I want to SCREAM - Student Loans in Health Care Bill

I waited a day to get more news on this...and to see if Congress was serious. Appears they are. Can this be for real? The Democrats are folding student-loan reform into the health bill so it can be enacted without 60 votes in the Senate

Under an agreement finalized (behind close doors) the government backed student loans of the the past are now going to become Federal Direct Loans, a newly added part of the Health Care Bill.

"Many House Democrats reacted enthusiastically on Friday to the word that a proposed overhaul of student loan programs would be included with major health care legislation in an expedited budget package to be offered in Congress."

There’s some pretty determined statism going on in Washington, if they think it’s right to use parliamentary maneuvers to ram major changes through that the people don’t want or without a broad public debate . Or else they’re saying to themselves that we’re too stupid to want government to do the right things. Or maybe, like Nancy Pelosi, they’re thinking that we’ll like what they’re cooking as soon as we get a taste of it, which goes back to us being viewed as too stupid to know whats good for us.

{This is where I stopped writing to SCREAM}

 

 

 

When i went to college, there were scholarships, grants, work study and loans, I had a partial scholarship, no grants, I did work and needed loans to supplement my education costs. I applied for the loans, and I paid them back after graduation. Since then the programs have become more complex, with some needs based direct lending, so fully funded by the government, and other variations. My loans were through a bank that no longer exists, Crocker Bank. I agreed to pay them a fixed interest commencing 6 months after graduation. As I recall the federal government was the guarantor who would make sure the bank didn't lose any money if i never worked and paid it back.

But now, the system will be different, with all student loans being funded not by private (and according to Obama evil) banks, but by you and me the taxpayers. This morning i heard several financial shows discuss the impact on the tax rate.

One commentator said that all these programs combined will need the "rich" to pay 240% more in taxes, and for the "upper middle class" to pay nearly 80% in income tax. Why the hell would i want to work to pay 80% taxes?? If I made $120,000 a year, why would I want to keep working to take home less than $24,000 a year? POOP ON THAT.

I have no problem with banks loaning money to students, or the government backing those loans, I don't even really object to government regulating the interest rates...but this interference and take over of the free market by the government has got to stop. I don't want our country to end up like Greece...broke and in chaos.

 

Obama Care

Fifty-seven percent (57%) believe that passage of the proposed health care legislation will hurt the economy. Just 25% believe it will help. Forty-two percent (42%) favor the President’s health care plan while 53% are opposed.

 

I read this on the Rasmussen Poll, and got to thinking. If 57% think the Obama plan will hurt the economy, and 53% oppose the plan, does that mean 4% think it will hurt the economy, but he should go for it anyway? What the...?

This sucks - lately I am really rooting for Congress to go back to being stalemated all the time, so they can't screw up the country...

 

Dan Rather (on MSNBC no less) Says Obama Ineffective

Chris Matthews had to sit there and bit his tongue on his show. Dan Rather was on showing how compromised Obama is and how ineffective he is as a leader telling Matthews Republicans are going to attack these issues during the election. Dan Rather said Obama couldn’t sell watermelons [on the side of the road with state troopers flagging in cars.] It’s strange when Dan Rather actually hits the nail on the head. Strange and funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO-xqiG9LOc

(due to copyright, no embed available)

Obama FlipFlop - KSM Trial moved to...MILITARY Tribunal?

Washington - President Obama’s advisers are nearing a recommendation that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, be prosecuted in a military tribunal, administration officials said, a step that would reverse Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.’s plan to try him in civilian court in New York City.

The president’s advisers feel increasingly ...that Mohammed and his accused co-conspirators remain under military jurisdiction, officials said. While Obama has favored trying some alleged terrorists in civilian courts as a symbol of U.S. commitment to the rule of law, critics have said military tribunals are the appropriate venue for those accused of attacking the United States.

The TV ad where the theme is "Gotta go, gotta go, Gotta go right now..." fits the Obama administration on so many levels I don't know where to begin...

 

MSNBC balanced or UN balanced?

I heard about this and it didn't surprise me, but watching it is wow...the left has gone off the deep end...but thats my opinion...what do you think?

(PS I know Mark, he's on the radio here in Sacramento, a very normal and nice man.)

 

Lloyd Marcus wrote this on his blog:

"As a black proud Tea Party patriot, I am extremely offended by MSNBC TV show host Dylan Ratigan’s baseless accusation that the Tea Party Movement (my white brother and sister fellow patriots) embraces Nazis and racists. Ratigan’s attack epitomizes the liberal media’s commitment to protect Obama and his radical agenda at all costs. They have a genuine disdain for freedom, capitalism and We The People. No tactic is too low. ....

So there you have it Mr. Ratigan. ...

You sir are an evil man willing to demean the character of millions of true patriots to prop up your American idol, Barack Hussein Obama. Accusations of the tea parties being racist are absurd. And yet, the liberal media is relentless in their attempts to sell their shameful lie. Liberals such as Ratigan could care less about the devastating effect fueling the flames of racial hatred is having on American race relations. "

http://www.lloydmarcus.com/

 

Obama agenda and the future

Many bloggers have, in my opinion,  have gone overboard with how screwed America is under Obama. I personally think try as he might, and he is trying (mostly through incompetence) to run this country into the ground, America is more than a bunch of chuckleheads in Washington. Sure, they have likely prolonged the economic agony we are collectively in with their stupid policies, and the pain will get worse. But i have a LOT of faith in Americans, because through all the crap each of us as endured, collectively and as individuals, we continue to be Americans (or at least people that like staying here).

I don't profess any great admiration for talk radio show hosts, least of all conservative mouthpiece Sean Hannity who denigrates Libertarians at every turn, but he is right about something he said this week, in my opinion.

Whomever we elect in the fall must be elected not on party, but on principle, and MADE ACCOUNTABLE, reminded by us at every vote they represent us the people. And it wouldn't hurt if they repealed everything BO passed so far...

Now I am going to have a real good cry...

 

Obama: I am going to ram SOME health care legislation through...

Barack:

You won the election. Why are you organizing? Maybe I should ask, WHAT are you organizing?

And whats up with this:

Obama names brother of undecided House Dem to Appeals Court...
'Whatever it takes to get healthcare done,' said Press Secretary Robert Gibbs...

I think that must be the Chicago way, you know, bribery, payoffs, generally being a a$$wipe ego maniac psuedo dictator...(oops, I got angry- actually I am EXTREMELY frustrated.

I have very seldom agreed with talk radio, but this time I think they are spot on. BO has an overblown  egocentric view of himself, and thus far has not done anything that would indicate that his view of himself is based on anything other than a great belief in his own BS, and the shallow praise of those around him...hmmmmm, like most dictators. Nero comes to mind, I dont know why?

But I take heart at comments like "Every election in America this fall will be a referendum on this issue," Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said. Wall Street shrugged off Obama's statement. "It doesn't really seem like there's any change here. ," said Steve Shubitz, a healthcare analyst at Edward Jones. "There really wasn't much new in there, meaning nothing incrementally more damaging to the health insurance companies," he said.

"My opinion it's still just political maneuvering on healthcare ... I'd be surprised if anything does get done," said Wayne Schmidt of Minnesota-based Gradient Investments.

I hope these guys are right...because Pelosi care will make the Post Office look like a smoothly run well managed enterprise.......