Health Care and Raising the Debt Ceiling pass on Christmas Eve- Merry Christmas America.

What does Nationalizing our Health Care and raising the national debt ceiling  on Christmas Eve, along with all those other Liberal agenda items like Cap and Tax, Immigration Reform, all have in common?  D  E  B  T.   We are currently over $12.1 trillion dollars in debt under spending and budget outlays from the Obama administration covering the next 10 submitted spending budgets. Here is what that looks like since mostly we just see the figure spelled out as Trillion's.. here it is with all the zeros.  $12,100,000,000,000.00

Now lets put that into a visual and tangible real-time perspective... get ready for this because you won't believe it. Click here >>  http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 

The deficits added to the debt by Obama and this Congress in a mere 11 months since Bush left office have eclipsed and TRIPLED  what Bush contributed  during his entire 8 years in office, even counting the recession that was in place when Bush took office and the one that had started a year or so before he left office. Add in the economic impacts of 9/11 with the full implementation of the security and defense requirements to respond to 9/11 type threats and engage our enemies in the War on Terror. This tripling of the deficits added to the debt by Obama and Congress don't even include the big ticket goodies passed on Christmas Eve, these of course include Health Care and also, a Cap and Tax Climate Change Bill, Immigration Reform Bill, as well as the impending funding crisis they don't want to deal with for Social Security. 

We now owe $39,457 per US citizen, and  per  TAXPAYER it's a staggering $111,639.  This is your debt,  our childrens,  and our Grandchildrens. Even if you manage your own money responsibly and have no personal debt; you are in debt, big debt that YOU have no control over. You are being obligated and your children and grandchildren are also for who knows how many decades by this cabal in our government that have no qualms or concern with what they are doing to our national future.  They are now doing more irresponsible spending and borrowing than Fannie and Freddie could ever have imagined. We are doing the equivalent of zero down loans on our national future with a 50, 80 or 100 year term and we are going to pay those loans off with borrowed play-dough money (the Treasury is issuing bonds and will print more money to cover the increased spending for the government to operate) these notes will not be covered by revenue, but only by more debt and interest. How are we going to pay for it? How are we going to grow our economy, provide jobs and prosperity for our current and future generations acting like this? How are we going to fix Social Security and provide for entitlements and obligations that we are currently obligated for and aren't meeting our commitments on?  These are important questions asked by Americans, and the answers we get from those in power are more unfunded expansions of Government control, seizure's of private and healthily performing sectors of our free-enterprise system like Financial, Manufacturing, and now the latest sector; Health Care.

 

Ponder this, let it sink in and then pass this on. Yes the debt clock is ticking, but so is the growing discontent and furor of the American people and other clocks are also ticking toward the Congressional elections in 2010 and then the Presidential elections in 2012. I do have hope for the future and though I am quite concerned about our future; I will not give up or quit the fight. We can change this, we must change this.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year.

 

Michael R.Bednarz

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"The Death of Conservatism" or Liberal Fantasy? I challenge Sam Tanenhaus.

My open emailed letter to Mr. Sam Tanenhaus, NY Times Book Review Editor and now author of a new book just released last week titled "The Death of Conservatism".


Dear Mr. Tanenhaus,

I caught your appearance on Fox News last week promoting your new book “The Death of Conservatism”,(a saavy marketing move by the way, more people watch FOX News in 10 minutes of an hour than watch CNN for the other 50 minutes). You were pretty funny dancing and dodging all those O’Reilly questions about why as the NY Times book review editor, you failed to review something like 10 of the top selling 13 non-fiction books of the year by authors such as Levin, O’Reilly, Beck, and other Conservative authors. A couple of thoughts occurred to me as I watched you promoting your own book (when you weren’t defending your paper and it’s book review bias as being “Not that Liberal”) of course.

I have a challenge for you Mr. Tanenhaus:

I will bet you $100 dollars donated to each of our favorite charities that Sarah Palin sells more copies of her new book “Going Rogue”  pre-release and through the first month of it’s release; than you do of your own new book “The Death of Conservatism” from it’s release to the end of 12 months. Oh heck lets throw in Glenn Beck’s new book “Arguing With Idiots” too for the same bet amount and sales. 1 month vs. an entire year on yours. Shall we? When you lose the bet, what will it say about your entire premise and belief system that led you to write your own personal fantasy and try to sell it as a book? What do you say? Are you on?

Sincerely,

Michael Bednarz
Just another Average Right Wing Radical American
Pt. Townsend WA


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Obama's Cash For Clunkers Program; A Preview of Obama Health Care?

