BIT O BACON: HEALTH CARE REFORM.

BIT O BACON: 3/19/10 HEALTH CARE REFORM.

Today I was watching the mass coverage of the healthcare vote and pretty much tired of it all. What happened today really reinforces why I hate Washington and the political system that has developed their. When the majority of this country didn’t want government in our healthcare we had congress simply push it in. I wonder if the representatives who voted for this bill really gave two shots about what the overall outcome of this bill will be. The fact that the democratic leadership in both the house and senate had to bribe members to get votes simply reinforces the fact that it wasn’t a good bill to start with. I didn’t buy into the argument of the getting back at the “big bad insurance company’s”. The Democratic Party demonizes those who chose not to support their ideas anyway. I take a real world look at the issues, the real cost of the bill not simply what the CBO says. To answer those who live their political life by the CBO they’re a tool to gauge the cost of bills, so if a bill is written in a particular manor they score its costs in that manor. In the end it’s in how you write the bill to fit your believed cost. The question I have to ask is what the real world costs are going to be. Back when Medicare was first passed the program was going to cost us only ten billion dollars for 2009, the real cost was sixty billion. And if you take a look at the unfunded liability for Medicare its thirty seven trillion dollars, now tell me with a straight face this healthcare reform bill will only cost us nine hundred and forty billion dollars with 1.38 trillion in deficit reduction.

You see those in Washington don’t seem to look at those who have gone threw this process already. For example the healthcare policies of Massachusetts, in which many in the white house credit as the pilot program to this healthcare reform. If you look closely at what they have done and massive costs they have incurred and now we have this nationally. As for the costs of the plan in Massachusetts they were given a half a billion in federal tax dollars to help pay for the massive debt of their state ran healthcare program and recently it was announced they were short another three hundred and thirty million dollars now what do we do when we have the same results on the national level. Who will be there to bail out our national healthcare program? And if you read the bill you would find out that you have more than just healthcare mixed in you have other issues added in the name of healthcare issues such as economic justice, the hostile business agenda, social reform, and the redistributions of wealth. The first example I bring up is the new program that will go into people’s homes and tell people how to raise their children. First of all that’s an immense invasions of your family’s personal privacy, if you as a parent would like advice on raising your children than go out and find it, it’s not the governments job to assume. In addition it raises many other questions.

Who sets the standard that will be used? How are the people on this program going to be picked, will we have political appointees or someone from the local area? And finally what happens if you disagree with the standard either on principle, religious reasons, or on moral cause? What is the after effect going to be, will we have a rise in cases of children being taken away from parents because their child is eating too many fatty foods or not getting enough exercise. The next program will pay teaching hospitals an “incentive” to increase the numbers of minority students within their programs. Some will say that I am racist and against minorities to the contrary when it comes to medical practitioners I want this country to have the very best. I want those who want to be doctors get there on their own abilities and drive, not being promoted simply because of race, gender, age, and economic status. It was independence in spirit and attitude that made us great but when you advance one social group over another because you feel they deserve a better life what does that say about us as a nation.

In closing our congress and the Democratic Party has put us on the path of European socialism what’s the next manufactured right. Will it be the free university level degree, home ownership regardless if people can’t afford it, or will it be that the government will create a guaranteed job for you? We have now put our feet on that slippery slope in which the end is total government which assumes that the individual is too stupid to know what’s good for them and if you disagree then you are treated as an extremist and called fake and crazy. To those who voted for this bill and the amendments that was added the voter’s of this country have long memories and soon you may find out what it means to go against the will of the people. It’s time for us as citizens to no longer assume that the people we vote in to office will do what’s best for us. It’s time for us to become educated in the politics and policy’s of Washington, and when congress passes legislation know if it benefits us or hurt us as a nation and as individuals. In short become involved become knowledgeable in all that goes on in Washington and when “our representative’s” don’t do what we want hold their feet to the fire and make them understand, if they don’t replace them with better candidates. Sizzle on BACON

