2012 - Math: Understanding Gov't Arithmetic

Apply this to our national & unfunded debts! -- rfh

Watch on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY&feature=bf_prev&list=SP6A1FD147A45EF50D

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Worst Poverty Record Ever. James Carville: "Panic."

     To add insult to injury, o'tax'n spend, who has already added more to the national debt than all previous presidents combined, proposes spending still another $1,700,000,000,000.00 to further his robin hood-esqe "tax the rich to pay the poor" 'redistributive wealth' agenda to dismantle American capitalism! -- rfh 

     P.S.  If you read his latest jobs "plan" you will find those who earn as little as $150,000 he considers "rich."  [ Read it yourself at http://harrolds.blogspot.com/2011/09/orobin-hood-announces-447b-jobs.html ]  Since the federal government is broke, where will his 'throw money at it' solution get $1.7T?  Consider too that of the 2012 voter base nearly 50% pay no taxes while drawing above their $22,000 "poverty level" numerous government funds.

     Many, of the so-called "poor" live with amenities that would make most of the world envious.  Notwithstanding the fact that some "impoverished & down-trodden" spend more dollars directly, using tax augmented incomes  or consume more indirect government subsidized programs,  than the average 'so-called' middle class family which will be taxed still more under his 'pie-in-the-sky' scheme.  This is not to say that a truly indigent population does not exist but that it will always exist.  But, guess who he'll pander to in his speech stumping and how do you suppose they'll vote in 2012?

     He wants to keep the poor right where they are while he rewards his $1B unions' campaign donors with more millions and billions of tax payer fiat spent monies to keep his anti-capitalist socialist Marxist czarist regulatory business (and baby) killing economy destroying policies going...as long as he can...right up to voting day, Tuesday, November 6, 2012 - only 414 days away.

     His attacks against conservative talk radio/media, 'executive ordering' piecemeal dismantling of the 2nd Amendment, and his deliberate suppression of American energy development directly fills the coffers of "Great Satan", Western Civilization, and Israel's enemies.

    Unless a Democrat savior (or savioress) appears soon, America's fate may be sealed.
From: Chaplain Klingenschmitt  Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 Subject: Obama: worst Poverty Record ever. James Carville: Obama should "Panic."

