I still hear this debate about the new federal mandated health care that is trying to be forced into existence. For one President Obama and other politicians are trying to push the passing of the new health care bill, and with parts constantly changing politicians can’t really read it. Though in their defense even if they had the time to read it they wouldn’t, so all in all I guess nothing loss or nothing gained. But there are real problems that many Americans should at least ask themselves before supporting this government project.
One, the government will be in control, and I’ll quickly go over the ineptitude of current government run programs. The TSA a government organization only catches 25% of contraband that they themselves test, meaning alot more stuff can get through. When the government enters health care it’s even worse, the government takes care of Medicare…and if you notice many private organizations needed to invent Medicare Supplements so that people don’t fall through the cracks. When you look at other countries health care systems you find many stories of people being denied treatment or people just being neglected. I told a story during one of the show, where France needed to institute a law that said you couldn’t wait in an ambulance for more than five hours, something absolutely unheard of in our current system today. I’d like to see how that’s treated here, “We arrived at the hospital, but you’re going to be here in this ambulance for the next four and a half hours…and then you can wait in the waiting room”. I’m sure that I’d want to call ahead and reserve seating, something like I can do for an Outback Steakhouse.
One of the biggest things I can’t understand that people are overlooking. People who should be opposed to this new “government health care” aren’t opposed to it. I know this isn’t big on people’s minds…but we want to pay more attention to that. We all want government health care because we don’t want the evil companies taking advantage of us anymore. Well if these people currently “screwing” us over, want this new health care we should start to wonder what’s in this legislation, or what we don’t know. Think health care is a big funder of our current congress, if they wanted to they could crush this bill, as they have done so many times before. Yet, their not why? Because one of the ideas floating around, is requiring people to have health care and if you don’t have it…well the government will buy it for you. See how the insurance companies can make a huge fortune off taxpayer backs? Then the drug companies who have congress in their pockets, will lobby congress to only cover certain drugs…and the rest we’ll end up paying more for…once again…more money for those evil companies that we want to get rid of…this might be why they want this to pass.
Congress is only to happy to quickly pass this legislation so that their buddies can make more money…and you the taxpayer will pay for it. Once enacted, this system will never ever be pulled back. I admit as anyone who has looked into the situation, is that the current system isn’t working, but getting the government involved isn’t the answer. The same people who invented the DMV should never be put in charge of health care, its just common sense. Instead moving away from health care and into a pay for service as needed like eye care is currently, and you’ll see prices come down a lot..because they would need to be affordable for the average person. Then the control will be yours and your doctor…and only your control…both of the other suggestions puts someone not you in control of your health. You can find countless stories of both insurers and governments denying health care for those who need it and when people beg nothing happens. In the free market system, you can get treated and there would be organisations that would help for those emergency situations…but more people would survive.
I know that all of this ranting will do nothing, that this government health care will pass, and because of it people will die. This is just a normal nature of the American person now of days. We all want the government to take care of us…and give up our freedoms in the process. Well I know, only because it can’t continue this way, that this government will cause itself to fail. Many state government are already going bankrupt and the federal government isn’t too far behind that. The system either has to tax us at a higher rate…and the is only so much of that they can do, or cut their services (and we know they can never do that). The system is doomed by it’s very existence…they can only grow so much before their system falls apart.
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Government and Healthcare A Win-Win for them
July 20, 2009 // Posted in Politically Thinking, Problem Is... (Tags: Congress, Conservative, Democracy, Democrat, Government, Healthcare, Jim Guckin, Jim Guckin Show, Liberal, Libertarian, Liberty, Media, Moderate, News, President Obama, Spending) | No Comments
Sotomayor
July 13, 2009 // Posted in Politically Thinking (Tags: Congress, Conservative, Government, Jim Guckin, Jim Guckin Show, Liberal, Libertarian, Liberty, President Obama, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court) | No Comments
Supreme Court Nominee, sat today to begin the process of grilling that congress does before either accepting or denying a potential candidate. As we have come to expect the two sides where devided on the candidate, like school children deciding on what color iPod they want. The Republican sentators who are a little outnumbered (7-12), started exactly where you knew they would…the whole “wise latina woman” comments. I had always had the image in my head, that to be a politican you needed to be a master tactician. Instead, I only have come to see that politicans are like the people who can’t play any kind of stratagy game…I think that chutes and latters are to far adavanced stratagy game for these politicans. Rather than dig in and find something that has been in the media since shortly after her nomination, they take the easy lazy route. How can I trust a politican who doesn’t even hate this rival enough to dig and find more than that, they’ve gotten lazy.
