure SnakeWater salesmanship right from the E-mailGate White House no less! No wonder these same pols are getting their friends in the old press that have feelings in their legs for....go crazy about average middle class middle aged pay checkers at Townhalls asking pertinent questions...even these are starting to look reminiscent of medieval France in the sense of things gone seriously wrong and the approach from the powers be worse than the problem.

Bottom line is this is just another attempt to add another layer of TAX on an already over taxed take home pay check....if you're lucky enough to have an opportunity to play all the games and regulations and licenses just right to still be employed.  The rest are waiting around for the free health care and food and shelter and........you to want to make more than $250K to hand it ALL over to the IRS.  If Tax freedom day this year was August 12, then I see a lot of doctors doing charity work in say Jamaica after September 1 soon.

Who is it that we have as the 535 congresspeople in Washington that move around and pretend what the media is reporting is anything that "We the People"want for ....health legislation forgetting the Constitution and the made up idea of "right" about getting a health practitioner 'bill' being paid by someone else, that's what we are all talking about.  If this were a Bill to actually address the real issues that plague the cost structure of paying for service, and not suing for lifes' wrinkles, the tab would be less.  If Congress wants a Bill the first item is Tort reform, without that there is NO deal!
These current version discussions of ObamaCare are at best rough drafts of Barney Frank threatening the banks again. 

If Americans are thrilled with the TSA at the airport with the authority of threat to intimidate and arrest, wait till that is the combined reality of postal health care at the airport as your admission to a doctor visit.You want the mamogram that used to cost $600, well now it's 'free', except the plan is UncleSamCare!  Women over 45 can on a first come first basis are 200 every Monday at these locations, TSA style, at the line when soon to be 'accommodated' from the tenth in line please take off your upper clothing...we don't want to slow down the line. On Tuesday the same sort of 'public urinal' ritual will be the colonoscopy for either sex, 100 persons first or still in line the maximum to be accommodated today.  Sure, you can keep your present policy until the price structure gets Barnyed, and the fact that as much as you hate to pay $3 for a soda on a cheap airflight, the option doesn't exist with ObamaCare...soon we all will bare our bottoms in a public line just like little kids did with the hernia checks when 6 year olds did once a year when the doctor played the long line for the school. 

 

Tonight President Obama in another say nothing news press occasion said "...yeah I'm in a hurry", that from the 'media messiah' that in just 6 months is desperate to continue the sheep coated good guy saviour in chief routine...didn't make very good use of anyones time other than to reinforce the fact He doesn't know what's in the [Medicare/Medicaid restructuring in guise of it's all our health problem legislation] Bills!  It's been a sorry state for years that Bills names' are so irrelavent to the character or nature of what is being legislated, but this guy is so stressed to pass something,(sma), that will not even take efffect until 2012/13, but must be voted on before even Charlie Rangel comes clean with the IRS or Pelosi and Reid write and read this dog.  What are these folks afraid of..a Pepsi hair fire the likes of poor departed MJ?

Just about everyone that has a brain wants to rehabilitate our 'heath care' system, the basis and structure is what hasn't been beaten to death in deliberation yet on the floors of congress nor debated in the streets of America enough before we give consent to the changes that are ...'in a hurry' to Rahm down our throats.

If this proposed legislation is going to somehow mandate an additional requirement upon the previous two, death & taxes, with mandated health insurance purchase and within the purchase the inability to spend your own money for care beyond the script...UK/Canada  socialism style health programs is under the US Constitution a fundamental proscription and takings that must be challenged in court. 
The Supreme Court has repeatedly entertained the "cruel and unusual" argument in previous rulings, but they haven't been coerced to decide the line between 'pursuit of happiness' and achievment of happiness in terms of congressional limits!  This may create a gaping opening to challenge in Federal Court the ability of these pols to go there, and with the States growing in number Resolution voting to adorn the 10th Amendment to yes the Constitution from the under-capable DC takers crowd.  Bring on the legal beagles that we all can champion.

