Archive for May, 2009

On May 12th I posted an article with link referencing the last surviving member of the Titanic and how the stars of the movie version were coming to her rescue due to her not having enough money to remain in her nursing home.  It was pointed out that, in the country where she lives (Great Britain) they have nationalized health care and, as such, why should she have to worry?  After all, isn’t national health care the greatest thing since sliced bread?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/8070095.stm

We also see Mr. Obama pushing to “make it happen” by year’s end under the promise that, in doing so, we will then begin to bring the deficit under control!

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/23050.html

Well, in today’s news, Milvina Dean (age 97) has died.  Thus ends our last living connection with the sinking of the Titanic (even though she was only nine weeks old when it sunk) and, as such, there is no longer a need to worry about meeting her health care costs.

It is also a sign of things to come: as it has been repeatedly pointed out, Social Security and Medicare / Medicaid costs have skyrocketed lately due to the fact that, on average, we are living longer!  If the current administration has its way, that will soon take care of itself.  There is a push to keep abortion “safe, legal and rare” up to and including the entire “fetus” being outside the womb save the head.  At that point it is legal to abort.  And, if by chance we survive being born, at the other end of the spectrum is the “option” of suicide; or, as it is phrased: “death with dignity”.  Either way you slice it, we as a society are facing an increasingly European style view of the value of life.  And, if that is any indication of things to come, just like Milvina Dean living in a country that already has nationalized health care, we too may find that we have “outlived our usefulness”.  Especially when you put it in the context that, unlike Ms. Dean, we were not “fortunate” enough to have survived an historical disaster (unless you count the sinking of America historical) and thus stay in the spotlight way past our usefulness.  Only time will tell….

It seems that, according to the attached article link from USA Today, we are on the hook for more money as our “benevolent” government continues to “bail out” those whom they deem “are too big to fail”.  Below the link is a copy and paste from one of the comments posted after the article by someone who goes by the name “NotLiberal”.  I do this for two reasons: to help you find his/her post easier and to give credit where credit is due.  It is well worth a careful read in light of the USA Today article.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-05-28-debt_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

What follows is the comment by NotLiberal

When people claim we are creating debt that our children and grandchildren will have to pay, I have to wonder if that will indeed be the case?

Our National Debt is now at a level that it cannot be paid. Even if we were the ones taxed to high heaven instead of the next generation we still could not pay enough on the debt to dwindle it down. So will the next generation pay this growing mountain of debt?

I have to say no. We will continue with the status quo until our Federal government collapses under its own debt. We will do this because we have no choice. The people living in this country have grown accustomed to receiving a certain level of financial payout from the government, and they will not permit these “benefits” to drop. So will the US go bankrupt today or tomorrow? No, but 20 years from now….

Our children and grandchildren won’t inherit a pile of debt, but they will inherit a United States that we today won’t even recognize. And it will be a United States that exists only in name because the individual states are bound to split and fracture, and form new unions based on political lines that are even now forming.

If you want to see what the future United States will look like, look at a politcal map of the last couple of elections. Many states have voted the same for over +20 years. The few that have changed tend to switch back after the next election.

Here I insert a link to provide a visual explanation as it pertains to the last election:

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_111408/content/01125113.guest.html

So look at a political map and study it hard; because the United States will eventually collapse under its own debt. And when it happens it will be quick.

And if you think I am just a “doomsayer”, think about this:

In 1912, the average German didn’t think his government would ever collapse …

and it had by 1930.
In 1980, the average Russian didn’t think his government would ever collapse…

and it had by 1990.

Both of these countries suffered a financial collapse. Both were caused by the destruction of their industry base, high debt, and failure of their infrastructure.

All three of these things are problems faced by the US. So why would anybody think our fate will be any different?

Listening to talk radio this morning, it suddenly dawned on me: the “new” approach to government controlled health care is to blame the current and future economic troubles we are in on the spiraling costs of health care!  Wow!!  If Hillary Clinton had only thought about that angle back in 1994, we could be so much better off today.  Here is a link to Drudgereport where Mr. Obama lets the cat out of the bag and then attempts (off prompter no doubt) to veer into the ‘real reason’ after making the statement that “We are out of money.”

http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2009/05/23/20090523_143503_flashocs.htm

When asked why we are so in debt, this is Mr. Obama’s answer: “This is a consequence of the crisis that we’ve seen and in fact our failure to make some good decisions on health care over the last several decades.”

He then goes a step further: “So we have a short-term problem and we also have a long-term problem. The short-term problem is dwarfed by the long-term problem. And the long-term problem is Medicaid and Medicare. If we don’t reduce long-term health care inflation substantially, we can’t get control of the deficit.  So, one option is just to do nothing. We say, well, it’s too expensive for us to make some short-term investments in health care. We can’t afford it. We’ve got this big deficit. Let’s just keep the health care system that we’ve got now. Along that trajectory, we will see health care cost as an overall share of our federal spending grow and grow and grow and grow until essentially it consumes everything…

He is laying the inability to bring the deficit under control at the feet of health care costs!  Is there any doubt as to the goal of this administration?  Not only are they taking over running (ruining?) the auto industry, the banking industry and all forms of energy, they want to control the health care system as well.  For those who continue to deny that we are headed for socialism, give the previous two sentences and the added link a good, hard think…..

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5510RC20090602