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Say, How Much Does Free Lunch Go For These Days?

. . . roughly $402,000 in obligations for every American man woman and child

There was a strong effort to get the second bailout to be called Bad-Asset-Relief-Fund or BARF. Today’s taxpayers presumably feel that the acronym is personally apropos.
 
Adding up the Bills: Obamanomics

and Keynesian Logic Doom the Country

               Special Treasury Department Inspector General to oversee the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) Neil M. Barofsky made himself very Unpopular in the Obama camp a few months ago^^ when he called a spade a spade. Barofsky, daring to tell the world there is NO FREE LUNCH calculated the government’s maximum exposure on the financial sector bailouts he was watch-dogging: could reach $24 Trillion. He has repeatedly attacked Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and the Treasury Department for repeatedly failing to adopt recommendations aimed at making the government financial rescue effort more accountable and transparent. Now lets’ put that $24 TRillion figure in perspective . . .

1.        That’s just the first bailout the $819 Billion TARP he’s talking about, the one passed during the waning days of the Bush administration by bi-partisan efforts

2.     That comes to a $78,076 obligation for every man, woman and child in this country. Most children, by the way, average a $3 allowance per week.

3.      Obama’s personal stimulus plan of $1.34 Trillion passed almost exclusively by his Democratic majority in the House and Senate can be expected to have a similar effect on the economy. There was a strong effort to get the second bailout to be called Bad-Asset-Relief-Fund or BARF. Today’s taxpayers presumably feel that the acronym is personally apropos. The net downward drag on the economy from that one might well reach $45 or $50 TRillion (we can’t tell because there are no Barofsky’s watching over those funds for us) . . . but if it comes to $48 TRillion, which is easy to work with, then there’s another $156,000 obligation for each man, woman and child.

4.      Obama has more than doubled the National debt to $11.8 Trillion which comes to $36, 874.73 cents for each man, woman and child.

5.      Medicare is scheduled to run out in 2016 and right now has incurred contractual obligations of $37.8 TRillion. The reason that President Obama was in such an all-fired toot to pass his Obamacare initiatives is to cover-up the fact that Medicare is a huge GSB (government spending boondoggle) by replacing it with a new (and much worse) form of health care interference by the federal government to push the problem as far back in history as they possibly can so that citizen tax-payers never see or understand the real price of GSB** interference in their lives. In this case that $37.8 TRillion obligation from Medicare comes to $121,000 more for every person.

6.      The other two great GSBs, Social Security and Medicaid are likewise going broke and have at various times been projected to end in bankruptcy with huge UN-MEETABLE obligations . . . but, surprise-surprise, each time the key “moment of truth” approached some sort of miraculous new GSB was created to push that Judgment Day back into the future. Social Security, for example is now supposedly OK till 2037. Social Security, was, of course the first great government spending boondoggle. It survived sort-of because the ratio throughout its history was roughly 3.3 workers putting in funds to every worker receiving assistance. Now with the Baby Boomer generation and through the foreseeable future to at least the year 2083, seven decades in the future, the ratio is expected to be roughly 2.2 workers for every benefits recipient but dipping slightly below 2.0 workers for every recipient by 2080. The key concern here is that while Social Security is a pittance compared to funding Medicare, right now a whole lot of workers (roughly 15.3% not the government’s official 9.7%) are out of work and NOT earning money to create payments into the Social Security Trust Fund. If this continues and the Social Security bite becomes $3.1 Trillion dollars in unfunded obligations than the taxpayers can be on the hook for another $10,000.

7.       All told $10,000 + $121,000 + $37,000 + $156,000 + $78,000 . . . why, Rajjpuut, believes we’re talking BIG money here . . . roughly $402,000 in obligations for every man woman and child. NICE! That is the now not-so-hidden cost of government spending boondoggles (GSBs). Aren’t you glad you know? Wouldn’t that have helped us make better decisions way back when?

 Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

^^On July 20, his office released a report estimating the $700 billion effort to shore up the nation's wobbly banking system could end up costing taxpayers as much as $23.7 trillion, due to estimates for programs offered by the FDIC, federal money for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and other institutions on top of $7.4 trillion in TARP and other Treasury aid. A spokesperson for the Treasury Department quickly called the numbers flawed, making this the latest in the back and forth between Barofsky's oversight office — which currently has 35 ongoing criminal and civil investigations of suspected accounting, securities and mortgage fraud — and the Treasury Department over the handling of TARP disbursements.

