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Recent comments from 'redeagle'

Walkout is destructive, unprecedented
redeagle Friday, March 4, 2011: 11:23 am	There you go again Ralph making sense. Don't you know that never wins elections? Oh yeah, I forgot. Your party has been busy making common sense decisions on behalf of your constituents instead of staging political theatre to try and pump up your demoralized base in the wake of huge election day rebuke.

Historical lessons of a tea party

redeagle Friday, March 4, 2011: 11:14 am

First of all your statement that "they came to realize that taxes were needed to help civilization improve." is patently false on a couple of levels. There was this little thing going on in 1942 called the second World War that you may have read about. To protest taxes during a War for survival like that War was considered not only unpatriotic but unproductive and distracting from their core message. At a time when so many were making the ultimate human sacrifice for the cause, calling for government restraint in the areas of taxing and spending lost traction for obvious reasons. Also, to assert that taxes improve civilization is like saying regular beatings improves worker production. Yeah......I guess you could look at it that way. I am sure the current Tea Party movement would gladly disband in exchange for our Federal government agreeing to return to 1940's levels of spending, regulating, and controlling the lives of American citizens as well.

Education bills would hurt educators

redeagle Thursday, February 24, 2011: 12:57 pm

This screed is the very essence of a "strawman argument". Hmmm, lets see. We will claim the reform bills will hurt kids, we will claim that these bills hurt teachers. We will slander charter schools and proclaim the superiority of the government schools (which is what public schools really are). We will do everything but admit the truth, and that is the only losers here will be the teachers unions. Good riddance to them. Competition is always a good thing. If the government schools have to compete for funding with private schools then perhaps they will be forced to stop pushing the government sanctioned leftist agenda on our kids and get back to educating rather than indoctrinating.

Health care bill not Constitutional as it is written

redeagle Thursday, February 24, 2011: 12:18 pm

Okay, people. Let's put down the Keith Olbermann left-wing talking points and do a little critical thinking here. A more relevant question would be, is any part of this bill constitutional? Not really. But then again, neither is the Dept. of Energy, the Dept. of Education, the Dept. of Transportation, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, etc. etc. In fact just about everything our Leviathon-like federal government does now days can find no direct provisional support in the constitution, but has instead been abetted with the aid of an activist judiciary branch which has gradually stretched various clauses into a magic black bag where contantly appearing new "rights" continuously appear! So the real issue is, what are we going to do about the fact that health care has become an unaffordable luxury for a sizable portion of the populace? Obamacare will only increase costs and create another massive tax burdening government beauracracy. But doing nothing obviously isn't the answer either. Instead we need to control the costs where they are originating. It isn't the Insurance companies fault. You could eliminate every one of them tomorrow and it would still only account for less than 3% of health care spending. The real problem is the providers, and what they are charging. And that will require price controls, and care rationing. In other words, remove the "for profit" status of health care, and forfiet the "at will" ability we currently enjoy of being able to go to the doctor for a hangnail. But if you do that it drives all inovation in terms of new drug development, new procedures, and new medical research out of the market as well since those things are all fueled by the promise of big profits. And of course none of us want to have to wait for 6 months and drive 200 miles for an MRI like they do in Europe. So as you can see, there are no easy answers. And partisan attacks on either party is not only mistaken, but naively ignorant as well.