Prezident B Erkel ..."Did I do That?"

Clueless in Washington, Prezident Erkel claimed in his speech last night that he has saved or "created" 150,000 new jobs since being in office.
This comes on top of a report from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics released earlier this month showing that the U.S. has lost more than 1.2 million jobs since President Barack Obama was sworn into office... a net loss of still over 1million jobs.... since January, under Obama/Erkel.

Next Prez Erkel claimed “We inherited a $1.3 trillion deficit. That wasn’t me.”

When in fact, (Associated Press fact check ) "Congress controls the purse strings, not the president, and it was under Democratic control for Obama’s last two years as Illinois senator. Obama supported the emergency bailout package in President George W. Bush’s final months — a package Democratic leaders wanted to make bigger."
…
He’s persuaded Congress to expand children’s health insurance, education spending, health information technology and more. He’s moving ahead on a variety of big-ticket items on health care, the environment, energy and transportation that, if achieved, will be more enduring than bank bailouts and aid for homeowners.

The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimated his policy proposals would add a net $428 billion to the deficit over four years, even accounting for his spending reduction goals. Now, the deficit is nearly quadrupling to $1.75 trillion.

When asked about these facts, Prez Erkel responded... oh wait, he was never asked about these facts by the adoring, loving, enchanted media... never mind.

Mexico Flu Overated, Overstated and Over-hyped, Scientists Say

LA TIMES- As the World Health Organization raised its infectious disease alert level Wednesday and health officials confirmed the first death linked to swine flu inside U.S. borders, scientists studying the virus are coming to the consensus that this hybrid strain of influenza -- at least in its current form -- isn't shaping up to be as fatal as the strains that caused some previous pandemics.

In fact, the current outbreak of the H1N1 virus, which emerged in San Diego and southern Mexico late last month, may not even do as much damage as the run-of-the-mill flu outbreaks that occur each winter without much fanfare.
FULL STORY


And yet the Obama administration continues with the "crisis" theme....hmmmm wonder why?

Government Motors.... One Car for One Nation Under Obama, The NEW Free Enterprise System!

Thanks to Oklahomily the blog...

“The President has said, and I couldn’t agree more, that what this country needs is a one single national road map that tells automakers who are trying to become solvent again what kind of car it is they need to be designing and building for the American people.”- Lisa Jackson EPA Administrator.

NPR's Michelle Norris then asked the EPA chief: “Is that the role of Government though?
That doesn’t sound like free enterprise.”

EPA chief Jackson responded: “Well it is free enterprise ...in a way.”


So, would you like your new wind powered YUGO in white or off white?
(dark car colors have been determined to be harmful to the environment)

Veep Biden's Solution for Mexican Flu? "Don't fly" ...Hide In Your Basement

Not to be outdone by Prezident Barack Erkel's latest bonehead move of flying a 747 with F16's flanking it over the 9-11 site and around NYC without thinking anyone might freak out... Vice President Joe Biden now says he would advise his family to avoid all places where they are in close contact with others to deal with the Mexican Flu outbreak.

"I would tell members of my family, and I have, I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now."- VP Joe Biden

Biden says to quit flying... (which should stimulate the struggling airline industry), avoid subways, trains and cabs and according to this logic... elevators and office buildings, schools etc. In other words, stay home and hide in your basement... unless you don't have a basement, then just stay home. And don't wear one of those surgical masks. According to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano those masks are "too intimidating" for US border agents to wear, so forget about that.

If this were President Bush, the media would blame him solely for the the flu outbreak, for no vaccine and for no plan to deal with it except ... "don't fly" and hide in your basement.

Secret Oath of Right Wing Extremists Uncovered

Thanks to Bucky the Moonbat Slayer....

Red Stater for JC Watts

Red Stater officially endorses JC Watts for governor of Oklahoma. ...now if he will just run!

"...they [ Jesse Jackson, et al.] said that I had sold out and was an Uncle Tom. And I said well, they deserve to have that view. But I have my thoughts. And I think they're race-hustling poverty pimps."

Damn the PC Police... Call it the "Mexican Flu" for Crying out Loud

Officials are struggling to come up with the correct name for the new flu outbreak.
First it was the Swine Flu but now that's wrong and they say that it is a new strain.... that originated in Mexico.
Hmmm a new flu strain that originated in Mexico.
Let's see... hmmm what to call it, what to call it.

If it came from Canada we'd call it the Canadian Flu so get over it people.... it's the Mexican Flu.
BTW- if you want a taste of socialized medicine... go to Mexico. -red

Too Far To the What?

There is a popular Democrat talking point picked up by none other than Arlen Specter upon his announcement that he is actually not a Republican but a Democrat because the party has moved "too far to the right".

One only has to look back to last November to realize just how insane this argument is.

Republicans selected Presidential candidate John McCain who is among the most left leaning Republicans out there... he campaigned with former Democrat VP candidate Joe Lieberman for crying out loud... remember?

The left is trying to completely destroy the right... one way to do that is to make the right look like the extreme and hide the fact that the Democrats are the party that has suddenly jumped to the extreme left. So the next time you hear someone say the Republican party has move too far to the right... ask them to name a single issue that Republicans today are to the right of Republicans of 1984 and Ronald Reagan on. That oughta' shut 'em up for a nano-second.

Then remind them that they are saying this at a time when our country is being converted to socialism by Democrats and the left then tell me again how Republicans are "too far" to the right.

Arlen Specter 'Outs' Himself

Former Republican (In Name Only), Arlen Specter has announced he is actually a Democrat.... (shocking) this is sorta' like Richard Simmons suddenly announcing he is gay isn't it?

Goodbye Specter... and good riddance, you won't be missed.

Has anyone heard from Olympia Snow (R?) or Susan Collins (R?) lately?
C'mon step up to the plate.... boys and girls, we wanna make sure we know exactly WHO is on board with this runaway insane Obama-train and who opposed this insanity when election time rolls around.

Giving Democrats a virtual filibuster proof majority at a time when they are already on an out of control spending frenzy is worse than irresponsible and should be the last thing Arlen Specter does to end and benchmark his career in politics before being retired by voters soon.

....Did I Do That?

Another Obama publicity stunt goes bad.



from wizbang-
Obama's Plane Buzzes NYC for Photo Op; Panics Unsuspecting New Yorkers


















This man is clueless... absolutely self absorbed and clueless. He has surrounded himself with idiots and yesmen (and yeswomen).

And the left dared make fun of George W Bush?

Compared to President Erkel, Dubya was a genius folks.

UPDATE: FAA Memo: Feds Knew NYC Flyover Would Cause Panic
"Threatened Federal Sanctions against NYPD, FBI, Secret Service and Mayors Office if secret got out."

On "Torture", What Would You Do to save a loved one?

I heard someone say that they don't consider themselves a cannibal, but if given the circumstances and they were in a plane crash in the remote mountains... and looking at starvation, then you just might end up being dinner.

This is how it is on "torture".

If you are against waterboarding, putting crickets in with someone who thinks they are poisonous and other so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques", then please read on an answer my question honestly.

For this example, you get a phone call that a loved-one has been kidnapped and is being held hostage in a building that has been identified with a bomb in it and there is no way out without setting off the bomb.

Authorities have captured one of the leaders of the group who knows exactly where in the building your loved-one is being held and how to save him/her... for now, but time is running out for your loved-one in terms of ever hoping to find him/her (or disarm the bomb) and he refuses to talk.

To save your loved-one, would you authorize
A: Strongly encouraging or begging him to save your loved-one?
B: Using any means possible (including phony poison crickets) to save your loved-ones?

If you answered "B", then why would you deny this same thing to save other parents and children?

We are not a nation that routinely tortures people, but given the right circumstances I think that we would all do it to save a loved one.... I know I would in a heartbeat.

Semi-Annual World-Wide Flu Scare "Crisis"

Remember when we had the last big flu scare?
Bird flu... right?
The left blamed President Bush for "shortages" on vaccine that actually were never a factor in controlling the flu nor resulted in any significant outbreaks here in the US.

We get a flu scare every few years that I recall dating back to the 70's....

Mexico?
Mexico City Like Ghost Town

I hate be the one to break the news, but I think they have MUCH bigger problems than the flu to worry about in Mexico. They've had probably 10x as many people die from getting their throats cut in the current drug cartel's war on the Mexican government as from the flu.

