What have You done for me Lately. Health Reform

What has the GOP done for health care reform alot and how. How, have their ideas come into this bill. By working together, there are over 200 ideas that are in this bill directly related to the GOP input. And to say anything different would be highly inaccurate. To say that the GOP was locked out of this process is a farce they have been apart of this process since it´s inception and all the committees they were apart of. There was not one committee that took place without GOP input and what took place in the voting process is the same as that of what the GOP has infused in our Democratic this process. It is no different than what we have lived with while they had the majority in power. EXCEPT, for one thing they don´t like to be on the losing side and will do anything to get it back. They have increased the rhetoric that the GOP is the best party and we are here to protect you and knowone else can, only US, the Republican Party, but really what has the GOP done lately besides spend, spend and spend even more. As well as create a WAR that has cost us HUMAN LIVES and TRILLIONS of dollars for a campaign that was said to only cost a few billion dollars and Discretionary spending under Bush rose from $649.3 billion in 2001 to more in each successive later years of his presidency . And included this is his infamous exist strategy for bailing out Wall Street ,the Banks, and the Auto Industry. Pres Bush in these years was the most expensive President in US history. Oh, and for those that have environmental issues that were in the forefront, as a Republican issue what about this
Gale A. Norton. (2001 to 2006). A controversial appointee and a foe of environmentalists, Norton has long advocated opening the Alaska National Refuge to oil exploration, a position shared by President George W. Bush. She is also a proponent of giving states and localities broader jurisdiction over environmental issues. Then here comes Sarah Palin from Alaska as Govenor to save the day along with Sen. John Mcaine running for President and Vice President of the Republican Party. Oh and lest not forget how the Republican party feels about life.
Tommy G. Thompson. Thompson is pro-life, and as secretary of health and human services, he oversaw how federal funds are used to fund abortions and family-planning clinics. Oh how fast they can be and do at whatever is popular and created for the moment.
Henry Paulson. (2006 to 2009) Henry M. Paulson Jr., the former head of Goldman Sachs After he left office, Mr. Paulson was criticized by some for moving slowly to respond to the crisis, for an overly ad-hoc approach to the serial implosion of banks in 2008 and for being overly generous to the financial institutions the government bailed out. Mr. Paulson came under scathing attack from Republicans and Democrats in Congress over the government's role in Bank of America's purchase of Merrill Lynch in September 2008. At a July hearing, some Democrats accused Mr. Paulson of covering up the scope of Merrill's losses and the cost to the taxpayer, while some Republicans wondered whether Mr. Paulson and Mr. Bernanke had improperly pressured Kenneth Lewis, the chairman of Bank of America, into going and through with the deal to save Bank of America.
Mr. Paulson’s abrupt changes of course and failure to understand “the theater” of crisis management hurt his credibility and undermined public confidence. He says that President George W. Bush was “largely a spectator” to “the biggest threat to American prosperity in a generation” possibly because he knew how unpopular he was and figured “he would make Paulson’s job tougher if he appeared to be calling the shots” or because the Bush White House, “stumbling through its last few months, was simply exhausted and understaffed.” And he takes the former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan to task for allowing economic conditions to develop that fueled the credit crisis in the first place. “kept interest rates too low for too long,” missed warning signs that subprime mortgages were a growing problem and was reluctant to use its powers to restrain subprime lending. He adds that the former Fed chairman, revered during his tenure as an economic wise man, made the incorrect assumption that a national decline in house prices was extremely unlikely and “put too much faith in markets,” failing to use the Fed’s “regulatory clout and rhetoric to restrain the shortsighted, excessively ebullient players in financial markets and to at least try to resist the worst of the abuses in the subprime lending market.”

Mr. Greenspan’s successor, Mr. Bernanke, along with Mr. Paulson and Timothy F. Geithner, then the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (and now President Obama’s Treasury secretary), Mr. Wessel an author on Economics states, all “had a gut sense that the U.S. economy was overdue for a financial crisis of some sort” before the catastrophic events of the fall of 2007, but “no one at the Fed” rang “the gong and warned investors, lenders, business executives, and consumers that years of easy credit even for risky borrowers, placid markets, and shared optimism were unsustainable. Richard S. Fuld Jr., the company’s chairman and chief executive, and its president, Joseph M. Gregory, were leading Lehman off a cliff. Mr. Fuld and Mr. Gregory,
Mr. McDonald contends, ignored the warnings of three of the company’s “cleverest financial brains”: “Mike Gelband, our global head of fixed income, Alex Kirk, global head of distressed trading research and sales, and Larry McCarthy, head of distressed-bond trading.” Each and every one of them laid it out, from way back in 2005,” Mr. McDonald writes, “that the real estate market was living on borrowed time and that Lehman Brothers was headed directly for the biggest subprime iceberg ever seen, and with the wrong men on the bridge. Dick and Joe turned their backs all three times. It was probably the worst triple since St. Peter denied Christ.” So now, if you think that the Republicans have all the answers then why is it that when the warning was sounded that the GOP ignored the siren. So to scream, that the Democrats don´t know what their doing tell me how the Republicans saved us money and kept us from a depression. Fifty years later we finally have a LAW OF HEALTH REFORM thank you everyone and Thank You Democrats for doing the right thing helping to take care of OUR COUNTRY and Thank You Republicans for starting the process.

