HEALTH CARE PLAN REVISION?

Utah Senator Orin Hatch has filed two new bills to gut the major contents of Obama’s new health care plan. One would eliminate the mandatory buy-in and the other would eliminate the requirement for employers with over 50 employees to provide insurance for their employees.

COMMENTS:

I don’t care what kind of band aid you try to put on it; it’s still the worst piece of legislation to be passed by Congress in my memory. There’s still the problem of medical malpractice insurance, soaring costs of drugs, and $1 trillion added to the national debt. It seems to me that the above two bills would correct two major flaws with the existing bill, but would also add to the $1 trillion tab. Finally, any attempt to try and fix the putrid bill amounts to a buy-in to the rest of it. Scrap it and start over and let’s get it right.

TODAY’S QUERIES & ANSWERS:

Q. Is Tony Hayward getting fired from BP? (Char ~ Dallas, TX)
A. No. He’s being moved to another position. They had to have at least the appearance that someone in the company was getting disciplined. He did what he was supposed to on the hot seat before Congress, which was to play cat and mouse.

Q. With the vast majority of Americans backing Arizona and its immigration law, why is Eric Holder taking them to Court? (Keith ~ Red Bluff, CA)
A. For two reasons: (1) vindictive Obama is not about to allow any tinhorn cowgirl to tell him when he’s wrong and (2) the subject of immigration to the United States is primarily a federal matter and the states have essentially no legal right to intervene. However, I do believe that Arizona has a strong defense in that the feds have not properly enforced the laws, to the detriment of Arizona. The smart move now would be for Arizona to file for a Writ of Mandamus in Federal Court to force the feds to do their jobs.

Q. How does unemployment in California compare with the rest of the nation? How about Shasta County? (Meredith ~ Redding, CA)
A. It is easing a tad. But, the national unemployment is at 9.7% and California is at 12.4%. Shasta County is at 15.4%, down from 17.6% in January. Be glad you don’t live in Imperial County where it’s 27.5%. The best place in the country is probably in South Dakota.

TODAY’S QUOTE:

“A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.” ~ Buddha

TODAY’S VIDEO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-uvisJOmvc&annotation_id=annotation_262507&feature=iv

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