From Tom at Radio Free NJ

Morons,

There is no money. There is no one else’s pocket left to pick. You can’t borrow anymore, you can’t print anymore, and you can’t steal anymore from anyone else. The people who will be paying the bill to keep you from reentering the 15th century are, unlike you, working very hard. They deserve better than you spoiled pampered children are giving them.

You object to the bond market, but the bond market is just the voice of reality calling. It’s telling you that 2 plus 2 is still 4, no matter what your union bosses would have you believe. Your bosses tell you that ‘the people’ didn’t spend the money, but it’s not true. That’s exactly who has wasted the money, and now the bill is coming due. Right now the Bond Market is actually your very best friend. It’s telling you what a horrible mistake you’ve made, and giving you a chance to undo it, before it’s too late.

The standards that the Germans are living by right now are unsustainable in their own right, but they are a lot closer to reality than you are. At the very least you should pull up your pants, wipe that stuff off your face and be responsible enough to live at that level. Since it’s they who will be coming up with the bulk of your shortfall you should do it out of good manners if you can’t manage any other reason. And once you do, the rest of us will step up and pull you back from the brink.

But the truth is, we’re not going to pull you that far. If you continue to make no contribution to productivity, your life from here on out will be one of relative hardship and poverty. And frankly that’s how it should be. You can live your lives any way you like as far as we’re concerned, but no one is going to reward you for getting drunk on the beach anymore. In the modern world you’ll only get out of the system what you put into it. Either work – or learn to live without.

Socialism always was (and frankly – still is) a horrible idea. It’s the reason you’re in this embarrassing position in the first place. In the eyes of the world you all look just as stupid and spoiled as can be. You could be protesting in diapers and demanding that ‘the state’ wipe your behinds and it would only marginally affect your public image. You need to accept the fact that there are no circumstances under which politics can arrange for nothing to be equal to something. You can not make a contribution of zero and expect to get a benefit greater than that.

You’ve thrown your bottles, burned your flags, waved your signs and had your fun. Now it’s time for you to learn the lessons of history and abandon this idiocy before we finally lose our patience with you. Grow up – and get back to work.

From the No Shit Department

The new federal health-care law has raised the stakes for hospitals and schools already scrambling to train more doctors.

Experts warn there won’t be enough doctors to treat the millions of people newly insured under the law. At current graduation and training rates, the nation could face a shortage of as many as 150,000 doctors in the next 15 years, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.

That shortfall is predicted despite a push by teaching hospitals and medical schools to boost the number of U.S. doctors, which now totals about 954,000.

The greatest demand will be for primary-care physicians. These general practitioners, internists, family physicians and pediatricians will have a larger role under the new law, coordinating care for each patient.

The U.S. has 352,908 primary-care doctors now, and the college association estimates that 45,000 more will be needed by 2020. But the number of medical-school students entering family medicine fell more than a quarter between 2002 and 2007.

A shortage of primary-care and other physicians could mean more-limited access to health care and longer wait times for patients.

I don’t know where to start.

You can’t add tens of millions of people to our health care system without causing shortages. Any private system dealing with a huge increase in demand would struggle meeting that demand. As a result, prices MUST go up, and resources will become more scarce. The situation is even worse when the government controls the system because the government is the most inefficient organization on Earth.

If resources are scarce and prices start to skyrocket, the government will set price controls on what doctors and hospitals can charge. That will drive more doctors and hospitals out of business, increasing the shortage. In response to the emergency, the feds will start rationing. And thus: Death Panels.

“Health” “Care” “Reform” (to quote Mark Steyn) wasn’t about health or care. It was about establishing fascist, authoritarian control, fundamentally altering the relationship between citizens and their government, establishing more dependency and undermining individual liberty, and destroying any remnant of free-market economics in the health care system.

It should have been friggin obvious.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/07/AR2010040703116.html

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke warned Wednesday that Americans may have to accept higher taxes or changes in cherished entitlements such as Medicare and Social Security if the nation is to avoid staggering budget deficits that threaten to choke off economic growth.

"These choices are difficult, and it always seems easier to put them off — until the day they cannot be put off anymore," Bernanke said in a speech. "But unless we as a nation demonstrate a strong commitment to fiscal responsibility, in the longer run we will have neither financial stability nor healthy economic growth."

His primary responsibility in life is to make sure that the United States continues to pay interest on its debt. He and his banking cabal will be cheerleaders for higher taxes as long as the interest payments keep rolling in.

http://weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-now-selling-appeals-court-judgeships-health-care-votes

Tonight, Barack Obama will host ten House Democrats who voted against the health care bill in November at the White House; he’s obviously trying to persuade them to switch their votes to yes. One of the ten is Jim Matheson of Utah. The White House just sent out a press release announcing that today President Obama nominated Matheson’s brother Scott M. Matheson, Jr. to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

Let’s see if Mr. Matheson rubs Barry’s back in return.

They don’t even care how it looks anymore. There’s either some kind of Democrat suicide pact in effect, or the fix is already in and voters won’t matter.

Sometimes I feel like I’m just waiting for Palpatine to dissolve the Senate, now.

This just in from the Canadian premier who came to the US to have heart surgery.

An unapologetic Danny Williams says he was aware his trip to the United States for heart surgery earlier this month would spark outcry, but he concluded his personal health trumped any public fallout over the controversial decision.

In an interview with The Canadian Press, Williams said he went to Miami to have a "minimally invasive" surgery for an ailment first detected nearly a year ago, based on the advice of his doctors.

"This was my heart, my choice and my health," Williams said late Monday from his condominium in Sarasota, Fla.

"I did not sign away my right to get the best possible health care for myself when I entered politics."

OK, so Canada’s socialist health care system was unable to provide the level of care he wanted. So he came the USA to have the “best possible health care.” But WAIT, the hypocrisy gets even THICKER!!!

Williams said his decision to go to the U.S. did not reflect any lack of faith in his own province’s health care system.

"I have the utmost confidence in our own health care system in Newfoundland and Labrador, but we are just over half a million people," he said.

"We do whatever we can to provide the best possible health care that we can in Newfoundland and Labrador. The Canadian health care system has a great reputation, but this is a very specialized piece of surgery that had to be done and I went to somebody who’s doing this three or four times a day, five, six days a week."

So while he has the utmost confidence in Canada’s shitty system, he didn’t want to be seen as jumping the line or one of Canadian health care’s famous “wait lists” so he paid out of his own pocket to come to America to get the “best possible health care.”

Williams also said he paid for the treatment, but added he would seek any refunds he would be eligible for in Canada.

"If I’m entitled to any reimbursement from any Canadian health care system or any provincial health care system, then obviously I will apply for that as anybody else would," he said.

Great, so Canada has a two-tiered health system: one tier for everybody who can afford to come to America to pay for it themselves (the American system), and one for those who can’t (the Canadian system). And this is the kind of subpar, ineffective system is what Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and EVERY SINGLE OTHER DEMOCRAT IN CONGRESS wants to implement here? No thanks. American health care may be expensive, but apparently it’s pretty damn good. As long as I’m paying ofr it anyway, I’ll take good over shitty any day.

If you’re a politician or a member of the favored aristocracy, you’ll still be able to get the health care you need. If you’re a regular person, take a number, Jack, they’ll get to you eventually.