What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Monday, December 28, 2009
Friday, December 25, 2009
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Elected Law Makers
Congress has a terrible communicable disease and desperately needs to be quarantined.
Anonymous
Anonymous
Friday, December 11, 2009
Seem Familiar?
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the galleys, heard in the very hall of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor - he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and wears their face and their garment, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation - he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city - he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, 42 B.C.
Not much has changed.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, 42 B.C.
Not much has changed.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Tragedy or Comedy
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Invictus
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley
If You Haven't Earned It,
Don't Take It.
No one is owed anything they haven't first earned.
If you didn't make a constructive contribution, if you didn't do the work, if you were not the creator or the originator of the successful idea, then don't take the money.
If you've done nothing, then you've earned nothing. Just being is not doing.
If you don't own it, or you aren't owed it because you've loaned it out, then do not accept it.
If you need help and you have earned the privilege to be helped to become self-sufficient, then only accept help with a firm commitment to pay it back.
Lost self esteem is a very expensive price you pay taking things you haven't earned.
If you're ignorant, get educated. If you're lazy, get busy. If you're stupid, you're not reading this. If you're poor, you're both ignorant and lazy.
If you've earned it and can't find it, it's not someone else’s fault. If you've wasted it, it's your fault.
If you've used it unwisely, don't expect it back. If you didn't save some for the unexpected, you are ignorant.
Think ahead, prepare for disappointments, and don’t waste what you earn.
No one is owed anything they haven't first earned.
If you didn't make a constructive contribution, if you didn't do the work, if you were not the creator or the originator of the successful idea, then don't take the money.
If you've done nothing, then you've earned nothing. Just being is not doing.
If you don't own it, or you aren't owed it because you've loaned it out, then do not accept it.
If you need help and you have earned the privilege to be helped to become self-sufficient, then only accept help with a firm commitment to pay it back.
Lost self esteem is a very expensive price you pay taking things you haven't earned.
If you're ignorant, get educated. If you're lazy, get busy. If you're stupid, you're not reading this. If you're poor, you're both ignorant and lazy.
If you've earned it and can't find it, it's not someone else’s fault. If you've wasted it, it's your fault.
If you've used it unwisely, don't expect it back. If you didn't save some for the unexpected, you are ignorant.
Think ahead, prepare for disappointments, and don’t waste what you earn.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Health Insurance Tax Bill
No Health Care Improvements
It’s not health care reform. It could be called Fundamental Health Insurance Change Bill. It could be called Union and Government Benefit Plan Bailout Bill. It could be called the Medical Services Tax Bill. Maybe, it should be called the Health Insurance Tax Revenue Bill or “No Health Insurance” Penalty Tax Bill.
It does nothing to improve or increase the quality, or availability, or volume of medical CARE. Health CARE all ready cannot be denied to anyone who needs it and taxpayers and the insured all ready pay for that. Care providers make up for non-payers by overcharging those who can pay.
This proposed law does nothing to lower health care costs. It does lower certain kinds of government health care spending. It turns price controls and rationing of services over to new government bureaucracies increasing medical care costs.
If you want to lower the price; increase supply and cut government involvement. Prices increase faster than inflation when there is too little, price keep pace with inflation when supply and demand are in balance, or when there is excess supply prices go down quickly, if governmental interference is very low.
If you want to increase access; increase funding for health care training and invest in more medical facilities and equipment, increase supply.
It does nothing to increase wellness. It does nothing to reduce medical malpractice or the cost of it insurance, nothing to limit outrageous malpractice settlements, nothing to simplify insurance availability or increase competition.
These bills will accomplish no useful reforms in health care.
Most of the language in the House and Senate bills modifies or increases tax law, tax revenue, and regulatory reporting.
These so called, “Health Care Reforms” will cover very few people who don’t have health INSURANCE that want it.
The people who need health CARE and can’t afford it know to go to local emergency rooms and lie about their ability and intent to pay.
It will bailout the state governments, unions and large enterprises that caved into silly excessive demands by employees for coverage that pays all or most of simple visits to the doctors office and routine annual procedures. You must look hard to find high deductible insurance to safeguard your home, your savings, or investments from only catastrophic medical care costs.
This idiotic, poorly developed, grossly over-priced, thinly disguised, seriously corrupt, nonsensical attempt is just to bribe the poor and ignorant into voting for the lazy, deceitful, medaling, socialist-progressive, incumbents and corrupt, self-centered, job-scared cowards who vote only for what’s best for themselves. Stop this travesty and don’t re-elect those who perpetrated this pathetic attempt to defraud the people, obstruct their rights, and loot our treasury.
Elect people who understand this nation, its constitution, and the rights and power of its people
It’s not health care reform. It could be called Fundamental Health Insurance Change Bill. It could be called Union and Government Benefit Plan Bailout Bill. It could be called the Medical Services Tax Bill. Maybe, it should be called the Health Insurance Tax Revenue Bill or “No Health Insurance” Penalty Tax Bill.
It does nothing to improve or increase the quality, or availability, or volume of medical CARE. Health CARE all ready cannot be denied to anyone who needs it and taxpayers and the insured all ready pay for that. Care providers make up for non-payers by overcharging those who can pay.
This proposed law does nothing to lower health care costs. It does lower certain kinds of government health care spending. It turns price controls and rationing of services over to new government bureaucracies increasing medical care costs.
If you want to lower the price; increase supply and cut government involvement. Prices increase faster than inflation when there is too little, price keep pace with inflation when supply and demand are in balance, or when there is excess supply prices go down quickly, if governmental interference is very low.
If you want to increase access; increase funding for health care training and invest in more medical facilities and equipment, increase supply.
It does nothing to increase wellness. It does nothing to reduce medical malpractice or the cost of it insurance, nothing to limit outrageous malpractice settlements, nothing to simplify insurance availability or increase competition.
These bills will accomplish no useful reforms in health care.
Most of the language in the House and Senate bills modifies or increases tax law, tax revenue, and regulatory reporting.
These so called, “Health Care Reforms” will cover very few people who don’t have health INSURANCE that want it.
The people who need health CARE and can’t afford it know to go to local emergency rooms and lie about their ability and intent to pay.
It will bailout the state governments, unions and large enterprises that caved into silly excessive demands by employees for coverage that pays all or most of simple visits to the doctors office and routine annual procedures. You must look hard to find high deductible insurance to safeguard your home, your savings, or investments from only catastrophic medical care costs.
This idiotic, poorly developed, grossly over-priced, thinly disguised, seriously corrupt, nonsensical attempt is just to bribe the poor and ignorant into voting for the lazy, deceitful, medaling, socialist-progressive, incumbents and corrupt, self-centered, job-scared cowards who vote only for what’s best for themselves. Stop this travesty and don’t re-elect those who perpetrated this pathetic attempt to defraud the people, obstruct their rights, and loot our treasury.
Elect people who understand this nation, its constitution, and the rights and power of its people
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