Most will never hear this. Fact is, what needs to be hear at the 8min mark, for sure won't be heard!
We have massive beaurocratic duplication - listen to it. For instance, inside FEMA, a department of HS, there are 17 different agencies at work for disaster relief. CRAZY!
At 10:30min Senator John Kerry jumps in with flattery and then says we have to have more "revenue" income....TAXES people. Really, his comment was a waste of oxygen and Coburn comes back in for reclaiming his time.
Here is somewhat his closure: "There has been a failure of leadership...and when we (Repubs) didn't do it either." And further:
"There are absolutely no cuts in what either Senator Reid or Speaker Boehner proposed in discretionary spending. The spending will rise $832 billion over the next 10 years in the discretionary accounts. Only in Washington is that a cut. Quite frankly, I am willing to work with my colleagues. I have been out there. I said we have to move and eliminate some of these loopholes; we have to reform the Tax Code. I am willing to take heat from my side on that"
He calls for a sacrifice of the American people. Immediate hurt and cuts. On the down-side less, but a stronger economy either way.
What is unfortunate is Dr. Tom Coburn will not be running in 2016 because he promised he wouldn't be. He is a true statesman (as he just mentioned most in Congress are not) and he gets laughed at. John Kerry further jumps in, clearly wanting his partisan desires. Coburn says that these partisan things are not working.
What was not called for is a Budget Amendment. I believe this is the only tidbit that was not mentioned. Now, I realize, at this moment, we probably can't get a BBA, but we need to be shooting for it.
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Sunday, July 31, 2011
COBURN: EPIC GOVT FAIL
Just consider these for a while from Coburn's speech this weekend:
Medicare. "Medicare Part A trust fund. Worst-case scenario this year to 2016. That is the fund that solves and pays for hospitalizations for our seniors...The average Medicare recipient paid $130,000 into Medicare. The average Medicare recipient takes $350,000 out. How long do we think that can continue? How long can we continue to tell seniors that we can continue a program based on its utilization rates, based on its reimbursement rates, based on the tax rates, that has a $220,000 difference between what goes out in benefits versus what comes in? It is broke"
Medicaid. "Medicaid is broke. The reason it is broke is because the States are broke trying to take care of it. We mandate what they must do, and yet the States are choking on Medicaid, and we are choking on matching the amount of dollars. Under the Affordable Care Act, it is now estimated 25 million more people will go into Medicaid. So it is broke"
U.S. Census Bureau. "The Census was broke before it started. It cost twice what it did 10 years ago, $8 billion more than what was estimated"
Fannie and Freddie. "We know they are broke. They are $190 billion--that you have now committed for, to pay to get them out of hock--Congress created that $190 billion. That is where we are today. It is going to be $300 or $400 billion that we have to pay--we will be required to pay, citizens of this country"
Social Security. "People say it is not broke. We have $2.5 trillion worth of IOUs. Well, the fact is, that money is gone. Congress stole it, spent it on other things. Now we lack the ability to go into international financial markets to borrow that money to put that trust fund whole"
U.S. Post Office. "The U.S. Post Office is bleeding every day. Yet we have not fixed it. We are going to do a gimmick to buy some time. But the fact is, we have set it up under a system when they negotiate labor contracts under the arbitration system. They cannot consider the financial health of the Post Office. That would be like paying somebody to mow your grass and saying, they will set the price on it and you cannot negotiate what the price is. Yet they are going to lose $8 to $10 billion this year and more every year going forward, and we have not fixed it, not done anything"
Cash for Clunkers. "When you look at the dollars--and the home buyer program, the new home buyer program--they actually had a negative effect on the economy. That is what the studies show now. So we blew through all of that money.
Federal Highway Trust Fund. "The highway trust fund--what is used to build highways and roads and bridges in our country--is broke. We are looking for $13 billion to try to make it whole, and all we did was transfer the last 3 years to that. Rather than reform it, we did not do anything about it"
Federal Health Care Law. "The new government-run health care program. Here is what we know. The new studies show that over half of the employers in this country will drop their insurance for the people who presently have insurance at work. Hundreds of billions of dollars of additional taxpayer money is going to be required to subsidize the exchanges those people are going to go into, because the penalty for dropping somebody's insurance is economically too low to keep employers from doing that"
Medicare. "Medicare Part A trust fund. Worst-case scenario this year to 2016. That is the fund that solves and pays for hospitalizations for our seniors...The average Medicare recipient paid $130,000 into Medicare. The average Medicare recipient takes $350,000 out. How long do we think that can continue? How long can we continue to tell seniors that we can continue a program based on its utilization rates, based on its reimbursement rates, based on the tax rates, that has a $220,000 difference between what goes out in benefits versus what comes in? It is broke"
Medicaid. "Medicaid is broke. The reason it is broke is because the States are broke trying to take care of it. We mandate what they must do, and yet the States are choking on Medicaid, and we are choking on matching the amount of dollars. Under the Affordable Care Act, it is now estimated 25 million more people will go into Medicaid. So it is broke"
U.S. Census Bureau. "The Census was broke before it started. It cost twice what it did 10 years ago, $8 billion more than what was estimated"
Fannie and Freddie. "We know they are broke. They are $190 billion--that you have now committed for, to pay to get them out of hock--Congress created that $190 billion. That is where we are today. It is going to be $300 or $400 billion that we have to pay--we will be required to pay, citizens of this country"
Social Security. "People say it is not broke. We have $2.5 trillion worth of IOUs. Well, the fact is, that money is gone. Congress stole it, spent it on other things. Now we lack the ability to go into international financial markets to borrow that money to put that trust fund whole"
U.S. Post Office. "The U.S. Post Office is bleeding every day. Yet we have not fixed it. We are going to do a gimmick to buy some time. But the fact is, we have set it up under a system when they negotiate labor contracts under the arbitration system. They cannot consider the financial health of the Post Office. That would be like paying somebody to mow your grass and saying, they will set the price on it and you cannot negotiate what the price is. Yet they are going to lose $8 to $10 billion this year and more every year going forward, and we have not fixed it, not done anything"
Cash for Clunkers. "When you look at the dollars--and the home buyer program, the new home buyer program--they actually had a negative effect on the economy. That is what the studies show now. So we blew through all of that money.
Federal Highway Trust Fund. "The highway trust fund--what is used to build highways and roads and bridges in our country--is broke. We are looking for $13 billion to try to make it whole, and all we did was transfer the last 3 years to that. Rather than reform it, we did not do anything about it"
Federal Health Care Law. "The new government-run health care program. Here is what we know. The new studies show that over half of the employers in this country will drop their insurance for the people who presently have insurance at work. Hundreds of billions of dollars of additional taxpayer money is going to be required to subsidize the exchanges those people are going to go into, because the penalty for dropping somebody's insurance is economically too low to keep employers from doing that"
COBURN TAKES THE HEAT
Say what you want to say about the Gang of Six and Tom Coburn. They may not have been all that or were too much ... depending on how you view them; but, Senator Coburn-OK, he is trying to shoot straight! Unfortunately, we aren't geting this in the Media or from most in DC. Watch his speech.
Speech highlights...
"You have heard the debate in the House, in the Senate, of a spending cut. And, of course, that goes to what the heart of the problem is in our country; words get twisted around to the advantage of the politicians but to the disadvantage of the American citizens. We are in trouble financially. Most people will agree with that. We have programs that are in difficult straits"
"There are absolutely no cuts in what either Senator Reid or Speaker Boehner proposed in discretionary spending. The spending will rise $832 billion over the next 10 years in the discretionary accounts. Only in Washington is that a cut. Quite frankly, I am willing to work with my colleagues. I have been out there. I said we have to move and eliminate some of these loopholes; we have to reform the Tax Code. I am willing to take heat from my side on that"
"We need to freeze the size of this government. We cannot afford the government we have. The debate is about what will happen in the future. What will be the revenue increases and the spending increases? Nobody is talking about decreasing the size of the Federal Government. We can't afford this government. We can't afford to continue to spend the money we are spending"
Speech highlights...
