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Amplify’d from jimtreacher.com
Please Mr. Postman (ObamaCare Remix)
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(With apologies to The Marvelettes (listen along here) and anyone who is currently experiencing a serious illness)
“I, I recognize, though, you make a legitimate, you raise a legitimate concern. People say, ‘Well, how can a private company compete against the government?’ If you, if you think about it, uh… y’know, UPS and FedEx are doin’ just fine. Right? Th-the, uh… No, they are. I mean, it’s, it’s the Post Office that’s always havin’ problems.”

P.S. I’m starting a new group: Combating Republican Astroturfing Progressively. Getting nervous about my sales pitch to Axelrod & Soros.

P.P.S. Previous entries in the Obama Songbook here and here.

P.P.P.S. And of course, the “Wait a minute! Wait a minute!” is provided by Arlen Specter.

Posted by Jim Treacher at August 12, 2009Read more at jimtreacher.com
 

merriemarie says:

Please Mr. Postman (ObamaCare Remix)



Oh yes, wait a minute, Mr. Postman
Way-ay-ay-ait, Mr. Postman

Please, Mr. Postman, look and see
If I qualify for surgery
I’ve been waiting a mighty long time
Just to hear from that doctor of mine

There must be some word today
About my much-needed hospital stay
Please, Mr. Postman, look and see
What are my chances of mortality?

I’ve been standing here waiting, Mr. Postman
So-oh-oh unhealthy
For just a word from my physician
Saying he’ll be getting ’round to me

Please, Mr. Postman, look and see
If it’s a gurney or a hearse for me
I’d like to ask, if you really don’t mind
For just a minute of a specialist’s time

So many days you passed me by
If I don’t get help soon, I’ll probably die
You wouldn’t stop to make me feel better
I’ve got worse health care than an Irish Setter

Please, Mr. Postman, look and see
What are my chances, oh yeah, of recovery?
You know, it’s been so long
Yeah, since I heard ’bout those lab tests of mine

You better wait a minute, wait a minute
Whoa, you better wait a minute
Please, please, Mr. Postman
Please check it and see, am I a casualty?

You better wait, wait a minute
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute
Please, Mr. Postman
It’s not just a rumor, please look at this tumor


[slow fade while descending into the grave]



posted by jim treacher

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Posted by merriemarie  5 months ago

The Mystery is Why People Put Up With It

Amplify’d from www.julescrittenden.com

Mystery Fog Over Boston

My worthy adversaries at the Boston Globe marvel at the “mystery fog” that settled over Boston yesterday afternoon, shutting down Logan International Airport for several hours. It wasn’t that big a mystery. As the fanciful, horror flick-citing weather story eventually gets around to partially explaining, when you have a mass of hot humid air over cold water, you get fog. Not that big a mystery.

The bigger mystery/horror story around Boston is the fog that has settled over voters who have accepted tax hikes without anything approaching meaningful reform or budget cuts, allowing Beacon Hill hacks to pick their pockets to save layabout hack cronies and hack relatives in the midst of the deepest recession in decades. Then, there’s the mysterious fact that they keep electing these people. Then, there’s the fact that they actually had an opportunity to eliminate the state income tax, firing a broadside at said hacks, but overwhelmingly voted to keep it.Read more at www.julescrittenden.com
 

merriemarie says:

Hence the massive sales tax hike … with the tax expanded to cover already heavily taxed booze … that was enacted once the hacks figured out that the people in the fog either don’t care or are too befuddled to notice. The fog itself is no big mystery. It’s pumped out of big fog machines operated by local unions, the hacks themselves, and the abovementioned broadsheet. The mystery is why people put up with it. But people get the government, and the fog, they deserve.

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Posted by merriemarie  6 months ago

Our Idiot President Compares ObamaCare to the Postal Service

Amplify’d from tehresistance.wordpress.com
There was the usual lying (”I have never supported a single payer system”) and the usual question from Demonrat plants in the audience, but the dumbest remark in Obama’s hand-picked, pre-screened, invitation-only “townhall meeting was this one:

“UPS and FedEx are doing just fine. … It’s the Post Office that’s always having problems.”

Dear Leader’s best example of how he wants Government Health Care to work is the Post Office, which he admits is having problems. I’ll say. Taking two months to deliver a small package from my home in Maryland to Seattle Washington does not give me warm fuzzies about government-run health care.

I suppose this means we can expect, under ObamaCare, the every once in a while a doctor or a nurse is going to go nuts and start shooting up the place.

“Wanna get high?”

Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)

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merriemarie says:

Not to mention, UPS and FedEx don’t compete with the post office for mail delivery. They are not legally allowed to. And the subsidized post office is billions and billions in the red.


