Where Is This All Heading? Not to a Very Good Place

I have been so busy lately between work and the kids that I haven't had time to do much but sleep, eat and change diapers. I really miss my XM radio and listening to Fox and Friends each morning but I LOVE the local talk radio in the morning here. It's the Steven and Leah show on WERC. Between the morning show, Rush Limbaugh if I leave work to grab a bite to eat and the Glenn Beck Show replay on the way home from work I am able to stay up on my politics.


Cap and Trade
I am scared out of my mind right now. For those of you liberals who think that it's the programs I listen to that are scaring me and that there isn't any true reason to be alarmed you have fallen and hit your head one too many times. The Cap and Trade bill that passed the House last Friday was not reported on any of the evening news programs Friday night after it passed. It is the biggest tax increase ever passed and no one reported on it. Before it passed none of the networks, except Fox News, did much reporting on it. This is a massive bill. There are so many little hidden things in it that impacts everyone and no one is reporting it. I wonder why? It's because those in charge have put everything on a fast track to go to a socialist government.

The entire bill has been touted as making things greener and better for the environment. So in a way to make people use less energy I guess they have decided to charge fees/taxes on the utility companies when users use more than xxx amount of power, etc. Who is that cost going to be put on? The consumers. Me and you. For a President and the majority group right now who have always helped those who are poor, chose not to work, are on welfare, etc. this is doing nothing but hurting them ten fold. It may not be called a tax but any time new mandatory charges equalling $800 billion a year that will 100% be passed on to the Americans is a tax.

Did you know that there is a little provision in the bill that calls for any time anyone wants to sell their house they have to get approval to do so? It has to be signed off on as energy efficient, etc. For instance if you have outdated appliances then the government can tell you too bad you can't sell your home the way it is because it's not eco or whatever friendly. So before you can sell your house you have to upgrade. That should be a decision between a seller and his buyer. What also makes it horrific is that by giving the government that much authority then they really could make it difficult for people they just don't like to get approval to sell their homes, etc.

So for you, those liberals out there, just remember that when it comes time for you to sell your home this next time, that you will have to pass a government inspection and YOU may be told to fix a b and c before you can do so. Do you really want the government telling you if you can sell your house or not? And what about those who are less fortunate and can't fix up their house to standard.

That's what's so great about buying and selling now. Someone has a property that could use updating certain things and a buyer who loves that comes in and buys it to do it himself. That's just one instance. If this passes the Senate we are in big trouble. Watch out people.

Universal Healthcare

So you want universal healthcare? You think everyone should have the same access to healthcare? You think this new healthcare bill would be great for everyone and help those who aren't insured. Not so much. The new bill does not provide provisions for those who earn less than a certain amount. I *think* a family of four had to earn more than $31k to be eligible for healthcare under this bill. If you earn less than the minimum and do not maintain your own coverage then you will be fined. Each time the government checks for coverage and you don't have coverage you will be fined.

The bill specifically states that except for the start up cost that the taxpayers will be paying the program will be completely self supporting. The bill states the program will support itself from the fines received from those who don't have healthcare coverage and the new tax revenue they will receive from taxing the healthcare plans individuals have. Right now healthcare premiums are not taxed. I believe it is called the Cafeteria Plan (never understood why it was called that, it always makes me think of food).

Also under this plan businesses will lose tax incentives for offering healthcare plans to its employees. It's essentially going to be penalizing companies for offering healthcare to employees. Then employees will start dropping their healthcare plans and we, yes, you too, will be forced to get the government's healthcare coverage. Our ability to choose will be gone. When you take away the ability for people to make their own decisions it is called Socialism.

So this plan that will penalize companies and essentially effect the hardworking peoples insurance will not even help some 40 million Americans who are now not covered. The plan will make money off of those are in the lower income brackets by fining them.

Of course the administration says nothing will change blah blah blah. It will. Once the government gets involved it will start dictating how patients are treated, etc. This has happened in Canada and Great Brittain. In Canada there is an 8 month wait to get a colonoscopy. They have an 13% higher rate of colon cancer because problems are not being diagnosed early enough because of the long wait for the colonoscopy. They have an 12% higher death rate from colon cancer because the Canadian government does not allow Dr.'s to treat the patients with the top 2 colon cancer drugs because of the cost. This will start happening to us American's if we let the government get a hold of healthcare.

Community Organizer

I was on my way home this week listening to Glenn Beck and he made such a great point it had me "amen'n" in the care but scared me at the same time. A community organizer is someone who goes into the community wanting change. They hit the community with new ideas/policies/change fast and hard. In my mind they are usually not always on the up and up and not people I'd want to deal with. What Obama is doing now is being a community organizer. He is hitting the house with so many new bills and ideas it's overwhelming. The public is being told so often how horrible everything is and being force fed so many new plans and ideas all day long that at the end of the day most Americans are going to be so tired of hearing it all and not understanding it all and will get to the point that they too agree things are so bad and any change has got to be better what we have now.

This is scary America.

So today, on the 4th of July, our nations birthday, please remember those who fought for our Freedom. They came to America to be able to make their own religious choices and to get away from a place that didn't let them make their own choices on certain things. When we celebrate the 4th next year where will we be? Will we be the same America where if I want to buy a house with old non-energy efficient appliances I can or a place where I'm on an 8 month wait for a colonoscopy and it's too late by then and I have cancer.

It's up to you. Please call your seantor and congressional leader. Let them know you say no to the liberal policies.