Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Cannot Provide an Estimate of Cost for Obama Health Care Plan

Posted by courage On February - 22 - 2010

Directly from the CBO:
This morning the Obama Administration released a description of its health care proposal, and CBO has already received several requests to provide a cost estimate for that proposal. We had not previously received the proposal, and we have just begun the process of reviewing it—a process that will take some time, given [...]

One Instance of Political Correctness: The Downfall of the United States

Posted by courage On February - 21 - 2010

Islam/ Women/ Sharia Law
First the case…
ABC News:
Police in Arizona are hunting for an Iraqi-American father who they say ran over his daughter with his car to punish her for becoming “too Westernized” and rebuffing the conservative ways he valued.
Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, was last seen fleeing the parking lot of the Department of Economic Development [...]

Bye Bye Bayh.. “Moderate” Indiana Senator Will NOT SEEK Re-Election.

Posted by courage On February - 15 - 2010

Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh will not seek re-election this November, an unexpected decision that hands Republicans an opportunity for a pick-up in a year when Democrats are already defending several open Senate seats.
The two-term senator is known as a moderate Democrat. Former GOP Sen. Dan Coats had been planning to challenge Bayh in November — [...]

Federal Payroll Scheduled to Hit 2.15 Million… Largest EVER

Posted by courage On February - 2 - 2010

Does this number surprise anyone?  Bureaucracy breeds top-heavy weasels who will be seen popping in and out of holes throughout the United States.  How do unions fit in this scenario?
New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) show that a majority of American union members now work for the government. The pattern of unions [...]

Self-proclaimed “Moderate” Senator Bayh Bamboozles Hoosiers

Posted by courage On January - 22 - 2010

With the vast number of letters I have sent Senator Bayh since the first of the year, we should be on a first name basis.  But this is not the case.  Continually letters are answered with generic form mail, barely addressing the questions this constituent poses.  Rest assured though he can send out mass emails [...]

Pete Visclosky Town Hall Forums

Posted by courage On January - 17 - 2010

Over the past week, Courage and One Nerve Left attended 3 of the 24 local town hall forums sponsored by Representative Pete Visclosky.  Each of the forums was scripted in the same manner; submit cards with questions for the Congressman, while he shuffles through the questions,  a local high academic 8th grader gives the bio [...]

Gitmo Detainee in Court, Judge Throws Out Most of the Government’s Evidence and How All Things Jihad Add Up

Posted by courage On January - 10 - 2010

Who with half a brain cell did not see this coming?  Even without a law degree, any American who has a fundamental understanding of our judicial system, our laws and th e Constitution expected, while hoping against,  this action by the court.  I find this a dark insidious stain which I fear will be played [...]

Constitution 101.. Patriots Time for School

Posted by courage On January - 5 - 2010

Over the long holiday weekend, I happened across a great learning tool for patriots.  I have heard many express the desire to learn more about the founding documents of this great country and to this end I offer the link to a FREE online Constitution class.  Each segment is approximately one hour long and is [...]

Happy New Year 2010 !

Posted by courage On January - 1 - 2010

The welcoming of the New Year traditionally begins with a retrospective analysis of the previous year, culminating with resolutions focused on positive actions we hope to initiate as we embark on a New Year.
From my perspective the previous year has been one of awakening; the casting off of limiting self-identities and the emergence of a [...]

Health Care Bill and Bribery of Public Officials

Posted by courage On December - 22 - 2009

In the cover of darkness, the Senate voted to initiate cloture on the health care bill which starts the clock ticking and limits debate.  One must wonder, how limitations on debate can be initiated when the 2,000 plus page bill had not even been fully read by the Senators?  How do I know this, you [...]

Brown County Indiana

The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing some of the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.

This announcement comes at the time when the situation supposedly still is “fluid” and the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force still hasn’t issued its final report on zoning uses of these waters.

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“Now we see NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and the administration planning the future of recreational fishing access in America based on a similar agenda of these same groups and other Big Green anti-use organizations, through an Executive Order by the President. The current U.S. direction with fishing is a direct parallel to what happened in Canada with hunting: The negative economic impacts on hard working American families and small businesses are being ignored.

“In spite of what we hear daily in the press about the President’s concern for jobs and the economy and contrary to what he stated in the June order creating this process, we have seen no evidence from NOAA or the task force that recreational fishing and related jobs are receiving any priority.”

Consequently, unless anglers speak up and convince their Congressional representatives to stop this bureaucratic freight train, it appears that the task force will issue a final report for “marine spatial planning” by late March, with President Barack Obama then issuing an Executive Order to implement its recommendations — whatever they may be.

Led by NOAA’s Jane Lubchenco, the task force has shown no overt dislike of recreational angling, but its indifference to the economic, social and biological value of the sport has been deafening.