The Government can’t handle a basic task like delivering the mail, but they’re going to run health care like a Swiss clock… you betcha!

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Posted by merriemarie  6 months ago

Rearranging the Deck Chairs

Amplify’d from directorblue.blogspot.com
• Bankruptcies just hit their highest monthly total in four years, 126,434 in July. This represents a 34% increase year-over-year and an 8.7% increase from June.
• Job losses continue at a horrific pace: “Over 400,000 people disappeared from the workforce last month - they gave up, dropping the participation rate. That’s where the ‘improvement’ in the jobs number came from.”
Unemployment is rising, despite the slight drop in the official U-2 rate (9.5% to 9.4%). As the accompanying Calculated Risk graph illustrates, the employed percentage of the population continues to drop
• Government Spending Has Skyrocketed: “Annualized, the $181 billion deficit increase in July alone is approaching one half of the full year 2008 deficit - in one month - and Treasury has announced it is going to sell almost half that much again this week in new Treasury issuance - that is, yet more deficit.”
Read more at directorblue.blogspot.com
 

merriemarie says:

Meanwhile, Tax Revenues Have Plummeted: “Tax revenue for the first three quarters of 2009 has fallen by approximately $350 billion, or 17 percent compared to the same period last year… Unemployment benefits have more than doubled, Medicaid spending has grown by a quarter and Medicare spending has increased by 11 percent.”

The S&P 500 is wildly overvalued using any conventional measure: The S&P 500’s price-to-earnings (PE) is over 140 today. It was over 100 during the first quarter of 2009, “a level never before reached in the index’s history”.
‘Cash for Clunkers’ is a Disaster: While the sycophants of stimulus are crowing about an 11.5 million unit annualized sales rate for (for July and August), 80% of the top-selling models are foreign. Typical of Politburo-style, centralized planning efforts, the unintended consequences of the program have yet to be felt; “..what of the lower-income Americans who depended on those cars - the clunkers - to be able to afford any transportation at all? Are they supposed to walk - or starve? When I was younger I was one of those individuals; today, this program would have left me unable to afford a car so I could get to work. I’m sure all the college students and recent grads, struggling to find a job, are saying ‘Thanks Mr. President for destroying all the cars we could afford to buy.’”

The ‘Green Jobs’ Myth: “…experts in economics and the energy industry say having more people work in alternative energy will actually lower our standard of living, by making energy more expensive.” James Hamilton, a professor of economics at UC San Diego, calls the assertion that funding green jobs will improve employment a “pretense”.

he following is not an overstatement: the current Democrat leadership is on course to bankrupt the United States of America.

No cuts in the size of government: it keeps growing. No cuts in federal spending: all of the programs just keep growing. No cuts in federal hiring, salaries, bonuses or benefits: their workforce just keeps growing, on the taxpayer’s dime.

Democrats are destroying the economic future of this country, piece by piece; mortgaging the next generation without permission of those affected; nationalizing industry after industry; spending like drunken liberals; and issuing edict after edict, regulation after regulation through dozens of unaccountable ‘czars’ who are literally strangling the real economy.

The hard left wing of the Democrat party must be politically punished in 2010 if we are to save this country.

Related: America’s NOD. Linked by: BizzyBlog. Thanks!

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Posted by merriemarie  6 months ago

Unemployment, A Look Inside the Numbers

Amplify’d from corner.nationalreview.com

From Friday’s All-Stars.

On the unemployment rate falling from 9.5 to 9.4 percent in July:

It’s good news, but there are caveats. The reason that the rate went down is because…the number of people who are looking for jobs had decreased. People have given up. There is a high level of discouragement.

If you take those people out of the equation, then you get a drop in the unemployment number.

And secondly, it’s within statistical error because it’s from a survey….If you look inside the numbers, as they say on SportsCenter, the number of those who have been unemployed for a short time is dropping a lot, which means that the shedding of jobs in private industry is decreasing and it’s going to plateau.

However, the number of people who have been unemployed over 15 weeks is the highest ever. “Ever” means the last 61 years when they started recording this. And you have got over a third of the unemployed have been unemployed for over 27 weeks.

Read more at corner.nationalreview.com
 

merriemarie says:

That implies that the precipitous drop in employment, which had occurred earlier in the year, is leveling off. However, those people are not getting their jobs back. And what we could have is a chronic unemployment on a European scale, which we have not seen in America for a long time.

On Democrats continuing to denounce protesters at health-care town halls:




Look, Democrats are out of control on this. Under Bush, dissent was the highest form of patriotism in America. And now it’s a form of Nazi insurrection.



