I just received this e-mail from Phil Orenstein, a leader of the pro-freedom movement in the Borough of Queens, NYC. Phil had the courage to stand up for freedom and proclaim Professor Sharad Karkhanis "educator of the year" on behalf of the Queens Village Republican Club when the dastardly faculty union's, the Professional Staff Congress's henchman, "Sue" O'Malley, attacked Professor Karkhanis via a bogus law suit.
TEA PARTY AGAINST SOCIALIZED HEALTHCARE
OBAMACARE: TAXATION WITHOUT MEDICATION
Thursday, July 30th 6:00 to 8:00 PM
South Parking Lot Broadway Mall (near Macy's)/Sackett St., Hicksville. L.I.
Guest Speaker: Dr. Betsy McCaughey
Health Policy Expert and former Lt. Governor of New York State. Founder and Chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths
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Dr. Betsy McCaughey, recently wrote an Op-ed in the New York Post entitled Deadly Doctors: O advisers want to ration care about the chilling prospect of denying healthcare services and benefits for the elderly or the terminally infirm. One of Obama’s top health policy advisors, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of Rahm Emanuel, is the driving force behind the push for a healthcare policy for “social justice” instead of meeting the needs of the patient. It’s called sacrificing grandma for the greater good. Dr. McCaughey, who has actually read the bill which most of our representatives haven’t, has also reported that on page 424 of the House bill America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, there is a clause to deny healthcare for the elderly, who will be subject to mandatory counseling sessions to consider "end of life" options. Take a pain pill instead of surgery or other expensive treatment options because in a “just” society the money could be better spent on the more able-bodied and fit.
As the August recess nears, Obamacare is being fast-tracked through the Senate and House back-rooms and out to the floor in the next few days in order to pass socialized medicine for all Americans. Not only is this a colossal government power grab, but when it comes to our health, here is where we must draw the line in the sand against putting government bureaucrats between us and our doctors. As the Congressional Budget office reported, it will not reduce healthcare costs, but will increase the federal deficit and cost over $1 trillion. Our representatives are supposed to represent us. How can they represent us when they don’t even read the bills which they are trying to pass before the public finds out what’s really in them. We should call our representatives to protest fast-tracking the bill this week and attend the Tea Party in Hicksville, L.I. on Thursday to make our voices heard before this irreversible government intrusion into our lives and our healthcare transpires. Be there.
TEA PARTY AGAINST SOCIALIZED HEALTHCARE
OBAMACARE: TAXATION WITHOUT MEDICATION
Thursday, July 30th 6:00 to 8:00 PM
South Parking Lot Broadway Mall (near Macy's)/Sackett St., Hicksville. L.I.
Sponsored by Individuals United for Freedom
Go to Website for more information: http://www.meetup.com/Individuals-United-for-Freedom-Meetup-Group/
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Nancy Razik on the Authors of the Obamanable Health Care Plan
>>Obama Health Care Plan encourages elderly to consider suicide to curb rising healthcare costs
>"These people are crazy, evil, Godless, and need to be put out of office immediately. Where did they come from? They must be aliens from another planet.
"Possessed! Insane! Ruthless!"
>"These people are crazy, evil, Godless, and need to be put out of office immediately. Where did they come from? They must be aliens from another planet.
"Possessed! Insane! Ruthless!"
Why Government Is Incompetent: Fausta on The Obamanable Health Care Plan
In Roman history Fausta was the wife of Emperor Constantine, the first Christian Emperor. Constantine had Fausta executed by putting her in an overheated bath and forcing her to stay there. My wife always says one of her greatest fears is being permanently locked in a steam room.
In any case, today's Fausta is an excellent blogger who makes an important point (h/t Larwyn):
>During his speech at a National Press Club luncheon, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.), questioned the point of lawmakers reading the health care bill.
“I love these members, they get up and say, ‘Read the bill,’” said Conyers.
“What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?”
When I worked in Albany for the ways and means committee in 1991 (I was a Democrat at that point) I noticed the same phenomenon. The members did not read the bills. Likewise, a perusal of Robert Caro's classic Powerbroker, which is about Robert Moses, describes how Moses repeatedly took advantage of this phenomenon to ram through laws that gave himself extraordinary powers that no one knew about until after the fact.
Rationality is a rare commodity. In the 1950s James March and Herbert Simon described managers as behaving in ways that are consistent with "bounded rationality". There are, they argued, cognitive limits on rationality. Earlier, Walter Lippmann argued that the public cannot possibly understand the political questions that it is asked to decide upon. Friedrich Hayek, the great Austrian economist, argued that because information is difficult to obtain, in the economy a simple signaling process is necessary. In a free economy that signal is price. No such signal exists in state dominated economies, which is why they are inefficient.
Supposedly, the political process is a matter of redistribution of wealth, who gets what, when and how, as Harold Lasswell put it. But a more important question is: who knows how to do it? The answer with respect to government is generally--"we don't know".
The process of political engagement is largely a smokescreen whereby special interests extract rents. This observation has been explored by economists such as Mancur Olson and George Stigler. The process of rent extraction by academic social democrats and their corporate clients has traditionally involved using the poor or working class as a ruse. De Jouvenal shows that this tactic goes back to the days of Septimius Severus and carried forward through the middle ages.
The health care plan is not a serious plan. Rather, it reflects the brokerage of corrupt special interests. How do I know this despite not having the slightest idea of what is in the plan, just like Mr. Conyers?