**As an aside, going back to Medicare: the “death panels” that Obama denies are part of his bill (but really are) are actually vital. If you look at the history of medical bills and drug costs for people over age 65, typically 47% of the total cost to take care of these factors is incurred during the last six months of life. The simple expedient of having an inhumane set of decision-makers decide upon resource allotment for these dying folk would do a lot to make Medicare approach fiscal-viability . . . however, whether it’s done by Democrats or Republicans it’s a political disaster as loyal readers can already see . . . Of course projections for creating a society akin to that of the “Logan’s Run” movie where no one above age 30 was allowed to live are, at present, a bit far-fetched LOL! Anyway the nature of GSBs is that they quickly multiply and spin all out of control because it’s always popular to appear to be “giving away something for nothing” (a.k.a. free lunch) and incumbents like to do popular things to keep getting re-elected. Who’s paying for all this? Right now a few American and a lot of foreigners.

 Europe and China, Japan, Russia, India and the big holders of U.S. Debt have a choice they can get out of the dollar-investing club and come up with a new “world reserve currency” or they can continue to be the fall guys for Washington’s excesses and inanities and buy America out of its problems while dooming their own countries to bankruptcy . . . what will they decide? Rajjpuut’s got his money on them protecting their countries’ and their own power self-interests by ship-canning the American Dollar forever. Chances of a new world gold currency are very high.

 

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Democrats Play on "Kennedy's Dream" Theme to Push Obamacare

 
                     As if Ted Kennedy's actions in life didn't do enough harm to this country, now the Democrats are using his death as a persuasion tool in seeking bi-partisan support for their expensive, inept and unneeded health care "reform" bill.  Hoping to "rescue" Medicare and cover up the $34 Trillion boondoggle that's expected to go broke in 2016,  Democrats invoked the late Senator Chappaquiddick Teddy Kennedy’s commitment to universal health-care coverage as they sought to regain political momentum to pass their useless Obamacare boondoggle in September.  Nancy Pelosi, mentioned "Ted Kennedy's dream of quality health care for all Americans" as well as the late senator's "leadership and inspiration" --three wrongs can't make a right.
 
                     Pelosi is, of course, only outgunned by Obama, Ted Kennedy and Barney Frank in efforts to kill the American Dream with their incessant taxes required to fund one government spending boondoggle after another.  Bah Humbug!  Never seen a taxpayer's money they didn't want . . . .
 
Ya'all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
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Reality Drives Stake through Silver-Tongued Obama's Heart

 

                Two troubles with being an effective liar and smooth conman:  you need an enormously strong memory and somehow you've got to never get caught in situations where your actions don't match your words.  During a recent fund-raiser, Barak Obama got his largest cheers for this:   "I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to just get out of the way so we can clean up the mess!"  If that were true, then Obama, virtually all Democrats and absolutely 100% of liberal Democrats should have their lips sewn shut.

Obama Reality:   Bush and the Republicans created the worst financial mess since the Great Depression . . . .

Real Reality:  Oh brother, The Republicans have NEVER as a group supported any of the legislation.  Republicans in the last 60 years have a lot to apologize for, but fiscal recklessness like this is NOT one of those things. The history goes back to Jimmy Carter and the first mortgage-guarantee bill in 1977 which helped drive interest rates close to 20%.  It was a Democratic sponsored bill Carter gleefully signed.  Most of that bill remained unchanged over the years but banks in self-preservation refused to honor home loans to people who couldn't pay them back.  In 1995 while working as an attorney for ACORN, Barak Obama's job was to sue (and blackmail via administrative proceedings that held banks hostage) banks and force them to honor highly probable  bad loans to home buyers without reasonable credit history, or earnings or down payment or financial resources in accordance with the 1977 law.  In 1998, Bill Clinton, an otherwise fiscally-sensible president, and his Democratic allies passed a follow-up mortgage guarantee bill that in combination with the Carter-era bill was to prove ultra-toxic and virulent.    In November, 2003, James Stack of Investech.com was already warning of a sub-prime crash and a housing-industry bubble sure to cause financial chaos in coming years.  By January, 2005, the Bush Administration and Republicans sought to remove the weakest of the 1998 Law's many weaknesses, they were outvoted by the Democrats.  In late July 2006, a bi-partisan bill passed but by then it was too little, too late.  To this day many of the worst provisions of the 1977 and 1998 mortgage-guarantee laws are still in effect.  Banks just will not lend money to bad risks and no one is taking them to court . . . yet.

Obama Reality: The health care mess is all the Republican’s doing.

Real Reality:  Like Social Security . . . Medicare and Medicaid are the creations of Democrats with only a minimal Republican support.  Social Security is set to go broke by 2018 and Medicare is accountable for $34 TRillion that it can't pay and is expected to go bankrupt in 2016.  These are all expensive, inflationary boondoggles which are a drag on the productive free market and they are all Democrat's doing.

Obama Reality:    It will be a whole new era with "a new level of transparency, accountability and participation for America's citizens. We are committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust.”

Real Reality:  He's running the most secretive administration in history, even the liberal media is upset with him.  Besides all the end runs around normal openness, he's also chosen 36 Czars who are appointed by him, accountable only to him, and who did not get vetted by the FBI or interviewed and approved by the legislature.

