“Both parties need to step up to the plate with specific solutions to our nation’s health care crisis.”

If the Republican’s want to take true leadership of this country they need to point the crisis at government spending and the huge off books debt of Medicare and the costs of Medicaid forced onto the states as well.  We have the best doctors in the world in nearly every category.  Therefore, it is a plain fact that their is absolutely NO health care crisis.  The crisis is to much power centered in Washington D.C. of which is now of course (as power does) being corrupted and abused.

As for addressing the cancellation of Medicare/caid, a cancellation is simply a ceasing of action or bringing to an end something.  I did not address the means or methods of this end.   However, I do stand by the point that I believe that Medicare/caid has to be ended or canceled and as Tennessee Paul states, “The details of the order are open for discussion.”   I haven’t really looked into the details of methodologies for canceling Medicare although I’ve heard some suggestions of voucherized programs to begin weening American’s off of government payer health insurance/care, I’m sure there are other suggestions of merit.   Again, as I stated in the previous posts I’m not the technocrat for those types of plans.

Finally Tennessee Paul states,

The opposition intends to oppose with the goal of regaining leadership. Rarely does it offer a logical counter solution. Perhaps it is time to lobby our congressmen to unite on an alternative solution that Americans truly do want.

This is more to my point.  We need to be holding the oppositions party’s feet to the FIRE, which I don’t see happening.   By saying there is no debate on health care, there is no health care crisis, and the real problem is Medicare/caid one is forced to keep both parties honest.  Something CNN doesn’t do for the Democrats and something Fox doesn’t do for the Republicans; and for that matter I don’t see much of anywhere.  I see either attacks on the Democrats or support for Republicans.  To me neither side is addressing the real issues; but it’s not any surprise when the Democrats present a socialized medicine unified front what is to be surprising about that.  Why attack jackasses for being jackasses? What did people expect when they voted the Democrats into power?  America is getting what it want’s.  I believe that socialized medicine should pass.  We are no longer a Republic and under the rules of Democracy people should be allowed to vote themselves the Treasury as they wish and as they have done.

What is a surprise is when the Republican’s say, “We must fix the health care crisis.”  Or when conservatives fail to address the anathema of entitlements.  At this point Republican’s have nothing to lose.  They can’t lose power they don’t have any!  They could individually lose their jobs, but if that is their concern then they deserve to lose them.  The Democrats are leading not the Republicans.  And if the Republican’s want my vote again they will need to become leaders.  It’s not happening though.  When election season comes around my question for the Republican candidates will be what was your proposal for health care reform during the debate.  Did you call it a crisis? Did you address the entitlement programs? What was your counter proposal to the Democrats proposal.  If their answer is…nothing.  Then that is the type of leader we can anticipate them being and those individuals will not have my vote.    Why vote for a Republican that acts like a jackass?  I thought this election would wake up the Republican party so far it hasn’t and I’m rather preturbed.

Reports have indicated that Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) plan to introduce a bill that would limit the ability of companies to hire H-1B employees.[1] Arguing that H-1B visa recipients are a threat to American workers, their proposal would add new layers of regulation and procedures making it more difficult for companies to hire foreigners.

by James Sherk and Diem Nguyen

via Restricting H-1B Visas Is Bad for Business and the Economy

This weekend I’m off to Tennessee to see  a good friend.   He is graduating from graduate school with an MBA.  He’ll be returning to his country of birth to create value there not here.   He is a smart, hardworking, well-educated, and recently a family man.  He came to the states for college, returned to his country of birth to serve the required military service, and then returned here for graduate school. 

Because of Republican and Democratic politicians like those mentioned in the article above he will not be adding value to our economy because the rules are to cumbersome for a company to be able to hire a bright talent like my good friend.   Even though they have tried, even though he worked hard in his internship, even though he is just as qualified as many American’s, it’s treated like a zero-sum game. 

