As always, if you know of another one that I haven’t mentioned, send me a tip.
Wolfeboro Politics points out that Obamacare will not solve all ills:
However to their relief, the next day the patient was fine, up and about, demanding to go home. The diagnosis had been incorrect. But that is not the punchline. The issue is the patient was on Medicaid and the bills have arrived. Seems Medicaid was billed some $30,000 for this fiasco, $11,000 in medication alone! The reader makes the point that hospitals and doctors have to share some of the blame for the rapid rise in healthcare costs along with lawyers, patients that don’t take personal responsibility and other factors.
A Govt take over of healthcare will not solve this problem – as it is already "Govtcare" that was in charge. Not until the healthcare consumer actually becomes the healthcare payer will the cost curve start to bend downward – making it more affordable for ALL.
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Heading back over to Maggie’s Farm, I concur with Dr. Joy Bliss:
Why don’t colleges just collect all of the grievance study groups and put them in one department. Fat Studies, Anorexia Studies, Queer Studies, Women’s Studies, Hispanic Studies, Black Studies, Indian Studies, Transexual Studies, Lesbian Studies, Klutz Studies, Oppressed Studies, Ugly Studies, Not-Too-Smart Studies, Too-Short Studies, etc.
You could call it Boo Hoo Studies, and in it you could sequester everyone who expects college to cater to their narcissism instead of teaching them about bigger, better, and more important things than themselves. Baby bottles in the coke machine, over in that department.
Eventually, they will need to include one more increasingly marginalized and disenfranchised minority in Boo Hoo Studies – Regular People Living Without Grievance. RPLWG just can’t get a break these days, can they?
Editor’s note: Or, to borrow the phrase from The Anchoress, could it be called the "It’s All About Me" Studies Department?
Whiners all, all looking for oppression under each rock and around each corner, ready to whine "they hate me!" Keep it up, and it will actually happen. Keep demanding tolerance from others and refusing to be such yourself, and you will find yourself receiving what you’re delivering.
But Dr. Bliss adds in:
The language of duty, loyalty, honor, self-sacrifice, endurance, perseverance, reliability, courage, self-reliance – the things Bill Bennet wrote about – has been replaced by a language of "feeling" and "guilt" in some strange and ill-informed distortion of psychoanalytic understandings.
Indeed, "my feelings" appear to have replaced the virtues to the point that "not being true to your feelings" is like a modern-day sin. And yes, I guess it is a sin – if you regard yourself as a god.
Sometimes, change just ain’t worth it…especially when you change the culture from what actually worked for thousands of years.
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Mr. Pink Eyes from America’s Watchtower reminds us that the Democrats have no problem in playing politics with national security:
We are now learning that Chris Dodd, Democrat from Connecticut, offered an amendment to a bill that slashed funding to airport security by $4.5 million. The money that was destined to be spent “for screening operations and the amount for explosives detection systems,” was instead sent to one of Chris Dodd’s favorite constituency groups.
The group? Firefighter union. No wonder nearly 100% of unions support Democrats…
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Tom at Libertarian Leanings is not impressed with the "soft power" espoused by Obama and Hillary:
I admit, I’m forced to agree with Ms. Rice. The world is responding much more openly. Wasn’t it just last week that President Obama was openly snubbed by China at the world climate summit in Copenhagen? And how about those Iranian’s? Didn’t we just this past year learn that Iran had been operating previously undisclosed nuclear enrichment plants? And then there were those ballistic missile tests by both Iran and North Korea. As I recall, neither country made a big secret of them.
Until "hard power" is known to our enemies (and allies) to be a real option, soft power is useless.
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Jeff over at A Rendezvous with Destiny points us to a good Heritage article – this Christmas Day Delta / Northwest Airline attempted bombing was attempted attack #28.
And Obama and his Administration doesn’t think that we are at war? I’ll know that they are serious when they finally have the courage to unequivocally name the enemy – Islamists that want us all to convert and live under Shari’ah law – or die.
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Jeff ought to talk to Steve at NH Insider who may have a clue as to better airport security – Sister Mary Baggagescreener!
