Shooting fish in a barrel

Watch economist and retired business executive Mr. George Newman shooting fish in a barrel:

• "The American people overwhelmingly favor reform."
• "The cost of health care rises two to three times as fast as inflation."
• "Health care represents a rising proportion of our income."
• "Shifting funds from health care to education would make for a better society."
• "Forty-five million people in the U.S. are uninsured."
• "The cost of treating the 45 million uninsured is shifted to the rest of us."
• "A universal plan will reduce the cost of health care."
• "U.S. companies are at a disadvantage against foreign competitors who don't have to pay their employees' health insurance."
• "If you like your current plan you can keep it."
• "Congress will be strictly neutral between the public and private plans."
• "Decisions will still be made by doctors and patients and the system won't be politicized."
• "We need a public plan to keep the private plans honest."

White House finally admits the truth about their health care plans for us

Over and over again, Barack Obama has told us about his health care plans that if you like your current health care plan that you can keep it. But today, the White House admits that that is not the entire truth.

Obama lied big-time and he thinks all his worshippers won't notice (or care)

Hell, maybe he's right. But those of us with brains wonder how everyone else can tolerate bending over and getting screwed because they think he's cute or something...or whatever they think he is.

Although the Democratic health care reform proposal currently in Congress is not final, two key elements are emerging as to how the government will pay for the trillion dollar plus price tag: Taxing private insurance benefits, and cutting hundreds of billions in Medicare and Medicaid benefits.

Taxing private insurance and cutting benefits were the two things Obama said during the presidential campaign that he would not tolerate in health care reform, and he ripped into John McCain for supposedly planning just what the Democrats are about to propose:

Getting Punked On Health Care Reform