The Liquor Talking

I’ve also written Conoco and asked them to dump a few more million tons of CO2 into the atmosphere in hopes of nudging us back up above zero. I anxiously await their response.

In other news, the democrats continue their closed-door reconciliation of the House and Senate versions of the healthcare “reform” bill. According to a FoxNews report:
“Differences include whom to tax, how many people to cover, how to restrict taxpayer funding for abortion and whether illegal immigrants should be allowed to buy coverage in the new markets with their own money. The House bill covers about 36 million uninsured Americans over 10 years, costing more than $1 trillion, while the cheaper Senate bill covers about 31 million”

Easy questions all:
Whom to tax? The people who want this.

How many people to cover? Everyone who wants this.

How to restrict taxpayer funding for abortion? By putting in a line saying “You have to pay for your own abortions.”

Whether illegal immigrants should be allowed to buy coverage in the new markets with their own money? Are you fscking nuts? Why is this even a consideration? People in this country ILLEGALLY do not have the same rights as people who are citizens. There’s things we need to spend money on where illegal immigrants are concerned,but none of them are making sure they have health care insurance.

So I can see why they want to do this behind closed doors. We can’t have the republicans getting in the way of providing health care coverage to 35 million people. That’s 11 percent of our population by the way. That’s right. The president is about to spend more than a TRILLION bucks to “fix” health care for 11% of our population.

You may be right, but you don’t get to provide commentary on your facts, Random Fact Guy. Just do your thing and leave the commentary…

No, stop. Everybody back…

Dammit! Now everybody is off the script. Okay, let’s pick it back up at …

Sigh… Pick it back up at “11% of our population.”

…11% of our population. But then, he gets to stick it to 89% of us in the form of

1. Limiting our choices (because we’d just do the wrong thing anyway)
   
2. Getting their arms around the insurance companies’ dough (Taxing them and then having them raise their rates to us is better than taxing us directly)
   
3. Getting a 16% of our national economy under direct government control
   

In other news, do you guys at the National Weather Service just WANT me to come down there and start crackin’ heads?

You’re turning the dial the WRONG way! You do NOT want me to come down there, mad from being cold.

Because it’s damn cold in this office today. All the bit.. ladies are wearing sweaters and even coats. If it’s cold enough for me to gripe about it (I raise hell if it gets above 75 in here) then it’s too damned cold in here. The guy that owns our stinking building is a cheapskate and won’t actually do anything until someone threatens him with bodily harm. I would be happy, but I’m the one that threatened him about the air conditioning during the summer. It’s somebody else’s turn.

Okay enough of you have asked me to explain my somewhat enigmatic predictions concerning the economy. For those with short-term memory trouble, It went something like this:

M’kay, here goes… Conventional wisdom holds that the democrats pretty much know that their salad days are going bye-bye with the mid-term elections. This being the case it’s generally thought that they will make every effort to use their filibuster-proof majorities to ram through as much of the liberal agenda as possible. This serves two purposes.

The first naturally being that they concentrate more control with the central government (the cornerstone of liberal ideology) and therewith build and foster dependency. The second is to leave enough of this garbage for the next congress to deal with that they can’t press as much of the conservative agenda.

That’s what the conventional wisdom thinks.

But me and Stupid Hat Guy, we don’t subscribe to conventional wisdom. If we did, he’d wear his hat right and wouldn’t get a half-moon sunburned into his forehead in the universal symbol meaning “I have substantial brain damage.” To put it more succinctly I don’t subscribe to conventional wisdom. Stupid Hat Guy says “Fuh, fuh, fuh, fuh, fuh.” which could mean anything.

I think the democratic leadership likes having a dem as president and dem control of both houses of congress. I think they like it to the point that they’d be willing to do pret’near anything to be able to keep it. I think the powers that be will take a good, long, hard look at what’s important to people and do exactly what the republicans tried to do in 2008.

No. While the republican party did display epic stupidity, that in and of itself wasn’t the goal. Anyone else care to venture a guess?

Right-O, Darth. They will see that tampering with the economy and flaunting its fundamental natural laws is disastrous in the long term. They’ll see that middle to small businesses are what’s producing the jobs that are producing the taxable incomes. They’re also producing the goods and services people buy a lot. Think about it: When was the last time you bought a new car? How long has it been since you bought a house? Car makers and mortgage lenders got bailed out and in a big way, but the economy kept right on circling the bowl.

They’re gonna realize that middle to small businesses are the ones needing the bailout and slip some, actually a lot of the tax burden off of these outfits. With that monkey off their backs, these outfits are gonna take off like they were shot from a canon. Unemployment will drop five points in 3 months, then another 2 points in the next three months. They’re gonna realize that we’re not gonna tax our way to prosperity. They’re gonna realize that your need prosperity first.

Then you tax the hell out of it.

Yeah, this represents a fundamental shift at the core of the democratic party. Do this wrong (like the republicans did in 08) and we’ll see the exact same results. People will leave the party like rats from the Titanic. Party faithful, republican or democrat just don’t tolerate well shifts in core values. Right, Senator McCain?

No, the trick here is gonna be in the….

Oops, we’re out of time today. We’ll pick this up tomorrow.

Now hold on there! I gottah proofread all this, push it up, make sure the formatting didn’t get wrecked and then proofread and fix stuff. That takes time. What’s left on this subject is still many paragraphs of type. One of the things I hope to do in 2010 is improve the quality of the type. So shove off!