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President barack obama to raise the roof in hard fought health care win

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 at 8:41 am  
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President obama will raise the roof on Tuesday to the passing of the ground-breaking healthcare legislation, a difficult victory that will assist to shape his legacy as well as the Democrats’ likelihood of being in control in the United states Congress.
The president will be signing the bill to refurbish the $2.5 trillion health care sector afterward speak to lawmakers at a ceremony, in the climax of a year prolonged push that damaged his approval ratings.
There was an ecstatic atmosphere at the Whitehouse after the House of Representatives barely agreed the health care legislation, which analysts had strongly marked dead just a few weeks before.
President obama placed his reputation on the line as well as used all his energy into passing the bill, to the extend of canceling a intended visit to Indonesia and Australia.
His focus proceeding the matter got alot of criticism from a number of Democrats who were concerned about health care turning into a disruption from the necessity to mend the economy as well as creating jobs.
However by means of a key achievement in hand, The president will at present have the ability to oppose critics who have claim that he had not much to display for his 14 months in office.
In spite of everything, the win may possibly come with a heavy price tag. Us citizens have been halfhearted regarding health care change and Republicans look forward to take advantage of that during November’s congressional elections, during which they expect to reverse or at the very least lessen Democratic majorities in the Senate as well as the House of Representatives.
Republicans state their frustration over the bill’s passing might cause them to less likely to coordinate with Democrats on other matters like climate change legislation as well as immigration reform.
The post signing ceremony as well as a premeditated visit by the president to Iowa on Thursday will give him a opportunity to celebrate the win, furthermore attempt to convince Us citizens on the gains of the bill.
The overhaul will broaden health coverage to 32 million people, increase the government health proposal for the needy, enforce new taxes on the rich also ban insurance tactics like rejecting cover to folks with pre-existing medical conditions.
It symbolises the prime change in the system ever since the Medicare health plan for the elderly was made in 1965 and also accomplishes a goal that evaded most of Obama’s predecessors for nearly a century, which includes Bill Clinton in 1994.
Whitehouse spokesman Robert Gibbs stated that President obama intends to address frequently about healthcare throughout the months ahead.
However the bill’s passing will allow him to dedicate time to other major issues, which includes working to ensure congressional consent of a plan reform as well as tighten financial regulations.
Republicans have described the $940 billion health care a government interference into the financial system and caution that it might raise the budget deficit.
The Senate will be taking up a package of change this week that was proposed by the House to make the bill better.

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No time for environment or immigration but….

Thursday, December 24th, 2009 at 10:12 am  
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They always say “We have got to put off illegal immigration as we have got to take care of the issue of health-care first.” “ The economy is the most important and we should discuss the ACES bill at a later time.” But do you know what kind of bill is now the hot topic in Congress…?

Un-freaking-believable! We are wasting time in the Congress talking about making TV ads lower in volume. Yes I am that serious. A Californian Representative, Representative Anna Eshoo, thinks it is too annoying, and something needs to be done about it. Guess this is Representative Eshoo’s idea of Christmas gift!

What the hell (I wanted to use another four letter word)! What are we going to talk about next? Regulating the army against the oompa-loompa invasion in the future? Must we regulate bicycles just in case ET needs to use one of them to fly?

On the topic of annoyance, can we regulate about babies crying on planes? Can we please stop having movies with blue people; where is the creativity man; Smurfs, X-men, Avatar? Can we ban the swinging gate maneuver that the Redskins played against the Giants?

This is utterly ridiculous! Seriously, worried about ads? Is this of the utmost emergency? Can we knock some Governor Jesse Ventura sense into Congress. We cannot get any health care work done, but we can spend hours about this bull crap! Are we electing idiots?

Whenever a bill comes about; these politicians whine about not given enough time to read bills in time to vote when we do the same thing and comment about it, we should remind them about this rubbish!

The healthcare debate should have been over months ago. It should have been wrapped up in three months. We should have solved the issues concerning illegal immigration, the ACES bill and an education reform bill by now.

