Democrats can do what rain nor snow nor sleet nor hail could not

According to an article I read today in the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. Post Office took it's first steps to 5 day service in order to close a $7 billion budget gap.

In other words, there will be "mail rationing". Of course, this will not happen with healthcare. So don't even worry...

The Post Office employees over 650,000 people. I don't know if any of them will be let go. Or will salaries be frozen, raises suspended, benefits cut... what am I saying... this is government. And they are a protected class. After all, the Postmaster General, Mr. John Potter (or is it The Honorable John Potter??) earned a salary of $800k last year (not including benefits). And why wouldn't he? It's not like he's a greedy Wall Street fat cat. He's a noble civil servant and we should pay off his student loans, too (just assuming you remember the SOTU).

It's interesting to watch the Post Office's operational and financial struggles in light of our pending healthcare panacea. See- the Post Office provides a service- and rather than cut overhead or personnel, they cut the very service they provide.

Odd, isn't it. I wonder who'd continue to go to a restaurant if the prices went up but the portions shrunk. Or if the only ironed half your suit. Normally when services are cut, a free society changes service providers. Of course we can't do this in places where government allows monopolies like energy, phone, cable TV or transportation. Some ingenious people tried to do this with education- a little thing called vouchers- but Democrats try their hardest to keep that monopoly too.

The Post Office debacle is a prelude to Obamacare. It will run out of money. It will become exhausted, overrun, over burdened and perpetually under financed. Because Congress does not appropriate enough money? No one could appropriate enough money. ever bring free donuts to an office meeting? You always run out. Trolls and goons you've never seen emerge from hidden cubicles to partake of the free donut. Wait till it's free dental, free MRI, free everything... suddenly everyone needs a CAT scan.

So what will happen when Obamacare runs out of money, i.e., the inevitable future? It will cut service. It will ration care. It has to; it is inevitable. Elective surgery will be denied. Voluntary procedures will not be allowed. And a sliding scale of priorities established by a committee will be determined.

LASIK surgery costs about $4000 out of pocket. Insurance providers do not cover it. It is a "preexisting condition". Under Obamacare, it will be covered. It is, indeed, a RIGHT. Suddenly everyone will want the expensive procedure. But the $4000 will no escalate to $12,000. And a bureaucrat in an office in DC will make the decision who does and who does not get LASIK.

Remember that when you look for your mail on Saturday morning.

And get LASIK before the year's end.

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Well there is life still in the President and his Marxist philosophies. Tonight they scored a big win.

I'd like to tap the Democrats on the shoulder in 5, 10, 15, 20 years and say "I told you so". No one thinks this will work- for what has government done that works? Medicare? Medicaid? Social Security? Education? Every big social agenda they stick their collective noses into only turns into a larger boondoggle that hemorrhages money and exacerbates the very ill it tries to cure.

Well except poverty of course. After LBJ's "War on Poverty" we've eradicated it. Right?

I was listening to CSPAN and, yes, trying to call in. Everyone in favor had the same argument: FREE STUFF. It's like the ice cream cake someone brings in at the office. Suddenly everyone is in the break room on time. Free cake? Oh yeah I can be there at noon.

I propose HR 3222010: a free pony for everyone in America.

Who wants a pony!?! Why not just pass a law giving everyone free milk? Isn't it a RIGHT to have free milk? And bacon! Free bacon!

You laugh? Ha- look at french subsidies on farm products. You don't think they can afford camembert at $18 a pound do you? No- someone else pays. Always.

Tonight was a vote for free stuff. Everything free but freedom.

And to you- our beloved democrats who scored your victory tonight- congrats. Healthcare is now yours. When med school numbers plummet, when costs skyrocket- and mark my words both will- you can rest assured that all 218 votes that passed this disastrous piece of unconstitutional, unamerican, eurotrash socialism- were all yours.

And Barack Obama's.

