The White House Should Explain the Stimulus Bill

He'll be very busy explaining something else when things really even
more start hitting the fan in the further investigation of Illinois
Gov. Blagojevich. More his smarmy chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel but he
is knee deep as well (not in the selling of senate seat although he is
dirtier than reported in that it goes way back).

hello nationalized healtchare
Hello transparancy in government (oh wait, Obama backpedaled on that
one)
Hello Useless pork projects
And Hello to billions in interest payments to the chinese that our
kids and grandkids will be paying back for the rest of their lives.

Awesome.

There is no explaining the stimulus bill. It's more correctly named
the "Generational Theft Act" and includes more than 30 million to
protect a species of mouse (where are the jobs there?) and 1.6 billion
for "Science". Just Science, no other explanation.
This is nothing more than a huge list of Democratic pork projects.

because I think it is important that people see that this is inside
the bill. The government now has a hand in our health care decisions.



how this is stimulus???


"The bill's health rules will affect "every individual in the United
States" (445, 454, 479). Your medical treatments will be tracked
electronically by a federal system. Having electronic medical records
at your fingertips, easily transferred to a hospital, is beneficial.
It will help avoid duplicate tests and errors.

But the bill goes further. One new bureaucracy, the National
Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments
to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems
appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and
"guide" your doctor's decisions (442, 446). These provisions in the
stimulus bill are virtually identical to what Daschle prescribed in
his 2008 book, "Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care
Crisis." According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and
"learn to operate less like solo practitioners."

Hospitals and doctors that are not "meaningful users" of the new
system will face penalties. "Meaningful user" isn't defined in the
bill. That will be left to the HHS secretary, who will be empowered
to
impose "more stringent measures of meaningful use over time" (511,
518, 540-541)

What penalties will deter your doctor from going beyond the
electronically delivered protocols when your condition is atypical or
you need an experimental treatment? The vagueness is intentional. In
his book, Daschle proposed an appointed body with vast powers to make
the "tough" decisions elected politicians won't make.

The stimulus bill does that, and calls it the Federal Coordinating
Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research (190-192). The goal,
Daschle's book explained, is to slow the development and use of new
medications and technologies because they are driving up costs. He
praises Europeans for being more willing to accept "hopeless
diagnoses" and "forgo experimental treatments," and he chastises
Americans for expecting too much from the health-care system."

So basically, lets slow down new medicine development because it
costs
too much and lets stick with what works. Do we really want to explain
that to someone who is hoping experimental treatment will work?

And lets let government guide our doctors to make the decisions for
OUR healtcare.

Did you know that when Arlen Spector was questioned about this
provision he DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS IN THE BILL (this is on tape, and I
will post you the link if you want it)?

These people haven't read the bill and they are trying to pass this
thing. That doesn't scare anyone at all?

Remember in the other thread we were talking about violent acts of
muslim extremism versus ones in other religions?

I was wondering if you had any response to this? I also posed
questions to you on the other thread (the fisher price letter, that
has now dropped off the top 25)

Link below:

http://www.buffalonews.com/437/story/578644.html?imw=Y

I might be wrong, but I was under the impression that Planet Feedback
was about companies and not politics. Isn't that for places like
Topix.com? Maybe it's just me.

The little secret is Pelosi would not even let one provision be
debated is:

Banning illegal aliens from getting these pork barrel spending jobs.
How does this get legal americans back to work????????????


Gee I wonder why? The Democrats are going to grant full amnesty to
all of these illegals, knowing full well they will be a permanent
voting block to them for generations, regardless of the effects.


Good Day

when this so called "stimulus" bill falls flat on its a** it will be
very easy to determine whose at fault. But just wait. When it does
fall flat the Dems will say they need to do more spending -- they
didn't do enough. They'll never admit that unbridled Keynesian
economic policy just doesn't work. And the media will go right along
with it. But I have a feeling that the American public will start to
wake up after their kool-aid hangover.

I still can't figure out then when some of us cried foul at money that
was being spent in Iraq, we were told to shut up.

But now, we're being told that things like safety, health, controlling
fires, reduction of hazardous paint, fighting gunrunners, and so forth
are "pet projects" and are a waste of money.

Here's what I propose: we demand immediate payment from the Iraqi
government for us spending American taxpayer dollars to take out their
dictator and then rebuild their country. Then, we can take that $600B
and apply it to... well... whatever you think is the best use of the
money (give it back to the American taxpayer?).

While we're at it, let's totally cut all spending to anything to do
with helping Israel.

That, Ben, is the $815 billion question. Many economists have said
that massive government spending can't turn an economy around, and
it's pretty hard to find a historical example of when it did so.
Still, I guess the kids on Capitol Hill felt they should do something
rather than let the economy heal (and throw some wall street tycoons
in jail), so they are going to spend on a lot of stuff they felt they
got robbed of during the last couple of republican administrations.

Sure hope it works. The tax cuts work out to about $13 each paycheck
for most folks. Guess that's a dinner at Wendy's or something.