Obama breaks Poverty Record.  James Carville: Obama should "Panic."        President Obama already presided over the worst unemployment rate since the Great Depression, but now America's poverty rate has dramatically increased as well, reports the U.S. Census Bureau, who counted the number of Americans in poverty as the highest ever since they started tracking the number 52 years ago.        While Obama proposes job-killing tax and spend policies, the unemployment rate, national debt and number living in poverty continue to skyrocket to historical record highs.   In his speech to Congress, Obama proposed to borrow and spend another $447 billion for yet another Big Government bailout paid to his corporate friends, (just like he privately pressured the Pentagon to help big Democrat donors, like Solyndra and LightSquared).  Helping the unemployed find work is clearly not his priority, since Obama regulates and raises taxes on small business employers.         Even Democrats fear Obama's poor handling of the economy.  In a CNN editorial, Democrat icon James Carville said it was time for the President to "Panic" and "the time has come to demand a plan of action that requires a complete change from the direction that [Obama] is headed."      We voters told Obama to change course a year ago when we fired Nancy Pelosi as Speaker.  But sadly, the Obama Administration continues to fight against 3 good bills that could really fix the economy.  We must demand Congress act on these issues:        1) Fair Tax Act -  H.R. 25 promotes freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a Fair Tax, which is a national sales tax to be administered primarily by the States.       2) Cut, Cap and Balance Act - pass a Constitutional Amendment to force Congress to cut, cap and balance the federal budget every year. (Passed by House, but stalled in Harry Reid's liberal Senate.)       3) Regulation Moratorium and Jobs Preservation Act - S.1438 provides no agency may push any significant regulatory action until the unemployment rate drops to less than 7.7%. Pass the Fair Tax       My dear friend Alan Keyes, with whom I stood as national campaign chaplain in 2008, said the IRS is a 20th century socialist tyrannical experiment in taxation, and it has failed.  The income tax is now over 85 years old, and before that the federal government held no claim on our personal income or possessions.  The only taxes allowed were on sales, excise, and tariffs.  Economic liberty was sought by our founding fathers, as the bulwark of our political liberty.  But the income tax gave the government control over us, overturning a government of the people.  Politicians now have power to decide how much income we can make, turning us all into slaves of the state.  As Alan Keyes says: "True economic liberty and moral revival go hand in hand."      The Fair Tax is undoubtedly the best "Jobs Bill" before Congress today. By replacing all personal and corporate taxes with a single sales tax on new items only, the bill would increase the amount money Americans have to invest, save, and spend. As the amount of investments and saving increase, banks will have a greater supply of money to lend for mortgages, and make interest rates more competitive.  Americans could save faster for a new home or new car, and pay off old debts and credit cards.  Increased buying power would also mean more jobs across America. With fewer punitive business taxes, American companies and jobs overseas would come back home.      The Fair Tax would apply evenly to citizens and immigrants.  All taxes generated on our current total consumption of $11 trillion would generate $2.6 trillion per year, which is  $400 billion more than the government currently collects.  A Fair Tax can solve the deficit!      Most importantly, every individual would decide how much of their own hard earned money the government should get, based on their own consumption.  Spend less money, pay less taxes!  Earn more income, save as much as you wish.  Since it's only a tax on new products, you could buy an old house or used car, and pay no taxes on it, making it much easier for young Americans to buy a first home or a family car, giving every American a fair chance to fulfill the American Dream. Cut, Cap and Balance the Budget      Obama plans to bully the American people out of yet another $447 billion bailout, just one month after he agreed to rein in his spending addiction.  Do we trust him yet?  Anyone who thinks the solution to fixing our economy is borrowing more money, is insane.      Just look at Bank of America, who received $45 billion in cash with another $97 billion if they need it.  President Obama gave our money to bail out their bank, and now they're foreclosing on record numbers of Americans!  According to the watch group ForeClosureRader "Bank of America appears to be primarily responsible for the surge in foreclosures" and according to CNBC defaults are up 15% nationwide, and Bank of America has increased its foreclosure rate 200% in the last few months. BOA's slogan should be "kicking hard working Americans out of their homes with the money we gave them."  And BOA just announced it will cut 30,000 jobs.      The Obama Administration and his Federal Housing Finance Agency are now suing Bank of America and many other companies, from Citigroup to General Electric, for "misleading" the government over the quality of loans sold to the public debt.  Bank of America has also been sued by AIG for securities fraud, for $10 billion according to AIG.      But their leaders still got $9.05 million and $14 million bonuses, proving Obama lies when he claims to be the party of the workingman and the poor.  It's time to petition your congressman: No more bailouts.  Our national debt is already $14.8 Trillion, exceeding our $14.4 Gross Domestic Product.  DON'T INCREASE THE NATIONAL DEBT another $447 billion for more Wall Street bailouts.         Sadly Obama appointed a "SuperCongress" to frighten Senior Citizens and rob the Pentagon budget, without passing any meaningful breaks for small business.   Regulation Moratorium and Jobs Preservation Act      Questions about sustainability of the United States economy continue to plague Obama, and keep his leadership ability in constant doubt.  The high unemployment rate is squarely President Obama's fault, due to over-regulation of small business:  99.7% of employers!        Stocks were down last month on poor jobs reports, as if more proof were needed of President Obama's failure to create jobs. "The U.S. economy failed to add any new jobs in August caused European and Asian stock markets to sink sharply Monday," reported AP.  "That jobs figure [ZERO JOBS CREATED] was far below economists' already tepid expectations for 93,000 new U.S. jobs and renewed concerns that the U.S. recovery is not only slowing but actually unwinding. U.S. hiring figures for June and July were also revised lower, only adding to the gloom."        New reports from the Department of Labor show the unemployment rate has nearly doubled in the first two years of President Obama's leadership.  In 2008 under President Bush unemployment averaged just 5.8%, but by 2010 after two years of Obama the unemployed rate rose to 9.6%.  This is second highest unemployment rate in over 60 years.  In 2011 the unemployment rate is averaging 9.01%, making this the first time since the Great Depression that unemployment has held above 9% three years in a row. Obamanomics has created the worst economy in four generations.      But we have good news. Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) has proposed a bill that would actually create jobs, called S.1438, the Regulation Moratorium and Jobs Preservation Act of 2011.  According to the Small Business Association, small businesses employ 99.7% of all working Americans, and are responsible for 75% of all new jobs created. Small business is the driving force of the American economy as much today as ever.   Sen. DeMint is sponsoring a bill that calls for all Government agencies to STOP expanding regulatory compliance costs, until unemployment shrinks to 7.7%.  Let's petition 100 Senators and 435 Congressmen to STOP OVER-REGULATING SMALL BUSINESSES...       The Obama Administration has been over-regulating small businesses with "fees" as a "hidden tax" that cost American business more then $1.75 trillion each year.  Obama spent trillions bailing out Big Wall Street banks in 2009, has not offered so much as a penny to help the small town firm or farmer many were the hardest hit in the recession, and had to lay people off and in many cases closed their doors entirely.       Now as scary as these numbers are, they only hide the real depth of the problem.  The "dirty little secret" about unemployment numbers is that they only count unemployed people actively searching for jobs.  Obama does not count what economists call "discouraged workers" or "underemployed" workers with part-time jobs.  A discouraged worker actively seeks employment but did not find a job in one year of searching. Some people have been out of work so long, that Obama no longer counts them as unemployed.  Even if you look for a job every day, you no longer matter to the politicians, who only care about their re-election, so they fudge the unemployment numbers to make themselves look good, (despite the fact they over-regulated YOU out of a job).  Another group of people the "underemployed" or over-qualified for the job they have. The medical doctor who drives a taxi because it's the only employment he can find, is not counted as unemployed. Also not counted:  people who work seasonal jobs, and students who just graduated college and are still looking for their first job.  When all these people are counted, The Economic Policy Institute adds at least 11 million unemployed Americans. According to the Department of Labor 9.1% equals 14 million, so if you add the missing 11 million, Obama's true unemployment rate is closer to 16%.       Stopping the White House and its agencies from bullying extra "regulatory fee" taxes out of small business owners forces them to employ less people.  Obama's greed for big-government power has directly cost millions of Americans their jobs.  Unlike big banks, the small business man of America is not asking for an $8 trillion government handout, rather "They want the regulators off their back, the National Labor Relations Board to stop pushing the union agenda, and try to help companies that create jobs," said Senator DeMint.  Let's help put America back to work, by petitioning Congress to get off the backs of small business owners, so they can hire folks off the street.       Let's get Obama, Pelosi, and Reid off employer's back, and help get folks back to work. God Bless you, in Jesus' name, Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt

P.S.  Prefer to donate by mail?  Please mail paper check or money orders to:   The Pray In Jesus Name Project, PO Box 77077, Colorado Springs, CO  80970.   Disclaimer: The views of Chaplain Klingenschmitt, who was honorably but involuntarily discharged from the Navy in 2007 after facing court-martial for praying "in Jesus name" in uniform, (but was later vindicated by Congress), are his own personal views, not the views of any political party, government, or organization.   For media interviews, select here.

