Ron Paul on the Debt Debate

Great video by Ron Paul.

• "It baffles me that the solution to the debt problem is to add more debt."
• Default isn't going to happen and shouldn't be the worry - it is the potential for inflation which makes your social security checks worthless.

The Media's Re-Elect Obama Strategy

The media's "re-elect Obama" strategy:


1. Discredit Republican minority candidates

--Paint Bachmann as racist (Yahoo front page story today)

--Paint Herman Cain as anti-Muslim (Yahoo front page story yesterday)



2. Let a white guy win the Republican nomination



3. Attack Republicans as anti-black and anti-women

Abortion: The only choice allowed by liberals

Killing the unborn is the only "choice" liberals want you to have. Otherwise they:


1) Tell you want kind of car to drive
2) Tell you want kind of food to eat
3) Tell you how much of your money you need to give to them
4) Tell you what kind of light bulb to use
5) Tell you whether you can smoke outside
6) Tell you what source electricity must come from
7) Tell you who you must hire despite differences in qualifications
8) Tell you what your health insurance plan must cover

It's the Uncertainty, Stupid

Pseudo-intellectuals through the liberal world can't figure out why the economy hasn't recovered. It's the uncertainty, stupid!

 
Taxes:

1. What's the tax rate in 2 years? Obama says he wants it to go higher. The higher taxes are, the fewer business ideas are potential profitable, the less people get hired.

The EPA:

1. Strict EPA requirements will require extra costs which may make a potential factory go from being profitable to unprofitable.
2. The EPA and groups like the Sierra Club may sue to stop the plant from opening. Delays, legal fees, and the uncertianty of completion scare potential investors.  

Obama's Ban on Drilling

1. Imagine if you shut down Apple for 10 months. Everyone gets fired and they go elsewhere (Google, Samsung, etc). Now you allow Apple to operate again, but the people, the capital, and equipment are elsewhere. It won't restart overnight.

 Obamacare:

1.  Employees which are "nice to have" at one price, may get replaced by automation if employee costs rise too much.  (E.g., bag boys at grocery stores are eliminatted and check out clerks are replaced by self-checkout) 

The National Labor Relations Board

1. Obama's team has sued Boeing for opening a plant in South Carolina instead of Washington. South Carolina is a right to work state, meaning unions have little control.

Adventures in Socialized Medicine

Socialized care contians costs by denying care. What good is "health insurance" if you can't get the care?

Daily Mail - The condition can be treated with a £14,000 operation to fit a gastric pacemaker - although this is still considered to be an experimental treatment.


A young woman who is starving to death after being diagnosed with a paralysed stomach has been told that NHS bosses refuse to fund an operation to save her.


Rudi Hargreaves, 22, has shrunk from a healthy 10st to a skeletal 5st 10lb after being diagnosed with the crippling condition last year.
Within weeks of being diagnosed with gastroparesis, Rudi found her size 12 clothes were hanging off her - as her stomach became unable to digest food at a normal rate.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2013434/Help-Im-starving-death-6st-woman-paralysed-stomach-refused-life-saving-operation.html#ixzz1RpmjMCu9

But health chiefs have refused to fund the surgery, saying 'insufficient supporting information' has been provided by her GP.







Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2013434/Help-Im-starving-death-6st-woman-paralysed-stomach-refused-life-saving-operation.html#ixzz1RpmfZJL6

Debt and Deals

In order to increase the debt limit, Republicans want to get future spending under control. Democrats want tax increases, so any deal has progresssed.

I think Republicans are still wary from 1991. George Bush (Sr) agreed to Democrats' demands that spending cuts had to come with tax increases. Then the Democrats turned around and used the tax increases as a campaign tool against him. (Bush famously said in 1988, read my lips no new taxes).


So Democrats are just trying to bait Republicans into agreeing to tax increases, so they can just use it again as a campaign tool in 2012.

If we hit our debt ceiling, the interest payments will still be made. Obama will have to decide what else to cut then, which he doesn't want to do. So many of his voters are takers (get more from the government than they pay in), so cutting anything is going to hurt his reelection. So Obama wants to goad Republicans into making a false move. It was smart of Boehner not to budge.

Much Ado about Nothing

So if Texas executes a convicted murderer and rapist, it will do irreparable harm to relations with Mexico? Americans are kidnapped and killed by Mexican drug cartels in Mexico. Drug cartels kill civilians and state officials daily. Shoudl Mexico be really that hung up about a convicted murderer getting executed? I think not


The Atlantic -

"The case of a Mexican man scheduled to be executed on Thursday in Texas threatens to
disrupt U.S. diplomatic relations abroad and creates a politically volatile dilemma for Republican Gov. Rick Perry, who is considering a run for president.


Unless Perry or the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes to stay the execution, Texas plans to execute Humberto
Leal Jr. at 6 p.m. Central Time for the 1994 murder of 16-year-old Adria Sauceda.

The International Court of Justice ruled in 2004 that the United States violated the rights of Leal and more than three dozen other Mexican nationals on death row because law enforcement officials didn't advise them of their right to have consular access to officials from their home country under international law.....


Neither the Obama administration nor the Mexican government contend that Leal is innocent. Rather, they argue that the United States has an obligation to comply with international law. In a 76-page application to the Supreme Court for a stay, the Obama administration argued that the execution "would place the United States in irreparable breach of its international-law obligation." "That breach would have serious repercussions for United States foreign relations, law enforcement and other cooperation with Mexico, and the ability of American citizens traveling abroad to have the benefits of consular assistance in the event of detention," the administration wrote.

Adventures in Socialized Medicine

In the normal world, people and businesses avoid repeating disasters, but not in politics. We constantly seek to take failed ideas from around the world and repeat them.

Everyone know that monopolies are bad when they are run by businesses, but many don't realize that government monopolies will result in the same bad outcome.

These long waiting times are due to the government run nature of  healthcare. Obama complained that we Americans pay much more for healthcare than other countries. But the real question is what do you get for that cost? Is it all for nothing? No. We actually have enough MRI machines to meet demand. There isn't a 6 week wait for an MRI in the US. It's unheard of. But MRI machines aren't free.

What's the downside of waiting? Perhaps the difference between stage one and stage four cancer.

Daily Mail: Thousands more patients are facing lengthy delays for vital tests to diagnose cancer and other life-threatening illnesses.


Nearly 16,000 people a month are now forced to wait more than six weeks for ultrasounds, CT scans and various hospital checks, a four-fold rise compared with this time last year.

Last month’s Department of Health figures show that 15,929 patients were waiting longer than six weeks for one of 15 tests used to diagnose cancer, heart problems, dementia and osteoporosis, compared with 3,495 for the same period in 2010.


The number includes 2,152 who waited more than six weeks for an MRI scan, commonly used to diagnose cancer, strokes, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, compared with 374 the previous year, nearly a six-fold increase...

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2011911/Hospital-waiting-times-Scrapping-targets-leaves-16-000-waiting-weeks-key-tests.html#ixzz1RR1d6IgM