Corrupt Obama Administration Bribes American Medical Association

The Ways and Means Republicans forwarded Hal Sherz's Wall Street Journal article, according to which the health care law includes a provision facilitating large payments to the American Medical Association from now on.  In return, the AMA has supported Obama's moronic health reform.  Here is what Sherz says:

"It is essential to understand the primary reason the AMA stands alongside President Obama on health-care reform. The organization wants to protect a monopoly that the federal government has created for it—a medical coding system administered by the AMA that every health-care professional and hospital must use if they wish to get paid for the services they provide. This monopoly generates income of $70 million to $100 million annually for the AMA. That makes the AMA less an association looking out for doctors and more a special-interest group beholden to Congress and the White House."

One thinks of the creation of monopolies for privileged businesses as a Republican pattern.  But the Democrats seem to excel the GOP in every branch of corruption, inlcuding subsidies to special business interests.

Farmers Find Hayseed (Really) Solution to Oil Spill

Contrairimairi sent me the video below.  The Department of Energy employs more than 16,000 full time bureaucrats and 100,000 contractors.  CW Roberts and his colleague show how to solve the oil spill problem.  We can replace the entire Department of Energy with these two guys. They've produced more value in this video than 16,000 bureaucrats and 100,000 contractors. 


Check out Mitchell Langbert's blog: http://www.mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com

Explosive Solution

I just received this message from Contrairimairi who received it in turn from Mark.


The Airport Solution 

 Here's a solution to all the controversy over full-body scanners at the airports. 

Have a booth that you can step into that will not X-ray you, but will detonate any explosive device you may have on you.

It would be a win-win for everyone, and there would be none of this crap about racial profiling and this method would eliminate a long and expensive trial.  Justice would be quick and swift.  Case closed!

This is so simple that it's brilliant.  I can see it now: you're in the airport terminal and you hear a muffled explosion. 

Shortly thereafter an announcement comes over the PA system, "Attention standby passengers we now have a seat available on flight number..."

Jim Crum on the Greek Welfare State: Civic Not Official Corruption Leads to Decline

I wonder how long it will be before we see similar kinds of riots in our more civilly corrupt states like New York, California and Illinois.  Jim Crum writes:

 

I watched with interest the riots going on in Athens and Thessaloniki this morning.  During interviews there were the typical efforts to blame corrupt politicians. Is this correct?  The answer is both yes and no.Official corruption did not lead to this.  Civic corruption did.

 

Apparently, this unavoidable and quite profound irony is lost on thousands of Greeks and nearly every reporter.The welfare state corrupts both the spirit and the soul.   Left in place long enough and the fires of industry will also slowly die out.  

 

The country is financially exhausted due to bloated public unions that run nearly everything from hospitals, to taxis, to cleaning services.  Such unions punished hard work and rewarded poor behavior.  Left unchecked for over a generation, it has led to enormous misallocation of resources that have literally drained the treasury of money and the national psyche of civic virtue.

 

Now the piper has called the tune that no one wishes to dance to.Sadly there seems to be an accepted concept that there is a right to be supported by someone else.  But we are now seeing what happens when socialism “runs out of other people’s money”.  It’s right there on our TV screens, rampaging through the streets of Athens.

 

So far, those rioting and the political liberals seem willfully ignorant of the forces at work.How long will it be until they wake up?