Is the rest of the country following California fiscally?

With facing a nearly $24 billion deficit in the great state of California, and some 38,000 of 168,000 state prisoners may be released. As Barack Obama is pushing universal health insurance, California will cut Medi-Cal for the poor. Education will be slashed, resulting in a shortened school year, thousands of laid-off teachers, school closings and an end to summer programs in a system that has plummeted from the nation's best to one of its worst, as measured by dropout rates and academic achievement. What makes this relevant to us as a nation is that California is our most populous state with one in eight people living there, and with a GDP larger than that of Canada. Now we are seeing that the social and fiscal policies of California the last few years are modeling that of the federal policies today. So as California has spent its way to fiscal devastation, so we to a nation are writing checks we can not cash.

Boxer

I don't mean to be coming with things of less importance than say the conflicts in Iran, or the Economic situations. However I feel that we need to be aware of some of the people running our country and how they are incredibly out of touch with reality. The feisty California lawmaker felt the need to remind an Army brigadier general of that fact Tuesday during a hearing before her Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, where the military officer testifying had the apparent gall to call Boxer "ma'am." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryEGmkjv8R8

Unemployment

Just 10 days before taking office, Obama's top economic advisers released a report predicting unemployment would remain at 8 percent or below through this year if an economic stimulus plan won congressional approval. In May of this year unemployment reached 9.4 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics with no real signs of stopping. At this point I am not sure if we can clearly see that pumping billions of dollars of artificial dollars into the economy is the best way to bring lasting jobs to this economy.

Iran's Elections

John McCain told Fox News today, that he did not feel that President Obama was doing everything to show his support for elections in Iran and civil rights for Iranians after a presidential election there that "everybody knows" was corrupt. However President Obama does not want the US to appear as meddling in others business. I guess if Liberty is not part of America than what is hu?

Rush Rush Rush

I need to stick with this health care reform again today. President Obama wants health care reform this year. He said at a town hall meeting the other day that he won't tolerate "endless delay" and that we probably won't reform health care if we don't do it this year. Now why is that Mr. President? Consider that it's not unusual to take a full session of congress -- two years -- to pass legislation a fraction of the size and consequence of health care reform. Yet our president is demanding that a bill to overhaul a $2.5 trillion sector of our economy -- one sixth of it -- be considered and passed in a few short weeks. It ought to be clear that this is not about taking an honest and sincere look at how to make this a better country and how to do a better job at delivering health care to Americans. It's impossible to look at something this massive and deal with it in such a short time frame. This is about raw politics. When Mr. Obama says that if we don't get "it" done this year we probably won't get "it" done, he doesn't mean reforming health care. He means reforming it the way he and Ted Kennedy want to do it. It seems to me anytime the government wants you to make quick decisions on such big plans like this or multibillion dollar bail outs that need to be moved on overnight or total disaster will be inevitable. Let’s take our time and make good decisions people have been doing it for centuries.

Health Care

OBAMA: One of the options in the exchange should be a public insurance option. (applause) Now -- and the reason is not because we want a government takeover of health care. I've already said, if you've got a private plan that works for you, that's great, but we want some competition. If the private insurance companies have to compete with a public option, it will keep 'em honest and it will keep -- (applause) -- help keep their prices down.

This is just a clip from the speech given in Green Bay were the President is selling his health care plan. Now that the government has decided to jump into the private sector and compete in the "free market" now pushing more in the health care system. I am just wondering what they are going to try to join next maybe Walmart needs some socialized competition, or even McDonalds who knows.

So whether we call it socialized medicine or single payer plan if the government gets involved and undercut the whole of the health care industry from insurance to hospitals to doctors and staff. This would just be the first step in the full government run health care.

Government Motors

Well now that the Obama administration "owns" a clear majority in the automaker General motors I still try to understand their motives in doing so, rather than letting the company follow a standard chapter 11 bankruptcy. They say because the ramifications would be closing many factories, and many job losses, as far as I can see this is what is happening anyway. We also hear that the government is the silent partner in all of this, which best reflects the best interest of the American tax payers? I am not sure, the one thing I do know is that as the free market stands even if the government does dictate the type of vehicles GM and Chrysler makes people still have the right to buy what they want and if it not a GM then no amount of government involvement will help sell cars people do not want.

Pelosi Endangering our Troops

Now that our speaker of the house has openly claimed that the CIA is a agency of liers and totally through them under the bus, she now takes it one step further. She is now wanting to further endanger our troops by publishing a set of pictures that may just enrage the opposing side of these wars that we find ourselves in. All the while we find politics taking the place of National security, but as long as she stand behind a microphone at a press conference and is able to say what ever she needs to say without recourse from anyone in power she will remain. I would recommend anyone who reads this that they contact Speaker Pelosi and speak your mind about this issue we know face as a country, we still run this thing, and need to let them know that.