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o'bamanomics - Debt Analysis Chart

"The national budget must be balanced.  The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled.  Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt.  People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."-- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 B.C. (quotes: http://harrold.org/quotes/quotesonly.html)

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America's debt stands at $14 trillion.  That's the same as your family making $20,000 a year but spending $37,000 and putting the difference of $17,000 on a credit card on which you already owe $144,000.   Now just add 8 zeroes [..000,000.00]  and you can see we don't have much time left before America defaults on its loans.   This week's index is 82.3% - and the "collision date" is 4/11/12.

( If your email works with javacript, you'll see the graph displayed.  Otherwise, to see the graph, visit: http://debtwall.org/the-debt-wall-index/ )

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Super Congress Swindle - Debt Ceiling Fraud Against the Constitution

video source: http://youtu.be/i48sZyIsYus

Americans put on the hook for another 2.4 Trillion with new debt ceiling deal, Super Congress resembles Polit Bureau from Soviet Union, confidence in dollar takes a hit as markets slump.
From hour 1, 8-2-2011, http://www.justin.tv/michaelrivero
http://whatreallyhappened.com
http://www.rense.com

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Debt, The Fed & Your Money? - (By DRH, audio: 12m43s)

"Another Rant About the "Debt Ceiling" Only a Few Will Hear"

audio source: http://youtu.be/Vqeew-pAu3s

 

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o'tax'n spend - Paper Debt May Destroy America (Stansberry)

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o'bamanomics - Debt Ceiling: Don't Raise it!

I disagree with the premise below that the national debt ceiling must be raised.  To raise the debt ceiling would be no different than my going to my credit card companies asking them to raise my debt limit while I continue to pay no more than the minumum monthy payment which as you know is not actually paying off my actual debt  ...I'm simply paying against the interest and barely reducing the principle.  To simply revert back to spending/debt levels of 2008 or any recent year is foolish.  President Calvin Coolidge was correct in his cutting the federal budget ...across the board and by a large percentage.  He increased the tax base and brought the "Roaring Twenties" to America.  For the government to attach retirement accounts like 401K's and IRA accounts is simpy a way to grab steal your monies ...It is not the answer.  Government must live frugally just like us ordinary folks.  I was in the federal government during two "government shutdowns."  Government generally ran more efficiently.  If the government doesn't "bite the bullet", and soon, our economy could suddenly collapse!  It is a truism to say "There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch."  Anything paid from the government is money taken out of some individual or company pocket  ...yours or mine! -- rfh

From: Socialism Alerts Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 Subject: DEBT CEILING SHOWDOWN IS IMMINENT

The results of the November 2nd election are monumental. Included was a clearly spoken "mandate" from the voters to SPEND LESS AND KEEP US OUT OF DEBT!


No matter what it takes---Spending must be cut! The message to Congress from the electorate was crystal clear: "Live within YOUR means. WE, the taxpayers, have to."  This nation is now in a real crisis due to free-spending politicians who apparently thought, for the past two years, that a "debt ceiling" was something they were supposed to hit every two years.  Please read every word of this email to understand the enormous economic peril we are facing. 


Thank you for your passion for this great country,
, Alan Gottlieb, Chairman, AmeriPAC -- www.Ameripac.org

Hello My Fellow American,

The 112th Congress is now in session.  During the Election of 2010, scores of Republicans campaigned on the promise that if they restored Congress to the GOP, they would put an end to the free-spending ways of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.   Now that they have taken control of the U.S. House of Representative, the economic discipline they promised is coming---just in time.  The debt ceiling of the United States is being quickly approached. The current national debt limit is $14.3 TRILLION!  The federal government is expected to hit that debt ceiling in the next three weeks.

Before that time, the government must DO SOMETHING!  The bottom line question for Congress:  Will you raise the debt ceiling?

Mr. Obama and Democrats say RAISE IT.  Conservatives say HOLD IT OR LOWER IT, BASED ON CUTTING SPENDING.

Shortly, every Member of U.S. Congress will have to make this all-important decision.

That's where you come in. AmeriPAC will be using all media outlets at its disposal to promote fiscal austerity with just a little bit of leverage.  Logic tells us two things.  First, even if we cut spending to the bone, the debt ceiling is going to have to be raised.  Thus, our choice is limited to how do we slow the growth of our debt?  The more we slow the debt growth, the longer reprieve the taxpayers have. How do you slow the growth of debt? Get rid of wasteful spending. How do we do that? First, Congress must repeal ObamaCare and eliminate that spending albatross.  The GOP leadership needs to bargain with the moderates on the left.  Repeal Obamacare. Cut discretionary spending to the 2008 levels.  It's called a "quid pro quo."  It's the language of bargaining on both ends of Pennsylvania Ave.  But, to make this bargaining acceptable to the Members of the House of Representatives, we need the angry voices of a quarter million taxpayers reminding Congress who votes Congressmen out of office when they get angry.  Are you angry enough to fax every Member of Congress?  The re-empowered Republicans are making it clear they will DO WHATEVER IT TAKES to get the spending cuts and policy rollbacks they want.

