You are talking - But I can't hear you. ( I am not listening)
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President Barack Obama hosts a bipartisan meeting to discuss health-care legislation at Blair House, across the street from the White House, on Thursday.
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Its no wonder nothing gets done in Washington. I watched the first three hours of the heath care Summit meeting.
It was a joke. Although for the most part it was respectful, and many points were made, the meeting did not go well. Not much was agreed upon. Why?
Because the right and the left have fundamental differences concerning heath care reform. The left wants the government calling most of the shots. The right wants a limited plan involving government - the less government involvement - the better. The right wants a health care bill, but not this bill.
The left wants to control everything. How much coverage everyone will get. The right wants to control costs.
Much of the bill and deals were crafted behind closed door. Now the door is open and we are no further ahead.
What a hopeless mess.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Obama: Can he get anything done?
Here is a quote about a year ago: True or false?
For the full article follow this link
February 24, 2009 1:14 PM
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/02/official-obama.html
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He has done somethings. He has also made many mistakes, and has created quite a mess.
Many failures.
Should we alphabetize the mess ? Or list the mess in economic terms?
Lets just name a few. Here is a dirty dozen.
1. Failed to close down the Guantanamo prison.
2. Few new jobs, jobs creation.
3. $3 trillion budget.
4. Fail to get Jon Corzine elected in NJ, failed to get Coakley elected to senate seat held by Ted Kennedy.
5. Failed to get Health Care reform bill passed.
6. Made over 500 campaign promises, not many completed.
7. Attitude on national security and terrorism.. Is America safe?
8. Failure to keep his campaign pledge to have health care negotiations broadcast live on C-SPAN. Much of meetings were held behind closed doors.
9. Two wars.
10. FOREIGN POLICY - another failure. Has done little or nothing with North Korea, Iran, Russia, China. Israeli and Palestinians relations.
11. Wants to reform banks, wants to limit bonuses, then flip flops.
12. "no political appointees in an Obama-Biden administration will be permitted to work on regulations or contracts directly and substantially related to their prior employer for two years". In practice, Mr Obama has granted several waivers to this rule, allowing lobbyists to serve in the top reaches of his administration.
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Is this a record you can be proud of? What an embarrassment!
"President Obama has accomplished more in 30 days than any president in modern history," a senior White House official said this morning in a background briefing for TV reporters.
For the full article follow this link
February 24, 2009 1:14 PM
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/02/official-obama.html
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He has done somethings. He has also made many mistakes, and has created quite a mess.
Many failures.
Should we alphabetize the mess ? Or list the mess in economic terms?
Lets just name a few. Here is a dirty dozen.
1. Failed to close down the Guantanamo prison.
2. Few new jobs, jobs creation.
3. $3 trillion budget.
4. Fail to get Jon Corzine elected in NJ, failed to get Coakley elected to senate seat held by Ted Kennedy.
5. Failed to get Health Care reform bill passed.
6. Made over 500 campaign promises, not many completed.
7. Attitude on national security and terrorism.. Is America safe?
8. Failure to keep his campaign pledge to have health care negotiations broadcast live on C-SPAN. Much of meetings were held behind closed doors.
9. Two wars.
10. FOREIGN POLICY - another failure. Has done little or nothing with North Korea, Iran, Russia, China. Israeli and Palestinians relations.
11. Wants to reform banks, wants to limit bonuses, then flip flops.
12. "no political appointees in an Obama-Biden administration will be permitted to work on regulations or contracts directly and substantially related to their prior employer for two years". In practice, Mr Obama has granted several waivers to this rule, allowing lobbyists to serve in the top reaches of his administration.
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Is this a record you can be proud of? What an embarrassment!
Friday, February 5, 2010
Washington, DC - A corrupt state of affairs
Washington has really become a corrupt state. Health care bribes. People who cheat on their taxes. People who cheat on their spouses. Lies about what is going on. Lets make a deal. Lobby bobby. Getting what you want with other peoples money.
Harry Reid says this is how you make legislation. He is what he said.
"One way we were able to [secure 60 votes]... was that we had to deal with the art of compromise," Reid said, noting that every lawmakers from every state have different needs they seek to satisfy. "That's what legislation is all about; it's the art of compromise...This legislation is no different than the defense bill we just spent $600 billion dollars on. It's no different than any other piece of legislation...I don't know if there's a senator who doesn't have something in this bill that's important to them. And if they don't have something in it that's important to them, then it's doesn't speak well for them."
Harry calls it compromise - ok. Its compromise that's corrupt.
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How about social security.
U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) has said.
Washington by its very nature has a hard time to tell the truth. It is suppose to tell the truth, it is suppose to be transparent, and not hide or distort things. People in office take an oath. On a Bible. Does it mean anything.? It is suppose to, there is a reason for this.
Movie Name: The Verdict (1982)
Quote:
Harry Reid says this is how you make legislation. He is what he said.
"One way we were able to [secure 60 votes]... was that we had to deal with the art of compromise," Reid said, noting that every lawmakers from every state have different needs they seek to satisfy. "That's what legislation is all about; it's the art of compromise...This legislation is no different than the defense bill we just spent $600 billion dollars on. It's no different than any other piece of legislation...I don't know if there's a senator who doesn't have something in this bill that's important to them. And if they don't have something in it that's important to them, then it's doesn't speak well for them."
