Posted by
Roxanna M. on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 5:35:09 PM
Considering that BO has just returned from his I-Apologize-For-Everything-America-Has-Ever-Done-Except-For-Electing-Me tour of Europe, now is a fitting time to reflect on the fact that no matter what it is, he always finds America lacking.
Around the time of the Beijing Olympics, BO opined that we should emulate China with regard to infrastructure. What he didn't say and no toady-journalist pointed out was that China has no such thing as eminent domain. When the government wants property for something, it simply takes it, displacing the people who had previously called it home. The people are expected to accept this without complaint.
BO recently said that he wants to emulate Spain when it comes to "green" jobs. What he didn't say and no toady-journalist pointed out was that a recent report from Spain indicates that every "green" job that Spain created with government money over the last 8 years came at the expense of 2.2 regular jobs.
And, only 1 in 10 of those new "green" jobs became permanent. So, for every 20 jobs created, 44 will be lost, and only 2 will be permanent, resulting in a total job loss of 62. It doesn't take a math genius to see how catastrophic this is going to be in terms of unemployment. It's no wonder that the author of the study, Dr. Gabrial Calzada, an economics professor at Juan Carlos University in Madrid said that the program hindered, not helped, Spain's attempt to come out of its recession.
The man BO originally picked to "fix" our healthcare system, Tom Daschle, stops just short of endorsing the socialist model of England. He thinks there should be a Federal Health Board, run by experts, that answers to the government but is "largely insulated from the politics and passions of the moment". Yea right. This Federal Health Board would make all decisions with regard to cost and treatment because we "won't be able to make a significant dent in health-care spending without getting into the nitty-gritty of which treatments are the most clinically valuable and cost effective.
Here's the first step in fixing healthcare: insurance should only be used for emergencies and catastrophies. Once doctors realize that they aren't going to get reimbursed for every little thing, they will stop ordering unnecessary tests and procedures, most of which are done for the sole purpose of billing the insurance company. People won't be clogging up doctors' offices with every little sniffle or every little pain.
The second step is already in force. I refer, of course, to "never events" as defined by Medicare. The term "never events" means that the situation should never have occurred in the first place and prevents the healthcare provider from billing Medicare, the person's private insurance, or the person. Once doctors can't just automatically bill insurance companies for their malpractice, and have to start eating their own bills, they'll become better doctors, which will result in further savings.
By the way, Daschle thinks that older people should be more "accepting" of what comes with age. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to know what he means by that.
Just this week, BO stated that he was no longer going to allow waterboarding and just might consider prosecutions for the people involved. We know, of course, that he's referring to Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld. Damn the consequences, on with the witchhunts.
BO's statement that waterboarding is mean and we're not going to do it anymore comes after a report said that waterboarding the 9/11 mastermind resulted in intelligence that prevented the "Second Wave", a plan to use East Asians to crash a hijacked airliner into a building in Los Angeles.
A memo from Principal Deputy Attorney General Steven G. Bradbury to John A. Rizzo, the senior deputy general counsel for the CIA, said that: "Your office has informed us that the CIA believes that the intelligence acquired from these interrogations has been a key reason why al Qa'ida has failed to launch a spectacular attack int he West since 11 September 2001."
Before the use of "enhanced techniques", the captured terrorists were not only uncooperative but also contemptuous of the will of America to defend itself. Now that BO has done away with a procedure that actually produces results, the people who want to destroy us are sitting back and laughing at us for being so incredibly stupid. When the next attack happens in America, I don't think anybody will be more surprised than BO. After all, doesn't everybody in the world just love him and hang on his every word!?!
When BO was recently in Mexico, he sold the fiction that guns coming from the US are responsible for the carnage in Mexico. Yea right. What he didn't do while in Mexico was demand to know what is being done about the 134 Americans that have been murdered in Mexico. Shows where his priorities are, doesn't it.
While in Latin America for the Summit of the Americas, BO sat still for some 45 minutes while Daniel Ortega insulted America. Probably thought we deserved it.