That’s what the Tim Geithners and Ben Bernankes of the world are saying. Unemployment dropped like a bullet from 9.5% to 9.4%, while the actual number of those unemployed went up. But, they don’t count the people whose unemployment benefits have run out and are still unemployed. Cars are selling like hotcakes, (Toyota and Honda are smiling from ear to ear). Housing foreclosures in July went up to their highest point in recorded history. The national debt rose by $185+ billion in July and Tim Geithner is asking Congress to raise the ceiling on the national debt. Tax revenues are down due to the great economy and everything is just so rosy.
COMMENTS:
So, why the outright misleading statements about the economy? One of the major concerns about the Government Health Care Plan is the $1.5 trillion + that it’s going to cost…$12 trillion if you multiply that by 9…. The costs of Medicare are 9 times what the government predicted. Painting the economy as being solved and the recession as being over is purely an attempt to use smoke and mirrors to make us think that the bucks are going to be there to fund the new health bureau.
TODAY’S QUERIES & ANSWERS:
Q. You have said that you think this plan stinks. Why, and what would you do instead? (Sallie – Bradenton, FL)
A. It moves control of your health decisions from you to faceless bureaucrats at horrible financial cost and leaves senior citizens basically out in the field, left to die. What I would do is to enact tort reform to reduce malpractice insurance costs, provide incentives for college students to enter the medical field, allow the full cost of medical insurance to be deducted from taxable income, break up the health care industry so that doctors don’t own insurance companies, insurance companies don’t own hospitals, Canadian pharmacies can sell drugs in the U.S. to create more competition, and insurance premiums are discounted for those who live healthy lifestyles. For those who are under-employed or unemployed and actively seeking work, I’d tie in some basic health care benefits to their unemployment benefits or public assistance programs. For those who are refusing work or refusing to buy insurance, health benefits should be reduced to zero.
Q. Are conservatives really guilty of trying to stop this Government Health Plan? (Mollie – Portland, ME)
A. Yes. That’s not to say that they are against all plans. They tend to agree that some things regarding health care have to change. For example, most of them agree that scales should be removed from medical offices.
Q. How can we get more energy in this country? (Gladys – Tucson, AZ)
A. One way is to develop a pill that will melt body fat into a flammable liquid. In that manner, you could collect urine instead of sending it down the drain and people would lose weight and be in better health. It’s a guaranteed win-win.
TODAY’S QUOTE:
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, undefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers. - John Adams, 1765
TODAY’S VIDEO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEtrjx2nztA
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