A Nod To The Gods

I wonder how many people could have been fed with the taxpayer money they spent on this fiasco.
Rumor has it the dress cost $12,000.00 and the dinner was in the $300,000.00 range. For one dinner!

Boehner and the boys have decided to give Obama a clean debt ceiling. Nothing, nada, zero asked in return. So what is Obama to consider next time there is a legislative battle with Republicans? When the GOP ostensibly puts its foot down, do you think there will be shivers running down the administrations spine? Doubt it.

Obama did things that no other president has done during the shutdown to make it as painful as possible for the American people. There has been a government shutdown with every president except for George W. Bush and none of them closed national parks, museums, memorials. But Obama did. And he has got the GOP freaked out that he would do it again.

So what did we gain by caving to Obama the first time? Nothing. Republicans should have insisted on changes they wanted, no matter how long the shutdown lasted. No Obama knows how to deal with these spineless wimps. Play hardball, something Republicans refuse to do.

Maybe, maybe not. But it may take more than elections.

Brazen public corruption will only stop when forced. Talking…complaining…dissecting are warmly welcomed by the political class — because it means you’re not prepared to force.  The political class is reassured by your talking & complaining, and hopes it goes on forever………

I don’t care if this is commonly done by all Presidents, it is a practice that needs to stop.

http://youtu.be/2uQlJy3TY3E

A Nod to Theo Spark for the link

Well if it’s not it should be. Notice how he mentions how Obamacare is keeping the expensive healthcare model in place and adding bureaucracy. Common sense is hard to argue, political greed and corruption is the only thing standing in the way.

The proper solution to the crisis resulting from enormously expensive healthcare is not to leave the expensive business model in place and then finance it with tax money, but to cause its price to implode to affordable levels by removing all the state-enforced monopolies and institutional frameworks that make it so expensive. Imagine a society where one of Pfizer’s $10 pills cost fifty cents, an MRI was $250, outpatient treatments and tests were covered by $70/month dues at a cooperative clinic, and catastrophic insurance was $50/month. That’s what we’d have if corporate-state collusion and monopoly were replaced by competitive markets and horizontal cooperation.

Before you make something “free,” think long and hard; you may also be making it compulsory.

— Kevin Carson, When Basic Services Are Guaranteed As a “Right”