Isn't the semantics of name change with distinction something of an other animal than a name change for partisan political reason? Consider "Cap and Trade"  which is more about Talk and Tax to Spend with the promoted intention of fixing something broken, but politicians are again caught in their own makings of so long that they cannot delete the old and apologize for mistakes, rather they prefer to invent ways of tricking us into buying into a shallow but expensive reorientation of IS!  Same with the Health Care hurry-up sledgerlation that was to be dollar neutral since America already spends a greater proportion of GDP to other compared countries similar to the USA, but somehow the need for $!T + additional needed to be added to an already disproportionate high spend rate would lower the rate sometime in the future...until the Rangel House Bill inserted a provision to include a Surtax that climbs as the years clock...hum?  The FT just in an interview with Larry Summers of the WH said things are going to get worse...duh, council to the prez know that an economic armageddon is their baby, but insist on proceeding with policies that a Kensyian would abandon if trying the 'donkeys' kick twice' wasn't a smart play. We already spend too much but the need for more is like a dog biting your pant leg, more like eating it!   The RED INK of this administration from it's Stimulus Bill that smarter people knew front that it was so backloaded for reelection season in 2010/2012 rather than address its' name or our Countrys' needs was limit on political criminal...and the Car Czar just quit while the handover of GM/Chrysler are now Government Motors and Fiat-USA a taxpayer problem says maybe the insiders are distancing themselves from the situation forward. 

What this country is doing about Global Warming if it is a worthy long term continuation of man's relationship to
Earth and our human resource impact should be a 'migration rather than a legislation' behaviour rather than a financial one upmanship be the likes of Al Gore trading daddys 'old oil money' for his idea of cranky it's my new access to greater wealth yet just because he has an ear to weak kneed fuddy duds of hanger ons in the media and DC!  It would be interesting if someone would add the jet miles to the press time and the political shake time Al Gore has spent as a mathematical coefficient to his projected personal wealth expectations and the relationship with democrats in the US congress?

The Man who campaigned on Change,Obama,  is trying to deliver a has been sorry grab program that Hugo Chavez is exporting with phony ballets printed for an unexcepting country, Honduras, that is struggling to tell SofS Clinton to get lost...we Americans should do the same and call our current crowd of representatives to do better or just go home and stay there.

Wow, I cannot believe the poll numbers that continue to be reported unless everyone is home avoiding the "swine flu" or is unemployed  or about to be with the next Obama Administration plan with the help of the B.O. fauning media crapping lie upon lie to the World and not just his constituent body.   

On the eve of his own declaration of bankruptcy for Chrysler he opened with the  refrain of creating millions of jobs.  That is audacity of hope without prevalence of fact..next is General Motors to face the Ax, about 30 days away who just yesterday stated the struggle with the Administration was to dump 42 percent of production and sale outlets.  In the face of right sizing the 'domestic' car companies which have had Washington,DC political meddling to the benefit of the Unions over the decades, there seems little real outrage coming fom the food stamps lines in Michigan or elsewhere, but have the press made any effort to man in the street the 'opportunities' for re-employment of these increasing numbers of displaced (not only) auto workers?   

Yestersday the Homeland Secretary tried to alter the (spin/definition) of 'swine flu' to what is more correct as H1N1...isn't that what is already known as 'bird flu'?  Trouble is is that this is nearing hurricane season and the humidity is conducive to other airborne disease, and that the media has again misreported the death count of Mexican lives lost to this sneeze environment to beg the question as to the complicity of the press to make a floppy 100 days appear still standing?

So many troubling signs and so many backbench helpers to quarter the "patience" to see results, ought to along with the same crowd telling folks to stay home when every hour worked wasn't keeping up with the bills should wonder where the "all boats" , 95% getting tax cuts, and the millions of 'new' jobs are to these people, but simple words that will at some point need more than running the business cycle to a pathetic uptick in better economic times.

"I don't want to run auto companies, I've got plenty ..to do"  Does this sound like a guy you want to work for?  I am not buying this amateur crowds fumbling chat to instill confidence in what I might or might not do for my house's best interest, in fact I'd do like government, think 180 degrees opposite and go there.