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a frequent bridge-builder with Democrats, said he would NOT vote to increase the government debt ceiling unless Congress cuts discretionary spending to 2008 levels and agrees on major cuts. The government is expected to reach the current debt limit next month.   In reference to the cuts, I agree with Senator Graham. Cuts must come first! Failure to raise the debt limit would force the U.S. Treasury to be in a very drastic situation.

There's U.S. Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina. He wants to hold the Democrat's feet to the fire on debt issues. And so do I!

Some members from the Tea Party often sound as if they would not vote to raise the debt ceiling under any circumstances.  That could make it extremely difficult for others to back away from the brink at the last moment.

I submit to you:
NO raise in debt ceiling until budget busting OBAMACARE is repealed!
NO raise in debt ceiling unless the U.S. Congress cuts discretionary spending to 2008 levels.
Or best case scenario---BOTH OF THE ABOVE!

Quite frankly, I am concerned about my children and my grandchildren. They are the ones who will receive the brunt of this fiscal irresponsibility!

The bottom line: We must get our national debt under control.   The longer we wait: the harder it is for our generation.  Please urge every Member of Congress to stand up and speak out for CUTTING SPENDING!  Top White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee warned this past Sunday on ABC that a Congressional failure to raise the nation's debt ceiling early this year would be "catastrophic."  He said: "The impact on the economy would be catastrophic.  I mean, that would be a worse financial economic crisis than anything we saw in 2008."  But Senator Jim DeMint and other conservatives are undaunted by this challenge.

The reason why the United States is in this position is because President Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress have been spending the nation into OBLIVION!   The destruction of America has already started.  And you and I must stop this fast-moving locomotive train!  Clearly, fiscal responsibility says we must have a temporary raise in he debt ceiling.  Fiscal sanity says that raising the debt ceiling without major spending cuts borders not only on insanity, but national suicide.

The solution is somewhat "simple"---but hard:

• Reduce spending
• Repeal Obamacare
• Implement a salary freeze on federal employees
• Cut back on foreign aid (especially to those who hate us)
• Stop all the bailout monies
• Rescind already approved appropriations designated as a bailout and money going to those who hate us, or who have pledged to destroy us
• Release funds set aside for supposed financial regulatory reform
• Decrease funding of the United Nations

U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) asserts: "I think America expects us to fight more spending, more debt."  He goes on to suggest that "... we should resist [raising the debt ceiling.]  We need to have a showdown, at this point, that we are not going to increase our debt ceiling anymore.  We are going to cut things necessary to stay within the current levels---which is over $14 trillion.  So this needs to be a big showdown." U.S. Senator Jim DeMint: is ready for a major fight over debt ceiling.

Demint has drawn a line in the sand.  Many conservatives have.  This is the question Congress will have to answer very soon.   If they come up with the wrong answer, the consequences could be devastating for the United States.  Raise the debt ceiling?  Lower the debt ceiling?  What is the right decision? Politico reports: "The vote (on the debt ceiling)... is a prime example of where rhetoric might meet reality for newly elected House Republicans.  Refusing to increase the country's borrowing capability was a major theme during the 2010 election season, as conservative Republicans promoted their deficit-hawk views by vowing to oppose measures that would allow the Treasury to borrow beyond the $14.3 trillion ceiling Congress set last year." And, there's the reality.  Do we simply forget the political rhetoric, and simply raise the debt ceiling every year to cover each new round of earmarks?  Or, do we admit that we have finally overspent the nation's ability to pay for its own largess?  That means, hard choices must be made.  We need to open the pork barrel piggy banks that have drained the U.S. taxpayer, and tell the free wheelers in Washington, DC---"no more!"  We need to tell Washington to return America to its pre-2008 spending levels.  That's the price for a new temporary debt ceiling.  We need to tell the politicians America can't afford a nationalized healthcare system that will cost more than 10 times more than they claim it will cost in the first ten years.  Restore sanity to America's finances---repeal Obamacare and you can have the debt ceiling temporally raised.  A very serious discussion and debate must happen NOW about the control of spending, as it relates to the debt ceiling. Thank you, in advance, for your support. Sincerely, Alan Gottlieb, Chairman, AmeriPAC -- www.Ameripac.org  Please make checks payable to AmeriPAC: American Political Action Committee (AmeriPAC), PO Box 1682, Dept Code 5309, Bellevue, WA 98009-1682 -- Paid for by AmeriPAC, a federally-authorized and qualified multicandidate political action committee. Contributions to AmeriPAC will be used in connection with federal elections. Maximum contribution per individual per calendar year is $5,000. Contributions from foreign nationals and corporations are prohibited. Contributions are not deductible for federal income tax purposes.

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o'scamcare - Inconvenient Truths: 10 Facts about American Health Care

reposted from http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba649 (National Center for Policy Analysis, NCPA)
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 by Scott Atlas

Medical care in the United States is derided as miserable compared to health care systems in the rest of the developed world. Economists, government officials, insurers and academics alike are beating the drum for a far larger government rôle in health care. Much of the public assumes their arguments are sound because the calls for change are so ubiquitous and the topic so complex. However, before turning to government as the solution, some unheralded facts about America's health care system should be considered.

