Comments on: The Cost Of Manna From Mount Olympus

By: james huggins

james huggins — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:24:26 +0000

Now we have Henry Waxman demanding that the CEOs of Deere, Caterpillar and others appear before his committe and justify their claims with their internal company records in tow. I hope these men tell the hacks of our congress to shove it up their collective noses. Of course I suspect they won’t but it would neat to see those clueless boobs in congress be shown up for the fools they are. It’s obvious they are only trying to cover their collective behinds and also cover the business killing lies of the health
reform bill.

By: Mark Humphrey

Mark Humphrey — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:33:08 +0000

The costs of this latest venture into Socialist Perfection were obvious long ago–to anyone who can think.

Sadly, most Americans have abandoned their ability to think. The most damaging assumption shared by mental cripples is that consciousness is more fundamental than reality. This absurdity, widely shared but rarely challenged, is at the root of our political and social problems.

If consciousness is logically precedent to reality, then thoughts determine facts. If thoughts are primary, then the ideas of leading “intellectuals” and “leaders” carry great weight, as does political “consensus”. Evidence and reasoned coherence count for little.

This nihilistic world view explains why most people are immune to reasoned arguments. It explains the dominance of Keynesian economics, despite its glaring
contradictions; it explains the intellectual docility of MDs hostile to evidence that refutes orthodox beliefs; it explains the maddening refusal of most people to look at disturbing facts that overturn court history.

I see evidence of this disturbing malady everywhere. I wish I could tune it out.

By: Roger Chaillet

Roger Chaillet — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:41:23 +0000

One of my family members is an MD (general practitioner). He practices in a rural area of the Rust Belt. He told me a few days ago that he is now seeing folks with insurance who cannot find a primary care physician.

Understand this: These patients are not the uninsured nor are they Medicaid patients; they have private insurance. Yet they cannot find a primary care physician.

The farce known as Obamacare does not address the shortage of GPs in the country.

So, of what use is it other than a power grab by the State?

By: Steve Hogan

Steve Hogan — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 21:59:36 +0000

I don’t think they care about costs either. The original CBO estimates are a joke and a lie, and were intended to deceive people. How anyone could believe we could cover 30 million previously uninsured people, many with pre-existing conditions, and still reduce the deficit (!) probably needs to put the crack pipe down.

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that costs are going to skyrocket, premiums for the healthy will be jacked up to support the sick, and eventually insurance companies will either go under or get bailed out.

The result of Obama’s power grab: A single-payer plan and complete government control, which is what the crooks in Washington wanted all along. Supply will shrink (who in his right mind would go medical school and get paid a pittance for his trouble?), demand will surge, quality will suffer, and rationing will be enforced.

The same people that gave you the Post Office, Amtrak, and FEMA are now in charge of hospitals. Don’t get sick. You life may literally depend on staying healthy.

By: james huggins

james huggins — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:18:24 +0000

I think they don’t care what the cost is to the companies. If the country is in a shambles it will be easier to control.

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:22:10 +0000

The company I work for self-insures. It’s not one of the so-called “cadillac” plans but it is a very good one featuring a personal savings account to which the company contributes on a yearly basis. I fully expect that in my case what Obama has always said about being able to keep your insurance if you’re happy with it will turn out to be another one of the lies he’s very good at telling. The company is happy with it and the employees are happy with it but I suspect the IRS will be very unhappy as it does nothing to contribute to the pool to help pay for the gazillions of uninsured and thus flies in the face of Obamacare.

By: Van Wijk

Van Wijk — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 10:18:03 +0000

Abysmal news. I’ve always supported Caterpillar, one of the last remaining bastions of American know-how. The D9 is integral to the IDF’s mission, and I myself have worn the same pair of steel-toed Cats for the past nine years.

I guess the Israelis better hope the Chinese start making decent armored bulldozers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDF_Caterpillar_D9

http://tinyurl.com/yapemf4