We, the Sheeple

Dear Congressman Schrader:


Thank you for the work you do for Oregon and for the United States.
Thursday's "Healthcare Summit" revealed several salient things about the Presidential agenda, chief among them is the utter disdain for consequences and accountability, and, secondarily, a total disregard for financial realities.

Medicare, the Federal Government's shining example of fiscal ingenuity, established in the mid-1960's is currently some $74,650,607,800,000 or more in the hole, due to "unfunded liabilities;" in laymans' terms, promises to retirees which will never be kept, even though we have been "prepaying" premiums for some 45 years.

The sacrosanct Social Security system, in place since the early 1940's, is doing slightly better, having "unfunded liabilities" of "only" $14,187,985,000.

Given the status of our existing total indebtedness to only these two bastions of Socialism, do you truly believe that it is prudent to add yet another layer of bureaucracy to the Federal government, and to institute yet another "entitlement" which somehow miraculously appeared in the Constitution in the past few years?

Bottom line? This "reform" bill is an out-and-out Ponzi scheme, driven largely by the massive ego of the current President, and wholly transparent to the vast majority of Americans as it intrudes nanny-state governance deeper into our lives than ever before.

Heed this: the supporters of "Obamacare" (or "Pelosicare" or "Democraticare" or whatever psuedonym you choose) will find themselves joining the ranks of the formerly employed come the November mid-term elections.

Even we "sheeple" know when enough is enough.

What's in a Name?

Following today's devastating earthquake in Chile, officials in the Obama administration were quick to rename the gap in the tectonic plates near Santiago:  "Bush's Fault."

Taking the First Left Turn: a Letter to Congress

Dear Senator Merkley;
Thank you again for your service to Oregon and to the United States.
After watching seven grueling hours of "debate" on a plan to nationalize medical care for all Americans, and apparently some who are South- or Central-Americans, I find myself wondering why this program is being ramrodded by the President, and particularly at a time when "official" unemployment stands at 10%, when this country is already trillions of dollars behind the proverbial 8-ball? So let's just add a few trillions more of new debt and thinly-veiled tax increases? What does he want, 100% of all our incomes, or does he want more?

A proposed bill some 2,700 pages long is on the surface too all-encompassing, too invasive, and puts far, far too much power into the hands of a select few in Washington. No offense, but much of what the Federal government has "fixed" in past years has progressed from "misaligned" to "train wreck:" Social Security for aliens, billions of dollars in annual Medicare fraud, the Postal Service, Amtrak, the TSA, the Department of Energy, just to mention the tip of the iceberg.
Socialized medicine, by its very nature, demands rationing of care, and guarantees a lower quality of care overall: ask any Briitish citizen. As a "senior citizen," I have been paying FICA and Medicare taxes since 1964. Am I now to be overjoyed that my medical needs exceed those of a 26-year-old and are therefore subject to denial or reduction?

Ability to purchase medical insurance in a truly open market should be mandated by congress, but not the provision of medical insurance. That is NOT Congress' job.

Tort limitations could be mandated by Congress, rather than thoroughly ignored as they are in all forms of "reform bills" to date. Illegal aliens, whether euphemised as "undocumented," or "guest workers," or whatever catchphrase-du-jour is used, should be excluded from any medical care unless paid "up front.:" hospitals can only "write off" so many losses due to flagrant fraud. Ask any hospital administrator in our southern border states.
This debate has always been about the transfer of power to Washington, no matter how altruistic the rhetoric. Whe the President besmirches doctors for "removing tonsils to cure a sore throat," or "amputating a leg" under dubious circumstances, the voters see right through the facade to the heart of the rhetoric: POWER over us all. Thanks, but no thanks. You can keep the Change

Mr. Molech Goes To Washington

Eighty-six percent of the people in the United States do NOT want Federal intervention into medical care.  Yet President pro-tem Obama insists upon cramming it down our throats:  the rationed care, the skyrocketing premiums, the bankrupting taxes, the overwhelming costs, the evisceration of Medicare, the already-bankrupt Federal system now in place,  more taxpayer-funded abortuaries (which, oddly enough, would have affected his own birth, had Ms. Dunham been pro-choice), and the prospect of your medical care being placed into the hands of financial geniuses and empathetic paladins like Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi, just to name a few.

They. Think. You. Are. "Sheeple:"  too stupid and too timid to do anything about it but bleat.  And they may be right, unless you pick up the phone and call these switchboard numbers today:


Senate—224–3121
House—225–3121

Tell that bunch of miscreants to keep their rapacious, alcohol-soaked, porcine fingers OFF of your medical care.  Call as many as you can think of, then go to
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
and call the ones you don't know.  Offer a free cocktail, and they're sure to answer.  I won't suggest how to get "Back Door" Barney's attention, but I'm sure you can guess what piques his interest...

Your life may very well be at stake here.  Your childrens' and grandchildrens' futures certainly are. 
Re-read Orwell's "1984."  And Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals." 
And hit that phone:  it will be the wisest 10 or 20 dollars you will ever spend:  it may just save your life.

