The American Health care debate begins..........

We always hear that Americans are living longer that ever .However, they are not living as long as people in 41 other countries.People are living longer in Japan, Europe, Jordon, Guam, and the Cayman Island. Some people here can live to an average of 77 years while in countries in Europe people can live up; to 83 years.Infant death is more likely in the United States than in Europe or Japan. Out of 222 countries surveyed the UNITED STATES rank 181. In Health Care Performance the U.S. ranks behind Europe and the United Kingdom including Canada, Britain, Australia.Yet the Republican Conservatives will tell us that we have "the greatest health care system in the world" just listen to Rush or Hannity on these issues.
Americans have the highest cost of Heath care in the free world.Health care in America is big business. Drug companies, Health Care Providers, Insurance companies are the only highly profitable businesses in the country.Health care in American Capitalism is a very profitable business while heath care is a service in other countries. So are we going to believe Sean Hannity or the truth of our HEALTH CARE SYSTEM? Something has to be done to improve the availability of quality Health care for Americans.

President Obama's Speech

The President gave America the outline for economic recovery in his speech last night.
"Over the next two years, this plan will save or create 3.5 million jobs. More than 90 percent of these jobs will be in the private sector -- jobs rebuilding our roads and bridges; constructing wind turbines and solar panels; laying broadband and expanding mass transit. "
He also added there will be a plan to help, the responsible citizens, who are having problems meeting their mortgages
He also called for Health Reform. Health care in America has been a drain on so many peoples finances .
In his speech he stressed that the Government must do something to get credit restored and aid to States that are suffering from the economy.
Helping education will save many Teaching jobs as states budgets are shrinking and teacher layoffs are planned.
Investing in the education of American youth will help now and pay off double in the future.
The Government cannot stand by a let banks fail and businesses close

the conservative response

Gov. Jindal gave the Republican response to Obama's Economic plan. You can guess what he said: TAX CUTS -TAX CUTS -TAX CUTS.
Gov. Jindal ranted on with the old slogan of Republican party last night as he mentioned small business tax cuts, keeping the tax cuts for the rich, Small Government. The conservatives have no new ideas just the same old song. Tax cuts were in when the economy failed but they just rant on and on with the same old refrain. Socialism, bank take overs, Big Government , Socialized medicine. how many times have we heard this crap.
The Republican party has no new ideas. They are clueless.

What is wrong with Senator McCain

Senator McCain told President Obama "Your helicopter is now going to cost as much as Air Force One," The New Fleet of Helicopters, called Marine One, were ordered by President Bush.

All Presidents have used Marine One to get to Camp David or to Air Force One.

McCain never asked President Bush why he was ordering new helicopters. President Obama even stated that he was happy with the "Marine ONE" helicopter he has now.

Such a stupid question from McClain. If he had been elected he would be flying in Marine One.

The Republicans are all just campaigning to their Conservative base.

Is this the best Republicans can come up with?

1984-Governments putting GPS systems in cars

In Oregon, North Carolina and a few other state Governments are considering installing GPS systems in cars to let the Government know the miles driven, roads used, and times a person drives their cars.

Think of it you would drive your car and when you get gas the GPS systems would determine the tax you should pay for Road usage.

We must stop this immediately. Do you want Big Brother seeing where you drive (roads used) How far you drive (mileage) and times you drive? This is none of their business.

We pay Income Tax, Home Tax, Sales Tax, and yes tolls on some roads. Now the Government wants to tax us on Road usage. these roads have been built with our tax money and we have a right to use them.

How long will it take the Government to start watching where we go and when. This is not just a new tax, it is spying on American Drivers.

Write to your Senators, Governors and congressman and say NO to Big Brother recording where we go. This is just another frightening offshoot of our High Tech society.

We all complained when the Bush administration was listening to our phone calls and watching for key words in our E Mails. Now the Government can watch where you go in cars.

Keep Government out of back seats. How would you like to be followed by a Government vehicle every time you went out in your car. This is the same thing.

