Posts Made By: david elosser

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/53712

"A Senate panel urged the Air Force on Thursday to start developing an export model of its F-22 Raptor, the most advanced U.S. fighter jet, even as it voted to end U.S. purchases...the measure adopted by the Senate Appropriations Committee would let the Defense Department prepare a modified F-22 that protects classified and sensitive information, technologies and U.S. war fighting capabilities...Creating an export version would preserve U.S. jobs and an option to buy more F-22s later, without having to pay the full cost of restarting production."

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE5896JU20090910

What do you all think? Making watered down versions of our advanced weaponry for our allies is nothing new. This could have a positive effect IMO. The belief that this will save jobs, however, may only be partially true. Any sensitive technologies and equipment not going into the export Raptors might result in layoffs by the companies that make that technology.

David E

Health care reform is a VERY important issue, is it not? I think it is. However...

"Viewership to last night’s [joint] address [to Congress] was down 38.6% from President Obama’s first address to a joint session of Congress on February 24, which aired from approximately 9:00PM to 10:30PM."

Looks like roughly one in ten Americans thought his joint address to Congress about health care reform was important enough to watch.

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/media_entertainment/31-8-million-watch-president-obamas-health-care-address-to-congress-on-tv/

David E

"The group ACORN has fired two employees who were seen on hidden-camera video giving tax advice to a man posing as a pimp and a woman who pretended to be a prostitute...An ACORN employee advised the woman to list her occupation as "performance artist...The pair also claimed they planned to employ teenage girls from central America as prostitutes, and an ACORN employee suggested that up to three of the girls could be claimed as dependents."

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9AKORB81&show_article=1

I think I'll hurry down to my local ACORN office and see if they know where the best "performance artists" are.

(Just kidding! Just kidding!)
David E

"Members of the [Senate Finance Committee] said they thought they'd settled the question of illegal immigration, but it came to the fore this week when Republican Rep. Joe Wilson shouted "You lie" at Obama during his speech Wednesday. Obama had said illegal immigrants wouldn't be covered under his health plan...Senators said that's forced the committee to work on provisions verifying legal status before an individual can get coverage...Many Democrats fear that verification procedures keep legal residents from getting insurance, and in the House, they rejected Republican attempts to add verification requirements to the House health care bill.

I always thought that the House bill HR 3200 is legislation without enforcement regarding illegal immigrants, and apparently some members of the Senate think so as well.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32797636/ns/politics-health_care_reform

David E

"As Mr. Obama [fled] to Minnesota on Saturday to rally support for his [dying] health care plan [in front of a paltry 15,000 people], he flew over the assembling crowd [of many tens of thousands] in Marine One. The helicopter could be seen flying overhead as the demonstrators [from all over the country] marched [for hours] down Pennsylvania Avenue. In conversations with demonstrators, people identified themselves as Republicans, libertarians, independents and former Democrats."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/us/politics/13protestweb.html

David E

"Republican Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine said there is “no way” a health-care overhaul that includes a public option can pass the Senate."

OMG! Olympia Snowe is actually supporting her own party? Must be a Snowey day in hell!

"Obama and some Democrats in Congress are trying to extend coverage to the 46.3 million uninsured Americans..."

Hmmm, looks like we're back to insuring illegal aliens.

"Obama, in an interview broadcast today on the CBS program “60 Minutes,” said “so far, we haven’t gotten much cooperation from Republicans.” "

Obama has not met with Republicans since April and now he says this. Can we all spell, prevaricator? Good.

"[Democrat Senator] Baucus’ plan would charge annual fees [i.e. tax increases] of $6 billion for insurers, $4 billion for medical-device makers, $2.3 billion for drugmakers and $750 million for clinical laboratories to fund the legislation. The legislation would cost less than $900 billion over 10 years."

Mr Baucus, why stop at one trillion dollars? Why not make it two trillion? Three trillion? Tell you what Mr Baucus, let's make it five trillion just to make sure everyone gets their free aspirin and band-aids. Then California won't have to turn prisoners loose on a lack of Tylenol.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=auZYSu9ljFUs

David E

...the major news media outlets are ignoring the ACORN scandal?

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/09/14/dan-gainor-acorn-media-ignore/

Naaaah, probably not.

Wow! 53 million smackers in taxpayer money to advise pimps and prostitutes how to file for their taxes! I wonder if they also helped Timmy and Charlie.

David E

...on the poor and middle class:

"The Obama administration has privately concluded that a cap and trade law would cost American taxpayers up to $200 billion a year, the equivalent of hiking personal income taxes by about 15 percent."

"These disclosures will probably not aid the political prospects of the Democrats' cap and trade bill." Ya think?

edit: forgot the link:

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/09/15/taking_liberties/entry5314040.shtml

David E

"The White House is collecting and storing comments and videos placed on its social-networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube without notifying or asking the consent of the site users, a failure that appears to run counter to President Obama's promise of a transparent government and his pledge to protect privacy on the Internet."

"Mr. Obama signed a memo in January stating that his efforts to maintain an open government would be "unprecedented" and "ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation and collaboration.""

"In a June 5, 2008, article in PC Magazine, Mr. Obama said, "The open information platforms of the 21st century can also tempt institutions to violate the privacy of citizens. We need sensible safeguards that protect privacy in this dynamic new world." "

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/16/obama-wh-collects-web-users-data/

David E