Americans should have been warned NOT to travel to Mexico months ago.... but not because of "Montezuma's revenge" or the flu.

But no. Why?

Hide and watch.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and the Obama administration are setting themselves up to "never let a crisis go to waste" at the expense of using the flu as the "fear" to take our minds off his socialist march on Industry etc. and focusing on the critical almost emergency need for government run, socialized, nationalized health care.
We will probably be hearing very-very soon about the need for nationalized health care to deal with things like this flu crisis etc. etc etc.

cough cough... and continue to hear very little about the virtual civil war bloodbath going on south of our border... and not hearing a single word or peep about SECURING that border.

USA is The Cause of Many World Problems

Many people (including many on the left right here in America) believe that we (the USA) are the cause of many of the world problems throughout history and today as well.

This is true.

If not for the meddling of the United States, Nazi Germany and Communist Japan and perhaps even the USSR would have fought it out amongst themselves for world domination decades ago.

If not for the United States, Saddam Hussein would be still running things..... including Kuwait and in a nuclear arms race with Iran or worse.

If not for the United States, Islam would have destroyed Israel decades ago.... and would be decades ahead of where it is now on the road to Islamic domination of the world.

If not for the USA... there would be no South Korea and N Korea would be the nuclear world power it dreams of being.

If not America, those who have hope for survival and freedom would not even think of such things, for such things cause many "problems" for potbellied dictators and global thugs.

Yeah... America has been a big problem... for evil men to deal with that is.
America has been a major problem for Communism, Nazism, Fascism and a huge problem for radical Islam for the past 7 years.... until now that is.

Now there is hope for them. You see, "Change" is on the way.
The Obama administration is cuddling up to Communist Cuba, Socialist Venezuela, Islamic Iran and every other despot and potbellied dictator in the universe he can dig up.

So... I guess America is officially not the problem with the world anymore, huh?
Problem solved, chalk one up to Obama.

Mark My Words

If the Obama administration and Democrats proceed with plans to prosecute Bush admin officials for methods of interrogation that at the time were not considered "torture" by those same Democrats who now are calling it "torture", it will in deed be the beginning of the end for the Obama era.

Americans will not tolerate that level of hypocrisy, deceit and political retaliation from any administration... not even the first black President.

George W Bush kept us safe following Sept 11 2001, and any attempt by the left to turn that into a criminal action will be met with a swift and overwhelming reaction from Americans the likes of which Democrats have never seen before.... 2010 and 2012 will be landslides and in fact it may just put Republicans (the adults) back in power for generations to come.

Go ahead Obama and company... I dare ya'.
-red stater

Love and Mixed Signals

He loves me.... He loves me not, he loves me... he loves me not.

Gore and Democrats Continue Global Warming Hoax, Plan Tax Increases

Gore Pleads for Unity on Climate, Despite Divide.
WASHINGTON – FormerVicePresidentAlGore, the leading American voice on climate change, urged lawmakers Friday to overcome partisan differences and take action to reduce greenhousegases, but Democrats and Republicans sparred even more vigorously over the cost of dealing with global warming.

"This bill is an energy tax, an energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job." -Newt Gingrich (R) Ga. and Former Speaker of the House.

REPORT: Democrats Refuse to Hear Opposing Science at Climate Hearings.

Washington, DC -- UK's Lord Christopher Monckton, a former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, claimed House Democrats have refused to allow him to appear alongside former Vice President Al Gore at a high profile global warming hearing on Friday April 24, 2009 at 10am in Washington. Monckton told Climate Depot that the Democrats rescinded his scheduled joint appearance at the House Energy and Commerce hearing on Friday. Monckton said he was informed that he would not be allowed to testify alongside Gore when his plane landed from England Thursday afternoon.

“The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face,” Monckton told Climate Depot in an exclusive interview. “They are cowards.”

Obama Administration Won't Stand-up to China

From One News Now.com
By Jim Brown

A former Republican presidential candidate says the Obama administration, just like the Bush administration, is attempting to "soft-pedal" a concerted Chinese effort to transplant the industrial base of the United States into China.

Last week the Treasury Department claimed in a report to Congress that no major U.S. trade partner, including China, had manipulated its exchange rate to gain an unfair competitive advantage. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has apparently backtracked from testimony he gave in January during his Senate confirmation hearing, when he claimed China manipulated its currency.

Former Republican presidential candidate and California Congressman Duncan Hunter says the Obama administration is taking the easy way out with communist China, just as the Bush administration did.

"When President Bush's financial leadership went to China, at one point they had stated that this manipulation of the currency amounted to a subsidy, which is exactly what it is because it enables them to undersell and undercut American products by artificially lowering their currency," he notes. "When the speech was actually given in China, the word 'subsidy' had been removed by the American bureaucrats. They didn't want to anger the Chinese because they hold such a massive portion of the Americans' debt."

Hunter says the Treasury Department's stance on China is a "classic example" of an administration that talked tough on China when running for office, but since assuming office has not been able to "stand up" to the Chinese.

Note: During the 2008 Presidential campaign Duncan Hunter was the only candidate outlining the problems with China and how to solve them by leveling the trading field on American produced goods. -red

Otisburg Lives, Long Live Otisburg !

Former Okie blogger Steve at "Otter Limits" (now living in Seattle), is putting his old band back together!

You can learn about Otisburg here and hear their stuff here.

Best of luck!
-red

Quote of the Day

Headline: "The Gov't wants to bail out the newspapers"

..."What could possibly go wrong? "

from Living on Tulsa Time Blog

Sec of Homeland Security on 9-11: "Blame Canada.... Then Apologize"

"The Border For Dummies"

National Post Editorial Board- Canada:

Can someone please tell us how U. S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano got her job? She appears to be about as knowledgeable about border issues as a late-night radio call-in yahoo.

In an interview broadcast Monday on the CBC, Ms. Napolitano attempted to justify her call for stricter border security on the premise that "suspected or known terrorists" have entered the U. S. across the Canadian border, including the perpetrators of the 9/11 attack.

All the 9/11 terrorists, of course, entered the United States directly from overseas. The notion that some arrived via Canada is a myth that briefly popped up in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, and was then quickly debunked.

Informed of her error, Ms. Napolitano blustered: "I can't talk to that. I can talk about the future. And here's the future. The future is we have borders."

Just what does that mean, exactly?

Just a few weeks ago, Ms. Napolitano equated Canada's border to Mexico's, suggesting they deserved the same treatment. Mexico is engulfed in a drug war that left more than 5,000 dead last year, and which is spawning a spillover kidnapping epidemic in Arizona. So many Mexicans enter the United States illegally that a multi-billion-dollar barrier has been built from Texas to California to keep them out.

In Canada, on the other hand, the main problem is congestion resulting from cross-border trade. Not quite the same thing, is it?

National Post editorial board

National Post Published: Wednesday, April 22, 2009

More On This Story

• Napolitano's Canada terror claims border on insane

• Envoy rebukes U.S. for linking 9/11 terrorists to Canada

• Full Pundit: Meet the new Homeland Security boss

• Letter: Two Americans say 'Sorry, Canada'

• Security paranoia defies logic

• National Post editorial board: Our borders are safe

• The wacky world of Janet Napolitano

Why Does Obama Smile at Dictators?

From "No Holds Barred": By SHMULEY BOTEACH
(An Obama supporter)

"The picture of the president of the United States smiling broadly as he met President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela startled me. Our president is a nice guy. Chavez is anything but.

In spite of a presidential term limit of six years, Chávez has suggested that he would like to remain in power for 25 years. Hmmm. An autocratic dictator who abuses human rights and undermines democracy being warmly embraced by the American president. There's something wrong with that picture.

Then there was the incident of President Barack Obama seeming to bow before King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at the G-20 summit in London. The president's people denied it was a bow, but it certainly was a sign of great deference from the American president to the dictator of a country who just six weeks ago sentenced a 75-year-old woman to 40 lashes for having been secluded with her nephew after he delivered bread to her home. This is the same Abdullah whom, when asked why Saudi Arabia prohibits the public practice of religions other than Islam, said, "It is absurd to impose on an individual or a society rights that are alien to its beliefs or principles."

