BIT O BACON: Amendment to Healthcare Reform.

BIT O BACON: 3/30/10 Amendment to Healthcare Reform.

I was reading what I wrote about the healthcare reform bill passing and I came to the conclusion that there was more I needed to cover and bring up. The first thing that comes to my attention is that we didn’t just enact healthcare reform we also brought in student loan reform too. The student loan reforms virtual mandates that the federal government be the only provider of student loans in this county in fact the majority of the supposed savings of the bill will come from this reform. Now if you coupled that with what the president said in the State of the Union address we might have an economic event that will destroy our economy in the least. What the president said is that Student loan payments will only be ten percent of the total income you bring in and the debt will go away after twenty years, ten if you work for the federal government. My thoughts on this are what’s going to happen when we start to see people not paying off the debt they owe. Who will be stuck with their bills and what will be the full affect of the collection of all that debt. Don’t get me wrong I’m in the student loan boat to and I hate it with a passion. But I was the one who put me here and I’m going to be the one gets me out of it not the government.

Single payer, public option, or insurance market place what’s the difference if in the end you have the majority of the funds coming from the federal government isn’t that socialized healthcare. Under the bill you will have sixty percent of all involved in the program will have the government pay for their healthcare does that seem fare. The other thing is we will have thirty two million people on the same plan will we have a system capable to treat everybody at comparable care. If you read the bill those in congress and the president will not even be forced into the same system as everybody else, I would think if you forcing me on to this plan you need to be right there with me. Lastly to the requirement that mandates that all citizens will to have to get healthcare insurance, for the first time you have a requirement to be an American citizen or you will be fined or jailed. The IRS will have the responsibility to insure that you have the adequate coverage if you don’t you get an additional tax at tax time. Just a little history lesson who do you think brought down Al Capone the treasury department. When Al Capone was responsible for hundreds of murders, prostitution rings, drugs, boot legging, bribing and acts of extortion what charges eventually sent him to prison Tax evasion. And now we have that same mentality again this time it’s healthcare.

In the end what’s going to happen ten years down the line how about twenty years down the line will we end up like Europe or Massachusetts where the government controlled healthcare is to expensive to maintain, or will we see a drop in quality of care because the money won’t be there to keep standards up. These doubts fill my mind when I think about it. For me it’s not what the Congressional Budget Office says it’s the real world standards will this legislation be helpful or harmful. Will this legislation help businesses or will it cause major issues destroying businesses in this county in turn killing job. Now the supporters say that businesses will have a tax credit for employee health coverage my answer to them is for how long, is it long term or is it short term because if it’s short term what happens when it goes away. Sizzle on while bacon is still going to be legal.
Bacon
Dan Deno

BACON BITS: Pachyderms, asses, and tea baggers.

BACON BITS: Pachyderms, asses, and tea baggers. 03/25/2010

I can honestly say that I am truly fed up with all political parties in this country. You have the democrats on the left who refuse to listen to the concerns of those who don’t fit in their preferred ideology simply going about the enacting of policy’s that would in the presidents own words “fundamental change“our nation regardless of the real world effects. You see I don’t base what I believe on by the Congressional Budget Office it’s on what affects me on the home front the real world standard. It’s on my wallet, it’s in how my parents are going to be affected by the taking a half a trillion dollars out of Medicare and what kind of treatment will they get. It’s when my nieces and my nephew are grown up what will be left behind for them massive debt from our current spending, an America in which the educational system that instead of pushing for better student performances and achievements instead dumbs down the standard for the purpose to get more cash from the federal and state governments. Or are we going to have an environment in which we have the progressive ideology becoming the new religion of the United States. An America in which everyone will be too big to fail and the government will be the holly provider. Where no longer we hold reverence for god but for our planet, what a joke. This country was founded upon the individual not the social group.

