Star Parker : Back on Uncle Sam's Plantation - Townhall.com

This is an excellent article about the direction of govenment under the current administration from someone who is black and seen poverty from the inside out.

Star Parker : Back on Uncle Sam's Plantation - Townhall.com

Scientists in stolen e-mail scandal hid climate data - Times Online

So you believe in Man-made Global Warming? Here is what proponents do to hide the truth!

Scientists in stolen e-mail scandal hid climate data - Times Online

Don't Get it!

It is difficult for me to believe that some people do not understand the results of Massachusetts election.
These are my thoughts on the matter, but me know what you think.

Most of the media and liberals in Washington DC thinks that the election of Scott Brown to Sen. Kennedy's seat is a consequence of the American peoples frustration with the legislative establishment in Washington DC, and not a direct reaction to this Administrations domestic policy, specifically healthcare, taxation, spending and terrorism. They continue to assert that the American people are upset not with this last year in Washington but rather the last eight years of the Bush Administration. They base this, I believe, on Obama's overwhelming victory in last year's presidential election. However, I believe that Obama's victory was as much a repudiation of Bush's excessive spending and the economy as anything else.

President Bush and the Republican Party did very little to give the American people a sense of fiscal restraint and reining in government. Candidate Obama at least gave lip service to balancing the budget, to transparency in government, and in limiting special interest groups access in Washington DC. But over the last year Americans have watched transparency turn into invisibility, fiscal restraint turn to creating deficits in one year that the Bush administration took eight years to run up, and limiting special interest group access to mean just a different group of special interests such as liberals, unions and those that agree with the Obama left wing agenda.

I do believe Americans want to see some change in healthcare, things like more competition, ability to maintain policy coverage after leaving there their job, and a slowdown in the acceleration of premiums. I do not believe Americans want universal health coverage that will increase the cost of healthcare and their insurance premiums and increase the federal deficit. Americans do not want to see the kind of back door deals that occurred in December and January that under any other circumstances would be called corruption if they were not in the halls of Washington DC.

The election of Scott Brown to the Senate from Massachusetts is in fact a repudiation of Obama's policies. Americans want fiscal restraint from their government, they want a less intrusive government, they want all Americans to be treated equally and not have corporations Or unions have special access.

There are liberals in Washington who believe that the Obama administration's inability to deliver on their promises of healthcare and social justice vis-à-vis the gay-rights movement and the wars, among other things are the reasons the people in Massachusetts repudiated the Democratic candidate and urge a doubling down on those policies. In truth, I believe if the Democrats and the Obama administration adopt this policy it will mean a huge victory for Republicans this November. As someone who leans pretty solidly Republican this is an attractive scenario. However, it is not healthy for this country. I do not want to see bad policy enacted just so Republicans can gain ascendancy in 2010 or 2012.

There are those among the Republican Party who claim that Republicans need to broaden the base. That the repudiation of Bush's policies were a clear indication that Republicans need to move to the middle. I believe, however, that Obama's victory was indeed a repudiation of Bush's policies, but Bush's policies relative to the growth in government and excessive spending, not his conservative ideals. America is still a center-right country. The Republican Party, if it wants to regain its position of authority, must continue to espouse conservative values fiscally internationally and socially in order to regain their position of authority in Washington. And I believe, they need to come up with a positive message to prove to the American people that they are not going to go back to the policies of continued government growth and unencumbered spending.

So, that's what I think. What do you think?

Healthcare Finish Line

One year after Obama assumed the office of the Presidency, Congress is closing in on the finish line for healthcare. There is no question that there are things within the healthcare industry that need fixing. However, creating a nationalized health care system is not the answer! A couple of states have tried to institute government sponsored healthcare including Massachusetts. On Tuesday, a special election to fill Sen. Kennedy's Senate seat will occur and the issue most prominent has been healthcare. Massachusetts, which has only 11% of the voting population registered as Republicans is by far the bluest state in the union. But in spite of that, Republican candidate Brown has come from a 30 point deficit to dead even on the weekend before the election.
Polling data indicate that the people of Massachusetts are very unhappy with their government mandated health care program. The government program has cost almost 20% more than anticipated and premiums for all health insurance in the state have increased dramatically. A majority of the people in Massachusetts currently oppose their own mandated healthcare system.

There are solutions to the problems within our health care system such as pre-existing conditions and losing healthcare coverage. These problems can be solved by allowing civic groups or churches or business associations or other such organizations to set up group policies whereby the group can spread the risk of all of its members and therefore provide the same kind of benefit relative to pre-existing conditions that businesses now have in their group policies. Additionally, if insurance companies could compete across state lines this would also open up competition thereby reducing the cost of insurance. One other consideration to keep costs down would be to provide insurance from a catastrophic perspective and not first dollar coverage. By providing first dollar coverage we increase the likelihood of people using insurance to meet their most mundane and unserious health conditions thereby raising the cost of health insurance for everyone. If individuals were responsible for their first dollar coverage upfront, making their own decisions, about when to see the doctor, and having coverage for catastrophic events the cost of insurance could decline significantly. And of course it goes without saying that the cost of litigating in the healthcare industry is a tremendous drain on the cost of providing medical care. Tort reform will not solve the medical insurance problem however it is one of those items that need to be addressed if we are going to come to a solution for healthcare in America. All of these solutions can be achieved without a nationalized health care system.

So the question is will this Congress and this administration be the first to cross the finish line of healthcare, or will it be the American people that want the freedom to keep and maintain their own healthcare and insurance. The election in Massachusetts could well determine the fate of Obama care.

Your thoughts?