“I have no question we have the votes on the floor of the House to pass this (healthcare) legislation,” said Nancy Pelosi yesterday, in what may be the most ludicrous attempt at behavioral psychology ever uttered by a politician. The one thing she has accomplished though is a refreshing level of “transparency” which has been promised by [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Pelosi Proves: You don’t need a brain to practice Behavioral Economics
ObamaCare, the Profit Enrichment Agenda of the MEGA HMO’s
UnitedHealth Group Inc., the biggest U.S. private HMO insurer (by revenue), today announced that its Second Quarter profit more than doubled, in particular from its increased PPP sign-up of Medicare-supplemental enrollees through AARP (American Association of Retired People), and from raising its insurance premiums. This announcement reflects back on President Obama, whose health-care “reform” plans are [...]
Abandoned States are America’s “Government in the Wings”
July 22 (Bloomberg) — State and local governments, forced to close budget gaps by firing workers and shutting schools, may pay at least $4.2 billion more in interest than companies with similar credit ratings on Barack Obama’s Build America Bonds. The difference in borrowing costs shows elected and appointed officials are failing taxpayers, said Stanley [...]
You cannot solve the Derivatives problem by attacking it’s symptoms
With so many atrocities to report upon daily it becomes difficult to focus on the core problem — derivatives. We seem to have accepted that derivatives are here to stay, and now the question is whether or not, or how much to “regulate” them. But you don’t regulate a Ponzi scheme any more than you [...]
Don’t get “boxed in” by the NYT
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Stop the Presses – Here’s the NEW Bailout Number: 23.7 trillion
That’s right. As we predicted months ago, as long as the banks are running governments the bailouts will never end, and the costs will continue to skyrocket. This number is unfathomable, but the real number is closer to 140 trillion, as I stated on March 23rd. It is a number for quantum mechanics, space travel [...]
States be Damned! You get what you DESERVE!
Obama’s Cabinet has literally threatened to cut off federal funding to State Governors from both parties, if they don’t bring their Congressional delegations around to his Fascist agenda on Health Care Privileging and Cap & Speculate. The FBI has begun it’s Abscam style witch hunt to discredit any and all Congressmen and Senators who dare defy the Emperor, and the Soros-funded [...]
