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Wisconsin Appears To Remain In GOP Hands — Reports indicate that Republicans won four of six recall elections, Aug. 9, keeping the state in Republican hands.
Unions spent millions in an an unprecedented attempt to take back the state for the Democrats after legislation was passed earlier this year restricting collective bargaining that had nearly bankrupt the state.
A Democrat won a recall election last month. Two more Democrats face recall elections next week.
Summer Vacation Depression Story — The Chesco Tea Party member who blogs as HonestConservative and hosts the web-based radio show Freedom Radio Rocks has written How Obama Spent Your Summer Vacation, a fascinating, and depressing, article on how once hot getaway spots are becoming near ghost towns.
Double-digit unemployment and gas prices kissing $4 per gallon will do that.
You ever wonder why zombie-filled, post-apocalyptic video games and movies are so popular?
They are simply helping us prepare for an Obamalyptic future.
Medicare Does Not Equal Health Care — Old friend Tom Flocco of Upper Providence sent several links taking shots at Congressman Pat Meehan (R-Pa7) including this one to a YouTube video making the rounds on left-leaning sites accusing him of voting to “abolish” Medicare.
Meehan had supported a Paul Ryan plan which made the tax-funded safety net for seniors more like the health care offered federal workers. Ryan had tried to add an option giving seniors tax money to buy their own insurance programs rather than be entirely dependent on the government bureaucracies that some health care providers are now taking pains with which to avoid being associated.
It was an attempt to save Medicare. If something is not done soon there will be, in practice, no Medicare and Social Security. The safety net will be gone.
Sure, Medicare and Social Security will exist on paper. Those eligible for them will get nice-looking cards saying they have a “right” to benefits; a right that will be confirmed by bureaucrats and computer screens when they go to use them.
But it will soon be found that being told one has a “right” to benefits is not the same as actually having them.
Health care is not government workers or insurance cards. It is competent doctors, nurses and pharmacists. If we don’t start trying to understand this concept we will not have health care.
Also Bob Guzzardi sent a link to this remarkably positive article by John P. Martin that appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Bucks County Tea Party activists Anastasia Przybylski and Ana Puig. Guess Inquirer people have 401Ks too.
Thanks Bob.
Post Office Closings Democrat Plot? — The Hill is reporting that the United States Postal Service consolidation is causing the closings of 2,500 post office in Republican controlled Congressional districts compared to about a thousand in Democrat ones.
This tally would include Friday’s (Aug. 5) closing of the Springfield P.O.’s Brookside Road branch as a GOP loss as it is in Pennsylvania’s 7th District now represented by Republican Pat Meehan.
Before one starts screaming conspiracy, however, it should be remembered that when the closing was announced in 2009, Springfield was represented by Democrat Joe Sestak, a native son of the township.
An evil plot can be dismissed.
Here are the headings to President Obama’s agenda in dealing with the budget crisis as revealed by reader TomC:
Don Brookins Doorbells — This video by Don Brookins is called “Doorbell.”
It sums up the future facing us thanks to a lying media, manipulative educators, dishonest judges and lawyers, incompetent legislators and, most of all, a fat, lazy, extraordinarily selfish and cowardly electorate.
It was entry to a contest sponsored by Powerline.Com. Amazingly, it was not a prizewinner.
The “old” Atlantic City — long before casinos and NJ Governor Christie’s initiatives — had a financial code and structure that may not have been legal, but kept the bottom line healthy. Town boss Nucky Johnson ran the rackets and reigned as financial czar, enriching himself (and associates) and returning modest chunks of the loot to the poor.
For a sense of the downside of that system, visit this video here highlighting my novel “Brother’s Keeper.”
— Jim Waltzer
Silver Lining In Debt Deal –Politico’s Jennifer Haberkorn reported Aug. 3 that the legislation signed Aug. 2 by President Obama that allows the United State’s to raise its debt limit to $16.7 trillion endangers key parts of ObamaCare.
Among the things that could be cut are:
The debt ceiling deal may not be enough to save our health care system but it may turn out to be a better start than one had hoped.
Oh, and when will that vote be on HB42 that had been promised by State Rep. William “Hope They Forget” Adolph (R-165)?
1000th Post At BillLawrenceOnline.Com — This is the 1,000th published post on BillLawrenceOnline.Com
A party had been planned to celebrate the event at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago with entertainment by jazz musician Herbie Hancock and Dreamgirls’ star Jennifer Hudson. We cancelled it, however, as such a vulgar display of extravagance would have been in horrifically bad taste considering this nation’s financial problems and those suffering in this horrible economy.
Barbara Bater, whose company Penncora designed and decorated the ceremonial stage for the “Liberty In Motion” Event which marked the 2003 moving of the Liberty Bell to its present location at the Liberty Bell Center, has some fascinating tidbits about the Bell on her site.