Poison Pill Obamacare

I believe the decision was made by Obama & Co. that the only way to get to a Government run Universal Healtcare System was to destroy the current healthcare System as a first step. Hence, all of the poison pills in Obamacare (ACA) to do just that. No doubt they will find a way to blame Repubs, but I believe that main target for destruction will be the Insurance Companies. It has already begun. So as you can see, Obamacare was constructed with Political goals, not heathcare goals other than conversion to Single payer. Thats what they told the Country they were doing, and I believe them.

Government

The roll-out of the Obamacare WEB site has demonstrated with crystal-clear clarity what I have posted many times on this Blog, and that is, Government (all Governments) is a political enity, and as such, can only make politicial decisions. That is, the Obamacare WEB site design was not really driven by providing Americans with straight forward choices for their healthcare (like Amazon.com providing straight forward choices to buy everything under the sun), the design was driven by all of the political reqirements of a "thousand page" healthcare law, agumented by "thousands of pages" of rules, regulations,and directives drafted by politically directed bureaucrats. The further reality being that political requirents are without end and without cohesive direction. And further still, political requirements continously bob and weave with the political wind that is currently blowing. So how could such a WEB site be designed with such ubiguitous requirements and not be doomed to failure?
In other words, the Obamacare WEB site was not designed to facilitate healthcare for you with your personal Physician. It was designed to enforce the political requirements to enhance Governmental power by using universal healthcare as a tactical vehicle.
The cruel reality being, the Obamacare WEB site is the demonstrated reality of how the Government will be providing healthcare for you.
In other words, now that you have entrusted your personal health care to the Government, the decisions made by Government concerning your healthcare will be political decisions, not decisions concerning your personal healthcare made by you and your Physician.
Of course the same Governmental modus operandi has already been fully demonstrated by gving the Government responsibility for your retirement under the Social Security Act. Yes, that Social Security Act that was to be a safety net for us all, that has now morphed into an endless social engineering vehicle, e.g., Medicare, Medicaid, aid to dependent children, ad infinitum.

The Economy

If it wasn't for Grandmas and Aunties, the economy would soon collapse.

Gasoline Price Today

Did some research about the price of gasoline.
In 1970 the average price of gas was $0.36/gal.
Using the inflation factor of 6.03 for the dollar from 1970  to 2013,  the price of gasoline today using the 1970 price as a start is $2.17/gal. with dollar inflation of 6.03 factored in.
However taxes have been added to each gallon of gas by the Feds (18.4 cents/gal) and state sales tax that were not in effect in 1970. The average of all taxes today is $0.31/gal in today's dollars.
Therefor the inflated price of the 1970 gasoline in today's dollars is $2.17/gal., plus taxes of $0.31/gal.
So, the the price of 1970 gasoline in today's dollars is $2.48/gal.
You can plainly see, the price of gasoline has increased very little, it is the value of the dollar that has decreased.

Incumbency Vaccine (Professional Politician Disease)

AMENDMENT XXVIII

                                                            (Proposed)

Section 1. The seventeenth and twenty-seventh articles of amendment to the Constitution of the United States are hereby repealed in their entirety.
Section 2. Senators appointed by their respective State Legislature to the Congress shall be compensated exclusively by the State Legislature that appointed them for all expenses and wages associated with the execution of their appointed office. Acceptance of any compensation or gift whatsoever by the Senator from any source other than from the appointing State Legislature shall be cause for immediate removal from office.
Section 3. Representatives elected to the Congress shall be compensated exclusively by the Congressional District from which they were elected for all expenses and wages associated with the execution of their elected office.  Acceptance of any compensation or gift whatsoever by the Representative from any source other than the electing Congressional District shall be cause for immediate removal from office.  Elected Representatives may serve a maximum of three terms.

Professional Politicians

And you thought that the latest manufactured crisis was about fiscal and other matters. Here is how Washington works for the Professional Politicans and not for the citizens they are suppose to serve.

This is how the debt ceiling bill passed muster with Repub Minority leader, Mitch McConnell.

A Kentucky (McConnell is the senior Senator from Kentucky) dam project funding was raised in the debt ceiling bill from $775 million to $3,000 million.

This is the number of "pieces of silver" required for McConnell to support the debt ceiling bill.

Obama & Dems Mantra

Who knew that Obama and the Dems would steal the Van Morrison song lyrics, from the song "The Mystery", to be the basis of their MANTRA to Flim Flam American citizens, to wit:
"Trust what I say
And do what you're told
And surely,
All of your dirt will turn into gold."

Hooray

Hooray, Hooray
Today is finally the day
We get to start
Whittling down the Federal Government
To Citizen size
Hurray, Hooray