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Prayers For Harry Reid’s Wife And Daughter
by Big Dog on Mar 11, 2010 at 20:53 Posted in Political 3 Comments
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s wife and daughter were injured in an accident on Interstate 95 today. His daughter is expected to be released from the hospital but his wife has more serious injuries.
A spokesman for the senator says 69-year-old Landra Reid broke her back, neck and nose in the accident. She is being treated at Inova Fairfax Hospital in suburban Virginia. The New York Times
Mrs. Reid’s injuries are serious but not considered life threatening but she has a long road to travel before she fully recovers.
The Big Dog family extends prayers on behalf of Harry Reid’s wife and daughter and wishes them a full and speedy recovery.
Tags: accident ♦ Harry Reid ♦ hospital ♦ landra reid ♦ serious condition
Preexisting Conditions
by Big Dog on Mar 11, 2010 at 04:48 Posted in Political 45 Comments
The health care takeover is on life support and all the socialist medicine in the world might not be able to save it. This has not stopped Barack Obama from campaigning around the country and it has not stopped those who think they have a right to government paid health care from holding rallies.
At a recent rally those with the microphone led crowds in chants about free health care for all.
Many young people do not understand that they will be required to buy their own health insurance. They complain that health insurance is too expensive but they will be forced to buy health insurance and there is no way the cost will go down.
The mandate to buy health insurance is needed to cover people with preexisting conditions. Insurance companies routinely refuse to cover people with preexisting conditions. I think there should be reform to require them to cover the preexisting conditions but also allows them to charge more for the insurance. Why should people, many of them young and healthy, be required to pay huge amounts of money in order to cover the elderly and those with preexisting conditions?
The left likes to tell us that since government can force you to have car insurance it is legal for it to force you to have health insurance. This is untrue because you have a choice NOT to drive. Since they use that analogy, let’s go with it a bit further. Car insurance companies require bad drivers to pay more money for car insurance. If this is allowed then why not require those with preexisting conditions to pay more for health care coverage?
The funny thing is that the same liberals who applaud employers who refuse to cover their workers who smoke (to keep costs down) demand that government require insurance companies to cover preexisting conditions which are not covered to, wait for it…
Keep costs down.
The health care takeover bill is losing Democrats and the trust issues and parliamentary manipulation might just well bury this thing in the graveyard of bad legislation.
Right where it belongs.
Tags: Democrats ♦ health care ♦ mandates ♦ Obama ♦ preexisting conditions
I’ll Make You Fishers Of Men…
by Big Dog on Mar 10, 2010 at 05:10 Posted in Political 23 Comments
It looks like the left’s messiah, Barack Obama, is not much of a fan of fishing. A panel working on this issue is set to make recommendations by the end of March and the recommendations are likely to involve ending fishing in “…the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.”
About 60 million people fish in this country but now that might end if the environmental groups involved in this process get their way. If they make recommendations to end fishing, Mr. Transparent, is expected to implement the recommendations by issuing an Executive Order.
Many people in this country earn an honest living by fishing and millions more enjoy the sport as a past time. Obama can eliminate many jobs and end this past time with the stroke of his pen. The indications are all there that this will happen and happen soon. The government has cut off public comment on the issue which means that the people will no longer be heard on the subject.
Complaining to members of Congress, while therapeutic, will be of no avail because Obama will bypass Congress and enact this via EO.
What will happen next? Will Obama convene a panel to look at hunting? If the environmentalist wackos decide (and they will) that hunting should not be allowed in this country will Obama enact that via EO?
Will he convene a panel of Brady gun control freaks to decide if guns should be allowed in America and then enact gun control via EO?
This might sound unrealistic but who would have ever thought a US leader would ban fishing in this country?
Barack Obama won the last election with 69.5 million votes. I am willing to bet that with 60 million anglers in this country he will not get that many the next time.
Is there any person in this country who has this much disdain for the American way of life, our values and traditions?
It is time for the states to step up and tell this anti American zealot that any waterways belonging to the states will not have fishing banned and if the feds do not like it they can pound sand. It is time for those who fish to let Obama know they will not obey his EO.
Obama will make fishers of men and those men will be fishing for a new leader.
Source:
ESPN
Tags: espn ♦ executive order ♦ fishing ♦ Obama
Steny Hoyer Gets A Challenger
by Big Dog on Mar 9, 2010 at 22:06 Posted in Political Leave a comment
Looks like Steny Hoyer of Maryland’s 5th Congressional District has a Republican challenger. Charles Lollar, a Marine reservist and businessman, has thrown his hat in the ring for the people’s seat that Hoyer treats like his own.
Lollar will not have an easy battle as Hoyer is well entrenched and won easily with about 74% of the vote in 2008.
But Lollar is a Republican and this is a bad year for Democrats.
Lollar is also a black man and it is difficult to find many black Republicans. It will be interesting to see how he is treated considering how other prominent black Republicans fair when they run for office.
For more information visit Lollar’s site.
Tags: charles lollar ♦ fifth district ♦ Maryland ♦ steny hoyer
Evil Insurance Will Get $336 Billion From Obamacare
by Big Dog on Mar 9, 2010 at 05:33 Posted in Political 1 Comment
In order to cover most people with insurance, including those with preexisting conditions, the government will try to impose an unconstitutional law forcing everyone to purchase insurance. The only way for those evil insurance companies to make money insuring everyone no matter what, is to force everyone to buy insurance. This will place millions of young, healthy people in the mix paying more so that everyone can be covered.
But to help the poor purchase insurance the government will kick in $336 billion which will go right to the very evil insurance companies that Obama complains about.
To help pay for the new insurance requirements the government would give to people money to buy insurance – $336 billion over the next ten years. That money, ultimately, would have to go to… drum roll… insurance companies. ABC
Complaining that insurance companies are evil and make too much money and then paying them to insure people makes as much sense as spending money when you are broke in order to fix the economy.
The real evil here is the government. It will take away our right to choose (where have we heard that) and force us to buy health care insurance. Funny how the right to choose when it is abortion is sacrosanct but having the right to choose whether to buy insurance or not is not.
For all the money they want to spend to takeover our health care they could just buy policies for those who are uninsured and save billions upon billions.
Only in America can a politician deride a business while giving it money.
And while taking its money as well…
Tags: corruption. health care takeover ♦ insurance ♦ lies ♦ Obama ♦ tax dollars
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