I am in the Auto Wholesaling business and I can tell you I knew this Cash for Clunker program would be a nightmare for the public, and also the dealers. So now the Government has suspended it and dealers are anxiously awaiting word if their deals will be funded and their submitted applications honored. Personally, this program has damaged my own income significantly. I have seen more than 50 trade-in vehicles at my dealerships that would ordinarily be wholesaled by the dealer to me and others, which we then sell to other small used car retail dealers. We make a bit of money, the dealer we sell to makes a little money when they retail these "economy" cars, the salesperson makes a little money and the lower income folks who have little or no access to financing in these extremely tightened lending times, are able to purchase a car. The car is "recycled" from one owner to someone else who needs it to get to work, or use it for work in the case of these old trucks etc. that make up the bulk of the CFC trade-ins. This program has reduced the supply of these low cost economy cars in the available marketplace, this will drive up prices that have already been very high in due to low availablility from trading in during the poor economy and low new car sales. So, in the end the little guy and the single mom with lower incomes and the least options available to them for purchasing a used vehicle will be the ones hurt. Once again the unintended consequences are not considered.

Once traded in the CFC vehicle engines must be disabled by having acid poured into the running engine until it seizes, and then an authorized salvage agent picks up the car and has it crushed. How wasteful. I have lost potentially thousands and thousands of dollars to this program and other small business people like me have as well. In Mr. Fix-It's effort to save the planet, he expends tax-payer dollars and shows just how inept the government is when they try and inject themselves into areas best left to the private sector. This program is however good for a couple of things.

1) It illustrates and proves just how vibrantly the American people and businesses are that can respond to an incentive. This further illustrates the folly of the Obama/Democrat Stimulus plan. All we needed was a 50% cut in all taxes across the board for 2 years, and ensuring that the 2010 Bush Cut expiration is extended and made permanent. This would have spurred and stimulated activity and growth and job creation by unleashing economic engines of America, Consumers and Business in the same manner as CFC program did. It would have worked without burdening our children and grandchildren with the multi-generational debt, deficits and the abject failure of the Coalition of the Clueless (Obama, Peelosi, Reid, Geithner, Frank, Biden, Waxman etc.) and their ineptitude.

2) The market will respond to consumer demand, when the consumers demand is satisfied. Hybrid vehicles have had greater purchase incentives than even the CFC program. They have all failed to provide any meaningful increase in sales. In fact, Hybrid sales are a disaster. Uncle Sam offers you $2350 Tax Credit on a 2009 Nissan Altima Hybrid. But wait, you also get a local Sales Tax rebate that is part of the stimulus program, so in the case of the Altima in Washington selling for $34,280 you would get back about $3,153 for that alone. Nissan offers up to $3,000 in Cash Rebates. So that would mean $8,503 in Govt. tax rebates/credits plus dealer incentives for the purchase of a 2009 Nissan Hybrid Altima. In honor of the recently departed Billy Mays…. BUT WAIT! There’s more! I am using MSRP for pricing these vehicles are becoming nothing more than ship anchors and I bet you could get another 3 Thousand off MSRP just to get the thing cleared off their lot. What is the point I am trying to make? Simply this, Americans will buy what they want, not what the Government wants them to buy. They still want SUV’s and Trucks, and they are buying them with or without the Cash-For-Clunkers incentive. Visit a dealer’s lot and check out their supply of Toyota Prius and any other Hybrid model. I guarantee you that you will have the best selection to chose from of any other models on their lot despite the Government offering more than double the Cash For Clunker incentive. This is why Chrysler and GM will fail as long as the Government is controlling them. Thy must make and sell what people will buy. No amounts of incentives are currently pushing Hybrids off the lots.

3) It shows how utterly incompetent, unqualified, inefficient and naive the Government is when they get involved in something best left to the private sector. If the Government can't administer a relatively simple and benign 1 Billion dollar Cash-For-Clunker trade program effectively, how and why would Americans ever let them take over the best health care system in the world and and allow Government regulation, control, and administration of something with literally life and death importance for themselves and their families? Socialized Health Care would become the largest Federal Program in history with the absolutely under-estimated initial cost of more than ONE TRILLION DOLLARS for just the initial, small-scale implementation.

This is where the rubber meets the road. Tell all of your Congressmen/women and Senators in no uncertain terms, don't you dare trade-in my health care for this " Clunker" Socialized Government Health Care Program!

Michael R. Bednarz