Obama Reality: “The days of [corporate lobbyists] setting the agenda in Washington” would be over because “they won't find a job in my White House.”

Real Reality:  Obama has quietly installed more lobbyists than George W. Bush.

Obama Reality: He bragged, “As I’ve promised we passed a recovery plan free of earmarks.”  During the campaign he bragged about all the programs he would create and about never raising taxes on people earning less than $250,000. 
 
Real Reality:   After his brag, a few days later he signed a spending bill with over 8,500 earmarks.  By February, Obama had already raised taxes the taxes he promised never to do.
 
               Perhaps someday we'll see a headline like this in the liberal New York Times:  "New Twilight Zone Series Changes Name to Obamazone."
 
 
Ya'all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
 
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That Devil Obama Quotes Scripture for His Health Bill’s Purposes

Arraigning a conclave of American churches so that he might bear false witness again and again, President Barak Obama soon had them mentally genuflecting with him to his holy trinity: government power, government spending  and bureaucratic wisdom . . . never once mentioning that he was asking that they’d give up control over their own health care decisions. It was classic Barak: since misinformation and stealth by his minions was proving ineffective, the great man took on the cloak of prevarication and deceit himself to comfort the good Bible-believing folk in a teleconference. In a classic propaganda maneuvering, Obama accused his accusers of the “bearing of false witness” which he has himself engaged in so artfully. 

Unfortunately, the president revealed none of the heart-warming little one-liners like “God Damn America!” learned at the feet of the good Reverend Wright for so many years. Amazingly, of course, Barak only found out about the real Rev. Wright shortly after the journalists did and he then righteously quit the Rev’s church. So the whole teleconference was just “one churchgoer to another” and talking about them sinners out there that disagree with his holiness Barak. Amazing gall . . . how does that hymn go?

 

Amazing gall, replete with lies

To make the doubters swoon

Who once knew truth,

Are now confused

Their hymns are out of tune

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

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The Audacity of Whole-Scale Marxist Upheaval

                Barak Obama doesn’t see the same America that 90% of its citizens do.  No, nothing even close. The average citizen sees the glass as between 83-92% full; Obama sees it as not even containing a single drop. The citizen sees this country as fundamentally sound, just needing a few light tweaks; Obama sees clearly there’s very little right going on here, everything must be ripped apart and put back together in a dramatically different shape. The citizen sees this as a good country; Obama sees it as fundamentally unfair and in need of sweeping practically unceasing changes. The citizen sings “America the Beautiful;” Obama sings “The Internationale,” and is it any wonder? Mama was a Marxist-sympathizer, Daddy was a communist and for almost twenty years his preacher was singing “God Damn America!”

                Since taking office seven months ago, Barak Obama has been using his “mandate” to punish and severely diminish the productive part of society and grow the non-productive side (the government); destroy the individual and glorify the collective; annihilate the entrepreneurial and capitalistic and bring the labor union into ascension with an energy reminiscent of a quack doctor determined to save the patient, even if he must kill him in the process. Only radical change will save America and convert it to the Marxist Paradise he longs for . . . Barak Obama wants to do what the Soviet Union and Red China yearned to accomplish but could not together do, conquer America for communism. May he be damned by the ages for his ignorance, impudence and stupidity and may he and his cronies never pass another bill again.

 Ya'all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut

 

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Gin-Laden? Obama Far Worse Enemy of America than Osama Bin Laden

 

                The only possibly logical explanation for all the mess (technical term associated with Kepner-Tregoe Management training) created by Barak Obama since January 20, 2009, is that the pressure got to the man and he’s taken up drinking.  Recent acceleration in signs of the dipso in chief’s decline may be attributable to the public approval of his “beer-summit.”

                In any case, if six hundred 9/11-style attacks had been carried out by six-hundred Osama Bin Ladens, three a day since the inauguration, it’s difficult to believe that nearly as much damage could have been done to the nation as this inept president has burdened us with. Of course, there would be dead Americans, but surely the happy LEFT could say “Wow, look at how much our carbon-footprint has improved!” They’d probably nominate the original Osama for some sort of  “Freedom Award!”

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

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S-T-R-E-T-C-H!!! Obama BigPHARMA Sellout Ominous as (swine) Flu Season Approaches

Alum?  Possibly "Yes!"   Aluminum, "NO! definitely NO!"  
Our vote for first quintet to receive the swine flu shots with aluminum adjuvants:  Obama, Pelosi, Barney Frank, Harry Reid and Osama Bin Laden . . . let the rest of the world wait a few days, American socialist-leaning politicians can ALL get their injections on day five.

                 The original Obamacare blueprint for health care reform called for shaving $80 billion from drug company profits.  Somewhere along the line, it was felt that was too hard a sell since so many representatives and senators have huge BigPHARMA campaign donations influencing their “voting outlook.” Instead a virtue was made of necessity, Obama cut a deal in which $180-$185 worth of TV advertising supporting Obamacare would be traded for putting that $80 Billion “off-limits.” So now Mr. Obama is “beholden” to the pharmaceutical industry . . . at just the wrong time.

