-Cash for Clunkers: The debacle continues. Even Rep. Joe Sestak isn't happy.

Even liberal socialized healthcare pusher Rep. Joe Sestak realizes Cash for Clunkers is a stupid bureaucratic nightmare, and that is exactly what it has become.

The federal government has only reimbursed auto dealers for 2 percent of the claims they've submitted through the popular "cash for clunkers" program, a Pennsylvania congressman said, calling on the Obama administration to help speed up the process.

Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa., called for "immediate action" to address the problem in a statement Sunday, after writing a letter to President Obama Saturday expressing his concerns.

In the letter, Sestak said only 2 percent of claims have been paid and that four of every five applications have been "rejected for minor oversight."

In recent days, auto dealers across the country have been complaining that the reimbursement payments are slow to process. And they said some of their applications were being rejected because of apparent procedural issues. The statistics Sestak cited suggest those complaints are not based on isolated incidents.

Wait wait wait... did I read that correctly? 2% of the claims have been paid out? Hurray for government efficiency! Let them handle healthcare! Aw hell let them give all of us auto insurance and houses too! After all, it isn't fair that only the rich get those fancy things. We are a much evolved and enlightened society and EVERYONE should have them right? Wait for it friends.

-Idiot MSNBC analyst poses the illuminating question: is "socialist" becoming the new "n-word"?

What utter nonsense. For a guy who mentions "birthers", a group of people he and his cohorts have routinely bashed for being an outrageous group of conspiracy theorists, he sure is bold to suggest a conspiracy theory that is completely illegitimate and with zero basis in fact in order to stir up a pot of bulls***.



Congratulations MSNBC. You continually show what a classy, government-run media group you truly are.

-1984: Whitehouse.gov wants you to snitch on your neighbors who don't fall in line with ObamaCare

Whitehouse.gov has issued a call to action. The American citizens are catching on to Obama's facade, when will the mainstream media catch up?

There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.



What exactly would the government do with that information? This is the lovely transition from Socialism to Communism folks...



Oh yes, this is the picture the Leftists are freaking out about, calling it racist somehow. I didn't hear any of that talk over the disgusting things done to Bush's image.

Source: JammieWearingFool

-House's Obama Health Care bill makes private insurance ILLEGAL

From Investors Business Daily via The Blog Prof

It didn't take long to run into an "uh-oh" moment when reading the House's "health care for all Americans" bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal.

When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee.

It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage. Under the Orwellian header of "Protecting The Choice To Keep Current Coverage," the "Limitation On New Enrollment" section of the bill clearly states:

"Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day" of the year the legislation becomes law.

So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised — with, of course, exceptions: Those who currently have private individual coverage won't be able to change it. Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves be free to buy individual plans from private carriers.

One question: If this is on page 16, what is in the rest of the 1006 pages? Congress doesn't really care to find out, as they won't read it, just like Obama wishes. The below video ought to give you the creeps. Or a "thrill up your leg", if you're Chris Matthews.



The beginning of the end? Obama means it when he says you'll be able to keep your insurance if you like it. But you better like it forever because it's the last private policy you'll ever have. Unreal. Pray that this doesn't pass the House.

-Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" movie doesn't need to be made, because it's coming true today in real life.

I recently came upon an excellent opinion piece written in the Wall Street Journal by the brilliant Stephen Moore. The book Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand is becoming more and more relevant, even more so in the time since this article was written in January. If you haven't read Atlas Shrugged by this time, I not only encourage it, but believe it should be required reading in all schools and corporations that care about the future of their country. Not the mention politicians, but I fear that is a lost cause.

Many of us who know Rand's work have noticed that with each passing week, and with each successive bailout plan and economic-stimulus scheme out of Washington, our current politicians are committing the very acts of economic lunacy that "Atlas Shrugged" parodied in 1957, when this 1,000-page novel was first published and became an instant hit.

Rand, who had come to America from Soviet Russia with striking insights into totalitarianism and the destructiveness of socialism, was already a celebrity. The left, naturally, hated her. But as recently as 1991, a survey by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club found that readers rated "Atlas" as the second-most influential book in their lives, behind only the Bible.

For the uninitiated, the moral of the story is simply this: Politicians invariably respond to crises -- that in most cases they themselves created -- by spawning new government programs, laws and regulations. These, in turn, generate more havoc and poverty, which inspires the politicians to create more programs . . . and the downward spiral repeats itself until the productive sectors of the economy collapse under the collective weight of taxes and other burdens imposed in the name of fairness, equality and do-goodism.

