Arkansas City will not be the focus now, but we can still talk about the town. For now the blog is a blog in search of an identity. Considering what the new niche will be.
Friday, September 17, 2010
Bulldogs
Packed house tonight at the opening of Bulldog Stadium.
The first game is not going so well though as the Bulldogs trail Goddard 32-0 late in the third quarter.
Im headed back to the walnut valley festival.
Kansas ranks #7 with 201,660 public employees of all employees and at 16.5% of the total employment!
Now it would seem there is really only two options/solutions:
One (you call the haters) would reduce the number of public employees and reduce their benefits then raise taxes for all of the other taxpayers!
OR
Increase the population by promoting, attracting and supporting industry and services (even local start-ups) then pursue retail to provide for more jobs! (If you look today most of the Industry and alot of the Services left were started by someone(s) local and GREW or got bought by a larger business/company!)
"It might just take a miracle"!
But
"Miracles only happen to those who believe in Miracles"!
It was almost like the 2004 movie Miracle, which depicted the upset victory by the underdog 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team over the well-established Soviet Union. When U.S. coach Herb Brooks asked team members who they played for, their provincial answers rolled in: "University of North Dakota." "Minnesota." "Wisconsin." He challenged his startup group of collegians to stop focusing on old rivalries and instead develop a new culture under a single banner. It finally became clear a new culture had taken hold when eventual captain Mike Eruzione answered the question with the words: "I play for the United States of America."
There is so much that could be done. I was reading about river canoe trails in texas. There are places in texas that have marked out canoe trails - yea i know it would be pretty hard to make a wrong turn in a canoe on a river , but lets not get bogged down in detais. -- calling it a canoe trail means it must have enough appeal to be worth canoeing ... we have two rivers ... nah never work .... right ... ?
Our Plan to Repeal the Job Killing Health Care Law and Put in Place Real Reform
o Repeal the Costly Health Care Takeover of 2010: Because the new health care law kills jobs, raises taxes, and increases the cost of health care, we will immediately take action to repeal this law. o Enact Medical Liability Reform: Skyrocketing medical liability insurance rates have distorted the practice of medicine, routinely forcing doctors to order costly and often unnecessary tests to protect Page15 themselves from lawsuits, often referred to as “defensive medicine.” We will enact common-sense medical liability reforms to lower costs, rein in junk lawsuits and curb defensive medicine. o Purchase Health Insurance Across State Lines: Americans residing in a state with expensive health insurance plans are locked into those plans and do not currently have an opportunity to choose a lower cost option that best meets their needs. We will allow individuals to buy health care coverage outside of the state in which they live. o Expand Health Savings Accounts: Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) are popular savings accounts that provide cost-effective health insurance to those who might otherwise go uninsured. We will improve HSAs by making it easier for patients withhigh-deductible health plans to use them to obtain access to quality care. We will repeal the new health care law, which prevents the use of these savings accounts to purchase over-the-counter medicine. o Strengthen the Doctor-Patient Relationship: We will repeal President Obama’s government takeover of health care and replace it with common-sense reforms focused on strengthening the doctor-patient relationship. o Ensure Access For Patients With Pre-Existing Conditions: Health care should be accessible for all, regardless of pre-existing conditions or past illnesses. We will expand state high-risk pools, reinsurance programs and reduce the cost of coverage. We will make it illegal for an insurance company to deny coverage to someone with prior coverage on the basis of a pre-existing condition, eliminate annual and lifetime spending caps, and prevent insurers from dropping your coverage just because you get sick. We will incentivize states to develop innovative programs that lower premiums and reduce the number of uninsured Americans. o Permanently Prohibit Taxpayer Funding of Abortion: We will establish a government-wide prohibition on taxpayer funding of abortion and subsidies for insurance coverage that includes abortion, this includes enacting into law what is known as the Hyde Amendment. We will also enact into law conscience protections for health care providers, including doctors, nurses, and hospitals. DID YOU KNOW? • Through July 31, 2010, 3,833 pages of federal regulations have been issued regarding the new law. • Roughly 16,500 IRS auditors, agents, and other employees may be needed to collect the hundreds of billions of dollars in new taxes levied on the American people by the new health care law. • The new health care law includes $569.2 billion in tax increases – including taxes that will directly increase the cost of health care goods and services – and $528.5 billion in Medicare cuts, which will be used to create new programs not related to seniors. • The new health care law provides for the creation of more than 160 boards, bureaus, and commissions. Republicans on the Joint Economic Committee have released a chart detailing this maze of busybodies and bureaucracies:
Our Plan to Put Government on a Path to a Balanced Budget
We will have a responsible, fact-based conversation with the American people about the scale of the fiscal challenges we face, and the urgent action that is required to deal with them. We will curb Washington’s spending habits and promote job creation, bring down the deficit, and build long-term fiscal stability. • Act Immediately to Reduce Spending: There is no reason to wait to reduce wasteful and unnecessary spending. Congress should move immediately to cancel unspent “stimulus” funds, and block any attempts to extend the timeline for spending “stimulus” funds. Throwing more money at a stimulus plan that is not working only wastes taxpayer money and puts us further in debt. Page 11 • Cut Government Spending to Pre-Stimulus, Pre-Bailout Levels: With common-sense exceptions for seniors, veterans, and our troops, we will roll back government spending to pre-stimulus, pre-bailout levels, saving us at least $100 billion in the first year alone and putting us on a path to begin paying down the debt, balancing the budget, and ending the spending spree in Washington that threatens our children’s future. • Establish a Hard Cap on New Discretionary Spending: We must put common-sense limits on the growth of government and stop the endless increases. Only in Washington is there an expectation that whatever your budget was last year, it will be more this year and even more the next. We will set strict budget caps to limit federal spending on an annual basis. Budget caps were used in the 1990s, when a Republican Congress was able to bring the budget into balance and eventual surplus. By cutting discretionary spending from current levels and imposing a hard cap on future growth, we will save taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. • Cut Congress’ Budget: This year, Congress increased its own budget by 5.8 percent at a time when families and small businesses across the country are cutting back. We will make Congress do more with less by significantly reducing its budget. • Hold Weekly Votes on Spending Cuts: Earlier this year, House Republicans launched the YouCut initiative to combat the permissive culture of runaway spending in Congress. Over the course of nine weeks, YouCut produced proposals to save taxpayers more than $120 billion. We will continue to hold weekly votes on spending cuts. • End TARP Once And For All: Americans are rightly outraged at the bailouts of businesses and entities that force responsible taxpayers to subsidize irresponsible behavior. We will cancel the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), a move that would save taxpayers roughly $16 billion. • End Government Control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Since taking over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage companies that triggered the financial meltdown by giving too many high risk loans to people who couldn’t afford them, taxpayers were billed more than $145 billion to save the two companies. We will reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by ending their government takeover, shrinking their portfolios, and establishing minimum capital standards. This will save taxpayers as much as $30 billion. • Impose a Net Federal Hiring Freeze of Non-Security Employees: Small businesses and entrepreneurs are the engine of our economy and should not be crowded out by unchecked government growth. We will impose a net hiring freeze on non-security federal employees and ensure that the public sector no longer grows at the expense of the private sector. • Root Out Government Waste and Duplication: Once created, federal programs almost never go away, even if the problem they were created to address is no longer relevant. More than 20 states have addressed this problem by requiring that programs end – or “sunset” – by a date certain. We will adopt this requirement at the federal level to force Congress to determine if a program is worthy of continued taxpayer support.
So is this a GOP admission that we do need health reform? Just a different version? Also Did you see the story in the Washington Post that showed letting the bush tax cuts expire would balance the budget by 2014? Its like ive always said the budget deficit is just playing with numbers .. not a real debt. it goes up and down depending on the economy and who is in power ..
So is this a GOP admission that we do need health reform? Just a different version?
I don't think they have any other option than to "Repeal and Replace"! It would be a whole lot better than letting Obamacare proceed!
Its like ive always said the budget deficit is just playing with numbers .. not a real debt. it goes up and down depending on the economy and who is in power ..
Balancing the Budget does not pay off the National Debt! You seem to get those two confused! A surplus to the annual budget could get applied to paying towards the debt - like Clinton and the GOP did in the nineties! Unfortunately any surplus TODAY would probably get applied to the interest on that Debt and not the really effect the principal!