Additionally, Lubchenco and others in the administration have close ties to environmental groups who would like nothing better than to ban recreational angling. And evidence suggests that these organizations have been the engine behind the task force since before Obama issued a memo creating it last June.

As ESPN previously reported, WWF, Greenpeace, Defenders of Wildlife, Pew Environment Group and others produced a document entitled “Transition Green” shortly after Obama was elected in 2008. What has happened since suggests that the task force has been in lockstep with that position paper.

Then in late summer, just after he created the task force, these groups produced “Recommendations for the Adoption and Implementation of an Oceans, Coasts, and Great Lakes National Policy.” This document makes repeated references to “overfishing,” but doesn’t once reference recreational angling, its importance, and its benefits, both to participants and the resource.

Additionally, some of these same organizations have revealed their anti-fishing bias by playing fast and loose with “facts,” in attempts to ban tackle containing lead in the United States and Canada.

That same tunnel vision, in which recreational angling and commercial fishing are indiscriminately lumped together as harmful to the resource, has persisted with the task force, despite protests by the angling industry.

As more evidence of collusion, the green groups began clamoring for an Executive Order to implement the task force’s recommendations even before the public comment period ended in February. Fishing advocates had no idea that this was coming.

Collusion.. who would have thought?

Perhaps not so coincidentally, the New York Times reported on Feb. 12 that “President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities.”

Morlock fears that “what we’re seeing coming at us is an attempted dismantling of the science-based fish and wildlife model that has served us so well. There’s no basis in science for the agendas of these groups who are trying to push the public out of being able to fish and recreate.

“Conflicts (user) are overstated and problems are manufactured. It’s all just an excuse to put us off the water.”"Some of the potential policy implications of this interim framework have the potential to be a real threat to recreational anglers who not only contribute billions of dollars to the economy and millions of dollars in tax revenues to support fisheries conservation, but who are also the backbone of the American fish and wildlife conservation ethic,” said CSF President Jeff Crane.

Indeed, in Indiana the licenses required to hunt and fish remain the largest portion of revenue the state DNR procures to maintain state parks.  As an angler, I find this extremely disturbing.  Fishing not only provides food for the angler but also offers a spiritual renewal as she/he connects with nature.  Perhaps the President doesn’t understand this.. instead finding solace in the hard asphalt of community organizing?  Anglers understand the niravanic  state which transcend the stressors of daily life.  As the “green” movement moves to fulfill their agenda to “protect” the environment, they loose sight of how science has shown that fishing and hunting actual help create a more vibrant and healthy  environment for a particular species.  Anglers are some of the more environmentally conscious people I know, cherishing the Earth and the bounty she supplies; while greeners are about control, lacking commonsense in the interaction of this planet.

Are these the same greeners who left this mess on the Cpaital grounds after Obama’s inauguration?

From the Speakers website, remarks at the 2010 Legislative Conference for National Associations of Counties talking about the health care bill:

But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy. Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President’s economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation—innovation begins in the classroom—clean energy and climate, addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology, and the third, first among equals I may say, is health care, health insurance reform.  Health insurance reform is about jobs.  This legislation alone will create 4 million jobs, about 400,000 jobs very soon. (emphasis mine)

“Pass the bill to find out what is in it,” shouldn’t the people and our elected representatives KNOW the impact this bill bill will have on the lives of Americans?  Throughout the summer, town hall events were held and citizens continually asked elected officials about specific aspects to the various bills.. again and again the concerned populace was discarded, dismissed and treated with utter contempt.  Madam Speaker, we know what is in the health care bill, we have read the various versions, taking time away from loved ones, spending countless hours with our head swelling in disbelief over the audacity of public officials and wondering what in the Constitution grants Congress the mandate to require private citizens to buy anything from a public company solely on the basis that they breathe.

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“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom it its maximum hour of danger.  You are that generation, this is your role, now is that time freedom must be defended from every assailant..”

There are times in the course of human events where you can stand on the sidelines.. relishing the comfort and ease of existence or  stand and fight for the principles which make this country great, the choice is yours.  Do you stand idly by and watch or do you take a stand?

I challenge you to take a stand, today and every day until a vote on the health care bill currently in Congress is taken, contact your Representative.. call or email.. Let them hear the voice of FREEDOM.

Quick Observation.. Manipulation Through Imagery

Posted by courage On March - 4 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

Am I the only one to notice this overly staged appearance by the President?

Obama flanked by a sea of white lab coats, which eludes to the misconception  that doctors support the legislation.  This flies in the face of the survey done by Investor’s Business Daily last year with doctors.  (here)

A brief look at this survey shows…

– 45% of doctors polled said they would consider leaving their practice or retiring early if the proposed health care bill was to pass

– 65% or 2 out of 3 practicing physicians polled say they oppose the plan

– 72% of doctors polled disagree with the administration’s claim that the government can cover 47 million more Americans with better quality care and at a lower cost.