.Write and call your representative now.

Say it aint so Obama. Not more war.

Prsident Barrack Obamas intends to win the war on Terror by

adding an additional 17, 000 American troops from Iraq to Afghanistan. This is a futile attempt to win a war that was lost by the Bush Administration.

The American troop level will be pushed to 55,000, in addition to 30,000 other foreign troops. Is President Obama proposing an escalation simply simply to avoid losing in Afghanistan?"

President Johnson tried the same thing in Viet Nam in 1967 this is well-documented in Daniel Ellsberg's history of the Vietnam War. These brave young troops are being asked to perform a miracle

Russia spent 10 years there with over 150 thousand troops. They secured the larger cities and became prisoners of those cities. They never could control the entire country

There has to be a way to come to terms with our enemy the radical Islamic Taliban and Al Queda.

Bush did not weed out Osama Ben Ladin's Al Queda . Instead he Invaded Iraq. This was the end of the progress on the U.S. war on Terrorism. Iraq was a strategical mistake. However, can we pick up where we left off in Afghanistan?

Pakistan made a peace treaty with the radicals in the mountain of Pakistan. Is there any way for us to come to an agreement with Moderate Taliban. How many more young brave Americans must die in the mountains of Afghanistan? Russia went home broke. Do we have an exit plan that can get us out of the area before we go broke? This is a moral question whether the expanding war in Afghanistan and Pakistan, by troop transfers from Iraq, is winnable, and in what sense?

I do not back our President on this escalation of the hostilities in Afghanistan.

Please read my post Soviet"Union in Afghanistan" Feb for more information on the futility of using our Army in that area.

Sean Hannity on Public Schools

Sean Hannity has often called Public School "Government School" This is a slur he uses for his listeners who fear Government when it comes to public education.He has said "The government has ruined the education system."
There are countless examples of excellent public schools that are accomplishing more today with their students. Schools in Florida student success on state Exams has greatly improved. Sean might want to take a look at the improvement in Public Schools before he decides that the system is in a state of "ruin."
A couple years ago two students at Cherry Creek were featured on ABC News for their work on a new treatment for muscular dystrophy. Their education is hardly in a state of "ruin."
At the same time that Sean is declaring public education "ruined," Mort Zuckerman's column in U.S. News and World Reports noted that "education is another great American success story." According to Zuckerman, "nearly 90 percent of adults today complete high school compared with 33 percent in 1947." Additionally, nearly 30% of the American population today has a college degree compared with 5 percent in 1947. This is a remarkable increase.

Glenn Beck on Free Enterprize.

All I have to do is switch the station on my car radio and I can listen to this diatribe against Obama's plan to save our sinking economy

Glen Beck has said on this show that the Government will social the banks and the Auto Industry. A guest on the Glen Beck show Stephen Moore said that we have not had Free Enterprise since Franklin D Roosevelt. You can read his book available on Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1416592385?ie=UTF8&tag=glennbeckcom-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=1416592385.
That is if you are a conservative.
Here is a quote from the Glen Beck show. Moore said, when asked about the Stimulus Package and Government involvement in Banking.
MOORE: In that case what they're actually talking about is having the federal government operate, CitiBank, Bank of America, many of these other large banks that are failing, where essentially the government would own and operate the banks.

This is the kind of hysterics the Conservatives on the Radio give out daily.
Free Enterprise sounds wonderful. However, if there were more laws regulating the Stock Market and Morgage industry we might not have had our Economic Breakdown

Then there is the following statement made in the interview that every Conservative Preaches.
MOORE: You know, today is President's Day and I got this great quote from George Washington where he says that government is a fearsome master and that's something. You know, we've forgotten about what the founding fathers stood for. They stood for limited government with government standing out of the way of the free enterprise system. We don't have that anymore. We don't have free enterprise today
Yes, the Conservatives are for less Government ........then why are they so anxious to have the Government define Marriage.

