They Will Run Obamacare The Same Way
Nov 17, 2011 Political
It never ceases to amaze me how many people think that the government running the health care in this country will make things better. I am continually amazed at how many people actually believe that the government being involved means that it will cost less money. The government does not do things at lower costs than private industry and government programs become bloated rapidly.
There is also the issue of results. Government not only runs over budget and costs more money than it should (and likewise spends more on programs than it should) it also simply does not do things very well.
Just last week the government tested the national alert system that would allow a president to speak to almost all people in this country at once in the event of an emergency. The test was announced well in advance and the planning was ongoing. The big day came and the government, those competent folks who can do it all, failed miserably. Many locations did not get the alert, other locations had no sound and some folks did not even realize the test had occurred because there was nothing to indicate it had.
The people who planned and put this in place are the same kind of people who will be running your health care. These folks cannot complete a relatively simple task of sending a message across the country. Yes, it is a complex issue but it is relatively simple when one compares it to health care. The government will fail in that venture many times over.
What government will do is become bloated and cost lots of money. This happens in all programs. Social Security should be relatively simple. Pay in, retire, and get retirement check. The government has added so many things and made so many people entitled to “benefits” that it takes an army of government workers to manage Social Security. And because it is government it takes a lot more employees than it would in the private sector.
Social Security has become bloated over decades but it does not take that long for any government program to expand. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the folks who molest you at the airports, has only been around for about ten years. A Congressional report shows it is bloated and ineffective. The report indicates there are 65,000 workers but even with all those there were 25,000 security breaches in the last decade.
In ten years the TSA has become a bloated and ineffective organization (many would argue that this occurred much earlier) and it is a relatively small organization. Compare it to what will be required when government intrudes in the health care arena and the amount of bloat and the level of ineffectiveness will be greatly multiplied.
Government is slow, cumbersome, big, wasteful, and ineffective and all government programs continue to grow each year.
Obamacare will grow into a larger program than any other redistributive effort the US has undertaken (SS, Medicare, Medicaid, etc) and it will cost a lot more than any of those programs. The people who support it claim it will save money but it will not. Unfortunately, like all government programs, by the time we see that it is too expensive and does not work it will be well underway. Government usually gets the estimates wrong but does not admit it until long after it has wasted billions (if not trillions) of dollars of taxpayer money and enslaved millions of people.
Thus, enslaved to a program they are enslaved to government. Just the way the politicians want it.
Cave canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
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Tags: costs, healthcare, liberals, lies, Obama, obamacare, politicians, tsa
All That TSA “Security” For What?
Sep 21, 2011 Political
The TSA has been X-Raying, metal detecting, searching, feeling, groping, and molesting for a long time now and has not caught one terrorist. Big Sis tells us we need this invasive security to ensure we are safe on the planes, we have to fly safely you know.
A man smuggled a knife onto a plane and threatened to slit the throat of the person in the next seat.
A Salt Lake airline passenger faces federal charges for allegedly carrying a knife onto an airplane and verbally threatening police and FBI agents.
Shortly after taking his seat on a Delta Air Lines flight from Salt Lake City to Las Vegas on Sunday, David Alan Anderson, 60, began elbowing the passenger next to him to “claim” the armrest, according to a federal complaint. He then put his foot on the passenger’s leg. Deseret News
Why do we have all this security if the TSA can’t find a knife? How can they claim that molesting us ensures safety when they can’t find a knife?
How is it they can screw with people who have medical devices, the elderly and wheelchair bound but they can’t find a knife?
The TSA is a waste of money and should be replaced by private companies who use profiling to find bad people.
Of course we will likely have some new screening method put in place because of this thus violating our rights even more. Pretty soon they will make us strip naked to go through security.
And TSA will still miss dangerous items.
Cave canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
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TSA Invokes Constitution When Convenient
May 15, 2011 Political
The great State of Texas has passed a law that makes it illegal for security screeners to touch people on certain parts of their bodies. This is in response to the invasion of privacy that takes place when TSA officers conduct enhanced pat downs of air travelers. The TSA has struck back in a posting at the TSA blog that lists its response to Texas as; you can’t do that because the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution says states can’t regulate the federal government.
That is very true but only in cases where the actions of the federal government are allowed by the Constitution. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that the federal government is responsible for the traveling public. Let us assume though, that the federal government would be allowed to regulate our travel under the Commerce Clause (it is stretched for so many things that this is not out of the question). That still would not allow the federal government to claim supremacy when the act involves the violation of our Constitutional rights. The actions by the TSA are a violation of our Fourth Amendment right against search and seizure without probable cause and without a warrant.
No matter how supreme the federal government is, it cannot invoke supremacy on issues where it is violating the Constitution or where it has no Constitutional authority in the matter. The Tenth Amendment gives the states or the people the supremacy over any item NOT listed in the Constitution.
If the TSA wants to drag out the dusty, seldom used copy of the Constitution that the agency has then it must be willing to accept the limits placed on the federal government by that very document. The federal government has no enumerated power to search people as the TSA agents are doing. NONE, period.
It is obvious that the TSA thinks it, as part of the federal government, has supremacy in this issue but the reality is Texas has exerted its Tenth Amendment right to supremacy over an issue not Constitutionally enumerated to the federal government.
Let us also not forget that Texas did not pass a law that interferes with airline travel so even if one can claim supremacy under Commerce, the law in question does not involve that. The Texas law simply says that if a screener touches certain areas of people’s bodies without probable cause or a warrant then they have committed a crime.
Setting off an alarm in the metal detector is not probable cause to touch people in areas that would have one arrested if done on the street. Being a baby or a child is not probable cause to molest a child in hopes of finding a bomb. Refusing to go through the X-Ray machine is no more probable cause for an invasive search than is refusing to allow a police officer to search your vehicle during a traffic stop. If police officers started pulling people who refused searches out of their cars and subjected them to the pat down performed by the TSA then every civil rights group would be up in arms and the people would be rebelling against such invasion. However, the TSA does the same thing and then has the nerve to claim it can do so and has supremacy over the states that try to stop it.
I am not sure the TSA wants to open the can of worms involved in citing the Constitution to rebuke a state because that would lead to closer scrutiny involving the Constitutionality of what the TSA is doing, the role of the federal government in the process and the violation of our Fourth and Tenth Amendment rights.
For those who say it is moot because we do not have a right to travel, the federal government has codified travel as a right that will not be impeded (if one agrees that government can regulate travel under Commerce then this law has to be allowed as part of that regulation).
TSA impedes us unnecessarily in the name of security. Remember folks, no terrorist has been caught by the TSA and the TSA routinely fails screening tests where “harmful” items are sneaked through security.
Not to worry though, the TSA does ensure our genitals are in place prior to boarding a plane…
Where our genitals are is not the issue here. The issue is where the TSA is keeping its collective heads…
Cave Canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
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Tags: constitution, fourth amendment, lies, supremacy, tenth amendment, texas, tsa
Free Speech Gets Travelers More Scrutiny
Apr 17, 2011 Political
Be wary air passengers, the TSA is on the lookout for those of you who voice your disgust at the methods they employ in the name of safety. Part of their profiling system includes looking for passengers who are “[V]ery arrogant and expresses contempt against airport passenger procedures.” In other words, if you express your opinion they get to decide if it is arrogant and full of contempt and then they can subject you to more invasive screening. Since these are arbitrary it is solely up to TSA to decide.
One civil rights group explains it as such:
“Expressing your contempt about airport procedures — that’s a First Amendment-protected right,” said Michael German, a former FBI agent who now works as legal counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. “We all have the right to express our views, and particularly in a situation where the government is demanding the ability to search you.”
“It’s circular reasoning where, you know, I’m going to ask someone to surrender their rights; if they refuse, that’s evidence that I need to take their rights away from them. And it’s simply inappropriate,” he said. CNN
There is, of course, a difference between being unruly or disorderly and expressing dissatisfaction with how things are done. The TSA however, gets to decide on the matter and will use more in depth screening as a punishment (rather than a security tool) should a traveler decide to express an opinion about how the TSA is doing its job.
This is another attempt to silence the traveling public and get it to accept what is being done without uttering a peep. It is an effort to gain more acceptance of the loss of rights.
The Fourth Amendment is violated and now the First Amendment joins an ever growing list of individual rights that are being eroded by the government.
And if you don’t like it, armed people will surround you and force you to submit.
Just as my friend Ogre always points out.
Cave Canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
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Tags: constitution, government tyranny, lies, rights, tsa
Wrap Up From Absurdistan
Jan 31, 2011 Political
Obamacare
If Obamacare is so good then why have hundreds of waivers been granted? The reality is that the law is a bad one and those who are politically connected and in good favor with the regime get waivers so they do not have to comply with the law like the rest of us. A Washington Times article points this out and the line that says it all is:
The question remains: If Obamacare is such a great law, why does the White House keep protecting its best friends from it?
Border Security
Looks like the Obama regime has been focusing like a laser beam on border security much the same way it has with jobs. In other words, there is no focus. The southern border is porous and people enter at will. There are untold numbers of people coming here and that includes drug runners and bad guys who have made parts of Arizona the wild, wild west. Recent news is that a controversial Muslim Cleric, Said Jaziri, was captured while being smuggled into this country.
This is the guy who called for the death of the Danish cartoonist who drew pictures of the pedophile Mohammed. He was deported from Canada and has now been captured sneaking into the US. While it is great that he was captured, how many others have made it through because the border is not secured?
TSA Union Reigns Supreme
TSA chief John Pistole put an end to the process of allowing private security firms to perform screenings at airports. Airports were allowed to opt out of the TSA and use private firms but that plan is no longer in place as all applications will be denied.
The union is applauding the move because it has thousands of employees that need jobs groping people (Thousands Standing Around). The TSA has groped untold numbers of people and has, to date, not caught one terrorist.
The TSA had no opinion on the private security option a few months ago but is now opposed. Perhaps Congress needs to get involved to see what favors were traded to appease the union.
Question Of The Day
Is Charlie Sheen really an actor?
On the show Two and a Half Men, Sheen plays a drunken playboy who sleeps with lots of women, patronizes hookers, and dabbles in drugs.
In real life, Sheen is a drunken playboy who sleeps with lots of women, patronizes prostitutes (and porn stars), and more than dabbles in drugs.
So how exactly is he acting? Some years ago there was a show where a kid with Down’s Syndrome played a kid with Down’s Syndrome. He did a good job on the show but how was that acting?
The same applies to Sheen. Acting is portraying something that one is not and doing it in a manner that makes people believe that it is real. Charlie Sheen does not play something he is not and the reason he appears real on the show is because he is portraying his actual life.
The guy needs help or he will end up dead.
How many people added Sheen to their dead pool? (question within the question)
Cave Canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
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