Sorry for the lack of posts. We have begun our student teaching practicum, and that experience is currently consuming nearly all of our energies, at least until we get into more of a routine.
New stuff when we get time.
Tuesday, August 09, 2011
Thursday, August 04, 2011
Great company
The Communist Party USA has already announced that they are endorsing President Obama for reelection in 2012, despite their stated bitter disappointment in his not pushing harder in his first term for such promised goodies as single-payer government-controlled health care and "card-check" legislation designed to eliminate the secret ballot when workers are voting whether or not to unionize:
"Wrote [CPUSA Chairman Sam] Webb: 'Neither party is anti-capitalist, but they aren't identical either. Differences exist at the levels of policy and social composition. And despite the many frustrations of the past two years, the election of Barack Obama was historic and gave space to struggle for a people's agenda.'"
Chairman Mao himself couldn't have come up with more flowery propaganda.
The Commies are clearly salivating at the prospect of an Obama second term, one in which the president would no longer have to care about winning elections or pacifying moderate voters but instead would be free to fully advocate for advancing the Great Leap Forward agenda of such mentors of his as Saul Alinsky and Bill Ayers.
Remember the people who desperately need the current president to remain in office when contemplating your own ballot.
"Wrote [CPUSA Chairman Sam] Webb: 'Neither party is anti-capitalist, but they aren't identical either. Differences exist at the levels of policy and social composition. And despite the many frustrations of the past two years, the election of Barack Obama was historic and gave space to struggle for a people's agenda.'"
Chairman Mao himself couldn't have come up with more flowery propaganda.
The Commies are clearly salivating at the prospect of an Obama second term, one in which the president would no longer have to care about winning elections or pacifying moderate voters but instead would be free to fully advocate for advancing the Great Leap Forward agenda of such mentors of his as Saul Alinsky and Bill Ayers.
Remember the people who desperately need the current president to remain in office when contemplating your own ballot.
Monday, August 01, 2011
Here comes the slippery slope
"WASHINGTON – Health insurance plans must cover birth control as preventive care for women, with no copays, the Obama administration said Monday in a decision with far-reaching implications for health care as well as social mores.
The requirement is part of a broad expansion of coverage for women's preventive care under President Barack Obama's health care law. Also to be covered without copays are breast pumps for nursing mothers, an annual "well-woman" physical, screening for the virus that causes cervical cancer and for diabetes during pregnancy, counseling on domestic violence, and other services."
We will first stipulate that having some of these services made more available to women will most likely result in a net benefit for both them as well as society in general.
That's not the point.
Lots of things would be of great use to people if the government were to force private companies to give them away for free - cars, computers, you name it. That doesn't happen, of course, because the Constitution does not give the .gov that redistributive power. Similarly, nowhere in that document is a provision giving the Feds the authority to force people to buy products (such as health coverage) they may not wish to own or the ability to tell those firms which of their wares they must give away instead of charge for, as we hope the Supreme Court will eventually point out.
We predict that this is just the first in a long series of coverage mandates, and that sly Washington bureaucrats will slowly and patiently deem more and more items to be vital and necessary over time until everything is eventually provided gratis. And then we'll be Great Britain, where operations for such things as cataracts, hip replacements and tonsillitis are now deemed to be "non-urgent" and thus denied until the patient basically can no longer see, walk or swallow.
Of course, there really is no free ride, as the first article notes:
"Although the new women's preventive services will be free of any additional charge to patients, somebody will have to pay."
Dig deep, peasant.
The requirement is part of a broad expansion of coverage for women's preventive care under President Barack Obama's health care law. Also to be covered without copays are breast pumps for nursing mothers, an annual "well-woman" physical, screening for the virus that causes cervical cancer and for diabetes during pregnancy, counseling on domestic violence, and other services."
We will first stipulate that having some of these services made more available to women will most likely result in a net benefit for both them as well as society in general.
That's not the point.
Lots of things would be of great use to people if the government were to force private companies to give them away for free - cars, computers, you name it. That doesn't happen, of course, because the Constitution does not give the .gov that redistributive power. Similarly, nowhere in that document is a provision giving the Feds the authority to force people to buy products (such as health coverage) they may not wish to own or the ability to tell those firms which of their wares they must give away instead of charge for, as we hope the Supreme Court will eventually point out.
We predict that this is just the first in a long series of coverage mandates, and that sly Washington bureaucrats will slowly and patiently deem more and more items to be vital and necessary over time until everything is eventually provided gratis. And then we'll be Great Britain, where operations for such things as cataracts, hip replacements and tonsillitis are now deemed to be "non-urgent" and thus denied until the patient basically can no longer see, walk or swallow.
Of course, there really is no free ride, as the first article notes:
"Although the new women's preventive services will be free of any additional charge to patients, somebody will have to pay."
Dig deep, peasant.
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