Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Sarah Palin's grandson exposed to "Death Panels" with his socialized health care coverage

According to Shannyn Moore, a local news broadcaster from Anchorage, Alaska, Sarah Palin’s grandson has "socialized" health care coverage through a local Native Health Services Center.

Palin, the former less than one-term Governor of Alaska, is grandmother to Tripp Palin Johnston, whose parents are Sarah’s daughter Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston.

Pre-trial motion papers recently filed in Alaska concerning the custody battle for Tripp indicate that his health care is currently provided for by the Indian Health Services and the Alaska Native Medical Center as an enrolled member of the Curyung Trial Council within the Bristol Bay Native Association consortium.


About six months ago Sarah Palin informed all of America via Face book to the threat of “Death Panels” that would certainly come with the adoption of national health care plans that were being proposed by congressional democrats. 


Sarah may not be aware, but the current and immensely popular public health care plans which cover tens of millions of Americans, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Veterans Administration health care system, don’t appear to have any of the sinister death panels she alarmingly warned us of.

Gallup poll shows 20% of American workers are either out of work or under-employed


The Gallup polling organization conducted a survey in January to independently gauge the overall U.S. employment situation. The survey results showed a much grimmer picture than official U.S. data indicates. The survey was conducted from January second to January thirty-fist, with more than 20,000 U.S. adults participating.
Their findings estimate that about 30 million Americans are underemployed; either being jobless or able to find only part-time work.
The survey comes at a time when voter anger over the slow economic recovery is running high and President Obama's efforts at increasing employment through government programs have been obstructed by republican stone-walling in Congress.
The results showed that underemployed people spent 36 percent less on household purchases than fully employed workers. Six in of 10 of those were not hopeful about their chances of finding adequate work in the coming month.
Gallup found that 55 percent of underemployed Americans approve of president Obama’s performance, as compared to 49 percent of the overall public. Could this be why republicans don’t want to help these people and get the economy moving again?
Gallup’s January findings estimate that 19.9 percent of American workers were either without employment or worked part-time because of suppressed economic conditions. The Labor Department posts the figure at16.5 percent.

Monday, February 22, 2010

Republican Senator Brown suggests plane attack pilot's big government frustrations were similar to those of the voters who elected him


In a Fox News interview a few days ago, newly-elected Republican Senator Scott Brown from Massachusetts was asked about the recent plane attack on a building that housed IRS offices in Austin, Texas. Senator Brown quickly associated the plane attack to the kind of voter dissatisfaction from which he was elected. 

 Brown said his support came from those voters who, like the Austin pilot, are enormously disturbed by the size of government and higher taxes. He continued that they voiced their frustration by voting against the "establishment" candidate Martha Coakley and electing him. 

Senator Brown may not recall that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed in 2009 cut $ 237 Billion in taxes for all Americans making $250,000 or less per year, when he highlighted voter concerns for higher taxes in the interview.

In the Austin plane attack Joseph Stack conveyed his aggravation by crashing his plane into an IRS building. Many are pointing to Brown's comments to show that he not ready for prime time, since only recently serving as back-bench state senator.

Throughout the special election campaign Brown had been very critical of the Obama administration's response to the underwear bomber.  Brown accused the administration of not reacting quickly enough and being too soft on terrorism.  Now others are similarly accusing Brown of being soft on terrorists as it relates to the Austin plane attack.

In a related story Rep. Steve King (R-IA) told a crowd at CPAC on Saturday that he could "empathize" with the suicide bomber who last week attacked an IRS office in Austin, and encouraged his listeners to "implode" other IRS offices, according to a staffer from Media Matters covering the event.

See the interview here: