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Pamela Geller’s site has a nice report and follow-up titled “FED BEGS FOR SECRECY ON FAILED BANK BAIL OUT”.
The argument the Fed is making is that if we knew what they were spending money on, without any oversight and approval from the people by the way, it would place undue stress on those banks.
Even those in Congress openly wonder how The Fed can spend billions without any approval, just by printing more dollars.
William Greider has an excellent article in The Nation where he explains the destructive and uncontrolled actions of this quasi-government body. Since the Fed has been in place, almost 100 years now, we have seen booms and busts, and persistent protection of bankers who are “in the club”. His prescriptions, in my view, do not go far enough, as he suggests we retain the money printing press … which will always be subject to political manipulation.
Read the article, Dismantling the Temple, and learn more. A bit of a left of center view, but worth a look.
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A couple of items cross my desk that gave me pause.
The first was an excellent IBD editorial yesterday.
There is no free lunch, as the article insists, contrary to the “its free!” cry from some of my Canadian relatives. In France
a Frenchman making a monthly salary of 3,000 euros has 350 of them deducted for health insurance. Then the employer throws in an additional 1,200 euros.
That is a whopping 36% of his total compensation cost going to health care. Thank God it is free, otherwise, no-one could afford it.
Is the care better?
during an August 2003 heat wave — when many doctors were on vacation and hospitals were stretched beyond capacity — 15,000 elderly citizens died.
Second item is this chilling email from my sister-in-law, from Canada.
I know you have been spending a lot time reading and writing about the Canadian health care system and I thought I’d give you an example of a problem we have.
About two weeks ago, my dad accidentally cut off his finger cutting wood. Anyway, he went to the emergency room (he had the finger) and they couldn’t sew it back on because they couldn’t get surgeon to the hospital for 5 hours and the tissue died. Frankly, I don’t think they had the skills or technology anyway, but he did sit there for 5 hours waiting for a surgeon. I don’t know if you find that interesting but I did.
Are you as chilled as I am? Government run health care is not the answer. IT will be MORE expensive (sorry Mr. Obama) and produce poorer results.
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No need to comment. This video says it all. Visit the 9-12 project.
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News is now emerging that Bernanke is lobbying for his new term as head of the Fed, and will be re-nominated by Obama today.
As I noted previously, Bernanke has been wrong in his outlook and prescription for the economy since 2005. How sure can we be that his current prescriptions for the financial crisis will be the cure? The even bigger question is: how likely is it that government intervention at such a scale can possibly get it right?
I am afraid we can be sure that the Fed will continue to be the problem, and will continue to destroy wealth for everyday Americans, while supporting constituencies: its members and the government. (Members benefited from the Fed bailout — look at the NY Fed roster – GE, JPMorgan, etc.)
The Fed and its system is an enormous government intervention that we have had now since 1913. Since it was created, it shifted control of money and interest rates to the government. Since then, we are assured of wild booms and busts, and persistent inflation. The Fed cannot be neutral, as it is a government controlled body. So it bends policy to befit its members, and to support government spending.
The Fed members are a closed shop of financial and government appointees, even though the theory was that The Fed was supposed to be independent of government. With so much government control of banks, the banks, who elect members, are under the thumb of government to pack the Fed’s 12 regional boards.
So yesterday, we have Denis Hughes, president of the NY AFL-CIO joining the New York Fed! AS THE CHAIR! Welcome Labor to control of interest rates! What ever happened to free market for money? I guess we will not see that until we abolish the Fed, which is unlikely to happen.
The Fed is generally regarded as a positive and stabilizing force in the economy, but trust me, they are an insidious and destructive government intervention … and they almost always get that intervention wrong.
Fasten your seatbelts.
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My Gosh! At least Howard Dean speaks without a vieled cloak. He says yesterday on Face the Nation that
“Private health care insurance is incredibly inefficient. Not because the private sector is by nature inefficient. But because they are investor owned and a huge proportion of the money they take in has to go to return on equity.”
So in a short sentence, Dean tells us what The Left really thinks. Profits are bad. They are not the reward for providing a good service, but is money removed from the system that could otherwise serve the “public good.”
Is this socialism, or what?
Bob Scheaffer lets Dean spout on without any challenge.
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The mainstream media reports that people protesting at town halls, on the web, and those calling and writing their congressmen are “mob”, organized right-wing extremists and Republicans.
Those same so-called objective reporters suggest that it is the common American that really wants socialized health care. hell, we’ve got Medicare, and that’s government run. If you’ re against government run health care, you must also be against Medicare … the trap is laid … You must be un-American! they claim.
The reality is that “The Left”, which includes the President, the White House, Pelosi and Reid, is extremely organized. The 501 (c) lobby groups do not hide the fact they have the support of the president. Organizing for America has the web url “barackobama.com”. These groups have well-oiled shock troops that are mobilzed to “balance” a protest, and present opposing views.
BarackObama.com is not a big fan of argument, reason or discourse. Subscribers are instructed what to do, what to say and when and where to say and do it.
