Bob Costats must feel fairly comfortable in his NBC gig, that or he is following the company line. On the Dan Patrick show this morning, Bob goes off on the racism and sexism as a part of Augustas history and how somebody should point that out as a commentator.
So all of the sudden Costas has come out on race and gun control in his position as a sports commentator, what a petty little liberal man.
Obamacare was promoted by people who care about our health care.
The stock prices of corporate health care soared after Justice Robert’s ruling. These are the true beneficiaries and the reason this legislation was pushed. Rather than serve customers and profit from this market action, these corporate hospital players will extract their loot from the taxpayers, the quality of their product or service divorced from any quality or value perception by the patient. Poor patient care in hospitals will now be treated the same as poor outcomes in public schools. More money will be thrown at them. This model of rewarding incompetence will insure that the health care bureaucrats, those who promoted this “law,” will thrive.
– G. Keith Smith, M.D.
To President Obama and all 535 voting members of the Legislature, it is now official that the majority of you are corrupt morons:
a. The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775. You have had 234 years to get it right and it is broke.
b. Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 74 years to get it right and it is broke.
c. Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 71 years to get it right and it is broke.
d. War on Poverty started in 1964. You have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to “the poor” and they only want more.
e. Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. You have had 44 years to get it right and they are broke.
f. Freddie Mac was established in 1970. You have had 39 years to get it right and it is broke.
g. The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year and we import more oil than ever before. You had 32 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.
You have FAILED in every “government service” you have shoved down our throats while overspending our tax dollars.
AND YOU WANT AMERICANS TO BELIEVE YOU CAN BE TRUSTED WITH A GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM??
How about some private sector math shall we. And to be clear…I hate shopping at Wal-Mart!
1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart Every hour of every day.
2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!
3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick’s Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.
4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target +Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.
5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people, is the world’s largest private employer, and most speak English.
6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the world.
7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger and Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in only fifteen years.
8. During this same period, 31 big supermarket chains sought bankruptcy.
9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.
10. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are Super Centers; this is 1,000 more than it had five years ago.
11. This year 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at Wal-Mart stores. (Earth’s population is approximately 6.5 Billion.)
12. 90% of all Americans live within fifteen miles of a Wal-Mart. MAYBE we should hire the guys who run Wal-Mart to fix the economy.
From Daily Finance:
The Environmental Protection Agency decreed in 2010 that Maryland had to stop so much stormwater runoff from draining into the Bay, a project that would cost $14.8 billion. To pay for that, authorities decided to tax “impervious surfaces” — in the words of The Gazette, “anything that prevents rainwater from seeping into the earth (roofs, driveways, patios, sidewalks, etc.) thereby causing stormwater runoff.”
This solution is being called — with the combined goodwill these two concepts evoke — a rain tax.
Faced with the EPA’s orders, the state has required its 10 largest counties — Montgomery, Prince George’s, Howard, Anne Arundel, Carroll, Hartford, Charles, Frederick, Baltimore counties and Baltimore city — to raise the revenue. Rain taxes are to take effect in these areas by July 1.
Perhaps even more disturbing than the duty itself is the manner in which property owners’ obligations will be calculated: According to the Gazette, “satellite imagery and geographic information systems” will be used to measure the area of roofs and driveways.
Homeowners will bear the brunt of the rain tax: of the $14.8 billion to be raised — $482 million each year until 2025 — about three-quarters will come from residential property owners. The rate is expected to start at $100 a year for most homeowners, although that could rise. The only rain tax shelter: credits and exemptions for property owners who follow stormwater “best practices.”
How the hell does the EPA have any right to force taxes on anyone, they were not elected to any office. What happened to “No Taxation Without Representation”? Maryland should have fought this tooth and nail…think Texas or Oklahoma would have put up with this shit?? Doubt it.