All show and no substance with the imposer-in-chief.

One additional thing I noticed with this circus.. purple tie.  Purple the color of SEIU, coincidence?  Hardly.. this is a call out to his main constituents which he pledged to help in “painting the country purple.”

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Anytime Obama speaks there are numerous subliminal messages carried in the speeches, all centered on  galvanizing his base.   He used these methods during the campaign to enthrall the masses and continues to attempt to manipulate through their use.  Things we should all pay attention to and make others aware of.. Coincidences are not always happenstance and in the case of this President they are often orchestrated.

November can’t come soon enough!

Ethical Void in the White House

Posted by courage On March - 4 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

Politicians are fickle… one day they are against particular legislation, the next day they have some epitome from backroom arm twisting or outright bribes and are now in favor of the legislation.

Yet there is fundamental ideology which regardless of the issue should remain intact.  Notice I say “should,” because these  core beliefs are the basic tenets which create the fabric of our ethics.  These codes of behavior, how we transverse through the world display the character we embrace as an individual.  When one swings from one extreme to the next.. they are ethically void, lacking of any compass which offers indications as to their character or trustworthiness in dealing with others.

They will say anything  which allows them to move closer to their hidden agenda.  The only truth they know is a fleeting utterance which morphs as they continually sway, speaking in sound bits and never facing the consequences of the words which betray the people they claim to support.

Word of the day RECONCILIATION…

Health care legislation presently in Congress will fundamentally alter any previous understanding we have of our health care needs.  The tactic being suggested by Democrats with of using reconciliation with a 50 + 1 vote in the Senate was never intended for legislation of this magnitude.  Even Senator Byrd (D), one of the original authors of the parliamentary procudure of reconciliation, has publicly stated that the procedure was “never meant” for this type of sweeping legislation.

So I find myself going back.. is there an ethically void in the White House?

Lawmakers Keeps Change.. Per Diems

Posted by courage On March - 4 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

From the Wall Street Journal:

When lawmakers travel overseas on official business they are given up to $250 a day in taxpayer funds to cover meals and expenses. Congressional rules say they must return any leftover cash to the government.

They usually don’t.

Why should they, it’s not their money?  Just look at some of the entitlement these jokers work from as a frame of reference…

“If that was the policy, you could never get many members traveling,” said Rep. Solomon Ortiz, a Texas Democrat. Mr. Ortiz said he had never returned any money.

Here’s a great idea, maybe these elected officials should just stay home and work their job?

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During the bi-partisan health care summit at the White House, President Obama made the following anecdote:

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When I was young, just got out of college, I had to buy auto insurance. I had a beat-up old car. And I won’t name the name of the insurance company, but there was a company — let’s call it Acme Insurance in Illinois. And I was paying my premiums every month. After about six months I got rear-ended and I called up Acme and said, I’d like to see if I can get my car repaired, and they laughed at me over the phone because really this was set up not to actually provide insurance; what it was set up was to meet the legal requirements. But it really wasn’t serious insurance.

Now, it’s one thing if you’ve got an old beat-up car that you can’t get fixed. It’s another thing if your kid is sick, or you’ve got breast cancer.

Does Obama not know the difference between the minimum legal requirement of liability insurance and comprehensive coverage?  This becomes a tale of twisted logic and a vivid display of how politicians use stories which sound relevant yet have no correlation based in fact.  Yes, Mr. President not all insurance coverage is equal; understanding exactly what is covered in a policy you purchase is important.  What you cannot do though is purchase a policy and expect it to be something different when you need to make a claim on the policy.  You had a “beat-up old car” which you purchased liability coverage on to meet the minimum legal requirements. Liability insurance covers the damage a policy holder may do to  another person’s car in an accident.  This “beat-up car” did not have comprehensive or collision coverage, which would have covered the damage done to your car. When you buy an auto insurance policy they explain what is covered and most understand this.. one would think that a Harvard grad would understand this basic difference in coverage.  They laughed at you because you were attempting to get full coverage after the fact.  In fact you should have contacted the insurance company of the driver who rear-ended you because their liability insurance would have probably covered your car’s damage.

What Obama failed to understand is exactly what Americans do in fact understand.. what a particular policy means, covers and costs.  Patriots understand the health care boondoggle playing out in Washington will ration care through regulatory panels of disconnected bureaucrats, it will fundamentally change the way decisions are made by doctors and it will further push the federal deficit in to the red.

If this most basic understanding of insurance policies is an indication of your understanding of how insurance works… we are in big trouble.

Nuclear Option: Democrat Leaders Speak

Posted by courage On February - 24 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

History is such a funny thing, especially when the power flips and the arrogant ego of a different ideology takes control.

Is it any wonder that 71% of voters say Congress is doing a poor job?

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