Rush Limbaugh on Socialism

If you live in central Florida and you enjoy talk radio you better be able to listen to Conservatives. Rush Limbaugh said on his radio program he wished the Stimulus package failed. He continuously complains the package is the first step to socialism.
Here is what he said on Friday"Well here in I want the stimulus package to fail. 'Cause if this thing for the first time ever does what it never has done before, we're in even worse trouble. If it becomes established that the federal government and the federal government alone can manage the economy and take over the private sector, then forget it, folks. I'm looking for property in New Zealand, and I'm going to put my money in Singapore. I do not want this to succeed, and nobody who has any respect for the founding of this country and for the capitalist system, who is honest and who has looked at it, would want it to succeed either. We are being told it must succeed because it's Obama's. Well, what's such a big deal about Obama?
"If he moves to New Zealand I hope the station gives a liberal program a chance.

Conservatives only care about the very rich. The Top 5 % of the country has actually gotten Richer in the last 6 years.

Conservatives would like to see the rich investors buy up everything and the working class sink so low they would work for very low wages with no health insurance and die early to save the government money on Social Security.

Conservatives blame everything on Unions. Workers don't need benefits

Rush is upset about the money set aside for welfare people. He quoted "Heritage Foundation" that has asked for welfare to be done away with.
What about the war dollars we are spending in Iraq. Billions have been spent in the "War on Terrorism. I never heard any Conservative complain about War dollars being spent.

I should have invested in Defense Contract Companies in 2002. At least then I would be rich.

but I could never live with myself.

As the Economy Crumbles, so goes the days of our lives

In 2008, right before the Christmas Season, Circuit City closed it door for good.

Linen and Things went out of business also.

Office Max also closed stores in December.

Now Moody has published a list of businesses that will fold in 2009.

Here are just a few:

RITE AID has a large debt after trying to expand by acquiring Brooks and Echerd drug stores CLAIRS STORES- Maul outlets that catered to teens with a line of low end accessories

CHRYSLER CORP. Trucks consist of the bulk of their Auto sales.

DOLLAR THRIFTY a small rent a car company suffering from reduced business travel and vacation business

LOEHMANNS CAPITAL CORP. consumer cutbacks is hitting this retailer very hard.

SBARRO great Pizza but they are located inside malls and mall business is down.

SIX FLAGS consumer cutbacks hurting their business and forecast for 2009 are down.

BLOCK BUSTER Competing with cable and Direct T.V combined with consumer cutback.

KRISPY CREME Once again their expansion right before this economic breakdown.

SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO low profit and reduced new subscribers is hurting their bottom line

These are just a few of the businesses that are in trouble in these trying times.

The Republicans playing politics appear feel no urgency in passing an economic recovery plan.

Maybe they think tax breaks can fix this Economic Breakdown.

I guess the only safe stocks to buy are the Defence Contractors and the Oil companies.

Nothing Changes.

THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE.

In Central Florida, where I live, there are 3 talk radio stations. They are Clear channel and Fox affiliate. In the morning there is Glen Beck, In the Afternoon Rush, and on the drive home Sean Hannity. I enjoy talk radio when driving in my car. I am not happy that all I have to listen to is Conservative Programs. I have called to voice my opinion a few times.

Do we need to pass a law (the Fairness Doctrine) to get the Liberal side of politics today.

I feel that would be Government interference in the Free Speech area of talk radio.

I am against the Fairness Doctrine because that would create a Police Force to watch what is said on the Radio Waves.

I not happy that these stations do not have liberal commentators. I have called them to ask for Liberal Commentators be included in their programming. We who are more to the left should contact these stations and urge them to include Liberal commentators. If we all do this then the stations might listen.

Cable News, on Television, at least has 2 stations that are Left or Right. There is Fox News that is skewed to the right wing conservative and there is M.S.N.B.C. which is skewed to the right wing liberals. I would like to see this happen on in Radio News Stations. Contact the stations and call for Liberal Commentators, Air America failed because it had to start its own station.

