It's our funeral
Dick Morris hits it on the head, about Obamacare and the utter incompetence, not only of this administration, but the entire gaggle of leftists that wants to run our lives.
Money quote from Morris:
If it can’t run the epidemiological equivalent of a two-car funeral, how can Obama promise that the government will do an adequate job of managing the nation’s health care system? (To say nothing of two car companies and a trove of banks and insurance firms?)
The problem is, we shouldn’t have to wait until after the funeral to find out what we already know — that the government is not competent to wield the power it’s trying to (unconstitutionally) grab for itself.
WSJ.com lays bare the utter destructiveness of the minimum wage to low-skilled/entry level job prospects.
Next time you hear union bosses and politicians chanting “America needs a raise,” consider how many kids who want a job are being tossed out onto the street. There are, of course, a number of undesirables who just may offer them employment of the less-than-honest type. But beyond this, isn’t it time to review the minimum wage and its real purpose, which is to protect unions from wage-competition and create a higher benchmark against which they can negotiate their own wages?
Intrinsically anti-free-market, the minimum wage is a terrible idea and should be eliminated.
Michael Barone in the Washington Examiner.
Among the health care fantasies:
We are going to save money by spending money. We are going to solve our fiscal problems with a program that will increase the national debt by $1,000,000,000,000 over a decade. We are going to guarantee you can keep your current insurance with a bill that encourages your employer to stop offering it.The list goes on. We are going to improve health care for seniors by cutting $500,000,000,000 from Medicare. We aren’t going to insure illegal aliens, except that we won’t have any verification provisions to see that they can’t apply and get benefits.
We cannot continue to enable this miserable fool. He needs to be challenged at every turn. And stopped. Are you listening, Joe Donnelly?
NY dealers pull out of clunkers program.
The money quote:
Many dealers have said they are worried they won’t get repaid at all, while others have waited so long to get reimbursed they don’t have the cash to fund any more rebates, (New York Automobile Dealers Association head) Schienberg said.
“The program is a great program in the sense that it’s creating a lot of floor traffic that a lot of dealers haven’t seen in a long time,” he said.
“But it’s in the hands of this enormous bureaucracy and regulatory agency,” he added. “If they don’t get out of their own way, this program is going to be a huge failure.”
The issue, folks, is competence. The government is not competent to run this or any other program like a real business. If dealers go bankrupt waiting for their money, who is to blame. The dealers for trusting the government, or the government for utter incompetence. We don’t need this crap in healthcare.
Despite the fact that more and more Americans are convinced that the Obama healthcare plan is an economy killer, the doublespeak continues. AP Reports Obama used the “good” economic news yesterday to reiterate the claim that healthcare reform is of critical importance to reviving the economy.
Americans are smarter than this. What was a sneaking suspicion originally has become a mounting distrust of the concept that big government and skyrocketing spending will improve the economy. Most Americans also know that somehow a bill will be paid, either through increased taxes, stealth taxes, rationing, further economic collapse or all three. And Obama knows it too. None but the most economically ignorant would continue to push such a cruel lie unless there was something else at stake. In this case, it is power. Luckily, more Americans are seeing this as well.
Possible Elkhart renewable fuels plant discussed – reported by WNDU.
Although we’re far from convinced that ditching our own oil industry in favor of pie-in-the-sky “green jobs” is the way to go, perhaps this will be good thing for Elkhart.
