Considered: Taxing Your Health Benefits

Demorats consider this is one way to fund ObamaKare:

The idea of taxing employee health-care benefits to raise money for an overhaul of the health system is gaining strength in Congress, although it drew criticism from Barack Obama when he was campaigning for president.

Experts lined up Tuesday before the Senate Finance Committee and said it is one of the best ways to pay for a health-care overhaul. Many top Democrats support the concept.

But here is the reality:

Americans will say to themselves silently or publicly:

“Screw this. If you tax me then I’m going to ensure I get my money’s worth.”

Which means:

Health care visits for their own sake — going up.

And with more persons entered into the system to make a point or otherwise: unable to handle.

You want federal Health Care? You want ObamaKare?

Then you’ll get the courtesty, consideration, rationality, proportion, logic, efficiency and provision of your local DMV. Or your local VA hospital.

Just ask a couple of soldiers awaiting consultation.

BZ

Why Conservatives Will Never Win:

Jim Knapp, a writer from The Sacramento Citizen, has written an article first appearing in The Sacramento Insider, entitled “Why Conservatives Will Never Win.”

In this article he writes, in part:

Conservatives will never win because they can’t organize, it’s that simple. While they claim to be the “silent majority,” they are silent for a good reason; they are unable to speak with a unified voice, or for a common cause. They ramble on about taxes, big government and social programs, yet nothing will change because they simply can’t organize, and much of their leadership cannot be honest with the public.

Take the Tea Party “movement,” it evolved (only via heavy marketing by FOX news, despite vehement denials) in response to the largest political shift in American history, so they had their protests, FOX news doubled their ratings, then, nothing…zero…nada…

Republicans surely can’t help conservatives; The national & state GOP have divined that the Party needs to shift further to the Left to compete with Democrats. The California GOP recently provided the necessary votes for the largest tax increase in the state’s history. Our “Republican” Governor has outspent his predecessor, the disgraced & recalled tax-and-spend-liberal Gray Davis, by some 45%!

The GOP appears to be imploding, citizens are leaving the party in droves, even former GOP campaign superstar Joe the Plumber. Nationwide, less than 24% are now registered as Republicans. For the first time in history, those registered as Independents outnumber those registered as Republican or Democrat. Independents, America’s largest registered group, have no party representation, and besides the disorganized TP’ers, there is no third party remotely on the horizon. So where does that leave the average conservative? Out in the cold, without a political party, our wallets being fleeced, our childrens futures being threatened, all while being force fed government cheese.

Mr Knapp wraps up:

For full disclosure, I am a conservative, and not a Bush/Clinton era neo-conservative, but an old-school-America-first-anti-illegal-immigration-gun-toting-tractor-drivingflag-waving-Pat-Buchannan-loving-paleo-conservative. This leaves me and tens of millions like me, without any political representation and very frustrated. I believe that we ARE in fact the silent majority; I believe that we could take back our country from the grasp of socialism and I believe that the movement could easily evolve into a third party movement…there has been no better time in our history for a third party; if only we could get a few of the so called “conservative” organizers out of our way.

Once written, a very large Fornicalia “conservative organizer” named Mark Meckler (who organized the Sacramento, Fornicalia TEA Party) responded in the comment section of the listed article, again in part:

Perhaps in your world view, where the only thing that matters is the formation of a third party, what we have done is “nothing…zero…nada.” In my world, having activists for fiscally responsible government involved constantly and at all levels of government, holding officials’ feet the fire, represents a turning point in recent American politics. I’m proud to be involved in that, and proud of all the real folks on the ground around the nation who are volunteering their time and efforts, and making it happen. You can criticize them if you like, but what are you doing to change things other than complaining about those who are actually doing the hard work on the ground?

The tea party movement itself has existed for all of two and a half months. I’m sorry you expect more out of those of us who are trying to grow this nascent movement into a permanent national force. We’re honest, hard working volunteers doing the best we can. Perhaps you could assist us in doing the things you claim we are failing to do, instead choosing to lie, whine and write about things of which you clearly know so little. And perhaps, if you think a third political party is the appropriate route to take at this time, you can get up from behind your computer, put your boots on the ground and get organizing. If you can do it honestly, without the types of intentional libel, incorrect assumptions and innuendo that make up the majority of your writing in this article, I for one will support you in doing so. I think any attempt to rattle the current power structure is worth doing, and rather than attack you for doing something, I’d support you in your honest efforts. Me…I’m not a politician, have no desire to be a politician, and don’t like political parties. I understand they are necessary in our system, but I don’t personally want to form or be part of one. You seem to want to form one. So I think you should.

