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Thursday, 22 October 2009

  •  More corruption revealed in the Demoncrat Senate

     

    No more StarKist Tuna for me. (I love tuna but there are other brands.)

      Sorry  Charley...  

     
         No more StarKist Tuna for me.....      SNOPES"  VALIDATES THE FACTS BELOW  : Speaker  of the House Nancy Pelosi's home district  includes San Francisco .  StarKist Tuna's headquarters are in San Francisco ,  Pelosi's home district.   StarKist  is owned by Del Monte Foods and is a major contributor to Pelosi. StarKist  is the major employer in American Samoa  employing 75% of the Samoan work force. Paul Pelosi, Nancy 's husband, owns $17 million  dollars of StarKist stock. In January, 2007 when the minimum wage was  increased from $5.15 to $7.25, Pelosi had American Samoa  exempted from the increase so Del Monte would  not have to pay the higher wage. This wou ld make  Del Monte products less expensive than that of  its competitors..   Last  week when the huge bailout bill was passed,  Pelosi added an e armark to the final bill adding  $33 million dollars for an "economic development credit in American Samoa "  Pelosi has called the Bush Administration "CORRUPT" and many other things!!!   How do you spell "HYPOCRISY" ?

     

Monday, 19 October 2009

  • Many Christian churches have endorsed giving amnesty to illegals poaching here...

    Assembly of God, Nazarene, Vineyard, MANY others.

    Read the article below

     

    Conservative Protestants Condone Law-Breaking

    Has the Christian Church Gone Crazy???

    by

    Paul L. Williams, Ph.D.

    thelastcrusade.org



    Evangelical Christians this week offered the Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) and members of the U.S. Senate Immigration Reform Committee their ringing endorsement of full amnesty for the 20 to 30 million illegal aliens within the country.

    Open borders and high immigration, the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) proclaimed, increases membership in evangelical churches and is good for the economy.

    Rev. Leith Anderson, president of the NAE, said there was no dissent among the members of his organization in ratifying a pro-amnesty resolution.

    He testified that the Gospel requires that Christians be willing to forgive illegal aliens for breaking existing immigration laws and statutes.

    Rev. Anderson added: “We believe that undocumented immigrants who have otherwise been law abiding members of our communities should be offered the opportunity to pay any taxes or penalties owed, and over time earn the right to become U.S. citizens and permanent residents. The process of redemption and restitution is core to Christian beliefs, as we were all once lost and redeemed through love of Jesus Christ.”

    The NAE describes itself as “. . . a network of 40 denominations comprising more than 45,000 local churches located in every congressional district and every state.”

    Most of the member denominations uphold a literal interpretation of scripture and intransigent support for traditional values. The list of includes:

    • Anglican Mission in America
    • Assemblies of God
    • Brethren in Christ Church
    • Christian Reformed Church in North America
    • Church of God
    • Church of the Nazarene
    • Churches of Christ In Christian Union
    • Conservative Lutheran Association
    • Evangelical Assembly of Presbyterian Churches
    • Evangelical Presbyterian Church
    • Evangelical Free Church of America
    • Fellowship of Evangelical Churches
    • Free Methodist Church of North America
    • General Association of General Baptist
    • International Church of the Foursquare Gospel
    • International Fellowship of Christian Assemblies
    • International Pentecostal Church of Christ
    • International Pentecostal Holiness Church
    • Presbyterian Church in America
    • Primitive Methodist Church USA
    • Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America
    • The Brethren Church
    • The Christian & Missionary Alliance
    • The Evangelical Church
    • The Salvation Army
    • The Vineyard, USA
    • Transformation Ministries
    • United Brethren in Christ
    • US Conference of the Mennonite Brethren Churches
    • The Wesleyan Church Corporation

    The position of the NAE remains incomprehensible to many conservative Christian conservatives, including Rev. Judith Schmitt of Puritan Congregation Church in Scranton, PA. “It’s outrageous for any Christian or Christian organization to condone law-breaking,” Rev. Schmitt said. “Forgiveness is central to the Christian doctrine but approval and reward of wrong-doing is not.”

