Conn Carroll – Washington Examiner Senior Editorial Writer, September 27, 2011

Health insurance premiums paid by most Americans rose 9% this year, sending the average annual cost of family coverage past $15,000, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation’s annual Employer Health Benefits survey. Between 2009 and 2010, while Obamacare was being debated, health insurance premiums rose only 3%.

The survey estimates that 2.3 million adult children were added to their parent’s employer health plan due to the Affordable Care Act. Charging higher premiums is one way insurance companies can help pay for the mandated increased care.

Other elements of Obamacare are also clearly failing. Only one-third of small businesses even attempted to determine if they are eligible for Obamacare tax credits, and only a third of those businesses said they intend to claim the credit. That means close to 90% of all small businesses will not be helped by Obamacare.

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/health-premiums-spike-obamacare-implemented

William McCullough

There are a number of stories in the blogosphere the last few days alleging that Arizona Rep.  Raul Grijalva, a known socialist and former member of MECHA, the pro Mexican, ATZLAN movement, is also closely connected to the Communist Party USA. That tweaked my curiosity – sometimes that curiosity can lead to other things….

After a number of searches I stumbled upon a press release in the Peoples World, the voice piece of the  so called “Progressive Socialists”  also the propaganda organ of the Communist Party USA. Before going further I will assure those old enough to remember I am not heralding any views of the late Robert Welch, founder of the now defunct John Birch Society, though that organization was ahead of it’s times with some of it’s allegations about radical socialist infiltration of the U.S.  government.

However, given Barack Obama’s predisposition to undermine the U.S. Constitution and the American tradition of free enterprise capitalism, one might think that Obama himself is the test tube baby specifically engineered to carry out the radical socialist agenda of the American Socialist Party, along with his allies in the Congressional Progressive Caucus who themselves are part of Obama’s ‘hope and change’ agenda. Rep. Raul Grijalva is chair of that committee.  And as they say , “the proof is in the pudding.” Just my opinion….WM

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel….Vladimir Lenin

Congressional Progressive Caucus launches “People’s Budget”

Marilyn Bechtel – Peoples World.org, April 13, 2011

“We are the world America – get used to it….” 

James Lewis – The American Thinker, September 26, 2011

The president of the United States has just destroyed the longest-lasting peace treaty in the Middle East.  That Nobel Prize-winning treaty between Egypt and Israel was destroyed by Obama in broad daylight, right in front of God and everybody, with stunning audacity.

The White House kept repeating the message that Mubarak must resign, and “now means now.”  This is simply unprecedented, even during the height of the Cold War.  American presidents don’t demand in public that their crucial allies resign. It is a diplomatic insult of unprecedented proportions.

And yet — Obama said nothing when Iran’s genocide-threatening regime killed and tortured thousands of demonstrators at the start of Obama’s administration.  He has said nothing about Syria’s Assad sending tanks to fire on rebels in the city of Homs.  He said nothing when the Saudis sent troops into Bahrain to violently suppress protests.  Indeed, the White House has actively aided repression by regimes much worse than Mubarak was — regimes in Yemen, Somalia, and Iran.

So what’s going on?  Was it just another opportunistic chance for Obama to parade his overweening ego?  Or was it more sinister?

Mubarak was the thirty-year strongman who preserved the single biggest pillar of Middle East peace, the Egypt-Israel peace treaty.  USA Today predicted that the peace treaty was in danger when Mubarak fell.  Everybody knew.  The Israelis kept telling Obama, and the Egyptians and Saudis must have done that as well.  The Saudis, who are now facing a nuclear Iran fifty miles away, are walking away from their decades-long alliance with the United States.  Nobody trusts American guarantees anymore.

Obama did it, knowing that the Arab world would break down into near-universal civil war.  The so-called “Arab Spring” is a fraud.   Continue reading “Obama Is Dangerous for Peace” »

The Telegraph (UK) reported that ‘lil’ Timmy Geithner, Obama’s genius in the Treasury Department, accused China of “systematically stealing” American companies intellectual properties….[1]

You wouldn’t believe what my fortune cookie said….

