It’s Monday, February 08, 2010 and what a Superbowl! You gottah love it when the underdog wins.
Congratulations to the World Champion New Orleans Saints!
In other news, there’s no “Where I Ate” segment this week. This was a pretty lazy weekend for us and by the time supper time rolled around, we just couldn’t get enthusiastic about going anywhere.
Speaking of best intentions, I’d intended to go back through a year’s worth of blogs and clean up some spelling, grammar and punctuation errors, but every time I got started, I was overcome with a fit of sloth. Other than picking up my shirts on Saturday, I can’t recall doing anything of value. I managed to get in a couple of decent naps, but I think the shirts thing was pretty much the acme of useful activity this weekend.
In other news, President Obama wants to sit down with the republican and democratic leadership to try to hash out what to do about healthcare reform. He wants to get a better idea of how the republicans want to do it. The meeting is to be televised and is set to occur on the 25th of this month. I’m not at all sure what is hoped for with this meeting. Given his attempt to ram his plan through, coupled with all the sweetheart, back room deals, I see little to be gained by such a meeting. Plainly put, I don’t trust this guy.
Even after a year of debate, rhetoric and accusation, I still don’t understand what the problem is.
Okay, we’ve got a bunch of people without healthcare insurance? We also have a bunch of people who are out of work right now. I rather think this is a far more pressing issue.
Health care costs continue to rise? Guess what? The costs of everything is rising. Wanna know why? Because raising taxes on corporations IS THE EXACT SAME THING as taxing us. Who do you think is paying that increase in operating costs?
People are losing their insurance when they get sick? Okay, one more time please, good Captain:
This is stupidly easy. Find a way to make it profitable for insurance companies to do the thing you want them to do. Just make sure it’s not something that’s funded on the backs of the people who, by their own hand, are doing just fine insurance-wise.
I don’t get what the issue is or why it needs a bag of weasels to fix.
Too bad Obama isn’t all Captain Ahab about unemployment. His campaign promised huge healthcare reforms and he seems hell-bent keeping at least this promise. But since he tried to pull a fast one on us, I’m disinclined to see it pursued further until 1) unemployment is back under 6%, 2) the recession is over as indicated by two consecutive quarters of real GNP growth and 3) Obama isn’t president any more.
Okay, there’s a little wiggle room on that third one, but 1 and 2 are some pretty big, honking deals. We need to square these away first, then we’ll be better outfitted to go after white whales.
In other news, we have this just in from our “Bureau of Soup Sandwiches” — The Obama administration on Monday proposed a new agency to study and report on the changing climate.
You’re using the wrong dictionary, Griping Man. By using the correct dictionary, you can see that creating a new government agency actually is a reduction in spending. It works in no other universe, but in this one that’s the way it is. Increasing government bureaucracy reduces the costs of government. Eventually, given enough government, it will become not only self-sustaining but will actually generate free money and no one will have to work anymore.
So, as our universe continues to spin out of control, let us be mindful of one thing: There are 269 days until November 2nd.
