Other favorites include Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Star Parker and Larry Elder. Looking over the list, it interested me that so many of my favorite columnists are black. It would be interesting to know if there is some common element in our backgrounds, such as growing up in poverty during the depression, which transcends race in giving us a commonality of belief. 

Discussing the “Cash for Clunkers” gimmick, a friend at church said he was concerned that Obama was building another “Fannie Mae” problem, that people who couldn’t afford new car payments would be trading in their dying models for brand new cars and that in six months we would be hearing of the need to “bail out” car owners who couldn’t get to work if their cars were repossessed. 

Obama’s health experts are planning to take money from Medicare for their new health plan. They have also commented that the elderly need to accept the problems of their age. This will be “Cash for Clunkers” changed to “Cash FROM Clunkers.” Actually, I resent this. Unlike Medicaid, which is supported completely by tax dollars, the elderly, of whom I am one, have paid for Medicare since its start and continue to pay for it out of their Social Security subsistence.

It could be the beginning of euthanasia by medical neglect and then on to enforced euthanasia for the elderly. Don’t think it can’t happen. Liberals are the same people who threw simple schizophrenics and other mentally ill people out of the hospitals because they were “no harm to anyone” – except themselves of course. Now the intellectual descendants of those liberals who closed the mental hospitals complain about the homeless wandering the streets.

Our government sponsored Fannie Mae has received $10.7 billion in bail out funds and is now requesting $34.2 billion more. Our government run Medicaid program, also going broke, is characterized by fraud, waste and abuse in addition to just plain mismanagement. (One article I read claimed that in Tennessee Medicaid is the source for much, if not most, of the illegal drug traffic in middle Tennessee.) It amazes me that intelligent people know this, but believe the same government mismanaging Social Security, Medicaid and other programs can run a health care program for everyone which will improve on what we already have – which provides medical treatment for all.

OneNewsNow.com (July 30, 2009) reports that it should please the average citizen to know that Stimulus grants (tax dollars at work) are being use to fund pornography. Frametime, a “gay and lesbian” film house received a $50,000 grant, while CounterPulse and “the Symmetry” projects, both pornographic performances received $25,000 each. If you object to such things remember, after all they are “stimulus” funds. 

You should begin to hear Obaman officials and their enchanted vassals in the news media to begin complaining about Bush’s war in Afghanistan. Not immediately however. The military leadership is asking Obama to double the current number of military there. On top of the 20 twenty thousand soldiers he has already sent, this will be a sizeable crew. The casualties will mount and costs will skyrocket. Then expect the Obamanites of the press to complain of Bush’s war and for the Great One Himself to announce that he will bring everyone home in six months, as he did in Iraq.

I am honestly sorry for the “Blue Dog” Democrats. Pelosi has an overwhelming majority in the House of Representatives if one includes the Blue Dogs, most of whom are elected from districts where voters pay attention to how their Representative votes – and behaves. Considering the general disapproval of the “ObamaCare” bill, I suspect Ms Pelosi will carefully count her votes, put pressure on enough of the Blue Dogs to pass the bill and permit the others to vote against it. Whom she permits to vote against it will probably depend on how well they have obeyed her during the year. 

I have seen several cartoons and read several articles suggesting a lack of respect for the American people by Pelosi. I appreciate this opinion on her part. She has been taught this by voters. They continuously elect her.

The National Air Traffic Controllers Association is unhappy with the FAA (Federal Aviation Authority) for its treatment of the Controller and his supervisor who were on duty at the time of the crash of a helicopter and a small plane over the Hudson River. They were suspended and are considering being fired. This seems terribly harsh. So what if the Controller was talking to his girl friend on a cell phone and his supervisor was out of the building at the time of the crash. They are government workers. They can’t be expected to spend all of their duty time working. Just think. The same types will be running our health care.