"You have heard the debate in the House, in the Senate, of a spending cut. And, of course, that goes to what the heart of the problem is in our country; words get twisted around to the advantage of the politicians but to the disadvantage of the American citizens. We are in trouble financially. Most people will agree with that. We have programs that are in difficult straits"
"There are absolutely no cuts in what either Senator Reid or Speaker Boehner proposed in discretionary spending. The spending will rise $832 billion over the next 10 years in the discretionary accounts. Only in Washington is that a cut. Quite frankly, I am willing to work with my colleagues. I have been out there. I said we have to move and eliminate some of these loopholes; we have to reform the Tax Code. I am willing to take heat from my side on that"
"We need to freeze the size of this government. We cannot afford the government we have. The debate is about what will happen in the future. What will be the revenue increases and the spending increases? Nobody is talking about decreasing the size of the Federal Government. We can't afford this government. We can't afford to continue to spend the money we are spending"
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Union of the State, 1/25/11
One person said on Facebook: "Pondering rhetoric vs. substance."
Does anyone really believe (beside the media...) that Obama believes much of anything he said tonight? Further, did anyone else catch that there was a list of wants followed by "we are going to put a freeze on the budget."
WHAT?
Seriously, you cannot have both.
Education - The President did get some of this right. We are failing and we need to get it fixed. Education needs to supersede sports....ha! Yeah, that'll happen. It should though - other countries laugh at us!
Tax - Still class envy, which will destroy us. More Rhetoric and failure options.
Korea - Really? This is all "you got?" 70,000 jobs there - sure, sign me up. :{
Recovery Act - K. That worked.
Jobs - Your Achilles heel. We've hovered at 10% nearly your entire presidency and you were hot on this at the start.
Clean Energy - 1 Million electric cars!?! Why? They run (at best) just under 100 miles (if you drive like a granny) on an 8hr charge! Then the cars run on fossil fuels. What charges them - household electricity. What fuels the household: coal, nuclear, etc.
Litany of Govt "Investments" - who's paying? Yep, bend over.... OH! BUT WE ARE FREEZING THE BUDGET! Which you said back a couple years ago too. And, thanks for explaining why you didn't work on this "immediately."
Earmark reform - i.e. The Health Care Bill?
Everyday is not Election Day - Really? That would be nice to see with you too.
Basically, it was a love fest with the Speaker and Vice shaking hands or bumping fists; McCain cuddling with Kerry and many others abstaining from segregation. Applause was muted, cheers limited and even the President seemed to be lackluster.
With two republican responses (so says the News Media), I wonder how the Republicans will carry on in the wake of Tucson. Further, when will the New Speaker quit crying?
Does anyone really believe (beside the media...) that Obama believes much of anything he said tonight? Further, did anyone else catch that there was a list of wants followed by "we are going to put a freeze on the budget."
WHAT?
Seriously, you cannot have both.
Education - The President did get some of this right. We are failing and we need to get it fixed. Education needs to supersede sports....ha! Yeah, that'll happen. It should though - other countries laugh at us!
Tax - Still class envy, which will destroy us. More Rhetoric and failure options.
Korea - Really? This is all "you got?" 70,000 jobs there - sure, sign me up. :{
Recovery Act - K. That worked.
Jobs - Your Achilles heel. We've hovered at 10% nearly your entire presidency and you were hot on this at the start.
Clean Energy - 1 Million electric cars!?! Why? They run (at best) just under 100 miles (if you drive like a granny) on an 8hr charge! Then the cars run on fossil fuels. What charges them - household electricity. What fuels the household: coal, nuclear, etc.
Litany of Govt "Investments" - who's paying? Yep, bend over.... OH! BUT WE ARE FREEZING THE BUDGET! Which you said back a couple years ago too. And, thanks for explaining why you didn't work on this "immediately."
