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Mammograms: you should wait to have them!
Well, that's what a government panel has recommended for women: waiting until they are 50 to start routine mammograms, despite decades of advising just the opposite.But the same wasn't true for women in their 40s. For these women, getting a mammogram every year had a bigger benefit: Their tumors were more likely to be found at an earlier stage if they got screened every year. In addition the panel also recommends that doctors stop teaching and recommending breast self-examinations. (!)
The left is frantically trying to downplay this ill-advised "advice" recently given out by the United States Preventive Services Task Force (which is a prototype for what kind of panels that would govern all manner of health care procedures in the various bills being considered by Democrats in Congress). But the truth is already out there: this is just a thinly disguised rationing plan. By moving the goalpost from 40 to 50 the government hopes to leapfrog the increased wait times that will occur with socialized medicine.
Can't get a mammogram when you are 40? Wait times of almost a year? No problem, you aren't supposed to get one until you are 50 so you're actually way ahead of the game! Ironically, the increasing wait-times of past years have been used by the left as a justification for government takeover!
Suckers.
Current Mood : determined 
Tags : health care, socialized medicine
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Let's say you get in your time machine and spin back to 2008. You convince politicians to invest $3 trillion instead of simply blowing it on bailouts and stimulus schemes.
Some samples of what could have been (or might be, depending on where you are in your time machine):
- $3 trillion invested in Apple stock at an average price of $80 a share yields 37.5 billion shares of Apple stock. Now ignoring the affect of buying (and selling) that much stuck, you could then sell it today at say an average price of $200 a share and return $7.5 trillion to the taxpayers and/or pay off an additional $4.5 trillion in debt.
- $3 trillion invested in gold at $75 an ounce yields 45 billion ounces of gold. Again ignoring the market distortions from buying/selling that much gold, selling it today at $105 an ounce yields $4.2 trillion.
- $3 trillion invested in a Dow Jones index fund would garner a 25% gain, or an additional $750 billion.
What he have instead are $3 trillion mostly wasted; either used to prop up companies that should have been allowed to go bankrupt or cycled through the Washington bureaucracy and then used to bribe voters into thinking money had been "spent" in their area "creating or saving" jobs.
This is one of the reasons they don't teach math or logic in many union-controlled schools. You can't bribe people with their own money if they know math and logic!
Now for all you people who think the "stimulus" was a great idea: please send me all of your money. I promise to travel right to your very neighborhood to spend most some of it! Think of all the jobs you'll create or save in the process!
Suckers.
Current Mood : The joke's on you! 
Tags : federal spending, obama administration, scandals
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They're also making up the places they've been "created" or "saved" in!
Ever been to the 99th Congressional district in the US Virgin Islands? Hopefully not because it doesn't exist! Yet recovery.gov shows that jobs were "created or saved" there. The administration is of course blaming "stupid people" for not knowing what district they are in. So someone who lives in the tiny island territory of the US Virgin Islands thinks they have more than one district? Seriously? And remember, these number are supposed to be "certified" by both the Obama administration and the recipients (the US Virgin Islands governor, among others) and these numbers are entered into the much ballyhooed "state of the art" website that is recovery.org. And nowhere along that way was any fact checking done? Then again, that does sound like a typical liberal policy/program, doesn't it?
I told you the Obama administration is just making up numbers and now they are even making up the places where these mythical jobs exist. Isn't it amazing how all these brilliant leaders of liberal administrations and entities keep hiring such incompetent people to execute their orders? Why everyone from ACORN to Obama is shocked, shocked they say, to find incompetent people carrying out their lawful, innocent orders. (I have several bridges to sell you if you bought that!)
And need I remind you yet again that this is exactly how the Obama administration wants to "count" people for the census!
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Tags : obama administration, scandals
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Have you heard the one about where a President uses money borrowed under a previous administration in an attempt to make is own outrageous deficits appear smaller?
Sadly, it's no joke. The Obama administration is proposing that money borrowed under TARP (during 2008) be used to "pay down the deficit" in the 2010 fiscal year. Remember when politicians told us we'd have another Great Depression if we didn't allocate this money immediately to save the financial markets? And here more than a year later it remains unused, along with most of a second round of even more massive "emergency" spending. (See the trend?)