Fact No. 1: Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers.[1] Breast cancer mortality is 52 percent higher in Germany than in the United States, and 88 percent higher in the United Kingdom. Prostate cancer mortality is 604 percent higher in the U.K. and 457 percent higher in Norway. The mortality rate for colorectal cancer among British men and women is about 40 percent higher.

Fact No. 2: Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians.[2] Breast cancer mortality is 9 percent higher, prostate cancer is 184 percent higher and colon cancer mortality among men is about 10 percent higher than in the United States.

Fact No. 3: Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed countries.[3] Some 56 percent of Americans who could benefit are taking statins, which reduce cholesterol and protect against heart disease. By comparison, of those patients who could benefit from these drugs, only 36 percent of the Dutch, 29 percent of the Swiss, 26 percent of Germans, 23 percent of Britons and 17 percent of Italians receive them.

Fact No. 4: Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians.[4] Take the proportion of the appropriate-age population groups who have received recommended tests for breast, cervical, prostate and colon cancer:

Nine of 10 middle-aged American women (89 percent) have had a mammogram, compared to less than three-fourths of Canadians (72 percent).
Nearly all American women (96 percent) have had a pap smear, compared to less than 90 percent of Canadians.
More than half of American men (54 percent) have had a PSA test, compared to less than 1 in 6 Canadians (16 percent).
Nearly one-third of Americans (30 percent) have had a colonoscopy, compared with less than 1 in 20 Canadians (5 percent).

Fact No. 5: Lower income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians. Twice as many American seniors with below-median incomes self-report "excellent" health compared to Canadian seniors (11.7 percent versus 5.8 percent). Conversely, white Canadian young adults with below-median incomes are 20 percent more likely than lower income Americans to describe their health as "fair or poor."[5]

Fact No. 6: Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the U.K. Canadian and British patients wait about twice as long - sometimes more than a year - to see a specialist, to have elective surgery like hip replacements or to get radiation treatment for cancer.[6] All told, 827,429 people are waiting for some type of procedure in Canada.[7] In England, nearly 1.8 million people are waiting for a hospital admission or outpatient treatment.[8]

Fact No. 7: People in countries with more government control of health care are highly dissatisfied and believe reform is needed. More than 70 percent of German, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand and British adults say their health system needs either "fundamental change" or "complete rebuilding."[9]

Fact No. 8: Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians. When asked about their own health care instead of the "health care system," more than half of Americans (51.3 percent) are very satisfied with their health care services, compared to only 41.5 percent of Canadians; a lower proportion of Americans are dissatisfied (6.8 percent) than Canadians (8.5 percent).[10]

Fact No. 9: Americans have much better access to important new technologies like medical imaging than patients in Canada or the U.K. Maligned as a waste by economists and policymakers naïve to actual medical practice, an overwhelming majority of leading American physicians identified computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as the most important medical innovations for improving patient care during the previous decade.[11] [See the table.] The United States has 34 CT scanners per million Americans, compared to 12 in Canada and eight in Britain. The United States has nearly 27 MRI machines per million compared to about 6 per million in Canada and Britain.[12]

Fact No. 10: Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations.[13] The top five U.S. hospitals conduct more clinical trials than all the hospitals in any other single developed country.[14] Since the mid-1970s, the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology has gone to American residents more often than recipients from all other countries combined.[15] In only five of the past 34 years did a scientist living in America not win or share in the prize. Most important recent medical innovations were developed in the United States.[16] [See the table.]

Conclusion. Despite serious challenges, such as escalating costs and the uninsured, the U.S. health care system compares favorably to those in other developed countries.

[The writer,] Scott W. Atlas, M.D., is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor at the Stanford University Medical Center . A version of this article appeared previously in the February 18, 2009, Washington Times.

[1] Concord Working Group, "Cancer survival in five continents: a worldwide population-based study,.S. abe at responsible for theountries, in s chnologies, " Lancet Oncology, Vol. 9, No. 8, August 2008, pages 730 - 756; Arduino Verdecchia et al., "Recent Cancer Survival in Europe: A 2000-02 Period Analysis of EUROCARE-4 Data," Lancet Oncology, Vol. 8, No. 9, September 2007, pages 784 - 796.

[2] U.S. Cancer Statistics, National Program of Cancer Registries, U.S. Centers for Disease Control; Canadian Cancer Society/National Cancer Institute of Canada; also see June O'Neill and Dave M. O'Neill, "Health Status, Health Care and Inequality: Canada vs. the U.S.," National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper No. 13429, September 2007. Available at http://www.nber.org/papers/w13429.

[3] Oliver Schoffski (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), "Diffusion of Medicines in Europe," European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations, 2002. Available at http://www.amchampc.org/showFile.asp?FID=126. See also Michael Tanner, "The Grass is Not Always Greener: A Look at National Health Care Systems around the World," Cato Institute, Policy Analysis No. 613, March 18, 2008. Available at http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9272.

[4] June O'Neill and Dave M. O'Neill, "Health Status, Health Care and Inequality: Canada vs. the U.S."

[5] Ibid.

