John McCain is now campaiging in Mexico. Somehow I don’t think it’s going to help HIM any more than it helped Bush.

Read the article HERE.

For all of the people who still think that government healthcare is a good thing, I present you with another glaring example of it’s end:

A glowing Amy Winehouse bounced back from her recent health problems to sing at Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday concert in Hyde Park last night… Winehouse left a private London hospital on Monday after being diagnosed with early signs of emphysema following a fainting incident last week.

What has happened in the U.K. mirrors that wherever the failed idea of universal, government controlled healthcare has been implemented: Private care for the wealthy only.

When “free” healthcare becomes available, demand for services skyrocket. Government, being notoriously incompetent in managing anything, causes the system to bog down. Quality is reduced because the existing infrastructure cannot support the increased demand. Also, the amount of money available is insufficient to cover the expenses of the system, resulting in (1) higher taxes, (2) restrictions and rationing of the care that is available, (3) medical professionals leaving the “system” because of their new inability to determine their own earnings, and (4) the establishment of private sector solutions to the problem that government has created.

Ironically, the result of government healthcare is the exacerbation of the same “problem” the liberals and the ignorant seek to address: Quality healthcare is available only to the wealthy.  As was the condition before government took over healthcare, private healthcare is not affordable (as it is now unaffordable in the US). Those in the middle and lower tiers of income can neither pay the cash price, nor can they afford to purchase insurance. The situation is worse since the working class is now burdened with the excessive taxation required to support the government system, so now even FEWER people are able to afford healthcare. Only the “well to do” are able to purchase private health insurance, and the ultra-wealthy opt-out entirely by paying cash. So, in the end, it’s not just the poor who have no healthcare: it’s the middle class too.

In conclusion, I summarize the conditions that caused American healthcare to become unaffordable to so many.  The first cause of increased costs in the (current) American healthcare system was health insurance. As more people received health insurance as a company benefit, healthcare providers naturally became aware that more services could be given (and at higher prices) because a guranteed source of payment now existed. These higher prices compelled even more people to acquire health insurance, thus sending healthcare costs into an upward spiral.

Mandatory coverage of indigents and illegal aliens at healthcare facilities has placed added costs on healthcare. Also the cost of those who are uninsured and just cannot pay. These costs are added on to the costs that are billed to paying customers. Health insurance providers, in effort to remain viable, must charge more for premiums and cover less in services. This has resulted in a steady decline in the number of people able to afford health insurance and a steady increase in the “insured’s” unpaid portions of healthcare bills. As the cost of health insurance skyrocketed (For example, my health insurance cost has increased 1300% over the past 10 years), we now have “insured” Americans who cannot afford healthcare. Thus, “free” healthcare has tremendous appeal to the masses who fail to consider the end result.

The solution for the healthcare “problem” begins with one fundamental realization: healthcare is not a right. Healthcare is not guaranteed to the people of America by The Constitution of the United States of America. Sure, healthcare is a need, but it is not a right. The solution also requires a monumental action by the Federal Government: the Federal Government must be completely extricated from the healthcare business. Even as our healthcare system is today, the burden of the government financed and government mandated healthcare cannot be supported. By removing a HUGE portion of the demand through one single action, downward pressure on prices would be immediate. With the government OUT of healthcare, more competition would become present in the health provider and health insurance industries. Less room for greed and fraud would mean lower prices for all.

Read the article HERE.

Here we have what has gone hopelessly wrong in America: corporations that exist (and thrive) by leaching off the Federal Government (and the Federal Government happy to do so in exchange for VIP privileges). We have so many corporations that have bestowed mammoth amounts of wealth upon so many individuals that it almost seems like government exists to insure the profitability of corporations. Consider the mortgage industry and Joe Biden’s Countrywide sleaze. Consider Bush’s bailout of the airlines after 9/11. Consider The bazillions of dollars flushed down the drain in New Orleans after Katrina. Consider the military contracting establishment. So, the government has the wealthy depending on it as well as the poor people depending on it. All that remains productive in the USA is the dwindling number of people in the middle.

Blackwater is much the same. They landed hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts from the USA… that’s you (if you pay taxes) and me (I pay taxes). They lured thousands of soldiers out of the military and ex-soldiers out of retirement by offering them the big bucks associated with a corporation given complete immunity from responsibility for their operations.

Now this thing has gone to court over a botched flight in Afghanistan. The same company that demanded to be free of Iraqi law now claims that it is subject to Afghanistan’s sharia law and therefore cannot be held responsible for their negligence.

First, let me make clear: The people who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan as mercenaries are selfish, greedy hucksters… NOT heros. They took the risk… they were (over)compensated for that risk… and if they die, it’s tough stuff all over. But still, the shady, greedy, corporate monolith known as Blackwater should be held accountable for their incompetence whenever and wherever it is manifested.

Read more about this HERE.

We already know that Jihadist Obama HUSSEIN is not QUALIFIED to be the President, we now know that he is not ELIGIBLE to be President under American law. This is a great comment to a post over at Michelle Malkin’s blog:

And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth [his] hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean.

Mark 1:40-41

As Jesus encounters a leper, we can learn some things about Him and about how those who are “Christians” should behave.