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    Others, including conservative writer Patrick J. Buchanan, wonder why the endorsement of plans to grant full amnesty fails to create national outrage. He points out that while 25 million Americans remain unemployed or underemployed, “8.5 million U.S. jobs are held by illegal aliens who broke into the country or overstayed their visas.”

    Senator Schumer and other advocates for amnesty argue that illegals take jobs that Americans are unwilling to accept.

    This argument has been laid to rest by a raid on six Swift & Co. meatpacking plants which rounded up 1,200 illegal aliens, 10 percent of the workforce. The raid failed to create any employment problems for Swift. In a matter of weeks, the plants were operating at full force – - manned by hundreds of native-born Americans who were delighted to take the jobs.

    Says Vanderbilt University Professor Carol Swain, “Whenever there’s an immigration raid, you find white, black and legal immigrant labor lining up to do these jobs Americans will supposedly not do.”

Thursday, 17 September 2009

Monday, 14 September 2009

  • August 22, 2009

    Obamacare-Point and Counterpoint

    By Frank S. Rosenbloom, M.D.
    Mr. Obama has gone back on the campaign trail to try to sell his health care reform to the nation.  Mostly hand-picked, sympathetic attendees have been showing up to his town hall meetings.  He continues to make the same points regarding health care reform, which need to be addressed specifically.  I hope to address more in future articles.
    • 1. We need health care reform.
    We do not need health care reform.  We have the best health care system in the world.  We need health insurance reform.

    • 2. Free market health insurance has caused our current problem.
    It is the government that has caused the current problem.  We have not had free market health insurance in this country since 1965.  It is not possible to consider our system of medical payment free market when the government controls $.60 of every dollar spent on health care.

    • 3. The evil and greedy health insurance companies have caused prices to skyrocket.
    Again, it's the government that has caused prices to skyrocket.  Medicare and Medicaid are the 800 pound gorilla and insurance companies are the fleas on the gorilla.  Nothing can be done by the private insurance companies that has not been done by Medicare and Medicaid.  The federal government opens the door and the private insurance companies follow.  It is the government manipulation of the free market that has caused our current health insurance problem. The out of control medical costs in Britain and Canada, as well as in Massachusetts and other states that have tried government health care prove this point.

    • 4. Nearly 50 million Americans are without health care.
    Nearly 13 million Americans are without health insurance.  No one in the United States is without health care.  Government regulations prohibit patients from being turned away from hospitals, which must provide medical care to anyone.  The huge number that the Obama administration has used is highly inflated.

    • 5. A government option will lower costs and improve quality of care.
    A government option will increase costs and reduce quality of care.  In every instance so far government involvement in medical services has caused prices to increase. Medicare spending has increased at a rate greater than 10 times that which was projected.  Medicare and Medicaid will be broke in less than nine years.  Adding another entitlement program will cause economic disaster.  The Congressional Office of Management and Budget has stated that the president's plan is unaffordable.  Further, the necessary rationing in order to even begin the program will reduce quality of care. 

    • 6. If you like your insurance and your doctor you can keep them.
    The same things were said at the inception of Medicare.  Medicare was supposed to be a supplemental insurance plan for retired people.  It now covers the disabled as well and those over the age of 65, who are now ineligible for any other type of primary medical insurance.  The government option will become the only option.  Therefore, it's not an option and in the end hospitals, doctors, and all health care companies will be working directly and only for the government.

    • 7. Government medical insurance is more cost efficient.
    Government medical insurance is less efficient.  The government, by force of law, transfers administrative costs to the private sector. Hospitals and doctors' offices must assume the burden of administration under threat of criminal penalty.  This unfunded administrative burden transferred to private individuals and private insurance is then added to the cost of the supposedly free-market healthcare system.