But no! Rather than having the efficiency of the military, we are having theatrics of a soap opera instead. It is fun to watch, but very painful to realize that this is the body that is running our country! Why, why is this happening only in our America? I think the answer to that question would be the savior of our future generations.

The political threat to our country is very real. It seems to be heading to a political implosion. On the one hand there are the Republicans who is being taken over by the nutty right wing led by crazy woman from Alaska, and the Democrats that are so pathetic and politically dumb led by weakness and chief, President Obama.

Enough is enough! We have get down and get issues straight and start solving them. Please knock some sense into your member of Congress!

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Obama risky in Copenhagen

Saturday, December 5th, 2009 at 5:42 pm  
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President Obama is going to attend the last few days of the climate change summit in Copenhagen. This could be Kyoto once again, where the President was in favor of climate change regulation, but the Congress shot it down.

Firstly, let me make it clear. Climate change is a reality. The very fact that there would not be ice sheet in the Arctic region and that companies are planning to use it as a sea route should be proof that it is real. When islands literally would disappear (Maldives), you know it is real. When coastlines are encroaching land (Philippines, Bangladesh, Western India), you know that it is real. Just because some hoaxers come up and give nonsense about them hacking climate change e-mails, it does not mean that climate change is fake.

So I am for solving the problem of climate change. I am not however, accepting that taxing carbon is the way to go. Should we tax carbon, it would just encourage corporations to change only if it is financially viable. It can be worked round. We are human beings, we would always find a way out.

I would rather prefer regulations with muscle. For example, lets ban plastic bags already! We could use paper bags that we did in the 60s. We should ban plastic bottles in favor of the greener Tetra packs. We can demand that all vehicles be 25% cleaner within 5 years. It is these kind of tough regulations that would force the industries to be energy efficient.

That is the main reason my support for the ACES bill is not a strong one. Another concern I have is that we cannot afford it. The government is literally offering options that can provide green energy rebates that are so large, that corporations can technically give free of charge “green” electricity to the populace and still make money!

That being said, I think that the President is really playing a sorry game over here. While the Democrats may be the ones controlling the house this time, they are weak and pathetic. They do not have the muscle that they require. They would lose the climate bill as much as they are losing the health care debate today. The Republicans would not allow the President Obama to have the bill either.

That is why, I think that the President should be making concerted efforts locally rather than internationally. He should be banging on the doors of his Democrats and get his left wing base ready. He should be talking to us Independents rather than talking to the Republicans about having climate change regulation. If it is to include more tax breaks kind of ideas, I would be pist!

I think that President Obama is really putting his foot in his mouth should he makes any kind of commitment in Copenhagen. It would be stupid to the max! He really should know that he does not have any leverage to make promises such as this.

At best, he can only make promises about helping to create green jobs. And for that, we do not need to send our President over there. We still have a Secretary of State right? Let her do all this. We still have the Environmental Protection agency right? Send them instead please.

I really think that it would be embarrassing that our President went overseas when everyone know that he cannot pull it off at home. I hope he proves me wrong though!

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Crasher gate : Stop wasting our time!

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 6:37 pm  
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Okay, it is somewhat of a concern that a couple can get so close with the President and the Vice President when they should not have been so. But does it really warrant a congressional hearing? Is this really something that should be in focus?

Yes, it is really worrisome that the Secret Service can screw up so badly. They could allow a couple to just slip in and be near the President. I know that this is going to sound bad, but with a name like Tareq Salahi, which sounds Middle Eastern,shouldn’t this be even more alarming?

If the Government cannot protect the President, how can they protect us? Have the government and other agencies, forgotten about 9/11? Are they sleeping on issues when they come to security? These are some questions that we should be asking as citizens.

That being said, this is really blown out of proportions. For one, it should be an internal issue. It should be an issue between the White House and the Secret Services. Why should we be wasting Congress‘ time on this? Is this what the Constitution states, is this what they are suppose to do; nanny the Secret Service? What next? Are they going to tell the Generals and the Admirals what to do on the battlefield as well?