Bringing a Government Police Force, to regulate what can be said, is not the answer.

the Radio waves are not the property of the citizens the Air is. Radio waves are created by the broadcast towers of Radio stations at great expense.

I would only ask the Conservative commentators to not bully people who call in and let them finish their thought before hanging up on them.

President Obama Speaks to the Nation

February 10, 2009

President Obama call for immediate action on economy
Last night President Obama spoke to the country about our Economy. He stressed the need for the Government to step in and take immediate action to stem the fall of our economic system. He called for putting in money toward jobs and build up our intra-structure. He mentioned alternative energy, building of roads and bridges, helping our schools modernize for the 21st. century. modernize our Heath care system. The Stimulus package now has more tax cuts and more money to increase jobs in our nation..The Republicans have been making idle criticism of the plan calling for more tax cuts and screaming from the highest places too much Pork. That has been their plan for the Last 8 years and look what it has gotten us into. The Republicans are not looking for a solution they are preparing for their next campaign slogan: "Tax cuts for the rich." The Republicans think we can be fooled with a few more dollars in the paychecks of the people that still have jobs. One Republican said we should just give the money to the tax payers. Oh come on, would even 30,000 dollars to each of us improve the financial situation. This is just more of their thoughtless plans designed to get votes. We need our congress to come together for the good of America. Not the good of one party.This bill does not contain any real "pork projects" They cannot win with the tired old "BRIDGE TO NOWHERE" fable.The President has the countries well being in mind and has a plan to get us out of the situation the tired old Republican policies have gotten us into.

Republicans in Congress

"Here comes old flattop
he come grooving up slowly
He got joo-joo eyeball,
He one holy roller
He say one and one and one is three
Got to be a joker
he do just what he please.
Come together right now over me. (our country)
Come together right night over me."(our country) r

From the Beatles song "Come Together"

STIMULATE US PACKAGE

President Obama's Stimulus Package has come under attack by conservative Republicans.They object to contraceptives to be given out in schools. they object to the money given to the arts Some Republicans are against the transfer of wealth to the corporations that are failing. I can understand that the Republicans do not want all the Pork that the package contains. Health care, etc. Republicans would like to see more tax relief arguing we can not spend our way out of this recession.While the Auto industry goes further into debt and the Credit industry is still faltering Congress still does not have a bill passed. The bill does contain 500 dollar tax cut for people earning under 75,000 and $1000 for families earning up to $150,000 dollars.The Republicans say that their plan would give families an average of $1700 in savings. Which way should we go? Would it be better putting more money in helping industry build back up, or put more money in individuals hands and hope they spend the way to recovery?There must be help for the banking system if we are going to get out of this recession. In addition, there must be loans available to the the Auto Industry and concessions made by the unions. 300 billion would go to helping the States with their budgets. We need a package passed as soon as possible, but it should not contain giving out contraceptives to high school students. This should be a stimulus package to aid companies and banks to get us back on track for a prosperous America. Now is not the time to add on to this bill for projects that do not improve the economy. adding Pork to the bill is not popular at this time and the Democrats should not use this bill to finance pet projects. Some Conservatives have said giving tax breaks to individuals help the Free Market System correct itself. The answer lies somewhere between the 2 proposals.
Gabriel Caruso Unviersal Life Press

The Fall of the Soviet Union

Russia spent hundreds of Millions fighting the Fundamentalists in Afghanistan. They were never able to recoup Financially. The Soviet Union fell.

Yes, Regan did not bring about the collapse of Communism. Radical Islamic Fundamentalist bankrupted the Soviet Union.

America's mindless hate of Communism during the "Cold War" led us to back the very people that were able to fly planes into the World Trade Center.

We aided our worst enemy, to fight the spread of Communism, and we reaped the payment of our policies on 9/11/01.

Our economy is in shambles. could it be that the Radical Islamic Fundamentalist" know that they can defeat western capitalism by bankrupting American