Showing posts with label stupidity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stupidity. Show all posts

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Because getting it for free will obviously be so much better (UPDATED)

“Having a public plan out there that also shows that maybe if you take some of the profit motive out, maybe if you are reducing some of the administrative costs, that you can get an even better deal, that’s going to incentivize the private sector to do even better.”

(italics, ours)

That's an amazingly telling statement from the President's health care chat last night. The elimination of the profit motive from any transaction will result in the eventual elimination of that transaction. This is pretty basic stuff and for the President to either not know that or (most likely) willfully ignore it, is stunning.

After you pick your jaw up off the floor, check out what Secular Apostate has to say here regarding profits, incentives, sticks, carrots and... tonsils.


(UPDATE #1): Nothing like a "stupid" comment to completely overshadow your press conference. Were tyrannical regimes to be on the receiving end of this bluntness.

And then we have this, courtesy NRO Media Blog:

Blinded by profit, doctors often try to remove tonsils from children. If your doctor wants to remove your child’s tonsils, take some step to make sure it’s necessary.

* Ask the doctor if he’s considered whether the problem could be just allergies or something.

* Ask how much profit will he make from this “necessary” procedure.

* Take your child’s medical files and send it to Barack Obama. He or another qualified bureaucrat will determine whether the operation is necessary.

* Wait eight to ten months for a response.

Remember: Only you can prevent doctors from making a profit off your kids’ tonsils.
In case you missed it, the above is in response to President Obama's quest to save billions by limiting the number of tonsillectomies in America:

So if they're looking — and you come in and you've got a bad sore throat, or your child has a bad sore throat or has repeated sore throats, the doctor may look at the reimbursement system and say to himself, you know what, I make a lot more money if I take this kid's tonsils out. Now that may be the right thing to do, but I'd rather have that doctor making those decisions just based on whether you really need your kid's tonsils out or whether it might make more sense just to change — maybe they have allergies, maybe they have something else that would make a difference.

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

House Passes Alternative Energy Bill


We’re confident Congress was merely acting in a symbolic fashion. If by symbolic one means “useless”, “pointless”, “counter-productive”, “a fool’s errand”, and “completely void of any reason, logic or rationality”

In more bipartisanship run amok, the House voted to approve a measure that will be sure to lower gas prices. You see, by an overwhelming 324-84 vote, the House has decided that in addition to burning food and not seeking to expand domestic oil production, another source of cheap, alternative energy is… litigation.

That’s right. The House has responded to this energy crunch by granting the themselves the right to sue OPEC and anyone else they feel is charging us too much at the pump. This piece of legislation also sets up a Justice Department task force that will investigate and root-out any suspected petrol evil-doers.

As sponsor of the legislation, Steve Kagen of Wisconsin stated, “This bill guarantees that oil prices will reflect supply and demand economic rules, instead of wildly speculative and perhaps illegal activities". We so didn’t make that up. Dude really said that.

Honestly, its embarrassing. These people are charged with generating, deliberating upon and passing legislation that is for the betterment of the people and of the Republic and conversely, rejecting that which is not, and this… this is the best they could come up with.

Then again, what would one expect from a body that has a collective approval rating a full 11 points lower than “the Worst President Ever”.

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

we know its tomorrow so just consider this “going ugly early”.

Greetings Racists and Nativists,


These photos were passed along to us by Mongo. They are of the May Day/Cinco de Mayo free-ride-for-everybody fiesta held 2 years ago and also of which we had some thoughts here.

Students from neighboring El Rancho and Whittier High Schools commandeered Montebello High School’s flag pole for this over-the-top display of stupidity and treason. The text of this forwarded email claimed that this would “put the nail in the coffin for any amnesty or guest worker program.” Never. Never underestimate the capacity for whining and foot-stomping petulance from the aggrieved and disgruntled that have taken up permanent residence in Earth’s nursery.

Perhaps the larger issue here is what is being taught to these little darlings that they hold in such high regard a nation blessed with an abundance of resources but which remains a fantastically corrupt, brutish and inept third-world Socialist sinkhole.

The sense of entitlement and desire for an enforcement of “fairness” held by the agitators who egg-on the little skulls full of mush here, cloak it in morality and this lame concept of “social justice”. These are the same people that roll around with their “Jesus was a Socialist” bumper stickers. We will not be as presumptive to know the Son of God’s political ideological leanings… the only statement Christ gave regarding mankind’s relationship to the government that we are aware of was: obey the laws.

And as P.J. O’Rourke reminds us in his alternative commencement address, there is a very clear repudiation of this sense of entitlement and involuntary enforcement of “fairness” that forms the intellectual backbone of Socialism and its to be found in the Ten Commandments:

“The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin. Observe the Tenth Commandment. The first nine commandments concern theological principles and social law: Thou shalt not make graven images, steal, kill, et cetera. Fair enough. But then there's the tenth: "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's."

Here are God's basic rules about how we should live, a brief list of sacred obligations and solemn moral precepts. And, right at the end of it we read, "Don't envy your buddy because he has an ox or a donkey." Why did that make the top 10? Why would God, with just 10 things to tell Moses, include jealousy about livestock?

Well, think about how important this commandment is to a community, to a nation, to a democracy. If you want a mule, if you want a pot roast, if you want a cleaning lady, don't whine about what the people across the street have. Get rich and get your own”.


Pax.

H/T: Hot Air, Mongo