Obama is also pursuing a renewed relationship with Cuba, a country which engages in systemic human rights abuses, including torture, arbitrary imprisonment, unfair trials and extrajudicial executions. Censorship is so extensive that Cubans face five-year prison sentences for connecting to the Internet illegally. And not only is emigration illegal, but even discussing it carries a six-month prison sentence.

WATCHING ALL THIS, I was wondering what the new standards were. How oppressive must a leader be before we determine that he has not merited a hug by the democratic standard-bearer of the free world, the president of the United States?

And if Obama feels that he has to be the one to greet a man like Chavez, must it be with the kind of ear-to-ear grin that one might show girl scouts selling cookies?

It must surely be disheartening for those who suffer oppression in countries like Venezuela, Cuba and Saudi Arabia to see the American president backslapping their oppressors when these victims have always looked up to the United States as their champions.

LIKE MANY AMERICANS, I have been awed by our president's capacity to draw those who hate us near. He is a man of considerable charm and grace. But I have to admit that I am increasingly troubled by his seeming inability to call out rogue dictators.

While he was campaigning for the presidency, Obama promised, "As president I will recognize the Armenian genocide." But in a press conference in Ankara with President Abdullah Gul, he refused to use the word "genocide" when challenged by a reporter on the issue.

ALL THIS LEADS to one important question.
Suppose Obama succeeds in building friendships with Chavez, Castro, Ahmadinejad and the Taliban. What then?
Does America still get to feel that it stands for something?
Will we still be the beacon of liberty and freedom to the rest of the world, or will we have sold out in the name of political expediency?
And do any of us seriously believe that presidential friendship is going to get a megalomaniac like Hugo Chavez to ease up on the levers of power, or are we just feeding his ego by showing him he can be a tyrant and still have a beer with the president of the United States?
Will the Iranians really stop enriching uranium through diplomacy rather than economic sanctions?" -BY SHMULEY BOTEACH
FULL STORY

Good question(s)
-red

Liberal Intolerance #125- Same Sex Marriage Litmus Test

Thanks to PoliticalVindication.com

Liberal Intolerance #125: Same Sex Marriage Now Litmus Test Issue

Posted by: Evrviglnt on Monday, April 20th, 2009

The gorgeous Miss California was a favorite to win the Miss America contest, and if she were being judged by average Americans, she’d be wearing the crown. But she wasn’t being judged by average Americans, instead a gay judge asked her if she supported same sex marriage and when she said she didn’t, her chances of victory went up in smoke. Why? Do Americans support same sex marriage? No. Do Californians? No. Does Hollywood and the cultural left that infect our media? Yes, and for that reason, Carrie Prejean was called a “dumb bitch” by the gay activist judge and blogger Perez Hilton.

How tolerant!

“The way miss California answered her question lost her the crown, without a doubt!” Perez told Access Hollywood after the pageant. “Never before that I’m aware of has a contestant been booed at Miss USA.”

Was she booed? Watch the Youtube video and judge for yourself…

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Don’t you love that sour face Perez Hilton makes when she delivers her answer!

I think she was cheered for her courage - she had to have known that the answer would be unpopular with the anointed crowd. But she stuck to her ideals. That’s more than we can say for Rick Warren!

By the way - what the hell is a gay guy doing judging a female beauty contest? What makes him more skilled at judging the beauty of the opposite sex than any average guy on the street? Just the fact that he was a judge ought to reveal to America that the organizers of the event are hard core political activists who sought out an affirmative action seat for ‘teh gays.’ Why not pick a lesbian for the seat? At least she wouldn’t be grossed out by a woman in a bikini!

Possibly Related Posts:

• California: Same Sex Marriage Re-Battle
• Liberal Intolerance #124: L.A. City College Professor Shouts Down Christian Student
• Liberal Intolerance #123: Academic Publisher Suspends Encyclopedia Publication, Citing That It’s Too ‘Christian’
• Liberal Intolerance #122: University Of Calgary Revokes Pro-Life Students Club Status
• Liberal Intolerance #121: College Democrat Defaces Crosses At George Washington University

CIA Interrogation Worked, So Obama Bans it and Considers Prosecuting Bush Admin

President Obama continues to show his lack of experience, lack of understanding and lack of plain good judgement by banning the very techniques that have proven to keep Americans safer and at the same time considering prosecuting the Bush administration for keeping us safe.
Amazing.


NY Times: WASHINGTON – President Obama’s national intelligence director told colleagues in a private memo last week that the harsh interrogation techniques banned by the (Obama) White House did produce significant information that helped the nation in its struggle with terrorists.
Full Story

CIA Confirms: Waterboarding 9/11 Mastermind Led to Info that Aborted 9/11-Style Attack on Los Angeles
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
By Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief
(CNSNews.com) - The Central Intelligence Agency told CNSNews.com today that it stands by the assertion made in a May 30, 2005 Justice Department memo that the use of “enhanced techniques” of interrogation on al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) -- including the use of waterboarding -- caused KSM to reveal information that allowed the U.S. government to thwart a planned attack on Los Angeles.
Full Story

Drudge Report: -WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama left the door open Tuesday to prosecuting Bush administration officials who devised the legal authority for gruesome terror-suspect interrogations, saying the United States lost "our moral bearings" with use of the tactics.
Obama also said he could support a congressional investigation into the Bush-era terrorist detainee program.
Full Story

Obama Doesn't Rule Out Charges Over Interrogations
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama left the door open on Tuesday to prosecuting some U.S. officials who laid the legal groundwork for harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects during the Bush administration.

Funk Jumps Shark, Lands in Out-house Out Back

Local leftwing extremist blogger and college professor (he teaches blogging... lol) Okie Funk, aka Kurt Hochenauer, aka doc-hoc has finally "jumped the shark" with his post on "right-wing extremism" to show his respect for those lost in the OKC bombing.

Providing his students with perhaps the greatest example ever of plain old bad blogging and tactless partisanship, with a dose of hatred, he tells us the "lesson" we should learn from the OKC bombing is that conservative ideology is what caused that horrible act... this comes of course from the same guy who refuses to admit what the lesson from September 11, 2001 is, who attacked us, or even use the words Islamic Extremism... and same the guy who I'm sure thinks of domestic terrorist/college professor Bill Ayers as a role model.

To Hochenauer, the enemy is his political foes and in his world, McVeigh and Nichols are compared to Inhoffe and Coburn.

This is the kind of sewage we have teaching in our schools ladies and gentlemen.
"Notes from the Outback" should be called "notes from the outhouse out back" in my opinion.
Pathetic.
-red stater

The New Gorbachev?

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama has gone abroad and gored an ox—the deeply held belief that the United States does not make mistakes in dealings with either friends or foes.

And in the process, he's taking a huge gamble both at home and abroad, for a payoff that could be a long time coming, if ever.

By way of explanation, senior adviser David Axelrod describes the president's tactics this way: "You plant, you cultivate, you harvest. Over time, the seeds that were planted here are going to be very, very valuable."

While historic analogies are never perfect, Obama's stark efforts to change the U.S. image abroad are reminiscent of the stunning realignments sought by former Soviet leader Michael Gorbachev. During his short—by Soviet standards—tenure, he scrambled incessantly to shed the ideological entanglements that were leading the communist empire toward ruin.

Full Story

Had Enough "CHANGE" Yet?

Obama, Chávez and a New Approach to the World

The Washington Post

By Dan Balz
President Obama's weekend of summitry in Latin America will be remembered most for his cordial encounter with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. The images of that smiling handshake spoke vividly to the changes Obama is bringing to U.S. relations abroad.

The underlying question in all this is whether Obama's approach means the United States will be dealing out of a position of strength or weakness as the new administration confronts problems ranging from Iran's nuclear ambitions to Middle East peace to better relations in this hemisphere. Does Obama's desire to deal more cordially with leaders who are hostile to the United States make him more or less likely to achieve the country's strategic goals in tough negotiations?

Full Article

Biden Worst VP Ever?

Karl Rove call's Joe Biden a Serial Exaggerator and Blowhard

Vice President Joe Biden the "exaggerator" said...
"He (President Bush) said to me, he said, Well, Joe, he said, I'm a leader. And I said, Mr. President, turn around and look behind you. No one's following."

Those in the know say that never happened.

VP Joe Biden the blowhard went on to say...

