By ROBERT J. SAMUELSON Posted 09/29/2009 06:11 PM ET
What’s driving the great health debate of 2009 is not a popular clamor for universal insurance.
“Many Americans are balking again at the prospect of health care reform,” writes pollster Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center.
A new Wall Street Journal poll found 41% of respondents opposed to President Obama’s proposals and 39% in favor (the rest were undecided). The underlying driver is politicians’ psychological quest for glory.
(entire article reposted here – please comment!)
Alan B. Krueger, U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy
Even with this smoother-than-reality economic forecast, the administration is predicting that the federal government will run up an additional $905 billion in deficit spending over the next decade, almost doubling the national debt.
Krueger, speaking to reporters at a Friday briefing, said that while the administration’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth forecasts were largely in line with private estimates, numerous factors could affect and alter those estimates.
“It’s the nature of forecasting that forecasts typically are smoother than the realizations,” he said. “Your hope is that the ups and downs balance out and, on average, are on the forecasted path.”
What Krueger did not mention is that, while the administration’s projections are close to those of private economists, known as the Blue Chip Consensus, those private forecasts only extend through 2010, while the White House’s extend through 2019.
When asked by CNSNews.com if the fragility of the administration’s projections meant higher budget deficits in the future, Krueger said that deficits were inevitable during bad economic times.
“Deficits are inevitable when you’re trying to recover from such a steep recession,” he said.
Krueger also said that, because of that steep recession, it was impossible for the administration to produce a balanced budget in the short term, saying such an idea was not “advisable” for Obama.
“In fact, it wouldn’t be advisable to have a balanced budget at this point or anything close to a balanced budget at this point,” he said.
In the longer run, however, Krueger said that the administration planned to put the budget back on a path toward fiscal responsibility, saying that the country relies far too much on borrowing and not enough on public investment.
“One has to draw a distinction between the short run and the long run,” he said. “Certainly in the longer run the administration plans to put the budget on a path that’s fiscally responsible.”
“In the U.S., I think that we rely too much on borrowing and short-term consumption at the expense of longer-run investment, public infrastructure,” he said. “The president has said that it’s very important that when we emerge from this recession that we build a stronger foundation, one that’s less susceptible to these kinds of boom-and-bust cycles.”
However, the Obama administration’s projected budgets rely on what Krueger criticizes: borrowing to finance short-term consumption.
For example, the Obama administration projects that, as a result of its 2010 budget, the federal government will run a cumulative deficit of $9.05 trillion by the year 2019. In total, the government plans to spend $43 trillion during the next decade while taking in only $34 trillion in tax revenue.
In no year between now and 2019 does the administration plan to balance the budget. In fact, the smallest single-year deficit Obama plans to incur is $739 billion in 2015, after which time the deficit will begin climbing again until it hits nearly $1 trillion ($917 billion) in 2019.
However, Krueger claimed that it was a “very important” part of Obama’s budget to move the country toward “responsible budgeting” and a “more sustainable” path.
“That’s why it’s very important, in the administration’s budget, that we make the critical investments in human capital and physical infrastructure, responsible budgeting, health care reform, clean energy, to move the U.S. to a more sustainable economic path,” he said.
This article is from Australia, for goodness sake! It’s written more for the viewpoint of investors, but will apply to everyone. Obviously Australians can see past the brainwashing better than we Americans!
Due to the continuing increases in the debt, now beyond any ability of America to pay, our vaunted dollar will most surely collapse. This article says it will be replaced by the yuan of China; well maybe, maybe something else, but which doesn’t really matter.
The USA Fed and Treasury will be unable to maintain the charade forever. Adding to the debt will absolutely result in severe inflation or hyperinflation of our dollar, and America will be forced to admit bankruptcy. That will mean that all the funding for defense, collectivist shams, … everything, will cease.
The government and it’s welfare system will be unable to pay itself to send you more checks, because it is out of “real” money. This will be the economic collapse, far worse than the Great Depression.
It will be plain hell falling into that abyss. The many who have never learned to be self-sustaining. who have survived only via the welfare system, will have no means of buying food or services, no reserves, and will resort to being the thieving criminals they have always been. There will be severe shortages of everything as producers fail and their goods and services disappear.
The bright light at the end of that tunnel can be the opportunity for, either Anarchy (NO RULER) or a new constitution, which severely and absolutely limits the powers of government and it’s force upon the people.
We must return to Reason and assert our true Right to Life. Either we get it together at that time, or humanity, if it survives at all, will return to the Stone Age. All the alternative scenarios are too horrible to even think about.
This article, while oriented to investors, holds much which must be grasped by we everyday folk. Understanding it will not be enough, for each of us must act to prepare for the events ahead.