[6] Nadeem Esmail, Michael A. Walker with Margaret Bank, "Waiting Your Turn, (17th edition) Hospital Waiting Lists In Canada," Fraser Institute, Critical Issues Bulletin 2007, Studies in Health Care Policy, August 2008; Nadeem Esmail and Dominika Wrona "Medical Technology in Canada," Fraser Institute, August 21, 2008 ; Sharon Willcox et al., "Measuring and Reducing Waiting Times: A Cross-National Comparison Of Strategies," Health Affairs, Vol. 26, No. 4, July/August 2007, pages 1,078-87; June O'Neill and Dave M. O'Neill, "Health Status, Health Care and Inequality: Canada vs. the U.S."; M.V. Williams et al., "Radiotherapy Dose Fractionation, Access and Waiting Times in the Countries of the U.K.. in 2005," Royal College of Radiologists, Clinical Oncology, Vol. 19, No. 5, June 2007, pages 273-286.

[7] Nadeem Esmail and Michael A. Walker with Margaret Bank, "Waiting Your Turn 17th Edition: Hospital Waiting Lists In Canada 2007."

[8] "Hospital Waiting Times and List Statistics," Department of Health, England. Available at http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Statistics/Performancedataandstatistics/HospitalWaitingTimesandListStatistics/index.htm?IdcService=GET_FILE&dID=186979&Rendition=Web.

[9] Cathy Schoen et al., "Toward Higher-Performance Health Systems: Adults' Health Care Experiences In Seven Countries, 2007," Health Affairs, Web Exclusive, Vol. 26, No. 6, October 31, 2007, pages w717-w734. Available at http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/26/6/w717.

[10] June O'Neill and Dave M. O'Neill, "Health Status, Health Care and Inequality: Canada vs. the U.S."

[11] Victor R. Fuchs and Harold C. Sox Jr., "Physicians' Views of the Relative Importance of 30 Medical Innovations," Health Affairs, Vol. 20, No. 5, September /October 2001, pages 30-42. Available at http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/20/5/30.pdf.

[12] OECD Health Data 2008, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Available at http://www.oecd.org/document/30/0,3343,en_2649_34631_12968734_1_1_1_37407,00.html.

[13] "The U.S. Health Care System as an Engine of Innovation," Economic Report of the President (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 2004), 108th Congress, 2nd Session H. Doc. 108-145, February 2004, Chapter 10, pages 190-193, available at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy05/pdf/2004_erp.pdf; Tyler Cowen, New York Times, Oct. 5, 2006; Tom Coburn, Joseph Antos and Grace-Marie Turner, "Competition: A Prescription for Health Care Transformation," Heritage Foundation, Lecture No. 1030, April 2007; Thomas Boehm, "How can we explain the American dominance in biomedical research and development?" Journal of Medical Marketing, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2005, pages 158-66, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, July 2002. Available at http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/publications/erp/page/8649/download/47455/8649_ERP.pdf .

[14] Nicholas D. Kristof, "Franklin Delano Obama," New York Times, February 28, 2009. Available at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/opinion/01Kristof.html.

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$12,000,000,000,000.00 in Debt - Help America get Deficit Free (Remember in '10)

 From: ConservativeActionAlerts Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009