If the Obama administration succeeds it will be a new low in corrupting democracy. In the future Democrats will simply borrow huge amounts of money at the end of Republican terms and then "reallocate" that money to pay down debts in a succeeding term of a Democrat. This makes the Republican spending look higher that it is and the Democrat spending lower than it is.
Talk about robbing George to pay Barrack! Unused TARP money should remain unused, as in unborrowed, as in the President rescinding the funds. With reports that anywhere from $400-600 billion was used from TARP funding that would make the 2008 deficit almost $200 billion lower. What Obama hopes to do, of course, is make his own outrageous deficits look $200 billion smaller.
Note to Democrats who parrot talking points: this is vastly different than Senator Brownback's proposal to pay down the federal debt with money repaid by firms that borrowed it. If you don't understand why you shouldn't be attempting to argue other people's talking points.
Current Mood : determined
Tags : bush administration, federal spending, obama administration, scandals
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This is why people have such a negative view of unions.
Let's see...the Boy Scouts vs. union thugs. I wonder who will win that popularity contest?
This just in: Nick Balzano and SEIU to sue Santa Claus over non-union workers, volunteers and the giving away of toys! :P
Hat tip: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) izuko
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The American people are realizing that whatever may sound good about socialized medicine in theory is in reality a clusterfuck of immense proportions.
How long will it take people like Paul Krugman to admit there's a difference? (The road to Hell and all that.)
Remember, once you give the government the power to make decisions on your behalf you will never, ever get it back short of a revolution or civil war.
Hat tip: writerspleasure
Current Mood : determined
Tags : obama administration, opinion, socialized medicine, society
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China hasn't shed all of it's Communist ways with its recent embrace of capitalism.
For example, it still embarks on massive building projects that serve no real purpose. The result: a city meant to house and employ 1 million people sits empty. That's right. Empty.
How bad would the construction bubble in the US have been if our government had been this involved in construction instead of merely using political pressure and fraud to promote construction?
Aren't you glad you've signed away your rights and responsibilities to the government so you could live happily as slaves? Maybe after the politically connected have lived in those bright, shiny new homes for 20-30 years the slavery class could live in them...while they were building the next "empty" city.
Remember: when a company makes mistakes it is (or should be) the shareholders who suffer the consequences. When the government messes up (or decides the firm is "too big to fail") then it is you, the taxpayer, who suffers.
Hat tip: writerspleasure
Current Mood : determined
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Because $46 billion in nothing compared to how much will be lost to fraud, waste and abuse when the government controls it all!
WASHINGTON – The government paid more than $47 billion in questionable Medicare claims including medical treatment showing little relation to a patient's condition, wasting taxpayer dollars at a rate nearly three times the previous year.
Quick, sign up for slavery before it's too late!
Current Mood : determined
Tags : government, health care, scandals
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The faux victim stories are making the rounds in the press. And just like all those jobs "saved or created" by Obama, no one can really point to a specific job but everyone has "estimates". And, of course, it is usually some poor, orphaned, Hispanic, black waif who fought in Iraq that suffers the most.
Never mind that careful analysis says those guesses are wrong:
Obamacare is predicated on the assumption that the federal government has the knowledge, capacity, and will to drive greater efficiency in American health care. Inadvertently, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has become an articulate spokesman for why that assumption is dead wrong.
We must press forward even if it kills us! And it probably will, too. Once our economy has been ruined by punitive taxes and our infrastructure destroyed by incorrect "priorities" we'll be left with little to rebuild with.
And that assumes that a majority of the population that voted itself into slavery will want out.
The Democrats may be evil, but they are not stupid. They've realized that they can't bully people into a plantation/segregated life but they can trick them into it. All the talk of the benevolent government taking care of all of your needs and protecting you from imagined enemies smacks of the stories that plantation masters used to tell their slaves. Only this time the slaves are eagerly lining up and volunteering to be enslaved.