"People are beginning to follow the United States again as a consequence of our administration."

Ohhh really?
Like who... Great Britain, Germany and Russia are questioning your so-called misnamed "STIMULUS" spending spree/government take-over.
You are threatening to abandon Iraqis while increasing troops in Afghanistan with no exit strategy.
N Korea is defying you, Iran is calling you out and Chavez is calling you and Obama traitors and liars.... did I leave anyone out? ...Exactly who is following you Mr Veep... who is following America now?
-red stater

Hope Everyone is Okay....

Just a quick note hoping everyone is safe and wishing everyone well during the devastating fires... our property was spared.
-red

President Obama at Your Service

Thanks to Z Truth

"Here is a photo taken of the President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, bowing down to the king of Saudi Arabia, Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz, who rules over the birth place of Islam."

..."it's one of the most disturbing gestures I've ever seen from an American president."- z truth








Look into my eyes darling...


















ahhh yes, reminds me of the good old days.


















-red

PROOF National Socialized Health Care is a FAILED System

National Socialized Health Care Doesn't Work and is in fact much WORSE than America's free market health-care system.

Obama koolaid drinking socialists and leftwing bloggers are either misguided or simply liars when they tell you that Nationalized Socialized Government Run Health Care is better than a free market healthcare system.

If you don't believe it, just read what those who are experiencing it have to say about it.

Things our Democrat controlled press won't tell you about Nationalized Health Care.

From "The Problems With Socialized Health Care".

Straight from the newspapers

UK:

• NHS 'failings' over elderly falls
  - March 25, 2009 [BBC]

• Learning disabled 'failed by NHS'
  - Nick Triggle, March 24, 2009 [BBC]

• Cancer survivor confronts the health secretary on 62-day wait
  - Lyndsay Moss, March 21, 2009 [The Scotsman]

• Culture of targets prevents nurses from tending to patients
  - Claire Rayner, President of the Patients Association, March 21, 2009 [Telegraph UK]

• Children being failed by health system, says head of watchdog
  - Sarah Boseley, March 21, 2009 [Guardian Unlimited]

• Our cancer shame: Survival rates still lag behind EU despite spending billions
  - Jenny Hope, March 20, 2009 [Daily Mail(UK)]

• Failing hospital 'caused deaths'
  - March 17, 2009 [BBC]

• Health gap drive 'wasted money'
  - Nick Triggle, March 14, 2009 [BBC]

• Longer GP opening hours branded wasteful 'PR exercise' by doctors
  - Lyndsay Moss, March 13, 2009 [The Scotsman]

• "Political meddling" threatens general practice, warns GP leader
  - March 13, 2009 [Management in Practice (UK)]

• Children at risk through lack of training for doctors and nurses, report warns
  - Rebecca Smith, March 13, 2009 [Telegraph UK]

• Chocolate should be taxed to control obesity epidemic, doctors are told
  - Simon Johnson, March 13, 2009 [Telegraph UK]

• 1,000 villagers wait for a dentist after just one NHS practice opens
  - March 10, 2009 [Daily Mail(UK)]

• Study that proves the folly of NHS Alzheimer's drug ban
  - Jenny Hope, March 7, 2009 [Daily Mail(UK)]

• NHS charges to rise in England
  - March 5, 2009 [BBC]

• Disabled children wait up to two years for wheelchairs
  - March 4, 2009 [Guardian Unlimited]

• NHS under fire over waiting times
  - February 25, 2009 [The Scotsman]

• Specialist nurses 'vastly overworked'
  - February 20, 2009 [Harwich & Manningtree Standard]

• Hundreds of operations cancelled at Lothian hospitals
  - Adam Morris, February 19, 2009 [The Scotsman]

• Stop asking for antibiotics to cure coughs and colds, Government tells patients
  - Daniel Martin, February 17, 2009 [Daily Mail(UK)]

• Stroke services are 'UK's worst'
  - February 17, 2009 [BBC]

• Hospitals curb caesarean births
  - Sarah-Kate Templeton, February 15, 2009 [The Times]

• Only five out of 51 hospital trusts pass hygiene test, say inspectors
  - Sarah Boseley, November 24, 2008 [Guardian Unlimited]

• Top doctors slam NHS drug rationing
  - Sarah-Kate Templeton, August 24, 2008 [The Times]

• Heart patients dying due to poor hospital care, says report
  - Sarah Boseley, June 8, 2008 [Guardian Unlimited]

• NHS dentistry loses almost a million patients after new dentists' contract
  - David Rose, June 6, 2008 [The Times]

• Private healthcare managers could be sent to turn round failing NHS hospitals
  - Philip Webster, Political Editor, and David Rose, June 4, 2008 [The Times]

• Cancer patients ‘betrayed’ by NHS
  - Sarah-Kate Templeton, June 1, 2008 [The Times]

• NHS scandal: dying cancer victim was forced to pay
  - Sarah-Kate Templeton, June 1, 2008 [The Times]

• Pensioner, 76, forced to pull out own teeth after 12 NHS dentists refuse to treat her
  - Olinka Koster, March 26, 2008 [Daily Mail(UK)]

• Dental patients face care lottery
  - March 26, 2008 [Metro(UK)]

• Lung patients 'condemned to death as NHS withdraws their too expensive drugs'
  - Jenny Hope, March 24, 2008 [Daily Mail(UK)]

• Women in labour turned away by maternity units
  - John Carvel, March 21, 2008 [Guardian Unlimited]

• Health inequality has got worse under Labour, says government report
  - Andrew Sparrow, March 13, 2008 [Guardian Unlimited]

• Angry GPs reluctantly accept plan for weekend and evening surgeries
  - John Carvel, March 7, 2008 [Guardian Unlimited]

• NHS chiefs tell grandmother, 61, she's 'too old' for £5,000 life-saving heart surgery
  - Chris Brooke, February 28, 2008 [Daily Mail(UK)]

• Patient 'removed' from waiting list to meet target
  - January 31, 2008 [The Scotsman]

• NHS patients told to treat themselves
  - James Kirkup, January 4, 2008 [Telegraph UK]

• NHS is 'failing patients' despite record funding
  - Rebecca Smith, October 4, 2007 [Telegraph UK]

• NHS rationing rife, say doctors
  - September 24, 2007 [BBC]

• One in eight patients waiting over a year for treatment, admits minister
  - John Carvel, June 8, 2007 [Guardian Unlimited]

• Audit Office asked to investigate record £500m NHS underspend
  - John Carvel, May 30, 2007 [Guardian Unlimited]

• The drugs the NHS won't give you
  - May 11, 2007 [Telegraph UK]

• UK lagging behind on cancer drug access, study finds
  - May 10, 2007 [Guardian Unlimited]

• One in six trusts is still putting patients on mixed-sex wards
  - Daniel Martin, May 10, 2007 [Daily Mail(UK)]

• Specialist stroke care 'lottery'
  - May 9, 2007 [BBC News]

• Smokers and the obese banned from UK hospitals
  - May 2, 2007 [Healthcare News]

• Cancer patients told life-prolonging treatment is too expensive for NHS
  - Lyndsay Moss, February 13, 2007 [The Scotsman]

• UK health service "harms 10 percent of patients"
  - Kate Kelland, July 7, 2006 [Reuters]

• 5,000 elderly 'killed each year' by lack of care beds
  - June 26, 2006 [Telegraph UK]

• Dental Socialism in Britain
  - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., May 9, 2006 [LewRockwell.com]

• Pay for nurses and surgeons doubles NHS overspend
  - Beezy Marsh, Patrick Hennessy and Nina Goswami, April 23, 2006 [Telegraph UK]

• The money addicts: it's your cash they are gambling with
  - Patience Wheatcroft, April 23, 2006 [Telegraph UK]

• NHS chiefs get luxury car deals
  - Daniel Foggo and Steven Swinford, April 9, 2006 [The Times]

• Secret NHS plan to ration patient care
  - Nigel Hawkes, April 7, 2006 [The Times]

• British Healthcare To Be Rationed
  - April 7, 2006 [United Press International]

• British body rejects EPO drugs for cancer patients
  - March 17, 2006 [Reuters]

• National Health Service - Grappling with Deficits
  - March 9, 2006 [Economist.com]

• Hundreds wait to register as another dentist quits the NHS
  - Martin Williams, September 23, 2005 [The Herald (Scotland)]