Playing the Nazi Card

Lot's of "cards" in politics. There's the race card, the minority card, the woman card, the fascist card. Jim McGreevy tried his hand at the gay card. I don't know which is trump, depends on which game we are playing I guess. When I was in college it seems that the date rape card was huge. Guys were scared. That's like the left bower.

The nazi card has been played a lot in the last few months. (I never know whether or not to capitalize nazi...). Recently Glen Beck must have been playing war with the Washington Post and they played that card against him. In years past it might have worked but now the nazi Nazi card has lost some of its potency. When you play the Nazi card against the Pope, well you kill it.

So Beck is now a Nazi, at least according to Anthony Stevens-Arroyo. For most Catholics... well, I shouldn't say that, for THIS Catholic, Stevens-Arroyo is like nails on a chalk board. He's as great a Catholic figure as Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden or the late Ted Kennedy. He is to the Catholic Church was good ole Link Chaffee was to the GOP. So for ASA to judge Glen Beck as a Catholic basher is like Chuck Schumer to decry Mitch McConnell as anti-Israel. The ones who hate themselves hate the most.

I don't like the Nazi card for either party because no one want to take over the world and hates Jews. Except Obama. And when you see video footage like this below, you wonder who the real "Hitler youth" tactician is....

Divisive Racial Agenda

Tavis Smiley is calling for a summit.

"Black leaders" will unite to discuss the "black agenda" and what President Obama has done for the black community. The sense is that he has not done enough. Black issues have not been addressed. Or maybe Tavis et al wanted them solved by now.

If Obama really is a messiah, then he could have solved those ills by now. Alas, concerns that Obama did not have enough "negrotude" have been verified and, as Harry Reid suspected, our President really has no negro dialect for he has not spoken black enough. At least not black enough for Tavis Smiley.

Tavis Smiley has a show on PBS. PBS is 50% subsidized by the government and has been since LBJ. They do not need to compete for viewership, they do not need to put out a product that can win prime time ratings. Let Tavis Smiley go on a real network and not hide behind the non-profit status of PBS. But that's another story. What Tavis is advocating is my concern. And who he is gathering to advocate it...

Louis Farrakhan is genuinly hate filled. If being a hate filled man is what qualifies you a leader, than he is a leader is in style of Hitler- a valid analogy since they both blame "the Jews" for almost everyting from war and peace to lumpy mashed potatoes and mushy apples. But unlike Hitler, Farrakhan was abducted by aliens. Oh yeah, just ask him.

Louis Farrakhan, the raging anti-semite, hate filled alien abductee will be there.

As will Al Sharpton. Al has charmed the pants off some conservatives who take the "hate the sin, love the sinner approach". That's fine for Church, not for politics. I remember Tawana Brawley and grew up near Howard Beach. I know what Al Sharpton does when opportunities arise and how Al thrives on racial violence. And when there is no racial vilence, he incites it. Or creates it. Ask the boys in the still falsly named "Duke Rape Case" about Al Sharpton. So I for one will never excuse Al Sharpton.

These are two of the fine men who will be at the summit to discuss the "black agenda". And what is this agenda? And more importantly, how is it different than the "American agenda"? What issue is so isolated, so separate, so self contained that it does not effect society as a whole? Education? Jobs? Iran? The Dollar?

So much of what Tavis and Al and "take me to your leader" Lou say sound like good ole Marxist screeds. Black nationalism has at its core the very principles of socialism. The state (now Barack Obama) has an obligation to do stuff for us, to deliver goods for us, to respond to our needs.

Race relations are not progressing in America. They are getting worse. And so long as every group gets its own agenda and expects unique treatment, the race relations will continue to digress.

There exists no black agenda that is not America's agenda. There are no black issues that are not America's issues. And if these self anointed black leaders" think that all they needed was the right color President to change society, then they are the racist minds and hearts that poison our country.

Sadly they will have a sympathetic ear in our victimist President.