Since it seems that swine flu medicine will be difficult to come by under present conditions, the big drug companies are looking at “stretching” the shots so that there will be enough to go around (Rajjpuut has never had a flu shot and never will, so they needn’t stretch it in his direction) and they’re currently planning on using aluminum to stretch the vaccine sera which, of course, would S-T-R-E-T-C-H their profits as well, very convenient. That’s right, officially it’s called an “adjuvant” and it’s meant to stretch the vaccine supply by adding various aluminum formats to the sera.

          According to the drug companies this will allow the immune system to respond more effectively so that less of the active vaccine is needed and the supply is stretched. So we have an unproven, inadequately tested swine flu vaccine s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d by adding presumably toxic metals:  NICE! Some people are actually asking, “How safe are these adjuvants?” Imagine that, someone would think to ask such an irrelevant and objectionable question, hmmmm. No surprise to hear that BigPHARMA says adjuvants are “top-drawer, A-1, A-OK” Of course, we all know that “OK’ spelled backward is K.O., as in something that delivers a knock-out blow to American’s health . . . .

                Last Rajjpuut heard, the swine flu was exceptionally mild and might help Americans develop more immunity to the flu as a whole. So the reason for putting potentially dangerous stuff into our blood streams would be?  Oh yes, excuse us, we forgot about BigPHARMA profits, how silly!   Yeah, America, coming to an arm near you:  untested vaccine with untested stretcher materials, presumably toxic metals
. . . and ya’all Obamacare advocates, do you have any objections?

                Oooops, you do object?   Naturally, sorry Rajjpuut forgot about that $185 million bribe, ‘er agreement to advertise in favor of the president’s healthcare boondoggle . . . of course, you have OBJECTIONS. Let’s see what the Ol’ Health Educator hisself can add to the debate: adjuvants are not made out of body tissue; adjuvants are not made from normal vitamins, minerals, nutrients or other stuff presumably KNOWN to be good for the human body. They’re made of foreign materials than can and do cause adverse reactions. In this case the foreign material contemplated consists of ALUMINUM? Suspect in exacerbating Alzheimer’s ALUMINUM? Which mental midget is responsible for these decisions? Nerve cell death and brain cell death ALUMINUM? Inflammation in nearby muscles and at the injection site ALUMINUM possibly causing chronic joint pain, muscle pain and loss of muscle endurance ALUMINUM? Oh, yeah, Baby, sign us all up!!!!

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

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Snidely Obama Aims to Kill the Golden Geese

Our villain has no understanding of the vital importance of profits. He has repeatedly criticized “obscene” profits and the evils of capitalism.  
 
 
Who is John Galt? And When

Will Atlas Shrug?
 

                Ronald Reagan’s trickle-down economics is diametrically-opposed to the 100% tax on all wealth by the state found in Marxism (and presumably “end-cycle Obamaism”). Reagan realized what no liberal seems to understand: all economic benefit comes from creating abundance or put another way: from surplus, storable- wealth or profit. The state, which can only tax this wealth, but which cannot create wealth, risks creating economic problems by each and every interruption in the natural free-market processes. Think of it this way, the wise vintner uses the natural wine-making process with only the most traditional and intelligent of modifications. It’s common sense:  he dares not drain the wine three-times a day or steal the prime grapes to make raisins . . . so it is with our free-markets.

                Ayn Rand’s hero John Galt was the ultimate capitalist and finally as government and society depreciated his vital contributions, there came a time when “Atlas Shrugged,” when all the capitalists walked away and left the rest of society to die of its own bloated accumulated corruptions.   Those who read Rand may have long been fascinated by her philosophies, but what the books really lacked from a literary point of view was a nasty villain. Enter Obama with a suitable Snidely Whiplash snicker . . . .

                Our villain has no understanding of the vital importance of profits. He has repeatedly criticized “obscene” profits and the evils of capitalism. He has via taxes stolen money from the successful capitalists and their laborers and rewarded the unsuccessful. He has, above all, attacked one class of people: the rich. The rich play a vital role in a successful society and its economy. They routinely spend great amounts of their disposable income and account for 14%, roughly one-seventh, of all the consumer spending in the country.  

The poor often lack money to buy necessities. The middle-class find it hard to spend much beyond necessities and a few optional purchases, say 3% of their income. It is the rich who are the driving force of capitalism: in some cases spending 90% or more of their far greater incomes. This is what creates jobs for the rest of us. This is the money that drives venture capital and creates whole new businesses and whole new industries.

