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HEALTHSCARE

Millions of Americans were already choking on the health care they receive, if any. Now they see the hard-to-swallow Obama pills in their future. Which is better: socialized medicine or corrupt insurance and pharmaceutical corporations fleecing the market?

Government managed health care is not the cure for our sick mess. Government is the problem. Both federal and state governments enable predatory corporations to gouge sick people and break contracts with their customers.

There is little competition among insurance providers, especially in California and New York where only two insurance companies are allowed to operate. A variety of choices would drive down the cost of premiums plus punish the blatant and brazen corporations that dictate the quality and quantity of services provided to those insured.

Likewise, the pharmaceuticals whose lobbies persuaded Congress to forbid Medicare to shop for and pay lower prices for medications.

Freedom is the answer to most problems. Government should butt out of the health care field. Licensing is a sham, even a scam. Where are the insurance commissioners to act against crimes? Vaporize them, they're on the take. Eliminate the positions - no more bribes.

Liberate the people. Build a wall between health care and the state so that patients choose their doctors, doctors decide on the treatments, and insurance pays the bills. True free enterprise, not corporate capitalism with its lobbies and influences, could save us from government's destructive ways.


It's all so simple.

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HOPING FOR CHANGE

Those of us seasoned enough to be cynical about politics are not disappointed in the least. We understood that change meant "more of the same." We know how hope is merely another way of saying "vote for me and raise your expectations."

"We are what we've been waiting for," President Obama said just days before his swearing in ceremony.

But we were not waiting for a token closing of Gitmo within a year, or an executive order which allows continued rendition of suspected enemies of America to be transported to torture-approving nations (Eygpt, Morocco, Poland) for enhanced interrogations. That constitutes outsourcing immorality.

And let's not forget that Obama approved CIA Predator killing of 22 Pakistani women and children.

The man got your hopes up. Is that what's bothering you?

It's all so simple.

STIMULUS HOCUS POCUS

A stimulus can be a drag. The Obama / Pelosi plan has to result in higher prices on most goods and services because the currency will be cheapened through untold inflation via the printing press. The trillion dollar deficit spending will add monstrous interest charges for ourselves and millions of unborn Americans.

You guessed it. An early end to this recession requires a policy of laissez faire (hands off the economy). The market place fixes itself with corrections that only it can initiate. Government and its guesswork $olution$ prolong the problems.

It's all so simple.
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WHY NOT TAKE ALL OF ME?

One university professor of sociology advocates a flat income tax rate of 80%. He says this would enable America to become a really great society with free health care for all, free education through college, federal housing loans, and lots of subsidies for truly needy citizens.

The professor insists that taxpayers would keep right on striving and working at their occupations despite the nearly confiscatory taxation policies he wants to have the government impose on us. That's doubtful, his plan is flawed.

Consider that taxation and liberty are opposites. In this sweet land of liberty, money earned belongs to the recipient and is nobody's business. Privacy is liberty's first cousin. Where is my liberty if they tax away 80% of the rewards for my effort?

The concept smacks of a socialist state where everything is painted gray, stores run out of essentials, government billboards urge us to hustle, and people pretend to work.

The individual is sovereign, not a cog of the state. Prof, if you and Uncle Sam ever arrange to steal an 80% tax out of my paycheck, then why not take all of me? I'll soon be gone to Andorra, where the income tax rate is zero.

Liberty and the absence of taxes are mutually interdependent.

IT'S ALL SO SIMPLE.

THE GREAT DEBATE THAT NEVER WAS.

Remember Dan Rather's interview of Saddam in Iraq months before Shock and Awe? Saddam suggested an American style debate with President Bush to be broadcast for all the world to see. The two leaders would have addressed the pressing issues of WMD, terrorist connections and the threat Iraq posed to its neighbors.

President Bush would not even consider the idea of such an encounter. Why? Wasn't truth on his side? Why not debate? Didn't Bush hold the high cards of morality, freedom and goodwill while Saddam was a leader in the Axis of Evil? Wouldn't that make a good witness to the world? Might peaceful solutions be the result?

Our president did not so much as recognize the debate challenge. He dismissed any idea of meeting or talking with a man who could debate Bush out of the building. But the interpreter would have had a bit of trouble with Bush's doublespeak.

What a debate that would have been! Perhaps, had there been a debate, Bush would have been deprived of the war. How bad is that? You recall that he said, "I want to beat Saddam because he tried to kill my daddy." President Bush was focused on what he wanted, not what we needed.

Churchill said, "Jaw, jaw, jaw is better than war, war, war."


IT'S ALL SO SIMPLE.