U.S. ECONOMIC STATE OF EMERGENCY NATIONAL DEBT HITS 12 TRILLION DOLLARS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY Dear Fellow Patriot, We've all heard about the Federal debt being an immoral burden for our children and grandchildren.  But the day of reckoning with our national debt is now here impacting us! Forget the grandkids, our economy is at grave risk of collapse right now! Federal deficits are projected to top $1 trillion every year for the next decade. We've doubled our debt to foreign countries in just the last four years. Our debt to China rose by almost 40% last year alone! In 2008, the interest on the national debt was $451 billion. Think of this. We could send 123,000 kids to college, or double the U.S. Border Patrol, or immunize every two-year old in America, with just one-day's interest on the national debt!   We now face economic collapse. The dollar is in near free-fall.  Foreign countries are balking at lending the U.S. more money, instead turning to gold for their currency reserves.  And that $9 trillion in new debt borrowing that's planned for the next decade, it won't happen. There's just not $9 trillion to borrow anywhere in the world. Congress will vote in December to extend America's indebtedness above $12,100,000,000,000, necessitated because our national debt grew last year by more than $1,400,000,000,000 and will grow this year by $1,400,000,000,000.  According to the Obama White House estimates, the national debt will continue to grow by more than $1 trillion for the next nine years.  Except it won't…because it can't.  Remember there just isn't $9 trillion to borrow. The dollar is in free-fall.  The Ponzi scheme Congress calls Social Security is about to collapse.  Foreigners are beginning to balk at loaning the US government more money. That grave economic turmoil our debt and deficit will cause in the future, it's now here. Lets put the 12 trillion dollar US DEBT into perspective:  What is 12 trillion dollars in terms of time and space? If you spent $1 per minute it would take 22,816,000 years  to spend 12 trillion.  Which would mean you would need to have started spending at the beginning of the Neogene Period or 20 million years before the Ice Age. If you had 12 trillion frequent flyer miles, you could travel first-class, round-trip to the SUN and back 67,500 times. Beyond threatening our economic security, our national debt is imperiling our national independence. We now owe foreign entities $3.448 Trillion - 28.2% more than just 12 months ago! Three of the five largest holders of US debt should cause you sleepless nights. We owe China the most, $797 billion  -- 38.9% more than we did just 12 months ago. We owe Oil Exporting Countries $189.2 billion – 11.5% more than just 12 months ago. We owe Caribbean Banking Centers (thought to hold billions in narco-terrorist money) $180.2 billion – 35.5% more than just 12 months ago. Japan and the United Kingdom round out the top five foreign debt holders, with our debt to the UK increasing an astonishing 173% in just the last 12 months.  Can we really expect China to increase its lending to the US by nearly 40% next year, and each of the next nine years? Even if it wanted to, the UK doesn't have the cash to increase its lending to the US by another 173% next year. Any one of these debt holders could put the US economy in collapse overnight by selling or even just threatening to sell off their US debt holdings.  We owe them...they own us!  Clearly, our national independence is in grave risk. The Federal government also owes Social Security and Medicare $4.5 Trillion.  With the economic downturn, Social Security doled out more money than it took from employees' paychecks for the first time this year.  By 2016 - just seven years from now - according to the Social Security Trustees report, Social Security will move from surplus to permanent deficit as the baby boomers retire. That "lock-box" presidential candidates like to talk about has never existed.  The Social Security ponzi scheme makes Bernie Madoff look like a wayward kid shoplifting a pack of gum. If we do not balance the budget by the time Social Security moves to permanent deficit in 2016, we almost assuredly will not without a cataclysmic economic crisis. Had enough GLOOM & DOOM? What's the solution? A balanced budget constitutional amendment. History has shown Congress simply won't act responsibly unless the voters force them to balance the budget. With great voter pressure, Congress came within 1 Senate vote of passage of the balanced budget amendment in 1996 – and the Congress passed balanced budgets each of the next four years. When support for the balanced budget amendment waned, Congress spent like crazy. A balanced budget amendment is the only cure to a Congress unwilling to control spending. In fact, Germany passed the BBA just last year.  That's why we launch this week DeficitFree.com – a national push for a Balanced Budget Amendment by July 4, 2013, and a balanced Federal budget by July 4, 2016. These would be the two best birthday gifts we could give our country! Our first and immediate goal is to bring together 5 Million Balanced Budget Amendment supporters by July 4, 2010, with a minimum of 5,000 from each Congressional district. You can join the movement at www.DeficitFree.com. This non-partisan movement is being launched by some of America's most successful grassroots activists – not Washington DC politicians. We need 5 million voters to work together to ensure the Balanced Budget Amendment becomes the most prominent issue in the 2010 Congressional races and in the 2012 Presidential contest. If we don't, it won't be our grandkids who will suffer the economic collapse of our country and our loss of national independence. It will be us! Defend America, Tim Mooney, http://www.DeficitFree.com  P.S.  The Social Security Trustees predict Social Security will move from surplus to permanent deficit by 2016 – just seven years from now. If we haven't balanced the budget by then, we likely won't without a cataclysmic economic collapse. That's why we need a Balanced Budget Amendment passed now!  Please sign the DeficitFree.com petition now!  http://deficitfree.com/petitions/petition-for-a-balanced-budget-amendment/ Deficit Free - 406 First Street SE, Third Floor, Washington DC 20003 Conservative Action Alerts, 1725B Oregon Pike Suite #106 - Lancaster, PA 17601 US Also, watch the videos in the blog below at http://harrolds.blogspot.com/2009/09/national-debt-how-come-how-much-who-do.html

o'cap & tax - Obama Raises Taxes On All Americans?

From: CDFE Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 

The Carbon Lie Is Being Used To Raise Everyone's Taxes

To give cover for the Obama "Energy Tax", a White House Global Warming Report and the EPA are Hiding New Research on Global Cooling and Are Still Blaming Carbon Dioxide for Global Warming.

WITHOUT CARBON DIOXIDE TO BLAME THE GOVERNMENT TAX INCREASE OF HISTORIC PROPORTIONS ON ALL AMERICANS FLIPPING ON A LIGHT SWITCH IS NOT NEEDED AND EVEN THE EPA KNOWS THE REPORT IS A LIE.

Turning on the Light = Cap and Trade = $3,200/year Tax Increase

Has OBAMA broken his pledge when he said "...No family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase... NOT ANY OF YOUR TAXES."

The Obama administration's global warming report contains no new research and is scaring the public with misinformation using the grimmest, most urgent language on global warming ever to come out of any White House. Rising sea levels, sweltering temperatures, deeper droughts, and heavier downpours - blaming carbon for global warming's alleged serious effects and lying to the country to collect the "Energy Tax" passed by the House before going on vacation.

But was the report complete? Did it have all the relevant data? NO!  Americans Must Know The Truth About Global Cooling! We have launched plans for a multi-million dollar TV and online media campaign to reach millions before the Senate Votes to raise taxes with the new "Energy Tax" on all Americans but we need your financial help.

The Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise (CDFE) a non-profit 501(c)(3) non-partisan education and research organization is promoting the creation and distribution of Our Media Campaign "The Great Carbon Energy Tax". This free enterprise project is focused on getting all the Tax and Energy information to Americans that the Government and lobbyists seek to hide and ignore.

Getting to the Truth About Global Warming

Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla has ordered an investigation into the Environmental Protection Agency's alleged suppression of a 98-page report, co-authored by EPA analyst Alan Carlin that questioned the science behind global warming.

The report details how regulating gases like carbon dioxide WILL NOT reduce global warming. Carlin's report states that the information the EPA is using is out of date, and that even as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have increased, global temperatures have declined.