These Great Samaritans are the victims the arch-villain and serial economic-destroyer Obama constantly seeks to isolate and eliminate. Of course, as Newsweek so elegantly put it:  “When you slow down the engine, the caboose must slow down also, it cannot go faster.”   So it is: when the rich are attacked, usually it is the poor who suffer the most “collateral damage.” Certainly, if the rich don’t create jobs, that is the greatest “violation” of the poor for the only force that both creates and sustains jobs over the long term is the spending of the rich. So if the rich being Obamacized one year decide to only spend half as much . . . wham, bam the economy contracts by 7%, and . . .  instant recession. By contrast, if the poor should want to lower their spending at all, it’s hard for them to find even one place they can save money: everything is a necessity to them.

It is already the rich who pay most of the taxes, the richest 1% already pay almost thirty cents of every tax dollar collected. If the rich were to decide to become middle-class and earn only half as much, the federal government would collect 22% less in taxes. The cost to the government if the rich decide to “unlax and coast” would be horrendous. And the money that is donated to charities and foundations and hospital wings and kids’ ball parks, etc. that could dry up too. The rich spend money because they can and because they choose to . . . without them the golden goose lays no eggs.

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

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First Do NO Harm and Reciprocality Keys to Good Law-Making

 

                At least 85% of the laws passed at the federal level since the Constitution of the United States in 1787 have been bad laws . . . probably 95-96%. That government is best which governs least. What is needed from a federal government?

Strong national defense

Occasionally, protection and investigative powers that local, country and state levels cannot handle

Good laws/fair laws

Low taxes

Strong infrastructure

Encouragement for business, farms, franchises, small business, property ownership, home ownership, education and all sorts of individual initiative

Staying out of the citizens’ way

If these criteria are closely examined, it’s readily obvious that a huge proportion of the bills are created to benefit one party or a few, at the expense of another or more commonly of all taxpayers in general. In other words, they’re NOT fair laws. And, as stated probably 94-95% of the laws passed since 1797 would fit that category. Indeed 100% of the laws passed by Mr. Obama and the other actions he's taken since January 20, 2009 certainly fit that criteria.

So, once again Rajjpuut cries out to legislators: “First do NO harm!” And then there’s a little matter of reciprocality. As the farmer’s wife is wont to say, “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.” If congress wants to pass a law for the citizens at large, it needs to be binding upon them too. Let the legislators enjoy Social Security Retirement; Obamacare health “reform”; etc., etc. if they’re willing to pass it for us . . . let them suffer alongside.

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

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IRS and Obama Attempt Dramatic Rise in Death Tax

   

Benjamin Franklin once famously remarked “there’s nothing certain in this world but death and taxes.” If Barak Obama and the Internal (or is that INFERNAL?) Revenue Service get their way . . . the Inheritance or “death” tax might help finance the growing deficits, national debt, and stack of entitlement programs he plans on piling upon the taxpayer. The current phase-out of the inheritance tax initiated by George W. Bush is popular with 66% of Republicans 55% of unaffiliated voters and 49% ( only 42% oppose it) of Democrats. Get that, a tax that more Democrats are against rather than in favor of, WOW!

If Obama and the IRS pull this one off they will probably doom the American economy for all time. Nothing is so critical to the rise of American independence than the Federal government refraining from theft of inheritance. Small businesses, farms, franchises and investments are kept viable by inheritance . . . small businesses, franchises, farms and investments are created by inheritance. If “Barak, the Thick” wants to turn into “Barak, the Permanently Hopeless Cretin” and take the American economy into permanent hopelessness with him . . . all he needs to do is to increase the inheritance tax to pre-W levels and most crucial of all, inheritance tax will mean that a lot of family homes will go on the market, driving down real estate prices again.  If you want real estate prices to rise and save this economy, continue to phase out the death tax. 

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

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More People Disapprove Than Approve of Obama: Rasmussen


200-Day Honeymoon Ends

for Barak Obama
 

         For the first time in his presidency, Barak Obama has to deal with the fact that people don’t like the job he’s doing. According to yesterday's, Rasmussen Presidential tracking poll those who strongly approve of the job Obama’s done (29%) are outnumbered by those strongly disapproving of his job (37%) or a -8% Presidential disapproval rating among those with strong opinions.   Overall Americans pleased with his work are outnumbered by  those who are unhappy about Obama’s effort by a margin of 47% approval  to -52% disapproval.   As has been the case for the last 16 weeks, very few Americans are now neutral on the Presidential tracking polls: only 1%.  

         Unlike many polls, Rasmussen only considers opinion responses from those who say they’re “very likely” to vote.   A recent Fordham University study placed the Rasmussen Polls highest among twenty-three polling firms in the country.   They were the only poll to hit the exact percentages in the 2008 presidential race. They were also the only poll to fall within ½% of both presidential candidates’ vote percentages in the 2004 election as well. The quick and sizeable drop in popularity by Obama is unprecedented. The president’s numbers are the lowest in his presidential career and have dropped steadily since he showed a +30% edge among those with strong opinions (+45% to -15%) and a whopping overall approval edge of +39% (+65% to -26%) the day after his inauguration.