• Life-saving cancer drugs 'kept from NHS patients by red tape'
  - Sam Lister, September 20, 2005 [The Times]

• NHS slides into the red despite record increases in health care spending
  - September 20, 2005 [Telegraph UK]

• Alzheimer's sufferers hit by further delay in NHS approval for vital drugs
  - Michael Day, September 18, 2005 [Telegraph UK]

• We all pay a price for our 'free' NHS
  - John Smith, August 19, 2005 [The Scotsman]

• 2,000 British doctors out of work
  - August 14, 2005 [The Washington Times]

• UK health 'unsustainable'
  - August 14, 2005 [Finance24]

• NHS faces rising bill for negligence claims
  - Ben Hall, August 8, 2005 [Financial Times]

• British boy to go to India for operation
  - August 5, 2005 [United Press International]

• NHS failed to stop doctor raping scores of women
  - Lois Rogers and Jonathon Carr-Brown, July 31, 2005 [The Times]

• Top crimewriter funds drugs for cancer victim refused by NHS
  - Martyn Halle, July 8, 2005 [Telegraph UK]

• Report says NHS is mired in huge debts
  - David Simms, June 25, 2005 [ABC Money (UK)]

• U.K. set to restrict smoking
  - June 21, 2005 [The Associated Press]

• NHS ‘fund bias’ against men may cost 2,500 lives a year
  - Sarah-Kate Templeton, June 19, 2005 [The Times]

• Doubts on funding NHS 'monuments'
  - Nicholas Timmins, June 10, 2005 [Financial Times]

• 17 million reasons why we must improve hospital meals
  - June 7, 2005 [Cambridge Evening News]

• Figures show more patients waiting for operations
  - June 3, 2005 [Guardian UK]

• Scarcity of NHS dental treatment is revealed
  - Celia Hall, May 19, 2005 [telegraph.co.uk]

• Why NHS Opposes 'Treatment by Demand' for the Dying
  - Stephen Howard and Jan Colley, PA, May 18, 2005 [Scotsman]

• 800 queue for NHS dentists
  - May 5, 2005 [telegraph.co.uk]

• Hundreds more heroin addicts to be given a fix on the NHS
  - Nic Fleming, April 25, 2005 [telegraph.co.uk]

• British health service facing nurse exodus
  - April 25, 2005 [United Press International]

• About 400 patients a year in Scotland succumb to MRSA
  - April 25, 2005 [Scotsman]

• NHS debts soar to over £1bn
  - Karyn Miller, April 24, 2005 [telegraph.co.uk]

• British taxpayers foot $26.5 million bill for abortion tourists
  - April 18, 2005 [Catholic World News]

• U.K. Liberal Democrats Would Raise Taxes to Pay for Health Care
  - Reed Landberg, April 14, 2005 [Bloomberg]

• Number of NHS Bureaucrats 'Rising Faster Than Health Staff'
  - Joe Churcher, March 22, 2005 [Scotsman]

• '£500m hole' in hospital budgets
  - Celia Hall, March 21, 2005 [telegraph.co.uk]

• 1,000 Scots desert NHS every week
  - Murdo Macleod, March 5, 2005 [Scotsman]

• British NHS facing financial crisis
  - March 3, 2005 [Washington Times]

• NHS drugs regulator to withdraw approval of Alzheimer's treatment
  - Nicholas Timmins, March 2, 2005 [FT.com - Financial Times]

• NHS waiting list rises
  - February 11, 2005 [Guardian UK]

• Tumour patients hit by NHS shortages
  - Jo Revill, February 6, 2005 [Guardian UK]

• NHS financial crises set to outlast winter
  - Mike Waites, February 4, 2005 [Yorkshire Post]

• NHS 24 'priority' callers wait four hours for advice
  - Caroline Wilson, January 14, 2005 [Evening Times (UK)]

• 'No strategy' on NHS waiting time
  - January 14, 2005 [BBC]

• Output figures show NHS decline
  - John Carvel, October 19, 2004 [Guardian UK]

• Heart patients die on waiting lists
  - Peter Sharples, October 18, 2004 [Manchester Online]

• £25bn overspend feared for NHS computer network
  - Karen Attwood, October 12, 2004 [telegraph.co.uk]

• Gaps in care cost £7bn, says charity
  - John Carvel, October 4, 2004 [Guardian UK]

• NHS excluding poor people, UK
  - September 15, 2004 [Medical News Today]

• Smokers 'should not get NHS care'
  - September 6, 2004 [BBC News]

• Waiting list row blights Brighton
  - John Carvel, September 4, 2004 [Guardian UK]

• Patients are denied the last rites under data protection law
  - Elizabeth Day, July 25, 2004 [telegraph.co.uk]

• Shortage of dentists to double by 2011
  - John Carvel, July 24, 2004 [Guardian UK]

• Britain's stiff upper lip gives way to a snarl
  - Sarah Lyall, July 18, 2004 [The New York Times]

• Hospital Overcrowding A Cause of Superbug Infections
  - John von Radowitz, July 1, 2004 [Scotsman.com]

• Hospital Crisis: Fallen Angels
  - Lindsay Mcgarvie, May 23, 2004 [Glasgow Sunday Mail]

• Study finds British hospitals are still austere, cold, smelly and poorly maintained
  - May 6, 2004 [News-Medical.net]

• Hospital bathrooms and showers: a continuing saga of inadequacy
  - Andy Monro, MRCP & Graham P Mulley, DM, FRCP, May 2004 [Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine]

• Majority back public smoking ban
  - March 24, 2004 [BBC]

• Discrimination Rampant In British Health Care
  - Peter Moore, November 17, 2003 [365gay.com]

• PERIPATETICS—To the Medical Socialists of All Parties
  - Sheldon Richman, September 2003 [FEE.org]

• Creeping Privatization?
  Shortages of skilled workers, low morale, long queues for services, crumbling facilities and corrupt practises. - Roland Watson, August 6, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• The World's Worst HMO
  - Stephen D. Moore, November 24, 1999 [Random Thoughts]

• Socialized Medicine in Great Britain: Lessons for the Oregon Health Plan
  - Professor John Spiers, March 18, 1999 [Cascade Policy Institute]

• The Sickbed Which is Socialized British Medicine
  - December 23, 1997 [NCPA]

• The British Way of Withholding Care
  - Harry Schwarz, March 1989 [FEE.org]

Other European Countries:

• Only six potency pills per month to be covered by Social Insurance Institution
  - August 13, 2004 [Helsingin Sanomat]

• Hospitals on the verge of a breakdown
  Switzerland’s hospitals may be the envy of the world, but rising health costs and patient numbers are increasingly putting the system under strain. - July 24, 2003 [swissinfo.org]

• Sweden Edges Toward Free-Market Medicine
  - A. Wess Mitchell, August 31, 2001 [NCPA]

• Netherlands aims to tackle health divide
  Socioeconomic inequalities remain similar to those in the United Kingdom and Scandinavian countries, despite a sustained effort over 20 years. - Tony Sheldon, October 13, 2001 [British Medical Journal]

• A Hard Lesson About Socialized Medicine
  Europeans are now learning some hard facts of life about socialized medicine: there's no such thing as a free lunch.- September 23, 1996 [CATO]

• Paying The Price For Drugs In Europe
  Whether they admit it or not, those who advocate 'making drugs more affordable for American seniors' are actually headed down a slippery slope to price controls, free-market analysts charge.- Stephen D. Moore, July 21, 2000 [NCPA]

CANADA:
Parliament unanimously passed the Canada Health Act in 1984 and established a single-payer, publicly-financed health care system. To ensure a true government monopoly (is there any other kind?) Canadian provinces outlawed private health insurance.

Chaoulli v. Quebec UPDATE (June 9, 2005): In a 4 to 3 decision, the Canadian Supreme Court struck down Quebec's law that prohibits private medical insurance.