Inhofe said "He (Carlin) came out with the truth. They don't want the truth at the EPA," he's ordered an investigation. "We're going to expose it."

CARBON FACT: CO2 DOES NOT Cause Global Warming!

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) Data:  The Truth For seven and a half years, is that global temperatures have been falling rapidly. The UN IPCC's predicted warming path (pink region) bears no relation to the global cooling data that the IPCC has observed in the 21st century to date. Source: SPPI global temperature index.

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Is Food For Plants not "Air Pollutant"

CO2 is not an "air pollutant," but rather food for plants and marine life. And its atmospheric levels are controlled by temperature and other biological/chemical variables -- not the other way around (Just as: Lung Cancer does not cause smoking). But most of all, a magical CO2 knob for controlling weather and climate simply does not exist. 

Carbon Fact: The "Energy Bill" Will Not Reduce Global Warming?

The graphs below show the effect of spending billions of dollars on the Waxman/Markey bill will have on Global Temperature and Sea Levels.

Waxman/Markey Climate Bill Will Scarcely Affect Temperatures

Temperature change predicted by the UN, and (dotted line) adjusted to reflect the negligible impact of the Waxman/Markey Climate Bill, which might cut temperatures by 0.2-0.02 F by 2100, at a cost of $18 trillion. Source: Chip Knappenberger: cost estimates $180 bn/year from the White House.

Carbon Fact: The "Energy Bill" Will Not Reduce Sea Levels?

The Waxman/Markey Climate Bill will scarcely affect sea level

Sea-level change predicted by the UN, and (dotted line) adjusted to reflect the negligible impact of the Waxman/Markey Climate Bill, which might cut sea-level by less than half an in by 2100, at a cost of $18 trillion. Source: Chip Knappenberger: cost estimates $180 bn/year from the White House.

Help Get All The Relevant Data to Taxpayers?  Americans Must Know The Truth About Global Cooling! 

Did you know that since Barack Obama was elected President four people make a donation to an anti-free enterprise group every minute?  That's almost a TWO MILLION contributions aimed at you - and your economic rights every year! With Obama in the White House and anti-free enterprise socialists in control of key committees in Congress, the socialists are out for blood.

The way of life you save may be your own.
Sincerely, Ron Arnold, Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, http://www.cdfe.com/

P.S. Please, take the Emergency Economic Survey let us know where you stand.
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We at the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise have launched this new nationwide campaign to rally economic freedom loving Americans behind an effort to protect our constitutional rights.

This is important.  Even if you don't wish to donate or are undecided about some economy questions, please answer our economic knowledge survey.   Please fill it out by selecting here.

Select Here NOW I urgently need you to fill out the EMERGENCY ECONOMIC SURVEY.  (No donation required)

We need your urgent help at CDFE.  Even smaller donations are going to help. Any amount - $1000, $500, $250, or even $100 will help us with our Media Campaign and fight the battle to inform the American people about the TRUTH. It's time we stood up and said enough is enough! Please join us with your CDFE donation TODAY. Thank you. We need your financial help NOW to produce a TV and online media campaign to reach millions of Americans. The Center does not seek or accept government funds. Tax deductible Contributions to the Center are the only way we can create and distribute critical tax and energy information to Americans with a Media Campaign. Donate To Our Media Campaign "The Great Carbon Energy Tax"

The survey asks simply, yes or no, if you are aware of the facts listed in the following 12 questions: source: the CDFE Economic Survey at https://secure.conservativedonations.com/cdfe_survey/?a=3122

QUESTION 1:  Did you know that the Obama government owns 72.5% of GM and the bondholders just 10% and that cost of the government takeover socializing GM is at least $70 billion?

QUESTION 2:  Were you aware Obama diverted funds from the $700 Billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to illegally takeover General Motors instead of buying troubled assets from
"financial institutions"

QUESTION 3:  Were you aware that Only 6% or $47,770,000,000 of the $787,000,000,000 Stimulus has
actually been spent?

QUESTION 4:  Did you know that under Obama 14.5 million people are out of work with an unemployment rate at 9.4% the highest since the Great Depression?

QUESTION 5:  Were you aware that according to Biden, Obama "guessed wrong" predicting unemployment would remain at 8 percent or below through 2009 if an economic stimulus plan won congressional approval?

QUESTION 6:  Did you know that Obama will double consumer energy costs perpetuating The Great Carbon Lie - that CO2 causes global warming – as the world gets colder not warmer despite the rise in CO2 levels?

QUESTION 7:  Were you aware that Obama's $646 Billion Cap-And-Trade Spending Bill has a New CO2 Green Tax to raise $80 Billion a year selling carbon credits?

QUESTION 8:  Did you know that under Obama each American family's national debt rose 12% and your family's share of the government debt is now over half a million dollars. A record $546,668, to be exact?

QUESTION 9:  Did you know Obama lied and plans to keep Gitmo open and spend $80 million moving detainees to Afghanistan?

QUESTION 10:  Did you know that Obama is raising the death tax on family farms and small businesses to
raise $60 billion in taxes?

QUESTION 11:  Were you aware that Obama borrows 50 cents of every budget dollar he spends from China?

QUESTION 12:  Did you know that Obama Heath Care adds $1 trillion to the national debt and Obama will create $600 Billion in new taxes on Medicare $344 Billion, soda $112 Billion, alcohol $61 Billon and employer-provided health care $200 Billion?

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