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What the hell is wrong with Democrats? I don’t mean the vindictive bobble-head Pelosi, I’m talking about the idiots that are screwing up health care and trying to break California’s bank.

First we have democrats and union workers out in California crying foul that the The Govenator is forcing all state employees to take 2 days off a month without pay. So Arnie took them to court and won. Now the Democratic controller is refusing to follow the plan, which is forcing Arnie to go back to court and sue them again. I understand that huffing and puffing by the unions on this, it’s what they do.  But one woman is quoting as saying,

“It feels like we’re being punished because we chose a career in state government,” said Shelia Byars, 47, a hearing officer at the Department of Motor Vehicles in Van Nuys.

Ok first, NO ONE chooses a career  with the DMV. No one sits as a little girl or boy and dreams of that career.  I don’t know who she is trying to fool with that, I can only assume she is trying to fool the same people with her reason for not wanting to take the time off.

Byars, who expected to lose $400 a month, was among about a dozen union members protesting outside the agency’s office in downtown Los Angeles. She said it didn’t make sense to close 180 DMV locations because they collect revenue for the state through licenses and registration fees.

2 days off a month, equals a loss of $400? WTF? DMV workers make $200 a day? Damn, I’m going back to Cali…  I don’t think so.

What this stingy woman and the rest of the unions are missing is that  7.8 million American have been forced from their full-time job and into a part time position. 3.6 million American have completely lost their job since the recession started. California’s unemployment rate is over the national average of 7.6 at 9.3%.  On top of that they have a $42 Billion budget shortfall. But instead of thinking about all the people who are losing jobs

right and left, all of the people who will lose jobs if California doesn’t find $42 billion, the Democrat controller and the California unions are forcing the Government to spend more money and more resources to force them to follow a court order saying they must take 2 days off a month. It’s 2 days a month! The alternative is being forced to take 30 days off each and every month!  Christ! It’s take a village people, we’re all going to have to work together to help each other get through this. We’re all in an extreme emergency situation here,  I know it’s going to be hard, Believe me I KNOW. But look at the alternative, complete collapse of the state of California where all governmental agencies are closed. Imagine what life would have been like without the police during the riots or without the fire department during any year of fires. If the state controller won’t reduce the payroll of the states 15,000 workers then maybe 15,000 people should switch positions with 15,000 of the unemployed workers that are dying for some kind of job.

The second part of my “WTF are you doing Democrats?”, is the news that new health provisions have been inserted into the Stimulus.

The bill’s health rules will affect “every individual in the United States” (445, 454, 479). Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system. Having electronic medical records at your fingertips, easily transferred to a hospital, is beneficial. It will help avoid duplicate tests and errors.

Being able to track medical records,tests and prescription is such an amazing accomplishment that I can’t understand why we have done it yet. I used to work in a pediatrician’s office and I can’t count the number of times a newborn would come into the office for treatment and we would have not one single record of what the baby was seen for in the hospital, what medications it was one, what immunization they’d had, what tests have been done. So many of those children had to repeat bloodtests,needles,xrays all because there is no easy way to get health records from ER’s or even other doctors. So that reason for the upgrade is not only commendable, but it’s long overdue. It’s the 2nd part that is shocking.

But the bill goes further. One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and “guide” your doctor’s decisions (442, 446)

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Hospitals and doctors that are not “meaningful users” of the new system will face penalties.  “Meaningful user” isn’t defined in the bill. That will be left to the HHS secretary, who will be empowered to impose “more stringent measures of meaningful use over time” (511, 518, 540-541)

What in the hell are you doing Democrats! This is effectively turning all health care into an HMO and we already know how shitty those are. In fact as democrat’s we’re supposed to be against businesses inferring in our lives and making our decisions for us. This is not what I signed up for when I said I would like to see a congressional/governmental-type health plan that is open to the nation. About the only thing that will make me change my stance and start rooting for this piece of shit is the snotty GOP member who says “I told you so.” like a snarky little bitch. Because no,  you didn’t tell me so. But you have fucked this whole thing up with your incessant whining about the Dems wanting some slight equality between the rich and the poor. It’s because of that whining that in order to get any kind of health reform we have to save massive amounts of money 1st and to do  that, we have to cut care. Your “I told you so” is nothing more than a self-fulling prophecy.

We should allow the doctors treating the patient to make the decisions on what the patient needs. Insurance adjusters or a government oversight committee have no business even dreaming of doing this. Unless of course you want to try a pilot program 1st and see how well it works, like say the Congressional Health Plan. Let them try this new criteria out for 12-24 months and the report back how well it worked out.

I still believe that there is a way to blend  both great health care and reasonable costs.

“..the federal government pays two-thirds of the premium and the Congressman pays the other one-third. This is comparable to insurance offered by many private employers.

It is legitimate to suggest that uninsured workers have the right to buy into one of the plans covering federal employees as a viable option for obtaining affordable health insurance. Since the group (all federal employees) is so large, the premiums are somewhat lower than policies offered to self-employed individuals or to the employees of small companies.

My mother has some of the best insurance I have ever seen, not only because of it’s cost but because of it’s coverage. Where did she get such great insurance and why is it so affordable? Because she was a mail carrier for 20 years and all mail carriers were allowed to buy into a fantabulous policy at an affordable rate because there were so many of them. Don’t tell me this couldn’t work on a national level! Don’t tell me that the US Postal Service is better at getting something done than the rest of us.

This single issue is enough for me to write and call my representatives and demand they vote NO the stimulus. I can overlook the retarded non-porkpork projects that the emotional stunted at 4 years old, Nancy Pelosi demands to be in there. I understand where her vindictiveness is coming from. For 8 long and painful years it was hard being a Democrat and being forced to swallow the lies,criticism,fear mongering and fraud thrown at us. It was hard to stand by and watch bills and money get passed around like drunken whores and having to stay quiet for fear that you would be labeled unpatriotic and told repeatedly that your service to your country was insufficient. To be slaughtered in public over and over for demanding a plan of action from your President in a post war Iraq,demanding fraud and theft be reigned in and daring to  so much as question your president. After 8 years of this kind of oppression it was bound to happen that once the Democrats won a victory, they would put the most vile of them all in charge to headbutt and kick the loser while he was down.  I understand this, even more I predicted it. I’ve said countless times to Republicans that eventually they would be on the bottom and when that happened,  the ones they oppressed for so long would stick it to them every chance they got. Like my screaming about the falling economy… it was just laughed at.

I understand her and some of the other Democrats cathartic need to ‘dance in the end zone’. So even though some of the planned projects, while creating jobs, could wait, I’m not ready to throw the entire stimulus out. For the same reason, I am not ready to throw it out because of the idiot tax-cut concessions that had to be made because whether they work or not, the GOP just has to have them in there. But this shit about letting a outside agency that has no direct knowledge of the situation at hand, deciding over the doctors and experts on hand which is the proper course of treatment will force me against this package.

I don’t know what the Democrats are thinking. Californians democrats would rather the entire state shut down than have 2 days off a month and Tom Daschle would rather a panel of ‘Joe the Plumbers’ decide our health care treatments.

This is not my idea of hope.

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