People have written most recently about the possible formation of a Third Party. This primarily because the Republican Party seems to be purposely stepping away from a Conservative philosophy and wants to acquire, quote, “more persons under the tent.”

I submit the following to be Truths with regard to Conservatism:

  1. Conservatives are up in arms because President Bush abandoned the very First Tenet: fiscal Conservatism and smaller government;
  2. More of “everyone” in the Republican Tent and you have no more GOP; you have the Demorats;
  3. If the Republican Party were to once again truly embrace Conservatism and not abandon its voter base and core philosophies, it would find itself again flooded with cash and votes.
This current iteration of the Republican Party still doesn’t seem to “get it” — which is why its foundation of Conservatives are fragmented and leaving the party, disaffected, cast aside, ignored.

It’s not simply an axiom but a truism when I and others write: “I didn’t leave the GOP; the GOP left me.”

Question:

Can the GOP be resurrected?

BZ

Guaranteed Failure For American Automakers

If you wish to ensure that American automakers — at this point, Chrysler, Ford, GM — fail, Mr Obama, then simply keep to your current course.

And make no mistake, ladies and gentlemen; Mr Obama is clearly agenda-driven and that agenda is this:

  • Corporations bad;
  • Bigger corporations worse;
  • Unions and workers good;
  • Government best;
  • American cars too big;
  • Too representative of an overbearing America;
  • America needs to be humbled;
  • Obama will do the humbling;
  • With him in charge, of course: The Decider;
Therefore, with Mr Obama essentially in charge of larger corporations, with larger banks, investment centers and other firms, he will be afforded the ability to enable this aforementioned agenda and more.

With that in mind, it is no surprise, is it, that not only is GM to seek bankruptcy (Are there any of my readers who couldn’t see that writing on the wall last year?) but that it is considering leaving Detroit behind?

Again, what I’m about to write will come as little shock to the bulk of my readers, but more writing is clearly on the wall and that is this:

Mr Obama is guaranteeing the absolute failure of the entire American auto industry.

When Chrysler is forced to merge with Fiat — the blind leading the blind — Americans will receive the Fiat 500, Alfa Romeos and other “winning” vehicles with very poor JD Power ratings in customer satisfaction. All of these will be roughly the side of a breadbox. And customer satisfaction is the very last considered aspect of Mr Obama in this regard.

GM will likewise be forced into selling tin boxes.

Ford will find it more and more difficult to compete with automakers with the backing and force of the federal government behind them.

Ethanol-fueled vehicles will continue to be forced upon the public (ethanol being one of the most corruptive — fiscally and due to its source, corn, and environmentally — scams ever foisted), as will hybrid vehicles and electric vehicles. Mr Obama will force electric vehicles upon the nation despite the fact that he, his minions and the Religious Left refuse to allow any electrical generation stations to be built (in Fornicalia, Religious Lefties are blocking construction of a multiple-mile transmission line down the state which will be effectively allow movement of larger amounts of electricity). This is purposeful insanity.

And here is how the American public will vote: with its feet and its closed checkbooks. It will purchase non-American-branded vehicles who provide a product they actually want. At first, the federal government will mandate these vehicles be purchased by federal authorities — in order to keep the UAW working.

And do you actually want American automakers who are co-ruled by the UAW? Who, with the UAW in the proverbial Drivers Seat can also shut down American automakers on a whim?

I won’t stand for that. I won’t be purchasing American tuna cans. And poor ones at that.

Americans don’t want to be shoved into tuna cans. They don’t want to be shoved into matchbox apartments in high-rise concentrated cities. They don’t want to be crammed into mass transit trains with its concomitant Japanese Shovers.

And so, when Americans don’t willingly embrace tuna cans, the federal government will also, then, purposely ensure you must fiscally embrace tuna cans.

It will slap, at minimum, a $2.00 per gallon tax on gasoline. That will be above-and-beyond what OPEC decides to add to the price of a barrel of oil when you still don’t bring up your consumption due to the coming inflation and the economy.

The government is saying: you either “willingly” go along or it will purposely hurt you.

Do you understand? Hurt you.

BZ