    • 8. The government option is necessary in order to prevent loss of insurance by individuals with medical problems.
    Government regulations make it mandatory for hospitals to treat patients regardless of their ability to pay.  The government can certainly pass a simple regulation making it illegal for medical insurance plans to be canceled due to illness on the part of the insured.  This would be a simple solution but of course would not increase government control over our lives. 

    • 9. The government option would ensure treatment for sick individuals who would otherwise have lost health care insurance. It would prevent lifetime limits on medical care.
    This is blatantly untrue.  There are definitive limits to Medicare that are not being publicized.  For example, a review of Medicare regulations shows it will pay up to a maximum of 90 days in the hospital for each medical incident. After that, a patient must be in a rehabilitation facility for 60 days in a row in order for Medicare to begin another cycle of payment. Similarly, there are limits on most other Medicare services. While private medical insurance may have a total lifetime limit on the amount that can be spent, there is almost never a limit on the number of days in the hospital.

    • 10. A government option will not result in rationing.
    The major government options already in existence employ rationing every day.  Prohibitively difficult preauthorization, statements of medical necessity, convoluted and complicated paperwork, and often impossible to meet requirements result in rationing on a huge scale.  Furthermore, delay in payment, denial of payment for services already rendered and other tactics reduce access to medical care on a widespread basis.  The government may not call this rationing but it is an insidious form of rationing that will be an integral part of any government plan.  Medicare misuses and abuses its funding and is guilty of literally stealing from hospitals and physicians.

    As an example of this thievery, due to a change in the corporate status of my practice I was required to apply for a new national provider identification number (NPI) in March of this year.  Within several weeks, without exception, all of the private insurance companies had registered the number and were paying on claims. After five months and exhaustive work of over 140 hours by my office staff Medicare and Medicaid had still not paid on a single claim. Finally, on August 14, Medicare made their first payment on claims that were five months old.  Yet, if we do not bill Medicare within three months of the date of service, Medicare will not pay us at all. Government regulation and control permeates the entire medical system.

    • 11. A government option will simplify the payment for medical services.
    The government has always made things more complicated and expensive.  This is part of their rationing system. The government has a habit of requiring new provider numbers every couple of years that must be used for all claims, including private insurance claims. When these are instituted, payment can be delayed for as long as six months.  To see how "simple" the federal government makes medical claims, what follows are my required identification numbers.
    UPIN #G16766

    OMAP#079496

    Medicare#R0000BLCGY (PTAN) OLD

    Medicare # R147304

    (PTAN) **NEW** R147303

    Railroad Medicare#110162014

    NEW Tax ID # 264520277

    OLD Tax ID# 911768627

    DEA # BRxxxxxxx  (Hidden to prevent use)

    Clia# 38D0933946

    NPI# 1306924691 (individual)

    NPI Group # 1235371485

    Every point the president has made regarding his health plan is either a gross misrepresentation or an outright lie.  The purpose of this plan is to ensure dependence on government and a financial windfall for his cronies, including trial lawyers, and has nothing to do with concern about the cost of medical care or about the health or lives of American citizens.

Sunday, 16 August 2009

  • CASH FOR CLUNKERS

    How on earth will any of us buy our next used vehicle. 

    This cash for clunkers is destroying between 666,666 and 857,143 still decent cars. 
    ($3,000,000,000 at $3500 - $4500 per car)

    Never mind to all those people worried about GREEN and GLOBAL WARMING...

    How much is the demolition of over 500,000 vehicles adding to their platforms?

    I just think it is such a WASTE of many perfectly fine vehicles. 

    Those $10,000 or so loans to get the new car AFTER the generous and thoughtful rebate of $3500 to $4500 would buy a LOT of gas for their clunker and still leave some $$$ leftover. 

    Someone is making out like a bandit.... could it be the auto industry round 2 receiving our tax dollars in bailout??

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