Fawning for Communism The Democrats Wonderful Adventure to Cuba

"This is the dawning of a new day," Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., declared. "Fifty years of foolishness is over. It's time for the children to sit in the corner and the adults to take over."

These are the words Democrat House Representative Bobby Rush chose for the media while visiting the Castro brothers in Cuba. In short he is telling the world that Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush were "children" in their foreign policy with Cuba.

Cuba is a hell hole created by the Castro brothers so repressive that its people are willing to risk drowning, being eaten by sharks and dying under a baking sun while swept out to sea as they attempt to reach the safe harbor of our shores.

So Mr. Rush, if the policies of the past fifty years are so childlike and you prefer the warm embrace of a Communist Dictator, what else do you support?

-Killing off our auto industry completely so we can all be like the Cubans and drive cars made in the 50's?
-Imprisoning, torturing and killing individuals who do not agree with you politically?
-Eliminating our democratic process of electing public officials?

But what do I know? My view was aligned with the "children" of the past 50 years.

Would you bank here?

It is 7pm at night, you and your family are settling down to the nightly ritual of the family watching their favorite TV shows. Tonight is extraordinarily special because you took off work early stopped at Best Buy and purchased a brand new 50 inch plasma screen TV. The fiddling with wires, cables and instruction manuals are over. It’s just you the family and high definition glory.

Then the phone rings.

“Hello?”

“Yes sir, this is your bank. The one you have your mortgage, bank account and several credit cards with.”

“Uh yes….”

“Listen, you are on a tele-conference bridge with shareholders & other bank customers who have money invested here at the bank. We have recently updated all terms and conditions for money lent here at this bank. Sir I would like to share with you tonight these new terms and conditions.“

“Ok” you tentatively reply

“First of all we want to remind you that the home you own, the car you drive and many other items you possess were purchased with the banks money via your mortgage, auto loan and credit cards. We have recently conducted a poll of our investors and share holders to solicit their opinions regarding the use of bank money by the people who borrow it.

After exhaustive research and feedback from investors we have developed a set of criteria that you must now follow so as long as you are taking money from this bank.”

“Hey but wait a minute…” you interrupt.

“No sir, you wait a minute, may I remind you as long as you are using the money of this bank the people who have money invested in this bank have a vested interest in the choices you make and under these new terms and conditions now reserve the right to influence your individual decisions that you make within your house hold. Keep in mind you can pay us back in full right now and be free of all of the terms and conditions of borrowing money here at this bank. Sir do you wish to pay off all of your debts today?”

Obviously, you cannot so you reply, “uh no..”

“Ok Sir, if you will just listen we have a short list of terms and conditions that must be met if you wish to continue to borrow money from our bank. These terms and conditions are designed to help you save additional money that can be paid back to the bank.

1. You must take back the money you pay your children for good report cards. These in our view are unjust bonuses. You shouldn’t be using borrowed money to pay children for what they should be doing anyway and that is making good grades in school.
2. Furthermore, you must take your children out of the private school and send them to a local public school. Not all of our investors can afford to send their children to private schools and therefore you should not be using their money to give your children this unfair advantage.
3. You must trade in your Sport Utility Vehicle for a hybrid or more fuel efficient car. We understand you have four children but we must all make sacrifices and this will bring your family closer together literally and figuratively. The money you save in gas should be used to pay back the bank.
4. You must allow us to install a “smart” thermostat in your house to ensure you are not spending too much of the bank’s money needlessly running an air conditioning unit during peak hours. Again, we sympathize that you live in Texas but you are using the bank’s money.
5. You must stop wasting your money on a PPO and switch to an HMO of our choosing. The investors of this bank view the extra money spent on a PPO as a frivolous waste. Choice of doctor is a luxury you are paying for with the bank’s money and our HMO of choice will make excellent decisions on your behalf.


Sir, do you understand the terms and conditions?”

How would you respond? You’d politely tell the guy on the other end of the line where he could go and move your liabilities to a bank with friendlier terms and conditions.

Now replace “The Bank” with “the US Government”. This (and much more) is exactly what is happening to all of us collectively right now in Washington DC through unprecedented and dangerous legislation that has been passed in the past year.

It’s time to politely tell our elected officials where to go in 2010 and find a new bank.

By the way.. you also need to box up that new TV and take it back to Best Buy.

Healthcare & Another Reversal For Hope but not Change!

