$1 Trillion: An Illustration

How much is $1 Trillion? I found a video that helps to illustrate the answer in a very compelling, yet absolutely terrifying way.

Some Interesting Clips

I came across these clips tonight. They're from the Glenn Beck program on FoxNews. I don't usually watch this, because of the cable thing I've noted before, but sometimes I like to catch these.

"The One Thing" from 7/28/09

"The One Thing" from 7/29/09

It's a little scary - people like to bash Beck for being extreme. Granted, he does rattle off quite a bit, but he's got some pretty thoughtful commentary, and he's backing it all up. We should all work to know the issues so that we can speak clearly and intelligently about what we believe.

A Few Precious Gems...

I thought these two blog posts were great, I found them on www.townhall.com earlier today.

The first is a clip from Obama's Townhall, the kind where he plants people to ask softball questions about his agenda. This is a very interesting clip, watch this video:

This is what Greg Hengler, the author of the post, had to say about it.

"I've heard him state these 'facts' before. Hate to do it, but can you imagine how quick the media would have pounced on Bush if he was this much of a liar? Can you imagine how often this clip would be played next to fact after fact after fact proving how much he was lying? After this, SNL would spend a whole season mocking our liar of a president."

The next post is just a video featuring one Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). I just like how well he handles the question and introduces some great facts. Here's the video:

In both videos, we see a very important trend, which is lying, and masking what's going on by wrapping it up in pretty, and decidedly moderate rhetoric for the masses. This is getting pretty disgusting.

Socialized Health Care - Exposed!

Here's something I ran across this morning. This video is 20 minutes long, but it's very worth watching.

Health Care: Go with the Flow

Flowcharts are wonderful. They enable you to map out complex processes on paper so that you can make tweaks and present your ideas to a large variety of groups of people. The more complex the idea or process, the crazier looking the flowchart will be. Here's a really good example of an complex flowchart (click here to view):

This is insane. Seriously. Does anyone really think that this convoluted mess will be in any way good for America? Also, barring the hard-left crazies, can anyone who voted for Obama, and who is intellectually honest, truly say that they are still proud of their decision made back on election day?

I have faith in the American people. I know that, although the majority of us sometimes make uninformed decisions, by and large, Americans are good people. The best the world has to offer.

Let's all be very careful to make sure that this flowchart doesn't become the operating guide for the inevitable bureaucracy that will be "Public Health Care".

Granted, as some readers have pointed out in the past, the health care system we have now isn't perfect. I would absolutely agree with them on that. It's my personal opinion that any ills that have beset the current health care system we have are directly attributed to our Government's interference therein.

Tired of a long wait in the ER? Well, thanks to the Government, the ER has to treat everyone that comes in, regardless of their insurance, lack thereof, or even their citizenship. So what happens when someone that is either uninsured, illegally living in the US, or both, gets sick, or one of their kids gets a cold? Instead of taking them to a pediatrician, they take them to the ER. This is really happening. In fact, there is so much overcrowding that not only are some hospitals shifting toward ER Diversion, where ambulances are redirected to other hospitals mid route, but some hospitals are just plain closing their ERs.

Some will tell me "You're a heartless beast if you think ERs should turn people away!" Well...is it necessary for the ER to treat an 8 year old for the sniffles? Before the Government started mandating treatment to the uninsured, and before the nightmare of medicaid and medicare, health care costs were not only much more negotiable on a broader scale, they were much cheaper. All of the malpractice insurance and administrative costs and fees dealing with government agencies have made health care costs skyrocket. If health care was run by the free market, it wouldn't be all that expensive to just take your child into the pediatrician and have them treated for a cold, that is, if you didn't instead just let your kid sleep it off with some cold medicine.

Imagine if our health care system were treated like our car insurance system. You don't use your car insurance to go get the oil changed, do you? You have insurance so that, heaven forbid something major goes wrong, you have the insurance to kick in. Now granted, if you drop your transmission, there aren't a lot of insurance companies that will cover you, but what I'm trying to illustrate is that there are a lot of other alternatives out there like health savings plans that are a lot more attractive than a pork and Bureaucracy laden, 1,000 page, $1 trillion bill that would be thrust upon us.

Then there's this video:



Hey, the American people aren't on board! It's not time for us to "Buck up!" Forget it Obama - I want no part of this crap - I didn't vote for this, or for you.

I urge anyone that can to contact their representatives and Senators and let them know you're opposed to Health Care reform of this magnitude.

For more on this, here's some great videos on Health Care by John Stossel. Here's a small portion of it (my favorite one):



Sick in America: Part 1
Sick in America: Part 2
Sick in America: Part 3
Sick in America: Part 4
Sick in America: Part 5
Sick in America: Part 6

OBAMACare: Fact Check

The following is a list of promises made by the President concerning his Health care initiative, followed by links to articles debunking each. The list was emailed to members of the RNC, but posted for all to view on http://townhall.com by Matt Lewis, his post is linked here.

• "You can keep your plan. "You can keep your doctor." Busted by the AP.
• "Costs won't rise." But will be paid for by plenty of taxes according to the AP.
• "The plan will not add to the deficit." But CBO says plans would worsen budget outlook.
• "The 'public option' will provide competition." Even the Chicago Tribune editorial board knows better.

This information isn't surprising, given that in every sentence he utters, the President spews forth platitudes so empty and without meaning that they could be equated to a verbal twinkie - tastes good but leaves you even hungrier, and on a complete blood-sugar crash.