• Surgery postponed indefinitely for 1,000 Kelowna patients
  - Cathryn Atkinson, April 8, 2008 [Globe and Mail]

• Majority of Que. dentists quit health-care system
  - March 27, 2008 [CTV.ca]

• Why Ontario keeps sending patients south
  - Lisa Priest, February 22, 2008 [Globe and Mail]

• Will Socialized Health Care in the US Kill Canadians?
  - Don Surber, March 3, 2008 [Acton Institute]

• Wait times for surgery, medical treatments at all-time high: report
  - October 15, 2007 [CBC News (Canada)]

• The Ugly Truth About Canadian Health Care
  - David Gratzer, Summer 2007 [City Journal]

• Cancer patients question why PET scan not covered
  - May 28, 2007 [CBC News]

• BC Medical Association: Waiting Too Long for Hip and Knee Surgery Costs $10,000 Per Patient-Maximum Wait Times Should Be No Longer Than 6 Months
  - June 28, 2006 [CCN Matthews]

• Ont. physician turns away patient for being 55+
  - March 17, 2006 [CTV.ca]

• Canada inches toward private medicine
  - Rebecca Cook Dube, August 8, 2005 [CS Monitor]

• Doctor defends private cancer clinic
  - Gillian Livingston, July 15, 2005 [Canadian Press]

• Dogma trumps truth in health-care issues
  - D’Arcy Jenish, July 7, 2005 [Ontario Business News]

• Why Canadians Purchase Private Health Insurance
  - Walter Williams, June 20, 2005 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Doctor welcomes health ruling
  - June 9, 2005 [CBC Montreal]

• Patients shouldn't wait more than 8 weeks for cardiac defibrillator: experts
  - May 24, 2005 [Canadian Press]

• Grads fail to slow doctor shortage
  - Jennifer O'Brien, May 21, 2005 [London Free Press]

• Free Canadian health care comes at cost
  - April 10, 2005 [Arkansas Democrat-Gazette]

• Canada's drug tab reaches $22 billion, report suggests
  - Sheryl Ubelacker, CP, April 6, 2005 [London Free Press]

• Canadian health care is free and first-class -- if you can wait
  - Beth Duff-Brown, March 19, 2005 [The Associated Press]

• Pediatricians, parents warn of shortage of community-based care for children
  - Colin Perkel, March 4, 2005 [The Canadian Press]

• Access to specialists difficult: study
  - February 16, 2005 [CBC Calgary]

• Doctor shortages, frustrations vary from region to region, survey shows
  - February 15, 2005 [Canada.com]

• Montreal leads the country in offering private health care
  - Aaron Derfel, February 12, 2005 [Montreal Gazette]

• Canada falling short on medical imaging
  - February 9, 2005 [Macleans.ca]

• Creative incentives required to retain older doctors
  - Dr. Charles Shaver, January 20, 2005 [Toronto Star]

• MRI gap defies cash fix
  - Mark Kennedy, January 14, 2005 [National Post (Canada)]

• A boy's plight, a nation's problem
  - Lisa Priest, January 13, 2005 [The Globe and Mail]

• Where's proof private clinics cost more?
  - Tom Brodbeck, December 4, 2004 [The Winnipeg Sun]

• Surgery backlog tops 5,500 at kids' hospitals; One-year waits common
  - Aaron Derfel, December 3, 2004 [The Gazette (Montreal)]

• Hospital wait lists to get worse, Carriere says
  - Chris Traber, November 14, 2004 [Yorkregion.com]

• Frustrated patients can't handle ER waits
  - Jennifer Stewart and Jeffrey Simpson, October 28, 2004 [The Halifax Herald Limited]

• Private medical clinic opens in Montreal
  ...it answers, "an ever-increasing demand from the public for greater accessibility and quality of health services." - October 13, 2004 [CTV.ca]

• Canadians have higher death risk than Americans after heart attack: study
  - Sheryl Ubelacker, September 20, 2004 [Canada.com]

• Canadian medical tourists in India
  - Jeremy Copeland, September 20, 2004 [CBC News]

• Doctor shortage cripples Canada's free health care
  - Clifford Krauss, September 18, 2004 [Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune]

• Canada's Once-Proud Public Health System in Crisis
  - David Ljunggren, September 14, 2004 [Reuters (Ottawa)]

• Hospitals to cut, again
  - September 5, 2004 [Toronto Star]

• Canada's Medical Nightmare
  - Robert J. Cihak, M.D., September 1, 2004 [Health Care News]

• Canada faces shortage of doctors
  - August 19, 2004 [MSNBC]

• Canadians losing faith in health system: poll
  - August 16, 2004 [CTV.ca]

• Ontario hospitals a health risk
  - Michael Hurley, August 8, 2004 [Toronto Star]

• Need surgery? Here's how long you'll wait
  "It's inhuman. The quality of my life is horrible and there's absolutely nothing I can do about it." - Jason Fekete, July 28, 2004 [Calgary Herald]

• Docs, nurses fed up
  Canadian doctors and nurses are fed up with inter-governmental "bickering" that is dragging out wait times and causing more pain and suffering for patients. - July 28, 2004 [Winnipeg Sun]

• Free Health Care?
  ...in some cases, patients die on the waiting list because they become too sick to tolerate a procedure. - Walter E. Williams, July 24, 2004 [CATO]

• The truth about Canada's ailing health-care system
  All the major candidates in Canada's recent national election acknowledged that the country's health-care system is failing Canadians. - Robert J. Cihak, July 13, 2004 [The Seattle Times]

• Health-care crisis looms, even with new money
  Canada's health-care system is "five to 10 years" from the breaking point -- even with cash injections from government, says the new president of the B.C. Medical Association. - Doug Alexander, July 5, 2004 [Vancouver Sun]

• Emergency room delays a strong campaign factor
  "Go into the emergency room — it is the most pitiful piece of work you ever seen in your life." - David Bruser, June 22, 2004 [Toronto Star]

• Canadian Health Care in Crisis
  Analyst visits NC to describe how single-payer health care really works in practice. - Donna Martinez, June 17, 2004 [Carolina Journal]

• Quebec cancer patients sue over wait
  Women waited months for radiation; lawsuit could cost system $50-million. - Ingrid Peritz, March 11, 2004 [The Globe and Mail]

• Health care: no waiting lists
  'You get knee surgery within two days ... try and get that in human hospitals.' Canada's [private] pet health-insurance industry is projected to grow at roughly 50 per cent a year... - Robert Scalia, November 30, 2003 [Montreal Gazette]

• For some, surgery abroad a welcome answer
  - Daniel Girard, November 29, 2003 [Toronto Star]

• Canadian Doctors Eyeing United States
  - Clifford Krauss, October 17, 2003 [The New York Times]

• The Top Ten Things People Believe About Canadian Health Care, But Shouldn’t
  - Brian Lee Crowley, October 9, 2003 [Mackinac Center for Public Policy]

• Canadians' health at risk, CMA says
  - Valerie Lawton, September 26, 2003 [Toronto Star]

• Burnout is now doctors' ailment
  Almost half of Canadian doctors say they're burned out, emotionally exhausted and blame medicine for putting a drain on their family life. - Karen Palmer, August 20, 2003 [Toronto Star]

• New MRI clinic in row over poaching
  While she insists she's not making any money off the venture, she says it provides an income allowance for her and her husband, the other principal in the company. - Theresa Boyle and Robert Benzie, July 28, 2003 [Toronto Star]

• Price Controls and Overall Drug Spending
  The Canadian system, however, tends to push up overall spending on prescription drugs, despite the low prices for some brand name ones. - John Melby, July 2, 2003 [Buckeye Institute]

• Gore Endorses Canada's Medical System
  - William L. Anderson, November 29, 2002 [Mises]

• How Good is Canadian Health Care?
  - August 2002 [Fraser Institute]

• Canadian Health-Care System Is No Model for Prescription Drug Reform
  - May 1, 2001 [Mackinac Center for Public Policy]

• The Ghost of America's Health Care Future Lives in Canada Today
  - James Frogue and Robert Moffit, December 25, 2000 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Socialized Medicine: The Canadian Experience
  Explores several lessons that can be drawn from the Canadian experience with socialized medicine:
  
  • Socialized medicine, although of poor quality, is very expensive;
  • Political compromise is the result;
  • Socialized medicine is both a consequence and a great contributor to the idea that economic conditions should be equalized by coercion. - Pierre Lemieux [The Freeman]

• Canadian Health Care
  ...if Canadians knew as much as they think they do about the economic and moral workings of Medicare, they might not be as enthusiastic as they are about their cherished right to 'free' health care. - Andrei Kreptul, August 30, 2000 [Mises]