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Ed at The Ed Mosca Blog brings up an important point – much of the trouble with big cities and state budgets is the cost of public unions that are far better organized to advocate higher pay and benefits than the ordinary taxpayer. After all, they are often the key to a politician’s Number One problem – getting elected. And that cost starting to mean layoffs to bring that cost down as taxpayers are tired of being the only ones taking it in the wallet.
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Amy at AmyKane always has great pictures!
She also has a great round up on the Christmas Day bomber from around the ‘Net.
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Grant at NH Watchdog reminds us (in direct opposition of what Progressives thinks) that Government has no compassion:
When six men were found living in a shack compassionately provided to them by a private property owner, the bureaucracy kicked into gear. The shack had to be inspected. If not up to code, the men would be kicked out, regardless of how much more dangerous living on the street might be.
When Don Primrose of Sullivan rented a commercial building for the men to live in for the winter, the bureaucracy declared he’d have to wait. The shelter had to be government-approved, which could take months. What would become of the men who needed to get out of the cold immediately? The bureaucracy didn’t care.
Big Government – too big and uncompassionate and in this case, not allowing individual charity to actually help people who need help RIGHT NOW (sorry, let me check my regulations….) !!
Grant also has a list of new ways that Politicians have decided that are just DANDY in extracting more wealth from the Productive Class. Cash for Clunkers is being replaced with Cash for Appliances. Let’s see, each car sold actually gave about $10,000 / buyer from the taxpayers and then sales absolutely tanked the following months – real smooth move, buckos.
I can’t WAIT to see how badly this will turn out…
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Steve over at NH Insider had this nice turn of phrase:
Obstruction is not a bad trait for a congressman. In fact it should be their only trait. The states send representatives to congress to look out for them. That would be to look after the states, not the congressman. They are meant to protect personal liberty and state sovereignty, not negotiate the terms of surrender.
I think that most taxpayers, given the current temperature of the economy and the rising temperature of the citizenry ire, would agree with Steve. They are tired of politicians making themselves all "happy feet" and proud of themselves by back slapping each other all over with other peoples’ money.
Those "other people" who had the money are no longer amused. I wished I owned the pitchfork franchise….
But Steve also has a remedy – one that I have been emphasising for quite sometime now:
Ask yourself, for all my weaknesses, and the weaknesses of mankind, if I am to shoulder the burden of government, of education, and even of science, where best to place the nexus of such authorities so that I and my brethren may administer to it more efficiently?
The answer is always “as close to you as possible.”
Progressives want the locus of control taken AWAY from you and centralized – we must resist and keep as much power and control as local as possible. And trust me, the call of "we’re too small to do that" is often a curtain behind which the smoke of Liberals is rising is the burning of the institution of citizen controlled Democracy is roasting on a spit.
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Dan at Granite State Pundit directs us to yet another Obama Stimulus Program that is a FAIL. You know, if Government decided actually do only the things that it was designed to do (physically protect its citizens from attack, and enact and act on laws that protect our rights), maybe it would actually do a good job at it – instead of trying to do almost everything that politicians and special interest groups want it to.
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Cathy over at Citizens for Reasonable and Fair Taxes – Croydon reminds me that a number of our Liberty politicians have submitted a simple but needed resolution for an amendment to the NH Constitution; a summary analysis is:
This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution provides that the state shall not abridge the responsibility of parents for the health, education, and welfare of their children
The fact that we have to add this to our NH Constitution to defend the Rights of Parents says lots about the busy-bodies that now believe that they should have use of the force of Government to get between parents and their offspring simply because either
- They know better than most parents (even as some have never been one)
- They believe the Government is better situated to actually raise kids
I’m not talking about those parents that actually are unfit to be such and have no disposition to become better – but these busy-bodies believe that MOST parents fall into this class – they must be handcuffed against operating against the ordinary citizen.
The actual language can be seen here.
Cathy also reminds us that HB 368, a bill about Home Schoolers, will be discussed on Jan 6 at 10am at the State House.
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