If the Obama Administration were in a lifeboat they wouldn't know what to do with an oar, good thing they would have a Blackberry. 

"It wasn't up to me," Mr. Lewis said. The BofA chief said "

OK, it wasn't an Obama Administration or even the gone Bush team/Paulson freakout or 'don't waste a crisis'  mantra that made a CEO to go wobbly, chump person..did that, but what is the message?  The Obama crowd continues to crow diplomacy, but just what does that earn when we still need to discern the unseen photos and the hidden conversation between Hugo and Barack.  If this (democrat) driven crash the economy with 'global climate change' demands and a (sudden) change from carbon/old resource energy forward, then the AK47 factory minded Venezuala Dictator is going to realize a  serious go forward cash flow problem that makes his NOW look rich!  Same Iran and the rest of the don't have next technology citizen trashing thugocracies.   All that 'yesteryear' resource carbon mono-economies, and the money is and the jobs moved on...if it comes to fruition...the tables are so evolutionary and the transition so Cuba for the displaced throughout the entire World as to make the Detroit car /union model petty...until (if) the dust settles.  A new Green Planet economy will have definte nation winners and loosers.  Starbucks meet few bucks for as long as a CFO's pencil marks!  This appears to be a long haul...trough, California dreaming Cuba living.

It's apparent that the news media world is in-recession occupied by their own miserable financial circumstances to gain readership by good journalism just when something other than making 'it up' would be a bit of fresh air and possibly welcome to their top line, consider the farce of the lousy banks stories.  Most people don't know their own congress person, so to expect them to get more than distorted sound bites and intentional misinformation regarding the American bank soundness reality are as lost about truth in lending ability as whether or not the tooth paste they use is safe.  Anyone reading the most recent Bank Annual reports or even a press clip here or there are or should be realizing that the 'holdup of the century' is being perpetrated upon shareholders of every stripe, and the amazing part is that the biggest private/government oriented pension holders of securites are as silent as the ability of themselves to soon continue to send those retirement checks...mum!  The leaks from insiders to meetings between Obama and his Adminstration and reporters are showing that many 'Banks' are now able to give the money back just as they 'never' needed the money in the first place, and denied giving it back...why?  That's what is so troubling and the press is still going along with the sorry act of playing possum with the truth, again why? 
Those annual reports are if in violation of Sarbanes-Oxley, lying, tell a different capitalization story of yes bad deals on the books, but not anywhere needing or wanting a 'bailout', Tier 1 percentages aren't near regulatory lending constrait, nor the fact that lending  has increased year over year,  that's where the fuzzy 'daylight holdup' is being spun on the American people and consuming the shareholders wealth without legal precedent: Bank of America and Wells Fargo just caughed up $400M and $371.5M for the recent quarter in interest on money they didn't want or need and are being a bit more than resisted from returning the 'Bailout' money that is in accounts earning less than 1% when they are paying Uncle Sam back 8% is reason the government shrank shareholder dividends to $0.01...if that isn't theft from shareholders to the government under the threat of regulatory audits that 'destroy' institutions is a joke right up there with a mandatory banker meeting in DC with the Messiah that is so gracious that an empty water glass is refused a refill. This is no usual staredown, but Chicago style thuggery from the WhiteHouse.  How much longer can an Administration that continues to banter the banks the scapegoat for economic troubles the same time WhiteHouse economist Christina Romer on Friday said "when in the spring or summer we know the Stimulus Plan failed" , I noticed on CNBC that the green trades turned red!  Why wait to Labor Day to acknowledge that a real Stimulus via Tax cuts would be a real Reagan respect that Obama spoke about during his constant referals to 'his campaign'?

We should all be worrying where this is going next while we watch the riots begin in passive Europe, OH yea it's bike season.