Last year community organizing was such a high calling that the Democrats elected one [community organizer] to the highest office in the land. And now if you organize a community it’s called a mob…




Krauthammer’s Take

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Posted by merriemarie  6 months ago

Obama Uses His Horrific Unemployment Numbers to Push For Obamacare

Amplify’d from gatewaypundit.blogspot.com
Hope & Change–
Obama is using his record unemployment numbers to push for Obamacare today
(Data collected from US Misery Index)
The state-run media totes the party line today in announcing Dear Leader’s latest push for nationalized health care:
Using better-than-expected jobs numbers to press his top domestic priority, President Barack Obama argued Saturday that overhauling the nation’s costly health care system is essential to the country’s economic well-being.
“We’ve begun to put the brakes on this recession and … the worst may be behind us,” Obama proclaimed in his weekly radio and Internet address, citing a new Labor Department report that shows a dip in unemployment. “But we must do more than rescue our economy from this immediate crisis; we must rebuild it stronger than before.”
He added: “We must lay a new foundation for future growth and prosperity, and a key pillar of a new foundation is health insurance reform.”
Read more at gatewaypundit.blogspot.com
 

merriemarie says:

It’s a pitch that comes as the Democratic-controlled Congress wrestles to write a health care plan that meets Obama’s goals of expanding coverage to millions of uninsured while reining in exploding costs.

The US unemployment rate rose from 7.6% to 9.7% under Obama… the highest rate in 26 years.

Bureau of Labor Statistics- via Sweetness and Light

Obama said with the Stimulus Bill the unemployment rate would not go over 8% but the unemployment rate is currently hovering around 9.5%.

Obama claims his plan is working.
And, now he wants to takeover the health care industry.

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Posted by merriemarie  6 months ago

Cash for Clunkers: What Are the Facts?

Amplify’d from app.e2ma.net
The government, and sympathetic media outlets, would tell you that the program is wildly successful and popular, stimulating the economy and saving the environment in one fell swoop.
Others would argue that the program is a poorly run government bailout that’s done more to stimulate foreign car manufacturers than American ones.  Who’s right?
First: is the program actually popular?  According to Rasmussen, the answer is a hearty “no.”  54% of those polled opposed the program, and only 35% supported it.  Any claims that it is a popular program have no basis in polling.
Second:  Is the program stimulating the economy?  According to the AP, maybe briefly yes, but in the long term, definitely no:
All this will help the economy grow faster in the second half of the year than previously forecast. Yet the rebates will also steal economic growth from the future: They make car sales happen now that would have been made later anyway.
But that’s only one facet of the economy - new car salesmenRead more at app.e2ma.net
 

merriemarie says:

What about used car salesmen and used-parts dealers, whose livelihoods depend on these cars and parts?  Every car traded in through the Cash for Clunkers program must be “scrapped, crushed, or shredded.”  As much as the program may be temporarily helping one part of the economy, it is permanently hurting the good men and women whose livelihoods depend on older cars and parts.


Question 3:  Does Cash for Clunkers actually help the environment?  According to Gwen Ottinger, a researcher at the Chemical Heritage Foundation’s Center for Contemporary History and Policy in Philadelphia, the answer is hazy at best:


Building a new car, washing machine or refrigerator takes energy and resources: The manufacture of steel, aluminum and plastics are energy-intensive processes, and some of the materials used in durable goods, especially plastics, use non-renewable fossil fuels as feedstocks as well as energy sources. Disposing of old products, a step required by most incentive and rebate programs, also has environmental costs: It takes additional energy to shred and recycle metals; plastic components often cannot be recycled and end up as landfill cover; and the engine fluids, refrigerants and other chemicals essential to operating products end up as hazardous wastes.”



And what about the new cars being bought?  Are Americans trading in their Ford Explorers and going home with Toyota Priuses?  Well, here’s where the data gets dicey.  According to the official government list, the answer is yes: seven of the top ten sellers were small cars.  However, according to the way car sales are usually tabulated, two of the top three  and three of the top five sellers under the program were actually SUVs or trucks.  The government counted two wheel drive and four wheel drive versions of the cars separately, meaning the Ford Escape only made the government list in seventh position (the four wheel drive version) despite having sold more actual cars than any other make and model.


The funny thing about this government recalculating is that if they had just released the traditionally tabulated list, it could have been a PR coup for them.  On the traditional list, seven of the top ten sellers were American cars.  But on the government’s list, only three of the ten were.  The government chose to prioritize small car sales over American car sales.  And that illustrates the priorities of the radical green agenda, our activist government, and President Obama:  Environment first, country later.

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Posted by merriemarie  6 months ago