All I have seen is that we have no self control when it comes to spending in this country. Our government is willing to let no one fail for a price, when Rom Emanual said “never let a crisis go unwasted “I guess he really meant it. And when it comes to what I feel what’s the most important issue and that is jobs you would think that you would be a little more particular to where the money goes. Giving money to pointless construction projects is not a wise investment. Funding pointless studies at universities doesn’t create long term employment for anybody. And giving money to communities to fund projects that they should be funding on their own is also a waste. The point is you don’t waste precious funds on pointless endeavors; you put the funds in the hands of the proven job makers. Why not create the incentive for the business community to give one more person a job in their business. The facts are you could of given 2.57 million people in this country one year salary of $60,000 and that would have been better spent then what has been chosen already.

Now to the Republican Party this isn’t the party of old, this is the party that became more like the democrats on spending. You say that you represented fiscal conservative mentality when they spent more than any republican congress spent in the past. When I bring up how much spending Obama has done I always get “most of this is bush’s fault” line all the time. My answer to that is yes bush did, when he chose to start the practice of suspending the free market system to protect the free market system you get what’s going on now. The republicans also claimed that they were the party of small government but they empowered it more than ever before. The passing of the Patriot act after nine eleven is still stepping on the freedoms of this country even if against terrorists. And one of the main things that bugged the hell out of me the housing bubble/crisis. When the answer was to let Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac go under and enter into bankruptcy what was the republicans answer the first of many bailouts. When the fed was giving out billions in cheap money what was the republican answer, to let the fed continue to do so. When the fed turned a blind eye to the effects of lending money to high risk individuals their answer was to let it continue on. You have to remember the economic hardships that we face today started back under Bush and the republican’s. It was the head of the New York fed who didn’t see this coming the tax cheat and now treasury secretary Timothy Geitner. In short the party failed, it failed its founding principals and beliefs, and it became more about the conservative progressive agenda. When the democrats labeled the republicans as the party of no they deserved it, it is their ineptitude which makes them less relevant to those they represent.

It’s in the lack luster performance of the republicans you now have outside political groups such as the nine twelve project, and the tea party movement. The issue I have with the tea party movement is that conduct of members during the healthcare legislation marathon you have reports of representatives getting spit on, the throwing of rocks, and use of vulgarity. Violence is never the answer it only adds to the image that the far left wants to portray of the tea party movement. Your vote is your mightiest weapon. The first thing to do is become educated, know where we started from know and understand the constitution, bill of rights, and the other documents which our founders created to guide this nation. Secondly know what’s going on in Washington and the legislation that’s being passed there, find out how it will affect us as a nation and as individuals. It’s about finding the truly worthy candidates to run and who truly represent you and your beliefs. That’s how you change this country to the better. It was apathy that got this country this way it will be due diligence that will return us to our right track. Sizzle on America

Bacon
Dan Deno

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

Executive Orders

 

On December 17,2009 President Obama signed and amended Executive Order 12425. But what is 12425 refer to?
Well, Reagan signed this order to allow INTERPOL to operate within the United States under certain limitations of course. The idea being that INTERPOL could operate but remain subject to our legal system.

Now with Obama’s changes INTERPOL can now operate with more power. The problem is that our  own FBI can no longer search and or seize documents or property from INTERPOL. We the American People no longer have access to any information INTERPOL has, previously under the Freedom of Information Act we did!

So what does this mean? This basically puts INTERPOL above the US Constitution. Think about it, INTERPOL can arrests and hold a trial without disclosure of evidence.

This in my opinion was not a wise move and could be a precursor to something worse. What if Obama lets the International Criminal Court to detain citizens by signing the Rome Statute? That would give the ICC and INTERPOL a chance at detaining US Military personnel and hold them on trial for War Crimes whether true or not simply for Political gain as most nations involved in ICC and the Rome Statute are against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
That is why President George W. Bush refused to sign the Rome Statute and even made agreements with numerous Nations that they would not detain or hand over to the ICC anyone in the US Armed Forces.

What Do You Think?