Wow - the Senate couldn't even pass a simple Medicare adjustment for doctors. Mark my words - this is only the tip of the iceberg now that the federal government has control of health care (approx 70% of our economy!) grrrrrr......!!!!!!!!!! How anyone in their right mind can think that this is a good bill is either nuts or stands to gain from it (only a very few people). I encourage everyone to push for a repeal of this garbage bill and kick out anyone in the Congress or Senate that voted yes for this piece of crap.
We need only true fiscal conservatives in office - not a bunch of vote-pandering, political correctness-worshipping spineless wimps. I am sorry for the anger everyone, but this is serious business and will destroy our economy as well as stifle personal freedom in a way never before beheld in our nation.
If we value freedom at all, we will stop this progressive agenda and get back to true free-enterprise, rugged individualism and less regulation of everything from industry to our daily lives. I want us to continue to be the United States - not a clone of "the rest of the world." The rest of the world does not enjoy the freedoms that we are carelessly throwing away in the name of safety, eco worship and security and I (as well as many others) will never allow this type of power-grab to take place without a fight. Let's all be heard (the majority of Americans) and get to the polls en masse and stand for freedom from tyrants - whether they be foreign or DOMESTIC.
There is no time for petty differences to drive a wedge in our resolve - we have a common enemy - progressive socialism, which is the antithesis of the principles our nation was founded upon. As much as I think Vladimir Putin is no friend to the United States, he did bring up a valid concern for the dangers of socialism at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He stated:
"The US should take a lesson from the pages of Russian history and not exercise excessive intervention in economic activity and blind faith in the state’s omnipotence. In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state’s role absolute, In the long run; this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated. Nor should we turn a blind eye to the fact that the spirit of free enterprise, including the principle of personal responsibility of businesspeople, investors, and shareholders for their decisions, is being eroded in the last few months. There is no reason to believe that we can achieve better results by shifting responsibility onto the state." He further stated:
We must assess the real situation and write off all hopeless debts and ‘bad’ assets." (Which I take as not bailing out insolvent corporations or entities) "True, this will be an extremely painful and unpleasant process. Far from everyone can accept such measures, fearing for their capitalization, bonuses, or reputation. However, we would ‘conserve’ and prolong the crisis, unless we clean up our balance sheets. The time for enlightenment has come. We must calmly, and without gloating, assess the root causes of this situation and try to peek into the future.”
Now, I do not agree with his assertion that the military should not be built up (see the whole speech for where he mentioned this) but I do agree that we must not shift economic control to the federal government. This is exactly the type of thing that brought down the Soviet Union and will meet the same end if we do not make the hard decisions NOW. We must force the federal government to tighten up its belt by aggressively prosecuting those involved in fraud, waste and abuse of taxpayer property (and getting it all repaid); cutting down Medicare and Medicaid and eliminating social security all together. Furthermore, we must cut all unnecessary non-military spending and encourage people to capitalize on their talents and abilities. Once those things are done, lower taxes exponentially and watch business growth explode.
We also must view unions for what they really are - leeches on the economy. Why is it that the market cannot decide what wages workers earn? In this age of instant communication, unions are no longer an asset, but rather a liability to the economic stability of our nation. If a company does not pay adequate wages or tries to skimp on health insurance benefits, the talent will move somewhere else or start up their own companies. If there are abuses by certain employers, then those employers will be exposed instantly online. The reason we in the USA are losing so many manufacturing jobs is not because of "evil" corporations moving overseas to rape developing countries, it is because they are being stifled by a staggeringly high tax rate, environmental red-tape, union greed and bureaucratic inefficiency and waste. I have to deal with the red-tape involved in simply getting a building constructed all the time for my employment. The three levels of bureaucracy in our nation are hard at work stifling growth in this regard and I have seen them first-hand far too often. Federal environmental regulation, state regulation/taxation (i.e. exorbitantly high building permit fees) and local (city) zoning rules all contribute to slowing economic development. Of course we cannot have complete "laissez faire" economic policy, but the regulation and red-tape involved with modern US companies is staggering and counterproductive. We have the greatest workers on the planet because they are allowed to produce what and how much of whatever they choose; let’s keep it that way and allow our economy to stop being stifled.
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