Posted on 11/02/2009 1:37:31 PM PST by rockabyebaby
Glen Beck said alot about $$$$$ amounts on the black board. Here is a synopsis of what he said and lower down what Kevin Wiliamson said.
Glen Beck on chalk board:
$700 billion just for tarp. 115 banks failed this year. Bailed out GM. Gov owns 60% of GM and people lost jobs to Wilmington, Delaware to produce green cars nobody wants. Looking into giving more cash to GMAC.
$1,300 per person on health care in 1970, 7% of our gdp. Now $7,421 per person for health care, 16% of our gdp. Actually was $90 billion then. $468 billion in 2008.
Trillion dollar health care budget by same people. What will it really be?
Said $175 a year for cap & trade but with the decrease in gross domestic product could result from cap & trade $161 billion in 2020 which is $1,870 for family of 4, but $6,800 by 2035 for family of 4.
Government spending was 28% of gdp this year, almost 3 times more than FDR spent in 30s with new deal.
More money to come. No such thing as free market they will soon have control of everything. Time to build an ark.
Medicare and Medicaid's combined budgets are $700 billion which is bigger than the defense budget. Savings suppose to come from $17 billion in next 5 years from medicaid. The insurers actually only made a 2.2% profit. Medicare and Medicaid lost 60 billion in fraud that we know of. President hasn't done anything to clean up waste in Medicare or Medicaid. He hasn't appointed anyone to do it yet.
Kevin Williamson basically said:
They don't want to evaluate the bad situation in Medicare and Medicaid because they don't want people to know how bad it is. Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security is about half of the federal budget. Also lots of things done that aren't illegal but improper. Illegal aliens billions spent on. Can spend money if for emergency but they spend it on lots of things for illegals that are not emergencies. Once bureaucracy is created they can do whatever they want in the years down the road.
Lawyers bought off. They get government stopping states from enacting tort reform. In order for states to get grants for alternative to liability law suits if they take the money they cannot enact tort reform.
NEA budget increased by third.
5 and 1/2 billion dollars for community organizing such as ACORN.
Health care bill money for animal vets,
Military defense policy snuck in hate crimes bill.
Set aside a couple of million acres of land that you cannot develop oil or energy resources on in land use bill.
Net (I think this means the internet)neutrality rule stuck in stimulus bill.
They will probably use nuclear option packed with all kinds of stuff like student loans and energy policy and other thing stuffed into it also that don't have anything to do with the legislation it is attached to.
Thanks so much!!! I really appreciate this info!
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