First, think about the leper. This man was probably not very appealing to look at. He probably had sores and, being banished to places outside the city, he may not have been very clean. In fact, lepers were most frequently found ostracized, wandering outside the city. Regardless, this man was sure to be unattractive and undesirable. In spite of this man’s disease and undesirable features, Jesus did what most modern “Christians” wouldn’t even think about doing: He touched him.

Then there’s Jesus. The emotion that prompted Jesus to touch this man was compassion. Jesus saw this man and did not see a leper. He did not see someone to avoid, but someone to draw near to. He had no regard for the rules of “uncleanness.” He didn’t care that this man was rejected by family and society. Jesus saw a man who had great need. Jesus saw a man who was desperate for help. Jesus had compassion. This compassion was not the kind that “Christians” of today have: Jesus’ compassion moved Him to touch this man.

Can you imagine this leper? Here was a man who likely had not been touched at all for years. Here’s a man who may not have felt sincere love and compassion for decades. Imagine how he felt when the kind, tender hand of Jesus, touched him. No wonder this man spread the news abroad… sure he was healed, but he was also cared for. He was somebody. Now he could rejoin the ranks of the living. Now he knew that Jesus was on his side.

What I’ve noticed at least here in Greenville, South Carolina, those who are supposed to be “Christians” are largely uninvolved in the lives of those who are desperate; those who are in need of someone genuinely motivated and moved; those who need a touch from someone who actually cares.

It’s nice to know that Jesus still touches people. He’s moved with compassion towards all people, but particularly to the unappealing and undesirable. The poor and the needy. The prisoners, the ostracized. But remember, Jesus is not physically present with us right now. He works through those who genuinely know Him to touch people who are in need and to show the compassion of Christ here on earth while He is away.

Go ahead… next homeless person you see, rather than mocking him or her, rather than pretending you don’t see… go ahead and let the compassion of Jesus move you to touch that person and meet a need in that person’s life.  That is what Jesus would do.

With even more lovemaking going on fromm John McCain to Hillary Cliinton (YUCK!) I am wondering if he’s plotting the ultimate dream ticket: McCain and Hillary sittin’ in a tree - K-I-S-S-I-N-G, first comes love, than comes a vice presidential pick, then comes the Maverick in a baby carriage.

We’ve said it before: McCain thinks Hillary is so great, so why the heck should anyone vote for HIM?

Read more about this HERE.

I’m getting a little bit tired of these people who complain about Jeremiah Wright and Michael Pfleger. Sure they speak in a manner that is completely inconsistent with God and the Bible. Sure these men hate America. Sure these men have made great gain on the backs of the poor and the ignorant. Sure we all should be disgusted with their filthy, vile, racist, bigoted words. Still, what some folks don’t realize is that these people have rights under the First Amendment. See, as Americans we are all free to express our opinions. There’s no law (yet) against having opinions that are wrong. There’s no law against being stupid. There’s no law against promoting hatred and violence in the name of religion. So stop complaining about these people: you’re only giving them more attention and fame.

So while I am tired of those men who abuse their supposed religious positions to damn souls to Hell, I am also quite tired of Obama HUSSEIN. Barack HUSSEIN Obama hangs with this kind of person because he IS this kind of person. He agrees with Jeremiah Wright and Michael Pfleger, that’s why he keeps this kind of person in high esteem. Heck, Obama HUSSEIN’s hate-mongering, treacherous, anti-God, anti-America wife agrees with them too.  Why do you think Obama HUSSEIN married a bigoted, racist, hate-mongering woman? It’s because she’s the kind that turns him on! Why do you think Obama HUSSEIN allowed his children to grow up in such a bigoted, hate-mongering, racist, jihadist “church?” It’s because this is the way he wanted to indoctrinate his children.  Obama HUSSEIN has First Amendment rights too, so that’s just tough on all of us who don’t like him. I suppose the real disgrace here is that Americans are willing to consider such a wicked, evil, violent, hateful, un-American man for the Presidency.

Americans deserve all the crap that happens to us because Americans have asked for it! In 1976, Americans begged and pleaded to have a President who would be the laughingstock of the entire world, so they voted for Jimmy Carter. I don’t know why people voted him out so quickly, seeing that he did exactly what they knew he would do. Americans begged and pleaded to have a philandering, perverted, incompetent pathological liar as their leader, so guess what? We had to suffer 8 years of the Clinton fiasco. Americans should be filling the streets protesting against men like Barack Hussein Obama who flaunt their hatred, incompetence, racism, and dishonesty in the face of every citizen. Dittos concerning John McCain and Mrs. Bill Clinton. This is America, folks! We deserve better than this!

Read more about this HERE.

Bob Dole caused us to suffer four more years of Clintonian misery because “It was his turn” to run for President. Blast. During that lame, weak, sissy, pathetic campaign, Dole could hardly bring himself to argue with Clinton, let alone rail on him. Railing is what Dole did when writing to Scott McClellan.

Read about this HERE and HERE.

Michelle Malkin has an update HERE.

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Juan McCain, taking a page right from the liberal play book, is supporting increased funding for illegal alien’s hospital bills. For those legal American citizens with massive hospital bills, this is just one more slap in the face. Illegal, criminal aliens have a higher priority with John McCain, George Bush, all the other RINOs and all the other Democrats than YOU do!

Read more over at PoliPundit.