          Obama’s rating drop over the last thirty days may be at least partially attributed to a growing negative perception by the voting public of the health care bill favored by Obama and his Democratic colleagues. Only 42% of American favor their bill and 53% are opposed.  In all 78% of Democrats favor the bill; 77% of Republicans oppose it; and 65% of Independents  join in opposition. Women (+51%) like the bill much more than men (-56% are opposed) do. Only 25% of Americans agree with Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi who calls Health Insurance Companies “villains.”

                    Other interesting Rasmussen Poll data concerned perceptions of other countries.   The rogue actions of South Korea and Iran have them rated #1 and #2 respectively on the “enemies list” as perceived by likely voters. On the other hand Australia, Great Britain, Germany, Israel and Canada are considered our best friends. While  Iran and South Korea have switched places in people's eyes several times in the last year when asked which country is the biggest threat to the United States, the communist country is now firmly in first/worst place.  A surprising 57% of Americans actually favor a military response on North Korea as a means of eliminating the country's missile launch threat to the United States.
 
Ya'all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
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Obamacare Sold to Highest Bidder: the Drug Companies

Statins cause MORE heart disease; they exacerbate stroke probability; here's the iceberg  . . .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
 
Barak Obama Lies Down with

Big Drug Companies and their Lies


                  Barak Obama has received $180 million from the big drug companies to help him create his new Obamacare so-called "health care reform."  It is anything but reform, the drug companies are running a series of ads supporting the president's program.  In exchange, the drug companies were assured by Obama that $80 billion in threatened profits to the industry will disappear from the bill.  This is the third blog in this series concentrating on just one of the drugs at issue:  Statins, a class of cholesterol-lowering medicines which supposedly lessen and help eliminate heart attacks.  Statins are the most profitable drugs in world history.  In the last blog, sixteen truths about the so-called "high-cholesterol/heart attack connection" and about statins were revealed:
 
rajjpuutsfables.blogtownhall.com/2009/08/08/obamacare_will_not_get_rid_of_costly_health_care_lies.thtml
 
                  Rajjpuut suggests that a trustworthy organization, say the CDC, be charged with responsibility to conduct a serious study of those 16 truths.  When the truths are proven, statins then be eliminated from the American health care scene.  Rajjpuut has long advocated the elimination of the Food and Drug Administration or its complete revamping in his 15 "Anti-FDA Rant" blog series.  The FDA knows the truth about statins.  The FDA refuses to "First do NO harm."  The drug companies must be forced to "First do NO harm" or they should on a case-by-case base be prohibited from practicing medicine (for that is what they are doing:  practicing QUACK medicine) for good.  

                As for Mr. Barak Obama, he too is a quack of the highest order as his bedfellows suggest.  Additionally, Mr. Obama himself knows nothing about health, health care, or health education nor do his two biggest guns.*** Rajjpuut mentioned Obama's obese surgeon general Regina Benjamin in a former blog.^^

http://rajjpuutsfables.blogtownhall.com/2009/07/26/it%E2%80%99s_not_over,_till_the_fat_lady_dies_of_a_coronary.thtml

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/13/surgeon.general/index.html
 

                  The basis of the Rajjpuut's suggestions come from these facts, here are the side effects created by expensive drugs that do NOT cure or reduce the risk of heart attacks :
 
Reported Side effects from statins

Death

More heart disease not less

Much higher stroke incidence

Muscle Damage

Muscle Pain

Muscle Weakness

Neuropathy (nerve damage)

Paralysis

Liver Damage

Aggravation of already existing digestive problems

Nausea

Diarrhea

Constipation

Mood Swings

Behavioral Changes

Memory Loss

Delerium (especially following surgery)

Skin Rash

Flushing of skin

Hair Loss

Dizziness

Suspected of exacerbating multiple sclerosis episodes

Suspected of causing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease?
 
 
Hell, that hair loss alone is enough to scare off any properly vain American . . .    hee hee.
 
Ya'all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
 

***
Kathleen Sibelius secretary of health and human services and Nancy-Ann DeParle Director of the White House Office of Health care reform are Obama’s two big guns . . . Neither Sibelius nor DeParle has a resume that suggest they know anything about health, health care or health education.

DeParle has been at the public trough for quite awhile: supposedly helping reform Medicare and Medicaid, perhaps she’s done something worthwhile, but Rajjpuut has seen nothing but a bureaucratic mess looking at those two programs since their inception. Again, nothing in her resume suggests any knowledge of health care or health education.

Sibelius is a career politician who knows absolutely nothing about health, health care or health education Her big “coup” in the field was blocking a merger between “Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas . . .  with an Indiana agency. Rajjpuut’s sure she felt she did a good thing, but, as with almost any liberal interference in the free marketplace, she probably screwed up, but since he used to work for BC & BS in Kansas, he will comment no further.
 