In the book, these relentless wealth redistributionists and their programs are disparaged as "the looters and their laws." Every new act of government futility and stupidity carries with it a benevolent-sounding title. These include the "Anti-Greed Act" to redistribute income (sounds like Charlie Rangel's promises soak-the-rich tax bill) and the "Equalization of Opportunity Act" to prevent people from starting more than one business (to give other people a chance). My personal favorite, the "Anti Dog-Eat-Dog Act," aims to restrict cut-throat competition between firms and thus slow the wave of business bankruptcies. Why didn't Hank Paulson think of that?

These acts and edicts sound farcical, yes, but no more so than the actual events in Washington, circa 2008. We already have been served up the $700 billion "Emergency Economic Stabilization Act" and the "Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act." Now that Barack Obama is in town, he will soon sign into law with great urgency the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan." This latest Hail Mary pass will increase the federal budget (which has already expanded by $1.5 trillion in eight years under George Bush) by an additional $1 trillion -- in roughly his first 100 days in office.

The current economic strategy is right out of "Atlas Shrugged": The more incompetent you are in business, the more handouts the politicians will bestow on you. That's the justification for the $2 trillion of subsidies doled out already to keep afloat distressed insurance companies, banks, Wall Street investment houses, and auto companies -- while standing next in line for their share of the booty are real-estate developers, the steel industry, chemical companies, airlines, ethanol producers, construction firms and even catfish farmers. With each successive bailout to "calm the markets," another trillion of national wealth is subsequently lost. Yet, as "Atlas" grimly foretold, we now treat the incompetent who wreck their companies as victims, while those resourceful business owners who manage to make a profit are portrayed as recipients of illegitimate "windfalls."

When Rand was writing in the 1950s, one of the pillars of American industrial might was the railroads. In her novel the railroad owner, Dagny Taggart, an enterprising industrialist, has a FedEx-like vision for expansion and first-rate service by rail. But she is continuously badgered, cajoled, taxed, ruled and regulated -- always in the public interest -- into bankruptcy. Sound far-fetched? On the day I sat down to write this ode to "Atlas," a Wall Street Journal headline blared: "Rail Shippers Ask Congress to Regulate Freight Prices."

The similarities are eerie.

-Democrats pushing their costly and complex socialized health care through under the noses of the American people

Bloomberg reporting on the "health care overhaul" that is going on under your nose but being hidden behind the Sotomayor farce.

President Barack Obama may rely only on Democrats to push health-care legislation through the U.S. Congress if Republican opposition doesn’t yield soon, two of the president’s top advisers said.

“Ultimately, this is not about a process, it’s about results,” David Axelrod, Obama’s senior political strategist, said during an interview in his White House office. “If we’re going to get this thing done, obviously time is a-wasting.”

...House Democrats today unveiled legislation totaling about $1 trillion that would expand health care to millions of Americans over the next decade by raising taxes on the wealthiest households. The Senate has yet to agree on a bill as Democratic lawmakers struggle to get Republican support.

The AP reported on how they are going to slam it through, without partisan support or even the knowledge of everyday Americans. Transparency be damned.

House Democratic leaders, pledging to meet the president's goal of health care legislation before their August break, are offering a $1.5 trillion plan that for the first time would make health care a right and a responsibility for all Americans. Left to pick up most of the tab were medical providers, employers and the wealthy.

"We cannot allow this issue to be delayed. We cannot put it off again," Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce committee, said Tuesday. "We, quite frankly, cannot go home for a recess unless the House and the Senate both pass bills to reform and restructure our health care system.

The legislation calls for a 5.4 percent tax increase on individuals making more than $1 million a year, with a gradual tax beginning at $280,000 for individuals. Employers who don't provide coverage would be hit with a penalty equal to 8 percent of workers' wages, with an exemption for small businesses. Individuals who decline an offer of affordable coverage would pay 2.5 percent of their incomes as a penalty, up to the average cost of a health insurance plan.

If this isn't socialism I don't know what is. Let's force people to pay for insurance even if they don't want it? It doesn't make sense for some people. There is a reason some small business owners don't have it now, and there will be those who don't want to support such a mockery of Democracy, but will be essentially forced to or get their money confiscated by Big Brother. Besides that, when government health care is soon to be all that's available, they're going to just pay for private clinics anyway, just like Canadians.

The liberal-leaning plan lacked figures on total costs, but a House Democratic aide said the total bill would add up to about $1.5 trillion over 10 years. The aide spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private calculations.

The 1,000-page bill is unlikely to attract any Republican backing, and business groups and the insurance industry immediately assailed it as a job-killer.