Trying between hoping, thinking, screaming, or scheming I cannot find a silver lining in the future economic conditions in America or for that matter most of the World that is connected to whatever happens with the direction postulated by the current Administration.   Consider the fact that we got here by an explosion of credit to too many unworthy recipients, being the ability to repay.  So what is the loudest voices from the left, Barney Frank , President Obama and his few surrogates confirmed saying in the press; stuff the Banks with cash and throw it at somebody!  Never mind the banking world works only when the customer actually needs and has the ability to repay the loan...by their account they cannot differentiate between grant via government and loan by taxable business entities.  Take into account the unemployment numbers continuing to exhibit job destruction in ever growing percentages globally. 

Add in that President Obama is now daily flip-flopping through the catastrophe to it's not so bad economic menu when he does his most every 24 address, the talk of a Stimulus II,  the Chinese open question as to the credit value of American debt, the CBO warning of a credit downgrade, and the G20 this weekend treating Secretary Geithner as though it was his wake...so sad.  It would take a better salesman to convince the sclerotic economic acclimated Europeans to go down a debt to GDP above 3% more than a plea from across the pond for our domestic spending fantasies to break with their own limitations to nowhere.  Given the "transparent 10 year budget" proposal that is currently scored as 'optomistic' and leaving a baby boom retiring society currently incurring a personal account x01K meltdown, that for the fortunate that even own what's left of such accounts,  is forcasting a national debt of $23 Trillion in 2019 VS our present $10 Trillion.  At the current 3% interest rate that amounts to $300 billion in interest payments annually, adjust that to the future RISK downgrade,  and the payment does a subprime wammy to the interest level upward, ala Jimmy Carter.  Remember what Ross Perot said about a "sucking sound from NAFTA", he got that wrong, but the coming sucking sound will be the debt payment that eats the entire American budget because of Obama's spenditis for social cause; the Stimulus is going to OUR creditors.   President Obama in a contracting economy with policies that are scaring money to any elsewhere is spending or at least legislating the borrowing of such monies for what, toilet paper and toothpaste...our trade partners looked at Sec. Geithner that way this weekend.  Even this years budget proposal of $3.6T  is what a $20 Trillion economy would normally find a stretched  reality. This budget is calculated by the Treasury tax collecting $2trillion from an anemic economy going further into the hole or at best stabilizing sour, with wind chimes of $4Trillion in government spending, can you tell the difference between real TAX dollars collected VS borrowed dollars on the hook,(fungible) ?...dreamers from MGM would love these numbers.  The Chinese after 2 decades of more capitalism than socialism economically by way of internal savings and export wealth gathering have a $1.2 Trillion reserve, which most of Asia and other regions too are trying to borrow.  In this down turn with exports not generating much new profit money, where oh where is there a deep enough pocket to materialize to even offer America Obama's desire to borrow those sums?  If the woods walker watched a squirrel scampering the thinnest of grape vine to a yet smaller upper tree branch for purchase fears the creature to fall to the ground from those heights; this is a country full of congressional Deadwood twirling the nation to a place that begets more trouble than their bloated budgets and banks lending to the insolvent could ever Hunter S. Thompson write us into if they knew more than an unprepared for college freshman or that squirrel, is going to confront..we are in deep trouble folks. 

If California can send IOU's to taxpayers,whos to say the IRS won't send you a packet of garden seeds as a return with a good luck message....just hope if you live in Vermont that you don't receive Utah seeds!

The Obama Admisitration is off to a troubling start, even the NYT is scribbling negative comment, his Attorney General trashing the country about being "coward" towards racial matters...and the President chastised the A.G. way late as just another deflection on the poor legislative performance to stimulate the economy, Nancy Pelosi style.  Every living person wants an economy that at least is stable if not growing...this dinasaur economy is crashing with a predilection of 'climate change'  permeance hangover prevalence to the almighty Gore!  Everywhere in this and including the perpetually paranoid sick UK society that Earth is or the "we" is going dead or near to is about as dismal as life forward can view to bother with?  So with that the grocery store stranger says that his "son in-law" is a Baptist Preacher in Colorado that in a recent call said that 50 parishoners last week bought handguns and desire carry permits...the press is telling us that the drug war is going to spill over the southern border...way to go DC!  Most folks with an IQ that is right of center knows that America this year with an Administration preoccupied with giving the last centuries wrongs with todays productive societies assets somehow is going to forestall what may be French-like car burnings in the street this summer are not with the ...food stamps and tent city life isn't going to cut it!  That along with the 'pain' of killing traditional electric service supply, trashing transportation fuels, and raising taxes is going to ....light the NIGHT in AMERICA as we've never witnessed before...entitlement is baked into the population with the President drowning the State of the nation with  speech preaching 'catastrophe' in the same breath with C02; total nonsense that will deliver pandamonium come the warm months with escalating unemployment and a failure of Nancy' San Francisco vision of  Americas' next days.