Dan Deno

Bacon Bits: Special Interests

Bacon bits: political Special Interest 01/21/10

This week something happened that I thought could be a mistake by the U.S. Supreme Court that I feel is going to change how our government works. It was the courts overturning of the McCain/Feingold campaign finance reform bill. The ruling stated that the limiting of financial backing by corporations, unions, and special interest groups to political candidates was unconstitutional because private companies were covered under the first amendment and are treated as private citizens. Now I never thought that I would be agreeing with the president on something but this is it partly. The president’s response was predictable; in essence he said that it will allow “big oil, banking, healthcare companies and foreign powers” to control the policies in Washington.

As usual he blames those that the Democratic Party demonizes but I think the president has forgotten to include a few people on that list. Beginning with the unions SEIU, AFL-CIO, UAW, Teamsters, and others that are driving the issues of the Democratic Party. The return for their multi million dollar investment in our president, you get legislation making it easier for unions to get new members called card check, and Union officials in high places with in the government and White House. In particular the sectary of labor, regulation czar and our manufacturing czar all direct hire’s from the unions. Now tell me in time of dispute between unions and the business communities will we have an objective point of view in government, will we have any business friendly policies coming from this white house/ congress. Or are we going to have a massive kick in the butt waiting for our business community’s.

You also have community activist groups such as Acorn, Apollo Alliance, and many more who are helping to direct what the policy’s of the white house and congress are. If this president was true to the idea of keeping special interests out start with your own administration only when the white house is cleansed of every union, social advocate, and self confirmed socialist/communist admire then I will believe you. The only will that should be followed is the American citizens. Not those who would choose to direct policy’s to better fit the demands of an outside force. Sizzle on Bacon

UPDATE: 03/25/10 - Now I wrote this a little while back and since then I have come to a different conclusion. The first thing I have to correct is that this decision doesn’t do what the president mainly blamed it does in that in will allow foreign powers to control US policy. The reason why the constitution prevents any foreign powers to influence our nation’s policies. The second thing that I have to adjust is that I like the decision especially after the whole healthcare being forced down our throats regardless if you wanted to swallow it or not. We need to have advocates in Washington who will be the voice for the majority and be the counter force to the extreme left mentality that the congress seems to have now adopted. I still think that the president is a hypocrite for having direct hires from Union organization’s, far left social advocate groups, and self confirmed socialist/communist admires playing major roles in his administration. My last thought on this is that if our president wanted to actually be free of special interests like he says he wants congress to be why doesn’t do it now that’s the question? Yours for the second time
Bacon
Dan Deno

Introducing Bacon

Dan Deno, better known as Bacon is going to be sharing some articles he wrote. They will be available here and on www.disciplinedmonkeystudios.com. First up is Bacon’s Beginning:

Bacon Bits: the beginning

It’s me bacon and its time for bacon bits (use the real stuff the fake ones are kind a nasty). Bacon bits are where I let those random thoughts and points come out and play. The topic is about politics at work. Now I work for a store and one of my good friends got fired for things that were not his fault (job was sucking for him anyways).This pissed me off pretty bad. This person was good at what they did and was an asset to the store I work at. Now I know this is my own opinions and others will disagree and try to contradict it but if you weren’t on scene at the time you don’t know what happened.

When I started to think about the whole situation I came to the conclusion that when a company wants to fire you they will find the means to do it with. I wonder if when this company gets complaints do they ever go ahead and actually investigates them. Do they ever ask the employees who were at those incidents what they saw, do they try to match up what the customers says to what the witness say. Apparently not, most of incidents that they used against my friend were created by the individuals who made the complaints when what they wanted was against company policy and they got pissed off about it. I can personally attest to that fact, I have witnessed most of those incidents and 95% of the time it’s on that particular customer. Wow that being opened minded enough to look at the whole picture. So until next time sizzle on, sizzle on America.
Dan Deno.