Failure to use your mind and your Reason may well mean that you cannot survive.
ONLY LIBERTY IS MORAL. Force and Sacrifice of collectivism is the immoral cause of this collapse, and if one fails to choose liberty, humanity can well disappear. The leftist brain-dead altruists are not your friends, they are your mortal enemy.
See it now, or you’ll see it later the hard way. Ditch them!
Where is Liberty?
Given that every instance of collectivism…
Requires the Force of Government to initiate, regulate and administer; and
Eliiminates all rights of all individuals to determine and act in whatever they perceive as being in their individual best interest, and steals from the citizens whatever monies government, not the individual, deems necessary and appropriate, and
Eliminates the natural benefits of competition and choices always best provided by a truly free market, and
Sacrifices and removes all individual alternatives and incentives toward maximizing one’s life, then
Insist on an answer to this one Question:
The above was my reply to a TownHall post in Digg this morning, listing 10 questions to ask those who are pushing for, in this instance, Obamacare. The questions were great, designed to show any collectivist all the fallacies in this ruse but, as usual, missed the main point.
I have become simply exhausted and exasperated with every debate over so-called health-care or any other collectivist program deteriorating into a debate over
For many moons now, I have been writing about Morality, and more lately expanding to discussion of the Force and Sacrifice, as these are the basis of all governments, which have nothing to “give” except that which they steal from their citizens. This morality is not about some high-faluting worship of some lord or allah. It is simply our natural rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
This is clear and concise in our Declaration of Independence, yet so dispised and distorted and shredded within our Constitution. Over these 230 years, the collectivist / communist set have diligently set out to subvert these basic principles into a pity-pity society in which moral free market capitalism is said to be the villan, and that individual heights are to be subordinated to some nebulous “greater good”, productivity and self-reliance are less important than sloth, and the supreme “moral” value is to sacrifice one’s own life to anyone from anywhere merely because they hold out their hands and say “oh, pity me”.
According to the collectivists, each man, having his own mind and the unique human characteristic of being able to THINK, is now somehow to be denied that treasured characteristic and his mind deferred to any unknown other, who cannot prove and is not required to prove any superiority of Mind over You, the individual.
The brainless immoral collectivist “ethic” has now gained the foothold sought for at least the last century, and has set America on it’s long winding path to economic and moral devastation. America is leading the path to worldwide self-destruction, to such extent that we must question now whether humanity can survive.
You wonder why life has become poorer and holds little but nonsense and drudgery? You wonder why “Atlas Shrugged”? Well, at least we’ve got you wondering — the rest us up to You!
This is #3 in a series of upcoming articles resting upon our root page “Morality“, which clearly shows how everything must rest upon a moral foundation Having found the plateau of morality, everything built atop a solid foundation become crystal clear. Moral philosophy is not complicated, nor does it demand a lifetime of contemplation and argument.
We supposedly have the Right to Life, yet today we observe campaigns for Sacrifice at every turn. Every incident of involuntary Sacrifice steals something from your natural right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. So consider today the “virtue” (or not) of sacrifice.
A voluntary sacrifice to support someone within your circle of family/friends is not sacrifice. You have chosen to help those within your “circle”, your family, friends and business associates who hold value toward the enhancement of your personal life. These are all those certain persons who are deserving, important and valuable to you in some substantial way. This is not true of unknowns whom exist somewhere in outer space. Again, helping those within your circle is not sacrifice, because these are individuals of some positive value to you,your ideals and your life. You trust that those within your circle will reciprocate in some appropriate way and will assist when you yourself need their support.
Some of the false “virtue of sacrifice” came from religion, but today we are seeing a deluge of calls for sacrifice. These come, not from religion, but from those who would and do claim that you have some nebulous obligation to support unknown causes for unknown people in unknown places, whether those be towns, counties, states or even other countries. Those are people about whom you know nothing about their value as human beings,
Such blind sacrifices to the unknown are never voluntary. The concept of Sacrifice “for the greater good” cannot survive by the grace of charity. Rather, the proponents of such shams con you with guilt-trips into handing them the privilege of using the Force of governments. Governments are the tool used to tax/steal your money/property (Your Life) to redistribute to unknown others whose only “virtue” is being poor and/or incompetent and/or irresponsible, much too often by their own choice. You forgo your right to decide for yourself who is deserving, and how much you will “contribute” to their welfare. You are expected to cede your mind and your decisions to some again-unknown politician or bureaucrat whom you pay to represent you but who cannot and does not. Remember that representative is also representing your enemies — those who would deny your Right to Life..