• When Patients Become Victims - The Crime of Government-Run Health Care
  - Merrill Matthews Jr., Ph.D. and Kerri Houston, May 1, 2000 (PDF format)

• Socialized Medicine Leaves a Bad Taste in Patients' Mouths
  - Lawrence W. Reed, February 23, 2000 [Mackinac Center for Public Policy]

• Canadians Dissatisfied With Socialized Medicine
  - January 26, 2000 [NCPA]

• Memo to Al Gore: Canadian Medicine Isn't Cheap or Effective
  - William McArthur, former chief coroner for British Columbia, January 28, 2000

• Loved to Death: America's Unresolved Health-Care Crisis
  As Canada's national government slashes spending on medical care in order to reduce the deficit, local provinces are reducing medical staff. In Ontario, pregnant women are being sent to Detroit because no obstetricians are available. Specialists of all kinds are in short supply. Patients have to wait eight weeks for an MRI, ten weeks for referral to a specialist, and four months for heart bypass surgery. - Michael J. Hurd, November 1997 [Liberty Haven]

• Is Canadian Health care a Good Model for the U.S. to Follow?
  - Michael Walker, August 1994 [Liberty Haven]
  
  
• Health of the State (commentary by a cancer survivor)
  I tell you this not to alarm you, to elicit sympathy, or to bore you. I tell you because the episode has been, for me, a salutary lesson (just in case I needed one) in why the government should not be allowed anywhere near a syringe, a dressing, a scalpel, an oxygen mask, a tissue sample — anything to do with health.

• Michigan Shouldn't Copy Canada's Health System
  - Lawrence W. Reed, July 29, 1991 [Mackinac Center for Public Policy]

• Russia's Health Care Is Crumbling: Dire Lack of Funds Creates Sick, Dwindling Populace And 'National Emergency'
  - Jeanne Whalen, February 13, 2004 [Wall Street Journal]

• Capitalism Comes to Russian Health Care
  With the "free" government-run health system in Russia in a state of collapse, an increasing amount of health care is being provided by for-profit clinics and hospitals. - Michael Wines, December 22, 2000 [New York Times]

• Russia's public health care system is crumbling
  - Rob Reynolds, November 13, 1995 [CNN]

• Socialized Health-Care Nightmare
  In contrast to the impression created by the liberal American media, health-care institutions in Russia were at least fifty years behind the average U.S. level. - Yuri Maltsev and Louise Omdahl, November 1994 [Liberty Haven]

CUBA

The Cuban Government has implemented a two-tiered medical system (e.g. "medical apartheid") that caters to foreign tourists while denying native Cubans access to basic medical necessities (at least it is "free" to them). This attempt to draw foreign dollars is one of many programs that were necessary once the Soviet subsidies ended in the early nineties. Castro's Diet and Exercise Plan - Ronald Bailey, September 25, 2007 [Reason] Castro says still in full control after fall The Communist dictator received prompt medical care to repair his shattered kneecap. He even used his cell phone from the ambulance. If only his countrymen had similar access to service and "evil" capitalist technology... - Anthony Boadle, October 22, 2004 [Reuters] La Lucha: The Human Cost of Economic Repression in Cuba - Patricia Linderman, May 2000 [FEE] Bad Cuban Medicine Begging for medicines is common in Havana - next to begging for money to feed children, it is the most common plea... - Larry Solomon, April 15, 2003 [Capitalism Magazine]

NEW ZEALAND:

New Zealand's Ministry of Health is the New Zealand "Government's principal agent and advisor on health and disability."

• On the waiting list roller-coaster
  - Martin Johnson, March 20, 2008 [The New Zealand Herald]

• No charge for trips to emergency department
  The figures show most people who arrive at the emergency departments don't need to be there.- Alison Brown, December 17, 2004 [Rotorua Daily Post]

• Surgical waiting lists numbers come under twin attacks
  - November 15, 2004 [stuff.co.nz]

• Hospital Waiting Lists Under Serious Pressure
  - October 26, 2004 [Scoop New Zealand News]

• Hundreds on waiting list as hospital pleads for help
  - August 23, 2004 [The New Zealand Herald]

• Private hospitals offer help with waiting lists
  - August 12, 2004 [The New Zealand Herald]

• Alarm over GP shortage
  - July 5, 2004 [The New Zealand Herald]

• Hospital urges patients to stay away unless really ill
  - March 6, 2004 [The New Zealand Herald]

AUSTRALIA:
Australia's universal health care scheme is relatively new (introduced in 1983, which built on the 1974 Medibank program). As with all socialized health care systems, there is a mixture of public versus private care (approximately 30% of Australians also retain private health insurance). As a result, the private patients receive better care than their medicare counterparts.

The salary caps and artificial increase in demand for care that always occur in a national health care system are resulting in predictable physician shortages.

• Mental patients face bed shortage
  - Clara Pirani, July 4, 2005 [News.com.au]

• Public patients wait longer for surgery
  - June 29, 2005 [The Sydney Morning Herald]

• Painful wait for care
  - Luke McIlveen, February 17, 2005 [Herald Sun (Australia)]

• Hospitals crippled by poor planning
  - Ruth Pollard, December 1, 2004 [Sydney Morning Herald]

• Operating theatres shut to save cash as thousands wait for surgery
  - Nick O'Malley, November 23, 2004 [Sydney Morning Herald]

• Private funds creating 'two-tier' health system
  - David Uren, November 3, 2004 [The Australian]

US PROBLEMS CAUSED BY GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION:
All of the pervasive problems within the U.S. health care system are a direct result of statism. Unfortunately, most Americans buy into the feel-good soundbites and look to the socialist utopia to provide answers, not understanding that additional government intervention always worsens the problems.

Not even the so-called experts who villify capitalism understand the difference between Statism/socialism and liberty (see Dr. Arnold S. Relman's For-Profit Health Care: Expensive, Inefficient and Inequitable, in which he refers to "HMOs that would be paid by the government" as "care under the private system").

• "War on Fat"
  Creeping socialism gives government bureaucrats the power to pry into your eating habits for "the public good".

• Deadly shortage
  The federal ban on profit incentive is killing those awaiting organ transplants.

• Entitlement programs eating up U.S. budget
  - Stephen Ohlemacher, December 27, 2005 [IndyStar.com]

• New York Medicaid Fraud May Reach Into Billions
  - Clifford J. Levy and Michael Luo, July 18, 2005 [The New York Times]

• Bad Medicine
  The blame for the inadequacies caused by government’s intrusion into health care and other industries does not lie solely on the shoulders of politicians and bureaucrats; it also lies on the masses. - Emiliano Antunez, June 24, 2005 [Strike the Root]

• Medical trade is rife with inefficiencies, health secretary says
  - Dave Murphy, May 25, 2005 [San Fransisco Chronicle]

• Wanted: Scientific Reason for FDA's Gay Sperm Ban
  - Aubrey Noelle Stimola, May 23, 2005 [American Council on Science and Health]

• Clinton, Gingrich Team Up on Health Care
  - Kevin Freking, May 12, 2005 [The Washington Post]

• A Cancer Patient Faces the Chaos of the American Health-Care System
  - Rosalind Lacy MacLennan, April 27, 2005 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• Why There's No Cure for the Common Cold
  - Bill Walker, April 21, 2005 [Strike the Root]

• Feds get tough on Net drugs
  - Richard B. Schmitt, April 21, 2005 [SFGate.com]

• Kill the Prescription Drug Benefit
  - George Reisman, March 1, 2005 [Mises]

• How Medical Boards Nationalized Health Care
  - Henry E. Jones, February 24, 2005 [Mises]

• Drug Safety vs. the FDA
  - Alex Epstein, February 18, 2005 [Capitalism Magazine]

• America’s Socialized Health Care
  - Lawrence Wilson, M.D., Posted January 24, 2005 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• Bureaucratically Incompetent: Mental Illness and Government Intervention
  - Ira Katz, November 9, 2004 [LewRockwell.com]

• Health Care in John Kerry's World
  Health care and politics are a toxic combination for a life and death issue. - September 21, 2004 [Capitalism Magazine]

• The Therapeutic Nanny State
  This new proposal threatens to force millions of kids to undergo psychiatric screening, whether their parents consent or not. - Rep. Ron Paul, MD, September 21, 2004 [LewRockwell.com]

