Private Option Health Care Act

Ron Paul introduces his new Private Option Health Care Act. It seeks to allow individuals to have control over their health care choices, and to restore a free market health care system.

H.R. 5444: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 and to replace it with provisions reforming the health care system by putting patients back in charge of health care.

He introduced his End the Mandate bill in April. H.R. 4995: To restore the American people's freedom to choose the health insurance that best meets their individual needs by repealing the mandate that all Americans obtain government-approved health insurance.

Here's an interesting article on "What's Really Wrong with the Health Care Industry" by Vijay Boyapati.

Here's an additional article addressing the upcoming Republican response. I think it will be interesting to hear the Republican's reasons for not supporting these bills. After all, they are all for repealing this act of socialized medicine, right?

Obama’s New Healthcare Czar

Please listen. It gets really good toward the end. And by good, I mean bad.

Obama’s Stimulus Plan is Working?

Time to Cut Costs

Commentator:

Obama's stimulus plan is working. This administration is making all the right choices. I just wish he was more of a liberal.

Mississippi Guesser:

Wow, I've never said any president's administration is making all the right choices.

Even Krugman says the stimulus's effect will peak during the middle of this year. Then we're headed down in a hurry.

Commentator:

So what I see is that President Obama gets no credit from you folks. Did yáll vote for George Bush? Twice? I thought so. History will judge but I think that Obama will prove to be one of our greatest Presidents. Expanded health care will pay off in the future. Reining in corporate America is necessary. Cap and trade will save our childrens future. Guantanimo is a national embarassment. The rest of the world believes that we are a good influence for the first time in years. The cold war superpowers are reducing nuclear arms. And other nations are willing to let the US take nuclear materials out of the hands of the terrorists. And he's only been in office for a little more than a year.

Obama's legacy will be profound. His policies will keep America competative. The corporations (and that is what the original tea party was about... google East India Tea Company) have been favored for too long. If Obama has a shortcoming, it is because he is too much of a centrist. He should do more.

Mississippi Guesser:

The U.S. national debt (12.8 trillion) is currently 89.6% of U.S. GDP (14.3trillion dollars). The government is taking in 3.1 trillion dollars in tax revenue right now and spending more than twice the amount it is taking in revenue. We are heading toward an economic collapse, and you are praising a health care program that in 10 years will help bring our debt to 20.3 trillion.

It's time to look beyond the seemingly good intentions of President Obama and understand what is happening to our economy. Even Paul Krugman, a Keynesian economist, is criticizing the fed chair Ben Bernanke, who is also a Keynesian economist. Krugman says we're in trouble, and the stimulus will peak in the middle of the year.

We have to cut our spending across the board. We're spending 684 billion on social security, 666 billion on defense/wars, and 768 billion on medicare/medicaid. Those are the biggest budget items. We have to stop spending and pay off this debt.

Here’s the U.S. Debt Clock

Tea Party is Full of Racists, eh?

I saw this video and just had to post it.

On March 27, 2010 writer Frank Rich was quoted in the New York Times Op-Ed section The Tea Party movement is virtually all white. Is this true? He then closed his article with Are these politicians so frightened of offending anyone in the Tea Party-Glenn Beck base that they would rather fall silent than call out its extremist elements and their enablers? Many media outlets, including MSNBC, the Washington Post, CNN, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Huffington Post among others are insinuating that there is racism in the Tea Party movement. Take a look for yourself.

Filmed on April 15, 2010 in Freedom Plaza and at the Washington Monument in Washington D.C. by Nathaniel Alexander Stuart.

In Rich's article he talks of people brandishing assault weapons at Obama health care rallies. Here's a picture of the old white...hmmm.

But guns are scary, right?