When the Blind Lead the Blind

Now that you've seen how Oregon's economy has been "stimulated" by the infusion of  2.2 Billion borrowed  Dollars, the great majority of which went to programs already spending taxpayer dollars, a question remains:  Why did we "need" to raise taxes via measures 66 and 67?  Wasn't 2.2 Billion Dollars enough to get us out of a financial hole?  Wasn't that the alleged purpose of the "stimulus?"
Perhaps spending money on the Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal office building to make it "green" by covering exterior walls in ivy does little to solve a sagging economy,  particularly when one realizes that ivy will decimate the structure of said walls:  that's why we currently spend millions of tax dollars annually to REMOVE IVY from local trees, walks, and BUILDINGS.
Therein lies the fundamental flaw with such "nanny-state" giveaways of YOUR money:  any influx of cash to a left-leaning government will be answered with ludicrous spending and the "need" for even more cash to fund even more chimeral "needs" of the self-serving government leviathan, whether it is "Billions for Bikers," or "Gender Realignment" healthcare benefits for unionized City employees.  Notice that they are no longer called "civil service" workers, they are Unionized Public Employees, no longer accountable to their benefactors, meaning YOU, the taxpayer. 
The State of Oregon teeters on the same financial precipice as California and a host of other liberal-run states:  contractual employee costs and perks, coupled with "touchy-feely" useless programs are bankrupting the economy.  The only sensible solution is to do what any private industry would do:  declare bankruptcy, cancelling all existing union contracts, including healthcare and retirement benefits, firing all union employees, and reformatting on a level playing field.  It worked for the Air Traffic Controllers during the Reagan Administration, and it will work in our current situation. 
Or, perhaps you would prefer seeing measures 66.2 and 67.2 recur every two years  until virtually every business is driven out of this Tax Hell state, but we will still retain the 700,000 or so cush retirement packages now bankrupting all of us.  Remember Ross Perot's "giant sucking sound" describing NAFTA?  You know, when Mexico got a few hundred formerly American manufacturing plants, from Taylor Guitars to Ford Motors, and we got 12 million drug "mules" in return.  By Grebthar's Hammer, what a Bargain!
The time has come, and is indeed well past, for us to "retire" many of our spendthrift politicians, from Sam "Ben Dover" Adams in Portland to "Sleepy Ted" Kulongoski in Salem, to the liberal spenders in D.C. such as Reid, Pelosi, Merkley, Wyden, Schrader, and Wu.  Especially Wu.
Lock and Load, voters.  November 2010 is growing near.  Time to retool America.

The Poor Will Always Be With You

If you would like to see how Oregon is utilizing the ARRA "Economic Stimulus" funds received so far, trot on over to:
http://www.oregon.gov/recovery/StimulusReporting/index.shtml 
and get a thumbnail sketch of all the jobs "saved or created" by Oregon's 2.2 Billion-dollar slice of pork pie.
Health and Human Services: 54%, or 1.197 Billion Dollars, Zero jobs created
Education:                             6%, or  497 Million  Dollars, Zero jobs created
Public Safety:                      1.8%, or   40 Million Dollars,  Zero new, a few police jobs retained

By county, an average of 2/3 of all funds went to Medicaid (gracias, muchachas!), about 20% provided food stamps (otra vez, muchas gracias), and almost 1% went to Vocational Rehab (I'll drink to that!).
Notice that not a dime went toward enabling job creation by private industry?  Nothing in the way of tax reduction, credit for payroll increase, nothing. 
When a Democrat One-Term President gets play money from a Failed Democrat Congress to "give" to a Democrat-run Leftist State, the result is: More Government Spending, ZERO private-sector jobs, and a tanking economy fueled by record unemployment, zero new home construction, and lots and lots of new State Government Employees and their $55,000 average salaries and their $20,000 annual benefits packages for you to support. 
Feeling Stimulated Yet? 

"You Shall Not Bear False Testimony..."

In today's news, President pro-tem Obama, our nation's latest one-term President, announced:
1: the creation, by executive order, of a "bipartisan committee" to study and seek ways to curtail his profligate spending habits, which habits would make a drunken sailor ashamed; and,
2: The cheery financial news that his trillion-dollar "Economic Stimulus Plan" has already "saved or created two million jobs" (excepting, of course, yours, mine, and anyone we know).

Both bits of financial "good news" are blatant misstatements of fact, whether deliberate or merely the rantings of a fiscal imbecile remains to be determined.  Since the inception one year ago today of the ARRA (as in "Arra you still unemployed?), more than six million jobs have evaporated: as in poof!  Those jobs "saved," at least within the zip codes which are not completely fraudulent, are overwhelmingly GOVERNMENT employees' positions (already taxpayer-funded) from teaching positions to Employment Office clerks.  Big Deal: we get to keep all of the overpaid workers in our bloated governance systems, and their featherbed retirement programs too, oh, goody!  I feel so stimulated!

As far as the committee's intended effort to trim waste from the Federal Debt, now exceeding SIXTY PERCENT of our GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT, which debt Obama did NOT inherit from the eeevil Bush administration, the obvious solution once again escapes our Financial-Wizard-in-Chief: STOP SPENDING MONEY WE DON'T HAVE!!  But, of course, so doing would thwart his master plan to completely decimate this country's economy, infrastructure, and Constitutional form of Government.
Don't believe me:  Buy, borrow, or preferably steal Saul Alinsky's book, "Rules for Radicals."  You will see that Obama follows to the letter the rules laid out for subverting a government.  To the LETTER!

Hope and Change, my eye!  Your children and your grandchildren are NOW doomed to life in a bankrupt, has-been, third-world shambles of a nation, bereft of "HOPE,"  unable to institute "CHANGE" save for learning Mandarin instead of English, and spending Yuans instead of worthless Dollars.  Lock and load, my friends, Lock and Load.