Neither DeParle nor Sibelius knows anything about health . . . and ^^ Obama's obese surgeon general and her family are walking advertisements about what NOT to do to live long, healthy lives and for how to dramatically run up health care costs:  not a nice thing for Ol'Rajjpuut to say, but 100% true.
 
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The Audacity of Hooliganism

AFL-CIO, ACORN and SEIU

“Brown-Shirt” Thugs Strike

Conservative Leaflet Distributors

                In scenes reminiscent of the Nazi’s takeover of power in Germany, protestors distributing conservative leaflets opposing Obama health care “reform” were bumped about, shoved, punched and kicked after several town hall congressional meetings by goons from the AFL-CIO, ACORN and SEIU, three of Obama’s key support organizations.   Barak Obama, who once told a Philadelphia crowd during his 2008 campaign, “If they bring a knife, we bring a gun to the fight, that’s the Chicago-style!” was infamous for busing illegal voters and thugs to the caucus states to “outshout and intimidate” Hillary Clinton supporters during the Democratic primary campaign.  The effect of the “muscle” during the primaries was that although Obama lost twenty-four of the forty-one direct-voting states; he only lost one caucus state out of  fourteen he battled in (some states had both direct-voting and caucuses). 

                The most violent attack reportedly occurred in St. Louis where a local black conservative named Ken Gladney was punched in the face, kicked in the head and stomped while on the pavement for handing out “Don’t Tread on Me” flags. The SEIU (Service Employee’s International Union) thugs who attacked Gladney were part of a broader-based goon-squad mentality by Obama supporters. The AFL-CIO and ACORN have both been active in recruiting “counter-protestors” to attend the town hall meetings.

                AFL-CIO President John Sweeney called the town hall meetings “ground zero” in the “debate” for health care legislation in a memo to his followers. Sweeney called for massive attendance to counter the “tea party” (patriots is my word). Once again the audacity of hooliganism is played as Barak’s main trump card.

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

 

 

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Leap-Before-You-Look Obama Piles Incompetence on Incompetence

Wrong-Way, Shoot-from-the-Hip

Barak  Sets New Records

for False Starts and Muck Ups

            In Rajjpuut’s 15 “Anti-FDA Rant” blogs (stating the first step in any new Health Care Program is to eliminate or completely redo the FDA) and his now 19 “A Far Better Health Care Alternative” blogs, the single most repeated phrase was a 2400 year old piece of wisdom: “First do NO harm.” Barak Obama has spent his first seven months in office proving that he, more than any physician on earth, needs to understand and practice Hippocrates’ wise counsel and avoid harming America. However, it appears rather than slowing down and thinking things out before initiating action, Mr. Obama is even more committed to a permanent policy of act first, think later and undo the mess created much later, if ever at all.

            Before his now infamous “The Cambridge Police Department acted stupidly” statement last week, Obama said most of the right things.  He acknowledged that he didn’t have all the facts; he acknowledged that there is a problem with racial profiling by policemen . . . and had he been wise he would have also said, “there is also a problem with minority citizens having a bit of a chip on the shoulders when confronted by police officers, particularly white police officers.” At that point a wise man and any half-way astute politician would have ended the comment by stating, “those attitudes might have played a part, but, of course, I wasn’t there and have no way of knowing exactly what happened.” AMEN

            By all accounts, Barak Obama is a superb student. He learns easily. However, it appears that some of the areas he’s never bothered to study are areas he should have not only bothered to study but also to master. Keeping your promises, Economics, Bankruptcy Law, Constitutional Law, Practice What You Preach, Common sense justice and fairness, Making and keeping a balanced budget, understanding science and tarot cards and the differences between them, and When to keep your big fat mouth shut: just to name a few of the more obvious. In fact, in a very real sense . . . it’s his miserable habit of shooting off his mouth before thinking, of shooting from the hip as his approach to every issue, that has marked his first seven months as memorable.

            Some of the promises Obama’s broken or is now in the process of breaking: 

A.      A.  Running one of the most open, accountable and transparent administrations in history

B.      B.  Not just in word but in deed honoring people’s health care coverage without undermining it for the present and the future

C.     C.  Treating the American people fairly (ask Indiana pension holders; Chrysler dealers and GM dealers who supported McCain and are now seeing profitable dealerships close; ask folks in counties that supported McCain who’ll now get 50% less stimulus money per capita than those that voted for Obama)

D.     D.  Promising to preserve, protect and defend the United States Constitution (By creating 22 czars thus bypassing the legal right of congress and the FBI to vet and approve of all such appointees? By ignoring 222 years of bankruptcy law and precedence and orchestrating your own illegal resolution to Chrysler’s bankruptcy and setting in motion the same resolution for GM? By depriving people of rightful property and rightful business ownership without due process of law? 