There are many stances that the republicans could have focused on, that might have made more of an impact…something like abortion. There were several anti-abortion activists who were at the event, that attempted to shake Sonia Sotomayor up. Yet surprising the Republicans didn’t fixate, like a dog on a bone, and go after that. Atleast that then would have been more of a valid argument then she’s racist. They tried the “liberal activist judge” card, but like usual that doesn’t surprise many of us. These same people wouldn’t say sorry, your a religious conservative judge and we can’t have that in our court system. We all know this to just be the back and forth game that they usually play and not much more…making the viewing of this boring.
One of the few things that I would be surprised to see the republicans do to try to derail her, is ask her question reguarding her interpretation of the constitution, and would she support legislation that put 20 innoncent people in jail. Use your own laws that you support to stangle her…because the argument is there. Study up on some Libertarian blogs and use that to leverage herself and anyone that supports her into the corner, anything other than their current tactics.
Sonia Sotomayor, in her opening, thanked the senators for their time with her, and how meeting with so many of them, “Our meetings have given me an illuminating tour of the fifty states and invaluable insights into the American people.” Which leads me to think…is she that nieve. Does she think that our representative are actually representative of the American people? Because that’s grounds there to make me worry. I am nothing like my elected officials…for one I work hard and don’t have alot to show for it yet. I don’t get to sit around pass laws and get paid a decent amount of money for it. Also another thing that worried me, when she described her judicial style as “fidelity to the law”. This is not what we should want our Supreme Court Justices to be loyal to….at least I wouldn’t. Am I the only one who knows that the Supreme Court is suppose to act as a check to the congress? So being loyal to the law, is a flawed outlook on the process…meaning she’ll obay the law. Instead something she should be loyal to is liberty and justice…these are what we should expect the Supreme Court to uphold, not the law. Lower court justices are tied to the law, because they swear to uphold and protect it…but Supreme court should be the opostie…to make sure that liberty and justice run this coutry….not laws. This is what I think is wrong with this coutry…we’re loyal to laws…and not to freedom…the freedoms, that formed this country.
1 State down….49 to go!
July 6, 2009 // Posted in Broken Systems, Politically Thinking, Problem Is... (Tags: California, Congress, Conservative, Democracy, Democrat, Government, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Guckin, Jim Guckin Show, Liberal, Libertarian, Liberty, Moderate, News, Recession, Representative, Republic, Republican, Spending) | No Comments
“The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
-Thomas Jefferson
As many of you are quite aware now, the state of California is now broke. The politicians are turning to their same old games once again on blaming each other so as to keep us well distracted. The state in order to operate is now passing out IOUs, the same ones we use to hand out as children. I am lucky to not live in California at this time, because all an IOU really is, is leveraging this money on the children of the state. These young children in grade school, playing kickball have no idea the debt that we are shoving upon them or the poverty which we are going to shove upon them. The even sadder news is, this isn’t just California many states are being forced into the same situation, and California is just the first in the series of dominos.
The major problem is, is that the states want to help everyone, and as they stretch their dollars thin, they need more taxes to fill the gaps. Now rather than cut their plans and ideas down, they opt for the more destructive plan, they tax more. The problem is that at a certain tipping point, the voters fight back, and they hold off. This is where we currently are at, politicians have pushed taxes as high as they were going to go, and we don’t want to pay anymore. State recently tried taxing the rich more, and the rich have moved from those states, causing less revenue. This situation has run into the proverbial end of the line, they are running out of money, yet they just keep spending. To me it seems like they just can’t help themselves, they are spending themselves out of existence. Their amount of IOUs will only keep growing, and when people realize that they are worthless, they will stop accepting them. Once the IOUs are gone, then they have two actions, tax more or cut spending drastically….and if history dictates, they will tax more until the politicians and the absolute poor are the only ones left.
This isn’t just a state level problem, even though many states are experiencing the same problems, the federal government is doing the same thing. There is just one catch though, the federal government can just keep printing the money and keep circulating it…this doesn’t solve their problem, just makes it harder to see…though we’ll all pay when the dollar is worthless. Our politicians spending are ruining this country…and we are the ones who all pay. Why should children playing in a school yard today be held with the frivolous spending of us currently? When did they agree to be saddled with our debt and our mismanagement? I think politicians need to wake up slash all spending by 75% and cut their juicy benefits. Then get this country out of debt and make sure I, you, and our children get as much of our hard earned money as possible. Politician’s pet projects need to be stopped, and instead of adding more laws they need to be cutting useless laws.