What, Socialized medicine who needs it?

I’m confused, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the Military ,House of Representatives and Congress, as well as those in the White House have government funded insurance paid for by the people of this great country, correct?

So why, is it that there is so much negative talk about a Health Care Reform package. This is a benefit that all can use, this is not just the Elderly, the infirmed, or the poorest of the poor, or the military, and even Government Officials.

But, for all American’s this is something that has been needed for 50 year’s plus but the problem is that SOME have a hard time excepting change.

Do you think that Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid went without a fight?

I ask you this, take away any of these benefits and how many will kick and scream.

Oh, and while were at it since there are Elected Officials in Government that receive health care from the people as a benefit, this is also socialized medicine and they don’t have any death panels or do they.

Oh that’s right, There are some that are trying to kill us off because they think that we don’t need help.

That’s why they were elected in office to keep the status qua, right?

Poof, and the past is gone....

Did someone forget what 5 Republicans said about death and dying. Oh lest, we forget not, about the death scenario that was infused this summer by the GOP.

How fast people forget when the news doesn't bring it up. The past in commentaries and reporting, and move on to the next tidbit of shame. Oh just curious, is Acorn any different than Boeing when it is fined millions for fraud and deceit and yet continue doing business with the government and how about Dynacorp for running a child prostitution ring now this was done under the Bush Administration and yet they still receive millions from the government.

Oh, how does Xe formerly known as Blackwater A just-amended lawsuit fit into this. Added to a lawsuit is a racketeering count accusing Blackwater founder Erik Prince of running an ongoing criminal enterprise involved in, among other things, kidnapping and child prostitution.

So just curious, if were going to blacklist a company for comments,and ideas, and expressions by it's employee's than how about any company that act's this way should be under the same penalty as Acorn.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1939

Conservatives cannot govern well for the same reason that vegetarians cannot prepare a world-class
boeuf bourguignon:

If you believe that what you are called upon to do is wrong, you are unlikely to do it very well.
-Michael Wolfe, 2009

Greed... The Money Maker

Here lies the problem, we can spend 700 billion on bank bailouts and, we can spend 800 billion on the largest insurance company AIG bailout in our country then turn around and give billion’s to help GM and Chrysler which has only helped oil companies become wealthier, as well as buy ideas that could have helped Americans and their own industry become stronger and healthier.
But NO, they had to learn a lesson of greed and internal disputes which brought themselves to their knees.

There was a lesson to be learned in the 70’s long gas lines and big cars and the building of the Alaskan Pipeline which was supposed to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. At no time was any of the past brought up. The auto industry made smaller vehicles the Pinto, Hornet, and the Gremlin only to give rise to the Hummer, and the Maybach, and a V12 Dodge Ram pickup why is it bigger was better?

But yet in the 70’s we had to revert to smaller, and now we are doing this again, green this and that and smaller is better, the same thing 25 years later, history repeats itself.
Want another example look at the clothes of today; soon bell bottom pants will be back in fashion.

So now, that we have had a small history lesson, why is it that we can spend billions on world health care and yet, we can not spend any money of American Health Care?

The reason is simple power and greed of Insurance Companies, Pharmaceutical companies.
The United States Taxpayers own the largest insurance company around so why all the talk, this is simple, the fear of change we have been so programmed the people in power use the fear of change to keep control. Please put your newspaper’s down turn off your TV’s and talk with your friend’s, family, your neighbor’s.

This is an American health care issue where families have to make a decision as to weather they can go to a doctor or suffer with ill health when insurance companies decry that a surgery it’s to expensive to save a person’s life and the desperation of a father and mother to save their child’s life. Or that we can only be seen in an emergency room because we don’t have insurance and a Dr. won’t see us at an office because we don’t have the money to pay him and the Dr. won’t accept payments.

How, about families in the hill’s of Virginia and Tennessee that can’t afford, a dentist so they resort to pulling out there own teeth with a pair of pliers. And for many families that go without health care because they can’t afford a Dr. so they resort to home remedies which at times is worse than the illness and sometimes fatal.

So, let’s see if I have this right families are suffering, children are suffering and for those American’s that can’t afford insurance are suffering as well.


Then the hospitals suffer for lack of payment, Doctors lack of payment, and then teachers because the children are ill, the other children at school because some children have insurance, and their parent’s don’t.

And at times the court’s have to step in because they have to make a decision for a child to receive cancer treatment because the parent’s can’t afford it or the insurance company say’s it’s to experimental so were not going to cover it, but yet the treatment has been available for years.
The list grows long, everyday of families struggling between the choice to have health care or food.

It’s time for American’s to help each other out as people to start looking at this as a
Biblical and Moral issue. And not an issue of it’s all about me.

Peace be with you all,
Rev. Brian Chrans

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