Because using such Force is immoral and illegal in the real world, where you have recourse against acts of force, government’s are created and improvised as necessary to become the “tool” used to make your choices for you. They steal via taxation your very own money, in order to further the cause and objective of those whom you have unwittingly hired to impose immoral sacrifice upon yourself. Most of us cannot afford this, and even if we could, are we not still entitled to choice?
Morality does it for me, but we will be needed many more to understand if humanity is to come out of the ongoing collapse.
This began with my writing this comment at Digg about Obama’s refusal to disclose his real birth certificate:
The original article posted here on Digg was poorly written, obviously Lily Gordon didn’t grasp the basis for Major Cook’s stance. Therefore the Digg blindfolders went wild and the thread quickly deteriorated into a plethora of racist and homosexual denigration which had nothing to do with Obama’s continuing evasion.
Nothing changed; America still hasn’t seen a real B.C. The courts sidestep the issue time after time on the basis that nobody has “standing”, etc, etc, ………… leaving little but a game for the lawyers to play. The paradox is that nobody, including SCOTUS, can order Kenya to open it’s vault.
The Constitution has failed to protect America on this and on everything which has ensued. As a result, America is being overrun with unconstitutional and immoral collectivism via the “president” who isn’t. Obama and his lackeys will never cooperate by disclosing the real B.C. This is simply a crime against humanity.
Therefore, that which has been forced upon the American people can be set aside from the abyss of the progressing economic collapse which may include government collapse. With the people then finding it necessary to rethink everything, finally reinstate the morality of liberty, and restart with a clean sheet of paper, perhaps humanity can survive and be all it could be.
This does not mean I am giving up on the push for the real BC, but this mountain may be impossible to climb, and the death of America is then inevitable.
There can be only one reason that Obama & Co. has not, and will never, reveal Obama’s true and real birth certificate. That only possible reason is that whatever and wherever it exists would serve only to prove that he is not a “natural born citizen”. To make this available to the citizens would result in Obama’s immediate removal from office, open him to charges of malfeasance and treason, and render his every action as president null and void. This will most certainly be called a Constitutional crisis, but less harmful than what this fraudulent communist has already done toward the destruction of America.
If we “birthers” were wrong about this, it would have been easy to prove us wrong by simply laying that real piece of paper out where the citizens could see it. All the time which has passed serves as incontrovertible fact that Obama is not a “natural born citizen”, which renders his cohorts as partners in crime.
The only way out of this dilemma might be if some court actually orders Obama to produce his true BC, which will eventually be appealed all the way to the Supreme Court, which will then finally hear this matter, but SCOTUS seems most unlikely to uphold such an order due to some reason of “standing” or else-wise. Once again the people will realize that our Founders, who did their utmost to write a solid Constitution, left too many gaps which have come to be exploited over these 230 years of “legal” nitpicking.
Now, after these many moons of avoidance, if any such BC were to magically appear, it would be subject to great distrust, the reasonable expectation being that Obama & Co managed to bribe a and hire a very few persons to create a forged BC along with related indexes and such. This would trigger the need for placing such BC under the microscope of scrutiny, and eventually the real truth would become the subject of infinitely more debate. That would be a no-win never-win situation for our entire nation.
My expectation is that our divided nation will eventually find itself in revolution pitting the “Obamabots” against the “Wingers”. Nothing will be resolved, but many gallons of blood will be shed.in a horrible exercise of futility. History must then conclude that all of this could have been avoided by Obama simply disclosing the truth, thus Obama will be deemed responsible for such disastrous events regardless of the outcome. Most assuredly some historians, those more interested in “Change” than in Truth, will attempt to reach other conclusions.
While I could continue this for many pages, I choose to close this here, and return with one or more articles on where we go from here. Hopefully those will be published very soon.
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http://digg.com/politics/Obama_birth_status_story_sparks_storm_of_Web_traffic
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With unemployment on the rise and the economy sinking like a stone, the Democrat/Socialists are going to demand more of your hard earned money to finance a pie in the sky healthcare scheme, or should we say “scam” that will take over what little remains of your private life.
…Face it America! The revolution is over… and YOU LOST! Socialism won – because you didn’t even show up to fight!
via Faultline USA: US Economy in the Tank – Dems Push For Massive INCOME TAX INCREASE!.
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Consider this a subpage or sequel to our basic philosophy of liberty, recommended aid in understanding Force, defined as:
- (private sector) The non-consensual act of taking or harming one’s life or property, whether murder, rape, theft or …, such acts being both immoral and unlawful.
(governments) Compel, constrain, or oblige (someone) to do something.
Consider some basic differences between business and government.