AND
If not stopped Obama and company will continue to run up the National Debt!
What's really interesting is all the people who are leaving his Administration!
“An economy constrained by high tax rates will never produce enough revenue to balance the budget, just as it will never create enough jobs.” – John F. Kennedy
Probably know the same thing that Colin Powell et al knew when they bailed on President Bush.
It hurt me so to see Gen Powell uncomfortably presenting Bush lies to the UN Council to build a case for the expensive bogus war that took our minds off the recession that had already begun.
Funny how a big enough NEW news story can blast the facts of the time right away. President Obama just needs to manufacture an international crisis to change the conversation from criticism to patriotism. It's worked several times before.
It hurt me so to see Gen Powell uncomfortably presenting Bush lies to the UN Council to build a case for the expensive bogus war that took our minds off the recession that had already begun.
There is no doubt that with each "New" administration there evolves a new direction or agenda. (even personal ones - like spending almost a whole year on Obamcare!)
But, just as Clinton's surplus disappeared with the DOT.com/Enron BUST at the start of Bush's administration then came 9/11!
Daddy Bush could have resolved that whole situation in 91!
But
There would have be NO support for that effort and he KNEW it!
Washington is about Crisis Management or Management by Crisis!
The "Power" that has been relinquished to Washington by the States and Local Governments (which was never the intent of the Framers and can ripple through the whole country/economy and now world).
What do think they KNOW? > They found out that Obama is really GW in disguise. The whole election, campaign and everything were staged events. The race change was tricky, and babs bush threw a fit about being replaced as first lady, but .... they found out that bush is still president and is now black.
Packed house tonight at the opening
ReplyDeleteSuper!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/721294
ReplyDeleteI hope I'm not the only one who hates this idea!
http://www.businessinsider.com/10-states-where-a-ridiculous-number-of-people-works-for-the-government-2010-9
ReplyDeleteKansas ranks #7 with 201,660 public employees of all employees and at 16.5% of the total employment!
Kansas ranks #7 with 201,660 public employees of all employees and at 16.5% of the total employment!
ReplyDeleteNow it would seem there is really only two options/solutions:
One (you call the haters) would reduce the number of public employees and reduce their benefits then raise taxes for all of the other taxpayers!
OR
Increase the population by promoting, attracting and supporting industry and services (even local start-ups) then pursue retail to provide for more jobs!
(If you look today most of the Industry and alot of the Services left were started by someone(s) local and GREW or got bought by a larger business/company!)
"It might just take a miracle"!
But
"Miracles only happen to those who believe in Miracles"!
It was almost like the 2004 movie Miracle, which depicted the upset victory by the underdog 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team over the well-established Soviet Union. When U.S. coach Herb Brooks asked team members who they played for, their provincial answers rolled in: "University of North Dakota." "Minnesota." "Wisconsin." He challenged his startup group of collegians to stop focusing on old rivalries and instead develop a new culture under a single banner. It finally became clear a new culture had taken hold when eventual captain Mike Eruzione answered the question with the words: "I play for the United States of America."
ReplyDeleteThere's a couple of posts with some good forward thinking. Need more of that.
ReplyDelete8:14
ReplyDeleteYeah, it was almost just like that.
There is so much that could be done.
ReplyDeleteI was reading about river canoe trails in texas. There are places in texas that have marked out canoe trails - yea i know it would be pretty hard to make a wrong turn in a canoe on a river , but lets not get bogged down in detais. --
calling it a canoe trail means it must have enough appeal to be worth canoeing ...
we have two rivers ...
nah never work .... right ... ?
Yeah, it was almost just like that.