Barak’s most noticeable strategic errors have been created by his abysmal lack of economic understanding. He obviously does not understand even the most basic ideas such as the key concepts found in the brief wisdom of  “I, Pencil”** or the “Broken Window Parable”^^ but instead deliberately strives to stifle free markets and believes solidly in government spending as the panacea for all ills. His doubling of the national debt in the first five months in office; his “threat/promise” to double it again (to a total of four times more national debt than was created in the first 223 years of American history) by 2017; his support of “Cap and Trade” laws that would cost Americans a minimum of $120 Billion each and ever year of their existence; and most importantly his commitment/threat to create “five million new green-tech jobs” (at a cost of eleven million jobs lost elsewhere in the economy via taxation . . . and since only 1/10 of green-tech jobs have proven “permanent” in studies done elsewhere, only replacing them with 500,000 real green-tech jobs: a disastrous 22/1 job loss ratio) and his decision to push forward an unneeded extra level of ultra-expensive bureaucracy with his health care initiative all show a man who believes that “free lunches are fact.”

Rajjpuut could belabor the point by showing the President’s failings in the other areas mentioned (Bankruptcy Law, Constitutional Law, Practice What You Preach, Common sense justice and fairness, Making and keeping a balanced budget, understanding science and tarot cards and the differences between them, and When to keep your big fat mouth shut) but  it’s just not necessary to do so, the clear fact is that Obama’s shoot from the hip presidency is every day becoming more and more dangerous to the American people and their Constitution and their right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Instead of “First do NO harm,” the President’s motto: is leap now, perhaps we’ll look things over later.” Nowhere is this failing more clear than on the health care front. Mr. Obama knows not one tenth of one millionth of one percent of what Rajjpuut has forgotten about health care but ignorance as with the economy is not considered a handicap by wrong-way Barak.

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

** http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/i-pencil/

^^ http://jim.com/econ/chap02p1.html

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It’s Not Over, Till the Fat Lady Dies of a Coronary

                    While Wrong-Way Obama fumbles the former greatest nation on earth into mediocrity, and tries to force-feed us a pathetically unimaginative and expensive “health care reform" bill, Rajjpuut has been busy writing up a storm of health care blogs, to wit:

1.        A 13 blog series of anti FDA Rants stating the first step in improving the health care system in the United States is the complete eradication or total Redo of the Food and Drug Administration: easily the most corrupt entity in the country and cause of much of the health misery and a huge proportion of the health care costs.

2.      A 15-part series written from the perspective of a health educator; on what needs to be done to actually keep Americans healthy and dramatically reduce their health care costs.

3.      A blog on iatrogenic death and illnesses (4th leading cause of death) and the culpability of the AMA, doctors and especially the FDA and their friends at big Pharmaceuticals.profit.

4.      A blog detailing the obesity and morbid obesity epidemic in the U.S.

5.      Another blog detailing the connections between adult-onset diabetes, pre-diabetes, obesity, morbid obesity and 11 or 12 lethal or crippling diseases or conditions.

6.      The “auto-immune” scandal here in the United States and how it’s forcing patients into becoming lifetime subscribers of dangerous, expensive drugs that will NOT cure them ever and the FDA and AMA and Pharmaceutical culpability in this tragedy.

7.       Detailed facts about a 1976 study that dramatically cuts health care costs and gives participants 35 years of quality life they might not otherwise have: called the ‘Seven Golden Rules of Health.’               

                    Mr. Obama apparently was NOT paying attention . . . as this picture clearly shows . . . .

  

                 Clearly our president has a thing for obese women. His first Supreme Court nominee was a chunky lady,
which is neither here nor there. But when he names a woman 45-50 pounds overweight as his nominee for the United States Surgeon General, he shows just how out of step with reality he is. Unless he’s expecting Dr. Regina Benjamin to die of a heart attack within the first week on the job and thereby inspire the entire nation to follow Rajjpuut’s Seven Golden Rules of Health, he’s chosen the wrong person for the job. Regina Benjamin is suffering as part of our health care mess, she is definitely NOT the solution to it.

                    Benjamin’s whole history starts her off with 2.99999 strikes against her. When Obama introduced her he described her as “a relentless promoter of programs to fight preventable disease.” Wrong-way Barak, got it wrong again. Listen to the litany of bad habits she’s been surrounded with since childhood, in her own words . . . .

                Benjamin said her family could not be with her at the announcement because: her father died of the effects of high blood pressure and diabetes; her older brother died at age 44 from an HIV-related illness; her mother died of lung cancer after smoking since girlhood; her uncle and mother's twin brother, a lifetime smoker could not attend because, she said, “ he is at home struggling for each breath.” She went on to say, "I cannot change my family's past, but I can be a voice to improve our nation's health for the future,"

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

 

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