Come on! This is nothing but an outright publicity stunt by the Salahis. The couple wants to be on a reality television show. The case should not be treated differently from the balloon boy saga, where the couple too want to get their family on a reality program.

So why are the politicians on this story? Simple, they want to get media attention! They are nothing but media whores. This would not be bad publicity for them. It is harmless publicity. But it makes them feel important when they jump on crappy stories like this.

This makes me so mad! We have tons of issues to take care of. Right now, we are shelving talk about illegal immigration and the environment. The excuse from Congress is that they do not have a time, with the economy, the wars and health care being their main concern.

I am sorry, if the Congress does not have time to complete nominations appointments this year, they should not have the time to carry out a publicity stunt like this. It is not a bloody circus. The Congress is suppose to be representing the people, not be the whores of the press.

This is yet another example of why the media in our country is so bad. How many of them would highlight the fact that despite being painted as a far left thinking, 60% of Americans still want the public option? I am one of the 57% of the Independents that want the public option. I have yet to hear it on the news channels. Only the 4 real news media that I point out, AP, AFP, Reuters and C-Span that report this. No, they rather talk about this, Tiger Woods and balloon boy!

As this article is being published, congressional hearing to crashgate has just ended. And sorry it was just a waste out time. And a waste of our money. This is something that need to be fixed, and it needs to be fixed ASAP.

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Why Howard Dean is right

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 at 5:36 pm  
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We have not talked about health care for a while on this site. But this I cannot ignore. We have said it for a long time and this time I am being echoed by Governor (Dr.) Howard Dean months later : No public option; Kill the Bill!

In a segment with the ever so boring Dylan Ratigan, Governor Howard Dean basically threatened to stop sending in money to the respective Democratic committees in Congress if they do not have a bill in it that has a public option.

Looking back, we know that not nominating him is the biggest mistake that the Democrats ever made. They overlooked a governor that is a proven success and a person that is well informed in 2004, and they picked a long-jaw douche-bag named Senator John Kerry. So not only are the politicians pathetic, their far left voting base in the primaries are pathetic too.

Coming back to health care, I stress that this is the most important part of health care reform : the public option. The biggest problem with the health care cost in our country is cost. That should be the primary objective. And yet, our politicians came up with just one solution to curb costs : public option. (For Republican readers, I would explain in paragraphs below why their idea of buying across state lines would not work.)

Without the public option, there would be a mandate for the public to have health insurance to drive up demand and there is no other counter measure to keep the cost down. Therefore, we are literally throwing our money to the insurance companies with the Bill.

With the public option, there would be pressure to keep the price of the insurance down. If the insurance companies charge us too much, people would switch their plans to the public option which is non profit. It is not very difficult to understand the public option actually.

The Republican proposal of allowing customers to buy across state lines would not work. For it to work, there need to be national rules and guidelines. For example, in football, the rules in Saint Louis is the same as that in Dallas. If you cannot spit at the referee in Dallas, you cannot do it anywhere else.
The rules need to be the same, else you would have all the companies flocking to the state with the lowest amount of regulation. That is the case for the Credit Card companies.

So why can’t there be a national rule: The tenth amendment which guarantees states rights. With that, the federal government cannot force local governments to conform with other states on these issues. Even if our politicians want it, it would be very tricky. I also do not want it to go down that path as I think states rights are very important in our country.

A way around the Republican proposal is the idea that we in ST put up months ago. Allow the foreigners to flood the market. If the Japanese can make cars here, they can also sell their insurance, which is much more cheaper than ours, here. If Indian companies can create for us computer programs, they should also sell their insurances over here. Then let the competition begin!

Though, I hate it when politicians make threats when they can, in this case I am with Governor Dean. The Democrats should not receive any party donations if they cannot fulfill what the people want. A health care bill without the public option would wreck our country and make our lives much tougher than it already is.

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