Harry calls it compromise - ok. Its compromise that's corrupt.
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How about social security.
U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) has said.
“It’s time for politicians to stop stealing from our seniors to secretly finance trillions in wasteful Washington
Every year, Congress raids the entire Social Security surplus to pay for wasteful earmarks and other government programs. In the last 20 years, Congress has already raided two trillion dollars from Social Security, including interest. Without Senator DeMint’s “Stop the Raid” amendment, the Social Security Administration estimates that Congress will raid an additional $452 billion from Social Security between 2009 and 2013, which including interest would exceed $1 trillion.
“There is nothing but stacks of IOU’s in the Social Security trust fund because Congress has spent all of the money and will continue to spend it if we don’t take immediate action. Because of this raid by politicians, Social Security will not be able to pay promised benefits to seniors in less than 10 years.”
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Washington by its very nature has a hard time to tell the truth. It is suppose to tell the truth, it is suppose to be transparent, and not hide or distort things. People in office take an oath. On a Bible. Does it mean anything.? It is suppose to, there is a reason for this.
A man has a two virtues, his word and his deeds.
All politicians seem sincere. But only some are sincere. Many are lawyers, maybe that is the problem.
Here is an excerpt for the movie " The Verdict" (Paul Newman)
Quote:
[Frank is giving his summation to the jury] Frank Galvin: You know, so much of the time were just lost. We say, "Please, God, tell us what is right; tell us what is true." And there is no justice: the rich win, the poor are powerless. We become tired of hearing people lie. And after a time, we become dead... a little dead. We think of ourselves as victims... and we become victims. We become... we become weak. We doubt ourselves, we doubt our beliefs. We doubt our institutions. And we doubt the law. But today you are the law. You ARE the law. Not some book... not the lawyers... not the, a marble statue... or the trappings of the court. See those are just symbols of our desire to be just. They are... they are, in fact, a prayer: a fervent and a frightened prayer. In my religion, they say, "Act as if ye had faith... and faith will be given to you." IF... if we are to have faith in justice, we need only to believe in ourselves. And ACT with justice. See, I believe there is justice in our hearts. [he sits down]
We become tired of hearing people lie. And after a time, we become dead... a little dead. We think of ourselves as victims... and we become victims. We become... we become weak. We doubt ourselves, we doubt our beliefs. We doubt our institutions. And we doubt the law.
And there is no justice: the rich win, the poor are powerless.
And we doubt the law.
Its not suppose to be this way.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Its like a box of chocolates
With Obama - you never know what you will get, its like a box chocolates.
But you can be sure it will be screwed up.
Few days ago he was in a freeze mode. He had to freeze spending. We cannot live beyond our means.
Today he submits a budget proposal. Another mess - might be worst than the health care bill.
Promises, promises, but he breaks the promises, all the time.
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From the Texas GOP Vote - he is what Senator John Cornyn had to say.
"As member of the Senate Budget Committee, I released the following statement today regarding the President’s proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2011:Simply put, the President has sent Congress a budget proposal that contains more spending, more borrowing and more taxes. This, after promising the American people that he would restore fiscal discipline to Washington by going through the budget with a scalpel to cut wasteful spending. But, once again, his actions don’t match up with his rhetoric.
The country is drowning in red ink with this year’s deficit expected to reach a record $1.6 trillion, and the Senate just last week voted to increase the federal credit limit to more than $14 trillion. But instead of reigning in this out-of-control spending, the President has proposed a budget that would increase deficit spending by 35 percent over the next five years while ignoring entitlement programs that continue on an unsustainable fiscal path.
Perhaps most devastating in the President’s budget, however, is not the unacceptable increase in the national deficit but the effect it has on the "deficit of trust" between him and the American people."
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But you can be sure it will be screwed up.
Few days ago he was in a freeze mode. He had to freeze spending. We cannot live beyond our means.
Today he submits a budget proposal. Another mess - might be worst than the health care bill.
Promises, promises, but he breaks the promises, all the time.
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From the Texas GOP Vote - he is what Senator John Cornyn had to say.
"As member of the Senate Budget Committee, I released the following statement today regarding the President’s proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2011:Simply put, the President has sent Congress a budget proposal that contains more spending, more borrowing and more taxes. This, after promising the American people that he would restore fiscal discipline to Washington by going through the budget with a scalpel to cut wasteful spending. But, once again, his actions don’t match up with his rhetoric.
The country is drowning in red ink with this year’s deficit expected to reach a record $1.6 trillion, and the Senate just last week voted to increase the federal credit limit to more than $14 trillion. But instead of reigning in this out-of-control spending, the President has proposed a budget that would increase deficit spending by 35 percent over the next five years while ignoring entitlement programs that continue on an unsustainable fiscal path.
Perhaps most devastating in the President’s budget, however, is not the unacceptable increase in the national deficit but the effect it has on the "deficit of trust" between him and the American people."
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