Defacing the American Flag

I take offense to this video defacing our flag.

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I don't believe that Freedom of Speech includes defacing the flag. It's a symbol of the blood shed to insure our freedoms, so to disrespect it is to disrespect the lives and limbs given to defend it.

Where is the Transparency?

Many people suggest that President Obama lied to us when he promised transparency. I prefer to call it unkept promises. I understand that all Presidents make promises they don't or can't keep. With all of the closed door meetings, the millions of dollars being filtered into campaign coffers, and the transparency bills being held up in committee; my question is, "why isn't the mainstream media calling him out on this?" Let's at least make sure we remind the President and Congress that they ran on a platform of transparency!

Pres. Obama's promises: http://tinyurl.com/ykdxe6e

Homebuyer Tax Credits - Ouch!

Russell George, Treasury Inspector General, ran an audit on the Homebuyers Tax Credit and found $500M in fraud. Here is just some of what he found.

• 582 children under 18 years of age were given the tax credit
• 3000 non-residents were given the tax credit
• 53 IRS employees falsely claimed the tax credit

The IRS doesn't even require documentation that you bought a home . Not only is this a horrible job by the IRS, but these people should be prosecuted. The non-residents should have their green cards taken away, if they have them at all, and the IRS employees should go to jail.

And they wonder why we don't trust the idea of a government run program?

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Single Payer Profits for Insurance Companies

I just did a tour of the country looking for potential Independent Congressional candidates.

One highlight of my trip was a discussing with an Executive of a health insurance claims processing company. When I asked him how bad would a single payer, government run, system hurt his business; he just laughed. He educated me on the fact that his company and most of the big insurance companies would benefit from a single payer system.

See Medicaid and Medicare claims aren't processed by a building full of civil servants. No, the government subcontracts it out to the insurance companies to manage. The single payer system would end up being the same model. This part of the business is the most profitable and consistent. Unlike the insurance side where there is a lot of risk, this side of the business is easily forcasted. See, the risk now would fall on the tax payers and be managed by the government. This will be a huge win fall for a few of the insurance companies and the rest will fall off planet, reducing any potential competition completely.

So, in the end, are we really going to be making the big bad Insurance Industry pay? Or, are we going to do what we did on Wall Street? Let the government pick the winners and the losers and let the average U.S. citizen pay the price.