Earmark reform - i.e. The Health Care Bill?
Everyday is not Election Day - Really? That would be nice to see with you too.
Basically, it was a love fest with the Speaker and Vice shaking hands or bumping fists; McCain cuddling with Kerry and many others abstaining from segregation. Applause was muted, cheers limited and even the President seemed to be lackluster.
With two republican responses (so says the News Media), I wonder how the Republicans will carry on in the wake of Tucson. Further, when will the New Speaker quit crying?
Thursday, January 6, 2011
"It's Still Just Me" Doesn't Cut It
The shoot down and minimization begins.
The Washington Post is out with an article comparing Newt Gingerich to John Boehner. Both took hold of the gavel as a result of conservative upswings and disdain for the congress. However, Gingerich - he was heavy on task and words. Boehner is yet to be seen...but, he was much less in words.
Maybe this is good. Maybe this means "we're going to act first and talk later." This I like. Flattery. Words. They get us nowhere. Moreover, PC language has set this country for self destruction.
"It's Just Me" is fine if it conceals your coalition of stonewall action against the liberal agenda....otherwise, we need solid confidence that takes intuitive, common sense based action mimicking the American collective desire for conservative supremacy. There is a mandate, and political suicide is there for those who do not do Americans' bidding!
Action is what we need Boehner - plain and simple:
Action to repeal Obama Care.
Action to address state to state health care options.
Action to cut, slice and dice the budget.
Action to pay down debt.
Action to resist pork and home projects.
Action to restore Founding Principles.
Action to limit time spent on welfare, unemployment and other government subsidies.
Action to motivate the private sector to do what it should but isn't because of so much govt. control.
Action to lessen the shadow of Big Government.
Action to remain Constitutional.
Action to strengthen our borders, follow immigration laws; purge these laws and enforce them.
Action to show strong defense, national character and inner strength.
The list may go on...for sure. We have many ails. We must stop the bleeding. We must tighten the belt. Individually and corporately (nationally).
So Newt was the "tiger...." maybe Boehner is simply sly, confident, discerning and will strike as needed and when needed...just as fiercely.
We can only hope. No...we can call constantly and encourage action with our senators and representatives. The Washington Post states that Boehner is "riding the tiger in his party;" well, LET US ROAR!
The Washington Post is out with an article comparing Newt Gingerich to John Boehner. Both took hold of the gavel as a result of conservative upswings and disdain for the congress. However, Gingerich - he was heavy on task and words. Boehner is yet to be seen...but, he was much less in words.
Maybe this is good. Maybe this means "we're going to act first and talk later." This I like. Flattery. Words. They get us nowhere. Moreover, PC language has set this country for self destruction.
"It's Just Me" is fine if it conceals your coalition of stonewall action against the liberal agenda....otherwise, we need solid confidence that takes intuitive, common sense based action mimicking the American collective desire for conservative supremacy. There is a mandate, and political suicide is there for those who do not do Americans' bidding!
Action is what we need Boehner - plain and simple:
Action to repeal Obama Care.
Action to address state to state health care options.
Action to cut, slice and dice the budget.
Action to pay down debt.
Action to resist pork and home projects.
Action to restore Founding Principles.
Action to limit time spent on welfare, unemployment and other government subsidies.
Action to motivate the private sector to do what it should but isn't because of so much govt. control.
Action to lessen the shadow of Big Government.
Action to remain Constitutional.
Action to strengthen our borders, follow immigration laws; purge these laws and enforce them.
Action to show strong defense, national character and inner strength.
The list may go on...for sure. We have many ails. We must stop the bleeding. We must tighten the belt. Individually and corporately (nationally).
So Newt was the "tiger...." maybe Boehner is simply sly, confident, discerning and will strike as needed and when needed...just as fiercely.
We can only hope. No...we can call constantly and encourage action with our senators and representatives. The Washington Post states that Boehner is "riding the tiger in his party;" well, LET US ROAR!
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