We truly are in "unchartered territory". Thank goodness the smartest (left politically) are in charge to 'diplomacy' us to a Peace-Full place.

Like  a thermometer, the Dow Jones Index is indicating a 'blizzard' in effect, take cover and hope to emerge hopeful of a better day coming.  Yes tulips are starting to push above the soil line, but the action amongst politicians is not going to flower the way some left bent schooled partisan practioners are expecting the economy to behave.  So far in this new administration the market action is all down, if one were to go to the Mall and get on an escalator that only went down it wouldn't take long for folks to think Hell was not far coming their way.  So much for the 'Messiah' Barack Obama, our President, coming to anything more than another microphone or scripted event with his buddies, the telepromters in tow; apparently a Harvard grad cannot speak from the breast or heart or mind without constant mechanical help?  And so it comes as no suprise that when it comes to any legislation that more and more seems a mud run to the beer keg at springtime for 19 year olds on school break the writing of just about everything from toothpaste content to fuel mileage is being pedaled to and by Speaker Nancy Pelosi. I would think that with all the "stimulus" money being spread around every address in America would have already received a loaf of wonderful San Francisco sourdough bread in the mail, wouldn't that help bread bakers and the union UPS guys?  Whenever a piece of what "President Elect Obama" campaigned on is run up the Hill to congress, it seems his handiwork is another reference to 'the campaign' promise , but the details are the...same old dusty liberal list that even Ted Kennedy is hanging around Planet Earth to see Nancy deliver!
So when the world views Russia with figure head Medvedev covering for Putin driving the show, we here in America have the similar operation of Nancy driving this country, so why does Barack get to keep the 1 car, airplane, and White House just because he fooled 53 percent of voters to be a place holder for a wealthy San Francisco socialist that controls the purse gavel in the House of Representatives?    

President Obama hasn't been in office a month and the polls are showing a decline almost daily, whether it be the Stock Market or the Bond Market or just the person on the street.    If the Stimulus Plan that is still being written even though the 'smartest people' in America already voted it into Law without reading the fuzzy language that is forming under..go guess maybe senator Burris' streetlamp?  Ethics, transparency, credibility of this Administration is all not being challenged, with the MSM being the same go-for laughable crowd of wimp journalists.

Now we get another $75 billion homeowners give away out of the otherwise (lend to retrieve) TARP legislation; "Change We can Believe IN", right.  So far this is another situation where the language is 'progressing' as it's being presented, more smart people?  I wonder if this plan is affirmative action or means tested to capture the 'right folks' in distress of losing a house that the contract was for possesion until payed off with the usual caveats of non-payment writ to revert full control of property to the lien holder is a Barney Frank Santa
Claus attempt to strip the (contract owner)  of their property rights without due process; or substituting a 'slim fast' process to provide what in todays environment would or could be considered a contemporary "40Acres and a Mule" Act?   Even the bank analyst supreme queen Meredith Whitney speaking with Maria Bartiroma today said the banks under TARP where "pack mules under punitive capital"!  Now, that is strong language from a CNBC/GE enterprise...the tide must be turning on stupid coming from the Beltway if this is eminating from a fawning crowd cable channel.  It seems the new president hasn't signed enough legislation still being written to make this spend and giveaway program still just days old look like a Christmas that invited everyone to the party.  Surely there is a huge National payback hangover around the revival corner.  A Gotcha democrats dream runaway bus looking for a cliff.