Yes, another thousand page bill. Do you honestly believe any member of Congress is going to read this travesty? Oh, and another 1.5 trillion dollars will be spent. Where are we going to get that kind of money? Not from the meager taxes imposed upon the "wealthy", that's for sure. And if you really think the Democrat-reported cost figure is at all accurate then you've got another thing coming.

This is the same government that can't even hand out driver's licenses without making it complicated. Look at the state of our public schools. Who wants that in your health care? And just in case you're still not convinced, here's a diagram of the bureaucratic nightmare that is government run health care: (click on the link for a PDF)

http://docs.house.gov/gopleader/House-Democrats-Health-Plan.pdf

-Obama considering paying mortgages and giving a housing stipend to the deadbeats.

Don't think you give the government enough of your money? How about if they used your tax dollars to LITERALLY pay deadbeats' mortgage payments that they can't pay, while they get to pay rent? Lovely. Now ALL homes will be government housing.

U.S. government officials are weighing a plan that would let borrowers who have fallen behind on their mortgage payments avoid eviction by renting their homes instead, sources familiar with the administration's thinking said on Tuesday.

Under one idea being discussed, delinquent homeowners would surrender ownership of their homes but would continue to live in the property for several years, the sources told Reuters.

Officials are also considering whether the government should make mortgage payments on behalf of borrowers who cannot keep up with their home loans, tapping an unused portion of a $50 billion housing aid kitty.

As part of this plan, jobless borrowers might receive a housing stipend along with regular unemployment benefits, the sources said.

A housing stipend?! Are you kidding me? There is NO incentive to work hard and get a job! Why, when the government is giving you other people's hard earned money for everything? Maybe they should have been smart enough not to buy a home they couldn't afford in the first place. Predatory lending measures on the part of banks you say? The Clinton Administration had some say in that...

h/t Drudge

-Chicago Tribune's reprint of 1934 political cartoon is eerily familiar

Here is the caption for the cartoon below from the Chicago Tribune:

"This is a 1934 Chicago Tribune political cartoon that many say rings true in today's political and economic climate. What do you think?"



And the analysis of the cartoon from The Federal Observer:

The man in the mortarboard flogging the Democratic donkey is Rex Tugwell, the leader of FDR’s “Brain Trust”, a character out of academica. The Brain Trust was supposed to come up with new ideas to help America. The two mortarboard-wearing kids in the wagon represent recent Ivy League college graduates hired to staff the New Deal. The cartoonist from the conservative Chicago Tribune, Mr. Orr, is calling them socialist “pinkos” (term that wasn’t then in use, “pinkies’ is what Orr called them).

The most prominently featured man shoveling money off the wagon is Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace, who was known for his socialist leanings. Most us are aware that FDR confiscated gold in 1934, but most people are not aware that the gold confiscation was a clause in the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1934. It is also important to remember that 90% of the American population lived on farms during the Depression.

The man behind Wallace is Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior and director of the Public Works Administration. As head of the PWA, Ickes had a lot of say on what and where public works projects were built. The biggest of course was the Tennessee Valley Authority. Ickes was well-known for backing many other socialist endeavors. Ickes was also the father of Harold M. Ickes, a key player in the Clinton administration.

The other man behind Wallace was a mystery to me. In fact, I had trouble reading the label on him in the cartoon. That man is Donald Richberg, who was called “assistant president” in the FDR administration. Both he and Ickes came through Chicago politics and were leaders of the Progressive movement there. Both Ickes and Richberg were key players in pushing the National Industrial Recovery Act which imposed fascist codes of conduct on American industry which dictated how key industries in America were to be run. The National Recovery Administration was ultimately struck down by the Supreme Court in 1935, which decision led to FDR’s effort to “pack” the Supreme Court with more cooperative justices.

The significance of this cartoon is that it depicts the visible signs of manipulation by the financial elite that runs America, which was in full control of the country back during the Depression, for decades before that and for the decades leading up to the present.

D. Dial

History repeats itself.

-Socialism

-Obama's Flawed National Health Care

via Moonbattery

-Quote of the Day

"Hey, Obama has just nationalized nothing more and nothing less than General Motors. Comrade Obama! Fidel, careful or we are going to end up to his right."

-Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez on live television


See how cool your President is? So much better than an old white guy...

-"I think we've had quite enough capitalism in the last eight years."

The old boy Howard Dean is off running his mouth again. These times he speaks the collective thoughts of the Obama administration and socialists everywhere. The headline worthy quote comes at about 4:50 into the clip.



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