• Republican Health Care Contradictions
  Government provided health care can increase only in inverse proportion to freedom. - Richard E. Ralston, August 30, 2004 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Bush to screen population for mental illness
  - June 21, 2004 [WorldNetDaily]

• 100 Years of Medical Robbery
  A happy 100th birthday to the Council on Medical Education...and for the sake of all our health, hopefully not too many more. - Dale Steinreich, June 11, 2004 [Mises]

• Taxpayers foot bill for aliens' care
  - April 1, 2004 [WorldNetDaily]

• Health Care in Prison
  - William L. Anderson, February 23, 2004 [Mises]

• Feeding Obesity
  The state creates programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, which force one segment of the tax-paying population to pay for the health care of another segment, creating the incentive to avoid taking personal responsibility for one’s own life and to make others suffer the consequences. - Scott McPherson, February 13, 2004 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• Ephedra ban sets bad precedent for consumer choice
  - Mark D. Valenti, January 9, 2004 [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]

• A New Prescription For Cutting Costs
  - Wayne Dunn, December 20, 2003 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Republican Socialism
  Congress worked late into the night this past weekend to pass a Medicare prescription drug bill that represents the single largest expansion of the federal welfare state since the Great Society programs of the 1960s. - Rep. Ron Paul, MD, November 25, 2003 [LewRockwell.com]

• Why Medicare Expansion is Wrong
  Adding prescription drug coverage to Medicare, as Congress is poised to do, is merely more socialism --- it will neither help seniors nor is its passage likely to gain their votes. - Scott Holleran, November 22, 2003 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Socialized Medicine in America
  Thanks to the untiring efforts of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, Americans have been faced with the greatest expansion of the government into medical care since the 1960s. - Timothy D. Terrell, November 2003 [Mises]

• Kill Bill - To Expand Medicare
  ...expanding Medicare is among the most ill conceived notions in American politics. - Scott Holleran, October 14, 2003 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Paying Dearly for Free Prescription Drugs
  - Rep. Ron Paul, MD, October 7, 2003 [LewRockwell.com]

• A Poison Pill for U.S. Health Care?
  - Tom Miller, July 15, 2003 [CATO]

• How Socialism Happens Here
  - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., June 8, 2003 [LewRockwell.com]

• Health Care Interventionism: A Case Study
  The demise of HealthPlus illustrates the unintended consequences that accompany any government intervention of market forces. - Christopher Westley, January 21, 2003 [Mises]

• New Senate Leader Must 'Do No Harm'
  There is nothing in Frist’s Senate record to show that he’s even considered free-market options or principles for rescuing America’s rapidly dying healthcare system. - S.M. Oliva, January 2, 2003 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Red Flags Over Health Care
  - Bill Sardi, November 11, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

• Government Regulation of Hospital Purchasing -- Michigan Patients Pay a Heavy Price
  - Dr. Wolfgang Grassl, October 29, 2002 [Mackinac Center for Public Policy]

• "Universal" Health Insurance Will Only Enlarge the Medicare Problem
  - Nina Owcharenko, May 26, 2002 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Morris Fishbein, AMA Enemy of American Health
  - Bob Wallace, February 2, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

• Drugs and Politics
  - Thomas Sowell, November 27, 2001 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Fun With Numbers
  "After reading Christopher Westley’s fine article, The Carriage-Trade Trend, I got to thinking about the imminent demise of the health-care industry in this country." - Robert Klassen, August 6, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• One Patient, 34 Days in the Hospital, $7,000 Syringes and a $5.2 Million Bill
  - posted by Antiwar Republican, August 2, 2001 [FreeRepublic]

• Socialized Medicine in 10 Easy Steps
  HIPAA, MSAs, S-CHIP show how Republicans unwittingly lead the political parade toward increasing government control of health care. - Merrill Matthews Jr., Ph.D., June 30, 2001 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Physician group pushes universal health care
  Says participation must be 'mandatory,' taxpayer-financed. - Jon Dougherty, February 9, 2001 [WorldNetDaily]

• The Medicare Bureaucracy is a Frankenstein Monster That is Destroying American Medicine
  - Lawrence Huntoon, M.D., December 22, 2000 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Subsidizing Sickness: Medicine and the State
  - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., October 26, 2000 [LewRockwell.com]

• Emergency Medicaid Program For Immigrants
  - October 18, 2000 [NCPA]

• Medicare should be scrapped, eventually
  Medicare was a bad mistake. We can repeat it -- over and over -- or we can scrap a program whose time never came. - Jon E. Dougherty, October 16, 2000 [WorldNetDaily]

• Medicare snafu breaks podiatrist
  Agency's non-payment of claims forces closure of doctor's office. - Jon E. Dougherty, July 30, 2000 [WorldNetDaily]

• The Patients' Bill Of Rights: A Prescription For Massive Federal Health Regulation
  - John S. Hoff, Esq., February 29, 2000 [Heritage Foundation]

• The Medical Mess
  - William Anderson, January 18, 2000 [Mises]

• The War on Online Drugs
  The Clinton administration wasn’t content with blowing up a pharmacy in the Sudan; now it wants to blow up hundreds of them on the web. - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., December 30, 1999 [Mises]

• Medicare in Red
  According to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), red is the fashion color for the summer. Red tape, that is. - Alejandra Arguello Camerlengo, July 14, 1999 [CATO]

• Why Price Controls on Prescription Drugs Would Harm Seniors
  - James Frogue, May 4, 1999 [Heritage Foundation]

• Why the FDA Wants to Limit Your Freedom
  - Henry I. Miller, July 6, 1998 [Washington Times]

• Kidcare: Socialized Medicine Through Government Schools
  More than thirty states have already implemented school-based health care programs. - Sue A. Blevins & SuYoung Min, January 20, 1998 [IHF]

• Medical Regulation Piled on Medical Regulation
  - Sheldon Richman, November 1997 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• The Creeping Takeover of Medical Care
  President Clinton favors barring health-insurance companies from using genetic testing to determine whom they will insure. - Sheldon Richman, July 1997 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• The Back Door to Nationalized Health Care
  - Doug Bandow, June 2, 1997 [CATO]

• FDA Actions Threaten Civil Liberties
  - Jerry Taylor, February 14, 1997 [CATO]

• More Kid Stuff
  Advocates of politically controlled universal health care coverage have retooled their offensive game plan. Uninsured children will serve as blocking backs for an end run around opposition to regulatory mandates, one-size-fits-all benefit plans, bureaucratic rigidities, and taxpayer-financed cross subsidies. Welcome to the opening round of Village Care 1997. - Tom Miller, January 1, 1997 [CEI]

• Blank Check for Mental Health
  A few years ago a young woman in Pittsburgh, who had trouble getting to work on time, found a psychiatrist who declared that she suffered from 'chronic lateness syndrome.' Now, if the U.S. Senate has its way, every insurance policy in America will be forced to pay for this woman and millions like her. - Michael Tanner, December 31, 1996 [CATO]

• The Medical Monopoly: Protecting Consumers or Limiting Competition?
  Nonphysician providers of medical care are in high demand in the United States. But licensure laws and federal regulations limit their scope of practice and restrict access to their services. The result has almost inevitably been less choice and higher prices for consumers. - Sue A. Blevins, December 15, 1995 [CATO]

• Are American Children Being Lured Into Socialized Medicine?
  - Naomi Lopez, June 28, 1994 [Institute for Health Freedom]

• Medical Control, Medical Corruption
  - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., June 1994 [LewRockwell.com]

• Free Medicine
  Rising prices pushed the cost of medical treatment beyond the range of more and more people. But, unfortunately, the original culprits — Medicare and Medicaid — were not identified as the cause. - William Dale, February 1994 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• The Medical Socialism of V.I. Magaziner
  - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., December 1993 [LewRockwell.com]

• National Health Insurance: A Medical Disaster
  - Jarret B. Wollstein, October 1992 [Liberty Haven]

• Free ... But the Patient Doesn't Get Well
  - Lawrence W. Reed, April 1992 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• Breaking Up the FDA's Medical Information Monopoly
  - Robert M. Goldberg [CATO]

Yet liberals, lefties, socialists and Democrats alike are all panting and chanting for socialized medicine.