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Why Health Care Costs Have Skyrocketed

Do you have any idea why the cost of health care in the US has skyrocketed over the last few years?  There are a number of reasons, but let's examine one of those here and now.

Listen to the direct testimony from a lady working in the hospitals in Florida.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLJxmJZXgNI 

Get the picture?  We no longer have the will or the spine to enforce our laws on immigration and so we all pay the price.  Then we compound the problem by allowing illegals to sue Americans for returning the people to their country at our own expense after we the American taxpayers have already spent millions on their health care.

Weakness and stupidity is expensive whether on an individual, state, or a national level.  This is just one example of the insanity going on here in America today.

J. Cogburn 

Executive Order on Guantanamo Prison

What would be the most amateurish and embarrassing way you could think of for the President of the United States to make an announcement to the American people regarding a new Executive Order with major implications regarding the war on terror and the security of all Americans?

Here is a hint.  Imagine a Saturday Night Live skit where the President is making this announcement and suddenly realizes he doesn't really understand the details or gravity of the Executive Order and has not worked with his staff before signing the EO to actually think it through and know how it will be carried out.  What would he do?

Well he would start asking his lawyer questions as he is signing such as, uh, yes there may be some of these people who are dangerous that other countries are not going to take..... uh, what are we going to do with these folks?

And the lawyer says, we are going to work out a process to handle that.

And the President says to the lawyer, btw, are we going to need another EO for the process?  And the lawyer says no.

Then the lawyer reminds the President that they will develop specific instructions to make sure the evil US military men and women don't "torture" any of these poor and probably innocent terrorist suspects in the future.

And the President says, yes that's right, we're going to have strict procedures for the military on this....and implies...no torture under my watch.... I'm a really nice guy and if we are nice to these terrorists why they will be nice to us....may even stop chopping off innocent peoples head after they see our example of how nice we are to our prisoners.

It would be comical, but nobody would believe the President could be such an airhead as to get on national television and basically tell the public that he is signing executive orders of great national implications without even doing the staff work to know what he is really doing.  But that is exactly what our new President did today.

In addition, of course he is in a rush to show the world how nice we are by closing Gitmo and making sure we don't "torture" any of these nice people any more by pooring water on them or making them uncomfortable in any way.  The evil men of this world are laughing at this foolishness.

Gitmo was better for terrorists than many prisons in the US are for American citizens.  And if you had to go to jail anywhere in the world, how many places would you choose ahead of the US?

The idea that the rest of the world has these wonderful prisons that are so much nicer than Gitmo and they are all looking down on the US because we treat prisoners so brutally while they treat prisoners so nice is again a fantasy of fools.

Much of the crucial information we obtained that helped us understand how the terrorists networks are operating and current plans, such as the plan to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge, was obtained through waterboarding.  Once they realize we will not make them uncomfortable in any way to get information how willing do you think they will be to talk after capture?

And by the way, if waterboarding is really torture why do you think we actually put some of our own people through this for training purposes? Tough interrogation technique?  You bet.  Makes them real uncomfortable and willing to talk?  For many it does.

No, real torture is what Hussein did.  He cut off hands, he gouged out eyes, he cut out tongues, he pushed people off buildings and put some people into farm equipment so they would die by shredding.  That is torture.... you may have forgotten about all the Mass Graves we found that he used to bury the remains of the citizens of his country that he even suspected crossed him in any way.

My guess is we will pay the price with additional terrorist attacks in the US as soon as the evil men figure out that Obama is actually as gullible as he appears to be.  So we shall see how many innocent Americans lose their lives and how many millions of dollars it costs us because we want to prove just how nice we can be to those who are captured on the battlefied trying to kill our soldiers.  But the American people have spoken and we will get what the majority asked for as this is simply how the system works.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28788175/

J. Cogburn

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Is the US Constitution Now Irrelevant?

A friend writes....

I have recently read the constitution but I don’t remember reading where Congress has the authority to say who sits in the Senate or House.  To me it looks like Harry is making a typical liberal move; doing his own Constitutional interpretation; oh well I guess it being a living document allow that for libs.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Sunday that "legal authority" exists under the Constitution to bar embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's pick to fill President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat, but added there is also room to negotiate.

Under the Constitution, Reid said, "We determine who sits in the Senate. And the House (of Representatives) determines who sits in the House. So there's clearly legal authority for us to do whatever we want to do. This goes back for generations."

Read the story here:  http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090104/pl_nm/us_blagojevich_senate

 

My response.....

The Constitution is irrelevant with these guys and it has been for many years.  They feel not one iota of restraint from the document unless it suits their need at the time.
 
For example,
 
Health Care; see anything about the Federal Government being involved in that in the Constitution?
 
Education, ditto.  The federal government should not be involved in this at all yet this is the main thing they want to campaign on and be involved in when they are in office.  Are they doing a good job?  You decide.
 
How about handing a blank check for over 700 billion to the Treasury Secretary to spend however he wants?  What section of the Constitution is this in?

The Tenth Amendment (Amendment X) of the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, was ratified on December 15, 1791. The Tenth Amendment restates the Constitution's principle of Federalism by providing that powers not granted to the National government nor prohibited to the states are reserved to the states and to the people.

James Madison, the father of the Constitution, made clear in the Federalists papers that the federal government is only supposed to be allowed to do what is specifically outlined in the Constitution and these powers are narrow and defined he said.

Today's politicians could care less what James Madison said or what the Constitution says or means.
 
Look for Obama to swear an oath to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic, during his inauguration ceremony, then look for him to trample on it during his reign as King.

J. Cogburn

 

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Rod Blagojevich vs. Harry Reid

Does everyone deserve their day in court here in America in 2009 or should we now just conclude a person is guilty of a crime and must step down from his position based on an aggressive prosecutor press conference?  The prosecutor supposedly has taped conversations indicating the governor wanted to sell the Obama Senate seat; does that mean he must be found guilty of felony offenses without the benfit of a trial? 

I think everyone deserves their day in court and have been saying so since this Governor story broke (another Chicago Politician.... actually nothing here unusual I don't think except the seat in question is being vacated by the President-elect).

However, once they make you a part of the daily news cycle it is hard to ever get a fair trial, but the question here is, what exactly is the crime?  He had not even appointed a Senator when this became national news much less accepted a bribe for an appointment.

So, they will have to prove he was truly trying to sell the seat for personal gain above the norm political horse trading in these cases.  Maybe he was.  But politicians are always angling for a better political position somewhere and often show favoritism to those who contributed to their campaigns or did some other favor for them.

If he is guilty of a serious crime then a jury needs to say so.  Until this happens the man is still legally the governor and in a contest between him and Reid I will be rooting for Blago every time because Reid has repeatedly demonstrated he is all about partisan politics and could care less about the law.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30118

J. Cogburn