Players in Health Care, China=Scary, Bernanke

Subsides' Reach is Critical Issue For Health Plan; Burden of Premiums
There seem to be 4 groups of people on the Health Care issue.
1. Obama and his team...and by team, I mean George Stephonopolous and his Twitter account. Also, Speaker Pelosi, etc...
2. Blue Dogs, the Conservative Dems who have somehow found a name for themselves in this whole mess.
3. Republicans, all of them, except...
4. Olympia Snowe (R), Maine, who is actually doing her best to get a bipartisan bill passed.

Problem is, I think only the Captain of team 1 (obama) and the Captain of team 4 (snowe) are the ones willing to play ball. Does Pelosi know how reckless it is in this country to say shit like, "When I take this bill to the floor, it will win"?? Reminds me of this...listen closely to #8 QB Matt (Pelosi) Hasselbeck...and notice the result, where Al (Blue Dogs and Republicans) Harris take it back the other way for 6...

The Blue Dogs are also pissing me off, but that's for another day. But we are complaining that families may have to pay 10% of their income to subsidize Health Care...but you know what? To me, that doesn't seem so bad. I have been in and out of eye doctors for the last 15 years...my dad has had cancer...my sister has had illnesses and my mom and grandmom, etc... You add up all that treatment and what do you get? A lot more than 10% of our incomes, I'd believe...Pay the 10%, isn't it worth it to be insured? Am I crazy for thinking that?

Files Vanished, Young Chinese Lose the Future
Jeezus Crap. Basically, if you live in China, you have a file that has everything in it. Your records, tests, evaluations, etc...it proves you are able to do a job, move to a certain grade, graduate, etc...Well, a certain # of files were lost, and now these kids have nothing to show for anything, they have to start over. The article is more compelling, but it leads me to China in general.

I am really starting to think the Opening Ceremonies in Beijing were more creepy than anything else, based on how they run people's lives over there. We complain about 10% of our $$ going to Health Care, what about them? They have 100% of their lives given to the state, and the article implies people who had bad records or files were able to buy the good ones off these kids, and make them their own. That's some Orwellian crap, it's almost too horrifying to be true.

It's so amazing to read how the Gov't over the past few weeks with this, the Rio Tinto mining scandal, and the Han/Uighur clashes is completely confident in it's backtracking, lying, fabricating, and justification of really disgusting ends...But man, they sure can host the hell out of a Decathlon!!!!

Forget Aloof, Bernanke Goes Barnstorming
Ben Bernanke, the Fed Chairman, is going to be taken to task by Ron Paul. Ron Paul was the single most entertaining and interesting person in the 2008 election, more than Obama, Palin or Clinton. I wouldn't vote for him, but he actually gets stuff done and seems to be willing to stick his neck to protect people. He is going to get his fellow lawmakers to put together a Bill that basically oversees and checks everything the Fed does, and Ron Paul seems like the kind of guy who will go through each page of each file.

This is crazy how turned on it's head it has all become...If Bernanke and this group of Fed experts are Bush appointees, Conservative fiscally and otherwise, what kind of Beastly Monster will the Dems appoint in his place? I think Ron Paul's oversight legislation needs to be passed immediately, just to protect us from what may come in the future Head of the Fed seat...