Here's more "change" that certainly will kill your "hope" that health care in America will become more affordable in the future.

Taxing Health Care benefits of workers was a bad idea when John McCain proposed it during the 2008 Presidential campaign and Barack Obama was correct to say it was a bad idea.

But now as President "Hope & Change" actually has to transcend his campaign rhetoric he has to figure out how to pay for nationalizing our health care system. What better way to do that than to continue the liberal destruction of the private health care industry?

Politicians never tell the American people the dirty little secret as to why health care in America costs so much but the truth is in "Government Greed." We constantly hear about how evil "Corporate Greed" is but nobody stands up to these politicians and speaks the truth about why their health care costs so much.

Here's a few reasons why.

1. Government policies mandating nobody be refused health care due to an inability to pay. (Add the millions of illegals in this country and that makes for a hefty bill.

2. Government policies that fix and set prices for drugs and health care services below market prices. As the government expands Medicaid and Medicare to more and more people, drug companies, doctors and hospitals have to make up the cost elsewhere and thus pass the cost on to you and your insurance company. (Let's also not forget the fixed prices other nationalized health care nations impose on our drug companies and medical equipment manufacturers, yes you make up the cost for nationalized health care in Canada and Europe as well. Wonderful isn't it?)

3. Government policies of not restricting punitive damages on torts. Again, you the private insurer have to make up the costs of medical malpractice insurance which has become so expensive it has forced many doctors out of business. (BTW John Edwards became a millionaire suing OB/GYNs).

All of these government policies are driving up the cost of our health care in this country and now Democrats and some RINO's (Republicans In Name Only) want you to pay even more for other people's health care. You the tax paying citizen already are making up the costs of the uninsured, fixed price ambulance chasing cost drivers that are making your health costs so expensive already.

And now President Obama wants to add another cost to your health care by forcing you to pay taxes on top of what you already pay in health insurance. How in the holy hell does Obama think this is going to make health care more affordable for Americans? The simple truth is, it will only make health care more affordable for his constituents which do not include you the private insured. This is nothing more than a government scheme to force people to give up private insurance in favor of government backed health care.

I've been to the government run hospitals in Europe and if you are the nostalgic type you will certainly enjoy the look and feel of health care the way it was 20 years ago.

The march towards socialism continues.

GITMO Warm and Fuzzies

So Fox News runs a story today detailing how five GITMO detainees have signed confessions stating their pride in planning and assisting in the execution of the 9/11 attacks.

You can't say this was done under duress of the Obama administration because there's no water boarding going on there.


It is so calming and reassuring that our President has:

--Suspended all trials for GITMO detainees.
--Ordered the closure of GITMO with no clear plan of what to do with detainees once the facility is closed.

Most recent news reports indicate these prisoners will be moved to facilities here in the US.

Sleep well all of you applauding the closure of Guantanamo Bay.

Overwhelmed, Understaffed & Falling Behind

This is the guy who couldn't figure out how to pay his taxes, while Democrats and Republicans both pushed aside his "honest mistake" because of his economic prowess.

"We need this guy!" is all we heard on both sides of the aisle.

Evidently, not only can Mr. Geithner not figure out how to pay income taxes without his employer auto-magically deducting them, he can't figure out how to appoint deputies either and is flailing in his new job.

Let's hope he figures it out and soon because since his lord and savior the Magnanimous President Barack Obama has been elected our markets have lost half their value.

The Audacity of Socialism

The picture says it all. Here's to all the "hope and change" you can stomach.

Our markets are based upon capitalism and every rescue plan that has come out of Washington DC since October of last year has been based upon Socialism.

Now we have an ideologue for a President that is making the biggest push for Government run everything. He and his party are proposing:

--That the government electronically monitor every health record in America.
--That government put "smart" technology in every home to tax and monitor energy consumption usage.
--That the government put GPS devices in every car and tax when and where you drive.
--That the government subsidize our auto industry and dictate the wages of executives and the types of cars that are built.

Is it any wonder, moreover expected, that markets based upon Capitalism would rally or embrace Socialism?

What the hell ever happened to Global Warming?

Oh yeah... it's "climate change" but you should still forfeit your liberty, money and lifestyle to the benevolent government to help us "save the planet."

Never mind the first Earth Day was to save us from Global Cooling, then it's Global Warming and what the hell, we greenies can't figure it out so we'll call it "Climate Change" so just give us your money and control of your lives and get on a "smart grid"!!!