ReplyDeleteNo, I think it is kind of like this:
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/09/22/gop.pledge.to.america.pdf?hpt=T1
From the GOP Pledge:
ReplyDeleteOur Plan to Repeal the Job Killing Health Care Law and Put in Place Real Reform
o Repeal the Costly Health Care Takeover of 2010: Because the new health care law kills jobs, raises taxes, and increases the cost of health care, we will immediately take action to repeal this law.
o Enact Medical Liability Reform: Skyrocketing medical liability insurance rates have distorted the practice of medicine, routinely forcing doctors to order costly and often unnecessary tests to protect
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themselves from lawsuits, often referred to as “defensive medicine.” We will enact common-sense medical liability reforms to lower costs, rein in junk lawsuits and curb defensive medicine.
o Purchase Health Insurance Across State Lines: Americans residing in a state with expensive health insurance plans are locked into those plans and do not currently have an opportunity to choose a lower cost option that best meets their needs. We will allow individuals to buy health care coverage outside of the state in which they live.
o Expand Health Savings Accounts: Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) are popular savings accounts that provide cost-effective health insurance to those who might otherwise go uninsured. We will improve HSAs by making it easier for patients withhigh-deductible health plans to use them to obtain access to quality care. We will repeal the new health care law, which prevents the use of these savings accounts to purchase over-the-counter medicine.
o Strengthen the Doctor-Patient Relationship: We will repeal President Obama’s government takeover of health care and replace it with common-sense reforms focused on strengthening the doctor-patient relationship.
o Ensure Access For Patients With Pre-Existing Conditions: Health care should be accessible for all, regardless of pre-existing conditions or past illnesses. We will expand state high-risk pools, reinsurance programs and reduce the cost of coverage. We will make it illegal for an insurance company to deny coverage to someone with prior coverage on the basis of a pre-existing condition, eliminate annual and lifetime spending caps, and prevent insurers from dropping your coverage just because you get sick. We will incentivize states to develop innovative programs that lower premiums and reduce the number of uninsured Americans.
o Permanently Prohibit Taxpayer Funding of Abortion: We will establish a government-wide prohibition on taxpayer funding of abortion and subsidies for insurance coverage that includes abortion, this includes enacting into law what is known as the Hyde Amendment. We will also enact into law conscience protections for health care providers, including doctors, nurses, and hospitals.
DID YOU KNOW?
• Through July 31, 2010, 3,833 pages of federal regulations have been issued regarding the new law.
• Roughly 16,500 IRS auditors, agents, and other employees may be needed to collect the hundreds of billions of dollars in new taxes levied on the American people by the new health care law.
• The new health care law includes $569.2 billion in tax increases – including taxes that will directly increase the cost of health care goods and services – and $528.5 billion in Medicare cuts, which will be used to create new programs not related to seniors.
• The new health care law provides for the creation of more than 160 boards, bureaus, and commissions. Republicans on the Joint Economic Committee have released a chart detailing this maze of busybodies and bureaucracies:
Our Plan to Put Government on a Path to a Balanced Budget
ReplyDeleteWe will have a responsible, fact-based conversation with the American people about the scale of the fiscal challenges we face, and the urgent action that is required to deal with them. We will curb Washington’s spending habits and promote job creation, bring down the deficit, and build long-term fiscal stability.
• Act Immediately to Reduce Spending: There is no reason to wait to reduce wasteful and unnecessary spending. Congress should move immediately to cancel unspent “stimulus” funds, and block any attempts to extend the timeline for spending “stimulus” funds. Throwing more money at a stimulus plan that is not working only wastes taxpayer money and puts us further in debt.
Page 11
• Cut Government Spending to Pre-Stimulus, Pre-Bailout Levels: With common-sense exceptions for seniors, veterans, and our troops, we will roll back government spending to pre-stimulus, pre-bailout levels, saving us at least $100 billion in the first year alone and putting us on a path to begin paying down the debt, balancing the budget, and ending the spending spree in Washington that threatens our children’s future.
• Establish a Hard Cap on New Discretionary Spending: We must put common-sense limits on the growth of government and stop the endless increases. Only in Washington is there an expectation that whatever your budget was last year, it will be more this year and even more the next. We will set strict budget caps to limit federal spending on an annual basis. Budget caps were used in the 1990s, when a Republican Congress was able to bring the budget into balance and eventual surplus. By cutting discretionary spending from current levels and imposing a hard cap on future growth, we will save taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars.
• Cut Congress’ Budget: This year, Congress increased its own budget by 5.8 percent at a time when families and small businesses across the country are cutting back. We will make Congress do more with less by significantly reducing its budget.