Businesses produce goods and services to fulfill the needs and desires as chosen by the individual. Therefore businesses earn income which is recycled to continue that fulfillment. If the business is successful, it grows to provide more benefits to more people. If the business makes profits it may invent new goods and services which provide new benefits to the people. If the business is not successful and profitable, it will eventually cease to exist, having lost it’s customers to competitors or to goods and services which offer better benefits or more value. In a truly free market all transactions are of mutual benefit to both business and customer, and resulting from either consumer acceptance of a vendor’s price and terms, or from negotiation between parties.
Even though governments pretend to function as businesses, they are not. Governments produce nothing and have no income, funded only by only whatever they steal, by Force, from You and from all it’s subjects. Anything done by government can be accomplished only by stealing (taking by Force) the money, the property, and finally the life, of it’s citizens. Governments survive only via theft by taxation or by creating pseudo-businesses which sell “licenses” or “permits”, or by leasing or selling land and rights to land, or by selling privileges which are merely an extension of rights which are the inate natural belongings of all men. Government claims ownership of all these things, but all were in fact taken by Force from the private sector under one guise or another. Government acts to “legitimize” their actions are called “laws”.
In the private sector, Force is illegal and subject to criminal penalties. Force is always the tool of criminals. Yes, I said Force, stealing, wrongful taking, and extortion.
But in the “public” arena, called government, Force is always declared “legal” — how can that be? How can Force be immoral and illegal only when between private persons and entities, yet is perfectly “legal” if government does it to you? This renders virtally all government criminal! Why is that? Why do the people allow it?
All this has vast implications far beyond being just a drunken block party. Those are seen every minute of every day, it is the Force of governments at every level, whether town or nation or even the whole world. These are always “made legal” by passing a “law” or “regulation” or some-such nonsense. Because they are “the law” every citizen is supposed to obey and accept that item of Force because “it is writ”. Nonsense!
If you believe that we all own government, try asking them for your fair share, try selling your share when you have not even a piece of paper representing your share. Whatever they have stolen from you will never never be seen again.
If you don’t begin to “get it” by now, best read more about Morality, because you’re not close to ready for the big-time. Understand that every cent the government spends must first be STOLEN from YOU. The more schemes government enacts, the more it will cost you. This is not theft, it is armed robbery, it is taken by Force. You are not asked, you are TOLD, and if you don’t obey your Ruler will surely send someone to your door, with a gun, and authorized to use deadly Force to ensure your compliance. Go back to Morality and check to see if that fits with your Right to Life.
In the real world of life and the living, society has come to agree that Force is wrong, and has made laws declaring that Force is illegal and has set force penalties for using Force, heavier for murder than for burgling your neighbor’s flowerbed in the night, but always there are penalties. How then can this same society elect governments of Force, when the only difference of that Force is that government force is somehow “legal”. Even worse, governments are delegated to have more power, more Force, by a simple majority of it’s congress and a swipe of the President’s pen. No approval of the citizens is necessary. No protection for any person being of any minority which has reason to disagree.
A government of collectivists which gives lip service to liberty but rejects liberty at every turn may not intend to kill you, but as surely as they are killing America, so are they killing you.
Those who reject Force and practice the morality of liberty must prevail; death is your only alternative. If you continue to pay taxes or support government in any way, you abandon, compromise and forfeit your right to Life. You must refuse; you must withdraw; you must have the courage to spread the word; at the very least to tell those within your circle why they should do likewise. You will find many more ears as we continue the slide into the abyss of economic collapse.
If you cannot accept Liberty, then you are party to the loss of America. Beyond that, if we appreciate Liberty but fail to insist upon it, we lose a bit more each time. Because each encroachment upon our Right to Life endangers everyone, we must reject it or lose some part of our lives. When you have finally lost too much of your life, you are … what? … oh no, not DEAD! Really?
Political Force is wholly intentional, and we who tolerate Force must be the stupid ones!
Cap and Trade appears to be a Done Deal.
website: http://www.wejappe.com/
also linked within
http://digg.com/politics/Cap_and_Trade_appears_to_be_a_Done_Deal
with comments
This website is the apparent beginning of webwork by wjappe, a m101 member and good friend at Digg. Give him all the support he deserves. I have been hoping he will also start writing here on m101!
Is Obama constitutionally eligible to serve?.
WND aka WorldNetDaily has been a prolific leader in the battle to induce Obama to produce his true birth certificate. Their webpage lists over 200 items and varied approachs to action.
My personal objection to Obama is much more about his immoral philosophy of collectivism and force, which is “REgressing” America into economic collapse of which the worst is yet to come.
However, if we can somehow get into the locked vault(s), America will be rid of him in a heartbeat.
