HERE COMES EUTHENASIA - Just a Minute Radio for Friday the 13th, 2009 in February.

Howdy… It’s been a warm week.

 

Not just the weather – but in some places the rhetoric. I think they’ve run out of ‘negotiation powder’ on Capitol Hill – and Madam Speaker thought she’d laid in a whole season’s supply.  Here the first month of the Obamanation has hardly gone by and they’ve nearly run out. But never fear… there’s always more where that came from.

 

What’s really running in short supply is bi-partisan good will. I watched some of the House speeches after they took the second vote on the stimulus plan – and I thought I heard a gurgle from a stopped-up drain. Everyone – almost – having watched the Obamanation Campaign Train in operation for two years – figured running the nation would be a snap. The Republicans would be totally dispirited (and possibly they are) and the Democrat Donkeys could run free in the pasture. They just didn’t figure being tripped up on their own tax-trip wires. A strange omission indeed.

 

So now the President has to make another trip to the well to find a Commerce Secretary who is willing to run a Department stripped of one of its major plumbs – taking the census. Meanwhile the unions have written their demands into law in the coming omnibus package – as have the NEA icons and the ACLU, the NAACP and a *host* of other special interests.

 

Of course that canal to be built across the property in Speaker Pelosi’s district isn’t made of PORK…it’s water… and every other rock turned over in the ‘surprise package’ which – according to the President’s campaign rhetoric and promises, will rest on his desk for five days while people may use the Internet to examine it carefully (it’s only seven or eight hundred pages long… roughly a billion dollars a page) and we can rewrite the history books on this one. This will be the age forecast by Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin when the populace realize they may vote themselves goodies out of the Treasury and thus destroy the integrity of the Nation – which heralds the slow (or perhaps not so slow) decline of America from a representative Republic into something akin to a giant-sized and thereby all the more inefficient ‘Banana Republic.’

 

It’s not nice really – to have such a dismal outlook on a Friday… but it is the 13^th – and black cats have been seen scampering across the path.

May the Lord bless us all.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

 

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HERE COMES EUTHENASIA

Just A Minute – You want to know what’s in the Obama Health Plan… Here are a few ideas originally proposed in Tom Daschle’s book before being rejected as Secretary of Health and Human Services:

           First, Daschle said health-care reform “will not be pain free.” Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. … Medicare now pays for treatments deemed “safe and effective.” but the stimulus bill would change all that and a government board, like one under the British system, would approve or reject treatments using a formula which divides cost of the treatment by the number of years the patient is likely to live so younger patients are more often approved than those that affect the elderly.

An example: In 2006, a U.K. health board said elderly patients with macula degeneration must wait ‘til they go blind in one eye before they would be approved for a costly new drug to save the other eye. It took almost three years of public protests to get the board to reverse its decision.

More on Monday if it’s not been signed by then.

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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