Posted on 02/21/2010 4:55:00 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, February 21st, 2010
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.; Govs. Haley Barbour, R-Miss., and Jennifer Granholm, D-Mich.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the U.S. Central Command; Gov. Tim Pawlenty, R-Minn.; Reps. Mike Pence, R-Ind., and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Govs. Arnold Schwarzenegger, R-Calif., and Ed Rendell, D-Pa.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Govs. Jim Douglas, R-Vt., and Deval Patrick, D-Mass.; Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind.; former Rep. Susan Molinari, R-N.Y.; former Gov. Jon Corzine, D-N.J.
That was a very good answer, I thought.
Noonan, Schwartzenegger, Powell
What do these people have in common?
They were all brought into the GOP by Ronald Reagan, either by Reagan hiring them and/or by them admiring him.
And all 3 were too weak to stand up for his principles when confronted with the disapproval of the liberal media and Hollywood. All 3 are sad disappointments.
Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives FREEDOM. James 2:12
If you want to be a $millionire don’t join a Union. If you want to steal a $Million run a Union. Back in the Great Depression the entire world was run by Socialists. Some were Dictators like Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini and others were Democratic like America, France and Britain. After WWI they were attempting to make a one world gummit as FDR was elected who had the gummit run all of the businesses through regs and price controls in the WH. Britain was the least communist of the bunch until the beginning of the war when Chamberlain trusted Hitler which brought in Liberal Party member Churchill, who was a masterful war strategist but a socialist like FDR.
FDR wanted a pure communist Country cept when Hitler/Stalin signed their accord, which Stalin broke in Poland; the start of WWII destroyed FDR’s plans. He had to release his 100% tax rates on the rich as well as control of the banks and auto industry to make weapons. What FDR and the other communists learned through the commie Workers Party unionists was that if you control the people’s retirements you control them. The other main shackle is their Healthcare. FDR attempted to rewrite the Constitution to include HC as a right which would have owned the people completely but failed. What he did accomplish was the start of Social Insecurity for a monstrous first step.
Once they have your retirement, you’re their slave. They later brought in Medicare which means your entire life is dedicated to eventually turning it over to the gummit. The unions followed the same model to offer pensions as a way to have absolute control of their prisoners. Once you have a vesting in your pension you no longer have a voice since the union can just mention your firing or the reduction of your retirement to make you go along w/whatever they promote. They added in generous HC benefits so there was no longer a way anybody was going to cross the bosses no matter how corrupt they became for fear of losing everything. This was much easier and cheaper than breaking kneecaps, although when the next step is needed, bodda boom, bodda bing.
Once the fund became a huge pool of untraceable $$, corruption was not far behind. Both, SSI by the District of Corruption and their partners in the unions began skimming for their causes. One of the favorite causes of the unions now is loaning millions of pension $$ to politicians during their campaigns w/the promise to pay them back after they’re elected. That is second only to condos/bimbos in the Bahamas. These have become massive fraud and Ponzi accts which are basically unfunded even while the $$ are taken out of the member’s check and matched by the employer. In the teachers unions’ case its matched by the taxpayers check. This makes for a massive conflict between the teacher, union, politician who is funding schools and campaign funds. There is absolutely no one in that chain who is for protecting the taxpayer while they’re all bought off by his $$. Pure corruption.
Now we are at an impasse, nobody wants to address this problem for complete fear of losing their retirement. Never mind, most have already lost it just not officially. SSI needs to be overhauled to the point where people have to have the attitude of working till the last breath if possible. We are all in this mess together and the only way out of it is to take less payment and pay longer. The only other option is taxing our children at 70% and how does that help anybody? Then there will be no retirement since the entire financial system will implode under the weight of the Baby Bummers.
The unions have long since passed their prime as now the only thing keeping them alive is their promise of a pension and HC. If not for those and mandatory membership for certain trades there would be a reduction of 50% for their lockstep support of the DNC. Why would anybody join the Coal miners union if they weren’t tied to their retirement when they are paying dues into a Party that has a platform for the elimination of their jobs? Why would any thinking coal miner support Cap and Kill Coal? Why would any UAW worker pay dues to a Party that has done everything it could to destroy their jobs? The reason is, they have to go along so they don’t lose their pensions. Sure they’ll justify it in their minds and go along w/the Workers Party rags about how they’re for the proletariat and against the Bourgeoisie, but in their hearts they know their union is helping destroy their jobs. They have to justify it so they can keep their pensions, when in reality they are slaves convincing themselves those chains look like jewelry.