Here are some of the emails that BarackObama.com has sent out to instruct the troops:
- Aug 12: I had signed up to “visit” a Senator’s office on behalf of BarackObama.com. The emails provided me with “my orders”:
We put together a step-by-step guide you can use to plan your visit and maximize your impact. You can download the guide and additional information to drop off at the office here:http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/HC_OfficeVisits/OfficeVisit_MD.pdf“We put together a step-by-step guide you can use to plan your visit and maximize your impact. You can download the guide and additional information to drop off at the office here: DOWNLOAD YOUR OFFICE VISIT GUIDE“
The Office Visit Guide instructed me to print out the guide, practice my pitch by writing it out, specific steps I should take when I visit the office and, of course, told me what my talking points where. I was scheduled at a specific office at a specific time to “take up my post” in the fight against those who might oppose BarackObama.com
- Aug 13: I received a follow-up email asking me for a report on my visit.
- Aug 18: I received an email from BarackObama.com:
“Frightened crowds have flooded town halls, and the office of a Georgia representative was defaced with a swastika. Check out the site today and then spread the word to your friends. These lies are no accident. They’re part of a deliberate plot by the special interests who profit from the status quo to kill any reform at all.”
Can we recall a time in American history where the President of the United States allowed his name to be used by a political action group to push an agenda. This is highly organized and don’t let The Left’s media shills tell you otherwise.
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A lot of buzz has been made that there will be “death panels” (Sarah Palin) that will make life and death medical decisions.
Fortunately, teh end-of-life counselling mandate looks like it is losing steam, if not already dead, in the Senate.
That doesn’t mean the death panels won’t happen!! Let me walk through the logic where government management of “pricing” must lad to rationing. That rationing leads to deaths.
Like the frog who slowly dies in cold water being boiled, no-one rings a bell and says “Mrs. Smith will be terminated.” It is the mind-numbing bureaucracy of government controlled health care that achieves the same effect.
Again, once government assumes the role of paying for a substantial part of health care costs, either through subsidy or direct pay, it has a vested interest in controlling costs.
In Canada, where I immigrated from, the governments response was to restrict the number of practicing doctors, close hospitals and reduce spending on new equipment and procedures until there were well established. (Where would they be well established? In the United States, of course, that encouraged experimentation and development of new cures!)
Since the supply of services is controlled (and therefore costs become predictable and manageable), how do you manage the demand side of the equation? In a free market system, price intermediates. But in a perfect socialist society, we can’t allow that to happen! We will just have people line up for services. We will have a “board of experts” decide the order in which they line up.
This bureaucratic board, combined with a limitation of services, is effectively is the death sentence for many people.
So in Canada, in 2008, you wait 17.3 weeks for your general practitioner. 900,000 people are waiting for hospital beds. Death rates from colon cancer is projected to be 66% higher in Canada.
Government control kills.
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I have been documenting the on-going use of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals by The Left and the President. Never before have we seen such an ideological White House, so well versed in radical practices. It views the pursuit of its agenda as a crusade, and sees the destruction of opposing views as a means to an end.
Ridicule, polarization and the use of power are employed by the White House to attack those who want to debate issues.
Viz:
- In Montana last week, Obama told us that insurance companies are holding us hostage.
“We are held hostage at any given moment by health insurance companies that deny coverage or drop coverage or charge fees that people can’t afford”
- Next, Obama attacks the media, the same people who provided no critical and balanced analysis of his policies. “TV loves a ruckus. You’ve got to be careful about those cable networks.” I guess even friends can be enemies if they don’t play along.
- The numbers prove that Obama’s polarizing efforts are succeeding. Today’s Rasmussen Poll shows 32% of people Strongly Approve of Obama, 41% Strongly Disapprove. (In G W Bush’s final month in office, 43% Strongly Disapproved.)
- Every media outlet, every Democratic “action”: committee, every George Soros radical organization is demagoguing town hall protesters. David Andersen characterizes the attacks:
“The Democrats are losing ground according to the polls and evidenced by the disquiet at town halls from Oregon to New York to Texas to Delaware. They have decided not to address the issues the people have passionately brought up. They have decided to characterize people who differ with them as a staged mob. This is so outrageous that it is beyond the pail.
Since when are people not suppose to express their agreement with a speaker by cheering? Are they not allowed to express their collective disagreement with a proposal with a collective response to a question by saying just say no?”
- Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize winning economists, who has an unproven theory that we can spend, spend spend our way to prosperity, admits that “Obama will deal with the death of his postpartisan dream”.
- Obama attack dog Nancy Pelosi, well trained in Alinksy Rules, said last week that American citizens that exercise their free speech rights are Un-American. This is exactly the same term she used in March 2009 to describe raids on illegal immigrant work sites!!! So let me get this straight … Free speech is Un-American … Upholding the law is Un-American …
Polarization. Avoid the issue. Attack and demonize the other side. Is this the Change people voted for?
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