11
Feb

Don’t Be Fooled

   Posted by: lightfinger   in Health Care

Barack Obama is attempting to rekindle the health care reform he is proposing by now inviting Republicans to a televised meeting.

Don’t be fooled.

This is all just political wrangling, in an attempt to embarrass the Republicans to back Barack’s plan through peer pressure. The idea is if the media can raise the ire of folks against Republicans blocking the health care bill, they will be forced to sign it and give Barack most, if not all, of what he wants.

Unfortunately, some poor sap Republican or two will fall for this trick. Most likely, it will be led by John McCain. It is poor decisions like McCain’s that got us into this mess in the first place. McCain supported all the proposed bailouts by Obama, and probably will back ‘Stimulus 2′ or whatever stupid acronym Pelosi slaps on the thing. 

Look, there can be no health care reform until the cost of real health care is addressed. Why limit/address insurance if we solve the problem of the costs of the procedures and medicines in the first place?

That means Tort Reform, which the trial lawyers backing the Democrats do not want to address. It is easier to treat the effect, in this case the high cost of health insurance, than the cause, which is the frivolous and overwhelming lawsuits being filed each and every day against the health care provider. Obama does not want to address that, as people like his good buddy John Edwards got rich with pulling stunts like ‘channeling the victim’ and other courtroom theatrics. 

So, don’t be fooled. All Obama wants to do is control more of the economy under the thumb of the government, where he believes he and his cronies would make better decisions than the American people.

We already made a poor decision electing this man, we don’t need to keep proving his point.

 

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12
Jan

The TSA Loves You…

   Posted by: lightfinger   in Corruption, Terrorism

Courtesy of Reason.TV, this little tidbit on the Transportation Security Agency

We’re the TSA and You Can Count on Us! (to overreact to tiny threats and ignore big ones)

Sad, isn’t it, that this is the state of affairs we are in when it comes to the TSA.

Lemme give you a hint, the other agencies under Homeland Security are actually worse. Immigration is the one I’m familiar the most with. Someone try to get the H1B Visa information for the past 10 or 15 years from them. Good luck getting accurate numbers – for years, officials were giving out H1B Visas at a rate 4 times what they should because only 1/4 of the Visas were actually being recorded.

 That’s the kind of incompetence we’re dealing with. Surprisingly, I’m not blaming Obama, Bush, or even Clinton (when I worked there). No…this is a systemic problem with all the Homeland Security subagencies due to their bureaucratic red tape nightmare that ensures their jobs as government union employees.

This is why we cannot allow TSA to fall under union control. Right now, it works the BEST out of all the agencies because it isn’t unionized. Immigration is unionized, and that’s what got us the 9/11 bombers on student visas. 

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7
Jan

Improving Health Care? I Think Not.

   Posted by: lightfinger   in Health Care

I have not posted recently for many reasons, not the least of which was the death of my 2 year old godson, Jason Lee Johnson, from meningitis.

His death was most likely the result of a misdiagnosis in the hospital’s ‘triage’ room, where they just thought he had a fever when, in fact, he was in the early stages of meningitis. That delayed him over 12 hours from getting the critical care and attention he really needed.

When Obamacare gets passed, this is the scenario you will see duplicated around the country, and that is why I must speak up about it. Honestly, it is no fault of the Triage people in the emergency room. First, it is most often a nurse doing the diagnosis. She is making her best guess as per the symptoms described by the patient or the patient’s friends or family. When we were at the hospital with Jason, there were at least two other people waiting to be seen in triage while Jason was back in the ER already through that process. It isn’t until you get back into the ER until the physician on duty can see you, and then can get ahold of the specialist on call.

But, let’s add something else to this scenario. Multiply the numbers waiting by a good factor. Don’t increase the pay or numbers of the staff, and in fact limit how much they can charge if the patients going through the Triage process are on Medicaid.  What do you have? Chaos. You also have an environment where many, many more mistakes in the initial diagnosis will occur. Even in a non-busy time, something may slip through like little Jason’s conditions when he was seen in the morning vs 8 pm at night.

How is this improving our health care?

If you want a more visual proof of what I’m talking about, go on YouTube and search for ‘Steven Crowder Canada’. PJTV’s Crowder went up to Canada to show exactly what the true health care system is up there. It not only is not pretty, but confirms what I am talking about in this post.

This is why Obamacare must be stopped, because in the end it will cause much more harm than good.

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I just got the following via Dhimmi Watch’s RSS feed, and it needs to be spread:

Obama’s "Christian" grandmother in Mecca for Hajj

Why the deception? And who was behind it? AP? The Obama camp? Someone else? What was its purpose?

AP, March 5, 2008:

"In the world of today, children have different religions from their parents," she said. She, too, is a Christian.

Is she really?

"Saudi Arabia: Obama’s grandmother in Mecca for ‘Hajj’ ceremony," from AKI, November 25 (thanks to C. Cantoni):

Mecca, 25 Nov. (AKI) – The grandmother of US president Barack Obama has arrived in Saudi Arabia for the ‘Hajj’ or Islamic pilgrimage to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, a Saudi daily said on Wednesday. Sarah Obama, 87, is being accompanied by a nephew and Obama’s cousin, Omran.

On Wednesday Sarah Obama was in the valley of Mina with an African delegation, according to the Saudi daily Okaz.

Obama, the mother of the American president’s father, lives in a village in Kenya and is one of the many guests of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud….

For the uninitiated: you MUST be a Muslim to even enter Mecca. If you are a Christian, you are denied entry. If you are of another religion and found in the city, it is an automatic death penalty.

So, obviously, the Obama campaign and the mainstream media have lied about his upbringing yet again. They fabricated the story that Obama’s grandmother was a Christian during the campaign so we would be fooled. This is beyond simple deception now, and is even more evidence that the media is an active participant in a campaign of deception against the American public.