Over the years the unions have become interlocked w/the DNC to the point of not knowing where one starts and the other ends. They’re equally yoked and corrupt from top to bottom. The pensions have become slush funds for both being refilled by congress through Porkulus bills. We just saw 1.5 Billion go to the Vegas union pension funds today as he gave it some sort of mortgage/ACORN/Reid slushorama. Is there any question that $$ is going to hit a jackpot for the casino unions? The problem w/unions is no matter how they may have started, there are so many places that corruption can occur its near impossible to keep it out even if they wanted. Once its established there’s no way to rid yourself of it since nobody wants to lose their retirement or three taps to the back. So everybody looks the other way while swimming down the Denile.
Congress and the unions have used our retirements like the broke Cowboy who hit the lottery. When axed where all his $$ went he said he spent a lot of it on Booze and Broads and wasted the rest. That’s what they’re doing w/our retirements. The only real solution is to walk away together. The ones who are on it need to have theirs reduced by as much as they can stand while the workers need to keep working, after you find a job. The state workers need theirs reduced dramatically and 25% need laying off. We have to trust in God, not in these gods. We need to go back to being Americans who are not afraid to walk across the rope w/o a net, its called living. Then the chains will drop off as the Massa no longer has any way of tying you down. When we do that, not only will America move away from the rocks, it will again be the lighthouse of the world.
Pray for America’s Freedom
I'm not sure that's a terrible thing. The parents would have to pay extra premiums, the "young immortals" would not likely buy the coverage.
That puts millions of healthy covered lives into the mix and expands the coverage pool...helps keep premiums down.
Dittos
Meet the Press might be worth watching. Wonder what Colin Powell has to say? Will he defend Obama, since he voted for him? I’m sure he’ll come out against right wing extremists... they are soooo embarassing.
Clear from the comments of Pence and McConnell that the Republicans are going to insist on starting from scratch.
well one cannot claim to be 6ft 2 if one is 5ft 8 which is the case here..........Arnold is a fraud and Colin is a racist. Noonan just wants someone to buy her Margiratas
we do not advance our agenda but reacting to the "sound" of something.
I remember well when my daughter was in grad school and was too old to be on our policy. We had to buy one through the university, and it really wasn't a very good policy. She's insured now through her work, but for a couple of years after she was married she had NO coverage and we paid her doctor bills.
This proposal may cover that gap, increase the number of healthy people in the pool, and give kids some time to get their own coverage.
How is Huffandpuff a commentator to be taken seriously? She has a extremist blog, oh yeah, that’s mainstream for ABDNC. She’s upset cause the 9 iron comment is an effective visual.
Pray for America’s Freedom
All too often ‘letting’ turns into ‘mandating.’ One reason insurance costs are so high now is mandates in various states. For example, CA requires short term disability care for every policy, which is one reason they pay 60% more than other states. In CO, we mandate coverage until “children” are 21. One reason why CO insurance costs are high.
I agree, which was somewhat my point: there’s something between the out-of-fashion paleos and the recently dominant neocons that the party should settle on, and the less that established opinions of the Bush years come into play, the more likely a benign consensus can be reached going forward. Probably not going to happen, however. I myself am on the side of a strong defense. (But being smart and judicious as to when and where to use it.)
Rather than focus on the more divisive second (and third) legs of the conservative stool it is probably best to focus primarily on the common leg of a small government and economic liberty. Still, republic-threatening issues like illegal immigration can be swept under the rug if we focus too narrowly. I guess, per usual, it will be duked out in the messy and imperfect sequence of the presidential primaries.
Yes, google Newt CPAC and youtube and you’ll find it: I just watched it.
Recently a caller to a local talk show was defending his dramatically different remuneration as a state govt employee by saying that since they are using technology, they are more productive then employees used to be. The host never mentioned that the number of state govt employees has increased, not decreased, with all this 'productivity improvement.'
I am sure that I was listening to the employees union talking points. They have to be feeling defensive about the shift in earnings averages towards govt employees, away from private employees.
What will happen when Tiger does the Steroids mea culpa speech? He should have come clean on those too.
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Schwarzeneggar praising Obama and the stimulus money for being able to create jobs.
He is so far to the left.
JMHO, the best test for an effective conservative statement of principles is Huffy/MSLSD/MSM immediately branding it as racist/bigoted/homophobe/denier/obstructionist.
All I can say is stick it up their noses again. Sideways.
I just imagine a 20 something on drugs going in and out of rehabilitation, and the parents have to pay for it
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