Table For Two?

Barney Frank, (of easiest path to the single payer system fame), tells “crazy” nut job who questions health care and calls Obama “Hitler” that he’d rather debate a dinning room table.  Thinking he was dealing with a right wing nut job, he lashes out at her.  Problem is that she was a left wing nut job.  I wonder if Boxer will call her a plant?

I’m getting pretty tired of writing about health care.  Disapproval to the handling of the whole mess by the President is now at 50%.  The Presidents approval rating overall is down to 51%.  Health care is beginning to drag him down to earth, free liberal press not withstanding.

Speaking of which, have you noticed that the news seems to have forgotten the “real” war on Terror?  Afghanistan has heated up, troops are dying more now than before and it’s strangely silent out there in the media.  Where is the outrage over troops deaths now?  Why was every Serviceman’s death blood on Bush’s hands but somehow Obama is spared any responsibility?

Not having learned anything from the first time around, cash for clunkers is about out of money again.  The Feds said this additional $2 Billion dollars of our tax money was supposed to fund the program until Labor Day.  It’s not going to make it.  Showing once again the Gov’t has no clue as how to estimate the cost of anything.

So what else have we learned from cash for clunkers?  We learn that if you give people money they will spend it.  Guess what happens with Tax Breaks?  This is how the GOP tends to want to handle the problem.  Trouble is that when you cut revenue, you have to cut spending.  Neither Party has been willing to follow that simple line of thinking.

The Democrats tend to “target” who gets help.  Instead of helping all, they target those who would tend to vote for them.  Buying votes is the nicest way to put it.  How many of these people wouldn’t been able to afford a new car if not for this program?  More importantly, how many could and just took advantage of free money.

I work with a person who did just that. He  had no need for a new vehicle, he had 2 fairly new vehicles.  But he had an old pick up that he he almost never drove.  He has a large home and makes a good dollar and could have bought a new vehicle any time he wanted.  He opted to take the free money, that comes from you and me, and purchase another vehicle, one that he doesn’t actually need.

There should have been an income test to qualify for the program.  No reason why someone who could really afford a vehicle should get money just to bolster the Gov’t run Car Company, with our tax dollars.

Lastly, a$$wipes let a killer go free because he’s dying?  Who cares if he’s dying?  He sure didn’t care about the 270 people he killed.  And to top it all off, he gets a hero’s welcome when he gets home.  Why don’t you just spit n the face of those who were left behind while you are at it.

chas

“Rebellion to Tyranny is Obedience to God”