Sadly, it has only taken a generation to get us here. It will take far longer to recover from the damage Democrat policies are going to cause. And it's not going to be pretty, either. Economic chains of the new slavery are just as confining as the iron chains of old slavery.
Current Mood : determined
Tags : democrats, economics, health care, obama administration, slavery
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About the geeky beauty named S.E. Cupp?
Seriously, flist, you are letting me down! (I'm looking at you, Josh, you have her friended on Facebook!)
Current Mood : silly 
Tags : just plain silly
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That's right. ACORN is claiming that Congress can't cut off funding for ACORN and doing so is "unconstitutional".
Meanwhile the FBI raids ACORN offices in New Orleans and several states are investigating the organization for a variety of crimes.
But hey, all that criminal activity is actually a sign that ACORN follows the law, according to ACORN press releases. No doubt receiving your tax dollars while committing crimes is one of those "shadow" rights in the Constitution that only liberals can see.
ETA: ACORN pleads poverty. Perhaps they should fire all those executives who keep approving criminal activities?
Current Mood : predatory 
Tags : acron, scandals
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This is what happens when states run out of your money.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – In Arizona, the budget has grown so gloomy that lawmakers are considering mortgaging Capitol buildings. In Michigan, state officials dealing with the nation's highest unemployment rate are slashing spending on schools and health care. (Emphasis mine.)
Aren't you glad your turned over your rights and responsibilities to the government?
Current Mood : determined
Tags : government, society
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I've been teaching a lot of 8th graders about the Constitution and Bill of Rights lately and I have to tell you even the most ill-informed of them still look like Constitutional scholars next to most members of Congress and the executive branch.
I was discussing Amendments 9 and 10 with students and of course, health care and whether it is a "right" like others found in the Constitution. I never revealed my own stances on this issue and was quite pleased that the vast majority of them, after discussing the issue and the intent of the Founders concluded that health care was not a right included in the Constitution and that if the people wanted it to be a right then it rested with the people or the states to make it so and if it was to be at the federal level (as a power delegated by the people) then the Constitution should be amended to reflect that.
All in favor of replacing the current Congress with this batch of 8th graders?
Current Mood : pleased
Tags : congress, constitution, education, health care, society
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Take a moment to remember veterans past, to thank present veterans and to make a wish that we will continue to be blessed with such people in the future.
Current Mood : proud
Tags : veterans, veterans day
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1) Cao (the Republican (for now) Representative who voted for the slavery bill) will switch to the Democratic Party.
2) Democrats know that the economic/monetary shit will hit the fan and they only have a very short window to trick the people into approving massive new spending programs so they will attempt to festoon them with fake incentives like tax cuts ("targeted", of course) which never really kick-in. (Just like their promised "spending cuts" of the 80s and 90s.)
3) Barack Obama will approve a few more troops for Afghanistan while at the same time announcing to have "changed" the Bush era policies and even though he already has more troops deployed to the region that Bush ever did he will claim to have "reduced" American presence there. He will then cut a deal with Iran where Iran pretends to help with Afghanistan while Obama sells out Israel.
4) Obama will also pretend that 8 million jobs haven't been lost since he took office and will continue to claim that "lots" of jobs have been "saved or created" by his massive stimulus bill (which has both not really taken effect yet and already saved us).
5) Sarah Palin will hit #1 on the best seller chart and be invited on Oprah.
ETA: Sarah about her appearance on Oprah. Should I make this "again"? :D
6) Obama will attempt a "back door" attack on Fox News by attacking their licensing through the FCC and attempting to reinstate the "fairness" doctrine. (Similar to the way Clinton used the IRS to attack his enemies.)
7) The Democrats in Congress will pass (another) massive tax increase under the guise of "soaking the rich" and "reducing" the deficit.
8) The Democrats will use tragedies involving guns to attempt another ban on guns.
9) Obama will reduce the size of the US navy by mothballing boomers and fleet carriers.
10) US GDP growth will never exceed 4% annually until socialism (and slavery) are rolled back.
Current Mood : busy
Tags : congress, democrats, obama administration, predictions, society
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