Man I am so tired of hearing this bullshit, it sounds like Obama is being forced to drop the government health care plan and that fucking sucks. Health care is a right not something to make a profit off of. If there is any reason why our country is entering a decline and eventual demise it is because of the right wing’s ability to spread disinformation and not to enter any debate with facts. Who the hell wants to kill old people? Nobody, but if you can extend someone’s life by a week yet that procedure and similar are costing everyone in the country 40% than fuck old people, they can pay for that out of their pockets. I’m all for denying reality (friends will attest) but death is not something to be afraid of, and I’m tired of the right / christian right thinking you have to keep people alive no matter what. It is such a deeply ethical and personal question but as a society its going to come down to cost, insurance companies right now screw you so how the hell can the government do once. Not a glowing endorsement but I trust our government a lot more than private insurance companies who screw everyone I know over pricing and options.

As a small business owner whose team works remote it is ridiculous to think American can compete with the Aussies/NZ/UK/Rest of the world if we don’t provide health care to our citizens, espicially when our health care industry is 100% profit driven. I can hire quality people in Aussie and Europe and don’t have to worry about paying for their health care because it’s bundled into taxes. America still has the biggest pool of quality labor but that is going to change as salaries have to compensate for health care that is going through the roof. Eventually it will make more sense for us to higher a full time doctor than buy health care (half kidding).

On a personal level I see my dad screwed by the lack of affordable health care in that he can’t retire until he can get on a government plan at X age. And I personally have been at the hospital, asked how much something was by someone who does that procedure 20x times a day, and been told he has no idea as they outsource pricing. Crazy? Yes that is crazy. If you hook up someone to check their heart you should know what it costs for everyone. Instead some other agency checks your background and insurance and makes up some price.

This is a good read, hopefully the government uses this moment to make the shift and not dick around for twenty years with bad policies that make no sense. Read the nice commentary over at CNN by Cafferty.

I truly believe he is crazy and needs to be in a home, although really Fox News probably loves him. And really Fox News is a “special” place.

Here is a nice story on the kind of fluff and crap he creates.

That’s the context for this Glenn Beck “War Games” show on Fox News this week — one promoted, with some mild and obligatory caveats, by Michelle Malkin’s Hot Air. In the segment below, he convened a panel that includes former CIA officer Michael Scheuer and Ret. U.S. Army Sgt. Major Tim Strong. They discuss a coming “civil war” led by American “Bubba” militias — Beck says he “believes we’re on this road” — and they contemplate whether the U.S. military would follow the President’s orders to subdue civil unrest or would instead join with “the people” in defense of their Constitutional rights against the Government (they agree that the U.S. military would be with “the people”)[/blockquote]I want Glenn Beck to stop using words like bubba, on the front, main street, whoa, you people, bad guys, good guys, common sense, average etc.

I hope SouthPark makes an episode where Glenn Beck is impaled on a common sense pole. Or maybe have the founders beat the shit out of him for twisting their words and trying to speak for people who lived so long ago and not in our world.

Once again the Democrats suck Obama towards the old short sighted view that requiring all government purchases for infrastructure improvements be from American Iron and Steel manufactures… Screw competition or the fact that our steal is not competitive with the rest of the world, its a short term solution to help a dieing industry until the people in it can move on.

I really hope this doesn’t pass, focus that money on building new jobs in green technology so the workers can move there where they are going to be uber competitive. Don’t waste money by spending more than you should to make the improvements on our infrastructure, invest long term in America Obama and say no. Maybe build wind power and throw money at that, at least that is a long term improvement for both our economy and the people it will shift those jobs too.

Hopefully Obama says change…

Original story via Forbes: White House reviewing ‘Buy American’ plan.