And on top of the ignorance of the zero-sum game mentality we let millions of uneducated Mexican’s just walk across the boarder use our hospitals and suck up our social services without benefit to this country.  But let a foreigner come over here legally, help him get a good education at a state school where he works hard, and then force him to leave. 

Yes, America that is what is thought of as “good policy” by Republican and Democrat alike.  We might as well just outlaw higher education altogether it would do the job much quicker then this slow painful process that everybody pretends is “good policy”.

The Dodd bill calls for better disclosure on terms and conditions as well as bans on “unnecessarily exorbitant fees and rates.” Some of its terms are considered tougher than the one shepherded through the house by Joint Economic Committee Chairman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and House Financial Services panel Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.)

While Dodd, Obama, Frank, Maloney and others jet around passing bills to protect us stupid idiots from ourselves what are Republican’s doing:

Opponents of the legislation say it will make firms more conservative about lending at a time when the economy needs a boost.

They’re of course stating the obvious and of course the unimportant.  What is important is that while Obama and his evil ilk are protecting us from are uneducated idiocracy they will be hurting the finance business further.  Why? Because some people are a high risk and do take out to much debt and they suffer the consequences for this in bankruptcy.  However, some people are high risk, need the money, then recover and pay it back.  Lenders make a profit on this by charging higher interest rates to these people.  So really Democrats haven’t done much of anything since consumers are already protected by bankruptcy except to take away a potentially profitable line of business for financial industry business and therefore probably cause a few more jobs to be closed down.  

In summary, American’s are stupid according to the Democrats. Republican’s are cowards for not standing up for financial firms right to make a profit and employee people in a particular line of work.   Business and their workers get fleeced some more.

Read more via Senate To Take Up Credit Card Bill Today – Economy * US * News * Story – CNBC.com.

Obama is a poor leader as I’ve documented. I think he has bad direct communications skills and he is placing people in jobs they aren’t cut out at doing. It’s funny to see them all running around in circules as AmericanMissive.com points out. 

Not only is he a bad leader his policies will lead to inflation, a flat economy (I see high unemployement at least out another year), higher taxes, and weaker foreign relations with our Allies and enemies.  (Even though he bows to Muslims and buddies up to dictators).  The economy is going to tank again I’m thinking 2011 (before it has a chance to fully recover) but it could be sooner (the baby boomers are starting to retire and this will being drawing down investments and savings) Obama is going to spend himself into a corner.  He’s going to be forced to raise taxes BIG time this along with inflation.  Meanwhile the Middle East will get louder again after Obama has weakened us and embolden those like Hamas.  I think he is going to have multiple messes on his hands.  Unlike Clinton who was also a smooth talker his need to “fix” Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security are pressing.  The baby boomers are in for some surprises. 

Just to hedge a little bit.  The real variables are two things.  Obama can further change the road map buy putting more people on the government dollar.  If he can buy enough votes he just might have a chance.  The second real variable is the Republican party and it is the larger variable they control their own destiny.   A lot will depend on their ability to communicate the facts of what Obama and that ideology are truly about – oppression, fascism, power, greed, and control.  If the Republican party comes out with a STRONG right wing candidate that seeks to back the government out of our lives, scale back the massive entitlement programs, and a committment to a complete redisgn of our broken tax code and that candidate loses then the battle is lost.  If the Republican party puts a weak middle of the road candidate out their and that candidate wins OR loses then the battle is lost.

See I really don’t care as much about whether Obama wins or loses in the second term.  I care more about who the Republicans put out there because I fear it will be a weak middle of the road Obama wanna be that will win only to do nothing or make things worse.   My true fear is that Obama wins againts a strong libertarian style Republican this is the worse scenario because it means an ideology has lost the debate and America is indeed the land of the stupid.  If the Republican’s put a weak middle of the road candidate it just means that perhaps we haven’t lost the debate but our system is hijacked by a bunch of politicians (a la Bush, McCain, Obama, Dodd, etc group) which I think is more likely.