In any case, today's Fausta is an excellent blogger who makes an important point (h/t Larwyn):
>During his speech at a National Press Club luncheon, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.), questioned the point of lawmakers reading the health care bill.
“I love these members, they get up and say, ‘Read the bill,’” said Conyers.
“What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?”
When I worked in Albany for the ways and means committee in 1991 (I was a Democrat at that point) I noticed the same phenomenon. The members did not read the bills. Likewise, a perusal of Robert Caro's classic Powerbroker, which is about Robert Moses, describes how Moses repeatedly took advantage of this phenomenon to ram through laws that gave himself extraordinary powers that no one knew about until after the fact.
Rationality is a rare commodity. In the 1950s James March and Herbert Simon described managers as behaving in ways that are consistent with "bounded rationality". There are, they argued, cognitive limits on rationality. Earlier, Walter Lippmann argued that the public cannot possibly understand the political questions that it is asked to decide upon. Friedrich Hayek, the great Austrian economist, argued that because information is difficult to obtain, in the economy a simple signaling process is necessary. In a free economy that signal is price. No such signal exists in state dominated economies, which is why they are inefficient.
Supposedly, the political process is a matter of redistribution of wealth, who gets what, when and how, as Harold Lasswell put it. But a more important question is: who knows how to do it? The answer with respect to government is generally--"we don't know".
The process of political engagement is largely a smokescreen whereby special interests extract rents. This observation has been explored by economists such as Mancur Olson and George Stigler. The process of rent extraction by academic social democrats and their corporate clients has traditionally involved using the poor or working class as a ruse. De Jouvenal shows that this tactic goes back to the days of Septimius Severus and carried forward through the middle ages.
The health care plan is not a serious plan. Rather, it reflects the brokerage of corrupt special interests. How do I know this despite not having the slightest idea of what is in the plan, just like Mr. Conyers?
Citizens Against Government Waste Formats Anti-Obamanable Health Care Letter
Citizens Against Government Waste has posted an excellent formatted letter that you can e-mail to your representatives. The letter is here, and they can forward it to your representatives for you. They write:
Tell Congress: Vote NO on Obama/Pelosi/Reid Healthcare Reform!
1. Complete the form below with your information.
2. Make your letter stand out! Please take a moment to personalize the subject and text of the message on the right with your own words, if you wish.
3. Click the Next Step button to send your letter to these decision makers:
* Your Senators
* Your Representative
]
I am writing to express my strong opposition to any healthcare "reform" legislation that inflates the federal deficit and national debt even further, imposes new taxes and mandates on individuals and businesses during this economic recession, and includes a government-run plan that would ultimately crowd out the private insurance market.
With our nation facing a $1.8 trillion deficit this year and a national debt that is expected to nearly double from $11.4 trillion today to almost $21 trillion over the next 10 years, we simply can't afford a new $1 trillion-plus healthcare program.
What's more, the higher taxes and costly mandates on individuals and businesses that Congress is proposing to pay for this new program could not come at a worse time with families struggling to make ends meet and the national unemployment rate approaching double digits.
But perhaps worst of all, a government-run option that would expand the federal bureaucracy and compete with private insurance plans will only move this country down the slippery slope of a single-payer, socialized healthcare system. Such a system would restrict my choice of doctors, treatments, and medicines and erode the quality of care that my family and I receive.
A better way to expand coverage for the uninsured while preserving the high quality of healthcare we enjoy as Americans would be to enact meaningful tort reform to curb frivolous medical malpractice lawsuits that drive up costs. There are also numerous free-market proposals, such as providing tax credits for purchasing private insurance coverage, that would reduce the ranks of the uninsured.
Again, I urge you to reject any healthcare legislation that burdens taxpayers and our economy, expands the federal bureaucracy, and restricts my choice of doctors, treatments, and medicines.
Tell Congress: Vote NO on Obama/Pelosi/Reid Healthcare Reform!
1. Complete the form below with your information.
2. Make your letter stand out! Please take a moment to personalize the subject and text of the message on the right with your own words, if you wish.
3. Click the Next Step button to send your letter to these decision makers:
* Your Senators
* Your Representative
]
I am writing to express my strong opposition to any healthcare "reform" legislation that inflates the federal deficit and national debt even further, imposes new taxes and mandates on individuals and businesses during this economic recession, and includes a government-run plan that would ultimately crowd out the private insurance market.
With our nation facing a $1.8 trillion deficit this year and a national debt that is expected to nearly double from $11.4 trillion today to almost $21 trillion over the next 10 years, we simply can't afford a new $1 trillion-plus healthcare program.
What's more, the higher taxes and costly mandates on individuals and businesses that Congress is proposing to pay for this new program could not come at a worse time with families struggling to make ends meet and the national unemployment rate approaching double digits.
But perhaps worst of all, a government-run option that would expand the federal bureaucracy and compete with private insurance plans will only move this country down the slippery slope of a single-payer, socialized healthcare system. Such a system would restrict my choice of doctors, treatments, and medicines and erode the quality of care that my family and I receive.
A better way to expand coverage for the uninsured while preserving the high quality of healthcare we enjoy as Americans would be to enact meaningful tort reform to curb frivolous medical malpractice lawsuits that drive up costs. There are also numerous free-market proposals, such as providing tax credits for purchasing private insurance coverage, that would reduce the ranks of the uninsured.
Again, I urge you to reject any healthcare legislation that burdens taxpayers and our economy, expands the federal bureaucracy, and restricts my choice of doctors, treatments, and medicines.
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