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January 5, 2010
Exclusive: You Can’t Make This Stuff Up! (1/5/10)
Whenever you think general incompetence by those who purport to serve by the consent of the governed can’t get any worse, think again:
“Brennan: Deal 'on the table' for terror suspect” (Politico.com, 1/3/10)
The U.S. Government is offering the suspect charged with attempting to bomb an aircraft on Christmas Day, Omar Abdulmutallab, some kind of incentives to share what he knows about Al Qaeda, White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan said Sunday.
Asked why Abdulmutallab should cooperate given his right, as criminal defendant, to remain silent, Brennan replied: "He doesn't have to but he knows there are certain things that are on the table... if he wants to engage with us in a productive manner, there are ways he can do that."
(read full article here)
Note the part about his “right” as a criminal defendant? What “right” should this man have to anything, including any kind of deals? He is not a U.S. citizen. He didn’t just rob a mini-mart (not that we wish to minimize any kind of violent crime). He tried to blow up a U.S. airliner, filled with passengers, as it made its descent toward a major U.S. city. This was a point-blank act of jihad. And until we start treating these incidents for what they are instead of mollycoddling “suspects” as we would average criminals, they will continue to be emboldened. What will it take for our government to figure it out? We shudder to think of the possibilities.
“Democrats Officially Kill Successful DC Voucher Program” (Big Government, 12/31/09)
This is big government at its finest hour. The Democrats have officially killed a successful private school voucher program banishing more than 3,300 low-income children back to the DC schools they so desperately wanted to escape. The Heartland Institute reports:
“The leaders of D.C.’s school choice movement, Kevin P. Chavous (former D.C. Councilman) and Virginia Walden Ford (executive director of D.C. Parents for School Choice), today issued the following statement:
“’House and Senate Appropriators this week ignored the wishes of D.C.’s mayor, D.C.’s public schools chancellor, a majority of D.C.’s city council, and more than 70 percent of D.C. residents and have mandated the slow death of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. This successful school voucher program – for D.C.’s poorest families – has allowed more than 3,300 children to attend the best schools they have ever known.
The decision to end the program, a decision buried in a thousand-page spending bill and announced right before the holidays, destroys the hopes and dreams of thousands of D.C. families. Parents and children have rallied countless times over the past year in support of reauthorization and in favor of strengthening the OSP.
Yet, despite the clearly positive results and the proven success of this program, Sen. Dick Durbin, Rep. Jose Serrano, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Secretary Arne Duncan worked together to kill the OSP. Funding the program only for existing children shrinks the program each year, compromises the federal evaluation of the program, denies entry to the siblings of existing participants, and punishes those children waiting in line by sentencing them to failing and often unsafe schools.” [emphasis mine]
The Democrats have effectively ended the voucher program. Obama only extended it into the 2009-2010 school year. He could have done more. He didn’t. Underpriveleged children–whom the Democrats oppress “protect” from the greed and injustices of the Right had a chance to gain the social justice and fairness Obama continuously touts in his speeches.
(read full article here)
Do you remember Nancy Pelosi’s quote upon taking the role of House Speaker? “Let’s hear it for the children. We’re here for the children.” And this is how children in a failing school system are treated? Somehow, we’re not terribly comforted about the future of the next generation.
“Mayo Clinic in Arizona to Stop Treating Some Medicare Patients” (Bloomberg.com 12/31/09)
The Mayo Clinic, praised by President Barack Obama as a national model for efficient health care, will stop accepting Medicare patients as of tomorrow at one of its primary-care clinics in Arizona, saying the U.S. government pays too little.
More than 3,000 patients eligible for Medicare, the government’s largest health-insurance program, will be forced to pay cash if they want to continue seeing their doctors at a Mayo family clinic in Glendale, northwest of Phoenix, said Michael Yardley, a Mayo spokesman. The decision, which Yardley called a two-year pilot project, won’t affect other Mayo facilities in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota.
Obama in June cited the nonprofit Rochester, Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio for offering “the highest quality care at costs well below the national norm.” Mayo’s move to drop Medicare patients may be copied by family doctors, some of whom have stopped accepting new patients from the program, said Lori Heim, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, in a telephone interview yesterday.
“Many physicians have said, ‘I simply cannot afford to keep taking care of Medicare patients,’” said Heim, a family doctor who practices in Laurinburg, North Carolina. “If you truly know your business costs and you are losing money, it doesn’t make sense to do more of it.”
(read full article here)
If the government is successful in its attempt to corner the market on health insurance, expect more stories of this nature.
Brought to you by the editors and research staff of FamilySecurityMatters.org.
Reader Comments: Submit Your Comment (1)
IT IS HAPPENING HERE IN KISSIMMEE, FLORIDA ALREADY. WE RECENTLY CONTACTED A NEW DOCTOR BECAUSE OUR PAMILY DOCTOR RETIRED. THE NEW DOCTOR SAID "SORRY, WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS IF THEY WILL BE FILING UNDER MEDICARE".
SO GO, OBAMA! CUT THE COMPENSATION SCHEDULE SOME MORE TO "SAVE MONEY"
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