Is this really ‘new’ news? I think not. Ever since Nixon and Kissinger opened the door to China, the Chinese have been in many cases, not only by espionage, overtly stealing intellectual properties as well as classified military technology. Unfortunately they are enabled by  America Corporate entities like General Electric who are who are only interested in their  bottom line.

 With that said when we see Jeffrey Immelt sitting on Obama’s board of ‘economic advisers,’ we are looking at a surrogate, in my opinion, of the Chinese government. Further Immelt’s presence in the Obama administration only confirms that Barack Obama’s intentions are suspect.

But you will not hear that cry from his main stream propaganda organs like the NY Times or Washington Post or the administrations various ‘cable’ news organs like MSNBC.

We might then safely assume that Geithner’s unusually “blunt attack” in Chinese theft of our ‘properties’ is akin to a bad case of flatulence being described as something else.  Just my opinion.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/china-business/8785611/US-Treasury-Secretary-Tim-Geithner-blasts-China-for-systematically-stealing-US-intellectual-property.html

William McCullough

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things….Robert Southey

Apparently Chairman Obama  can’t stop lying. Last week he promised that he would cut back on excessive regulations.  Apparently the Obama administration has no benchmark for what is or isn’t excessive.

The newest ‘excessive’ regulation to come down the pike from  the EPA’s commissar, Lisa Jackson, is the banning of over the counter asthma inhalers which cannot be sold after December 31, 2011. According to the EPA those inhalers are harming the environment and yes, no doubt by rote, helping contribute to man made global warming.

To justify the new and more expensive inhalers the EPA wrote, according to an article written by Megan McArdle, Senior Editor of the Atlantic Monthly, herself an asthmatic is that: 

Studies show that HFA inhalers are as effective as CFC inhalers and have the same rate of side effects. But if they are not used properly, patients will not get adequate doses. There are three critical differences. [1]

McArdle countered the EPA claim by writing that the use of HFA inhalers are not up to the standards of the less expensive inhalers:

HFA inhalers must be pumped four times to prime them — a number that was not so critical with the more forgiving CFC inhalers, said Dr. Leslie Hendeles, professor of pharmacy and pediatrics at the University of Florida. And each brand of the newer inhaler requires a different frequency of priming.

HFA inhalers have a weaker spray. “It’s very soft so people think it’s not working,” Dr. Stoloff said. Where CFC inhalers deliver a powerful force that feels as if the airway is being pushed open, the newer ones provide a warm, soft mist that also has a distinct taste.

They also require a slower inhale. “You have to take a nice slow, deep breath and hold it,” Ms. Sander said. If people worry that it’s not working, they may not take the second puff, may fail to wait the necessary 30 seconds between puffs or may take too many puffs. And their anxiety may rise, further constricting their airways. 

In a take off piece from the original article the Weekly Standard reported that the over  the counter inhalers  run about $ 2o dollars a piece compared to the prescription versions which cost $30 to $60 dollars a piece. [2]

This regulation is of course just more bureaucratic bullshit and I would be willing to bet that PHARMA is behind it. It is well known though never printed in the mainstream propaganda organs that PHARMA contributed heavily to Rep. Henry Waxman (D – CA) and  Senator Max Bachus (D – MT) and a host of other Democrats to get the so called ‘healthcare reform bill’ passed – a law that was written by K St. lobbyists and lawyers for the PHARMA. The real motive behind this new ‘regulation’ I would hazard, is a move to increase the drug companies bottom line.

Now, you might ask what about those poor who can’t afford the more expensive prescription? Simple, Obama’s health care bill will cover those added costs. I have coined a new term for this kind of back door collusion between politicians, the corrupt Obama administration and the K St. lobbyists: synergistic criminal collusion, or for the simple minded, one hand washing the other – screw the public. Just my opinion.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/05/the-patients-are-the-problem/17578/

[2] http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-administration-ban-asthma-inhalers-over-environmental-concerns_594113.html