Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. There is no "right" to health care.

There is, however, with every individual the responsibility to strive for good personal health for the benefit of himself, his dependents, his employers/employees and his fellow citizens.

What happens when government removes this responsibility?

it needs to be traced back to the witness by asking her if she would have called it in had it been a white man observed breaking and entering.

Back in the mid-nineties, the Peoples Republic of the State of Washington (where I lived in retirement)introduced universal medical insurance. My wife and I were covered by a private insurer whose premiums had inched up to over $500 a month. The state's plan offered full coverage for initially less than $100/mo and then about $250/mo after the initial sign-up was complete. Naturally, we went for it. In 1997 we were notified that the monthly premiums for 1998 would be $1200/mo. I was told by a newly created bureaucrat that at any less the agency would lose money. Can't have that! That's the way it works: lots of promises and financial come-ons and then the final bill arrives along with the realization that the government can not be...

George W. Bush has gone from "worst president ever" to "2nd worst president ever".

Now we need a new ranking: "Crookedest president ever". Grant, Harding and even Nixon move up.

If they are listed as past contributors to Republican candidates, they are ordered to close their doors.

How can this happen in the USA?

Who on the left wants to claim credit for this fascism?

I just heard a clip of Jesse Jackson Jr. speaking to his Town Hall meeting. (not much for him to fear there) He stated that "Health care is a right", which elicited much clapping and cheering.

There is one obvious problem with that (other than it's not in the Constitution). If one vast majority group of the population has the right to health care, who has the duty to provide it?
Does this give the government the power to force people to become and remain doctors and nurses? What became of their right to the pursuit of happiness and freedom of choice?

Democrats say the dumbest things.

What A Fisherman Says About Sarah Palin

by Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman

4- Now, even with her much-ridiculed "gosh and golly" mannerism, she also managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas pipeline built which will be the biggest private construction project in the history of North America. No one else could do it although they tried. If that doesn't impress you, then you're trying too hard to be unimpressed while watching her do things like this while baking up a batch of brownies with her other hand.

5- For 30 years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place called Point Thompson. They made excuses the entire time why they couldn't start drilling. In truth they...

What A Fisherman Says About Sarah Palin

by Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman


2- Now with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaskan politicians to protect the huge, giant oil companies here. So, she constructed and enacted a new system of splitting the oil profits called "ACES". Exxon (the biggest corporation in the world) protested and Sarah told them "don't let the door hit you in the stern on your way out." They stayed, and Alaska residents went from being merely wealthy to being filthy rich. Of course the other huge international oil companies meekly fell in line. Again, give me the name of any other governor in the country that has done anything similar.

3- The other thing she did when she walked into the...

What A Fisherman Says About Sarah Palin

by Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman

As posted in comments on Greta's article referencing the MOVEON ad about Sarah Palin


The last 45 of my 66 years I've spent in a commercial fishing town in Alaska. I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics well until this last year. Here's the breaking point: Neither side of the Palin controversy gets it.It's not about persona, style, rhetoric, it's about doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention the things that I'm about to mention here.

1- Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because as soon as Palin took the Governor's office away from a fellow Republican and tough...

that doctors will recommend that their customers (source of income) be terminated?

They won't and costs will continue to escalate. In order to bring costs down, bureaucratic Death Panels will be the final authority.

Palin 2012.

SAR