• Hold Weekly Votes on Spending Cuts: Earlier this year, House Republicans launched the YouCut initiative to combat the permissive culture of runaway spending in Congress. Over the course of nine weeks, YouCut produced proposals to save taxpayers more than $120 billion. We will continue to hold weekly votes on spending cuts.
• End TARP Once And For All: Americans are rightly outraged at the bailouts of businesses and entities that force responsible taxpayers to subsidize irresponsible behavior. We will cancel the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), a move that would save taxpayers roughly $16 billion.
• End Government Control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Since taking over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage companies that triggered the financial meltdown by giving too many high risk loans to people who couldn’t afford them, taxpayers were billed more than $145 billion to save the two companies. We will reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by ending their government takeover, shrinking their portfolios, and establishing minimum capital standards. This will save taxpayers as much as $30 billion.
• Impose a Net Federal Hiring Freeze of Non-Security Employees: Small businesses and entrepreneurs are the engine of our economy and should not be crowded out by unchecked government growth. We will impose a net hiring freeze on non-security federal employees and ensure that the public sector no longer grows at the expense of the private sector.
• Root Out Government Waste and Duplication: Once created, federal programs almost never go away, even if the problem they were created to address is no longer relevant. More than 20 states have addressed this problem by requiring that programs end – or “sunset” – by a date certain. We will adopt this requirement at the federal level to force Congress to determine if a program is worthy of continued taxpayer support.
So is this a GOP admission that we do need health reform? Just a different version?
ReplyDeleteAlso
Did you see the story in the Washington Post that showed letting the bush tax cuts expire would balance the budget by 2014?
Its like ive always said the budget deficit is just playing with numbers .. not a real debt.
it goes up and down depending on the economy and who is in power ..
So is this a GOP admission that we do need health reform? Just a different version?
ReplyDeleteI don't think they have any other option than to "Repeal and Replace"! It would be a whole lot better than letting Obamacare proceed!
Its like ive always said the budget deficit is just playing with numbers .. not a real debt.
it goes up and down depending on the economy and who is in power ..
Balancing the Budget does not pay off the National Debt! You seem to get those two confused! A surplus to the annual budget could get applied to paying towards the debt - like Clinton and the GOP did in the nineties!
Unfortunately any surplus TODAY would probably get applied to the interest on that Debt and not the really effect the principal!
AND
If not stopped Obama and company will continue to run up the National Debt!
What's really interesting is all the people who are leaving his Administration!
What do think they KNOW?
“An economy constrained by high tax rates will never produce enough revenue to balance the budget, just as it will never create enough jobs.” – John F. Kennedy
ReplyDeleteProbably know the same thing that Colin Powell et al knew when they bailed on President Bush.
ReplyDeleteIt hurt me so to see Gen Powell uncomfortably presenting Bush lies to the UN Council to build a case for the expensive bogus war that took our minds off the recession that had already begun.
Funny how a big enough NEW news story can blast the facts of the time right away. President Obama just needs to manufacture an international crisis to change the conversation from criticism to patriotism. It's worked several times before.
It hurt me so to see Gen Powell uncomfortably presenting Bush lies to the UN Council to build a case for the expensive bogus war that took our minds off the recession that had already begun.
ReplyDeleteThere is no doubt that with each "New" administration there evolves a new direction or agenda. (even personal ones - like spending almost a whole year on Obamcare!)
But, just as Clinton's surplus disappeared with the DOT.com/Enron BUST at the start of Bush's administration then came 9/11!
Daddy Bush could have resolved that whole situation in 91!
But
There would have be NO support for that effort and he KNEW it!
Washington is about Crisis Management or Management by Crisis!
The "Power" that has been relinquished to Washington by the States and Local Governments
(which was never the intent of the Framers and can ripple through the whole country/economy and now world).
Makes for Unmanagable Local Crisises!
Why do so FEW PEOPLE deserve that kind of POWER?
They certainly can't/won't handle it!
What do think they KNOW?
ReplyDelete>
They found out that Obama is really GW in disguise. The whole election, campaign and everything were staged events.
The race change was tricky, and babs bush threw a fit about being replaced as first lady, but ....
they found out that bush is still president and is now black.
they found out that bush is still president and is now black.
ReplyDeleteMaybe?
or
They found out Obama doesn't own/run the Country!