We need to watch California, so that we all don’t make the same mistakes in our states. With the Governor blaming one and the democrats blaming him…and nothing gets done. With the 4th of July that just passed, think about freedom, because freedom and protecting everyone’s liberty will cut spending…even if we don’t agree with it.
Placeholders in Passed Bills?
July 1, 2009 // Posted in Broken Systems, Politically Thinking (Tags: California, Congress, Conservative, Democracy, Democrat, Government, Henry Waxman, HR 2454, Jim Guckin, Jim Guckin Show, Liberal, Libertarian, Liberty, Moderate, Representative, Republic, Republican) | No Comments
By now most of us are use to the fact that congress doesn’t read most of the bills they pass, and how could they? They pass so many laws, that if they were to stop and read them they’d get nothing done. They generally get some staff member to glance through the bill, make sure they won’t get attacked the next time for elections. Well this has been surpassed by and even scarier trend that is even less known…the ability to put stuff into a bill, after it has been passed. Yes you read that right; congress now has the amazing ability to place “placeholder” text into a bill. When that bill gets passed with the “placeholder” in there, congress can then add text in that placeholder spot, once they have everything figured out.
Right now there isn’t much misuse of this special “placeholder” ability that congress has apparently just granted themselves, they generally just use to for pointless nonsense. Yet, I can only imagine some time where a congress person (I’m sure trying to be helpful) will put a placeholder in a bill and then, force a law down our throats. Now I’m not sure how many congress people are aware of this new special ability, but I do know that one of them is…Representative Waxman of the 30th district of California, because this placeholder appears in his bill.
Below is an excerpt of HR 2454 (entire bill can be found here). In the table of contents you can find this little gem:
Placholder in HR 2454
Now I thought that was weird, but when you actually go to the section mentioned, you can see that it indeed is part of the bill:
Well there you have it; obviously it still is in the bill. Though like me, you must think that I am making this us…but the link to government web page can show you I’m not making this stuff up (link). Well like me, you think, hey this bill didn’t pass yet and is still a work in progress; no one would sign a bill where anything can be inserted? Well you’d be wrong, according to govtrack.us; the bill has passed the House of Represent ivies on June 26th, 2009 with a roll call vote of 219 for and 212 against. “The American Clean Energy and Security Act” passed one of the steps needed to become a law…and it isn’t even completed yet.
To find out who voted for an incomplete bill…or really a bill where they can insert whatever they want if it passes, you can visit this site: opencongress.org to see the roll call vote on this. Though this generally falls along party lines, this is a scary prospect and shouldn’t happen in future bills. I wouldn’t go above to call for all these politicians to resign for letting such a threat to liberty get through their ranks. To me, this seems a treasonous act, to leave something so open that anyone can add anything to a passed bill. Not sure how long this was going on, or how many bills have this placeholder in it, but it’s scary. It’s only a matter of time, until this is used against the American people as a weapon against our freedoms.
Supreme Count Bias?
June 3, 2009 // Posted in Politically Thinking (Tags: Conservative, Government, Jim Guckin, Jim Guckin Show, Justice Sutter, Liberal, Moderate, Supreme Court) | No Comments
There has been alot of talk about about the position on the supreme court that is being opened up by Justice Sutter. There are many different takes on this position, and in the end the decision means very little. I know there are many reasons why people may think that this particular choice is important, though I tend to disagree. The reason the supreme court was put in place by the founding fathers was to act as a check and balance against the government. This is a very basic action of the court, so to me liberal or conservative isn’t of real importance, the only thing that I find important is their ability to check the government.
What I find the irony is that though there is no public vote, the politicians who the court is suppose to keep in check are the ones who let them get in. That’s like me appointing a friend to make sure that I’m being honest. Though this friend can never be fired, I would tend to make sure that I looked down the road and made sure they’d be on my side more than not. This is why which party gets to choose the judge is actually very important to people, because either a liberal or conservative judge is chosen. Now to me, a judge may not be the best choice for the court.
I think my thought in who should be placed in the supreme court should be elaborated upon. The job of the court is to interpret the constitution of the United States, and I tend to think judges don’t make the best person to interprete that. The person I think who would best understand the intention of the constitution, are actually historians. They understand the time and what the founders would have been thinking. I can’t understand where anyone would think that a judge would understand the constitution better than someone who understand the founders. Though I guess that’s where me and the rest of the world disagree. I think the check and balance job is more important that the liberal vs. conservative view point. Though if it bothered politicians enough, they would find some moderate or independent to rule from the bench.